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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200180035-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: January 21, 1952
• Content Type: PREL

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21 January 1952
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Loftus E. Becker, a New York attorney, has been named deputy
to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Dr. Sherman
Kent of New Haven, Conn., a Yale professor of history, has been
appointed an assistant director. A partner in the New York City
law firm of Cahill, Gordon, Zachry, and Reindel, Mr. Becker joined
CIA in April 1951. During World War II he served as an intelligence
officer with the Ninth Army in Europe. For many years a member of
the Yale faculty, Dr. Kent left that institution in November 1950 to
join CIA. During Norld War II he served with the Office of
Strategic Services. Following the war he went on leave from Yale
to become instructor at the National War College in Washington.
Dr. Kent is the author of several books including one on "Strategic
Intelligence."
(Biographical data attached)
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LOFTUS E. BECKER
A New York City attorney with Cahill, Gordon, Zachry, and
Reindel since 1938, Mr, Becker carne to CIA in April 1951. Enlisting
as a private in the United States Army in 1942, he was discharged in
1945 with the rank of major. After service with the Ninth Army in
Europe, he attended the Nuremberg trials as an advisor on German mili-
tary organizations.
Mr. Becker was born in Buffalo, New York, on April 29, 1911, He
was educated in the public schools there and at Harvard College and
Harvard Law School, receiving his B. A. in 1932 and his LL. B. in 1936.
After graduation he was associated with a law firm in Honolulu for two
years before returning to his home state.
Married to the former Ellen an der Voort of Ingomar, Pa., he has
three children.
DR. SHERMAN KENT
On leave from his position as Professor of History at Yale
University, Dr. Sherman Kent joined CIA in November 1950 shortly after
the reorganization of that agency,
From 1941 to 1946 he served first with the Office of Coordination
of Information, thereafter with its successor organization, the Office
of Strategic Services. In the latter organization Dr. Kent directed
research and analysis on Europe, Africa, and the Near East. With the
transfer of those activities to the State Department at the war's end,
Dr. Kent became Acting Director of the Office of Research and Intelli-
gence of the State Department, which position he held until June 1946.
He served as a member of the resident civilian faculty of the National
War College in the fall term of 1946, In 1947, as a Guggenheim
fellow, he wrote "Strategic Intelligence," and later that year returned
to Yale University.
Born in Chicago on December 1, 1903, Dr. Kent was educated in
Washington, California, and at Yale where he received his Ph. B, in
1926 and his Ph, D. in 1933. A member of the Yale faculty since 1928,
he maintains homes both in New Haven, Conn., and in Kentfield, Calif.
His wife is the former Elizabeth Gregory of San Francisco. They have
two children.
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