Background
Heinrich August Rositzke was born on February 25, 1911, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He was the son of German immigrants.
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Harry was a graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1931.
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Harry was a graduate of Harvard University, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic philology in 1935.
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Harry studied phonetics at the University of Hamburg from 1935 to 1936.
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Heinrich August Rositzke was born on February 25, 1911, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He was the son of German immigrants.
Harry was a graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1931, and of Harvard University, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic philology in 1935. Harvard had sent him to Hamburg University as a Sheldon Fellow and awarded him a doctorate for a dissertation on ''The Speech of Kent Before the Norman Conquest.''
The first four years of Rositzke's career were spent teaching English at Harvard University, the University of Omaha, and the University of Rochester.
When the United States entered World War II in 1942, Rositzke joined the army and became a major. After the war, he was hired by the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor of the C.I.A.) to monitor Soviet intelligence activities. Rositzke was the first chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's Soviet division. From 1952-1954, he ran agents against the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe out of Munich. From 1954-1956, he was in charge of the operations schools in the agency's training division.
In 1957, he moved to New Delhi as station chief, operating against Soviet, Chinese, and Tibetan targets.
In 1962, Rositzke returned to Washington where he recruited Soviet and Eastern European diplomats as informers there and in New York. But in 1967 a former State Department code clerk, John Discoe Smith, who served in India from 1954 to 1959 and later defected to the Soviet Union, published a pamphlet in which he asserted that Rositzke had been expelled from India at his instigation.
Smith said he had written to Indian officials telling them that the C.I.A.'s New Delhi station had been involved in the 1955 bombing of a plane carrying the Chinese delegation to the Bandung Nonaligned Conference in the mistaken belief that Zhou Enlai was on board. India then expelled Rositzke in belated retaliation, Smith said.
After a period at George Washington's Sino-Soviet Institute, Rositzke was coordinator of operations against Communist parties abroad until his retirement in 1970. In retirement, he turned to write about intelligence matters and the cold war.
Five years later, however, he found himself back in the news when the director of central intelligence, William E. Colby, published a report on the agency's illegal domestic spying operations, known as Chaos. The operations had begun under President Lyndon B. Johnson but were greatly expanded by President Richard M. Nixon. The Colby report included a memorandum dated August 15, 1967, by the leader of covert operations, Thomas H. Karamessines, suggesting that Rositzke and another official, Richard Ober, be put in charge of Chaos. Whether this happened remains unclear.
His books include "The CIA's Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Action" (1977) and "The KGB: The Eyes of Russia" (1980). Rositzke was also the author of the novel "Left On!" (1973) and was an expert on Anglo-Saxon and High German, writing the scholarly work "The C-Text of the Old English Chronicles" (1940).
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1984Harry was married to Barbara Helen Bourgeoise Rositzke. The couple had two children: a son, John Brockman Rositzke of Jackson, and a daughter, Anne Elizabeth Hunt Rositzke.