ARCHIBALD BULLOCH ROOSEVELT JR.

(Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr.)


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Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr.

Any Moslem political official who would not support the United States is a target legally authorized for action by statute for CIA political action
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This was a time when line CIA officers would make very expansive legal decisions without necessarily consulting attorney’s and selecting specific targets for covert action without getting permission from the National Security Council and/or the President who was not even aware of some of the agency activities.

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  • Born: February 18, 1918
  • Died: May 31, 1990
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Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., the first child of Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt and grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, was a soldier, scholar, polyglot, authority on the Middle East, and career CIA officer. He served as chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's stations in Istanbul, Madrid and London. Roosevelt had a speaking or reading knowledge of at least twenty languages.