John W. Berg

John W. Berg ( spook)
Born	11 May 1927  Baltimore,  Maryland,  USA
Died	12 June 2006 (Age 79)
Nationality	US
Alma mater	•  Gettysburg College •  Columbia University
Spouse	Margaret Graefe Berg
Spook who was CIA Chief of Station in several countries.  CIA/European Division/Athens Station/Chief In office 1982 - 1983  CIA/East Asia Division/Bangkok Station/Chief In office 1979 - 1982  CIA/Central Eurasia Division/Warsaw Station/Chief In office 1956 - 1959 Succeeded by Frank Jones

John W. Berg was a spook who was CIA Chief of Station in several countries.

Education

Berg, a native of Baltimore, served in the US Army during World War II. He received a bachelor's degree from Gettysburg College and did graduate studies at Columbia University.

Career

Berg was an operations officer at the Central Intelligence Agency for 39 years before retiring in 1988. He was assigned to Italy, Poland, Austria, Germany, France, Washington DC, Thailand, and Greece.

He was posted under diplomatic cover to lead the CIA's activities in Warsaw, Poland 1956-59.

He probably was Deputy Chief of Station in Paris in 1974.

Berg was chief of five major field installations of the CIA in Europe and Southeast Asia. He had extensive experience in many aspects of operations, including the collection of political and economic information, counterintelligence, "counter-narcotics" and "counter-terrorism".

He was the recipient of the CIA's Intelligence Medal of Merit and Distinguished Intelligence Medal.

He was on a 1988 State Department review board to examine circumstances in the assassination, on June 28, of the defense attaché at Embassy Athens, Navy Captain William E. Nordeen.

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