Mexico City Station CI Officer Jospeh S. PICCOLO

JOSEPH STEFAN PICCOLO
Piccolo was born in New York amidst nineteen thirty-five and was educated at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He was employed as a clerk by the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the early nineteen fifties and later undertook the same role for the CIA amidst nineteen fifty-seven. Three years later Piccolo is assigned to the Agency's Project HTLINGUAL mail interception program. His superiors grant Piccolo cover status to serve with the US Air Force's 113th Tactical Wing during nineteen sixty-two and one year later he is reassigned to support assistance analyst within the Agency’s Directorate of Operations.

He next was a counterintelligence officer at Mexico City station handling Cuban defector Vladimir Lahera Rodriguez. Piccolo would collect information regarding Cuban intelligence personnel from Lahera and became an operations officer in the course of nineteen sixty-five. Three years later he was reassigned to Nicaragua Station in Managua and became its deputy chief amid nineteen seventies and eventually served at Rio de Janiero station in Brazil. Piccolo was an operations officer for Agency’s Special Operations Branch amid nineteen seventy-seven and two years later was coordinating the counterintelligence operations of CIA’s Latin American Division.