Richard Dale Drain (S&B 1943)
CIA. Yale University. Skull and Bones.
1973 to 1976 - Foundation Admin, Washington Cathederal.[2]
1967 - Department of United States Army.[2]
17 to 20 April 1961 - Chief of Operations for Bay of Pigs Invasion, CIA.[3]
1960 - Joins the Command and General Staff College
1957 to 1967 - Reserve Officer, Foreign Service.[2]
1957 - Special Assistant to the US Secretary of State, Secretary John Foster Dulles by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.[2]
1955 - Special Assistant to the U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.[2]
1954 to 1960 - Office of the Chief Of Psychological Warfare and Office of Staff Intelligence Washington DC.[5]
1951 to 1974 - Member, CIA.[2]
1948 to 1951 - Associate, Drain & Weaver.[2]
Post WW2, served in several armored officer capacities.[5]
WW2 - 1943 to 1945 - Lt. Cmdr, US Army.[2] Served with various units of the 10th Amoured Division as a Forward Observer and earned a Silver Star and Bronze Star.[5]
Married Margenne Noland.[2]
1943 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Note: two sons … i) William Whitley Drain and ii) Robert Dale Drain (Yale, Columbia University School of Law. Harlen Fiske Stone Scholar. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. United States Bankruptcy Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the South District of New York. Details below.[6]
[4] - Find a Grave - Richard Dale Drain (S&B 1943)
Colonel, U.S. Army Richard Dale Dean was the only child of Maj. Dale David Drain and Eleanor Andrews. Richard graduated from Yale in 1943 and practiced law with his father. He married and had two sons: William Whitley Drain and Robert Dale Drain.
He became a “Top-level CIA invasion planner” per now-declassified documents regarding the “Bay of Pigs Invasion”; he is also mentioned in now-declassififed documents as being involved in the military’s investigation of UFO phenomena.
[6] - United States Bankruptcy Court - Southern District of New York - Robert Dale Drain - Biography
Bankruptcy cases include…
A&P, Allegiance Telecom, Cornerstone, Coudert Brothers, Delphi Automotive, Frontier Airlines, Hostess Brands, Loral, RCN Corporation, Reader’s Digest, Refco, Sears Holdings Corporation, Star Tribune, Windstream Holdings.
In addition he has presided over the ancillary or plenary cases involving foreign companies with United States connections:[1]
Corporacion Durango, Excel Shipping, Galvex Steel, Parmalat, Satellites Mexicanas, SphinX, TBS Shipping, Varig S.A.,Yukos.
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