George A. Carver Jr. In July 1965 Director of Central Intelligence William Raborn assigned Carver as head of the CIA’s National Planning Task Force for Vietnam. In this lofty position Carver made independent recommendations to President Johnson on the most important policy decisions of the war. Carver brought Brickham’s proposals to the highest levels of government and, in the summer of 1967, saw that the Phoenix Program was accepted as official US policy. Recording 1 Recording 2 See Carver Memo Here is a Video of George Carver