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CIA Deputy Director Kappes To Step Down

April 15 2010

USA

The deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency plans to retire, the New York Times reports.

Stephen Kappes, a veteran clandestine officer and former Marine, came out of retirement in 2006 to take his position.

Kappes has reportedly served undercover in Moscow, Islamabad and at a secret station in Germany collecting information about Iran during the 1980s.

He was the first clandestine officer to take the deputy director position since the 1980s, according to an...

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