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[[Alfred Ulmer]] was a [[CIA]] officer.
 
[[Alfred Ulmer]] was a [[CIA]] officer.
  
Ulmer served as station chief in Athens before becoming head of the [[CIA Far East Division|Far East Division]] in the 1950s.<ref>Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2008, p.167.</ref>
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Ulmer was a Florida newspaper correspondent and advertising executive before joining the [[Office of Strategic Services]] where he served in Italy, heading an Austria-Germany section of the Secret Intelligence Branch.<ref name="OSS224">R. Harris Smith, '''OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency''', University of California Press, 1972, p.224.</ref>
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After the disbandment of the OSS, Ulmer remained in Austria as part of the [[Strategic Services Unit]].<ref name="OSS364">R. Harris Smith, '''OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency''', University of California Press, 1972, p.364.</ref>
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Ulmer served as [[CIA]] station chief in Athens from 1953 to 1955, where he made the acquaintance of shipping magnate [[Stavros Niarchos]].<ref name="OSS224">R. Harris Smith, '''OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency''', University of California Press, 1972, p.224.</ref>
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He subsequently became head of the [[CIA Far East Division|Far East Division]] in the 1950s.<ref>Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2008, p.167.</ref>
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Ulmer left the CIA in 1962 to direct Niarchos' company in London.<ref name="OSS224">R. Harris Smith, '''OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency''', University of California Press, 1972, p.224.</ref>  
  
 
==External Resources==
 
==External Resources==

Revision as of 20:44, 2 December 2012

Alfred Ulmer was a CIA officer.

Ulmer was a Florida newspaper correspondent and advertising executive before joining the Office of Strategic Services where he served in Italy, heading an Austria-Germany section of the Secret Intelligence Branch.[1]

After the disbandment of the OSS, Ulmer remained in Austria as part of the Strategic Services Unit.[2]

Ulmer served as CIA station chief in Athens from 1953 to 1955, where he made the acquaintance of shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos.[1]

He subsequently became head of the Far East Division in the 1950s.[3]

Ulmer left the CIA in 1962 to direct Niarchos' company in London.[1]

External Resources

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.224.
  2. R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.364.
  3. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2008, p.167.