Mexico CIty Officer Anne GOODPASTURE

ANNE LORENE GOODPASTURE 
Anne was a nearly constant fixture in the series of evolving intelligence groups within the United States following the outbreak of WWII. She was born in Tennessee amidst nineteen eighteen and reportedly lived with her parents that both were employed as teachers. After graduating from college she worked for a time in commercial photography and subsequently Goodpasture was employed as a secretary in one of the offices under Coordinator of Intelligence William Donovan. Amid WWII she gained employment with the Office of Strategic Services and served in Chinese operations amid the nineteen forties. Following the dissolution of OSS Anne joined the reconstituted Central Intelligence Group and its successor the Strategic Services Unit (SSU). She became a charter member of the Central Intelligence Agency a year later amongst nineteen forty-seven.

Anne Goodpasture During her Earlier Career with the CIA

Goodpasture in the course of of nineteen fifty-three participated in Operation PBSUCCESS to overthrow the government of Guatemala. Later that decade she was assigned to Mexico City Station at the request of the Agency’s counterintelligence staff led by James Angleton. Anne was noted to have assisted the CIA’s the Agency’s Staff D sabotage group multiple times and during the nineteen sixties and helped manage several Mexico City operations targeting the Soviets. She handled the Cuban and Russian Embassy tapes that allegedly contained phone calls from Lee Harvey Oswald and was among those responsible for mishandling the “Mexico City Man” photographs which supported Oswald was impersonated. Goodpasture retired after more than two decades of intelligence work from the Agency amidst nineteen seventy-two. However, she was briefly rehired five years later to study and assess intelligence materials from Mexico City Station. Anne was of little help in deciphering the issues despite repeated testimony and no tape or photograph of Oswald in Mexico City has ever been produced.