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  2. Richard Skeffington Welch (December 14, 1929 – December 23, 1975) was a career Central Intelligence Agency officer. He was the Chief of Station (COS) in Athens, Greece, when he was assassinated by the Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N).

  3. Mar 4, 2021 · CIA station chief Richard Welch was gunned down in front of his wife and his driver after exiting this car to open the gate to his Athens home when returning from a party at the US ambassador’s residence.

  4. While serving as CIA’s Chief of Station (COS) in Athens, Greece, he was assassinated as he and his wife were arriving home following a Christmas party. At the time of his death, Dick Welch was the highest-ranking CIA officer killed in the line of duty.

  5. Dec 26, 1976 · Murder of Richard S Welch, chief CIA officer in Greece who was gunned down on his way home from Christmas party in '75, remains unsolved; exhaustive investigation by Greek and US experts has ...

  6. May 9, 2023 · It was a fatal miscalculation. Welch’s murder was carried out by a new, extremely violent Greek leftist guerrilla organization called 17 November.

  7. Jul 16, 2015 · Richard Welch, 70, the uncle of 58-year-old Lloyd Welch, was announced today by police as the new subject of their probe into what happened to Sheila Lyon, 12, and her ten-year-old sister...

  8. Richard Welch was never charged with his alleged involvement in the sisters' abduction and murder due to a lack of corroborating evidence; his wife, Patricia, was charged with perjury in December 2014 for knowingly providing false information to investigators and encouraging a conspiracy of silence within her family pertaining to the case.

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