Stephen Kappes

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Stephen R. Kappes (born August 22, 1951 ) is a former senior official in the US government intelligence service .

Life

Stephen R. Kappes was executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from July 24, 2006 . He took over his office from Vice Admiral Albert M. Calland III. , to which he was appointed by former director of the National Intelligence Service, John Negroponte . This process highlighted the fact that the CIA is no longer an independent executive sub-agency, but has quickly become a subordinate of the DNI. It was thanks to Negroponte's persistence that the CIA fell under his authority and control, although intelligence reforms maintained the intent that the ODNI should not be subject to administrative oversight within a US intelligence agency. Kappes and his director General Michael V. Hayden , who became subordinate to Negropontes, completed the takeover of the CIA, which Director Goss had been trying to prevent since the intelligence reforms came into effect in December 2004.

Symbol of the CIA

Kappes joined the CIA in 1981 after serving as an officer in the Marine Corps from 1976 to 1981 . He was a starred marine who rose to the head of that legendary force. His top position was that of a commanding officer in the USMC implementation force, which was sometimes contemptuously referred to as the "jumping jacks of the Navy". Kappes was the commanding officer of the "silent training" team that took place on Fridays from spring through summer at the Navy Barracks in Washington, DC to attract hordes of tourists to the big city. He held numerous operational and administrative functions in the CIA headquarters and overseas held, served as executive director and personal assistant to the former Deputy Director for Operations (DDO) , James Pavitt , and later himself as DDO after Pavitt was eliminated in August 2004 . At the time of the attack on September 11th, Kappes was the responsible deputy director for counter-espionage. He was entrusted with the management of the counterintelligence apparatus within the CIA and was responsible for some of the review and catastrophic analysis of intelligence information, which included personal identification. It is undisputed that the analysis of these results should have led to meaningful conclusions, which would have included important information about the United States and its national security efforts. These mistakes set the United States back years to follow developments in these areas.

Kappes also served in Moscow and Pakistan . At the end of his tenure in the CIA, he worked with the British Secret Intelligence Service to negotiate with Libya that followed the invasion of Iraq by American and British troops to overthrow Saddam Hussein 's regime. It is thanks to the British initiative that the CIA was invited to join the British and participate in the Kappes. He could not negotiate freely with the Libyans, but had extremely detailed guidelines and instructions, which were checked by the highest level of the US government and came from the National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Colin Powell and which ultimately ended the campaign for the destruction of weapons of mass destruction in the so-called Rogue states led. In this context, to claim that "Kappes worked with President Bush" ignores the role of an intelligence officer within the United States' political system of government and does not do justice to the importance of the president. A subordinate executive, located below the ADDO within the CIA, may have delivered reports or briefed the President. But it is wrong to assume that the President “worked together” with POTUS.

George Tenet

Kappes was named Deputy Director for Operations (DDO) of the CIA when George Tenet resigned on June 4, 2004, after he had resigned as director the day before. Pavitt also announced his resignation on June 4th, prompting Tenet to present Kappes to the public as his successor on the same day. This process is extremely unusual for Washington. Kappes took up his position in the DDO in August 2004 without consulting Porter Goss , whom the president had nominated for the DCI position.

Both Kappes and Pavitt were overseeing the CIA's operations department during the conflicting reports on Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction . It was reported that Kappes opposed a secret CIA program to apprehend terrorists from the start. He carried out his office in a style that was characterized by fear and blackmail. As a former CI superior in the CIA, he oversaw every crime and misstep of his CIA officers and used this knowledge to maintain his power in a way that a J. Edgar Hoover would have been proud of. He spent most of his work day reading his officers' current emails with a program the CIA used instead of CI research. He was DDO until he and his assistant officers from Goss and his associates were misinformation. He was also accused of a conspiracy because he tried to influence members of Congress to transfer the monopoly of information about activities of the CIA exclusively to mechanisms of the National Security Ordinance and bypassing congressional committees. To this end, he had reports made on the interests and inclinations of the members of the congress and refused to give congress members powers in the CIA structure.

John E. McLaughlin

He resigned as a DDO in November 2006 after refusing to comply with an instruction from DCI John E. McLaughlin . John E. McLaughlin took office the same week he left Kappes. This process exacerbated the rumors of leadership problems at Goss.

It was widely reported in the press that Kappes would rather leave the agency than carry out Goss' orders, leaving that to his deputy, Michael Sulick. It was also reported that this was the result of senior staff warning Mary Margaret Graham to disclose confidential information. According to some recent reports, Sulick had fought a heated battle of words with top Goss staff. This argument was intended by Sulick and Kappes and was intended to cover up planned actions by the CIA against the US Congress that were foiled by Goss and his top staff. Mary Margaret Graham participated in this affair of her own free will.

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  1. ↑ Website of the Marines Corps ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marines.com
  2. ↑ Belgrade Burndown. Was a bitter secret feud over an alleged intelligence lapse during the Clinton years behind Porter Goss's efforts to push out some top CIA officials? MSN, archived from the original on June 1, 2006 ; accessed on March 23, 2015 (English).
  3. ↑ Washington Post : CIA Director Tenet Resigns
  4. ^ A b New York Times: A Storied Operative Returns to the CIA

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SURNAME Kappes, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kappes, Stephen R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American officer and intelligence officer, executive director of the CIA
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1951