Henry D. Hecksher (September 21, 1910 – March 28, 1990) was a career United States intelligence officer who served in both the OSS and CIA.
[1] He later became an intelligence officer with the Army and interrogated some of the top Nazi leaders, including Julius Streicher.
Hecksher became heavily involved in CIA covert operations, including the Berlin Tunnel project.
[citation needed] He was CIA Station Chief in Santiago, and was involved in covert actions in the period before the coup d'etat which overthrew Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens in 1973.
[citation needed] In 1990, Hecksher died from complications of Parkinson's disease in Princeton, New Jersey.