Former FBI, CIA Director William H. Webster dies at 101

[ad_1] William H. Webster, a longtime U.S. public servant who served as the top of each the FBI and the CIA in a profession spanning the late Nineteen Seventies to the early Nineteen Nineties, has died. He was 101.

The FBI confirmed his loss of life in an announcement Friday.

Webster, who was the one individual to have led each companies, "was a devoted public servant who spent over 60 years in service to our nation, together with within the U.S. Navy, as a federal decide, director of the CIA, and his time period as our Director from 1978-1987," the FBI assertion mentioned.

WASHINGTON, : William Webster listens to a query from the information media 25 October 2002 throughout a press convention after being voted chairman of a brand new Federal Securities and Alternate Fee Public Firm Accounting Oversight Board on the SEC in Washington, DC. The SEC, in a divided vote, named Webster, former director of each the FBI and the Central Intelligence Company, as chairman of a brand new Public Firm Accounting Oversight Board. AFP PHOTO/Shawn THEW (Photograph credit score ought to learn SHAWN THEW/AFP through Getty Pictures)

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As FBI director, Webster served underneath presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

He then served as CIA director from 1987 to 1991 underneath Reagan and President George H.W. Bush.

"As the one particular person to have led each the FBI and the CIA, Choose Webster’s unwavering integrity and dedication to public service set a typical for management in federal regulation enforcement," the FBI Brokers Affiliation mentioned in an announcement.

Webster was born on March 6, 1924 in St. Louis. He attended Amherst School in Massachusetts and earned his regulation diploma at Washington College Regulation Faculty in St. Louis.

He served as a U.S. Navy lieutenant in each World Warfare II and the Korean Warfare. A training legal professional in St. Louis from the late Nineteen Forties to the late Fifties, Webster went on to function U.S. Legal professional for the Jap District of Missouri. Within the Nineteen Seventies, he was appointed a U.S. District Courtroom decide after which a U.S. Courtroom of Appeals decide earlier than taking the FBI director put up.