---
title: Leonard N. Weigner
aliases:
  - Leonard N. Weigner
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Military"
tags:
  - Person
  - CIA
  - Military
  - TheFinders
  - ColdWar
summary: "Colonel Leonard N. Weigner was a confirmed CIA military officer identified in an unverified 1990s memo as the officer who directed Marion Pettie to embed within Washington counterculture circles as an intelligence asset, a claim with no corroboration in primary sources."
location: "Washington, D.C."
---

Colonel Leonard N. Weigner was a U.S. military officer whose CIA career is confirmed in contemporaneous press records. He is known primarily through his appearance in an anonymous three-page investigative memo of unknown provenance that circulated among researchers studying [[The Finders]] in the mid-1990s.[^1]

### Anonymous Memo Claims

The unsigned "Investigative Leads" memo, whose author, date, and provenance are unknown, claims that Weigner was the senior officer who directed [[Marion Pettie]] to embed within Washington counterculture circles as an intelligence asset beginning in the late 1950s or early 1960s. The memo describes this as part of an arrangement also involving newspaper publisher [[Charles Marsh]] and [[Ira Eaker|General Ira Eaker]], in which Pettie's alleged counterintelligence training was arranged and his subsequent activities in Washington's bohemian milieu were directed by Weigner.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Minnick, Wendell L. "The Finders: The CIA and the Cult of Marion David Pettie." *Unclassified*, No. 35, Winter 1995. Unsigned "Investigative Leads" memo, no author or date, mid-1990s circulation.