Stephen R. Kappes (born August 22, 1951) is a senior U.S. government intelligence officer. He is currently Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DDCIA), having assumed this position on July 24, 2006. He succeeded Vice Admiral Albert M. Calland, III. August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... ... The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an intelligence agency of the United States government. ... Vice Admiral Albert M. Calland, III is the Deputy Director for Strategic Operational Planning at the National Counterterrorism Center. ...

Kappes joined the CIA in 1981 after serving as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1976 to 1981. He has held a variety of operational and managerial assignments at CIA Headquarters and overseas, serving as assistant deputy director to former Deputy Director for Operations (DDO) James Pavitt, and later as DDO after Pavitt stepped down in August 2004. At the time of the September 11 attacks, Kappes was the associate deputy director for operations for counterintelligence. United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is the second smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. ... The Director of the National Clandestine Service (D/NCS) (formerly the Deputy Director for Operations, DDO) is a senior United States government official in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency who serves as head of the National Clandestine Service (formerly the Directorate of Operations). ... James Pavitt, Deputy Director of Operations of the CIA, in a rare public appearance before the 11 September commission. ... The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ...

Kappes served in Moscow and Pakistan. Towards the end of his tenure with the CIA he worked with President George W. Bush in negotiations with Libya that ended the rogue state’s weapons-of-mass-destruction programs. Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2007)    - Density 10,469,000   9684. ...

Kappes was named Deputy Director for Operations (DDO) for the CIA in June 2004 and took office in August 2004 while the appointment of Porter Goss as the next Director of Central Intelligence was still pending in the Senate. Kappes succeeded James Pavitt, who resigned in June 2004. Both Kappes and Pavitt oversaw the CIA’s Directorate for Operations during the controversial Iraq WMD reporting. He served in that position until he resigned in November 2004. John E. McLaughlin, the then-Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, announced his departure the same week Kappes quit, thus exacerbating the rumored management problems for Goss. The Director of the National Clandestine Service (D/NCS) (formerly the Deputy Director for Operations, DDO) is a senior United States government official in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency who serves as head of the National Clandestine Service (formerly the Directorate of Operations). ... James Pavitt, Deputy Director of Operations of the CIA, in a rare public appearance before the 11 September commission. ... Iraq and weapons of mass destruction concerns the Iraqi governments use, possession, and alleged intention of acquiring more types of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) during the presidency of Saddam Hussein. ... John E. McLaughlin, Acting Director of Central Intelligence, 2004. ...

It had been widely reported in the press that Kappes quit the Agency rather than carry out a request by Goss to reassign Michael Sulick, his then deputy.[1] It is also reported that this incident occurred because the chief of staff admonished the then assistant deputy director for counterintelligence, Mary Margaret Graham (who now works for the DNI John Negroponte) about leaking personnel information.[2] According to some news reports, Sulick had just engaged in a shouting match with Goss’s chief of staff.

For a brief period in between his senior appointments, Kappes worked in the private security industry. In April 2005, ArmorGroup, a British security firm, named him vice president in charge of global strategy, and named him Chief Operating Officer (COO) in November 2005. Kappes was named as the next DDCIA by DNI John Negroponte in May 2006.

References

• CIA press release with a brief biography
• CIA official biography
• New York Times article on appointment of Kappes, May 30, 2006
• Washington Post: Kappes is Expected to Boost CIA Morale, June 19, 2006