William "Rip" Robertson

William "Rip" Robertson

William "Rip" Robertson was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative.

Robertson was born in Texas. During World War II he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in the Pacific Theater. He later entered the CIA and served as a counterintelligence agent.

He was assigned to the Executive Action operation that was designed to remove unsatisfactory (to the CIA) foreign leaders from power. One such action was the overthrow of the head of Guatemala Jacobo Arbenz in 1954. Later Robertson was discovered to be responsible for ordering a British ship bombed, he had misidentified it as a Russian ship. Afterwards be was deemed an outcast by the CIA. He then worked as an advisor to Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Garcia. Prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion he resumed work for the CIA. During the battle he commanded the ship "Barbara J" while Grayston Lynch commanded the ship "Blagar". They were the only two American CIA operatives involved in the actual Bay of Pigs invasion.

Robertson died in 1973 in Laos due to the effects of malaria.

ee also

References

[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKrobertsonW.htm Spartacus Educational - William Robertson]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • William Robert Plumlee — (b.November 25, 1937) in Panama City, Florida American CIA pilot known as Tosh and also as William H. Buck Pearson. Military ServicePlumlee enlisted in the U. S. Army in April 1954 and was assigned to the Texas 49th Armored Division at Fort Bliss …   Wikipedia

  • Cliff Robertson — in 1965 Born Clifford Parker Robertson III September 9, 1923 La Jolla, California, U.S. Died September 10, 2011( …   Wikipedia

  • David Rabern — W. David Rabern was born in Houston Texas, July 30 1939. He originally served as a Law Enforcement Officer and has founded several companies related to telecommunications, alarm, security and design, and protection services. As a private… …   Wikipedia

  • Mercenary — For other uses, see Mercenary (disambiguation). Leonardo da Vinci s Il Condottieri, 1480. Condottieri being the Late Middle Age Through Renaissance term for Mercenary soldier leader(s) in Italian. A Mercenary, also known as a professional soldier …   Wikipedia

  • Richard M. Bissell, Jr. — Richard Mervin Bissell, Jr. (September 18, 1909 ndash; February 7, 1994) was an American intelligence officer.Early yearsRichard Mervin Bissell, Jr. was born in the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, and went to Groton School in Groton,… …   Wikipedia

  • Gerry Patrick Hemming — Gerald Patrick Hemming, Jr. (March 1, 1937 ndash; January 28, 2008, Fayetteville, North Carolina) was a former U.S. Marine, mercenary and CIA operative associated with terrorist actions against Fidel Castro regime in the 1960s. Early… …   Wikipedia

  • 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état — The 1954 Guatemalan coup d état was a covert operation organized by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, the democratically elected President of Guatemala. Árbenz s government put forth a number of new… …   Wikipedia

  • Grayston Lynch — Grayston L. Lynch (born 14 June, 1923) in Victoria, Texas, the son of an oil driller, was one of the two CIA agents who commanded the faction of the army that went to war in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. The other agent was William Rip… …   Wikipedia

  • Carl Elmer Jenkins — (born October 1, 1926) is a retired Central Intelligence Agency officer. Early background Jenkins was born in Louisiana and joined the United States Marine Corps during World War II, becoming a commissioned officer in 1948. CIA career Executive… …   Wikipedia

  • Liste von Kriegsfilmen — Es ist teilweise umstritten, welche Spielfilme als „Kriegsfilme“ gelten können. Wie im Hauptartikel Kriegsfilm dargelegt, gibt es die Auffassung, nur die Thematisierung moderner Kriege rechtfertige das Etikett „Kriegsfilm“. Hiervon abweichend… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”