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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (746040)	7/25/2006 2:59:23 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

This is interesting...rebuilding the CIA seems to be happening. Porter Goss was quite a disaster...Note this guy speaks Farsi...and has been around. Sounds like somebody we need back. Good for Haydon to bring him back. __________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIA gives No. 2 job to agent who clashed with Goss 28 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A veteran CIA officer who temporarily left the spy agency after clashing with former CIA Director Porter Goss was officially named on Tuesday as the Central Intelligence Agency's new deputy director. ADVERTISEMENT In a move expected to boost morale at a U.S. intelligence flagship that has lost status under reforms, CIA Director Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden announced the appointment of former clandestine operations chief Stephen Kappes as his second in command. Kappes replaces Navy Vice Admiral Albert Calland, who has been nominated by President George W. Bush as a deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center, the CIA said in a statement. A 23-year CIA veteran, Kappes temporarily left the CIA in November 2004 after a disagreement with Goss involving the direction of the spy agency. CIA insiders said the clash caused a morale-damaging rift between Goss and other senior clandestine officers that the former CIA chief was unable to overcome before his forced resignation last May. Kappes, 54, briefly entered the private sector in 2005 by joining the London security firm, ArmorGroup International. His appointment as CIA deputy director had been widely expected since late May, when U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte publicly disclosed his possible return as a step that could help boost morale at the agency. Fluent in Farsi and Russian, Kappes joined the CIA in 1981 and was station chief in Moscow and Kuwait after the 1991 Gulf War. He also headed CIA counterintelligence, and in the late 1980s, served as the No. 2 officer of a CIA unit in Frankfurt that collected information about Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's government in Iran.