ParaMilitary operations OFFICER GRayston LYNCH

GRAYSTON LEROY LYNCH
He was born in Texan city of Gilmer amid nineteen twenty-three and in due course was educated in the state of Michigan. Grayston subsequently joined the US Army in the course of nineteen thirty-eight and suffered wounds amongst WWII in France. He was deployed for the Korean War, instructed Army officers in Germany, and was part of the US Army’s Seventh Special Forces Unit during the nineteen fifties. Lynch subsequently began years of training in guerrilla warfare during nineteen fifty-six at Fort Bragg within North Carolina. Amidst nineteen sixty-one the CIA recruited and trained him in several clandestine skills to augment his prior military studies.

Grayston Lynch oversaw some paramilitary forces, ships, and the underwater demolitions team as part of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Officials would further task him with continued attempts to hamper and destabilize the Cuban government. At Miami Station (JMWAVE) Grayston led over a hundred projects that included supervising a commando group in the Special Operations Branch. Lynch remained at JMWAVE during the nineteen sixties performing infiltration, exfiltration, sabotage, and intelligence gathering operations. Officials note due to "...sensitivity of his duties on behalf of the CIA his periods of foreign service were not recorded in the usual manner". Lynch was later reassigned and became a Special Project Manager until his retirement amongst nineteen seventy-one.