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THE BOOK OF HONOR -- THE SECRET LIVES AND DEATHS OF CIA OPERATIVES -- FORGOTTEN MAN |
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CIA case officer Douglas S. Mackiernan in his jeep in China's far west province of Xinjiang, where he was stationed undercover as a low-level State Department employee. (Courtesy of Pegge Hlavacek)
Douglas S. Mackiernan and wife Pegge in New York City's Central Park the winter of 1947-1948. (Courtesy of Pegge Hlavacek)
Passport photo of Douglas S. Mackiernan, then working for the CIA undercover as a State Department employee. While others shunned assignment to China's remote far west, he was only too eager to set up a listening post there along the Sino-Soviet border. (Courtesy of Pegge Hlavacek)
Douglas S. Mackiernan cradles his newborn son, Michael, in Shanghai in the fall of 1948. It would be the only picture of Mackiernan with his son. Weeks later Pegge and the twins were evacuated. Mackiernan, still posing as a State Department employee, was left behind to gather intelligence on the encroaching Communists. (Courtesy of Pegge Hlavacek)
Douglas S. Mackiernan, shirtsleeves rolled up and standing outside the embassy in Tihwa, China. Months later he would be fleeing the Communist Chinese across an endless desert and mountains. (Courtesy of Peggy Hlavacek)
Douglas Mackiernan (standing in the middle) against a snowy landscape not unlike that across which he attempted to flee the Communists. He was proud of his new beard and swore he would not take it off until he and wife Pegge were together again. (Courtesy of Peggy Hlavacek)
From the San Francisco Examiner, dated January 31, 1950. Mackiernan's widow, Pegge, with twins Mary and Michael, dismissing as "silly" the Chinese claim that her husband had been a spy. Fifty years later the CIA would still not utter his name or acknowledge that he worked for the Agency. (Courtesy of Pegge Hlavacek and the San Francisco Examiner) [RIDICULES CHARGE -- Mrs. Douglas Mackiernan shown with her twins, Mary and Michael, yesterday said charges by Chinese Communists that her husband, an American consul missing since September, is a spy. Mrs. Douglas Mackiernan of 67 Rocca Drive, Fairfax, yesterday described as "silly" a charge by Chinese Communists that her husband, an American vice consul missing in Red China since September 27, is a "spy." Mackiernan's disappearance was disclosed yesterday by the State Department. As vice consul in Tihwa, in Sinkiang Province, he last was heard from the day he began a hazardous journey out of China, under State Department orders. Mackiernan was left behind to close up the Tihwa consulate last August, when Consul J. Hall Paxton and other Americans were ordered out of the city. The Paxton group reached India in October. Mackiernan radioed on September 27 that he was leaving just ahead of Communist forces. The Communist China radio, heard by the Associated Press in San Francisco, described Mackiernan as a "spy" who sought to organize bandits against the Communist advance. The State Department called the Red charges "the usual tripe." Mrs. Mackiernan, who once lived with her husband in China, said the accusation may have come from "a Communist cook we had while there." She lives in Fairfax with her year-old twins, Mary and Michael.] |
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