David Atlee Phillips
1922 – 1988 American CIA officer
CIA propaganda specialist active in the Guatemala and Chile operations.
- Affiliations
- CIA propaganda and psychological operations officer active in the 1954 Guatemala coup and the 1970 covert campaign in Chile; founder of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.
David Atlee Phillips was a CIA officer who specialized in propaganda and psychological operations. He worked on the 1954 coup in Guatemala and the covert campaign against Salvador Allende in Chile. After retiring he founded the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.