Engineer Memoirs
in the position, the most challenging was the review of all the Corps' water projects,
undertaken when President Carter ordered 35 projects stopped in February 1977.
In July 1977 General Graves became Deputy Chief of Engineers, serving as the principal
assistant and adviser to the Chief of Engineers for both the military and civil missions of the
Corps.
General Graves became Director of the Defense Security Assistance Agency in March 1978
and was promoted to lieutenant general. In this position he was responsible for managing and
administering the entire program of security assistance and arms sales carried out by the
Department of Defense. During this period the largest sales were to the Middle East, including
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Egypt. The programs for Israel and Egypt were tied closely to
the Camp David peace accords.
General Graves retired from the Army in July 1981 and later that year became a consultant
to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. As a senior adviser
at CSIS he took part in a series of studies on the use of foreign assistance as an instrument of
foreign policy and national security, several times serving as the study director. In the late
1990's he was concentrating on helping CSIS with its financial management and introduction
of new computer systems and software.
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