NOTE TO MS. DONNA SWENSEN FROM(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00467A000200050007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 25, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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V~IVTRAL 3NT:-`~i.ICsENCE AG'E'R~G~Y
Ms. Donna Swensen
Stanford Research Institute ~
1611 No. Kent Street
Arlington, Virginia 22209
Dear Ms. Swensenn
Per our telephone conversation
today, enclosed is a 01Profile" on
Mr. Knoche.
Sincerely,
Att: Profile on
E. H. Knoche
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E. Henry Knoche -
Mr. Knoche, 51, joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 195 as
an intelligence analyst specializing in Far Eastern political and military
affaixs. He served as Special Assistant to'the Director and Deputy Director
of Central Intelligence from 1962 to 1967, when he ~cvas assigned as Execu-
tive Director of the National Photographic Interpretation Center -.. -a. joint
CIA-Defense Department unit.
Tn 1969, Knoche was named Deputy Director of CIA's planning and
budgeting activities and, in this post, served as C.Eiairxn:axi. of a CIA Coxn?
rnittee charged with setting policy for automatic data processing and infaxrn~a-
tian handling. A year later, he became Deputy Director of the C7ffi.ce of
Current Intelligence, a component of specialized intelligence analysts ~vho
produce current assessments of international events far the Pr_esidexa,t a.ncl
members of the National Security Council.
From 1972 onward, Knoche served as Director of various Agency
components, including the Intelligence Directorate?s Office o.f Strategic
Research, the analytical component charged with. evaluating foreign mil%tax~y
developments, particularly those that relate to the strategic threat against
the U. S.
At the outset of 1975, during inquiries into American intelligence
activities by the Rockefeller Presidential Cornmissian and Select Senate and
House Committees, he served as Special Assistant to the Director of Central
Intelligence in liaison with these conducting the inquiries.
In the Fall of 1975, Knoche was named .Associate Deputy to the I3CI,
.the ~2 position in the Director's staff involved in the coordination. and manage--
xnent of the resources of the U. 5. Intelligence Cozx~munity, includ:in.g CIA,?
Defense and State Department elements.
Knoche is a Chinese linguist, who served ttvo tours of active duty -
(World ~'Yar II and Korea) as a naval officer. He has traveled extensively
abroad. He attended Bethany College (West Virginia] and Colorado Univer-~
sity, and graduated from Washington and Jefferson College (Pennsylvania).
He is married to the former Angie Papoulas of Craig, Colorado. They have
fi
d
ve sons an
reside in Fairfax, Virginia.
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