Larry Devlin was raised in California, enlisted in the army reaching the grade of captain in World War II, joined the CIA in 1949 and was appointed Chief of Station, Congo, in 1959. HE subsequently served as Chief of Station, Laos and Chief, Africa Division and retired in 1974. He resides in Virginia and Provence.
"His voice had the gravely timbre of a man who smoked three packets of cigarettes a day until a brush with open heart surgery. His hands - creased by a million experiences, the wedding ring so deeply set in the flesh it seemed welded to the bone - would give a palm reader pause for thought. But his brain was as keen and irreverent as ever. And with his defiant insistence that he regretted nothing about the CIA's support for Mobutu, Larry Devlin was a reminder that whatever happened in the end there was a time when Mobutu was not just the hope of interfering Americans obsessed with domino metaphors." Michaela Wrong, journalist and writer, on Larry Devlin"
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