CIA/Deputy Director for Operations
CIA/Deputy Director
| CIA/Deputy Director for Operations link (CIA/Deputy Director) | |
|---|---|
| Start | 1973 |
| Abbreviation | DDO |
| Predecessors | CIA/Deputy Director for Plans |
| 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".[1]
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.
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“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) [2]
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