Hugh Francis Redmond (October 30, 1919 - April 13, 1970) was an American World War II paratrooper (506th Infantry Regiment) who later worked for the CIA in their storied Special Activities Division. He was in Shanghai disguised as an ice cream machine salesman with Hennington and Co from 1946 to 1951, returning intelligence information on the Chinese Communist Party.[1]
On April 26, 1951, while boarding a ship to San Francisco to return to the United States, Redmond was captured and imprisoned. Held for almost twenty years in a prison camp, he was severely tortured, but never admitted his connection to the CIA.
In 1970, he died; the Chinese claim he slit his wrists on April 13, 1970. The Chinese cremated his remains and they were returned to the United States. Redmond was buried in Yonker's Oakland Cemetery on August 3, 1970.[2] [3] Considerable mystery still surrounds whether or not he was murdered during his imprisonment.
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. Ted Gup . The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA . . 2000 . 0-385-49293-6 . registration .