SPecial AFfairs Staff Chief Harold SWENSON

HAROLD FRANCIS SWENSON
The spring of nineteen hundred and fifteen Harold was born, he was raised in and would graduate from Manhattan College amid the nineteen thirties. He enlisted with the United States Marines and was promoted to air combat intelligence officer amongst WWII. Swenson was employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the course of nineteen forty one and two years later married his wife Mildred in New Jersey. By nineteen fifty-five he joined the Central Intelligence Agency and was assigned later that decade to Berlin Station under its chief William K. Harvey.

Swenson Amongst The NInteen Fifties

Swenson was supervising the Agency Western Hemisphere Division’s Cuban Counterintelligence Staff amidst nineteen sixty-four. He used State Department cover one year later for operations and Harold’s superiors lauded his proficiency managing several agents within Cuba. He subsequently that decade was assigned to Germany within Frankfurt Station recruiting and spotting agents for Cuban projects. Swenson worked over a decade for the Agency and reportedly was a skilled operator among the Agency's its counterintelligence officers until he retired in nineteen sixty-eight. His wife Mildred Swenson also worked for the State Department and the Agency for International Development (a group used as a cover mechanism repeatedly by the CIA).