Stephen Kappes Politician
Stephen R. Kappes (born August 22, 1951) was the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DDCIA), until his resignation on April 14, 2010. He had served in the CIA since 1981, with a two-year hiatus. A career clandestine operations professional, Mr. Kappes was well known for his supervisory role in the extraordinary rendition program, a non-judicial system of rendering persons suspected of terrorism to secret locations where most of them were tortured. Mr. Kappes was also known for his role in persuading Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to abandon his nuclear weapons program in 2003. In 2009, Mr. 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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| office | Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
| president | |
| service end | 2002 |
| service start | 1981 |
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Stephen Kappes on Wikipedia
External resources
- http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/11/hbc-90006031
- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/30/washington/30cia.html?ex=1306641600&en=76bb4ca7c6cf1690&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
- http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/15265.html
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800779.html
- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/17/a-shadow-warrior-falls
- https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/leadership/kappes.html
- https://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/press_release/2004/pr06042004.html