Bronson Tweedy

Chief of CIA London Station and first head of the Africa Division from 1959

Bronson Tweedy (died 2004) served as station chief in Vienna and London, and head of the Africa and Eastern Europe divisions, during a a CIA career which culminated as a deputy to the DCI in 1973.¹ David Wise wrote of him that ‘in an agency of Ivy Leaguers with a strong streak of anglophilia’ he was ‘almost the perfect specimen of an upper-echelon officer.’²