Survillance Operations OFFICER Charles FLICK
CHARLES ELLSWORTH FLICK
Flick was born amongst nineteen hundred and nineteen within South Dakotan city of Yankton. He was educated at California’s Berkeley College and was employed as a mechanic. Charles eventually was drafted into United States Army for WWII service in the role of Warrant Officer technical expert. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency amid nineteen fifty-one and served at Tokyo Station the same decade before his reassignment as a Clandestine Service officer. Western Hemisphere Chief J. C. King described Flick as "hearty, confident and without a worrisome fiber in his make-up. He will undertake anything."
Flick AMONG The NInteen Forties
He was sent to Mexico City Station in the course of nineteen sixty and subsequently was a Technical Services Division case officer. C.E. Flick was tasked amongst the next year with managing several aspects of a huge technical surveillance operation code named Project LIENVOY. He "flawlessly" oversaw project security, thirty agents, undertook maintenance of the related technical equipment, and the project was noted to be the most successful of its kind. Charles serving as the project’s operations officer was further noted to maintain excellent undercover relationships with Mexican government officials to enhance the operation’s effectiveness. Agency leadership considered the project among the best operations worldwide and he was given a significant credit by Station Chief Winston Scott. His tireless commitment to the Agency project was revealed by an intensive schedule that kept him at the CIA station five days a week from morning to night overseeing its details. Charles Flick’s successfully management of the LIENVOY project gathering foreign intelligence continued into the next decade from the Agency’s Mexico City base. He subsequently was a CIA liaison to members of the Mexican government before his retirement in nineteen seventy-three.
