GEORGE JAMES von BRETZEL
He reportedly was born within Japan amid nineteen twenty-one to a wealthy Russian family that escaped the Communist Revolution in their homeland. Seeking employment prospects George relocated to the United States and was educated at St. Lawrence University in New York. Amidst the nineteen forties he served in the American military at the Battle of the Bulge and later married a Russian native adopted by United States Navy Admiral Newton McCully. After finishing his degree von Bretzel was employed as a chemist for an industrial paint company.

During nineteen fifty he became intelligence officer for the CIA and spent the decade supporting Agency Soviet defector projects in Germany and the US. George was a Soviet Russia Division operations officer by nineteen sixty and three years later he was undertaking operations at Tokyo Station. He would remain in Japan with the passing of nineteen sixty-seven and the following year instructed agents in covert operations at the CIA’s Washington DC field office. The United States Navy employed von Bretzel and his wife following his retirement as they lived abroad in Japan and Europe.

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