Gina Haspel
| Gina Haspel | |
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| 6th Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | |
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Assumed office February 2, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | David Cohen |
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Director of the National Clandestine Service Acting |
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In office February 28, 2013 – May 7, 2013 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | John Bennett |
| Succeeded by | Frank Archibald |
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| Born |
Gina Cheri Haspel October 1, 1956 |
Gina Cheri Haspel (born October 1, 1956) is a US intelligence officer. She joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1985.
In February 2017 President Donald Trump appointed her as Deputy Director of the CIA. She is the "first female career CIA officer" to receive that appointment, although she is the second woman, as Avril Haines had been appointed by Barack Obama in 2013.
Haspel ran a "black site" CIA prison located in Thailand in 2002. The site was codenamed "Cat’s Eye" and held suspected al Qaeda members Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah for a time. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture specifies that during their detention at the site they were waterboarded and interrogated using no longer authorized methods. Declassified CIA cables specify that Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in a month, was sleep deprived, kept in a "large box", had his head slammed against a wall and he lost his left eye. Zubaydah was deemed, by the CIA interrogators, to not be in possession of any useful intelligence (Interrogation of Abu Zubaydah).
Haspel later was the chief of staff to Jose Rodriguez, who headed the CIA's Counterterrorism Center. In his memoir, Rodriguez wrote that Haspel had "drafted a cable" in 2005 ordering the destruction of dozens of videotapes made at the black site in Thailand.
In 2013, John Brennan, then the director of Central Intelligence, named Haspel as acting Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service, which carries out covert operations around the globe. However, she was denied the position permanently due to criticism about her involvement in the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program. Haspel as also served as the Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service for Foreign Intelligence and Covert Action.
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