WASHINGTON, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) searched the home and office of former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Executive Director Kyle Foggo on Friday.

    "The FBI and CIA's Office of Inspector General this morning executed search warrants for his agency workplace and residence," CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck said in a statement.

    FBI agents, under a sealed warrant, searched Foggo's Virginia home and his office at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia,just outside Washington, D.C., the Associated Press reported.

    The FBI and the CIA's internal investigative arm have been investigation whether Foggo, the CIA's third-ranking official overseeing the agency's day-to-day operations, was improperly involved in awarding defense contracts to a businessman and 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.

    Foggo was also under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, and the U.S. attorney's office in San Diego, California.

    Dyck said the CIA was cooperating fully with the Justice Department and the FBI in the investigation.

    Foggo was promoted by Porter Goss after the latter took office as CIA chief in September 2004. He resigned early this week after Goss stepped down last week. Enditem