Privacy Information UNIT Chief FRederick RANDALL

FREDERICK CRAWFORD RANDALL
Randall was educated at multiple US colleges and enlisted with the the US Air Force near the end of WWII. He joined the CIA in the role of intelligence assistant during nineteen fifty-one and completed a degree at George Washington University in foreign affairs two years later. Frederick was assigned to Agency headquarters within the Office of Special Operations and conducted logistical support for Asian projects. Randal was dispatched to Jakarta Station within Indonesia’s capital amongst nineteen fifty-five and returned to headquarters the following year. He remained at Agency headquarter until the next decade serving as an foreign intelligence officer in Far East Division projects.

Amid the nineteen sixties Frederick was assigned to Japan at the Agency’s Tokyo Station and possessed a noted skeptical bent to processing intelligence sources. By the end of the same decade he earned a military commendation for coordinating joint Asian intelligence operations with the Department of Defense. Randall in the course of the nineteen seventies was promoted to Chief of the Foreign Resource Division within the Directorate of Operations. Subsequently he was reassigned to lead the Privacy Information Unit, this group was responsible for permitting or rejecting public requests for Directorate of Operations files.