William H. Webster, an American public servant for a long time that he served as head of the FBI and the CIA in a race that covers in the late 1970s until the early 1990s, died. He was 101 years old.
The FBI confirmed his death in a statement on Friday.
Webster, who was the only person who directed both agencies, “was a dedicated public servant who spent more than 60 years in service to our country, even in the US Navy., As federal judge, director of the CIA, and his mandate as our director of 1978-1987,” said the FBI statement.
Washington: William Webster listens to a media question on October 25, 2002 during a press conference after being voted president of a new accounting board of accounting of the Public Commission of the Federal Stock Exchange and Securities Commission in the SEC in Washington, DC. The SEC, in a divided vote, called Webster, former director of the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency, as president of a new accounting Supervision Board of the public company. AFP Photo/Shawn Thew (the photo credit must read Shawn Thew/AFP through Getty Images)
Shawn Thew/AFP through Getty Images
As director of the FBI, Webster served under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
He then served as director of the CIA from 1987 to 1991 under Reagan and President George Hw Bush.
“As the only individual who has addressed both FBI and the CIA, the unwavering integrity and dedication of Judge Webster to the public service established a standard for leadership in the application of federal law,” said the FBI agents association in a statement.
Webster was born on March 6, 1924 in St. Louis. He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts and obtained his lawyer in the Law Faculty of the University of Washington in St. Louis.
He served as Lieutenant of the United States Navy both in World War II and in the Korean War. Webster, a fiscal lawyer in St. Louis, from the end of the 1940s until the end of the 1950s, went on to serve as a US prosecutor for the Eastern District of Missouri. In the 1970s, he was appointed judge of the United States District Court and then judge of the United States Court of Appeals before taking the position of director of the FBI.
This is a development story. Consult the updates again.
