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| Leonard N. Weigner |
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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. | 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, in which Pettie's alleged counterintelligence training was arranged and his subsequent activities in Washington's bohemian milieu were directed by Weigner.1
Footnotes
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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. ↩︎