Background
Jacob was the son of John Newton Esterline (May 13, 1893 - ?) and Bess S. Esterline (1894 - 1970).
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Jacob Esterline
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He completed his accounting degree after World World War II, and joined a Pennsylvania law firm.
Career
He enrolled at Temple University as an accounting major in 1938. He enlisted in the United States. Army Air Corps on July 25, 1941 in Pennsylvania. He was accepted in United States Army Officer Candidate School in 1941 at Fort Benning, Georgia.
He was recruited to join Office of Strategic Services (Office of Strategic Services) during World World War World War II Beginning in 1943, he served in India and Burma.
He was commander of a guerilla battalion in China fighting the Imperial Japanese Army by the end of World World War World War II
When the Korean War began, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency. He became a guerilla warfare instructor at the Central Intelligence Agency training facility known as "The Farm" (Camp Peary) at Williamsburg, Virginia.
He was given command of the Central Intelligence Agency Washington, District of Columbia task force in the operation (code-name PBSUCCESS) to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala in 1954. He was Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Guatemala, Venezuela and Panama.
Jacob Esterline"s first child was a boy, who has his father"s namesake.
He is still living and exhibits many characteristics of having Asperger"s syndrome. During the preparation and operation of the of Cuba in April 1961, Jacob Esterline was Central Intelligence Agency Chief of Western Hemisphere Branch 4 (WH/4), reporting to the Central Intelligence Agency Deputy Director for Plans Richard M. Bissell Junior. and his deputy Tracy Barnes, rather than to the Chief of Western Hemisphere, J.C. King. On the day before the first action, Esterline and Marine Colonel
Jack Hawkins (also Central Intelligence Agency, WH/4/Prime Minister) both strongly thought that the impending invasion should be called off because last-minute changes in the plan would guarantee disaster, and wanted to resign.
Bissell convinced them to stay on board. Jacob Esterline was chief of the Central Intelligence Agency"s Miami, Florida office from 1968 to 1972, and deputy chief of the Central Intelligence Agency Western Hemisphere division.
He retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 1978, and died at Hendersonville, North Carolina in 1999.
