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The Wizards of Langley

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by Jeffrey T Richelson


  Director, Office of Development and Engineering (OD&E)

  Leslie C. Dirks April 23, 1973-May 23, 1976

  Donald L. Haas May 23, 1976-August 28, 1978

  Bert C. Aschenbrenner (Acting) August 28, 1978-November 20, 1978

  Stephens Crosby (Acting) November 20, 1978-January 22, 1979

  Bernard Lubarsky January 22, 1979-March 8, 1982

  Robert J. Kohler March 8, 1982-August 17, 1985

  Julian Caballero Jr. August 17, 1985-October 3, 1993

  Edmund Nowinski October 3, 1993-October 16, 1995

  Dennis Fitzgerald October 16, 1995-

  Director, Office of Weapons Intelligence (OWI)

  David S. Brandwein September 4, 1973-July 29, 1974

  R. Evans Hineman July 29, 1974-January 6, 1975

  Ernest J. Zellmer January 6, 1975-June 7, 1976

  R. Evans Hineman June 7, 1976-October 22, 1979

  E. Wayne Boring October 22, 1979-February 25, 1980

  Office of Weapons Intelligence transferred to Directorate of Intelligence, November 22, 1976.

  Director, National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC)

  Arthur Lundahl May 4, 1973-July 21, 1973

  John J. Hicks July 21, 1973-May 1, 1978

  Col. Lorenzo W. Burroughs (Act.) May 1, 1978-June 29, 1978

  Rutledge P. “Hap” Hazard June 30, 1978-February 20, 1984

  R. M. “Rae” Huffstutler February 20, 1984-January 25, 1988

  Frank J. Ruocco February 15, 1988-January 2, 1991

  Leo A. Hazelwood February 18, 1991-August 30, 1993

  Nancy E. Bone September 7, 1993-October 1, 1996

  Director, Office of Technical Service (OTS)

  Sidney Gottlieb May 4, 1973-May 21, 1973

  John N. McMahon May 21, 1973-July 29, 1974

  David S. Brandwein July 29, 1974-June 2, 1980

  M. Corley Wonus June 2, 1980-July 15, 1984

  Peter A. Marino July 15, 1984-December 1, 1986

  Joseph R. DeTrani December 1, 1986-April 17, 1989

  Frank R. Anderson April 17, 1989-May 20, 1991

  Robert G. Ruhle May 20, 1991-February 20, 1994

  Robert W. Manners February 20, 1994-November 14, 1996

  James L. Morris November 14, 1996-April 4, 1997

  Patrick L. Meehan May 2, 1997-

  Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), transferred from DI to DS&T effective November 22, 1976; HN 1-127, November 16 1976.

  Don H. Peterson November 22, 1976-January 7, 1980

  John F. Pereira January 7, 1980-January 25, 1983

  John D. Chandlee January 25, 1983-January 3, 1986

  Harrison S. Markham January 3, 1986-September 28, 1986

  Robert W. Manners September 28, 1986-March 4, 1991

  Wayne R. Schreiner March 19, 1991-January 11, 1996

  J. Niles Riddel January 11, 1996-

  Director, Special Projects Staff (SPS)

  Gary W. Goodrich January 18, 1987-October 12, 1987

  Director, Office of Special Projects (OSP)

  Gary W. Goodrich October 12,1987-October 16, 1989

  Peter M. Daniher December 4, 1989-August 26, 1993

  Director, Office of Technical Collection (OTC), established August 26, 1993, from merger of OSO and OSP (1987).

  Peter M. Daniher August 26, 1993-January 1, 1996

  Patrick L. Meehan (Acting) January 1, 1996-July 18, 1996

  Patrick L. Meehan July 18, 1996-May 1, 1997

  James L. Runyan (Acting) May 5, 1997-September 2, 1997

  James L. Runyan September 3, 1997-January 10, 2000

  Director, Office of Advanced Analytical Tools (AAT)

  Susan Gordon July 18, 1996-October 2000

  Director, Office of Advanced Projects (OAP)

  Richard D. Platte July 18, 1996-October 1998

  Director, Clandestine Information Technology Office (CITO)

  James R. Gosler May 29, 1996-October 2000

  CITO was formed from components of the Office of Technical Service (OTS) and the Office of Technical Collection (OTC). Part of CITO was transferred back to OTC in January 2001, and the rest was absorbed by the Directorate of Operations Information Operations Center.

  Director, Office of Advanced Information Technology (AIT)

  Larry Fairchild October 2000-

  Director, Office of Advanced Technologies and Programs (ATP)

  Unknown October 2000-

  ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

  AAT Office of Advanced Analytic Tools

  ABM Antiballistic Missile

  ACDA Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

  ADSI Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence

  AEC Atomic Energy Commission

  AFSC Air Force Systems Command

  AIR American Institutes for Research

  AIT Office of Advanced Information Technology

  APL Applied Physics Laboratory (Johns Hopkins University)

  ARDE Democratic Revolutionary Alliance

  ARS Advanced Reconnaissance System

  ATP Office of Advanced Technologies and Programs

  BND Bundesnachrichtendienst (West German Foreign Intelligence Service)

  CCD Charge-Coupled Device

  CIA Central Intelligence Agency

  CIG Central Intelligence Group

  CIO Central Imagery Office

  CITO Clandestine Information Technology Office

  COMINT Communications Intelligence

  COMIREX Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation

  COMOR Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance

  DCI Director of Central Intelligence

  DCID Director of Central Intelligence Directive

  DDI Deputy Director for Intelligence

  DDP Deputy Directorate for Plans Deputy Director for Plans

  DDR Deputy Director for Research

  DEFSMAC Defense Special Missile and Astronautics Center

  DIA Defense Intelligence Agency

  DMA Defense Mapping Agency

  DNRO Director National Reconnaissance Office

  DOD Department of Defense

  DPD Development Projects Division

  DPS Development Projects Staff

  DS&T Directorate of Science and Technology

  EARL Edgewood Arsenal Research Laboratories

  ELINT Electronic Intelligence

  ERTS Earth Resources Technology Satellite

  ESO ELINT Staff Officer

  FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service

  FMSAC Foreign Missile and Space Analysis Center

  FROG Film-Readout GAMBIT

  FSTC Foreign Science and Technology Center

  FTD Foreign Technology Division

  HALSOL High-Altitude Solar Energy

  HN Headquarters Notice

  ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

  IDF Israeli Defense Forces

  IEG Imagery Exploitation Group

  INR Bureau of Intelligence and Research

  IPO Investment Program Office

  IRBM Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile

  JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff

  JPRS Joint Publications Research Service

  JRDB Joint Research and Development Board

  LOROP Long-Range Oblique Photography

  MASINT Measurement and Signature Intelligence

  MIRV Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles

  MPS Ministry of Public Security (PRC)

  MRBM Medium-Range Ballistic Missile

  MRV Multiple Reentry Vehicles

  MSX Midcourse Space Experiment

  NACA National Advisory Council on Aeronautics

  NARA National Archives and Records Administration

  NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  NEL National Exploitation Laboratory

  NIA National Imagery Agency

  NIA National Intelligence Authority

  NIDL National Information Display Laboratory

  NIMA National Imagery and Ma
pping Agency

  NIE National Intelligence Estimate

  NORAD North American Aerospace Defense Command

  NPIC National Photographic Interpretation Center

  NRO National Reconnaissance Office

  NRP National Reconnaissance Program

  NRPEC National Reconnaissance Program Executive Committee

  NSA National Security Agency

  NSC National Security Council

  NSCID National Security Council Intelligence Directive

  NURO National Underwater Reconnaissance Office

  NVA North Vietnamese Army

  OAP Office of Advanced Projects

  OCS Office of Computer Services

  OD&E Office of Development and Engineering

  OEL Office of ELINT

  OIA Office of Imagery Analysis

  ORD Office of Research and Development

  ORE Office of Reports and Estimates

  OSA Office of Special Activities

  OSI Office of Scientific Intelligence

  OSO Office of Special Operations

  OSO Office of SIGINT Operations

  OSP Office of Special Projects

  OSR Office of Strategic Research

  OSS Office of Strategic Services

  OTC Office of Technical Collection

  OTH Over-the-Horizon

  OTS Office of Technical Service

  OWI Office of Weapons Intelligence

  PBCFIA President’s Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities

  PDB President’s Daily Brief

  PFIAB President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

  PEG Priority Exploitation Group, NPIC

  PIBS Presidential Intelligence Briefing System

  PIC Photographic Interpretation Center

  PID Photographic Intelligence Division

  PPMS Power and Pattern Measurement System

  PRC People’s Republic of China

  PSAC President’s Scientific Advisory Committee

  RDD Radiation Detection Device

  RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle

  SAC Strategic Air Command

  SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

  SAM Surface-to-Air Missile

  SAVA Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs

  SCS Special Collection Service

  SCMC Shuangchengzi Missile Test Complex

  SDS Satellite Data System

  SEATO Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

  SEI Scientific Engineering Institute

  SIC Scientific Intelligence Committee

  SIGINT Signals Intelligence

  SLBM Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile

  SNA Somali National Alliance

  SNIE Special National Intelligence Estimate

  SOD Special Operations Division

  SOSUS Sound Surveillance System

  SRI Stanford Research Institute

  TCP Technological Capabilities Panel

  TIO Technology Investment Office

  TRW Thompson-Ramo-Woolridge

  TSD Technical Services Division

  TSS Technical Services Staff

  UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

  UCLAs Unilaterally Controlled Latino Assets

  USAF United States Air Force

  USIB United States Intelligence Board

  VC Vietcong

  NOTES

  Chapter 1: Unexpected Missions

  1 . Thomas F. Troy, Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1981), pp. 406–407, 471–472.

  2 . Ibid., pp. 349, 464–465; Christopher Andrew, For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), pp. 168–169.

  3 . John Ranelagh, The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA, from Wild Bill Donovan to William Casey (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986), p. 112.

  4 . Ronald Kessler, Inside the CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the World’s Most Powerful Spy Agency (New York: Pocket Books, 1992), p. 140; Richard M. Bissell with Jonathan E. Lewis and Francis T. Pudlo, Reflections of a Cold Warrior: From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), p. 98.

  5 . Center for the Study of Intelligence, Declassified National Intelligence Estimates of the Soviet Union and International Communism (Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 1996), pp. 4, 6.

  6 . Brig. Gen. E. K. Wright, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, “Establishment and Functions of the Nuclear Energy Group, Scientific Branch, Office of Reports and Estimates,” in C. Thomas Thorne Jr. and David S. Patterson (eds.), Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996), pp. 503–505; Charles A. Zeigler and David Jacobson, Spying Without Spies: Origins of America’s Secret Nuclear Surveillance System (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995), pp. 60–63; George S. Jackson and Martin P. Clausen, Organizational History of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1950–1953 (Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 1957), p. 3; interview with Henry S. Lowenhaupt, Springfield, Virginia, April 15, 1999.

  7 . Lowenhaupt interview; CIA Public Affairs Staff, “‘Trailblazers’ and Years of CIA Service,” www.odci.gov/cia, March 13, 1999.

  8 . David Z. Beckler, Chief of the Intelligence Section, JRDB, “The Critical Situation in Regard to Atomic Energy Intelligence,” December 2, 1947, in Thorne and Patterson (eds.), Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, pp. 820–821.

  9 . Brig. Gen. E. K. Wright, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, “Operations-Intelligence Relationship of CIG with JRDB,” March 13, 1947, in Thorne and Patterson (eds.), Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, pp. 502–503.

  10 . Ronald E. Doel and Allan A. Needell, “Science, Scientists, and the CIA: Balancing International Ideals, National Needs, and Professional Opportunities,” Intelligence and National Security 12, 1 (January 1997): 59–81 at p. 62.

  11 . Ralph L. Clark, Director of Programs Division, to Dr. Vannevar Bush, Chairman, RDB, “CIA Situation,” December 3, 1947, in Thorne and Patterson (eds.), Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, pp. 818–819.

  12 . Doel and Needell, “Science, Scientists, and the CIA,” p. 63.

  13 . Ibid., pp. 63–65; Jackson and Clausen, Organizational History of the Central Intelligence Agency, p. VI-14; Brig. Gen. E. K. Wright, DDCI, Memorandum for Assistant Director for Special Operations et al., Subject: Additional Functions of the Office of Special Operations, March 5, 1948, 2000 CIA Release, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

  14 . Doel and Needell, “Science, Scientists, and the CIA,” p. 65.

  15 . Jackson and Clausen, Organizational History of the Central Intelligence Agency, p. 1.

  16 . Allen W. Dulles, William H. Jackson, and Mathias F. Correa, The Central Intelligence Agency and National Organization for Intelligence (Washington, D.C.: National Security Council, January 1, 1949), p. 56.

  17 . Jackson and Clausen, Organizational History of the Central Intelligence Agency, pp. VI-3, VI- 16, VI-16 n. 2; Ludwell Lee Montague, General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950–February 1953 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992), p. 174; Robert Blum to Mathias F. Corea, December 18, 1948, in Thorne and Patterson (eds.), Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, p. 902.

  18 . Doel and Needell, “Science, Scientists, and the CIA,” p. 66.

  19 . Ibid., p. 67.

  20 . Willard Machle, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, to Rear Admiral Roscoe Hil-lenkoetter, Director of Central Intelligence, “Inability of OSI to Accomplish Its Mission,” September 29, 1949, in Thorne and Patterson (eds.), Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, pp. 1012–1016; Jackson and Clausen, Organizational History of the Central Intelligence Agency, p. VI- 19; interview with Karl Weber, Oakton, Virginia, May 5, 1999.

  21 . Machle, “Inability of OSI to Accomplish Its Mission”; Memorandum for the
Record, Subject: Responsibilities of the Office of Scientific Intelligence (Summary of discussion between [deleted], OSI and Mr. Piel [deleted] of Management), November 29, 1951, NARA, RG 263, 1998 CIA, Box 209, Folder 3.

  22 . Director of Central Intelligence Directive 3/3, “Scientific Intelligence,” October 28, 1949; Weber interview.

  23 . Montague, General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950–February 1953, pp. 174–175.

  24 . Ibid., p. 175; Weber interview.

  25 . Montague, General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950–February 1953, p. 176.

  26 . Ibid., pp. 177–178; Jackson and Clausen, Organizational History of the Central Intelligence Agency, pp. VI-59 to VI-60.

  27 . Montague, General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950–February 1953, pp. 177–178; Ranelagh, The Agency, pp. 196–197; Jackson and Clausen, Organizational History of the Central Intelligence Agency, p. VI-66.

  28 . Montague, General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950–February 1953, p. 179; Director of Central Intelligence 3/4, “Production of Scientific and Technical Intelligence,” August 14, 1952; Jackson and Clausen, Organizational History of the Central Intelligence Agency, p. VI-74.

  29 . Montague, General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950- February 1953, p. 180.

  30 . Ranelagh, The Agency, pp. 197, 729–730.

  31 . Central Intelligence Agency Notice No. 20-191-71, “Announcement of Key Positions,” June 28, 1955; Central Intelligence Agency, Memo for Awards Committee, National Civil Service League, November 28, 1958.

  32 . Director of Central Intelligence Directive No. 3/5, “Production of Scientific and Technical Intelligence,” February 3, 1959.

  33 . Doel and Needell, “Science, Scientists, and the CIA,” pp. 70–71.

  34 . Michael Warner, CIA History Staff, Memorandum for the Record, Subject: The Central Intelligence Agency and Human Radiation Experiments: An Analysis of the Findings, February 14, 1995, p. 11.

  35 . Jackson and Clausen, Organizational History of the Central Intelligence Agency, p. 67 n.49.

  36 . Intelligence Advisory Committee, NIE 11-3A-54, Summary: The Soviet Atomic Energy Program to Mid-1957, February 16, 1954, pp. 1–4.

  37 . Allen Welsh Dulles as Director of Central Intelligence, 26 February 1953–29 November 1961, Volume II, Coordination of Intelligence (Washington, D.C.: CIA, 1973), pp. 42–43; Director of Central Intelligence, NIE 11-6-54, Soviet Capabilities and Probable Programs in the Guided Missile Field, October 1954, pp. ii-iii, 1.

 

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