John Paisley

John Arthur Paisley (August 25, 1923 – September 24, 1978) was a former official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Early life When Paisley was two-years-old, his father left the family. He was raised by his grandparents when his mother went to work as a practical nurse. Career Paisley served in the CIA from 1963 to 1974. During his career, he was heavily involved in Soviet operations. On January 7, 1979, The New York Times' investigative report ("The Missing CIA Man", by Tad Simic), revealed that "Paisley was called in when the C.I.A. began the lengthy and laborious process of debriefing Nosenko, a member of the K.G.B.'s Second Chief Directorate, responsible for counterintelligence within the Soviet Union, who had defected to the United States early in 1964. Nosenko was the most important K.G.B. officer ever to defect. Ostensibly, Nosenko's greatest value to United States intelligence was to provide information on Soviet counterintelligence agents operating at home and abroad. This may have included data on counterintelligence in the strategic field - part of Paisley's expertise - and Paisley became enmeshed in the most controversial C.I.A. secret intelligence project of the decade". For additional details, refer to https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/07/archives/the-missing-cia-man-hissuicide-was-bizarre-the-nature-of-his-cia.html