Ernest "Chick" Tsikerdanos

Ernest "Chick" Tsikerdanos (June 2, 1924 – December 8, 1997) was a veteran of OSS, 82nd Airborne. He served in Burma with the OSS Detachment 101.^[1] Tsikerdanos had a close relationship with General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek and was held in high esteem by them and other Chinese Nationalist leaders.^{[citation needed]} On the last day of the war, August 9, 1945, Tsikerdanos was wounded in the right eye by a Japanese mortar shell fragment when his battalion of Burmese Kachin irregulars were ambushed while moving across a valley. After leaving the service, Tsikerdanos joined CIA's famed Special Activities Division (SAD) and was assigned to Taiwan where he ran cross-channel reconnaissance and harassment operations into Red China from Nationalist-held islands. He served multiple tours in Greece, and later was entrusted with the difficult assignment of cleaning up the large mess of internal "dirt" files collected over twenty-five years by the paranoid former CIA Chief, James Jesus Angleton, after Angleton's forced retirement. After his own retirement, Tsikerdanos returned to CIA as a Contract Case Officer, working with distinction in the Agency's Counterterrorism Center for several years. He was personally engaged against some of the most dangerous terrorist suspects in Europe.^{[citation needed]} He died on 8 December 1997 at the age of 73, after being diagnosed with cancer.^[1]

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^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Barnes, Bart (December 18, 1997). "Ernest J. Tsikerdanos Dies; Anti-Terrorism Expert for CIA". The Washington Post.

External links[]

Ernest Tsikerdanos at Find a Grave

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[Washington_post-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Barnes, Bart (December 18, 1997). "Ernest J. Tsikerdanos Dies; Anti-Terrorism Expert for CIA". The Washington Post.

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