Dick Holm

His horrific burns were treated by local tribesmen with a black paste made of snake oil and tree bark.

[1] His body permanently scarred, Holm returned to service after two years of extensive medical care in the United States, serving for several more decades in the CIA and achieving legendary status within the Agency.

According to Christopher Lynch, Dick Holm unfairly made the American operative the scapegoat for a series of problems at the station despite her having '"had little or nothing to do with some of the cases and officers involved.

Another volume of his memoirs, The Craft We Chose: My Life in the CIA, was published in August 2011 by Mountain Lake Press (ISBN 978-0-9814773-7-4).

Holm's life in the Central Intelligence Agency is being chronicled in the 2015 documentary film Back to the Shadows: A CIA Officer's Story.