WITNESS SPENT CAREER IN INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000301920020-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: January 23, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/25: CIA-RDP90-00965R000301920020-8
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THE NEW YORE TIMES
23 Banuary, 1985
Witness Spent Career in In
By GLENN FOWLER
George W. Allen, who testified
for CBS yesterday in the libel suit
brought by Gen. William C. West-
moreland, is a 58-year-old retired
Government official who spent his
professional life in intelligence.
He retired in 1979, but still works
under contract with the Central In-
telligence Agency.
By the time of the 1967-68 contro-
versy over North Vietnamese troop
figures, Mr. Allen had spent more
than 15 years studying the conflict
in the area.
He joined Army intelligence as a
civilian employee in 1949, shortly
after graduating from the Univer-
sity of Utah with a degree in politi-
cal science. A year later he was as-
signed to work as a military intelli-
gence research analyst on Indo-
china. For the next decade his prin-
cipal duties involved obtaining cur-
rent intelligence on Vietnam and
the Far East.
In 1963 he moved to the C.I.A. as
a senior analyst in the Office of
Current Intelligence, dealing with
the Far East. The next year he
went to Vietnam and was asked to
stay on as a senior intelligence ad-
viser. When the American Em-
bassy in Saigon was bombed in 1965
Mr. Allen was wounded. He re-
mained in Vietnam until 1966,
when he returned to C.I.A. head-
quarters in Langley, Va., as deputy
special assistant to the director,
Richard M. Helms, for Vietnam af-
fairs.
Born into an Army family at
Fort Banks, Mass., he was raised
on Army posts and served for three
years in Navy amphibious forces in
the Pacific during World War II.
He is married, has four daughters
and lives in Williamsburg, Va.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/25: CIA-RDP90-00965R000301920020-8