NOTICE TO THE PRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00418R000100090002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 4, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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September 4, 1973
Office of the White House Press Secretary
NOTICE TO THE PRESS
LEFT TO RIGHT
Swearing-In Ceremony for William E. Colby as Director of
the Central Intelligence -- September 4, 1973 The Oval
Office
The President
William E. Colby
Mrs. William E. Colby (Barbara)
Judge George L. Hart, Jr., U. S. Federal District Court Judge
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September 4, 1973
o. t e /hate House Press Secretary
NOTICE TO THE PRESS
THE PRESIDENT'S SCHEDULE
Tuesday, September 4, 1973
The President will participate in a swearing-in ceremony for
William E. Colby as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
at 11:00 a, m. today in the Oval Office. Mr. Colby succeeded
Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger as Director of the
CIA, He was confirmed' by the Senate on August 1, 1973.
Mr. Colby will be sworn in by U. S. Federal District Court Judge
George L. Hart, Jr. Also expected to attend the ceremony will
be members of Mr. Colby's family, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, ,
Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, Admiral Thomas H.
Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Lieutenant
General Vernon Walters, Deputy Director of the CIA.
There will be a photo opportunity.
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Biographical Data
Willie,-~ E. Colby. was born in St. Paul, Mi.anesota, on January 4, 1920.
e son of an Army officer, his early life was spent in various posts,
inclacling a three-year period in Tientsin, China.
In 19-w0 he was :.~ graduated from Princeton University and ;n 1941 j,
of ned the
'United States Army, serving in the Parachute Field Artillery. When the
Of is of Strategic Services put out a call for French speakers in 1943, Mr.
C olby volunteered and, in. 1944 was parachuted behind enemy lines in north
central France to work with a resistance unit. Shortly before the end of the
in .9-5, he led a tea dropped in northern Norway to destroy a rail y
?ine used for transporting German reinforcements.
k ollo :ring the war, Mr. Colby obtained his law degree from Columbia Law
School and joined a New York law firm headed by y Wi
isa_rn J. Donovan,
former head of OSS. He is a member of the New York S ate and U.S.
Supreme Court bars.
In 19 49 Mr. Colby accepted his first U. S. Government position as an
attorney for the National Labor Relations Board in Washington_ In 1951 he
job ec the staff of the American Embassy in Stoc?chol-n and from 1953 to
33 se: Ted in the American E_-nbass;r in Rome, Italy.
Colby became First Secretary of the American Embassy in Saigon in
1 `; 5 leaving in 1962 for an. assignment as Chief of the Far East
Div_s_o..
cf t .He Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D, C.
In a ch 1908 -M
r, Colby joined the Agency for International Develovmen= and
was pos ed io Saigon to assume the post
oJ1 Assistant Aj
Chief of Staff and in
Nov= ber 1968 of Decut7 to the Commander of MACV for the CORDS
o a`_7 of sup' ort to t e Government of Vie namTs pacification C?:`_?aig
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=z the Dersonal rank of Ambassador. H' a -t
1 -v s reassignael to the D--- ^e^t
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