US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

This position was created in 1947 as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of State in order to take up some of the functions of the wartime Office of Strategic Services, and was elevated to Director for Intelligence and Research in 1957. Originally designated by the Secretary of State, in 1986 the position was renamed Assistant Secretary has since been filled by Presidential appointment. See also US State Department.

10-Oct-1957	19-Feb-1961	Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr.	Continuing
19-Feb-1961	25-Apr-1963	Roger Hilsman, Jr.
28-Apr-1963	25-Aug-1969	Thomas L. Hughes
26-Oct-1969	24-Nov-1973	Ray S. Cline
21-Jan-1974	24-Nov-1975	William G. Hyland
01-Dec-1975	10-Apr-1978	Hal Saunders
24-Apr-1978	17-Dec-1979	William G. Bowdler
28-Jan-1980	04-Oct-1981	Ronald Spiers
19-Oct-1981	06-Jan-1985	Hugh Montgomery
01-Feb-1985	19-May-1989	Morton I. Abramowitz
09-Jun-1989	19-Jan-1993	Douglas P. Mulholland
05-Nov-1993	31-May-1997	Toby Trister Gati
10-Nov-1997	02-Aug-1999	Phyllis E. Oakley
19-Nov-1999	13-Jan-2001	J. Stapleton Roy
01-Jun-2001	03-Oct-2003	Carl W. Ford, Jr.
22-Jul-2004	13-Jun-2005	Thomas Fingar
06-Aug-2006	--	Randall M. Fort

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