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Lawrence "Larry" Reid Houston was General Counsel for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), and was the first General Counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He helped create the legal framework for the agency and held the title of "legal architect of the CIA".
Lawrence Houston, the CIA general counsel, became involved, and Helms wrote an office memorandum to justify the Chaos operation to CIA officers and agents. [ 219 ] [ 218 ] Meanwhile, the FBI was reporting a steady stream of data on domestic anti-war and other 'subversive' activity, but the FBI obstinately refused to provide any context or analysis.
The academy was founded in 1802 and is the oldest of the United States' five service academies. [1] [2] It is also referred to as West Point (the name of the military base that the academy is a part of). [1] The academy graduated its first cadet, Joseph Gardner Swift, in October 1802.
The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic. Other American officials ...
Ahead of his trek to Capitol Hill next week, Health and Human Services Secretary designee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly lobbying for his daughter-in-law and former campaign manager Amaryllis ...
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Lawrence Houston, head counsel of the SSU, CIG, and, later CIA, was principal draftsman of the National Security Act of 1947, [58] [59] [60] which dissolved the NIA and the CIG, and established both the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Lawrence Houston, the first General Counsel of the CIG, and, later, the CIA, had many concerns about the lack of a congressional mandate. With the support of Director Hoyt Vandenberg , he became a principle draftsman of the National Security Act of 1947 [ 14 ] which, on September 18, established both the National Security Council and the ...