DEATH IN THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200520005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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DEATH IN WO No. 39; May 15, 1967, related the 7
story of three mysterious deaths in the.,
THE CIA CIA that a CIA informant declares'
were murders. WO has now learned
that anothe strange death involving a high CIA official
has occurr in the CIA.
Frank G. Wisner, OSS agent in World War II, set'
up the clan estine operations of the CIA in 1947 and_
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under: the ver job-title "Deputy of Plans" was the
real boss of he CIA during its first years, according to:
former CIA fficial Thomas W. Braden. It was Braden,
who expose the fact that he gave Walter Reuther...
$50,000 in 50 bills of CIA money under authority of
Wisner, wh wanted the money used to prevent the'.
Communists from taking over European labor unions.
Wisner was disappointed in the manner that Victor;:
Reuther spe t the money.
Wisner, w o came from a wealthy Mississippi family;,
was a militant right-winner. He engineered and fi-
nanced'with A money the coup that' ousted the pro
Communist rbenz regime in Guatemala in 1954, with.
the personal pproval of President Eisenhower.
Later, the pro-Soviet garrison in the State Depart-
ment unde ned Wisner. In 1958 he charged that the
State Depart Lent planted Soviet spies in the CIA. He
was confined in a private mental institution and was
replaced by Richard M. Bissell, Jr. chief architect of .
the ill-fated y of Pigs fiasco in Cuba. Wisner went to
London whe he lived several years. He returned to'
the U.S. five ears ago, and in 1965 confided to friends
that he was g ing to write a book telling about how the
CIA had be subverted by the Reuther-ADA gang
and that "do ble" agents were operating in the CIA.
Shortly there ter, he reportedly committed suicide. His
widow lives in an expensive Colonial mansion in!
Georgetown d his sons Frank, Jr.: and Ellis are .noti
both; in Vic
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