James Potts
 James Potts  ( spook) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | September 9, 1921 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | December 22, 2008 (Age 87) Mitchellville, Maryland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Yale • Columbia University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Association of Former Intelligence Officers/1996 members I-Z | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
CIA spook who was Chief of Station in several countries.
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James Potts was a CIA spook who was Chief of Station in several countries.[1]
Greek junta
"Until the last few weeks of the Athens military junta, according to high American officials and to Greek sources, American operatives remained quite close to the men in power in Greece. A United States specialist on Greece said that the C.I.A. continued to maintain about 60 full‐time operatives in Greece an that some had been there 15 years or longer.The agency, the specialist said, had close contact not only with George Papadopoulos, the Greek colonel who led the 1967 coup, but also with his successor, Brig. Gen. Demetrios Ioannides. James M. Potts, the agency's station chief in Athens from 1968 to 1972, was described as having been on close terms throughout his stay there with Mr. Papadopoulos. He served earlier in Athens from 1960 to 1964 as deputy station chief of the intelligence agency."[2]
