Grayston Lynch
Military Person
1923 – 2008
Who was Grayston Lynch?
Grayston L. Lynch was an American soldier and CIA officer. He was one of the two CIA officers who commanded the faction of the army that went to war in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. The other agent was William "Rip" Robertson.
Lynch was born in Tampa, Florida and was the son of an oil driller.
He was wounded at Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, and Heartbreak Ridge in Korea; served with the Special Forces in Laos; and received three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and one Bronze Star with a "V" for valor, among other awards. He was selected from the elite to become a Paramilitary Operations Officer in the CIA's famed Special Activities Division in 1960. For his extraordinary heroism at the Bay of Pigs, Lynch was awarded the Intelligence Star, the CIA's most coveted award. In the six years after the Bay of Pigs invasion, he ran commando raids into Cuba. Lynch retired from the CIA in 1971.
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- Born
- Jun 14, 1923
Victoria - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Died
- Aug 10, 2008
Tampa
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on July 23, 2013
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