LETTER TO LEONARD DOWNIE JR. FROM GEORGE V. LAUDER RE YOUR "FEDERAL REPORT" GIV

Created: 2/27/1986

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Mr. Leonard Downle, Jr. Managing Editor the WASHINGTONh Street, n. W.

Dear Len:

Your -Federal Report" page ofebruary gives the wrong answer to its quiz question. Who was the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency? It was not Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, as the quiz answer states, but rather Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hlllenkoetter.

Admiral Souers was Indeed the first Director of Central Intelligence, taking chargeew Interdepartmental organization called the Central Intelligence Group from January to But as you note elsewhere on the same page, the Central Intelligence Agency was not established until after Congress enacted the National Security Act Admiral Hlllenkoetter, the third Director of Central Intelligence, was the first director of CIA when it was formed on

I would appreciate THE POSTorrection.

Sincerely,

George V. Lauder Director, Public Affairs