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Stephen Kappes

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

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 Marine Corps officer from 1976, and joined the Central Intelligence Agency in January 1981.1

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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 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; Letitia Long succeeded him in that seat on June 22, 2021.2

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  • United States Marine Corps, from 1976, officer1
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  • T-Mobile US, until 2021, national security director2
  • ArmorGroup International, 2005–20061

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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 ↩
  2. T-Mobile US, Inc., proxy statement, April 27, 2022, SEC Form DEF 14A, www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar. ↩

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