CI STAFF AGENT LEE WIGREN

LEE HOBART WIGREN 
He was born in Massachusetts during nineteen twenty three and enlisted with the US military amongst the Second World War. Lee graduated from Yale University the same decade and became a counterintelligence staff employee for the CIA during nineteen fifty-one. The following year he was assigned to Foreign Intelligence Division’s Staff C and would serve the Agency's Research Branch in that period. Amidst the late nineteen fifties Lee is reassigned to conduct research for the CIA’s notorious Staff D and he joined the Soviet Russia Division’s counterintelligence group by the next decade.

Amid nineteen sixty-three he was an officer giving counterintelligence lectures, supervised a research group targeting Soviet operations, and planned research programs. The next year Wigren supervised research done by the Agency regarding Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia to support investigative efforts but overlooked several contending related details. He was directed to utilize Soviet Russia Division’s counterintelligence staff for creating questions the President’s Commission would “relay to the Soviet Government." As nineteen sixty-five passed he was at headquarters overseeing the division’s counterintelligence studies and operational research.

Lee was considered an expert on Soviet affairs and during nineteen sixty-eight was appointed to the Counterintelligence Staff by James Angleton. He eventually served on multiple public commissions during a portion of his official tenure despite the likely conflict of interest. Wigren remained part of the Counterintelligence Staff following the purge of Angleton and his subordinates during the nineteen-seventies by Agency Director William Colby. Lee continue managing a research staff and handle multiple Soviet defectors with the passing of nineteen seventy-six and he retired two years later.