Background
Tenet was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, the son of Greek immigrants Evangelia and John Tenet. His father was a Greek born in modern-day southern Albania, his mother was a Greek from Greece, Epirus. His father worked in a coal-mine in France before arriving in the United States. Tenet was raised in Little Neck, Queens where he and his brother Bill worked as busboys in their family's diner (later renamed Scobee Diner). He attended Public School 94, Louis Pasteur Junior High School 67, and Benjamin N. Cardozo High School (he was a classmate of Ron Jeremy and actor Reginald VelJohnson). Tenet graduated from Georgetown University in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree in foreign service and received a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University in 1978.
Tenet is married to Stephanie Glakas-Tenet. They have one son.
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