Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

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The Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DD/CIA) is a senior United States government official in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The DD/CIA assists the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) and is authorized to exercise the powers of the D/CIA when the Director’s position is vacant or in the Director’s absence or disability.

The functions of this position were served by the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI) until that position was abolished under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. The position of DD/CIA was created administratively by then-D/CIA Porter Goss and is awaiting statutory approval from the U.S. Congress.

The first DDCI was Kingman Douglass, appointed by the Director of Central Intelligence (now the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency) in 1946. In April 1953, congress amended the National Security Act to allow the President of the United States to appoint the DDCI (with U.S. Senate confirmation). The amendment stipulated that the Director and Deputy Director positions could not be simultaneously filled by military officers.

[edit] List of Deputy Directors of Central Intelligence

Name	Appointment Date	End of Term
Kingman Douglass	1946 March	1946 July
Vacant	1946 July	1947 January
Edwin Kennedy Wright	1947 January	1949 March
Vacant	1949 March	1950 October
William Harding Jackson	1950 October	1951 August
Allen Welsh Dulles	1951 August	1953 February
Charles Pearre Cabell	1953 April	1962 January
Marshall Sylvester Carter	1962 April	1965 April
Richard McGarrah Helms	1965 April	1966 June
Rufus Lackland Taylor	1966 October	1969 February
Robert Everton Cushman, Jr.	1969 May	1971 December
Vernon Anthony Walters	1972 May	1976 July
Enno Henry Knoche	1976 July	1977 August
Frank Charles Carlucci III	1978 February	1981 February
Bobby Ray Inman	1981 February	1982 June
John Norman McMahon	1982 June	1986 March
Robert Michael Gates	1986 April	1989 March
Richard James Kerr	1989 March	1992 March
William Oliver Studeman	1992 April	1995 July
George John Tenet	1995 July	1997 July
John Alexander Gordon	1997 October	2000 June
John Edward McLaughlin	2000 October	2004 November
Vacant	2004 November	2005 July

Note: The office of Deputy Director of Central Intelligence was separated into the offices of Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.