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DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CIA

GOVERNMENT

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HEARING

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

THE NOMINATION OF MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL SYLVESTER CARTER

FOR APPOINTMENT AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, WITH THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL

MARCH 29, 1962

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COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

RICHARD B. RUSSELL, Georgia, Chairman

HARRY FLOOD BYRD, Virginia

JOHN STENNIS, Mississippi

STUART SYMINGTON, Missouri

HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington

SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina

STROM THURMOND, South Carolina

CLAIR ENGLE, California

E. L. BARTLETT, Alaska

HOWARD W. CANNON, Nevada

ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia

HARRY L. WINGATE, Jr., Chief Clerk

II

LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, Massachusetts

MARGARET CHASE SMITH, Maine

FRANCIS CASE, South Dakota

PRESCOTT BUSH, Connecticut

J. GLENN BEALL, Maryland

BARRY M. GOLDWATER, Arizona
NOMINATION OF MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL S. CARTER

TO BE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1962

U.S. SENATE,

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES,

Washington, D.C.

The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:30 a.m., in room 212,

Old Senate Office Building.

Present: Senators Russell (chairman), Stennis, Symington, Jackson,

Cannon, Byrd of West Virginia, Saltonstall, Smith of Maine, and

Beall.

Also present: William H. Darden T. Edward Braswell, and Gordon

A. Nease of the committee staff; Harry L. Wingate, Jr., chief clerk;

Herbert S. Atkinson, assistant chief clerk.

Chairman RUSSELL. This morning we have with us Maj. Gen.

Marshall Sylvester Carter. General Carter has been nominated for

appointment as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,

with the rank of lieutenant general. The nomination has been pending the required 7 days.

In compliance with our committee precedents, General Carter is

present here today. We are pleased to have you, General.

I congratulate you on your selection to fill an exceedingly important

position.

We would be glad to have you give the committee, in your own

words, a brief summary of your experience, and then some members

of the committee will probably have some questions for you.

(The nomination reference and biographical sketch of General

Carter follow:)

NOMINATION REFERENCE AND REPORT

IN EXECUTIVE SESSION,

SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

March 12, 1962.

Ordered, That the following nomination be referred to the Committee on Armed

Services:

Major General Marshall Sylvester Carter, 018359, Army of the United States

(brigadier general, United States Army), for appointment as Deputy Director,

Central Intelligence Agency, with the rank of lieutenant general, under the

provisions of Public Law 15, 83d Congress, and section 3066, title 10, United

States Code.

MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL S. CARTER, USA

Marshall Sylvester Carter was born at Fortress Monroe, Va., September 16,

1909. He was graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1931 and commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. Prior to World War

II, he served with various antiaircraft artillery units in Hawaii, Panama, and the

United States. In addition, he served as an instructor in the Department of

Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the U.S. Military Academy.

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In 1942, General Carter was assigned to the Logistics Group, Operations Division, War Department General Staff. From July 1945 to January 1946 he was

Deputy and Assistant Chief of Staff, G-5, Headquarters, China Theater, with

station in Chungking and Shanghai. He then became assistant executive to the

Assistant Secretary of War in Washington where he served until April 1946.

At this time, General Carter was appointed special representative in Washington for General of the Army George C. Marshall, then in China. This position

he held until named special assistant to the Secretary of State in January 1947.

Two years later, General Carter became Deputy to the Ambassador for Military

Assistance Programs for Europe with station at the American Embassy in London.

Concurrently, he served as Deputy Chairman, European Correlation Committee.

In these capacities, General Carter held the personal rank of Minister. In August

1949, he was assigned by the State Department as a student at the National War

College, graduating in June 1950.

Following a short tour as commander of the 138th Antiaircraft Group in Japan,

General Carter was recalled to Washington by General Marshall, to become Director of the Executive Office of the Secretary of Defense. General Carter served in

this capacity under General Marshall and his successor, Mr. Lovett, until November 1952 when he became deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army in Alaska

with station at Fort Richardson. Concurrently, in November 1954, when the

71st Infantry Division was activated in Alaska, he was appointed its deputy

commanding general.

From June 1955 until June 1956, General Carter was commanding general of the

Fifth Region, Army Antiaircraft Command, with headquarters at Fort Sheridan,

Ill. For the next 5 months, he served as deputy commanding general of the Army

Antiaircraft Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., leaving this assignment to

become Chief of Staff of the newly formed Continental Air Defense Command at

Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, in October 1956. When this command

was expanded into the North American Air Defense Command in September 1957,

General Carter also became Chief of Staff of this unified command, the first command of this type in the United States.

General Carter was Chief of Staff, Eighth U.S. Army from December 1959 and

upon completion of this assignment in January 1961, he took command of the

Army Air Defense Center and Air Defense School at Fort Bliss, Tex.

He has served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the following international

conferences: Conference of Four Heads of State, Cairo, Egypt, 1943; Council of

Foreign Ministers, Moscow, U.S.S.R., 1947; Inter-American Conference for

Maintenance of Peace and Security, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1947; Second Session

of General Assembly of United Nations, New York, 1947; Ninth International

Conference of American States, Bogota, Colombia, 1948; and the Third Session

of General Assembly of United Nations, Paris, France, 1948.

PERSONAL DATA

Date and place of birth: September 16, 1909, Fortress Monroe, Va.

Parents: Father, Brig. Gen. C. C. Carter, USA, deceased; mother, Mrs. C. C.

Carter, the Kennedy-Warren Apartments, 3133 Connecticut Avenue NW.,

Washington, D.C. ,

Marriage: Date, July 14, 1934; wife, Preot Nichols Carter; children, Miss

Josephine Stoney Carter, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Cadet Marshall Nichols

Carter, A-1 Company, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.; Miss Mary

Coleman Carter, Fort Bliss, Tex.

Official home address: 1411 Mesa Avenue, Broadmoor, Colorado Springs,

Colo.

EDUCATION

U.S. Military Academy, 1931 (B.S.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

1936 (M.S.) ; the Coast Artillery School, battery officers course, 1940; National

War College, 1950.
MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL S. CARTER, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CIA

Chronological list of promotions

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Promotions Temporary

(AUS)

Permanent

.(RA)

2d lieutenant 

1st lieutenant

Captain 

Major 

Lieutenant colonel 

Colonel 

Brigadier general 

Colonel 

Brigadier general 

Major general 

Sept. 9, 1940

Feb. 1, 1942

Oct. 14, 1942

July 24,1944

Apr. 8, 1947

Aug. 3, 1949

July 27,1951

Dec. 21,19551

June 11, 1931

Aug. 1, 1935

June 11, 1941

July 1, 1948

Aug. 3, 1953

Mar. 15, 1959

1 With DOR July 1, 1951.

Chronological list of assignments

Assignments From—

Special liaison duty with U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen's cruise.

Battery officer, 12th Coast Artillery, Fort Monroe, Va 

Battery officer and battalion adjutant, 64th Coast Artillery

(AA), Ft Shafter, Honolulu.

Graduate student, MIT (M.S. degree) 

Instructor, USMA, Department of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, West Point, N.Y.

Student officer, regular course, Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.

Instructor, Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va 

Battery officer, 73d Coast Artillery (AA), Panama 

Director, Enlisted Specialist School, Panama 

Assistant to Assistant Chief of Staff, 0-3, Panama Coast

Artillery Command.

Staff officer, OPD WD GS, Washington, D.0 

Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, G--5 USF/CT, Chungking,

China.

Assistant Chief of Staff, G-5 USF/CT Shanghai, China 

Assistant executive to Assistant Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.

Special representative in Washington, D.C., for General

G. C. Marshall (China Mission).

Special assistant to Secretary of State 

Deputy to American Ambassador to Great Britain with

rank of Minister, and Deputy Chairman, European Correlation Committee.

Department of State student, National War College_ 

Commanding officer 138th AAA Group, Japan 

Executive to Secretary of Defense 

Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Alaska and 71st

Infantry Division.

Commanding General, 5th AA Regional Command, Fort

Sheridan, Ill.

Deputy Commander, AAA Command, Ent Air Force Base,

Colorado Springs, Colo.

Chief of Staff, Continental Air Defense Command, Colorado

Springs, Colo.

Chief of Staff, North American Air Defense Command,

Colorado Springs, Colo.

Chief of Staff, Eighth U.S. Army, Korea 

Commanding General, U.S. Army Air Defense Center and

Commandant U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss,

Tex.

June 1931 

September 1931 

June 1932 

1935

1936

August 1939 

February 1940 

August 1940 

July 1941 

November 1941 

July 1942 

July 1945 

November 1945 

January 1946 

March 1946 

January 1947 

March 1949 

August 1949 

August 1950 

November 1950 

November 1952 

June 1955 

June 1956 

November 1956 

September 1957 

December 1959 

March 1961 

To—

August 1931.

April 1932.

March 1935.

June 1936.

July 1939,

February 1940.

August 1940.

June 1941.

November 1941.

July 1942.

July 1945.

November 1945.

January 1946.

March 1946.

January 1947.

March 1949.

July 1949.

June 1950.

October 1950.

November 1952.

May 1955.

June 1956.

November 1956.

December 1959.

December 1959.

February 1961.

LIST OF CITATIONS AND DECORATIONS

Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.

Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster.

Bronze Star Medal.

Special Breast Order of Yun Hui (Cloud and Banner, Republic of China).

Special Breast Order of Yun Hui (second award) (Republic of China).

Order of Orange Nassau with swords, Commander (Netherlands Government).

PERSONAL BACKGROUND MATERIAL

Interests and hobbies: Hunting, fishing, camping, ice hockey, and usual participation sports.
4 MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL S. CARTER, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CIA

STATEMENT OF MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL S. CARTER, NOMINEE TO

BE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

AGENCY

General CARTER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for permission to make this statement to the committee.

There has been circulated previously my biographical sketch. I

would like to brief it for you.

I was born in Fortress Monroe, Va., September 16, 1909. My father was an Army officer and served for 46 years. I attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1931, and subse- quently took postgraduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, obtaining a master of science degree in 1936. I was then an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy in natural and ex- perimental philosophy.

Shortly after World War II broke out, I was assigned to the Oper- ations Division of the War Department General Staff here in Wash- ington, remaining on that duty until the summer of 1945, when I was assigned to the China theater as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for G-5.

Chairman RUSSELL. Who was the commander in the China theater

at that time?

General CARTER. General Wedemeyer, sir.

In 1946 I returned to Washington, and was assigned as special assistant and special representative for General Marshall, who was then in China. My offices were in the State Department.

When he became Secretary of State, I was assigned as his special assistant and remained on that duty for 2 years. I was then assigned.

to London, as Deputy Chairman of the European Correlations Com- mittee, and special assistant to the American Ambassador.

Subsequent to that assignment, I graduated from the National War College.

In 1950 I was recalled from the Far East to be Executive Director

of the Office of Secretary of Defense, a duty I held for 2 years.

After 3 years in Alaska, I was assigned as chief of staff of the North American Air Defense Command, with headquarters .in Colorado

Springs.

I subsequently served 13 months in Korea as chief of staff of the Eighth Army. My most recent assignment has been commanding

general of the U.S. Army Air Defense Center, and commandant of the

Army Air Defense School at Fort Bliss, Tex.

I have been a member of the U.S. delegation to six international

conferences in which either the President or the Secretary of State

represented the United States.

Mrs. Carter and I have been married for 28 years, and have three

children. Our older daughter is secretary to the district attorney in

Colorado Springs. My son graduates from West Point in June and joins the Marine Corps. My younger daughter is a high school

student living with us.

I am not associated in any way with any business or with any commercial enterprise.

The committee members have before them a copy of my meager

stockholdings. The only company with which the Agency does

business is the General Electric Co .7 I have and now hold 15 shares
MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL S. CARTER, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CIA 5

of General Electric common stock. I have taken steps to dispose of

these shares on the assumption that that would be the committee's

desire.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Chairman RUSSELL. General, you have had a very interesting experience, throwing you in contact with representatives of nearly all

of the world powers.

Have you had any intelligence experience?

General CARTER. Yes, sir. In 1945 as a deputy chief of staff in

the China theater, my division was responsible for the coordination

of clandestine operations in the China theater.

Chairman RUSSELL. In 1945.

General CARTER. 1945.

I have been a user of the most closely held intelligence information

since 1942.

Chairman RUSSELL. I notice you are what is sometimes irreverently

called an Army brat, and your son is going into the Marine Corps.

General CARTER. Yes, sir.

Chairman RUSSELL. He is availing himself of the law which lets a

man transfer from one branch to the other.

General CARTER. Yes, sir; this is an initial entry.

He was appointed from Virginia to West Point by Congressman

Robeson.

Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Saltonstall.

Senator SALTONSTALL. Mr. Chairman, I have no questions. I have

just this observation.

General Carter, I think you are to be congradulated upon the positions of responsibility that you have been given by people for whom I

personally have the highest respect and regard, and the positions that

you have held in various sections of the world. Obviously you are a

man that people trust and people have confidence in your intelligence

and your ability to keep things to yourself.

I heartily commend your appointment to this new position.

I personally would not require you to sell the 15 shares of General

Electric. It is an infinitesimal holding in a very substantial company.

I cannot see how the CIA would have any contact that would make it

necessary for you to sell that stock.

Mr. Chairman, I have no further comments.

Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Stennis.

Senator STENNIS. Mr. Chairman, I don't have any comment to

add to a complete record here.

I am impressed, as was Senator Saltonstall, with men that we, at

this table, personally know with whom General Carter has served—

men like General Marshall and Mr. Lovett and others.

Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Smith.

Senator SMITH. I have no question, Mr. Chairman.

Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Jackson.

Senator JACKSON. Mr. Chairman, I merely want to say that

General Carter has certainly a wonderful record—it is a broad one.

His is the kind of experience I think we need. I am very much

impressed.

Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Beall.

Senator BEALL. Mr. Chairman, I have no questions. I have read

this very interesting biographical sketch and certainly agree with my

colleagues.
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Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Cannon.

Senator CANNON. I have no questions, Mr. Chairman.

Chairman RUSSELL. We are expecting great things of you, General

I am sure you are not going to disappoint us.

General CARTER. I will do my best, Mr. Chairman.

Chairman RUSSELL. Thank you very much, General.

General CARTER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Chairman RUSSELL. That concludes the open hearing this morning.

The committee will now go into executive session.

(Whereupon, at 10:45 a.m., the committee went into executive

session.)

(The nomination of Gen. Marshall S. Carter for appointment as

Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency, with the rank of

lieutenant geirral, was subsequently approved by the committee in

executive session, and confirmed by the Senate on April 2, 1962.)

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