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David Atlee Phillips (October 31, 1922 – July 7, 1988) was an American Central Intelligence Agency officer of 25 years and a recipient of the Career Intelligence Medal. Phillips rose to become the CIA's chief of operations for the Western Hemisphere. In 1975, he founded the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), an alumni ...
Phillips consistently denied that he was involved in Kennedy’s assassination and sued JFK authors who suggested he did. Late in life, Phillips told former HSCA investigator Kevin Walsh that he thought JFK was killed by unnamed “rogue” CIA officers.
Jul 10, 1988 · David Atlee Phillips, who spent 25 years undercover for the C.I.A. and resigned as chief of Latin American and Caribbean operations to plead the agency's case in print and on the lecture...
Nov 9, 2017 · Documents about Fort Worth native and TCU graduate David Atlee Phillips were among the thousands released in mostly unredacted form by the National Archives.
Secret Wars Diary by David Atlee Phillips employees. David Phillips frequently lied about Oswald and Mexico City, but in a footnote in a little known book he self-published, Secret Wars Diary, he wrote: “I was an observer of Cuban and Soviet reaction when Lee Harvey Oswald contacted their embassies.” [Emphasis added.]
Jul 15, 2017 · David Atlee Phillips rose to be the CIA’s chief of Western Hemisphere operations. He hadn’t reached that level yet when I met him, but he was clearly powerful. He could order Castro’s death ...
May 25, 2015 · Also under review by the special team of archivists are at least 606 pages about David Atlee Phillips, another CIA officer, who won a medal for his role in overthrowing the government of...
Jul 14, 1988 · David Atlee Phillips, a veteran undercover agent for the CIA who spent the last 13 years of his life defending that organization, has died at his home in Bethesda, Md., his nephew...
Oct 22, 2020 · The directors of the CIA's Chile Task Force, William Broe and David Atlee Phillips, respond affirmatively to the CIA station's request for armaments. They also suggest that coup plotters conduct "low-level overflights" of Santiago and "bomb drops in areas not likely to cause casualties."
The papers of David Atlee Phillips, intelligence officer, author, and newspaper publisher, were given to the Library of Congress by his wife, Virginia Phillips, in 1988. An addition to the collection was given by Joseph C. Goulden in 2003.
