Reports to Director of the CIA Term length No fixed term | Appointer The President Constituting instrument 50 U.S.C. § 3037 | |
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Seat George Bush Center for Intelligence, Langley, Fairfax County, Virginia, U.S. Precursor Deputy Director of Central Intelligence | ||
The Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DD/CIA) is a statutory office (50 U.S.C. § 3037) and the second-highest official of the 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.
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Under current law, the Deputy Director is appointed by the President and is not required to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The current Deputy Director is Gina Haspel.
History
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 received statutory approval from the U.S. Congress in 2010.
The first DD/CIA was Kingman Douglass, appointed by the Director of Central Intelligence in 1946. In April 1953, Congress amended the National Security Act of 1947 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.
Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2005–present)
Hereafter the "Deputy Director of Central Intelligence" position was replaced by Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence.