William Colby

Events in the arms control field Angola the Middle East and elsewhere also demanded attention. Fulbright School at the University of Arkansas is also working on a biography of Colby. Career


Office of Strategic Services
Following his first year at Columbia in 1941 Colby volunteered for active duty with the US Army and served with the Office of Strategic Services as a Jedburgh or special operator trained to work with resistance forces in occupied Europe to harass German and Axis forces.

Colby served as DCI under President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford and was replaced by future President George H. intelligence activities to the Senate Church Committee and House Pike Committee. Before and during the Vietnam War Colby served as Chief of Station in Saigon Chief of the CIA's Far East Division and head of the Civil Operations and Rural Development effort as well as overseeing the Phoenix Program.