Bob Kiley

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Person.png Bob Kiley  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(spook)
Born16 September 1935
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Alma materUniversity of Notre Dame, Harvard

Career

Kiley joined the CIA in 1963. He later served as Executive Assistant to the Agency Director Richard Helms.

From 1970, he took a range of senior jobs in public transport system management on the East coast of the US.

In 1991 Kiley moved to a new role as President of the New York construction company Fischbach Corporation.

In May 2001, Kiley was appointed as Chairman of London Regional Transport, only to be sacked in July of that year by Transport Secretary Stephen Byers after taking the government to court to try and block the public-private partnership scheme.[1] Byers humself was later sacked by Tony Blair.[2]

He remained as Commissioner of Transport for London, the public organisation empowered with running and maintaining London's public transport network. In November 2005, he announced that he would resign in January 2006.

Family tragedy

Kiley's first wife and two children were killed in a car accident in 1974.


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