Stephen Kappes | |
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2nd Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | |
In office January 29, 2006 – May 5, 2010 | |
President | George W. Bush Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Albert Calland |
Succeeded by | Michael Morell |
Personal details | |
Born | Cincinnati, Ohio | August 22, 1951
Alma mater | Ohio University Ohio State University |
Profession | Intelligence 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.