Steve Kappes
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Steve Kappes is a former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. John Kiriakou encountered him in the lobby of the Marriott hotel in Sanaa, Yemen, during his final Yemen trip as a Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigator in approximately 2010. The presence of the "package is moving" protective-detail call-out alerted Kiriakou to the presence of a senior visitor; Kappes greeted him by name on emerging from the elevator.

Delivering the ultimatum to Gaddafi

Kiriakou says that while he was serving as executive assistant, Kappes, then CIA deputy director, flew to Tripoli and personally told Muammar Gaddafi to give up his weapons of mass destruction programs; Gaddafi complied, giving up his nuclear energy program as well as his chemical and biological weapons programs.

The Feinstein condition on Panetta's confirmation

Kiriakou describes Senator Dianne Feinstein as one of the CIA's foremost cheerleaders on Capitol Hill, and says that when Barack Obama struggled to find a CIA director willing to take the job, she told Leon Panetta she would vote to confirm him only if he chose Kappes, one of the "godfathers" and creators of the CIA torture program, as his deputy.

See also

- Yemen
- John Kiriakou
