Frank Wisner

"former Wall Street lawyer... a veteran of OSS campaigns throughout Europe and head of its Secret Intelligence Branch. Staying on in military intelligence after the war, he was given responsibility for liaising with the Gehlen organization, the German Army intelligence unit preserved intact by the Americans to spy on Russia." After leaving military intelligence he worked in the State Department, building an informal intelligence network, and then took over the CIA project OPC, formed partially out of his informal intelligence network.

Saunders, Francis: Cultural Cold War