Richard Calder
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Richard Calder is a senior official at the United States
Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA).
Calder holds a Bachelor's degree
in political science
from the University of Connecticut
and a Master's degree in information systems
from George Washington University
. He started his career with the CIA as a radio operator after serving in the United States Navy
. It was in this role that he found himself trapped for several days inside the CIA's base in Benghazi
, Libya
, during riots in the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. His chief at the time was Thomas Twetten, who rose to become Deputy Director for Operations (DDO).
Calder served in numerous roles with in the CIA, including operations officer, deputy chief of the Near East Division for Arab operations, and chief of operations and resource management staff of the Directorate of Operations (DO).
In late 1995, then-CIA Director John M. Deutch
made Calder an offer to run Directorate of Administration (DA), of whose inefficiencies he had been sharply critical, with a free hand. As his remedy and against nearly universal resistance among his own Directorate's leadership, Calder instituted activity-based costing
and a working-capital fund, returning the majority of his Directorate's budget back to the operational units and requiring his directorate to offer its services on a reimbursable basis. The net result was a freeing up of significant resources for use in the Agency's main operational and analytic missions.
Calder is married with two children.
United States
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Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
(CIA).
Calder holds a Bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
in political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
from the University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut
The admission rate to the University of Connecticut is about 50% and has been steadily decreasing, with about 28,000 prospective students applying for admission to the freshman class in recent years. Approximately 40,000 prospective students tour the main campus in Storrs annually...
and a Master's degree in information systems
Information systems
Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...
from George Washington University
George Washington University
The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
. He started his career with the CIA as a radio operator after serving in the United States Navy
United States Navy
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. It was in this role that he found himself trapped for several days inside the CIA's base in Benghazi
Benghazi
Benghazi is the second largest city in Libya, the main city of the Cyrenaica region , and the former provisional capital of the National Transitional Council. The wider metropolitan area is also a district of Libya...
, Libya
Libya
Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
, during riots in the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. His chief at the time was Thomas Twetten, who rose to become Deputy Director for Operations (DDO).
Calder served in numerous roles with in the CIA, including operations officer, deputy chief of the Near East Division for Arab operations, and chief of operations and resource management staff of the Directorate of Operations (DO).
In late 1995, then-CIA Director John M. Deutch
John M. Deutch
John Mark Deutch is an American chemist and civil servant. He was the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1995 and Director of Central Intelligence from May 10, 1995 until December 15, 1996...
made Calder an offer to run Directorate of Administration (DA), of whose inefficiencies he had been sharply critical, with a free hand. As his remedy and against nearly universal resistance among his own Directorate's leadership, Calder instituted activity-based costing
Activity-based costing
Activity-based costing is a special costing model that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity with resources to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each...
and a working-capital fund, returning the majority of his Directorate's budget back to the operational units and requiring his directorate to offer its services on a reimbursable basis. The net result was a freeing up of significant resources for use in the Agency's main operational and analytic missions.
Calder is married with two children.