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category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- CIA
- Counterintelligence
- PrivateMilitaryContractors
summary: "Career CIA operations officer who headed the Directorate of Operations from 2002 to 2004, worked for ArmorGroup International, and returned as the agency's Deputy Director in 2006."
born: 1951-08-22
created: 2026-09-22
updated: 2026-09-22
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Stephen R. Kappes was born on August 22, 1951, in [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]. He took a bachelor's degree in pre-medicine at [[Ohio University]] and a master's degree in pathology at [[Ohio State University]], served as a [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] officer from 1976, and joined the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] in January 1981.[^1]
### CIA
Kappes served in the agency's Near East and South Asia Division until his promotion to the Senior Intelligence Service in July 1995, with more than twelve years overseas in the [[Middle East]], Asia and [[Europe]]; he speaks Farsi and Russian. From 2000 to 2002 he was associate deputy director of operations for counterintelligence and, for part of that time, chief of the [[CIA Counterintelligence Center|Counterintelligence Center]]. From 2002 to 2004 he served as Associate Deputy Director for Operations and as Deputy Director for Operations.[^1]
He left government service and in April 2005 joined [[ArmorGroup International]], where he was chief operating officer and a director from November 2005 to June 2006. He was sworn in as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on July 24, 2006.[^1]
### T-Mobile
Kappes held the seat on the board of [[T-Mobile US]] that the company was "required to have" as a "National Security Director" under national security commitments made in connection with its combination with [[Sprint Corporation|Sprint]]; [[Letitia Long]] succeeded him in that seat on June 22, 2021.[^2]
### Footnotes
[^1]: "Stephen R. Kappes," Central Intelligence Agency, About CIA, Leadership, posted April 5, 2007, last updated April 15, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070612215306/https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/leadership/kappes.html
[^2]: T-Mobile US, Inc., proxy statement, April 27, 2022, SEC Form DEF 14A, www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar.