Henry Hecksher

Henry Hecksher was a career United States intelligence officer who served in both the OSS and CIA.

Hecksher was born in Hamburg, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1938. He joined the United States Army, achieving the rank of captain. Hecksher took part in the Normandy invasion, and was wounded in Antwerp.

He later became an intelligence officer with the Army and interrogated some of the top Nazi leaders, including Julius Streicher. He joined the OSS and in 1946 became head of its counterintelligence section in Berlin. Later, this section would become the CIA's Berlin Operating Base aka "BOB." Hecksher would eventually work under CIA station chief William Harvey at "BOB."

Alongside CIA officers like Harvey and David Atlee Phillips, Hecksher became heavily involved in illegal CIA black operations, or "black ops", including the Berlin Tunnel project and the coup d'etat of Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens in 1973.[1][2]

In reporter Dick Russell's 1992 biography of Nagell, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", Nagell referred to Hecksher as "Bob".

Hecksher died in 1990 from complications of Parkinson's disease.