| | Edmund J. | Birch | MN - Minneapolis; MO - St. Louis; NY - New York | 1952 - 1975 | White Slave Traffic Act, Section 342, Abel Case, Top Hat, Fedora, Drummond Case, Falcon and the Snowman case | Communist party, The Weathermen, White Slave Traffic Act, Communist Squad, Section 342, Espionage, Abel Case, KGB, Top Hat, Fedora, Plato Cacheris, Drummond case | For the FBI Oral History Heritage Project sponsored by the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, Inc., which holds the copyright to the material.
Special Agent Birch served in the FBI from 1952 to 1975. This interview took place on August 20, 2005. Interviewed by Michael O’Brien.
SA Birch was born and raised in Hackensack, NJ, on September 13, 1925. He was drafted into the Army in 1944 and served in the infantry until the end of the war. He entered George Washington University and earned a degree in government with a major in accounting in 1950.
He worked for Allied Chemical for about a year after that as an accountant. He determined that being an accountant wasn’t for him, he quit and joined the FBI in 1952.
His first assignment was in the Minneapolis Field Office where he worked White Slave Traffic Act cases, and then transferred to the St Louis Field Office where he worked on the Communist Squad.
Transferring over to the New York Field Office, he continued to work on Communist Party cases in particular the Abel case.
Other notable cases he was involved in were the Drummond case, the Falcon and the Snowman case, and The Weathermen.
After retiring from the FBI, SA Birch went to work for Occidental Petroleum. | Download PDF 1 | | |