James Neal Glerum (died December 5, 2020) was among the second generation of

Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...

Paramilitary Case Officers. He played an integral role in paramilitary operations in China, Indonesia, Vietnam and Laos. Widely respected by subordinates and superiors alike, he rose to become the Chief of the

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and was a key figure in the division's post-Vietnam era professional development and modernization. Glerum continued to act in a consulting capacity following his retirement and was also involved in a successful program to collect and organize an enormous body of files and records documenting the 60-plus year history of the Special Activities Division.

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* Conboy, Kenneth J., and James Morrison. ''Feet to the Fire: CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958''. Naval Institute Press, 1999. , 9781557501936. 20th-century births 2020 deaths People of the Central Intelligence Agency Year of birth missing {{US-gov-bio-stub