Agency Tokyo Station Officer Robert KEITH

ROBERT MALCOLM KEITH
He was born during nineteen twenty-seven in Georgia and raised in the city of Marietta. Robert enlisted with the US Navy as WWII raged and served on the aircraft carrier Lake Champlain. As the nineteen forties passed he studied military science at West Point and was further educated in chemistry at The Citadel. By nineteen-fifty, Keith joined the CIA and one year following he was a paramilitary intelligence officer for the Office of Policy Coordination. He subsequently was reassigned to Soviet Russia Division at Agency headquarters in the role of area operations officer.

Amidst nineteen fifty-nine Keith was moved to undertake operations for Tokyo Station in Japan and would return to headquarters by nineteen sixty-three. The rest of that decade brought him to stations in China and Indonesia supporting Agency Far East Division projects. Keith was the deputy chief of a foreign base in the course of the nineteen seventies and later was a member of the headquarters Personal Evaluation and Management Staff. He retired amid nineteen seventy-eight after nearly three decades of supporting CIA operations.