R&A CHIEF HERMAN KIMSEY

HERMAN EDWARD KIMSEY
He was born in the winter of nineteen sixteen and raised in multiple western US states. Herman joined the US Army following high school and served in the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps (G-2) during nineteen forty-six. He worked in the US Forest Service and returned to military service both at home and in foreign nations until the early nineteen fifties. Kimsey started his Agency career during the nineteen fifty-three as a staff employee in the Technical Services Division (TSD) using media cover to gather intelligence from public sources. He participated in Project BEVISION collecting actionable information gleaned from defector Micheal Golenewski to construct technological devices. Herman later became Chief of Research and Analysis for the TSD but was fired amidst the nineteen sixties.

Kimsey later supported the false claim of defector Micheal Goleniewski being the heir to the imperial throne of Russia. He further became a concern to officials after contacting a CIA source to perform technical analysis of evidence supporting a conspiracy killed Martin Luther King. Kimsey subsequently would gain employment by designing security measures at private firms, for the Republican National Committee, and later the political campaign of Nelson Rockefeller. During the nineteen seventies JFK author Hugh McDonald purported Herman could identify the unknown man featured in President's Commission Exhibit 237 but the claim emerged after the CIA officer’s death.