All three top positions at CIA now filled by women for the first time

Spy sisterhood: All three of the top positions at the CIA are filled by women for the first time ever after Cynthia Rapp is named as the agency’s top analyst

  • Elizabeth Kimber has already been named as the first female deputy director for operations by CIA director Gina Haspel
  • Dawn Meyerriecks is the deputy director for science and technology
  • Haspel herself is the first woman to ever head the intelligence agency
  • The agency’s entire workforce is now almost 50 per cent women

All three of the top positions at the CIA will now be filled by women for the first time ever after Cynthia ‘Didi’ Rapp was named as the agency’s top analyst.

CIA director Gina Haspel has already appointed Elizabeth Kimber as the first female deputy director for operations and Dawn Meyerriecks as the deputy director for science and technology.

Haspel herself is the first woman to ever head the intelligence agency and an official said its entire workforce is now almost 50 per cent women.

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Director of the CIA Gina Haspel, pictured after being sworn-in during a ceremony in 2018, has appointed Cynthia ‘Didi’ Rapp as the agency’s top analyst


Dawn Meyerriecks, pictured left, is the deputy director for science and technology at the CIA while Elizabeth Kimber, right, is the first woman to lead clandestine operations

Brittany Bramell, CIA director of public affairs told NBC: ‘Didi Rapp brings broad, deep expertise from across the Agency and the Intelligence Community to her new role as the head of our Directorate of Analysis. With her engaging leadership style and reputation for objectivity, Didi will excel in leading our talented analytic cadre.’

Middle East expert Rapp had been the agency’s director of public affairs under Director David Petraeus and deputy executive director under Haspel.

Her mom, dad and husband all worked at the agency.

Beth Kimber, 56, is a decades-long veteran of the CIA and now heads up its clandestine arm. Her job entails recruiting spies overseas, gathering intelligence and engaging White House-approved covert actions.

The role has been dominated by males for 70 years since the CIA started.  

It is the first time all three of the top positions at the CIA will be filled by women


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Other than her LinkedIn page, which lists her only role as a senior executive for the United States government, Kimber has kept much about herself under wraps.

The social media website mentions a bachelor’s degree from New York’s Hamilton College and claims she speaks French.

According to the Wall Street Journal, an insider said she has worked with Russia and terrorism operations in the CIA.  

Director Gina Haspel is the first woman to head the entire CIA and their principal deputy director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon was rumored to have been a backup for the role if she wasn’t confirmed by the Senate.

Courtney Simmons Elwood was appointed the agency’s general counsel by Haspel and Sonya Holt, a 30-year-plus veteran of the agency, was named the director of diversity.

 

 

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