Henry Hecksher

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Henry D. Hecksher (September 21, 1910 – March 28, 1990) was a U.S. intelligence officer who worked for the OSS and the CIA. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, and moved to the United States in the 1930s. He joined the Army and reached the rank of captain. He fought in World War II, took part in the Normandy invasion, and was wounded in Antwerp. He later served as an Army intelligence officer and questioned top Nazi leaders, including Julius Streicher.

After joining the OSS, he headed its counterintelligence section in Berlin in 1946, the unit that would become the CIA's Berlin Operating Base (BOB). He worked under CIA station chief William Harvey at BOB and took part in covert operations, such as the Berlin Tunnel project. He later became CIA Station Chief in Santiago, Chile, where he was involved in covert actions before the 1973 coup against President Salvador Allende. There are claims that Hecksher and the CIA played a role in the coup.

Hecksher died in 1990 from Parkinson's disease in Princeton, New Jersey.