OSS Burke, Edmund Michael (Mike)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Burke ​

• FORENAME

Edmund Michael (Mike) ​

• UNIT

USNR OSS MacGregor Mission ​

• RANK

Lieutenant,junior grade ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Navy Cross,Silver Star ​

• PLACE

Italy 1943 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 6.8.1916 Enfield,Connecticut​

educated Kingswood-Oxford School,Hartford,Connecticut​

graduated University of Pennsylvania 1939​

cargo inspector,New York waterfront​

USNR​

OSS Algiers 1942​

OSS Sicily and Italy 1943​

OSS France 1944 (arming and organising Resistance)​

CIA Europe postwar (Chief of Ops Albania 1950)​

Adviser to US High Commissioner,Germany 1951-54​

CIA Poland​

General Manager,Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus​

CBS executive​

President,New York Yankees 1964-73​

President,Madison Square Garden 1973​

purchased a farm Aughrim,near Galway,Ireland​

retired to Ireland 1981​

married Timothy North (separated) (4 children)​

brother-in-law of John Ringling North (see OSS Awards)​

died 5.2.1987 Ireland​

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