Ray Cline

Ray Cline (1918-1996) was the CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence from 1962 to 1966.^[1]

Background

Cline was born in Anderson Township, Illinois, in 1918. He grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana. He received a Harvard scholarship in 1935.^[2]

Cline served in the OSS during World War Two.^[2]

Cline joined the CIA in 1949.^[2]

As chief of the agency's staff on the Sino-Soviet bloc from 1953 to 1957, he predicted the Sino-Soviet split.^[2]

He served as station chief in Taiwan from 1958 to 1962, under the official title of chief, United States Naval Auxiliary Communications Center.^[2]

He was the CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence from 1962 to 1966.^[1]

He was chief of station in Bonn from 1966 to 1969.^[2]

Mr. Cline left the C.I.A. in 1969 and served as the State Department's chief of intelligence analysis.^[2]

He gave up Government work in 1973, becoming an executive director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University.^[2]

In retirement, he served as head of the Taiwan Committee for a Free China.^[2]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Godfrey Hodgson, Obituary: Ray Cline, Independent, 19 March 1996.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 ^2.8 Tim Weiner, Ray S. Cline, Chief C.I.A. Analyst, Is Dead at 77, New York Times, 16 March 1996.