Stephen Kappes

Stephen Kappes
Official portrait, 2010
2nd Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
In office
January 29, 2006 – May 5, 2010
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Barack Obama
Preceded byAlbert Calland
Succeeded byMichael Morell
Personal details
Born (1951-08-22) August 22, 1951 (age 73)
Cincinnati, Ohio
Alma materOhio University
Ohio State University
ProfessionIntelligence officer

Stephen R. Kappes (born August 22, 1951) was the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DDCIA), until his resignation on April 14, 2010.[1][2] 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.[3][4] Kappes also helped persuade Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to abandon his nuclear weapons program in 2003.[5] 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.

  1. ^ Jeff Stein (March 25, 2010). "Inside Man". Washingtonian Magazine. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  2. ^ "TIMMERMAN: A shadow warrior falls". Washington Times. April 17, 2010. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
  3. ^ Scott Horton (March 31, 2010). "Steve Kappes, Profiled". HARPER'S Magazine. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  4. ^ "Inside Man – News & Features". washingtonian.com. March 25, 2010. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
  5. ^ Mayer, Jane (2009), "The Secret History", The New Yorker, June 22, 2009, pg 54.