Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945–1950, Emergence
of the Intelligence Establishment
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 Assistant 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