(Classified) JOINS INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300090030-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: July 5, 1951
• Content Type: NSPR

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Named Director of Personne
and Assistant to Gen. Smith,
Central Agency Director
been named Director of Personnel
and assistant to Lieut. Gen. Walter
Bedell Smith, Director of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency. Mr.
Davison will assume his new du-
ties on July 15.
Since Sept. 12, 1950, Mr. Davison
has been serving as Assistant:
Director of Civil Defense ;for the
town of Oyster Bay. His resigna-
tion was announced in Nassau
County today.
Mr. Davison is 55 years old and
son of the late Henry P. Davison,
(partner ih tie firm of J. P. Mort
gan & Co.
During- World War I his mothef
set aside her Long Island estate
for the training of her son and
twelve friends and class-mates
from Yale who were eager to fly,
With this training behind him, Mr.
Davison entered the United States
Naval Air Service in World War
I. He became a colonel, in the
Army Air Forces in June, 1941- He
liedell
eYii1 i~ r
served with distinction in botll.~ fiie N'ew Bork Time., M6 to
wars and received- the Distin- j - - "T -. - 1
i uished Service Medal and Navy
Cross. He rose in the Air Forces
until he became a brigadier gen
feral on the air staff and Assistant
Chief of Staff to General Henry
H. Arnold in charge of personnel.
In civil life, Mr. Davison began
his career as a member of the bar
=n 1922. He was a Republican:
mmber of the New York ,State
4ssembly from Nassau County j
rom 1922 to 1926. From 1924 to
1932 he was Assistant Secretary of
War in the Coolidge and Hoover
Administrations.
In 1933, Mr. Davison became
president of the A.meric~n'Museum
of Natural History. Last April he l,
announced ;he would r9tire from
this post next October after eight-
een years in office.. He is retarded
as largely responsible for an im-
provement in the museum's finan-
cial history.
Brig. (.en. jr. T~Mllzee Pavisun, i
who resigrlNl av
civil e}efenaf leas to becorn.e au.
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