EXECUTIVE CLUB TO HEAR WRITER-CIA MAN PHILLIPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000605020004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 10, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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MASON CITY GLOBE-GAZETTE (IA)r~
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10 November 1985 ~',
Executive Club to hear
writer-CAA man Phillips
MASON CITY - David Atlee
Phillips, writer, lecturer, news-
paper publisher and American in-
telligence officer, will be the fea-
tured speaker with "The Secret
Side of Today's News" at the next
meeting of the Cerro Gordo E:
utive Club. It will be held Wednes-
day, Nov. 13, at the Sheraton Inn
here.
Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. Ses-
sions are for club members. -
The former head of Latin-Amer-
.ican operations for the Central In-
telligence Agency, he will give his
opinion of what is right and wrong
with American intelligence opera-
tions.
His assignments read like a
"gazetteer of secret American di-
plomacy and clandestine opera-
tions under six presidents," ac-
cording to information from the
Associated Clubs Inc.
After six years in Chile, Phillips
was in Guatemala in 1954 when
the Arbenz regime fell; in Cuba in
1955-56 when Batista was dictator;
in Lebanon in 1957-58 and in Cuba
again in 1959-60 when Castro beca-
me dictator. He was part of the
team responsible for the Bay of
Pigs expedition.
David Atlee Phillips
Following a tour in Mexico,
Phillips was chief of station in
Santo Domingo during the 1965-66
crisis there, was Chief of Station
in Brazil and Venezuela until mid-
1973 when he became Chief of
Latin American and Caribbean
Operations for CIA's Operations
Directorate.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000605020004-8