Raymond Rocca

Raymond Rocca   (spook)
Died	1993
Member of	Office of Strategic Services
Interests	USSR
CIA counterintelligence officer and specialist on the Soviet Union  Deputy Chief of the Counterintelligence Division In office - December 1974 Employer CIA

After his initial debriefing by the Soviet Bloc Division, Russian defector Anatoliy Golitsyn refused to deal with anyone other than Rocca or his boss in the Counterintelligence Division, James Angleton. In late 1962, Golitsyn indicated to Rocca that he wanted to resettle abroad and was allowed to move from the US to Britain.

Rocca resigned as Deputy Chief of the CIA Counterintelligence Division in December 1974, along with William J. Hood, the division's executive officer, and Newton S. Miller its chief of operations, within a week of the resignation of the division's chief James Angleton. Seymour Hersh reported at the time that the resignations were a response to William Colby's decision not to appoint any of them in Angleton's place. In the preceding year, the Domestic Operations Division and the Counterintelligence Division had been shown to have been operating illegally in the United States, and all three felt their division had taken an unfair share of the blame.

Affiliations

• Office of Strategic Services
• Central Intelligence Agency

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Description
Colloquium on Analysis and Estimates	30 November 1979	1 December 1979	Spooky 1979 Washington conference
Colloquium on Clandestine Collection	30 December 1981	31 December 1981	A spooky colloquium in Washington DC
Colloquium on Counterintelligence	24 April 1980	26 April 1980	Spooky 1980 Washington conference
Colloquium on Intelligence Requirements for the 1990s	4 December 1987	5 December 1987	Spooky 1987 conference
Colloquium on Intelligence and Policy	9 November 1984	10 November 1984	A spooky conference in November 1984

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