Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter

Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
Born	May 8, 1897
Died	June 18, 1982 (Age 85)
	Director of Central Intelligence
In office
	May 1, 1947 - October 7, 1950
Employer	CIA
Succeeded by	Walter 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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