Introduction
Editor’s Note: Richard Stolz joined the CIA in 1950. In addition to his tour in Trieste, he served in eight other overseas posts, and he was Chief of Station at four of them. Before retiring in 1981, he was also chief of two Directorate of Operations (DO) area divisions. In late 1987, then DCI Webster asked him to return to the Agency to serve as Deputy Director for Operations (DDO), a position he held through 1990. In February 1991, President Bush awarded Stolz the National Security Medal.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,
an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent.
Winston Churchill
Fulton, Missouri
6 March 1946