Tracy Barnes

Tracy Barnes

Tracy Barnes (1911 - 1972) was a senior staff member at the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), serving as first head of the agency's Domestic Operations Division. [cite web |title=Thoughts Provoked by The Very Best Men: The Need for Integrity |author=Michael Thompson
url=https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/96unclass/bestmen.htm
publisher=The Central Intelligence Agency |date=April 14th, 2007
]

Born in Manhasset, Long Island, Barnes was educated at Groton School and Yale University, where he became a member of Scroll and Key. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1937. During World War II he served first with Air Force intelligence then with the Office of Strategic Services. He was awarded France's Croix de guerre and the American Silver Star. After the war, he returned to legal practice.cite news
title=C. Tracy Barnes, 60, High Level CIA Official
date=February 19th, 1972
publisher=The Washington Post
]

In 1950 he went to Washington to serve as special assistant to Under Secretary of the Army, Archibald S. Alexander. He also served as deputy director of the Psychological Strategy Board during the Korean war. He joined the CIA in 1951.

In June 1970, Tracy Barnes suffered a serious stroke. His recovery was slow and on 18 February, 1972, he had a heart attack and died at his home at Saunderstown, Rhode Island.

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* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbarnesT.htm Tracy Barnes] at spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk

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