Frank Archibald

Frank Archibald LinkedIn (Spook)
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Born	July 31, 1955 Charleston, South Carolina
Died	March 13, 2020
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Clemson University, National War College
Former director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service

Francis Xavier Archibald, Jr was a spook who was director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service.

Career

Archibald enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1974. After leaving the Marine Corps, he graduated from Clemson University in 1983, where he was a Captain of the rugby team.

He then joined the CIA. Over 31 years with the CIA, Archibald worked in Latin America, Africa, the Balkans, Southeast and Southwest Asia. Archibald held senior assignments at CIA Headquarters in Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, and was Chief of the Latin American Division. He was a graduate of the National War College in 2001.

Archibald managed the agency's covert operation to undermine Slobodan Milosevic during the Clinton administration. He was also active in Bosnia and Pakistan.

Frank Archibald retired from the CIA in 2015 as the Director of the National Clandestine Service an assignment in which he led all of CIA's operations worldwide.

During his CIA career, he received the CIA's highest award, the Distinguished Intelligence Cross for heroism, as well as numerous other CIA awards. He retired from the CIA in 2015, after CIA director John Brennan replaced him with Greg Vogle in 2015, after Archibald opposed Brennan's reorganization of the Agency into mission centers.

Exposure

Archibald was outed in a Twitter post in 2013, and details of his biography were known to some journalists. He was 57 when he took the job that year, and it also became known he did tours in Pakistan and Africa and also headed the CIA’s Latin America division.

Later activities

Archibald became a senior advisor to Crumpton Group following his 2015 retirement from the agency.

He was also on the Board of Directors for the OSS Society.