Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
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Incumbent Vacant since January 20, 2017
Central Intelligence Agency
Reports to	Director of the CIA
Seat	George Bush Center for Intelligence, Langley, Fairfax County, Virginia, U.S.
Appointer	The President
Term length	No fixed term
Constituting instrument	50 U.S.C. § 3037
Precursor	Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Inaugural holder	VADM Albert M. Calland, USN
Formation	July 15, 2005
Deputy	Executive Director
Salary	Executive Schedule, III
Website	http://www.cia.gov/

The Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DD/CIA) is a statutory office (50 U.S.C. § 3037) and the second-highest official of the Central Intelligence Agency. The DD/CIA assists the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) and is authorized to exercise the powers of the D/CIA when the Director's position is vacant or in the Director's absence or disability.

Under current law, the Deputy Director is appointed by the President and is not required to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The current Deputy Director is a former Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, David S. Cohen.

The functions of this position were served by the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI) until that position was abolished under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. The position of DD/CIA was created administratively by then-D/CIA Porter Goss and received statutory approval from the U.S. Congress in 2010.

The first DD/CIA was Kingman Douglass, appointed by the Director of Central Intelligence in 1946. In April 1953, Congress amended the National Security Act of 1947 to allow the President of the United States to appoint the DDCI (with U.S. Senate confirmation). The amendment stipulated that the Director and Deputy Director positions could not be simultaneously filled by military officers.