Hank Crumpton

Henry "Hank" Crumpton is a U.S. counterterrorism specialist, long a covert operator in the Central Intelligence Agency, whose identity became known in 2005. He became the U.S. State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, with the rank of Ambassador. Simply known as "Hank" when running covert operations in Afghanistan, energy and climate change issues "keep him up at night" in 2009.

David Kilcullen credits him with new understandings of terrorism, such as coining the term "mico-actors with massive impact" for the autonomous group that perpetrated the 2008 bombings of Madrid.