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John H. Richardson Sr was a US spook.[1]
Activities
As Vienna station chief in the early 1950s, he ran the CIA’s first Soviet mole, Col. Pyotr Semyonovich Popov of the GRU, or Soviet military intelligence.[2]
He ran "two hundred agents covering half of Eastern Europe".[3]
In Athens in the mid-1950s, one of the biggest CIA posts in the world, he helped support the Greek monarchy against communist insurgents.[2]
our years in the Philippines ad made him one of the CIA's most seasoned counterinsurgency specialists. In Manila, when Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal was inaugurated in 1961, Richardson was the shadowy man standing by the president’s side on the reviewing stand.[2]
He became Saigon station chief in 1962,[2] where he became a pivotal player the coup against of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem.[5]
After Vietnam, he was moved to a desk job as director of training.
His son John Richardson Jr wrote a book about him, My Father The Spy, An Investigative Memoir.
References
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/us/john-h-richardson-84-cia-station-chief-in-saigon-in-early-60s.html
- ↑ a b c d http://johnhrichardson.com/books/
- ↑ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a1653/father-spy-0399/
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Association_of_Hiking,_Sports_and_Society
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22199195
