RAYMOND GEORGE ROCCA
During nineteen seventeen Rocca was born in San Francisco to an Italian family, later attended the University of California, and subsequently graduated with a degree in political science. He would acquire a master's degree and doctorate within six years of his first college accreditation and joined the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service during WWII to serve as an Italian Broadcast analyst. Raymond’s work drew the attention of the Office of Strategic Services and Rocca joined the OSS Counter Espionage Division (X-2) and was sent to Italy under the direction of James Angleton. He would continue serving in the OSS descendant group the Strategic Services Unit under military cover and graduated from the National War College in nineteen fifty-five. The same year Rocca joined the CIA's Directorate of Plans as Chief of its Counterintelligence Research and Analysis Group to undertake studies, perform
research, and train agents.

Serving once more under Angleton he was responsible for the development of some Russian and Soviet bloc defectors and countering enemy disinformation campaigns. Amidst the nineteen sixties the counterintelligence staff was consumed with seeking internal Agency traitors and launched a hunt for penetration agents referred to as moles. By nineteen sixty-nine Rocca became the Deputy Chief of the Counterintelligence Staff but James Angleton's hunt for traitors had spun out of control with Yuriy Nosenko's exoneration. Years of increasingly disastrous Agency secrets being leaked culminated in a media article pushing Director of Central Intelligence William Colby to remove James Angleton and reassign his lead staff members. James Angleton met with Raymond and others when the counterintelligence chief was forced out of his position to address the division’s future and Rocca alluded to retirement if he was transferred. Rocca feasibly desired to be Angleton's replacement but the significant damage created by the mole hunt left the CIA unwilling to let Angleton loyalists continue their operations. When the Agency did not present the desired counterintelligence promotion to Rocca he eventually retired in nineteen seventy-four.

Testimonies
House Select Committee Testimony Senate Select Committee Interview 1
SSC Interview 2