About our CIA Family

My Mother and Father worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Our journey as a family into the world of espionage is an intense, dangerous, and demanding story. I will share my unique observations as seen through the eyes of a young man traveling the world, experiencing life with my family.

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 for a short time, as a secretary and cable writer (early type of email) in Vientiane Laos.

My father joined the Marines, graduated from law school, served with the ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) United States Treasury Federal Agent chasing bootleggers and 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, 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 tradecraft equipment and 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 many continents and when he retired wrote a fictional book about two CIA agents.

TOD (Tour of Duty)
 
Fairfax Virginia 1960-1962
Frankfurt Germany 1963-1965
Fairfax Virginia 1965-1967
Vientiane Laos 1968-1969
Rome Italy 1969-1970