Chavchavadze, David (11092357): Difference between revisions
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|education=4 years of high school | |education=4 years of high school | ||
|occupation= | |occupation=CIA Officer, author | ||
|marital=Single without dependents | |marital=Single without dependents | ||
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|birth_date=20 May 1924 | |||
|death_date=5 October 2014 | |||
|birth_place=London, England | |||
|death_place=Washington, D.C., U.S. | |||
|years_of_service=1943-1945 | |||
|battles=WWII | |||
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David Chavchavadze (May 20, 1924 – October 5, 2014) was a British-born American author and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer of Georgian-Russian origin. | |||
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
David Chavchavadze (May 20, 1924 – October 5, 2014) was a British-born American author and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer of Georgian-Russian origin. | |||
It's a story that takes place in Berlin, the spy capital of the world in the 1950's, before the construction of the Berlin Wall about the greatest espionage operation of the Cold War. My wife very well knows my interest in non-fiction books; especially those related to WWII in general, and the Ritchie Boys in particular. Naturally, I was pleasantly surprised when she got me this book over the holidays. | |||
But neither she nor I was aware that there is a Ritchie Boy connection! Ritchie Boy David Chavchavadze was an operative working out of the CIA's Berlin Operations Base. According to Chavchavadze, "Berlin had so many intelligence officers, agents and goons in it that they must have made up a measurable percentage of the population." More on RB David Chavchavadze to follow. | |||
== Research notes == | == Research notes == | ||
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== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chavchavadze Wikipedia: David Chavchavadze] | |||
* Camp Ritchie class roster (classes 1–31), merged research file | * Camp Ritchie class roster (classes 1–31), merged research file | ||
* NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present) | * NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present) | ||
* 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present) | * 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present) | ||
* Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2020-01-27 (1 post) | |||