This guy is like a ghost. I had never tried to find much about Hillenkoetter before, and being a notable figure I expected to find quite a bit about him, but this is riculous. I can find almost nothing. I checked the websites and archives at the CIA, DOD, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, the Navy Department, the History of the Navy web site, nearly every major online encyclopedia, a general *.mil seach engine good for most anything military, and this is all that I could find. A wealth of information can be found about Hillenkoetter at places like the Truman Library and government document sites, but these all involve official military documents authored by him or that involve him from the 40s, 50s; including from his close and frequent contact with Truman, but a general explanation of his many contributions as a leader in the military and intelligence community of the US is otherwise lacking. I must say, I have had better luck finding information about much less notable figures. This is a little interesting...
What follows is pretty much all that I could find…with some duplication through other links that take you back to where you started. First, here is the total of all information that I found in about a dozen encyclopedias.
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter was the third director of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States.
This is a stub.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe+H.+Hillenkoetter
and another example:
Article last updated: 5:35pm, August 29, 2003
Database last updated: 3:20pm, January 09, 2004
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter was the third director of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States.
This is a stub.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Roscoe-H.-Hillenkoetter
Next, his portrait; compliments of the CIA:
http://www.odci.gov/cia/information/tour/DCI_portraits/hillen_portrait.html
This was about the only unofficial [not political or military] information I could find about him at the CIA:
TENURE AS DIRECTOR 1 May 1947–7 October 1950
BIRTH 8 May 1897, St. Louis, Missouri
EDUCATION Graduated from US Naval Academy, 1919 (Class of 1920)
APPOINTED 30 April 1947 by President Harry S. Truman; sworn in, 1 May 1947
Recess appointment by President Truman, 29 August 1947; sworn in, 26 September 1947; reappointed under new National Security Act* by President Truman, 24 November 1947; confirmed by Senate, 8 December 1947
DEPUTY DIRECTOR Brig. Gen. Edwin Kennedy Wright until 9 March 1949**
EARLIER CAREER Several tours as Assistant Naval Attache, France: 1933-35, 1938-40, 1940-41 (Vichy regime), and 1946-47
Officer in Charge of Intelligence, on the staff of Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Area (Adm. Chester W. Nimitz), September 1942–March 1943
Promoted to Rear Admiral, 29 November 1946
LATER CAREER Commander, Cruiser Division 1, Cruiser-Destroyer Force, Pacific Fleet, October 1950–August 1951
Promoted to Vice Admiral, 9 April 1956
Inspector General of the Navy, 1 August 1956
Retired from Navy, 1 May 1957
Private business
Died 18 June 1982
* The National Security Act of 26 July 1947 established the Central IntelligenceAgency, which replaced the Central Intelligence Group on 18 September 1947.
**There was no Deputy Director from 10 March 1949 to 7 October 1950.
http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/dddcia/hillen.html
I did manage to find one unofficial references at the Navy Department. Here the Navy does mention him about half the way down their page on UFOs. Of course his name comes up many times in the official capacity as Commander of Operations, Admiral, Vice Admiral, and Rear Admiral, but no personal information is found.
Keyhoe, Donald E. Flying Saucers From Outer Space. New York: Holt, 1953. OCLC 181368. [Keyhoe was the founder of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) in 1956. NICAP's board of governors included: VADM R. H. Hillenkoetter, USN (Ret.), the CIA Director May 1947 to October 1950); RADM H.B. Knowles USN (Ret.), a World War II submariner; and LTGEN P.A. del Valle USMC (Ret.), former 1st Marine Division commander. Advisors included CAPT R. B. McLaughlin, author of a 1950 True magazine article on a UFO sighting at White Sands, NM]
