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U.S. Army General David Petraeus became director of the CIA in 2011. He resigned from the post in 2012, after his extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell was publicized.


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The general apologized for his actions in a letter to his staff: "Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as a leader of an organization such as ours," he wrote.

Soon after news broke about the scandal, it was reported that Jill Kelley, a longtime friend of the Petraeus family, had helped the FBI expose the affair between Petraeus and Broadwell. Kelley reportedly went to the bureau after receiving threatening emails,

which were traced back to Broadwell (reports alleged that Broadwell sent the emails because she felt threatened by Kelley's friendship with Petraeus). During the investigation, the FBI found evidence in other emails of a sexual relationship between Petraeus and Broadwell.

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