1. Frank Gardiner Wisner was one of the founding officers of the Central Intelligence Agency and played a major role in CIA operations throughout the 1950s.
14 Facts About Frank Wisner
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Frank Wisner remained as Deputy Director of Plans until September 1958, playing an important role in the early history of the CIA.
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Frank Wisner suffered a breakdown in 1958, and retired from the Agency in 1962.
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Frank Wisner worked in the Navy's censor's office until he managed to transfer to the Office of Strategic Services in 1943.
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Frank Wisner was first stationed in Cairo where he spent an uneventful year.
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Frank Wisner arrived just as Romania joined the Allies and declared war on the Axis.
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Immediately after the arrival of Major Robert Bishop as head of X-2 branch in Bucharest, Frank Wisner started the search for German records.
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Frank Wisner left Bucharest in the last week of January 1945.
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Frank Wisner was recruited in 1947 by Dean Acheson to join the State Department to become the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas.
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Frank Wisner was chosen to lead the OPC in the capacity of Assistant Director for Policy Coordination.
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However, Frank Wisner was cleared of all suspicions by the CIA Office of Security.
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Frank Wisner worked closely with Kim Philby, the British agent who was a Soviet spy.
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Frank Wisner was diagnosed as manic depressive and received electroshock therapy.
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In 1961, Frank Wisner was ordered to organize CIA activities in British Guiana.