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Richard Calder
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Calder held 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 was a United States Navy radio operator. From 1966, he was as communications officer in the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Administration (District Attorney) Office of Communications (OC).
lieutenant was in this role that he found himself trapped for several days inside the Central Intelligence Agency"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 within the Central Intelligence Agency, including Directorate of Operations ( Doctor of Osteopathy) case officer, deputy chief of the Doctor of Osteopathy Near East Division (North-East) for Arab operations, and chief of Doctor of Osteopathy Operations and Resource Management Staff.
In late 1995, then-Central Intelligence Agency Director John M. Deutch made Calder an offer to run the District Attorney, of whose inefficiencies he had been sharply critical, with a free hand. 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 Netto result was a freeing up of significant resources for use in the Agency"s main operational and analytic missions.
In 2001, he retired from the Central Intelligence Agency. From 2001 to 2008, he was president of Abraxas under Richard Hollis Helms. Calder was married with two children and lived in Vienna, Virginia. He died from a heart attack.
