Joseph Carroll (DIA)
| Joseph Francis Carroll | |
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Official Photograph upon appointment as Director, DIA. From U.S. Air Force Official Biography
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| Born |
March 19, 1910 Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | January 20, 1991 (aged 80) |
| Place of burial | Arlington National Cemetery |
| Allegiance | United States of America |
| Service/branch | United States Air Force |
| Years of service | 1948–1969 |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands held |
Defense Intelligence Agency AFOSI |
| Awards |
Distinguished Service Medal Legion of Merit (2) |
| Relations | James P. Carroll |
Lieutenant General Joseph Francis Carroll (March 19, 1910 – January 20, 1991) was the founding director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).
General Carroll was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, in 1933 with a bachelor of arts degree and earned a J.D. degree from Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, 1940. He was a member of the Illinois State Bar Association from 1940 to his death.
Carroll left the Seminary of St. Mary on the eve of being ordained a deacon, a transitional stage leading to ordination to the priesthood, in order to have a relationship with Mary Morrissey, who was to become his wife. After working with Swift and Company, a meat-packing concern, in Chicago, where he rose to a position as assistant sales manager, soon after completion of law school, he left to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Carroll was survived by his wife, Mary, and five sons, one of whom is former priest and writer James Carroll.
General Carroll joined the FBI in October 1940, where he served as a special agent in field offices at Memphis and Knoxville, Tennessee, before assignment to the Chicago, Illinois field office. He was instrumental in catching noted gangster Roger "Tough" Touhy, which brought him to the personal attention of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In May 1944, he was transferred to the Washington headquarters of the FBI, where he held progressive positions as supervisor in charge of bank robbery and kidnapping matters, chief of the Criminal Section, and first assistant to the assistant director of the FBI in charge of the General Investigations and Accounting Division.
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