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{{Short description|Position at the Central Intelligence Agency}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Infobox Political post
|post = Deputy Director 
|body = the Central Intelligence Agency
|insignia = Seal of the Central Intelligence Agency.svg
|insigniasize = 150
|insigniacaption = Seal of the Central Intelligence Agency
|image = Michael Ellis 2025.jpg
|incumbent = [[Michael Ellis (attorney)|Michael Ellis]]
|incumbentsince = February 10, 2025
|department = [[Central Intelligence Agency]]
|reports_to = [[Director of the Central Intelligence Agency]] (D/CIA)
|seat = [[George Bush Center for Intelligence]], [[Langley, Virginia|Langley]], [[Fairfax County, Virginia|Fairfax County]], [[Virginia]], U.S.
|appointer = [[President of the United States]], with advice from D/CIA
|termlength = No fixed term
|constituting_instrument = {{UnitedStatesCode|50|3037}}
|formation = December 17, 2004
|precursor = Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
|deputy = Chief Operating Officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (COO/CIA)
|inaugural = {{nowrap|[[Vice Admiral (United States)|VADM]] [[Albert Calland|Albert M. Calland]], [[United States Navy|USN]]}}
|salary = [[Executive Schedule]], Level III<ref>{{UnitedStatesCode|5|5314}}</ref>
|website = {{url|www.cia.gov}}
}}

The '''deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency''' ('''DD/CIA''') is a statutory office ({{UnitedStatesCode|50|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.

Under current law, the deputy director is appointed by the [[president of the United States]] and is not required to be confirmed by the [[United States Senate]].

==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 DDCI was [[Kingman Douglass]], appointed by the [[Director of Central Intelligence|director of central intelligence]] in 1946, managing the [[Central Intelligence Group]] (CIG). With the passage of the [[National Security Act of 1947]], the CIG was merged into the CIA. Thus, the position of DDCI predates the creation of the CIA.

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.

==List of deputy directors of Central Intelligence (1946–2004)==
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{{Officeholder table|image=Photograph of an American Pilot in France, ca. 03-1918 - NARA - 512863 (portrait).tif|born_year=1896|died_year=1971|officeholder=[[Kingman Douglass]]|term_start=March 2, 1946|term_end=July 11, 1946|alt_officeholder=[[Harry S. Truman]]|timeinoffice={{ayd|1946|3|2|1946|7|11}}|order=1}}{{Officeholder table|officeholder=Vacant|term_start=July 11, 1946|term_end=January 20, 1947|timeinoffice={{ayd|1946|7|11|1947|1|20}}|alt_officeholder=[[Harry S. Truman]]|image=|born_year=|died_year=|order=—}}

{{Officeholder table|officeholder=[[Edwin Kennedy Wright]]|military_rank=[[Brigadier General]]|image=Edwin_K._Wright.jpg|born_year=1898|died_year=1983|term_start=January 20, 1947|term_end=March 9, 1949|timeinoffice={{ayd|1947|1|20|1949|3|9}}|alt_officeholder=[[Harry S. Truman]]|officeholder_altname=[[United States Army]]|order=2}}{{Officeholder table|officeholder=Vacant|term_start=March 10, 1949|term_end=October 7, 1950|timeinoffice={{ayd|1949|3|10|1950|10|7}}|alt_officeholder=[[Harry S. Truman]]|order=—}}{{Officeholder table|officeholder=[[William Harding Jackson]]|born_year=1901|died_year=1971|image=William_Harding_Jackson.jpg|term_start=October 7, 1950|term_end=August 3, 1951|timeinoffice={{ayd|1950|10|7|1951|8|3}}|alt_officeholder=[[Harry S. Truman]]|order=3}}{{Officeholder table|officeholder=[[Allen Dulles]]|image=Allen_w_dulles.jpg|born_year=1893|died_year=1969|term_end=February 26, 1953|term_start=August 23, 1951|timeinoffice={{ayd|1951|8|23|1953|2|26}}|alt_officeholder=Harry S. Truman<br>[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]|order=4}}{{Officeholder table|officeholder=[[Charles P. Cabell]]|image=Charles_p_cabell.jpg|military_rank=[[General]]|officeholder_altname=[[United States Air Force]]|born_year=1903|died_year=1971|term_start=April 23, 1953|term_end=January 31, 1962<ref name="cabell_dd214">{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/afhra-141.290-13-folder-1 |title=Cabell, C.P., DD 214, in personal papers |author=<!--Not stated--> |year=1962 |page=4 |publisher=[[Air Force Historical Research Agency]] |access-date=August 30, 2022}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>|alt_officeholder=Dwight D. Eisenhower<br>[[John F. Kennedy]]|timeinoffice={{ayd|1953|4|23|1962|1|31}}|order=5}}{{Officeholder table|officeholder=[[Marshall Carter]]|military_rank=[[Lieutenant General]]|officeholder_altname=United States Army|image=Marshall_S._Carter.jpg|born_year=1909|died_year=1993|term_start=April 3, 1962|term_end=April 28, 1965|alt_officeholder=John F. Kennedy<br>[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]|timeinoffice={{ayd|1962|4|3|1965|4|28}}|order=6}}{{Officeholder table|officeholder=[[Richard Helms]]|image=Richard M Helms.jpg|born_year=1913|died_year=2002|term_start=April 28, 1965|term_end=June 30, 1966|alt_officeholder=Lyndon B. Johnson|timeinoffice={{ayd|1965|4|28|1966|6|30}}|order=7}}{{Officeholder table|officeholder=[[Rufus Lackland Taylor]]|military_rank=[[Vice Admiral]]|image=Rufus L. Taylor.jpg|born_year=1910|died_year=1978|term_start=October 13, 1966|term_end=February 1, 1969|timeinoffice={{ayd|1966|10|13|1969|2|1}}|alt_officeholder=Lyndon B. Johnson<br>[[Richard M. Nixon]]|officeholder_altname=[[United States Navy]]|order=8}}{{Officeholder table|officeholder=[[Robert E. Cushman Jr.]]|born_year=1914|died_year=1985|military_rank=General|officeholder_altname=[[United States Marine Corps]]|image=Robert E. Cushman.jpg|term_start=May 7, 1969|term_end=December 31, 1971|timeinoffice={{ayd|1969|5|7|1971|12|31}}|alt_officeholder=Richard M. Nixon|order=9}}{{Officeholder table|military_rank=General|officeholder=[[Vernon A. Walters]]|officeholder_altname=United States Army|term_start=May 2, 1972|term_end=July 2, 1976|image=Vernon_A_Walters_02.jpg|born_year=1917|died_year=2002|timeinoffice={{ayd|1972|5|2|1976|7|2}}|order=10|alt_officeholder=Richard M. Nixon<br>[[Gerald R. Ford]]}}{{Officeholder table|image=|order=11|term_start=July 7, 1976|term_end=August 1, 1977|born_year=1925|died_year=2010|officeholder=[[E. Henry Knoche]]|timeinoffice={{ayd|1976|7|7|1977|8|1}}|alt_officeholder=Gerald R. Ford<br>[[Jimmy Carter]]}}{{Officeholder table|order=—|officeholder=[[John F. Blake]]|term_start=August 1, 1977|term_end=February 10, 1978|alt_officeholder=Jimmy Carter|timeinoffice={{ayd|1977|8|1|1978|2|10}}|born_year=1922|died_year=1995}}{{Officeholder table|order=12|officeholder=[[Frank Carlucci]]|image=Frank Carlucci official portrait.JPEG|born_year=1930|died_year=2018|term_start=February 10, 1978|term_end=February 5, 1981|timeinoffice={{ayd|1978|2|10|1981|2|5}}|officeholder_altname=|alt_officeholder=Jimmy Carter<br>[[Ronald Reagan]]}}{{Officeholder table|officeholder=[[Bobby Ray Inman]]|military_rank=[[Admiral]]|image=Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, official CIA photo, 1983.JPEG|order=13|term_start=February 12, 1981|term_end=June 10, 1982|born_year=1931|alt_officeholder=Ronald Reagan|timeinoffice={{ayd|1981|2|12|1982|6|10}}|officeholder_altname=United States Navy}}{{Officeholder table|order=14|officeholder=[[John N. 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Bush<br>[[Bill Clinton]]}}{{Officeholder table|order=18|officeholder=[[George Tenet]]|alt_officeholder=Bill Clinton|born_year=1953|image=George Tenet portrait headshot.jpg|term_start=July 3, 1995|term_end=July 11, 1997|timeinoffice={{ayd|1995|7|3|1997|7|11}}}}{{Officeholder table|order=19|military_rank=General|officeholder_altname=United States Air Force|image=John A Gordon.jpg|born_year=1946|died_year=2020|officeholder=[[John A. Gordon]]|term_start=October 31, 1997|term_end=June 29, 2000|alt_officeholder=Bill Clinton|timeinoffice={{ayd|1997|10|31|2000|6|29}}}}{{Officeholder table|order=20|image=John Edward McLaughlin speaking on May 28, 2004.jpg|born_year=1942|alt_officeholder=Bill Clinton<br>[[George W. Bush]]|officeholder=[[John E. McLaughlin]]|term_start=October 19, 2000|term_end=December 3, 2004|timeinoffice={{ayd|2000|10|19|2004|12|3}}}}{{Officeholder table end}}

==Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2004–present)==

Hereafter the deputy director of central intelligence position was replaced by the '''deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency''' and the [[Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence|principal deputy director of national intelligence]]''.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!No.
!colspan="2" | Deputy Director of the CIA
!Tenure
!President(s) served under
|-
| colspan="5" | ''Position succeeded the deputy director of central intelligence''
|-
| colspan="3" | Vacant
| December 3, 2004 – July 15, 2005
| rowspan="2" | [[George W. Bush]]
|-
| 1
| [[File:Albert Calland, official Navy photo portrait.jpg|70px]]
| [[Vice Admiral (United States)|VADM]] [[Albert Calland]], [[United States Navy|USN]]
| July 15, 2005 – July 23, 2006
|-
| 2
| [[File:Kappes.jpeg|70px]]
| [[Stephen Kappes]]
| July 24, 2006 – May 5, 2010
| George W. Bush<br>[[Barack Obama]]
|-
| 3
| [[File:CIA Michael Morell.jpg|70px]]
| [[Michael Morell]]
| May 7, 2010 – August 9, 2013 
| rowspan="3" | Barack Obama
|-
| 4
| [[File:Avril Haines.jpg|70px]]
| [[Avril Haines]]
| August 9, 2013 – January 10, 2015
|-
| 5
| [[File:David Cohen official CIA portrait.jpg|70px]]
| [[David S. Cohen (politician)|David S. Cohen]]
| February 9, 2015 – January 20, 2017
|-
| 6
| [[File:Gina Haspel official CIA portrait (cropped).jpg|70px]]
| [[Gina Haspel]]
| February 2, 2017 – May 21, 2018
| rowspan="3"| [[Donald Trump]]
|-
| colspan="3" | Vacant
| May 21, 2018 – August 1, 2018
|-
| 7
| [[File:Vaughn Bishop official photo (cropped).jpg|70px]]
| [[Vaughn Bishop]]
| August 1, 2018 – January 20, 2021
|-
| 8
| [[File:David cohen 2021.jpg|70px]]
| [[David S. Cohen (politician)|David S. Cohen]] 
| January 20, 2021 – January 20, 2025
| [[Joe Biden]]
|-
| colspan="3" | Vacant
| January 20, 2025 – February 10, 2025
| rowspan="2"| [[Donald Trump]]
|-
| 9
|[[File:Michael Ellis 2025.jpg|frameless|88x88px]]
| [[Michael Ellis (attorney)|Michael Ellis]] 
| February 10, 2025 – present
|-
|}

==In popular culture==
In the novel ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'', the character Vice Admiral James Greer is the fictional deputy director of the CIA; former U.S. Marine [[Jack Ryan (character)|Jack Ryan]] takes over this role after Admiral Greer's death in ''[[Clear and Present Danger]]''. He subsequently retires from the position following a highly publicized media scandal and the detonation of a [[nuclear weapon]] at the [[Super Bowl]] in ''[[The Sum of All Fears]]''.

In the animated sitcom ''[[American Dad!]]'', the character [[Avery Bullock]] is the fictional deputy director of the CIA.

In the video game ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops 6]]'', the character Daniel Livingstone is the fictional deputy director of the CIA.

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