Counterintelligence Officer Birch O’Neal

BIRCH DILWORTH O'NEAL
He was born during nineteen thirteen in California and would complete a degree at the University of Georgia Law School. Birch gained employment with the Federal Bureau of Investigation during nineteen thirty-eight and nine years later he joined the Central Intelligence Group (CIG). Amidst nineteen forty seven he served the newly established Central Intelligence Agency and was assigned state department cover. As the nineteen forties ended O’Neal was Station Chief of Caracas embassy within Venezuela and had assumed the guise of a State Department officer.

Birch O’Neal During the NInteen Twenties

As the nineteen fifties began he was reassigned to Agency headquarters in the role of liaison with other US government agencies. Fours yeas subsequent O’Neal was the Station Chief of Guatemala City among that nation’s governmental upheaval resulting from the CIA’s Operation PBSUCCESS. During the nineteen sixties he was assigned to the Counterintelligence Staff at headquarters under James J. Angleton and O'Neal eventually led the Counterintelligence Special Investigations Group (CISIG) during a portion of its hunt for traitors. He gained the position of Assistant to the Director of Counterintelligence and subsequently retired after over twenty years of service to the Agency in nineteen seventy.