The Mystery of Jane Wallis Burrell: The First CIA Officer To Die in the Agency’s Service http://bit.ly/29Yq8ss pic.twitter.com/ZSgPeerjzQ
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Jane began working for #OSS in March 1943. During #WWII she worked in DC, London, France & Germany.pic.twitter.com/Du8G42BZzo
While at #OSS HQ, Jane was assigned Pictorial Records, which processed photographs by identifying them & deriving intelligence from them.
Jane’s work as an analyst & her French language skills brought her to the attention of James Murphy, chief of #OSS Counterintel X-2 group.
Jane worked in France in mid-1944, after Normandy invasion, as an X-2 Case Officer engaging in important field work.
Jane & her teammates collected intel, found enemy agents, interrogated sources & ran agents, including doubled enemy agents, against Germans
#OSS dissolved in 1945, but Jane’s work was considered important enough that her employment w US intel survived massive post-war downsizing.
Jane continued to serve in DC & abroad in Strategic Services Unit & Central Intelligence Group. 1947: Jane became an original member of CIA.
January 6, 1948: DC-3 from Brussels crashed on approach to Le Bourget airport near Paris, killing all 5 crew members & 10 of 11 passengers.
Jane’s death—only 110 days after CIA was officially established—makes her the first CIA officer to die while employed by CIA.
After Jane’s death, her parents established scholarship fund @smithcollege to enable selected students to spend their junior year in France.
Jane’s groundbreaking & important work with CIA & our predecessor organizations was honorable & will be remembered. http://bit.ly/29Yq8ss
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