John Alexander Gordon (August 22, 1946 – April 19, 2020) was an American air force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

[1] Gordon entered the Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1968.

He was a long-range planner at Strategic Air Command and served with the U.S. State Department in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs.

He has served with the National Security Council in the areas of defense and arms control, including the oversight and completion of the START II negotiations.

[citation needed] Following his Air Force retirement, Gordon was chosen as the first administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration and also Under Secretary of Energy, responsible for the U.S. nuclear weapons program, a position he filled from June 2000 to June 2002.