Soviet Russia Division BASE CHIEF J. RICHARDSON

JACQUES GABRIEL RICHARDSON
He was born the son of a car dealer during nineteen twenty-four within Maryland and grew up in Baltimore. During the nineteen thirties his family moved to Canada where Jacques attended high school in Montreal and the next decade he graduated from the University of Michigan. Amidst the nineteen forties he served with the US Army during WWII to conduct intelligence analysis and civil censorship in the role of military liaison officer. Richardson joined the Agency amid nineteen fifty and two years later served the CIA’s Far East Division. As the nineteen fifties passed he was reassigned to the Soviet Russia Division in the role of Area Operations Officer until his reassignment to Japan.

He was at Tokyo Station until nineteen sixty and subsequently returned to Soviet Russia Division where Richardson became the Chief of North Asia Command's Soviet Base. During the performance of his espionage operations Jacques noticed defector Lee Harvey Oswald and considered recruiting him using the pseudonym Thomas B. Casasin. Richardson simultaneously was running a tourist agent within Russia who similar to Oswald had married a Soviet national and immigrated with her. He transferred to a cover assignment at Conover-Mast Publications during nineteen sixty-two and served the rest of the decade in Europe. Amidst nineteen seventy-four, he is credited as having constructed a superb cover but was only reasonably proficient at developing agents.