John Maury
 John Maury    (spook) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1983 (Age 70) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Virginia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CIA clandestine service officer who became the Agency's Congressional liaison.
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John M. Maury was an Assistant Secretary of State during the US Presidency of Gerald Ford.[1]
Education
He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1912 and attended the University of Virginia, where he took a law degree in 1936.[1]
Career
Maury visited the Soviet Union prior to World War Two. During the war, he held posts in the Office of Naval Intelligence, was an assistant Naval attaché in Moscow, and commanded the U.S. military mission in Murmansk.[2][3]
He was in the Central Intelligence Agency as an expert in the field of Soviet and East European intelligence.[1]
Maury was special assistant to Allen Dulles in the early 1950s, when Dulles asked him to join the clandestine service and train for a mission to Moscow.[2]
Maury was CIA Station chief in Athens from 1962 until 1968[4]including during the 1967 Greek coup.[5]
Maury worked as the CIA's Congressional liaison from 1968 to 1974.[6]
In that capacity, he met with Senator Henry Jackson in February 1973.[7]
He was later appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs from 1974 to 1976.[1]
He was twice President of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.[8]
Maury died of Cancer in 1983, at the age of 71.[1]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Description |
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| Colloquium on Clandestine Collection | 30 December 1981 | 31 December 1981 | A spooky colloquium in Washington DC |
References
- ↑ a b c d e JOHN M. MAURY, New York Times, 3 July 1983.
- ↑ a b Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2008, p.126.
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1983/07/04/john-maury-71-ex-cia-official-dies-of-cancer/b4da6a4a-54f7-4859-b473-1e4d1700952b/
- ↑ Phillip Agee, Dirty Work, page 151
- ↑ Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, p.221.
- ↑ L. Britt Snider, The Agency & The Hill: CIA's Relationship with Congress, 1946-2004, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2008, p.126.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.317.
- ↑ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000100130047-9.pdf
