BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000800060001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 30, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20505
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Arthur W. Allen, Jr.
Special Assistant to the
Secretary of the Army
Department of Defense
SUBJECT : Biographic Sketch
SVA
30 April 1973
1. Per our 27 April telephone conversation, attached
is the biographic sketch you requested.
2. As we discussed, I would appreciate receiving some
background material on the group whom I am to address next
Monday (7 May) on "The World We Live In. "
George A. Carver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
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30 April 1973
Biographic Sketch
Name: George A. Carver, Jr.
DOB/POB: 14 January 1930, Louisville, Kentucky
Background. Childhood largely spent in China, Mr. Carver's Father
was head of the English Department in the University
of Shanghai.
Education: Secondary: The Peddie School, Hightstown, New
Jersey, 1942 - 1946 (Valedictorian)
Undergraduate: Yale University, New 1946 - 1950, Bachelor of Arts Haven, Connecticut,
(1950). Member Phi Beta
Kappa, graduated magna cum laude "with honors with
exceptional distinction in philosophy. "
Graduate: Oxford University (Balliol College),
Oxford, England, 1950 - 1953, 1961 - 1962
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Fulbright Scholar
Area of Concentration: Political Theory
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (D. Phil. )
Career: Military! U. S. Army, 1954 - 1956
Civilian: Department of the Army 1953 - 1954,
1956 - 1 58, with service in Washington, Japan,
Korea, The Philippines, Taiwan.
International Co-operation Administration
1958 - 1961, serving principally in USOM,
Saigon, Vietnam.
Central Intelligence Agency, 1962 - present
Far East Staff, Office of National Estimates
1962 - 1965.
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Vietnamese Affairs Staff, Office of the
Director, 1965 - present.
Since September 1966, Mr. Carver has
served as the DCIts Special Assistant for
Vietnamese Affairs.
Decorations: Distinguished Intelligence Medal (CIA)
Distinguished Civilian Service Medal
(Department of Defense)
Publications: Aesthetics and the Problems of Meaning, Yale
University Press, 1952.
"The Real Revolution in South Vietnam, " Foreign
Affairs, April 1965.
"The Faceless Viet Cong, " Foreign Affairs,
April.1966.
Family:
Present
STAT Residence:
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