Chief of CIA’s Covert Activities to Step Down
<i> Associated Press</i>
WASHINGTON —
Hugh E. (Ted) Price is retiring as the CIA’s director for operations effective Friday, the CIA announced Tuesday.
Acting Director William O. Studeman said Price has made “significant contributions to the national security of this country.”
Price served in the post, which involves directing all of the agency’s covert activities, since January, 1994. John J. Devine, associate deputy for operations since October, 1994, will serve as acting director of operations until a replacement is named.
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