Philip Roettinger | |
Birth Date: | 22 September 1915 |
Birth Place: | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
Death Place: | San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico |
Sport: | Sports shooting |
Show-Medals: | yes |
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.