TDS Officer David CHrist

DAVID LAMAR CHRIST
He was born amid nineteen eighteen and raised by David and Mildred Christ within the Pennsylvanian town of Tomaqua. The younger David enlisted with United States Air Force amongst nineteen forty-three and became a communications officer stationed within its cryptographic section. He later attended several colleges briefly, including Yale, while serving in the military during the nineteen forties. The Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Policy Coordination employed him in the role of electrical engineer amid nineteen fifty. Christ subsequently used the US Army Signals Corps and Air Force for operational cover while conducting Eastern European Division operations. After several promotions he ended that decade leading the Technical Services Division's Technical Applications Group.

Christ During the Nineteen Thirties

Amidst nineteen sixty David was captured while undertaking a surveillance operation targeting a Communist news agency in Cuba but was able to escape from imprisonment. Three years following this episode Christ led the Applied Physics Group within the Office of Research and Development. One project following U-2 flight interceptions the Agency reportedly had Christ undertake was development of aircraft drones the size of a large bird. The project was partially successful for short flights but the price of achieving long range flight were determined to be too costly and it was canceled. David was eventually promoted to CIA Technical Services Division Audio Chief responsible for agent management, developing new technology, and coordinating surveillance installation operations. A fitness report notes that his innovation and search for new technologies had saved the CIA hundreds of thousands of dollars. Christ retired from the CIA in the course of nineteen seventy and subsequently received the Agency’s Distinguished Intelligence Cross.