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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".
Budd Schulberg (1914–2009), screenwriter and novelist; Hastings Keith (1915–2005), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Douglas Kennedy (1915-1973), actor; Lyman Kirkpatrick (1916–1995), inspector general and executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency
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 ...
John Prados, William Colby and the CIA. The secret wars of a controversial spymaster (University of Kansas 2003, 2009). W. Thomas Smith, Jr., Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency (New York: Facts on File 2003). Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men. The daring early years of the CIA (New York: Simon and Schuster 1995, 2006).
In May 1968, DCI Helms had appointed three top CIA officials to a special review board, which was given the case of Sam Adams, a mid-level analyst at CIA. The board was chaired by Taylor and included CIA general counsel, Lawrence Houston, and OSS and CIA veteran John Bross, assistant to the DCI. It was "as high level a [board] as could be found ...
Houston’s Azeez Al-Shaair took to X on Monday morning to apologize to Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence after his violent blow to the quarterback’s facemask led to him being carted off the ...
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.