Ward Abbott

Ward Abbott is a character in the 2002 film The Bourne Identity, portrayed by Brian Cox. He is the CIA deputy director who contacts Alexander Conklin about a failed assassination attempt against exiled African dictator Wombosi. Abbott pressures Conklin to handle the matter of Jason Bourne's escape. In the film's climax, after Bourne resigns from Treadstone, Abbott orders the killing of Conklin via the agent Manheim. Abbott later shuts down Treadstone using Conklin's right hand, Danny Zorn, and both report to an oversight committee that Treadstone is a "decommissioned" former program of theoretical game-scenario exercises before diverting the discussion to a new project codenamed "Blackbriar."