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CIA Officer Harold Swenson's Retirement Application, 1967
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He was a CIA Operations Officer in the Directorate for Plans' Europe Division, retiring in 1968 after roughly 20 years of civilian Agency service, having previously served as a Marine Corps Captain in World War II.
This one documents Swenson's full career arc — his wartime Marine Corps aviation service, his 1943 marriage, and two decades running CIA operations for the Europe Division — offering a rare biographical snapshot of a Cold War case officer.