Charles P. Cabell
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Charles Pearre Cabell (b. 11 October, 1903 in Dallas, Texas; d. 25 May, 1971 in Arlington, Virginia) was an United States Air Force general and deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
He attended Oak Cliff High School and graduated from the West Point in 1925. He was initially commissioned as an artillery lieutenant and served in the field artillery until 1931, when he went to flying school, and was transferred to the Air Corps.
Cabell achieved the rank of colonel in 1942 and brigadier general in 1944. During the late 1940s and early 1950s he held a variety of ranking staff headquarters positions, including chief of Air Force intelligence 1948-1951, and director of the staff for the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1951-1953. In 1951 Cabell set up Project GRUDGE to "make a study reviewing the UFO situation for AF HQ." In 1952 he was an enthusiastic promoter of the U-2 spy plane, along with Allen Welsh Dulles and John Foster Dulles.
On 23 April, 1953, while still an active Air Force officer, he was appointed deputy director of the CIA. In 1956, along with the CIA's Richard Bissell, he flew to Bonn, to brief the West German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, on the U-2 program. Adenauer allowed U-2 planes, pilots, and support teams to be based at Wiesbaden. He was promoted to full general in 1958.
Cabell became Deputy Director of CIA under Allen Dulles. He was forced by President Kennedy to resign, on 31 December, 1962, following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Cabell's brother, Earle Cabell, was Mayor of Dallas when Kennedy visited that city and was assassinated, on November 22, 1963.
The Washington Post revealed on September 16, 1973, that New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison was preparing as late as March 1971 to accuse Charles Cabell of conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination.
General Cabell died in 1970, his brother Earle in 1975.
He was married to Jacklyn DeHymel in 1934; they had two sons and one daughter. He left an autobiography (unpublished until 1997 and now available from the family) with his sons, Charles P. Cabell Jr. and Benjamin Cabell IV, of Dallas, TX. His oldest son Charles was also an Air Force officer, achieving the rank of brigadier general.
