Chief of CIA Techinical Security JAMES MCCORD

JAMES WALTER MCCORD Jr.
He was born during nineteen twenty-four and in the course of the nineteen forties James would attend multiple universities. He subsequently enlisted with the United States Air Force and later became a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. McCord joined the CIA during nineteen fifty-one at the San Francisco Field Office and became an investigator for the Office of Security. He was promoted to the assist the Director of Security and later that decade performed the role of counterintelligence investigative officer. By nineteen-sixty four James was a representative for the CIA at the USAF Air War College and he led the Technical Security Division amidst the later nineteen sixties.

McCord After The WaterGATE Scandal

McCord was promoted to the Chief of Physical Security responsible for a significant portion of the Agency’s security operations amid nineteen sixty-nine but chose to leave one year later. He was eventually hired by the Nixon administration to advise them on security for their political operations. However, following the Watergate scandal the press blamed McCord for contriving Nixon’s infamous "plumbers" that raided the Democratic National Committee offices. He faced legal consequences for participating in the burglary with former CIA employee Everette Howard Hunt and prior FBI Agent George G. Liddy.