Head of CIA’s Spy Division Calls It Quits
The director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, the home of Langley’s most secretive intelligence operations, has decided to step down.
The news was first reported by the Daily Beast, which received confirmation from a CIA spokesman that the director had retired.
The agency doesn’t publicly identify the head of the Clandestine Service, but as Newsweek’s Jeff Stein reported in 2013, his name is Frank Archibald.
A former Clemson University football player, Archibald served in the Marines before joining the agency and eventually working as a spy. He later ran the operation that helped remove Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic from office, which drew heavy praise on Capitol Hill, according to the Associated Press.
As the Daily Beast explained, Archibald’s departure comes a critical time for Langley. John Brennan, the CIA’s director, is reportedly mulling big changes for agency. Among them: creating new intel centers and abandoning the organizational divide between spies and analysts.
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