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Foreign Relations of the United States 1945-1950 Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment Department of State Washington, DC

List of Persons

Acheson, Dean, Under Secretary of State, August 16, 1945-June 30, 1947; Secretary of State from January 21, 1949

Allen, George V., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, March 31, 1948-November 28, 1949

Appleby, Paul H., Director of the Bureau of the Budget from 1946

Armstrong, W. Park, Jr., Acting Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Research and Intelligence, October 1, 1947-January 21, 1948; thereafter Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Research and Intelligence

Babbitt, Theodore, Assistant Director for Reports and Estimates, Central Intelligence Group and Central Intelligence Agency, July 1947-November 1950

Benton, William, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, September 17, 1945-September 30, 1947

Bissell, Major General Clayton (USA), Assistant Chief of Staff for Military Intelligence

Blum, Robert, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1947-1949

Braden, Spruille, Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs, August 25, 1945-June 27, 1947

Brownell, Brigadier General George A. (USA), Executive Officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Air

Bush, Vannevar, Chairman, Research and Development Board

Butler, George H., member, Policy Planning Staff, from February 24, 1948

Byrnes, James F., Secretary of State, July 3, 1945-January 21, 1947

Cabell, General Charles P., Director of Intelligence, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force; member, Intelligence Advisory Committee

Cassady, Thomas, Office of Special Operations, Central Intelligence Group and Central Intelligence Agency, to 1948

Chamberlin, Stephen J., Director of Intelligence, War Department General Staff; member, Intelligence Advisory Board

Childs, Prescott, Chief, Interagency Coordinating and Planning Staff, from 1947; Chief, Coordination, Operations and Policy Staff, from October 5, 1949

Clark, Tom C., Attorney General, June 30, 1945-July 28, 1949

Clayton, William L., Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs until August 16, 1946; Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, August 17, 1946-October 15, 1947

Clifford, Clark M., Naval Aide to the President until July 1946; thereafter Special Counsel to the President

Correa, Mathias F., Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy; member, National Security Council Survey Committee, 1948

Craig, Major General Horace A. (USA), Chief of the Operations Division, War Department General Staff; Deputy Chief, Intelligence Advisory Council, from August 7, 1950; Assistant Director, Office of Special Services, from December 1, 1950

Denfeld, Admiral Louis E. (USN), Chief of Naval Operations, December 15, 1947-November 2, 1949

Donovan, William J., Director, Office of Strategic Services, until October 1, 1945

Dulin, R. E., Deputy Chief, Special Procedures Group

Dulles, Allen W., Chairman, National Security Council Survey Committee, 1948

Dunn, James C., Assistant Secretary of State for European, Far Eastern, Near Eastern and African Affairs until November 11, 1946

Earman, John S., secretary to the National Intelligence Authority, 1947; Office of the Director of Central Intelligence from 1947

Eberstadt, Ferdinand, prepared the Eberstadt Report on Service Unification for Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, 1945

Eddy, William A., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Research and Intelligence, August 1, 1946-October 1, 1947

Edgar, Donald, Chief, Interdepartmental Coordinating and Planning Staff, Central Intelligence Group and Central Intelligence Agency, July 1946-October 1947

Elsey, George M., Assistant Naval Aide to the President, 1945-1946; Assistant to the Special Counsel to the President, 1947-1949

Forrestal, James V., Secretary of the Navy until September 1947; Secretary of Defense, September 17, 1947-March 28, 1949

Fortier, Brigadier General Louis J. (USA), Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee of the Central Intelligence Group (the Fortier Committee), from 1946

Foskett, Rear Admiral James H. (USN), Naval Aide to the President, July 1946-February 1948

Foster, William C., Deputy Administrator, Economic Cooperation Administration

Galloway, Colonel Donald H. (USA), Assistant Director for Special Operations, Central Intelligence Group and Central Intelligence Agency, July 11, 1946-December 27, 1948

Gingrich, Rear Admiral John E. (USN), Director of Intelligence and Security, Atomic Energy Commission

Gray, Gordon, Secretary of the Army, June 20, 1949-April 12, 1950

Harriman, W. Averell, Representative to Europe of the Economic Cooperation Administration, 1948-1950; Special Assistant to the President from 1950

Hill, Arthur M., Chairman, National Security Resources Board

Hillenkoetter, Rear Admiral Roscoe (USN), Director of Central Intelligence, Central Intelligence Group and Central Intelligence Agency, May 1, 1947-October 7, 1950

Hoover, Herbert, former President; Chairman of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government

Hoover, J. Edgar, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Houston, Lawrence, General Counsel to the Central Intelligence Group and to the Central Intelligence Agency from 1946

Huddle, J. Klhar, Assistant Director for Research and Evaluation (changed to Assistant Director for Reports and Estimates in late 1946), Central Intelligence Group, September 1946-May 1947

Humelsine, Carlisle H., Executive Secretary, Department of State, June 1947-January 1950; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Administration from January 1950; Assistant Secretary of State for Administration from July 1950; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration from August 1950

Inglis, Thomas B., Chief of Naval Intelligence from 1945

Jackson, William H., member, National Security Council Survey Committee, 1948; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, from October 7, 1950

Johnson, Louis, Secretary of Defense, March 28, 1949-September 19, 1950

Joyce, Robert P., Office of Special Operations (Central Intelligence Group) liaison to the Department of State, 1946-June 1947; Political Adviser on Trieste, 1947-1948; Senior Consultant (representing the Secretary of State), Office of Policy Coordination, from September 1948; Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, from December 1948

Kennan, George F., Deputy for Foreign Affairs, National War College, August 1946-July 1947; Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, May 5, 1947-December 31, 1949; Counselor of the Department of State from August 4, 1949

Kent, Sherman, Vice Chairman, Board of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency, from November 1950

Ladd, Milton, Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Langer, William L., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Research and Intelligence until July 1946; Chairman, National Board of Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency, from November 1950

Lay, James S., Jr., member, Central Intelligence Group from January 1946; secretary, Intelligence Advisory Board, January 1946-September 1947; Office of Reports and Estimates, Central Intelligence Group, 1947; Assistant to the Executive Secretary, National Security Council, September 1947-January 1950; Executive Secretary, National Security Council, from January 1950

Leahy, Admiral William D. (USN), Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief; presided over the Joint Chiefs of Staff, July 1942-March 1949

Lovett, Robert A., Assistant Secretary of War for Air, to December 1945; Under Secretary of State, July, 1, 1947-January 20, 1949

Lyon, Frederick B., Director, Office of Controls, Department of State, from 1945

Magruder, Brigadier General John (USA), Deputy Director for Intelligence, Office of Strategic Services, until September 1945; Director of Strategic Services Unit, War Department, October 1, 1945-April 4, 1946; Senior Consultant (representing the Secretary of Defense), Office of Policy Coordination, from September 1948

Marshall, General George C. (USA), Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, until November 1945; Secretary of State, January 21, 1947-January 20, 1949; Secretary of Defense from September 21, 1950

Matthews, Francis P., Secretary of the Navy from May 25, 1949

McCarthy, Frank, Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, September 1, 1945-October 11, 1945

McCloy, John J., Assistant Secretary of War until November 1945

McCormack, Alfred, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, September 28, 1945-April 23, 1946

McDonald, George C., Assistant Chief of Air Staff; Executive Officer, Office of the Assist-ant Secretary of War

McWilliams, William J., Assistant Director, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, from August 23, 1948

Montague, Ludwell L., Chief, Central Reports Staff, Central Intelligence Group, March-July 1946; Acting Assistant Director, Central Intelligence Group, 1946; Office of Reports and Estimates, September 1946-November 1950; Central Intelligence Agency representative to the National Security Council, September 1947-October 1950; Office of National Estimates from November 1950

Moseley, H. W., secretary, State-Army-Navy-Air Force Coordinating Committee

Nimitz, Admiral Chester W. (USN), Chief of Naval Operations, December 15, 1945-December 15, 1947

Panuch, J. Anthony, Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration from November 15, 1945

Patterson, Robert P., Secretary of War, September 27, 1945-July 18, 1947

Petersen, Howard C., Assistant Secretary of War, 1945-1947

Peurifoy, John E., Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, March 17, 1947-August 10, 1950

Pforzheimer, Walter, Legislative Counsel to the Central Intelligence Group and to the Central Intelligence Agency from 1946

Roosevelt, Franklin D., President of the United States until April 12, 1945

Rosenman, Samuel I., Special Counsel to the President

Royall, Kenneth C., Secretary of the Army, September 18, 1947-April 27, 1949

Russell, Donald Stuart, Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, September 24, 1945-January 20, 1947

Sargeant, Howland H., Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, from October 1, 1947

Smith, Harold D., Director of the Bureau of the Budget, 1945-1946

Smith, Russell Jack, Office of Reports and Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency, June 1947-November 1950; thereafter Office of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency

Smith, Walter B., Director of Central Intelligence from October 7, 1950

Snyder, John W., Director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion

Souers, Rear Admiral Sydney W. (USN), Director of Central Intelligence, Central Intelligence Group, January 22, 1946-June 10, 1946; Executive Secretary, National Security Council, August 1947-January 1950; Special Consultant to the President from January 1950

Sprague, W. A., member, Intelligence Survey Group

Stimson, Henry Louis, Secretary of War until September 27, 1945

Stone, Donald C., Assistant Director for Administrative Management, Bureau of the Budget

Stone, William T., Director, Office of Information and Educational Exchange, Department of State

Sullivan, John L., Secretary of the Navy, September 18, 1947-May 24, 1949

Symington, W. Stuart, Secretary of the Air Force, September 18, 1947-April 24, 1950

Tamm, Edward A., Assistant to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Truman, Harry S., President of the United States from April 12, 1945

Vandenberg, Lieutenant General Hoyt S. (USAF), member, Intelligence Advisory Board, January 1946-May 1947; Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, U.S. Army, 1946; Director of Central Intelligence, Central Intelligence Group, June 10, 1946-May 1, 1947; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, from April 30, 1948

Webb, James E., Under Secretary of State from January 28, 1949

Whitney, C. V., Assistant Secretary of the Air Force

Wisner, Frank G., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Occupied Areas, 1947-1948; Assistant Director for Policy Coordination, Central Intelligence Agency, from September 1, 1948

Wright, Colonel Edwin K. (USA), Executive Director of the Intelligence Division, War Department General Staff, February-June 1946; executive to the Director of Central Intelligence (Central Intelligence Group), June 26, 1946-January 20, 1947; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, Central Intelligence Group and Central Intelligence Agency, January 20, 1947-March 9, 1949

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