VICE ADMIRAL RUFUS L. TAYLOR, U.S. NAVY

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2012
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VICE ADMIRAL RUFUS L. TAYLOR, U.S. NAVY
Rufus Lackiand Taylor was born in St. Louis, Missouri,
on January 6, 1910, son of Mrs. Caroline Newman Taylor and the
late Rufus L. Taylor. He attended Soldan High School in St. Louis,
Missouri, Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and
Hall's School, Columbia, Missouri, before entering the U. S. Naval
Academy, August 25, 1929. He was graduated on June 1, 1933. He
attained the rank of Vice Admiral on June 1, 1966.
After graduation he was attached to the Sixth Naval Reserve
Area at St. Louis and later served aboard the USS ARIZONA and the
USS PRESTON (DD-379).
From September 1938 to September 1941, he was a student of
the Japanese language at the American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan. He
was then posted to the Sixteenth Naval District Headquarters at
Cavite, Philippine Islands, for duty as a Communications Officer.
After the United States troops at Bataan had surrendered to the
Japanese, he was sent to Australia, and from April 1942 until February
1943 served on the Staff of the Commander Allied Naval Forces, South-
western Pacific.
Returning to the United States, he served from March 1943 to
November 1944 in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy
Department, Washington, D. C. Again ordered to the Pacific in
December 1944, he served throuu:ghout. the remaining period of the War
at Headquarters, Fourteenth :oval District, Pearl Harbor.
He was attached to the Gonor~.1 Headquarters, U.S. Army Forces,
Pacific, in August 1945, and was included in the first contingent of U. S.
Forces to enter Japan after the capitulation of the Japanese. He remained
in Japan with the Occupation Forces from August to November 1945.
He returned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in
November 1945, where he served until Ji_une 1946. He was then assigned
to the Central Intelligence Group until transferred as a student to the
Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia, in February 1947. He
commanded the USS NOA (DD-841), from June 1947 to April 1948. In
May of that year he was transferred to duty in the Office of Naval Intelli-
gence, where he remained until November 1951, when he became
Assistant Head of the Security Branch, Communications Division, Office
of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Administration).
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In May 1953 he was assigned to the National Security Agency
Directorate, Washington, D. C. , and in December. of the same year
was transferred to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. On March 17,
1955 he was ordered to duty on the Staff of Commander Naval Forces,
Far East, as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence and a year later
was transferred to the Staff of Comma.ndsr in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet,
again as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence.
From 1959 to 1963 he served in the Office of the Chief of Naval
Operations, Navy Department as Assistant Director for Foreign Intelligence,
later as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence. On June 24, 1963 he
became Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Intelligence) and Director
of Naval Intelligence. In June, 1966, he '.vas appointed Deputy Director
of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, D. C. , and was serving
in this position when he was nominated by the President on September 20,
1966 as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.
In addition to the Bronze Star Medal. with Combat "V; " the
Secretary of the Navy Commendation Medal, the Army Distinguished
Unit Badge with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon,
Admiral Taylor has received the American Defense Service Medal with
star; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with stars; American Campaign
Medal; World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal, Asia
Clasp; National Defense Service Medal; and the Philippine Defense Ribbon
with star.
Vice Admiral Taylor and his wife, Mrs. Karin Gerdts Taylor,
have three children: Rufus L. Taylor, III; Carol Inga Taylor; and Lisa
Noel Taylor.
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