CIA Recommendations to be the 1st Director of the National Security Agency

I came upon this list of possible candidates to be the first Director of the National Security Agency compiled by Huntington Sheldon then Assistant Director of the Office of Current Intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency. While going through the list, I was struck by the absence of the man who became the first DIRNSA- Ralph Canine- and by those recommended by Sheldon who Canine beat out. Among the more notable names on the list are Omar Bradley, Mark Clark, Matthew Ridgway, and Anthony McAuliffe made famous for service during the Second World War. Canine beat out former DCI Hoyt Vandenberg and SAC founder Curtis E. LeMay to list a few. I doubt this was accidental; I suspect this slight was intentional given CIA displeasure over how the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA) had supported it during the agencies' mutual early years. Canine had been the last director the AFSA.

CIA List of Perspective NSA Directors