Dorwin Wilson
| Dorwin Wilson Powerbase (Spook) | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 August 1928 Kansas City,Missouri,USA |
| Died | 24 October 2004 |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University |
CIA spook who was Chief of Station in apartheid South Africa | |
Dorwin M. Wilson was a CIA spook who was Chief of Station in apartheid South Africa[1]
Career
Covert Action Information Bulletin exposed hims as"Another very experienced veteran is the Chief of Station in Pretoria, South Africa, Dorwin M. Wilson. Wilson was born August 18, 1928 in Missouri. State Department records indicate vague private experience between 1952 and 1958, which might have included work for Agency proprietaries. He emerges with diplomatic cover in December 1958 as a political officer at the Nairobi, Kenya Embassy, grade R-7. The next year he became Vice- Consul, advanced, in 1962 to R-6; added the title of Attaché in 1963; advanced to R-5 in 1964, and became Second Secretary that year as well. In September 1964, records show him back at CIA Headquarters, this time as a GS-14, and a foreign affairs officer. In May 1968, now R-4, he was sent to Lusaka, Zambia as Second Secretary and political officer, but in reality Chief of Station. In September 1971 he returned to Headquarters as an African specialist; in 1973 he advanced to R-3; and in August 1975 was transferred to Pretoria as Chief of Station for this most significant post...With more than twenty years' service in the Agency, and with the massive scandals breaking in South Africa, Wilson may well be one of the many reported veterans getting under the wire before the changes in the early retirement laws"[2].
