LETTER TO KINGMAN DOUGLASS FROM WALTER PFORZHEIMER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00161R000400200003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2014
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 2, 1970
• Content Type: LETTER

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2 July 1970
Mr. Kingman Douglass
Dear King:
I was very sorry to hear from Larry Houstpn that you have
been in a severe motor accident. I trust this letter will find you
well on the road to recovery with no ill effects.
Because many of our senior people have retired or have
indicated intentions to do so, we are making a considerable effort
while they are still available here to turn out solid (but classified)
histories of the Agency and its components. In the course of this
work, certain chronologies and dates and facts are, from time to
time, either missing or in dispute. People keep coming to me on
some of these problems because I have been here so long (and still
have four years to go until retirement). Only today we were trying
to nail down the dates of tenure of Directors and Deputy Direetors,
and found it was not a simple thing.
The specific question I have in mind arises from the fact
that a list before me carries you as Acting Deputy Director ofi
Central Intelligence from 2 March to 11 July 1946. A note under
this entry states that
"Mr. Douglass first appeared as a member of
the Office of the Director in a personnel roster dated
25 February 1946. However, he was not appointed
DDCI until issuance of CIG Personnel Order No. 2,
, dated 2 March 1946, effective as of that date."
That Personnel Order lists you as "Acting" and we can find no subse-
quent order which eliminated the "Acting." On the other hand, Larry
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Houston and certainly I have no recollection of your being "Acting"
but rather recall you as the Deputy Director all the way through.
Jimmy Lay's recollection is hazy on this point but he seems to
believe that Admiral Souers was reluctant to appoint a regular
Deputy Director because he felt that his own tenure as Lctor
would be short. Therefore, he thinks that Admiral Souers picked
one of his Assistant Directors, namely you, to be the Acting
Deputy Director. Could you clarify this point for us?
I am
With kindest regards and best wishes for a4speedy recovery,
Sincerely yours,
Walter Pforzheimer
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