Richard James Kerr

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Richard James Kerr
Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
In office
20 March 20 1989 – 2 March 1992
PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush
Preceded byRobert Gates
Succeeded byBill Studeman
Personal details
Born (1935-10-04) October 4, 1935 (age 89)
EducationUniversity of Oregon (B.A.)

Richard James Kerr (born October 4, 1935) was Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1989 to 1992.

He was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He received a B.A. in history from the University of Oregon and started graduate work there too.[1] Kerr had a 32-year career with the CIA which included involvement in the retaliatory bombing raids against Libya in 1986[2] and culminated with key roles in managing U.S. intelligence related to the near nuclear stand-off between India and Pakistan in 1990[3] and the attempted coup against Boris Yeltsin in August, 1991.[4]

In 1991, Kerr was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President George H. W. Bush.[5]

From 1996 to 2002, "Dick" Kerr also served on the Board of Directors for the Aegis Research Corporation of Rosslyn and later Falls Church, Virginia.[6] He continues to serve on corporate boards and is a compliance observer of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

  1. ^ "Richard James Kerr". CIA. Archived from the original on June 13, 2007. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  2. ^ Prados, John, President's Secret Wars, CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II through IRANSCAM, New York, Quill, 1986, 385.
  3. ^ Andrew, Christopher, For the President's Eyes Only, Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush, New York: HarperCollins Publishing, 1995, 516.
  4. ^ Andrew, Christopher, For the President's Eyes Only, Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush, New York: HarperCollins Publishing, 1995, 530.
  5. ^ Pfiffner, James P.; Phythian, Mark (22 September 2017). Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 9781603440677 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Billigmeier, Scott & Glabus, Ed, From World War II to Desert Storm, Perspectives on Military Intelligence, Officer Review magazine, June 1998, 2-5.