Dallas FIeld Office Chief James Walton Moore

JAMES WALTON MOORE
He was born in Georgia a year before the nineteen twenties and during his youth was educated in northern China. Amid the nineteen thirties James returned to the US and graduated from Hardin Simons University in Texas. The Federal Bureau of Investigation employed Moore the next decade and he later enlisted with the United States Navy. He joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) wartime intelligence group but the OSS was dissolved following WWII. James amidst nineteen forty-five began his affiliation with a group that replaced OSS, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU). He was an SSU intelligence officer assigned to Shanghai the next year and he remained an employee when the SSU became the Central Intelligence Group (CIG). The CIG would transform into the Central Intelligence Agency as nineteen forty-seven was underway and J. Walton Moore remained inside the ranks of US intelligence.

Ninteen Seventies Biographic photo of James Walton Moore

The Agency sent him in that period to support projects inside China and one year later James is promoted to Chief of Calcutta Station. By the nineteen fifties James was performing operations for the Domestic Contacts Division in multiple locations within Texas. While managing a small local CIA office within Dallas in the course of nineteen sixty-three he undertook several contacts operations. One person James interviewed was named George de Mohrenschildt and he alleged they discussed Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. This drew unwanted attention to his office after many people attempted to link Moore to the Kennedy assassination with the name Maurice Bishop. Yet he was never connected with evidence to any related illegality despite the varying public claims. J. W. Moore was Chief of the Agency’s Dallas office as the nineteen seventies passed and retired after over thirty years of intelligence work.