1. Stephen R Kappes was born on August 22,1951 and was the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, until his resignation on April 14,2010.
16 Facts About Stephen Kappes
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Stephen Kappes had served in the CIA since 1981, with a two-year hiatus.
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Stephen Kappes helped persuade Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to abandon his nuclear weapons program in 2003.
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In 2009, Stephen Kappes was convicted in absentia by an Italian court for his headquarters-based role in the rendition and torture of an Egyptian citizen who was kidnapped from Italian soil by the CIA.
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Stephen Kappes earned a Bachelor of Science degree in pre-medicine from Ohio University and a Master of Science degree in pathology from Ohio State University.
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Stephen Kappes served as an officer in the US Marine Corps from 1976 to 1981.
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Stephen Kappes joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1981 and held a variety of operational assignments in Europe and the Middle East and managerial positions at CIA Headquarters.
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Stephen Kappes has been station chief in New Delhi, Frankfurt, Kuwait City and Moscow from 1996 to 1999.
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Stephen Kappes served as Chief of the Near East and South Asia Division from 1999 to 2000.
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Stephen Kappes served as Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence from 2000 to 2002, then as associate deputy director under Deputy Director for Operations James Pavitt till 2004.
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Stephen Kappes was named Deputy Director for Operations 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.
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Stephen Kappes served in that position until he resigned in November 2004.
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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.
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Stephen Kappes was named as the next DDCIA by Negroponte in May 2006.
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Stephen Kappes was believed to be the preferred choice for Director of the CIA in the incoming Obama administration by Senators Jay Rockefeller, the outgoing chairman, and Dianne Feinstein, the incoming chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Stephen Kappes made certain that the death was retained 'off the books'.