John Freeman Hasey (3 November 1916 – 9 May 2005) was an American captain in the French Foreign Legion during World War II and a senior operations officer with the CIA afterwards.
[1] Hasey was one of only four Americans, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, to have been named a Companion of the Ordre de la Libération, France's highest World War II honor.
At the height of the depression, Hasey struggled to find work, but eventually landed a position as a salesman for the French jeweler Cartier where he would travel between France, New York, and Monte Carlo handling the accounts of people such as Douglas Fairbanks and Marlene Dietrich.
With the German invasion of Western Europe, Hasey promptly volunteered to join the Free French Forces led by General Charles de Gaulle.
During 1942, he co-wrote a book, Yankee Fighter: The Story of an American in the Free French Foreign Legion with Joseph F Dinneen.