INTELLIGENCE CHIEF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400280030-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: August 11, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

STATINTL
ARm, p eA qrJW a 2000/9/ 4 j .f I P75-00001
Intelligence Chief
Maj. Gen. Robert A. Schow, USA, has
been named Assistaht"Z Yilt )f-'Staff for
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' epuy Assistant Chief of Staff for
Intelligence since June 1954, he succeeds
Lt. Gen. Ridgely Gaither, USA, whose
promotion .to three-star rank and assign-
ment as Deputy. Command4ng General
for Reserve Forces; Continental Army
Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia, was
announced last week.
Prior to his assignment to the Penta-
gon in 1954, General Schow served as
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence,
SHAPE, a post he assumed in February
1951.
During WWII, General Schow, who
was Assistant Military Attache at Paris,
and later at Vichy, France, was interned
in France and Germany from November
1942 to February 1944. He returned to
the U. S. upon his release and was
named Chief of the Political Branch, Mil-
itary Intelligence Service.
In December 1944, General Schow was
assigned as Assistant Intelligence Officer
of the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Ex-
peditionary Forces in the European
Theater. In January 1946, he became
Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for In-
telligence of the U. S. Forces, European
Theater and in March 1947, was ap-
pointed Deputy Director of Intelligence
of the European Command.
General Schow returned to the U. S. in
February 1949, and was named Assistant
Director of the traa., Irttelligence
Agency,,: which post e1iield`until his re-
assignment to Europe in February 1951.
Approved For Release 2000/05/24: CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400280030-1