Alfred Ulmer

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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]

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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.