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    Sidney William Souers (March 30, 1892 – January 14, 1973) was an American military intelligence officer who was the first person to hold the office of...
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  • as much power as a Cabinet Secretary, but Souers believed that the DCI should be subservient to them. Souers believed that the CIG should be fostered under...
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  • Souers is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: Jerome Souers (born 1958), American football coach Sidney Souers (1892–1973), American...
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    established by President Harry Truman on January 23, 1946, with Admiral Sidney Souers being the first DCI, followed by General Hoyt Vandenberg who served...
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  • (NIA) granted the head of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), Admiral Sidney Souers, to create within the structure of CIG a new office which would absorb...
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    Assistant Executive Secretary of the NSC, with Souers becoming its Executive Secretary. In 1950, with Souers announcing his retirement, Lay became the Executive...
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  • intelligence (DCI), who was a nonvoting member of the NIA. The first DCI was Sidney Souers. History of the Central Intelligence Agency Harry Truman (22 January...
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    commissioners, he went to National Security Council executive secretary Sidney Souers in order to bring the matter to President Truman directly. It was as...
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  • Richard Sorge 1920–1941  Soviet Union Main Intelligence Directorate Sidney Souers 1946–1946  United States Director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
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  • debate. This type of leak is common; as former White House advisor Sidney Souers advised a young scholar in 1957, "there are no leaks in Washington,...
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    Hillenkoetter Jerome Clarke Hunsaker Donald H. Menzel Robert M. Montague Sidney Souers Nathan F. Twining Hoyt Vandenberg Donovan, Barna William (2011-07-20)...
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  • of Central Intelligence to be a serving officer, but not both. RADM Sidney Souers, Director of Central Intelligence, 1946 LTG Hoyt S. Vandenberg, US Army...
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  • representatives, state governors, state legislators, and ambassadors. Sidney Souers served as the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Rita...
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  • Army Aviation Branch Joe C. Paul (1946–1965), Medal of Honor recipient Sidney Souers (1892–1973), first Director of the CIA Tony Stein (1921–1945), Medal...
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    the Battle of Okinawa. After the war, Goggins was selected by Admiral Sidney Souers to be the Chief of the Central Planning Staff for the Central Intelligence...
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  • "panel" to approve operations. The executive secretary of the NSC, Sidney Souers, recommended that the panel be composed of representatives from the...
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    President Harry Truman Deputy Kingman Douglass Edwin K. Wright Preceded by Sidney Souers Succeeded by Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Personal details Born Hoyt Sanford...
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  • Secretary of the Interior, serving in the Cabinet of Abraham Lincoln Sidney Souers, first Central Intelligence Agency Director appointed by President Harry...
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    Smith knew little about the CIA, he asked for a deputy who knew a lot. Sidney Souers, the executive secretary of the National Security Council, recommended...
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    Authority (NIA) granted the head of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), Sidney Souers, to create within the structure of CIG a new office which would absorb...
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  • the logjam on January 4, 1951, when he ordered Frederick Lawton and Sidney Souers to develop a plan for what would become PSB – an interdepartmental committee...
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    of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In 1946, he was placed by Sidney Souers in the command structure of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) as...
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    ceremony two days later, Truman presented the new Director, Rear Admiral Sidney Souers, with a black hat, a black cloak, and a wooden dagger. Born: Serge Savard...
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    (G-2). President Harry Truman appointed Vandenberg to replace Admiral Sidney Souers as the second Director of Central Intelligence (CIG-CIA) on January...
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    intelligence complex. National Security Council (NSC) executive director, Adm. Sidney Souers, appointed Jackson on February 13 to serve on the NSC's Intelligence...
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    Bagley Desmond Fitzgerald Roscoe Hillenkoetter Thomas Karamessines Sidney Souers Hoyt Vandenberg "Richard Helms: The Intelligence Professional Personified"...
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    two areas of responsibility; Covert Action and Covert Intelligence. Sidney Souers (formerly Deputy Chief of Naval Intelligence), after a little more than...
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    in July 1946, Houston became the General Counsel for the CIG under Sidney Souers. In 1947, the CIG was merged into the newly established Central Intelligence...
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    César Cui: The Saracen Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Maid of Orleans Sidney Souers, American admiral and intelligence expert Evan Hause: Nightingale: The...
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    Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency William J. Donovan (OSS) Sidney Souers Hoyt Vandenberg Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Walter Bedell Smith Allen Dulles...
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