Richard Calder (1943 – 3 November 2014) was a senior official at the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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.
In late 1995, then-CIA Director John M. Deutch made Calder an offer to run the DA, of whose inefficiencies he had been sharply critical, with a free hand.
That year he was named president of Abraxas Corporation by company founder and former CIA director Richard Helms and served until his retirement in 2008.
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