Photos to SupplementThe Secret History of

the CIA

A while back, I was at a Barnes and Noble in Virginia 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 the CIA.”

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 mainly Wikipedia.

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 Music Archive.org, as retrieved from http://freemusicarchive.org/search/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=5&quicksearch=unseen+hand which was retrieved April 22, 2015. The name of the piece is “Unseen Hand,” off of the Sectioned v5.0 album by a group called Galaxian.

FOREIGN LEADERS

Leonid Brezhniv

Leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years

Developed what the West 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

Salvador Allende

Chile’s first socialist president

His government was overthrown on September 11, 1973, by a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet.

Lavrentiy Beria

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

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.

OFFICERS

Theodore Shackley

CIA officer involved in many important and controversial operations during the 1960s and 1970s

one of the most decorated CIA officers

Edward Lansdale

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.

William King Harvey

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.

Tennent H. “Pete” Bagley

CIA operations officer

The son and brother of Navy admirals, joined the fledgling CIA in 1950

Lucien Conein

A noted U.S. Army officer and OSS/CIA operative

David E. Murphy

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 Cold War

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 Berlin Wall in 1961.

DEFECTORS

Pyotr Popov

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 Soviet Army , a member of the GRU , and the first major agent of the CIA to the Soviet Union Source: ru.wikipedia.org

Reinhard Gehlen

Reinhard Gehlen, a German general who served as chief of a military intelligence unit during WWII

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.

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.

Burgess and his fellow students were recruited by Soviet intelligence operatives to become secret agents.

Yuri Nosenko

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 in Washington and held in solitary confinement in a CIA safe house from 1964 to 1967

DIRECTORS

William J. Donovan

The father of U.S. centralized intelligence

“Wild Bill”

Allen Dulles

The first civilian Director of Central Intelligence

His older brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Administration.

John A. McCone

The 6th Director of Central Intelligence

Assisted in the establishment of the CIA

Richard Helms

Director of Central Intelligence from June 1966 to February 1973

Began intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II

As an indirect result of earlier clandestine operations in Chile, he became the only DCI convicted of misleading Congress.

William Colby

William Colby, as a newly minted paratrooper. He would later become the 10th Director of Central Intelligence. Source: Shadow Warrior: 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 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.

Replaced by future president George H.W. Bush on January 30, 1976