CIA/Deputy Director for Operations

CIA/Deputy Director for Operations  (CIA/Deputy Director)
Start	1973
Leader of	CIA/Directorate of Operations
Abbreviation	DDO
Key position in the deep state, leading the clandestine arm of the CIA.

The deputy director of the CIA for operations is a senior United States government official in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency who is head of the Directorate of Operations, leading the clandestine arm of the CIA and "the national authority for the coordination, de-confliction, and evaluation of clandestine operations across the Intelligence Community of the United States".

History

Before 1973, see its predecessor, the CIA/Deputy Director for Plans. Between 2005-2015 the Directorate of Operations was named the National Clandestine Service.

“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) 

 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

Name	From	To	Description
Tom Sylvester	June 2023	2025
Elizabeth Kimber	December 2018	2021	mid-2021
Greg Vogle	29 January 2015	August 2017
Frank Archibald	7 May 2013	29 January 2015
Gina Haspel	28 February 2013	7 May 2013	Acting
John D. Bennett	2010	2013
Michael Sulick	2007	2010
Jose Rodriguez	16 November 2004	30 September 2007
James Pavitt	23 June 1999	12 July 2004
Jack Downing	1997	July 1999
David Cohen	1995	1997
Hugh Price	January 1994	1995
Jack Devine	1993	1995	Acting
Thomas Twetten	1 January 1991	1993
Richard Stolz	1987	1990
Clair George	1984	1987	Convicted in 1992 of lying to Congress about Iran-Contra. Pardoned by GHWB
John Stein	14 July 1981	1 July 1984
John McMahon	11 January 1978	12 April 1981
William W. Wells	15 May 1976	31 December 1977
William Nelson	24 August 1973	14 May 1976
William Colby	2 March 1973	24 August 1973
William Colby	1973	September 1973

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:1975 WUBRINY Memo	memo	29 November 1975	FBI Gale Allen	A 1975 memo from before George H. W. Bush was made DCI that reveals years of involvement in CIA operations.

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