Hugh Montgomery (November 29, 1923 – April 6, 2017) was a United States diplomat and intelligence officer.
Montgomery was wounded while serving as a paratrooper in World War II and joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) counterintelligence branch, known as X-2.
During a CIA assignment in Berlin, he helped tap Soviet communications lines running under the city.
In Moscow, he ran one of the most famous and productive CIA assets in history, the Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky.
[5] Montgomery received an honorary doctorate from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC in 2010.