Philip Roettinger

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Philip Clay Roettinger (September 22, 1915–January 7, 2002)

CIA Operations Officer (1954-1964) who helped plan and execute the 1954 overthrow of the Left-Wing Guatemalan government led by Jacobo Arbenz after it threatened to nationalize property owned by the United Fruit Company.

Served as a U.S. Marine Corps Colonel in the Pacific during World War II.

Graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Son of former Ohio Judge S. C. Roettinger

Was a member of the U.S. shooting team in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

After the CIA, Roettinger settled in San Miguel Allende, Mexico to devote time to painting and raising a family.