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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).
- Early Years
- Life at Cia
- His Final Mission
Dick was born in Hartford, Connecticut on December 14, 1929, the youngest of three children. His father left Wall Street after the crash of 1929 to write novels. Dick grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from a classics-oriented high school, where he studied Greek and Latin. His field of concentration at Harvard was Greek History and L...
In the early 1950s, while a 21-year-old senior majoring in Near Eastern History and Greek at Harvard, Dick wrote to a CIA recruiter about his interest in working for the Agency. He joined the CIA in July 1951. The first assignment to Europe began in February 1952. During this time, he worked to convert his knowledge of classical Greek language into...
Greece had changed since Dick left Europe in 1958; but so had he. Dick plunged into the station’s responsibilities with a characteristic mixture of enthusiasm and caution. Dick had been extremely careful about personal security while in Latin America, but he was more confident in Europe. However, Dick’s identity was revealed in foreign publications...
Mar 4, 2021 · More precisely, at 10.30 a.m. on December 23, 1975, CIA Station Chief Richard Welch, on his way home from a Christmas party at the US ambassador’s home, was shot three times by three hooded men in a stolen car.
Jan 29, 2019 · Welch was the CIA station chief in Athens at the time. But then a relatively simple murder plot ignited a complex international incident. “On the night of December 23, 1975, Dick and his family attended a Christmas party at the American Ambassador’s residence,” a CIA dedication reads.
May 9, 2023 · On the night of December 23, 1975, Ron Estes, the CIA’s deputy station chief in Athens, was lounging on the couch in his girlfriend’s apartment when the man who worked as a driver for his...
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 ...
Mar 1, 2024 · Richard Welch, a brilliant Harvard-educated classicist, had been stationed in Greece as CIA station chief only a few months before he was murdered, by a radical Greek terrorist organization called the 17th of November, in the doorway of his house in Athens on December 23, 1975.
