Francis Jeton
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| Born | 1926 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 June 2010 (Age 83) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • University of New Hampshire • George Washington University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CIA spook who was Chief of Station (COS) in several African countries
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Francis John Jeton was a CIA spook who was Chief of Station (COS) in several African countries[1].
Education
He attended the University of New Hampshire and graduated from George Washington University. Jeton enlisted in the US Navy during WWII, and served for almost three years on a destroyer. He participated in the landings in Normandy and in southern France.[2]
Career
After the war, Jeton joined the CIA as an intelligence officer and worked in Washington, Damascus, Dakar, Kinshasa, Tunis, Pretoria, Saigon and Paris.
He was evicted from Syria in 1957 when their 1957 coup (Operation Wappen), organized by Kermit Roosevelt, failed, The coup failed when some of these Syrian officers revealed the plan to the Syrian intelligence service. They turned in the CIA bribe money and identified the officers who had tendered it. Robert Molloy, Francis Jeton, and Howard E. Stone were all deported.[3]
British officials in the Gambia met the "CIA representative in Dakar", Frank Jeton, in 1959.[4]
He was Chief of Station in Zaire in 1968.[5]
He was Chief of Station in Tunisia from 1969.
He was probably Chief in apartheid South Africa as of June 1974. This is uncertain, as the COS might instead have been Jarrel H. Richardson.[6]
In June 1980, Covert Action Information Bulletin reported that "Francis John Jeton, the CIA's Paris-based chief of Africa operations has also left".[7]
References
- ↑ https://cia-spotters.blogspot.com/search?q=jeton
- ↑ https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/francis-jeton-obituary?id=5944803
- ↑ william Blum, Killing Hope (1995), p. 88. "But the coup was exposed before it ever got off the ground. Syrian army officers who had been assigned major roles in the operation walked into the office of Syria's head of intelligence, Colonel Sarraj, turned in their bribe money and named the CIA officers who had paid them. Liet. Col. Robert Molloy, the American army attaché, Francis Jeton, a career CIA officer, officially Vice Consul at the US Embassy, and the legendary Howard Stone, with the title Second Secretary for Political Affairs, were all declared personae non-gratae and expelled from the country in August. Col. Molloy was determined in leave Syria in style. As his car approached the Lebanese border, he ran his Syrian motorcycle escort off the road and shouted to the fallen rider that 'Colonel Sarraj and his commie friends' should be told that Molloy would 'beat the shit out of them with one hand tied behind is back if they ever crossed his path again.'"
- ↑ https://intelligencehistory.substack.com/p/the-cia-and-the-british-in-east-africa
- ↑ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/02322949
- ↑ https://widelyreported.org/?entity=francis%20john%20jeton
- ↑ https://covertactionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CAIB09-1980-2.pdf
