RE: BIO ON MCMANUS
Originator: SSCIA
Document date: 00/00/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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RE: BIO ON MCMANUS

DATE : 00/00/76

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CASTRO

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CUBA

MCMANUS

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Historical Data:

McManus retired in May 1970 after some 20 plus years

of covert/clandestine agency service. In the early 1950s

he headed up the CIA's European Defector

Interrogat tom

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He was subsequently appointed Canadian

Station

Chief and later Director of the Cover Staff.

In mid-December 1961, Helms asked McManus to apply his

European expertise to the Agency's Cuban Defector Inter-

rogation Center.

McManus headed for Florida on Christmas

Day and spent the following week at the Opa Locha Center.

He reported directly to Helms on his findings, conclu-

sions, and suggestions in a memorandum dated January 3,

1962. * McManus recalls that the "center" was then inopera-

tive; he called for an immediate operational restructuring.

McManus stressed the importance of the positive intelligence

that the Center could, and indeed eventually did provide

at the time of the Missle Crisis.

It was not until early January 1962 that Helms formally

brought McManus "on board" as his assistant for "Cuban

activities. The initial weeks were dedicated to ensuring

that the revitalized Center got off the ground; subsequent

*This afternoon I requested a copy of McManus' January 3

memorandum.

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