Christopher Karl Mellon (born October 2, 1957), is the former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (the third highest intelligence position at the The Pentagon) and later for Security and Information Operations.
He formerly served as the Staff Director of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Christopher Mellon was born to the Mellon family, the son of Karl N.
Mellon, the great-grandson of Gulf Oil co-founder William Larimer Mellon.