Vaughn Bishop

Vaughn Bishop
Bishop in 2018
7th Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
In office
August 1, 2018 – January 20, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byGina Haspel
Succeeded byDavid Cohen
Personal details
Born
Vaughn Frederick Bishop

1946 (1946)
DiedMarch 2023 (aged 76–77)
Children2
Alma materNorthwestern University (BA, MA, PhD)

Vaughn Frederick Bishop (1946 – March 2023) was an American intelligence officer and former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who served from August 1, 2018 to January 20, 2021 and was appointed by President Donald Trump.[1] Bishop first joined the CIA in 1981, and retired in 2011. He returned to the CIA four years later to serve as CIA Ombudsman for Analytic Objectivity during the Agency's modernization effort.[2]

  1. ^ Editorial, Reuters (August 2018). "Trump taps retired senior CIA analyst as agency No. 2". Reuters. Retrieved August 28, 2018. {{cite news}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "Vaughn F. Bishop — Central Intelligence Agency". www.cia.gov. Archived from the original on August 16, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2018.