Background on Father

Background Information on my CIA Father

This book is a tribute to my Father and Mother’s dedication to preserving our way of life through their service in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

As it turns out, my Mother also worked for the CIA, as a secretary and cable writer (early type of email) in Vientiane Laos.

My Father joined the Marines, graduated from law school, and then served with the ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) as a United States Treasury Federal Agent chasing bootleggers and conducting surveillance of mobsters. Then he joined the CIA during a very turbulent time of our history when Soviet and Chinese threats were all about. Because of his previous training and interest in electronics and lock picking, he was assigned to CIA/TSD, or Technical Services Division, which did most of the stuff like “Q” did in the James Bond™ movies. This included providing espionage equipment and tradecraft services that were required from CIA Stations all over the world. We lived in Fairfax Virginia, Frankfurt Germany, Vientiane Laos, and Rome Italy during his CIA career. My father traveled to all five continents, applying his expertise, and when he retired he wrote a fictional book about two CIA agents.

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