Gina Haspel

Gina Haspel
Gina Haspel ; (spook);
Born	Gina Cheri Haspel; 1956-10-01; (age 61–62), Ashland, Kentucky, U.S.
Nationality	USA
Alma mater	University of Louisville, BA
Spouse	Jeff Haspel
	Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
In office
	February 7, 2017 - Present
	Acting Director of the National Clandestine Service
In office
	February 28, 2013 - May 7, 2013
Succeeded by	Frank Archibald

Gina Haspel was termed by CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou the “godmother of the torture program.”^[1]

Activities

After Haspel was nominated to lead the CIA, Quartz magazine quoted a (paywalled) New York Times report that Haspel "played a leading role in running a US torture site abroad and later destroyed the evidence of it."^[2] ProPublica reported in 2017 that Haspel personally signed "cables to CIA headquarters that detailed Zubayda’s interrogation."^[3]

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Assange Must Not Also Die in Jail	blog post	13 August 2019	Craig Murray	Many of the same people who are relieved by Jeffrey Epstein’s death would like to see Julian Assange dead too.
Document:The CIA/MI6 Skripal Conspiracy Exposed?	Wikispooks Page	16 November 2024	Kit Klarenberg	A longstanding Russia hawk who cut her Agency teeth recruiting spies in the Soviet Union in the years before its collapse, Gina Haspel twice served as the CIA’s London station chief - from 2008 to 2011, and 2014 to 2017. Sergei Skripal arrived in Britain in July 2010 via a grand spy swap during her first tenure, which was negotiated by Haspel’s longtime collaborator Daniel Hoffman, then-CIA Moscow station chief.

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