Roscoe Hillenkoetter

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Person.png Roscoe Hillenkoetter  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter.gif
BornMay 8, 1897
DiedJune 18, 1982 (Age 85)

Employment.png Director of Central Intelligence

In office
May 1, 1947 - October 7, 1950
EmployerCIA
Succeeded byWalter Bedell Smith
During his leadership, the CIA was empowered to undertake "propaganda; economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition, and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world'. It had already exceeded this mandate.

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