MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL S. CARTER, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CIA HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES UNITED STATES SENATE

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MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL S. CARTER,
DEPUTY DIRECTOR CIA
HEARING
COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
UNITED STATES SENATE
EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
ON
THE NOMINATION OF MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL SYLVESTER CARTER
FOR APPOINTMENT AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CENTRAL INTELLI-
GENCE AGENCY, WITH THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
82275 WASHINGTON : 1962
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HARRY FLOOD BYRD, Virginia
JOHN STENNIS, Mississippi
STUART SYMINGTON, Missouri
HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington
SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina
STROM TIIURMOND, South Carolina
CLAIR ENGLE, California
E. L. BARTLETT, Alaska
HOWARD W. CANNON, Nevada
ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia
LEVI RETT SALTONSTALL, Massachusetts
MAR,IARET CHASE SMITH, Maine
FRANCIS CASE, South Dakota
PRESCOTT BUSH, Connecticut
1. GL INN BEALL, Maryland
BARRY M. GOLDWATER, Arizona
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NOMINATION OF MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL S. CARTER
TO BE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTEL-
LIGENCE AGENCY
U.S. SENATE,
COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES,
Washington, D.C:
The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:30 a.m.., in room 212,
Old Senate Office Building.
Present: Senators Russell (chairman), Stennis, Symington, Jackson,
Cannon, Byrd of West Virginia, Saltonstall, Smith of Maine, and
Beall.
Also present: William II. Darden, T. Edward Braswell, and Gordon
A. Nease of the committee staff; Harry L. Wingate, Jr;, chief clerk;
Herbert S. Atkinson, assistant chief clerk.
Chairman RUSSELL. This morning we have with us Maj. Gen.
Marshall Sylvester Carter. General Carter has been nominated for
appointment as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,
with the rank of lieutenant general. The nomination has been pend-
ing the required 7 days.
In compliance with our committee precedents, General Carter is
present here today. We are pleased to have you, General.
I congratulate you on your selection to fill an exceedingly important
position.
We would be glad to have you give the committee, in your own
words, it brief summary of your experience, and then some members
of the committee will probably have some questions for you.
(The_ nomination reference and biographical sketch of Genera]
NOMINATION REFERENCE AND REPORT
IN EXECUTIVE SESSION,
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,
March 12, 1962.
Ordered, That the following nomination be referred to the Committee on Armed
Services:
Major General Marshall Sylvester Carter, 018359, Army of the United States
(brigadier general, United States Army), for appointment as Deputy Director,
Central Intelligence Agency, with the rank of lieutenant general, under the
provisions of Public Law 15, 83d Congress, and section 3066, title 10, United
States Code.
MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL S. CARTER, USA
Marshall Sylvester Carter was born at Fortress Monroe, Va., September 16,
1909. He was graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1931 and com-
missioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. Prior to World War
II, he served with various antiaircraft artillery units in Hawaii, Panama, and the
United States. In addition, he served as an instructor in the Department of
Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the U.S. Military Academy.
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In 1942, General Carter was assigned to the Logistics Group, Operations Divi-
sion, War Department General Staff. From July 1945 to January 1946 he was
Deputy and Assistant Chief of Staff, G-5, I::eadquarters, China Theater, with
station in Chungking and Shanghai. He then became assistant executive to the
Assistant Secretary of War in Washington where he served until April 1946.
At this time, General Carter was appointed special representative in Washing-
ton for General of the Army George C. Mars:lall, then in China. This position
he held until named special assistant to the ti ecretary of State in January 1947.
Two years later, General Carter became Dept.ty to the Ambassador for Military
Assistance Programs for Europe with station al the American Embassy in London;
Concurrently, he served as Deputy Chairman: European Correlation Committee.
In these capacities, General Carter held the personal rank of Minister. In August
1949, he was assigned by the State Department as a student at the National War
College, graduating in June 1950.
Following a short tour as commander of the 138th Antiaircraft Group in Japan,
General Carter was recalled to Washington by General Marshall, to become Direc-
tor of the Executive Office of the Secretary of :Defense. General Carter served in
this capacity under General Marshall and his successor, Mr. Lovett, until Novem-
ber 1952 when he became deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army in Alaska
with station at Fort Richardson. Concurrertly, in November 1954, when the
71st Infantry Division was activated in Alaska, he was appointed its deputy
commanding general.
From June 1955 until June 1956, General Canter was commanding general of the
Fifth Region, Army Antiaircraft Command, with headquarters at Fort Sheridan,
Ill. For the next 5 months, he served as depul y commanding general of the Army
Antiaircraft Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., leaving this assignment to
become Chief of Staff of the newly formed Continental Air Defense Command at
Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, in October 1956. When this command
was expanded into the North American Air Defense Command in September 1957,
General Carter also became Chief of Staff of this unified command, the first com-
mand of this type in the United States.
General Carter was Chief of Staff, Eighth L.S. Army from December 1959 and
upon completion of this assignment in January 1961, he took command of the
Army Air Defense Center and Air Defense School at. Fort Bliss, Tex.
He has served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the following international
conferences: Conference of Four Heads of Ste.te, Cairo, Egypt, 1943; Council of
Foreign Ministers, Moscow, U.S.S.R., 1947; Inter-American Conference for
Maintenance of Peace and Security, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1947; Second Session
of General Assembly of United Nations, New York, 1947; Ninth International
Conference of American States, Bogota, Colombia, 1948; and the Third Session
of General Assembly of United Nations, Paris, France, 1948.
Date and place of birth: September 16, 1909 Fortress Monroe, Va.
Parents: Father, Brig. Gen. C. C. Carter, lJSA, deceased; mother, Mrs. C. C.
Carter, the Kennedy-Warren Apartments, 3133 Connecticut Avenue NW.,
Washington, D.C.
Marriage: Date, July 14, 1934; wife, Preot Nichols Carter; children, Miss
Josephine Stoney Carter, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Cadet Marshall Nichols
Carter, A-1 Company, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.; Miss Mary
Coleman Carter, Fort Bliss, Tex.
Official home address: 1411 Mesa Avenue, Broadmoor, Colorado Springs,
Colo.
U.S. Military Academy, 1931 (B.S.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1936 (M.S.); the Coast Artillery School, battery officers course, 1940; National
War College, 1950.
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1stlieutenant ----------------
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Lieutenant colonel----------------------------------------------------------
Colonel--
Brigadier general
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Major general--------------------------------------------------------------
Chronological list of assignments
Special liaison duty with U.S. Naval Academy midship-
men's cruise.
Battery officer, 12th Coast Artillery, Fort Monroe, Va_______
Battery officer and battalion adjutant, 64th Coast Artillery
(AA), Ft Shafter, IIonolulu,
Graduate student, MIT (M.S. degree)_____________
Instructor USMA, Department of Natural and Experi-
mental ihilosophy West Point, N.Y.
Student officer, regular course, Artillery School, Fort Mon-
roe, Va.
Instructor, Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va_-_______
Battery officer, 73d Coast Artillery (AA),'Panama__________
Director, Enlisted Specialist School, Panama________________
Assistant to Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3, Panama Coast
Artillery Command,
Staff officer, OPD WDGS, Washington D C_______________
Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, 0-5 UAF/CT, Chungking,
China.
Assistant Chief of Staff, G-5 USF/CT Shanghai, China______
Assistant executive to Assistant Secretary of War, Washing-
ton, D,C.
Special representative in Washington, D.C., for General
G. C. Marshall (China Mission).
Special assistant to Secretary of State________________________
Deputy to American Ambassador to Groat Britain with
rank of Minister, and Deputy Chairman, European Cor-
relation Committee.
Department of State student, National War College_________
Commanding officer 138th AAA Group, Japan______________
Executive to Secretary of Defense___________________________
Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Alaska and 71st
Infantry Division,
Commanding General, 5th AA Regional Command, Fort
Sheridan, Ill.
Deputy Commander AAA Command, Ent Air Force Base,
Colorado Springs, Oolo.
Chief of Staff, Continental Air Defense Command, Colorado
Springs, Colo.
Chief of Staff, North American Air Defense Command,
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Chief of Staff, Eighth U.S. Army, Korea____________________
Commanding General, U.S. Army Air Defense Center and
Commandant U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss,
Tex.
Temporary
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Sept. 9,1940
Feb. 1,1942
Oct. 14,1942
July 24,1944
Apr. 8,1947
Aug. 3,1949
July 27,1951
Dec. 21,19551
September 1931_________
June 1932_______________
1935---------------------
1936---------------------
August 1939_____________
February 1940___________
August 1940_____________
July 1941________________
November 1941__________
July 1942________________
July 1945________________
November 1945_________
January 1946___________-
January 1947____________
March 1949______________
August 1949_____________
August 1950_____________
November 1950__________
November 1952__________
June 195b________________
June 1956________________
November 1968________-_
September 1957__________
December 1959__________
March 1961______________
Permanent
(RA)
June 11, 1931
Aug. 1, 1936
June 11, [941
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July 1,1948
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Aug. 3, 1953
Mar. 15: 1959
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August 1031.
April 1932.
March 1935.
June 1936.
July 1939.
February 1940.
August 1940.
June 1941.
November 1941.
July 1942.
July 1945.
November 1945.
January 1946.
March 1946.
January 1947.
March 1049.
July 1949.
June, 1950.
October 1950.
November 1952.
May 1955.
June 1956.
November 1956.
December 1959.
December 1959.
February 1961.
LIST OF CTTAT,IONS AND DECORATIONS
Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.
Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster.
Bronze Star Medal.
Special Breast Order of Yun Hui (Cloud and Banner, Republic of China).
Special Breast Order of Yun Hui (second award) (Republic of China).
Order of Orange Nassau with swords, Commander (Netherlands Government).
Interests and hobbies: Hunting, fishing, camping, ice hockey, and usual par-
ticipation sports.
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STATEMENT OF MAJ. GEN. MARSHALL -S. CARTER, NOMINEE TO
BE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY
General CARTER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for permission to
make this statement to the committee.
There has been circulated previously my biographical sketch. I
would like to brief it for you.
I was born in Fortress Monroe, Va., September 16, 1909. My
father was an Army officer and served for 4( years. I attended the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1931, and subse-
quently took postgraduate work at the Massachusetts _Institute of
Technology, obtaining a master of science degree in 1936. I was
then an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy in natural and ex-
perimental philosophy.
Shortly after World War 1.1 broke out, I was assigned to the Oper-
ations Division of the War Department Gen-.ral Staff here in Wash-
ington, remaining on that duty until the summer of 1945, when I was
assigned to the China theater as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff
for G-5.
Chairman RUSSELL. Who was the commander in the China theater
at that time?
General CARTER. General Wedemeyer, sir.
In 1946 1 returned to Washington, and was assigned as special
assistant and special represeirtative for General Marshall, who was
then in China. My offices were in the State Department.
When he became Secretary of State, I was assigned. as his special
assistant and remained on. that duty for 2 years. I was then assigned
to London, as Deputy Chairman of the European. Correlations Com-
mittee, and special assistant to the American Ambassador.
Subsequent to that assignment, I graduated from the National War
Co llege.
In 19501 was recalled from the Far East tD be Executive Director
of the Office of Secretary of Defense, a duty 'E held for 2 years.
After 3 years in Alaska, I was assigned as chef of staff of the North
American Air Defense Command, with he zdquarters - in Colorado
Springs.
I subsequently served 13 months in Korea as chief of staff of the
Eighth Army. My most recent assignment has been commanding
general of the U.S. Army Air Defense Center, and commandant of the
Army Air Defense School at Fort Bliss, Tex.
I have been a member of the U.S. delega pion to six international
conferences in which either the President or the Secretary of State
represented the United States.
Mrs. Carter and I have been married for 28 years, and have three
children. Our older daughter is secretary to the district attorney in
Colorado Springs. My son graduates from West Point in June and
joins the Marine Corps. My younger daughter is a high school
student living with us. -
I am not associated in. any way with any business or with any com-
mercial enterprise.
The committee members have before theca a copy of my meager
stockholdings,, The only company with which the Agency does
business is the General Electric Co:' I have and now hold 15 shares
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of General Electric common stock. I have taken steps to dispose of
these shares on the assumption that that would be the committee's
desire.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Chairman RUSSELL. General, you have had a very interesting ex-
perience, throwing you in contact with representatives of nearly all
of the world powers.
Have you had any intelligence experience?
General CARTER. Yes, sir. In 1945 as a deputy chief of staff in
the China theater, my division was responsible for the coordination
of clandestine operations in the China theater.
Chairman RUSSELL. In 1945.
General CARTER. 1945.
I have been a user of the most closely held intelligence information
since 1942.
Chairman RUSSELL. I notice you are what is sometimes irreverently
called an Army brat, and your son is going into the Marine Corps.
General CARTER. Yes, sir.
Chairman RUSSELL. He is availing himself of the law which lets a
man transfer from one branch to the other.
General CARTER. Yes, sir; this is an initial entry.
He was appointed from Virginia to West Point by Congressman
Robeson.
Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Saltonstall.
Senator SALTONSTALL. Mr. Chairman, I have no questions. I have
just this observation.
General Carter, I think you are to be congradulated upon the posi-
tions of responsibility that you have been given by people for whom I
personally have the highest respect and regard, and the positions that
you have held in various sections of the world. Obviously you are a
man that people trust and people have confidence in your intelligence
and your ability to keep things to yourself.
I heartily commend your appointment to this new position.
I personally would not require you to sell the 15 shares of General
Electric. It is an infinitesimal holding in a very substantial company.
I cannot see how the CIA would have any contact that would make it
necessary for you to sell that stock.
Mr. Chairman, I have no further comments.
Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Stennis.
Senator STENNIS. Mr. Chairman, I don't have any comment to
add to a complete record here.
I am impressed, as was Senator Saltonstall, with men that we, at
this table, personally know with whom General Carter has served-
men like General Marshall and Mr. Lovett and others.
Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Smith.
Senator SMITH. I have no question, Mr. Chairman.
Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Jackson.
Senator JACKSON. Mr. Chairman, I merely want to say that
General Carter has certainly a wonderful record-it is a broad one.
His is the kind of experience I think we need. I am very much
impressed.
Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Beall.
Senator BEALL. Mr. Chairman, I have no questions. I have read
this very interesting biographical sketch and certainly agree with my
colleagues.
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Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Cannon.
Senator CANNON. I have no questions, Mr. Chairman.
Chairman RussELL. We are expecting great things of you, General
I am sure you are not going to disappoint us.
General CARTER. I will do my best, Mr. Chairman.
Chairman RUSSELL. Thank you very much, General.
General CARTER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Chairman RUSSELL. That concludes the open hearing this morning.
The committee will now go into executive session.
(Whereupon, at 10:45 a.m., the committee went into executive
session.)
(The nomination of Gen. Marshall S. Carter for appointment as
Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency, with the rank of
lieutenant general, was subsequently approved by the committee in
executive session, and confirmed by the Senate on April 2, 1962.)
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