CIA INSPECTOR GENERAL William Vincent BROE

WILLIAM VINCENT BROE
Broe was born amidst nineteen thirteen and raised in the Massachusetts city of Amesbury where he went to high school. He subsequently attended the Governor's Academy preparatory school and graduated from Bowdoin College with multiple degrees amidst nineteen thirty-nine. William’s official career began in the role of Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent but after six years he joined the Central Intelligence Agency during nineteen forty-eight. Broe served the Far East Division in various successful operations, some within Indonesia, and later became Station Chief in Manila. Amid the nineteen fifties he was enlisted to be the Deputy Chief of Far East Division, Chief of China Branch, and subsequently led the Agency station in Japan’s capital during the early nineteen sixties.

BROE In the COurse of the Ninteen Thirties

William managed several operations as the Chief of Tokyo Station until his reassignment and promotion amongst nineteen sixty-five. He ascended the official hierarchy to lead the Western Hemisphere Division (WHD) and under his control it undertook repeated illegal clandestine operations within South America. Documents note that under his leadership “high level-penetrations of Communist parties throughout the hemisphere have been maintained and increased”. Broe would oversee Agency efforts to influence the policies of multiple nations which include the governments of Bolivia, Chile, Peru, and the Dominican Republic as the nineteen sixties passed. He retired from the CIA in nineteen seventy-three as the Agency's Inspector General but was employed again later to consult the CIA’s Director. Broe’s primary duty was to aid in refuting their alleged involvement in the Watergate scandal and lay to rest public claims the Agency had sought to end the Nixon presidency. He was later called by Senate Select Committee investigators seeking to understand the Agency’s past covert programs and related illegality.