George Bacon (CIA officer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American soldier
Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1946
Date of Death: 14-Feb-1976
Profession: soldier
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About George Bacon (CIA officer)
- George Washington Bacon III (4 August 1946 – 14 February 1976) was an American soldier.
- He served as a Green Beret in the U.S.
- Army, Paramilitary Officer in Special Activities Division for the Central Intelligence Agency, and finally as a mercenary soldier. Bacon is remembered as a talented eccentric whose hatred of communism was so great he disobeyed orders to refrain from combat while he served in Vietnam as a member of MACV-SOG.
- Although trained as a combat medic, he joined raids into Cambodia during Operation Menu. Following discharge from the U.S.
- Army, Bacon spent time as a civilian before joining the Central Intelligence Agency.
- He worked as a case officer for them during the Secret War in Laos through 1975.
- After supposedly leaving the CIA, he became an anti-communist mercenary in the Angolan Civil War, though he may have been working undercover.
- He was killed in action while attempting to demolish a crucial highway bridge to block an enemy advance.
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