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Jun 14, 1923 Victoria, Texas, United States Died on 10 Aug 2008 (aged 85)
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
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About Grayston Lynch
- Grayston L.
- Lynch (14 June 1923 – 10 August 2008) was an American soldier and CIA paramilitary officer in Special Activities Division.
- Paramilitary Operations Officers come from the Special Operations Group (SOG) within SAD.
- They are recruited primarily from USSOCOM.
- They are a majority of the recipients of the rare CIA valor awards of the Distinguished Intelligence Cross and the Intelligence Star.
- He was one of the two CIA officers who commanded the faction of the army that went to war in the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
- The other agent was William "Rip" Robertson. Lynch was born in Victoria, Texas and was the son of an oil driller.
- He was wounded at Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, and Heartbreak Ridge in Korea; served with the Special Forces in Laos; and received three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and one Bronze Star with a "V" for valor, among other awards.
- He was selected from the elite to become a Paramilitary Operations Officer in the CIA's famed Special Activities Division (renamed Special Activities Center in 2016 ) in 1960.
- For his extraordinary heroism at the Bay of Pigs, Lynch was awarded the Intelligence Star, the CIA's most coveted award.
- In the six years after the Bay of Pigs invasion, he ran commando raids into Cuba.
- Lynch retired from the CIA in 1971.
