Philip Roettinger Explained

Philip Roettinger
Birth Date:22 September 1915
Birth Place:Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Death Place:San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
Sport:Sports shooting
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Philip Clay Roettinger (September 22, 1915 – January 7, 2002) was a CIA Operations Officer who helped plan and execute the 1954 overthrow of the Left-Wing Guatemalan government led by Jacobo Arbenz[1]

The son of former Ohio Judge S. C. Roettinger, Roettinger graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and served as a U.S. Marine Corps Colonel in the Pacific during World War II. He was a member of the U.S. shooting team in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.[2] After the CIA, Roettinger settled in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico to devote time to painting and raising a family.

Notes and References

  1. News: Roettinger . Philip . For a CIA man, it's 1954 again . https://web.archive.org/web/20170123090127/https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP91-00587R000100040022-5.pdf . dead . January 23, 2017 . 4 July 2019 . Los Angeles Times . March 16, 1986.
  2. Web site: Philip Roettinger . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418073338/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/philip-roettinger-1.html . dead . April 18, 2020 . February 2, 2015 . Sports Reference.