Cofer Black

Joseph Cofer Black, known as Cofer, is the Vice Chairman of the American mercenary organization Blackwater USA. He is the former Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U. S. State Department, and a former Director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center. Black is known for his leading role the CIA's worldwide kidnapping and torture programme, generally known as 'extraordinary rendition'.

Affiliations

• Blackwater USA - Vice Chairman
• Total Intel - Chairman
• The Black Group - Head
• Central Intelligence Agency - Former Director Counterterrorism Center

Dana Hedgpeth, ‘Blackwater's Owner Has Spies for Hire’, Washington Post, 3 November 2007