Agency Chief of Miami Station John P. Dimmer

JOHN PATRICK DIMMER Jr.
He was born during nineteen hundred and nineteen to John and Alice Dimmer within the Maine city of Portland. John Jr. lived there until the end of the nineteen thirties and would later attend the University of Maine. He enlisted within the ranks of the US Army and subsequently was recruited to join its Military Intelligence Group (G-2) amid the nineteen forties. Dimmer would later join the CIA to utilize both military and diplomatic operational cover in the course of the next decade for assigned projects. He wrote for the CIA’s private journal Studies In Intelligence amidst the early nineteen sixties regarding the management of double agents. As Chief of Bern Station Dimmer would undertake inquiries for the President’s Commission investigating the murder of John F. Kennedy. Among these inquiries was information regarding people that had contact with Lee Harvey Oswald and communist aligned groups.

John used his media influences to gather information about multiple Kennedy assassination book authors by nineteen sixty-four. John later provided the press information to discredit such writers and this action was disavowed but never punished by Agency officials. He was the final Chief of JMWAVE (Miami Station) for two years during the nineteen sixties and managed several officers who oversaw numerous sabotage operations targeting Cuba. One domestic operation in that period Dimmer authorized was a joint surveillance venture with the FBI targeting Dr. Martin Luther King. Dimmer was reassigned from Miami Station to manage Domestic Contacts Division operations in New York and retired during the nineteen seventies.