WASHINGTON, May 9 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s third-ranking official, Kyle Foggo, is under investigation and has resigned, local media reported Tuesday.

    Foggo's resignation on Sunday followed the stepping down last Friday of CIA director Porter Goss.

    Foggo was promoted by Goss as the CIA's executive director after Goss took office as the spy agency's chief in September 2004.

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the CIA's internal investigative department were investigation whether Foggo was improperly involved in awarding defense contracts to a businessmanand into his connection with Randy Cunningham, a former lawmaker from California, who had been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for accepting bribes.

    President George W. Bush named Air Force General Michael Hayden,currently the principal deputy director of National Intelligence, to head the CIA, and news reports said that with Hayden, an active-duty officer as the spy agency's chief, CIA's deputy director Vice Admiral Albert M. Calland was expected to step down. Enditem