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Richard Stolz

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Person.png Richard Stolz PowerbaseRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(spook)
Richard F. Stolz.png
Born1925
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Died9 June 2012 (Age 87)
NationalityUS
Alma materAmherst College
Senior CIA Spook and a 31 year veteran of the clandestine service

Employment.png London Chief of Station

In office
- 1981
Start year unknown

Richard F. "Dick" Stolz was a senior CIA Spook and a 31 year veteran of the clandestine service[1]

Career

He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1950, and worked throughout Europe including Italy, Turkey, Bulgaria, Russia, Yugoslavia, West Germany and the UK.[2] Proficient with languages, he learned, among others, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, French and Italian.[3][4]

In 1965 he was expelled from the Soviet Union on espionage charges.[5]

He was London Chief of Station in 1981.

Stolz retired in 1981, but in 1987 was asked to return to the Agency to lead the CIA's clandestine service as Deputy Director for Operations in the wake of Iran-Contra.[6] He worked there until his second retirement in 1990.[2] He broadened the focus of the directorate of operations, as his section was known, to include counterterrorism and the international drug trade.[5]

He was twice awarded the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the Agency's highest honor. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush presented him in the Oval Office with the National Security Medal for distinguished achievement in the field of intelligence. [2]


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