Marshall Carter

Marshall Carter    (soldier, spook)
Born	September 16, 1909 Fort Monroe, Virginia
Died	February 18, 1993 (Age 83) Colorado Springs, Colorado
Alma mater	United States Military Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Parents	Clifton C. Carter
Director of the National Security Agency from 1965 to 1969.  Director of the National Security Agency  In office June 1965 - August 1969 Preceded by Gordon Blake Succeeded by Noel Gayler  Acting Director of Central Intelligence In office 1963? Preceded by John Brennan, George H. W. Bush, Marshall Carter, William Casey, William Colby, John Deutch, Allen Dulles, Robert Gates, Porter Goss, Porter Goss, Gina Haspel, Michael Hayden, Richard Helms, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, E. Henry Knoche, John McCone, John McCone, John E. McLaughlin, Michael Morell, Michael Morell, Leon Panetta, Meroë Park, David Petraeus, Mike Pompeo, William Raborn, James Schlesinger, Walter Bedell Smith, George Tenet, Stansfield Turner, Vernon A. Walters, William Webster, James Woolsey"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.Marshall Carter, John McCone Succeeded by John Brennan, William Burns, George H. W. Bush, Marshall Carter, William Casey, William Colby, John Deutch, Allen Dulles, Robert Gates, Porter Goss, Porter Goss, Gina Haspel, Michael Hayden, Richard Helms, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, E. Henry Knoche, John McCone, John McCone, John E. McLaughlin, Michael Morell, Michael Morell, Leon Panetta, Meroë Park, David Petraeus, Mike Pompeo, William Raborn, James Schlesinger, Walter Bedell Smith, George Tenet, Stansfield Turner, Vernon A. Walters, William Webster, James Woolsey"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.Marshall Carter, John McCone Only emerged in 1990 that Marshall S. Carter had this job on 5th August.  Deputy Director of Central Intelligence In office April 3, 1962 - April 28, 1965 Preceded by Charles P. Cabell Succeeded by Richard Helms

Marshall Sylvester Carter was a lieutenant general in the United States Army. From 1965 to 1969, was Director of the National Security Agency. In 1990, a declassified memo released to the US archives revealed that on 5th August, 1963, Carter was acting Director of Central Intelligence.

Life and career

Carter was born on September 16, 1909 at Fort Monroe, Virginia, the son of future Brigadier general Clifton C. Carter. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1931 and took an M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936.

Carter was an aide to General George C. Marshall during Marshall's time as Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense.

Carter, then a lieutenant general, was Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from April 3, 1962, to April 28, 1965. On 5th August, he was Director of Central Intelligence, a fact that only became public several decades later in a declassified memo.

From 1965 to 1969, he worked as Director of the National Security Agency. While serving as Director of the NSA, Carter testified to a House Appropriations Committee about the 1967 USS Liberty incident. He stated that "It couldn’t be anything else but deliberate. There’s just no way you could have a series of circumstances that would justify it being an accident." Upon retirement from the military, he was President of the George C. Marshall Research Foundation until retiring from that position in 1985.

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