• This October 2017 videograb still image obtained Tuesday courtesy of the OSS Society shows Gina Haspel, deputy director of the CIA, speaking at the 2017 William J. Donovan Award Dinner in Washington. Gina Haspel, nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the CIA, is a black ops veteran who once ran a secret interrogation operation in Thailand accused of torturing detainees. If approved by the Senate, Haspel would be the first woman ever to run the Central Intelligence Agency. | OSS SOCIETY / HANDOUT / VIA AFP-JIJI
    This October 2017 videograb still image obtained Tuesday courtesy of the OSS Society shows Gina Haspel, deputy director of the CIA, speaking at the 2017 William J. Donovan Award Dinner in Washington. Gina Haspel, nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the CIA, is a black ops veteran who once ran a secret interrogation operation in Thailand accused of torturing detainees. If approved by the Senate, Haspel would be the first woman ever to run the Central Intelligence Agency. | OSS SOCIETY / HANDOUT / VIA AFP-JIJI

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WASHINGTON – Gina Haspel, a veteran CIA clandestine officer picked by President Donald Trump on Tuesday to head the CIA, is a controversial figure, backed by many in the U.S. intelligence community but regarded warily by some in Congress for her involvement in the agency’s “black site” detention facilities.

Haspel was selected as the agency’s new director after the Republican president fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and chose current CIA Director Mike Pompeo as Tillerson’s replacement.

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