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Frank WisnerFrank Wisner was born in 1910, in Laurel, Mississippi. He went to school at the Woodberry Forest School and the University of Virginia. He was a very good athlete and was asked to compete in the Olympic trials in 1936. Then six months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Navy and worked in the Navy’s censor’s office. Later on he got transferred to the Office of Strategic Services or the OSS. In June of 1944, Wisner was sent to Turkey and then two months later he got sent to Romania to spy on the Soviets. While in Romania, Wisner established a good relationship with King Michael and later became an adviser to the royal family. After the war he joined the CIA and worked with them. But in 1962 he retired from the CIA and then a couple of years later in 1965, he committed suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun.
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