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Tracy Barnes (S&K 1933)
CIA. Groton School*. Yale University. Scroll and Key. Harvard Law School.
18 February 1972, he had a second heart attack and died at his home at Saunderstown, Rhode Island.[1]
June 1970, Tracy Barnes suffered a serious stroke. His recovery was slow.[1]
1966 to 1970 (Retirement) - Special Assistant to the Yale President, Kingman Brewster Jr.
July 1966, new CIA Director Richard Helms had Desmond FitzGerald fire Barnes [S&K 1933] from the CIA.[1]
Summer 1963 (leading up to JFK Assassination) - Robert Morrow later claimed that Barnes [S&K 1933] recruited Richard Case Nagell and sent him to New Orleans in the summer of 1963. Barnes also asked Morrow to purchase several weapons: “I was told specially to get good ones, 7.35mm Mannlicher-Carcanos. A 6.5mm was not an accurate rifle at all, and not to be considered. I remember going to Sunny’s Surplus up in Towson, Maryland. They had a whole wall of Mannlichers, Mausers, and other rifles. I picked out four, which I felt were pretty good.” Morrow claimed that the rifles were picked up by David Ferrie in a private plane and taken to New Orleans.[1]
1962, became head of the CIA’s Domestic Operations Division. [1]
1960, he was appointed Assistant Deputy Director for Plans, under Richard M. Bissell Jr., with direct responsibility for the CIA operation leading to the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961.[2,6][2,7][1]
1957 to 1959, he was appointed Chief Of Station (COS) in United Kingdom.[2][1]
1954 to 1956, he was appointed Chief Of Station (COS) in Germany.[1] Replacing General Lucian Truscott[2]. Several other CIA agents worked in Germany at this time including William Harvey, Ted Shackley, David Morales and Tom Parrott.
1954 - Principal case officer in the CIA operation leading up to the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état.[2]
In 1953, he was appointed Special Assistant for Paramilitary Psychological Operations, under Frank Wisner (Seven Society),
Korean War - His first job was as deputy director of the Psychological Strategy Board. Later Barnes was involved in clandestine operations in Guatemala against President Jacobo Arbenz. The plot against Arbenz became part of Executive Action (a plan to remove unfriendly foreign leaders from power).[1]
1951, joined the CIA.[2]
1950, he went to Washington to serve as special assistant to Under Secretary of the Army, Archibald S. Alexander. He also served as deputy director of the Psychological Strategy Board during the Korean War.[2]
3 Dec 1944, Allen W. Dulles [MJ-12, Pilgrim] wrote to David Bruce: “I have met Tracy Barnes [S&K 1933] here today and am anxious to get him to Switzerland as soon as possible… We can find useful work for him.” Barnes worked under Dulles until the end of the war.[1]
He was awarded France’s Croix de guerre and the US Silver Star. After the war, he returned to legal practice.[1][2,4]
5 Aug 1944, Barnes parachuted into France. According to his Silver Star citation: The liquidation of a detachment of several hundred of the enemy waslargely attributable to his courage and initiative, when, after unsuccessful attempts to effect a surrender, he and a French officer, armed with only with carbines, opened fire, constantly changing firing position to convey the impression of a large force.”[1]
During World War II, he served first with US Air Force intelligence, then with the Office of Strategic Services.[1]
After Pearl Harbour, joined U.S. Army. Served as intelligence school in Harrisburg.[1]
Worked as lawyer with Frank Wisner.[1]
1933 - Graduated Yale, Scroll and Key.
Died 18 Feb 1972, from Heart Attack. Age 60. Event + 8y2m26d ( 3,009 days )
Note: Cousin of John Hay Whitney (S&K 1926)
Kingman Brewster, the President of Yale University, employed Barnes as his personal assistant. His worked involved trying to improve race relations at the university. He also worked behind the scences to try and get Yale to admit woman graduates.[1]
[1] - Spartacus Educational - Tracy Barnes Scroll and Key 1933)
[2] - FYI - Wiki - Tracy Barnes (S&K 1933)
[4] - C. TRACY BARNES, FORMERLY OF C.I.A., Feb. 20, 1972
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