Paul Garbler

Paul Garbler    (spook)
Born	4 January 1918 Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Died	2006 (Age 88)
Nationality	US
Alma mater	University of Florida
US senior spook with career problems after being suspected by Jim Angleton, but a decade later cleared.  Stockholm Chief of Station In office - 1978 In 1976  Trinidad Chief of Station Dates unknown Circa 1966 or 68  Moscow Chief of Station Dates unknown In 1961

Paul Garbler was a US spook, and a 27-year veteran of the Clandestine Service of the CIA.

Career

A Navy dive-bomber pilot with an exemplary World War II record in the South Pacific, Mr. Garbler spent the late 1940s in naval intelligence and briefly was personal pilot to the Korean Republic's first president, Syngman Rhee.

A decade into his CIA career, after stints in Berlin and Stockholm, he won a prestigious appointment in 1961 as the first chief of station in Moscow. He was officially listed as a "naval attache."

During this period, he was a handler of Lt. Col. Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet military intelligence official who was regarded, before his subsequent unmasking and execution by the Russians, as one of the most important double agents in CIA and British intelligence history.

Then, with no apparent explanation, Mr. Garbler began a nine-year stretch in professional doldrums. Without his knowledge, James J. Angleton, the agency's powerful chief of counterintelligence, hoped to provoke him into retirement.

Garbler became the CIA's first Moscow station chief in 1961 and was reassigned as chief of the Trinidad station after the unmasking and execution of Lt. Col. Oleg Penkovsky and roughly two years after stint at Camp Peary circa 1966. Reporting in Newsweek further asserted that Garbler was rehabilitated and led the CIA's Stockholm station shortly before his 1978 retirement.

He was suspected of being a Soviet mole, but cleared an given compensation.

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