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category: "Intelligence & Government"
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tags:
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- Person
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- CIA
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- Counterintelligence
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- PrivateMilitaryContractors
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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."
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born: 1951-08-22
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relations:
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- type: member_of
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with: "[[United States Marine Corps]]"
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start: 1976
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role: "officer"
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fn: 1
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- type: employed_by
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with: "[[Central Intelligence Agency]]"
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start: 1981-01
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role: "operations officer; Deputy Director for Operations 2002-2004"
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fn: 1
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- type: employed_by
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with: "[[ArmorGroup International]]"
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start: 2005-04
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end: 2006-06
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role: "chief operating officer"
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fn: 1
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- type: director_of
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with: "[[ArmorGroup International]]"
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start: 2005-11
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end: 2006-06
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fn: 1
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- type: employed_by
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with: "[[Central Intelligence Agency]]"
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start: 2006-07-24
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role: "Deputy Director"
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fn: 1
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- type: director_of
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with: "[[T-Mobile US]]"
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end: 2021-06-22
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role: "national security director"
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fn: 2
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created: 2026-09-22
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updated: 2026-09-22
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---
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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]
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### CIA
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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]
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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]
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### T-Mobile
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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]
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### Footnotes
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[^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
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[^2]: T-Mobile US, Inc., proxy statement, April 27, 2022, SEC Form DEF 14A, www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar.
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