Frank Archibald

Frank Archibald  (spook)
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Clemson University, National War College
Member of	Association of Former Intelligence Officers
Director of the National Clandestine Service In office 7 May 2013 - 29 January 2015 Preceded by Gina Haspel Succeeded by Greg Vogle

Frank Archibald is a former director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service.

Career

CIA.

Exposure

Archibald was outed in a Twitter post in 2013, and details of his biography were known to some journalists. He was 57 when he took the job that year, reportedly served tours in Pakistan and Africa and also headed the CIA’s Latin America division.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
CIA/Deputy Director for Operations	“Going back 50 years, the agency's practice was to publicly identify and praise most of Archibald's predecessors. Why? Paradoxically, it’s a job that requires a certain degree of public exposure. The spy chief's duties require him to visit regularly with the FBI, NSA and the dozen other branches of the U.S. intelligence community, to testify to congressional oversight committees and to meet with his foreign counterparts, either here or in some of the world’s most dangerous neighborhoods. Nearly two dozen of his predecessors have been known to the public. It’s too bad they’re going all black-cloak with Archibald, because after the bumpy tenures of the past few people in that job, the agency could benefit from letting people know that it has a "quiet professional" at the helm, as one former colleague put it, a figure of continuity at an agency that has changed CIA directors six times since 2003.”	Jeff Stein Newsweek	2013

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