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    Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter

    United States admiral

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  1. President Truman persuaded a reluctant Hillenkoetter, then a rear admiral, to become Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and run the Central Intelligence Group (September 1947). Under the National Security Act of 1947 he was nominated and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as DCI, now in charge of the newly established Central Intelligence Agency ...

  2. Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter became Director of Central Intelligence on May 1, 1947. His appointment had been decided upon by the National Intelligence Authority the preceding February.

  3. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, 1947–1950. Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter was the third director of central intelligence, but the first who served as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. During his tenure, a National Security Council Directive on Office of Special Projects, June 18, 1948, (NSC 10/2) further gave the CIA the ...

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  5. Roscoe Hillenkoetter Richard E. Schroeder The Setting The oldest permanent US intel-ligence organization is the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), dating to 1882. Within three years the Army founded its own intelligence organi-zation, and both services developed a cadre of foreign intelligence col-lectors: naval and military attachés

  6. Jun 22, 1982 · Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, 85, a retired Navy vice admiral and the first director of the CIA, died Friday night at Mount Sinai Hospital. The cause of death was not reported.

  7. Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, Director of Central Intelligence. DECISIONS 1. 1. Policies and Procedures Governing the Activities of the National Security Council. The National Security Council: Approved the following policies and procedures governing the activities of the Council: a.

  8. Jun 21, 1982 · Vice Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency, died Friday night at Mount Sinai Hospital. He was 85 years old and had lived in Weehawken, N.@J.,...