2. A while back, I was at a Barnes and Noble inVirginia and, as I usually do, I glanced at the
discounted books up front in the outer alcove to the building. This type of marketing
often grabs my attention, and more than once, I’ve purchased books I wouldn’t
ordinarily have thought to buy. Such was the case when I purchased “The Secret
History of theCIA.”
I’ll admit, the book wasn’t exactly what I thought it would be and would be better suited
for someone who knows about the CIA already, but nevertheless, I found many sections
of it quite interesting. The book even has some photos, but I found that the photo
section didn’t cover a good number of those who were mentioned in this book. So, I
compiled a list of those with more numerous mentions than others and tracked down
the best photo of them I could find. I then added a bit of a bio/piece of history about
each of them, which was obtained from a combination of the book,Wikipedia, or
various news articles, but mainlyWikipedia.
The slide show is divided into four sections: Foreign Leaders,Officers, Defectors,
and Directors.
I then scrounged around for some free music to set it to. The music accompanying this
slide show is from Free MusicArchive.org, as retrieved from
http://freemusicarchive.org/search/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5&quicksea
rch=unseen+hand which was retrievedApril 22, 2015. The name of the piece is “Unseen
Hand,” off of the Sectioned v5.0 album by a group calledGalaxian.
4. Leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years
Developed what theWest
would call the Brezhnev
Doctrine, …
… which asserted the right
of Soviet intervention …
… when the essential
common interests of other
socialist countries are
threatened by one of their
number.
This doctrine was used to
justify the invasion of
Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Under his leadership, the
Soviets achieved parity
with the United States in
strategic nuclear weapons,
…
and their space program
overtook the American
one.
The Soviet Union’s army
remained the largest in the
world …
… but Brezhnev’s unceasing
buildup of his defense and
aerospace industries left
other sectors of the
economy increasingly
deprived of funds.
space
6. Beria, a Georgian like Stalin,
was notorious for enforcing a
reign of terror.
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8649435.stm,
which used Getty Images for this photo of
Lavrentiy Beria
8. CIA officer involved in many important and
controversial operations during the 1960s and 1970s
one of the most decorated CIA officers
9. U.S. intelligence officer and general
But the 1958 Hollywood film
version reversed Greene's judgment
by portraying the Lansdale‐type
character as a true hero.
10. CIA officer, best known for his role in OPERATION MONGOOSE
Known as "America's James Bond", a
tag given to him by Edward Lansdale
After a stint at the Berlin
Operating Base in 1952, he ran
OPERATION MONGOOSE,
which sought to undermine the
Fidel Castro regime in Cuba,
and later helped expose MI-6’s
Kim Philby as a Soviet mole.
13. David E. Murphy, a senior CIA officer during the Cold War,
pictured here with KGB officer Sergei A. Kondrashev in
1997 at the exit of an espionage tunnel in Berlin
A senior CIA officer in Berlin during some
of the tensest days of the ColdWar
He died of congestive heart
failure in 2014 at a
retirement home in
Alexandria,Virginia.
He was 93.
Served as chief of the CIA’s
Berlin Operations Base during
the years of crisis precipitated
by Soviet demands that the
Western powers abandon the
city, a standoff that would
ultimately lead to the
construction of the BerlinWall
in 1961.
15. Distinctive gold cuff links
provided a recognition signal
between Soviet mole Pyotr
Popov and his CIA contacts
(Dan Winters)
Source: www.smithsonianmag.com
Petr [aka Pyotr] Semenovich Popov , Lieutenant
Colonel in the SovietArmy , a member of the GRU ,
and the first major agent of the CIA to the Soviet Union
Source: ru.wikipedia.org
16. Reinhard Gehlen, aGerman general who served as chief of a military intelligence unit duringWWII
As an officer in the GermanWehrmacht, he reached the
rank of Major General just before being sacked by Hitler
for his accurately pessimistic intelligence reports.
During the emerging
phases of the Cold
War, he was recruited
by the United States
military to set up a
spy ring directed
against the Soviet
Union (known as the
Gehlen Organization)
which employed
numerous former SS,
SD, and Wehrmacht
officers, and
eventually became
head of the West
German intelligence
apparatus.
17. British diplomat who spied for the Soviet Union inWorldWar II and early in the ColdWar period
At the University of
Cambridge in the
1930s, Burgess was
part of a group of
upper-middle-class
students—including
Donald Maclean,
Kim Philby, and
Anthony Blunt—
who disagreed with
the notion of a
capitalist
democracy.
Burgess and his
fellow students
were recruited
by Soviet
intelligence
operatives to
become secret
agents.
18. Yuri Nosenko in a photograph provided
by the Center for Counterintelligence
and Security Studies and believed to
be from his K.G.B. credentials
Seized by CIA officers inWashington and
held in solitary confinement in a CIA safe
house from 1964 to 1967
20. The father of U.S. centralized intelligence
“Wild Bill”
21. The first civilian Director of Central Intelligence
His older
brother, John
Foster Dulles,
was the
Secretary of
State during the
Eisenhower
Administration.
22. The 6th Director of Central Intelligence
Assisted in the
establishment of the CIA
23. Director of Central Intelligence from June 1966 to February 1973
Began intelligence work
with the Office of Strategic
Services duringWorld War II
As an indirect
result of earlier
clandestine
operations in
Chile, he became
the only DCI
convicted of
misleading
Congress.
24. William Colby, as a newly minted paratrooper. He would
later become the 10th Director of Central Intelligence.
Source: ShadowWarrior:William Egan Colby and the CIA, by Randall B.Woods
Served as chief of station in
Saigon and chief of the CIA's
Far East Division
AfterVietnam,
Colby became
director of central
intelligence and
during his tenure,
under intense
pressure from the
U.S. Congress and
the media,
adopted a policy of
relative openness
about U.S.
intelligence
activities to the
Senate Church
Committee and
House Pike
Committee.
Replaced by future
president George
H.W. Bush on
January 30, 1976
Editor's Notes
Leonid Ilich Brezhnev
Leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years.
His career flourished under Joseph Stalin’s regime, and by 1939 he had become secretary of a regional party committee.
During World War II Brezhnev served as a political commissar in the Red Army, advancing in rank until he became a major general (1943) and head of the political commissars on the Ukrainian front.
In 1950 he was sent to Moldavia as first secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party with the task of sovietizing the Romanian population of that recently conquered territory.
Brezhnev developed the concept, known in the West as the Brezhnev Doctrine, which asserted the right of Soviet intervention in cases where “the essential common interests of other socialist countries are threatened by one of their number.” This doctrine was used to justify the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies in 1968.
During the 1970s Brezhnev attempted to normalize relations between West Germany and the Warsaw Pact and to ease tensions with the United States through the policy known as détente.
At the same time, he saw to it that the Soviet Union’s military-industrial complex was greatly expanded and modernized. Under his leadership, the Soviets achieved parity with the United States in strategic nuclear weapons, and their space program overtook the American one. A huge navy was fitted out and the army remained the largest in the world. The Soviet Union supported “wars of national liberation” in developing countries through the provision of military aid to left-wing movements and governments.
But Brezhnev’s unceasing buildup of his defense and aerospace industries left other sectors of the economy increasingly deprived of funds. Soviet agriculture, consumer-goods industries, and health-care services declined throughout the 1970s and early ’80s as a consequence, resulting in shortages and declining standards of living.
After his death, he was criticized for a gradual slide in living standards, the spread of corruption and cronyism within the Soviet bureaucracy, and the generally stagnant and dispiriting character of Soviet life in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
Biography source: Encyclopædia Britannica (http://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonid-Ilich-Brezhnev). Some information also came from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev). Information from both sources was retrieved July 24, 2015.
Photograph source: Daily Mail. Retrieved July 24, 2015 from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2057791/When-Empress-Europe-French-poodle-learn.html.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
Salvador Allende
President of Chile from 1970-1973.
After a hard won battle against the right, he was inaugurated November 3, 1970. Soon after election, he began to restructure Chilean society along socialist lines while retaining the democratic form of government and respecting civil liberties and the due process of law.
In an attempt to redistribute incomes, he authorized large wage increases and froze prices. Allende also printed large amounts of unsupported currency to erase the fiscal deficit created by the government’s purchase of basic industries.
By 1972 Chile was suffering from stagnant production, decreased exports and private-sector investment, exhausted financial reserves, widespread strikes, rising inflation, food shortages, and domestic unrest.
International lines of credit from the United States and western Europe had completely dried up. Allende’s inability to control his own radical left-wing supporters further incurred the hostility of the middle class. In foreign affairs, he established relations with China and Cuba.
His government, however, was overthrown on September 11, 1973, by a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet. During a concerted attack on the presidential palace, Allende died, and the manner of his death became a subject of controversy. Military officials claimed that he had committed suicide, while others believed that he had been killed and that an apparent suicide had been staged. In 1990 his body was exhumed from an unmarked grave and given a formal public burial in Santiago. As part of a criminal investigation into alleged murders committed by Pinochet’s regime, Allende’s body was again exhumed in May 2011, and a scientific autopsy was performed. The results confirmed that he had committed suicide.
Biography source: Encyclopædia Britannica (http://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Allende). Some information also came from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende). Information from both sources was retrieved July 24, 2015.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria
A Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police apparatus during WWII and the post war years.
More than any other figure besides Stalin himself, Beria was responsible for the institutionalization of the Soviet police state, its chief instrument, the NKVD, and its eventual successor, the KGB. The vast, pervasive security apparatus that institutionalized terror, epitomized by the late night knock on the door, became Beria’s lasting legacy, not only in the Soviet Union, but in other communist states as well.
Beria is now remembered chiefly as the executor of the final stages of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s. He was in charge of Soviet NKVD at its peak, concluding the era of the Purge by liquidating the very officials who had carried it out, and administering the vast network of labor camps known to history as the Gulag Archipelago.
The Gulag system provided tens of thousands of workers for mining uranium, construction and running of uranium processing plants, and construction of test facilities. Beria's NKVD also ensured the necessary security and secrecy of the project.
By 1938, however, the purge had become so extensive that it was damaging the infrastructure of the Soviet state, its economy and armed forces, and Stalin had decided to wind the purge down.
After Stalin's death, Beria was at the forefront of a pragmatic program of liberalization. Beria's past made it difficult for him to lead a liberalizing regime in the Soviet Union, a role which later fell to Khrushchev. The essential task of Soviet reformers was to bring the secret police, which Beria himself had used as his primary power base, under party control.
After Beria’s death, his wife and son were sent to a labor camp.
There are numerous allegations that Beria raped women, and that he personally tortured and killed many of his political victims. Khrushchev in his posthumously published memoirs wrote: "We were given a list of more than a 100 names of women. They were dragged to Beria by his people. And he had the same trick for them all: all who got to his house for the first time, Beria would invite for a dinner and would propose to drink for the health of Stalin. And in wine, he would mix in some sleeping pills…“Numerous stories have also circulated over the years involving Beria personally beating, torturing and killing his victims. Such stories continue to re-appear in the news media. The London Daily Telegraph reported: "The latest grisly find—a large thigh bone and some smaller leg bones—was only two years ago when a kitchen was re-tiled.
Biography source: New World Encyclopedia (http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Lavrentiy_Beria). Some details also from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria). Information from both sources was retrieved July 24, 2015.
Photograph source: BBC. Retrieved July 24, 2015 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8649435.stm.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
Theodore Shackley
An American CIA officer involved in many important and controversial CIA operations during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the most decorated CIA officers. He was commonly known as the "Blond Ghost".[1] In the early 1960s, Shackley's work included being station chief in Miami, during the period of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as the Cuban Project (also known as OPERATION MONGOOSE), which he directed. He was also said to be the director of the "Phoenix Program" during the Vietnam War, as well as the CIA station chief in Laos between 1966–1968, and Saigon station chief from 1968 through February 1972. In 1976, he was appointed Associate Deputy Director for Operations, and was in charge of the CIA's worldwide covert operations. In 1986 Shackley was named in a lawsuit by attorney Daniel Sheehan and the Christic Institute for his alleged orchestration of the Iran Contra scandal.[2][3] Shackley is perhaps best known for his involvement in CIA "black ops".
Biography source: Wikipedia, as retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Shackley April 25, 2015.
Photograph source: Amazon, as retrieved from http://www.amazon.com/Spymaster-Life-CIA-Rick-Finney/dp/1574889222/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429984204&sr=1-2&keywords=spymaster April 25, 2015.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
Edward Lansdale
He served with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II, but achieved fame during the Cold War as one of the most celebrated U.S. intelligence officers. While he was never an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), he often worked on behalf of the CIA using the cover of an Air Force officer.
Under President John F. Kennedy, Lansdale was put in charge of OPERATION MONGOOSE, which involved a series of attempts to eliminate Fidel Castro and disrupt the economy of communist Cuba.
Seen by many during the Cold War as “America's Number One Spy Master,” Lansdale was famously reviled in The Quiet American (1955) an attack on U.S. foreign policy by British novelist Graham Greene (despite the fact that both Lansdale and Greene denied the connection). But the 1958 Hollywood film version reversed Greene's judgment by portraying the Lansdale‐type character as a true hero. By the 1960s, Lansdale's public persona had overshadowed the real actions, and he had become a legend of American success in the Cold War.
Biography source: Encylopedia.com, which cites The Oxford Companion to American Military History. Retrieved July 23, 2015 from http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O126-LansdaleEdwardG.html.
Photograph source: Wikipedia. Retrieved July 23, 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lansdale.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
William King Harvey
He was known as "America's James Bond", a tag given to him by Edward Lansdale.
Source: Wikipedia. Retrieved July 23, 2015 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_King_Harvey.
After a stint at the Berlin Operating Base in 1952, he ran OPERATION MONGOOSE, which sought to undermine the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba, and later helped expose MI-6’s Kim Philby as a Soviet mole.
Source: Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counterintelligence by Rodney Carlisle. First published in 2005 by M.E. Sharpe. (New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis Group, 2015), p. 66. Retrieved July 23, 2015 from http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Intelligence-Counterintelligence-Rodney-Carlisle/dp/0765680688/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1437710407&sr=1-1&keywords=encyclopedia+of+intelligence+and+counterintelligence&pebp=1437710415930&perid=1RAV0S5XFZRHGTEFKC7B#reader_0765680688
Biography source: Wikipedia and Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. For more details, see the citations above.
Photograph source: Screen capture found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFVfGMaPaNo. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
Tennent Harrington “Pete” Bagley
Led the agency’s counterintelligence activities against the Soviets during a tense period of the Cold War and played a key role in the controversial handling of Soviet defector Yuri Nosenko.
The son and brother of Navy admirals, joined the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency in 1950. An intellectual fluent in several languages, he rose quickly, ascending by the 1960s to serve as deputy chief of the Soviet bloc division, and was specifically tasked with countering the activities of the KGB.
After Marine Corps service in World War II, Pete Bagley received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Southern California in 1947 and, later, a doctorate in political science from the Graduate Institute in Geneva.
Dr. Bagley embarked on what would become his most noted work in 1962, when, at a Geneva safe house, he met KGB agent Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko. Nosenko would become one of the most controversial figures in the history of U.S counterintelligence, and Dr. Bagley was described as his chief handler.
He died in February of 2014 at the age of 88.
Biography source: The Washington Post. Retrieved July 24, 2015 from http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/tennent-h-pete-bagley-noted-cia-officer-dies-at-88/2014/02/24/b2880bf2-9d6c-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html
Photograph source: The Washington Post. Retrieved July 24, 2015 from http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/tennent-h-pete-bagley-noted-cia-officer-dies-at-88/2014/02/24/b2880bf2-9d6c-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
Laventia Beria
Among other exploits, he was instrumental in the November 1963 coup against Ngô Đình Diệm that resulted in Diệm's assassination, having served as Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.'s liaison officer with the coup plotters and delivering $42,000 of the known cash disbursements.[2] He later ran secret operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Biography source: Wikipedia. Retrieved July 24, 2015 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Conein.
Photograph source: Ibid.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
David E. Murphy
A senior CIA officer in Berlin during some of the tensest days of the Cold War who later served as the agency’s chief of Soviet operations and wrote an authoritative account of espionage in that era. He died of congestive heart failure in 2014 at a retirement home in Alexandria, Virginia. He was 93. He served as chief of the CIA’s Berlin Operations Base during the years of crisis precipitated by Soviet demands that the Western powers abandon the city, a standoff that would ultimately lead to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Author of “What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa” (2005), a well-received analysis of how the Soviet Union collected but did not act on news of the impending Nazi invasion of 1941, known as Operation Barbarossa.
Biography source: The Washington Post, as retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/david-murphy-soviet-ops-chief-at-cia-dies/2014/09/09/0e1b572e-377f-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html April 28, 2015.
Photograph source: The Washington Post (using a Reuters photo), as retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/david-murphy-soviet-ops-chief-at-cia-dies/2014/09/09/0e1b572e-377f-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html April 28, 2015.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
Pyotr Semyonovich Popov
A major in the Soviet military intelligence apparatus (GRU). He was the first GRU officer to offer his services to the Central Intelligence Agency after World War II. Between 1953 and 1958, he provided the United States government with large amounts of information concerning military capabilities and espionage operations. Codenamed ATTIC, for most of his time with the CIA, Popov's case officer was George Kisevalter.
Whilst stationed in Vienna, Popov was able to provide documents such as the 1951 Soviet army field regulations, and after a July 1954 home visit to the Soviet Union, information regarding Soviet nuclear submarines and guided missiles.[2]
In April 1958 Popov told Kisevalter that a senior KGB official had boasted of having "full technical details" of the Lockheed U-2 spy plane, leading U2 project director Richard M. Bissell, Jr. to conclude the project had a leak. On 1 May 1960 a U-2 was shot down over the Soviet Union, in the 1960 U-2 incident.[5]
Popov was dismissed from the GRU in November 1958, and placed on reserve status. In January 1959, after incriminating evidence was found in his apartment, he was run as a double agent for three months. He was then arrested in October 1959, and sentenced to death in January 1960.[1]
Popov was executed by Soviet authorities in 1960.
Biography source: Wikipedia, as retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Semyonovich_Popov July 23, 2015.
Photograph source: Included in the captions above and both retrieved July 23, 2015.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
Reinhard Gehlen
As an officer in the German Wehrmacht, he reached the rank of Major General just before being sacked by Hitler for his accurately pessimistic intelligence reports.
During the emerging phases of the Cold War, he was recruited by the United States military to set up a spy ring directed against the Soviet Union (known as the Gehlen Organization) which employed numerous former SS, SD and Wehrmacht officers, and eventually became head of the West German intelligence apparatus.
He served as the first president of the Federal Intelligence Service until 1968. As President of the Federal Intelligence Service, itself a civilian office, he was promoted to Lieutenant-General of the Reserve in the West German Bundeswehr and thus became the country's highest-ranking reserve officer.[1]
Biography source: Wikipedia. Retrieved July 23, 2015 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Gehlen.
Photograph source: CIA, as retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no4/article06.html April 22, 2015.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
Guy Burgess
British diplomat who spied for the Soviet Union in World War II and early in the Cold War period.
At the University of Cambridge in the 1930s, Burgess was part of a group of upper-middle-class students—including Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, and Anthony Blunt—who disagreed with the notion of a capitalist democracy. These men were recruited by Soviet intelligence operatives to become secret agents, and Burgess began supplying information from his posts as a BBC correspondent from 1936 to 1938, a member of the MI6 intelligence agency from 1938 to 1941, and a member of the British Foreign Office from 1944.
Biography source: Encyclopædia Britannica (http://www.britannica.com/biography/Guy-Burgess).
Photograph source: BBC. Retrieved July 24, 2015 from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6047115/Guy-Burgess-abused-BBC-expenses.html.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
Yuri Nosenko
Yuri Nosenko, a KGB defector and a figure of significant controversy within the U.S. intelligence community. Seized by CIA officers in Washington and from 1964 to 1967 was held in solitary confinement in a CIA safe house in Clinton, Maryland. Nosenko was also subjected to sensory deprivation and was administered drugs because his CIA handlers believed he was still working in secret for the KGB. Agents also strapped wires to his head, telling him falsely that the device was an electroencephalograph which would allow them to read his mind, while the device was really one that read brainwave patterns. This was a form of psychological intimidation in order to help persuade him to "tell the truth". He was interrogated for 1,277 days.
When the interrogations led to no substantial results the interrogators were changed, and after a new team was brought on, Nosenko was cleared of all suspicions and released with pay.
Nosenko's case officer was Tennent H. "Pete" Bagley, both when they first met in Geneva in 1962 and subsequently when he defected in 1964.
On March 1, 1969 Nosenko was formally acknowledged to be a genuine defector, and released, with financial compensation from the CIA.
Biography source: Wikipedia. Retrieved July 23, 2015 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Nosenko.
Photograph source: CIA, as retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no4/article06.html April 22, 2015.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan
American lawyer, soldier, and diplomat who directed (1942–45) the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.
Born in Buffalo, New York on January 1, 1883, Donovan later began practicing law in Buffalo in 1907.
The grandson of Irish immigrants, he was very religious and wanted to become a Catholic Priest. He was a life-long Republican, but believed in supporting the best man, no matter what their political affiliation. Donovan graduated from Columbia Law School in 1907 and practiced corporate law. He joined the New York National Guard in 1912 as a captain. Captain Donovan served on the Mexican border during the campaign against Pancho Villa in 1916. He would later go on to become one of the most decorated soldiers of WWI.
Colonel Donovan began his intelligence career while serving with the American Expeditionary Force during the Russian Civil War. Donovan continued his intelligence gathering in the 1920s and 1930s through fact-finding trips in Europe. In 1941, President Roosevelt chose Donovan to head the new Office of the Coordinator of information (COI). The main goal of the COI was to get the intelligence braches of the Army, Navy, FBI, and State Department to work more closely together.
President Roosevelt referred to Donovan as his “secret legs” and General Dwight D. Eisenhower thought very highly of him as well. However, not everybody appreciated Donovan and the OSS. Some notable critics were FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, General Douglas MacArthur, President Harry S. Truman, and several members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
During the 1930s he returned to the practice of law but maintained his political connections both in the United States and abroad. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1940–41, asked Donovan to draft plans for the creation of a central intelligence service for the United States. Donovan was appointed coordinator of information on July 11, 1941. On June 13, 1942, he was named chief of the newly created OSS. This military agency was charged with collecting foreign intelligence and carrying out counterpropaganda and covert action operations. The OSS was dissolved in 1945. Although Donovan was foremost among the advocates of a peacetime central intelligence service, he declined any role in designing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which was created in 1947.
Donovan was later appointed as an U.S. ambassador to Thailand by President Eisenhower and served in that role from 1953–54.
Biography source: Encyclopædia Britannica (http://www.britannica.com/biography/William-J-Donovan) and National Park Service (http://www.nps.gov/prwi/learn/historyculture/donovan.htm). Information from both sources was retrieved July 24, 2015.
Photograph source: National Park Service. Retrieved July 24, 2015 fromhttp://www.nps.gov/prwi/learn/historyculture/donovan.htm.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
Allen Dulles
An American diplomat and lawyer who became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence and its longest-serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War, he oversaw Operation PBSUCCESS, Operation Ajax, the Lockheed U-2 program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dulles was one of the members of the Warren Commission. Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. His older brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Administration.
Biography source: Wikipedia, as retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles April 28, 2015.
Photograph source: CIA, as retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/directors-of-central-intelligence-as-leaders-of-the-u-s-intelligence-community/chapter_2.htm April 28, 2015.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
John Alex McCone
1902-1991. Served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from November 1961 to April 1965. Served as a member of President Kennedy’s secret Executive Committee during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
Upon leaving the private sector where he had been successful in construction-related companies, he entered government service and in 1948, became an assistant to Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, the first U.S. defense secretary.
Assisted in the establishment of the CIA.
Citing Seymour Hersh’s The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, the Wikipedia article on McCone adds that he resigned from his position as DCI in April 1965, believing himself to be unappreciated by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who he complained, would not read his reports, which advised that Israeli nuclear facilities be subjected to full-fledged inspections.
Sources: Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency by W. Thomas Smith. (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2003), p. 166 and Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._McCone). Information from both was retrieved July 23, 2015.
Biography source: Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency and Wikipedia. See citations above for additional details.
Photograph source: Wikipedia. Retrieved July 23, 2015 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._McCone.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
Richard McGarrah Helms
8th Director of Central Intelligence
Served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from June 1966 to February 1973. Helms began intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Following the 1947 creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) he rose in its ranks during the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy administrations. Helms then served as DCI under Johnson, then Nixon. In 1977, as an indirect result of earlier clandestine operations in Chile, he became the only DCI convicted of misleading Congress.
Biography source: Wikipedia, as retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Helms April 22, 2015.
Photograph source: CIA, as retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no4/article06.html April 22, 2015.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
William Colby
10th Director of Central Intelligence.
Served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from September 1973 to January 1976.
During World War II Colby served with the Office of Strategic Services. After the war he joined the newly created Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Before and during the Vietnam War, Colby served as chief of station in Saigon, chief of the CIA's Far East Division, and head of the Civil Operations and Rural Development effort, as well as overseeing the Phoenix Program. After Vietnam, Colby became director of central intelligence and during his tenure, under intense pressure from the U.S. Congress and the media, adopted a policy of relative openness about U.S. intelligence activities to the Senate Church Committee and House Pike Committee. Colby served as DCI under President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford and was replaced by future president George H.W. Bush on January 30, 1976.
Biography source: Wikipedia, as retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Colby#Legacy May 2, 2015.
Photograph source: The Dallas Morning News (using a photo from "Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA,”) as retrieved from http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/books/20130406-book-review-shadow-warrior-the-life-of-william-egan-colby-by-randall-b.-woods.ece May 2, 2015.
Music Source: Free Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Instrumental/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5 April 22, 2015.
