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The CIA Deputy Director is known by the CIA as the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, or DDCI. The first DDCI was Kingman Douglass, appointed by the Director of Central Intelligence in 1946. In April 1953, congress amended the National Security Act to allow the President of the United States to appoint the DDCI. The amendment stipulated that the Director and Deputy Director positions could not be simultaneously filled by military officers.

The list of current and former Deputy Directors of Central Intelligence include:

Name	Appointment Date	-	End of Term
Kingman Douglass	1946 March	-	1946 July
Vacant	1946 July	-	1947 January
Edwin Kennedy Wright	1947 January	-	1949 March
Vacant	1949 March	-	1950 October
William Harding Jackson	1950 October	-	1951 August
Allen Welsh Dulles	1951 August	-	1953 February
Charles Pearre Cabell	1953 April	-	1962 January
Marshall Sylvester Carter	1962 April	-	1965 April
Richard McGarrah Helms	1965 April	-	1966 June
Rufus Lackland Taylor	1966 October	-	1969 February
Robert Everton Cushman, Jr.	1969 May	-	1971 December
Vernon Anthony Walters	1972 May	-	1976 July
Enno Henry Knoche	1976 July	-	1977 August
Frank Charles Carlucci III	1978 February	-	1981 February
Bobby Ray Inman	1981 February	-	1982 June
John Norman McMahon	1982 June	-	1986 March
Robert Michael Gates	1986 April	-	1989 March
Richard James Kerr	1989 March	-	1992 March
William Oliver Studeman	1992 April	-	1995 July
George John Tenet	1995 July	-	1997 July
John Alexander Gordon	1997 October	-	2000 June
John Edward McLaughlin	2000 October	-	Present

See Also:

Director of Central Intelligence

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