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Directors of Central Intelligence
Directors of Central Intelligence
as Leaders
of the
U.S. Intelligence Community
1946–2005
Douglas F. Garthoff
Center for the Study of Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
The lessons to America are clear as day. We must not again be caught napping with no adequate national Intelligence organization. The several Federal bureaus should be welded together into one, and that one should be eternally and comprehensively vigilant.
—Arthur Woods,
1919[1]
Whatever he does and however he does it, the Director will be held responsible by the NSC, Congress, and the country for any failure to produce all intelligence pertaining to the national security. If he can do this only by requesting cooperation, the task is hopeless.
—Lawrence Houston,
General Counsel, CIA,
1948[2]
Footnotes:
[2]Houston, CIA’s chief lawyer at the time, drafted these words in exasperation after a meeting in which intelligence agency representatives had refused to accept the DCI as anything more than an equal, seeking cooperation.
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