Stephen Kappes
| Stephen Kappes | |
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| Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | |
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In office January 29, 2006 – May 5, 2010 |
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| President |
George W. Bush Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Albert Calland |
| Succeeded by | Michael Morell |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 22, 1951 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Alma mater |
Ohio University Ohio State University |
| Profession | Intelligence officer |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Years of service | 1981–2002 |
| Battles/wars | War on Terrorism |
Stephen R. Kappes (born August 22, 1951) was the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DDCIA), until his resignation on April 14, 2010. He had served in the CIA since 1981, with a two-year hiatus. A career clandestine operations professional, Kappes supervised the extraordinary rendition program, a non-judicial system of rendering persons suspected of terrorism to secret locations where most of them were interrogated. Kappes also helped persuade Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to abandon his nuclear weapons program in 2003. In 2009, Kappes was convicted in absentia by an Italian court for his headquarters-based role in the rendition and torture of an Egyptian citizen who was kidnapped from Italian soil by the CIA.
Kappes earned a Bachelor of Science degree in pre-medicine from Ohio University and a Master of Science degree in pathology from Ohio State University. He served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1976 to 1981.
Kappes joined the CIA in 1981 and has held a variety of operational and managerial assignments at CIA Headquarters and overseas, serving as assistant deputy director to former Deputy Director for Operations (DDO) James Pavitt, and later as DDO after Pavitt stepped down in August 2004. At the time of the September 11 attacks, Kappes was the associate deputy director for operations for counterintelligence.
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