Herbert Lee Northrup Jr.

Post is for all leads and docs on Herbert Lee Northrup.

Defector.
Russia.
US Military service.

Please add your finds.

Cheers, Ed

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10114-10167.pdf

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10129-10134.pdf

With much help from Jessica Shores we have some information on him.

He was recruited to CIA in college as a translator

He worked for the CIA for 7yrs, says he defected to West Germany to escape his alcoholic mother and heavy debts and that he had been thinking about defecting since high school.

Enjoy the wormhole!
Ed

Another Herbert Lee? Thanks Ed, I think. Is there a date for the obit?

Great find, Ed.

Jake_Sykes wrote:Another Herbert Lee? Thanks Ed, I think. Is there a date for the obit?

He died on June 14, 2013.

Did you notice the cousin named Bledsoe?

"Did you notice the cousin named Bledsoe?"

Bledsoe?    WTF?

If "Herb Northrop" is the same person, this info for him,  it tells us where he was stationed in the US prior to being sent to Germany in 1952. 

https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1948&context=reporter

Jake_Sykes wrote:"Did you notice the cousin named Bledsoe?"

Bledsoe?    WTF?

"Survived by his first cousin Jo Ann Bledsoe of Groves, Texas"

Joann G Bledsoe

Groves, TX


 

 

• OTHER LOCATIONS
  Deer Park, TX
  
• FAMILY
  Dawn L Linder
  Cynthia M Bledsoe
  Paul Bledsoe
  

Close Greg, but no banana.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.legacy.com/obituaries/hartfordcourant/obituary.aspx%3fn=herbert-hoover-northrop&pid=190114640&fhid=7277 

Differnt guy. 


Joann Bledsoe 

Ah, okay. Got it.

I'll throw in two pair... both Aces.

Martin and Mitchell.

Examine their history and defection route.
Familiar.
I doubt the same path would still be open to Lee.
But that is neither here nor there, as Lee went to Houston Texas not MC.

Re Northrup's surviving cousin, Jo Ann Bledsoe, I ran a check on familysearch. She was born in Grove, TX, 6 Aug 1929, and spent her whole life there. Maiden name was Gish, and she married a Douglas Berry Bledsoe, also of Groves. He died Aug 2005. A helpful obit on familysearch includes spouse & children and extended family, none of whom are called Mary E. So I think we can discount that one. Bledsoe, incidentally, is a not uncommon name in TX.

orangebicycle wrote:Re Northrup's surviving cousin, Jo Ann Bledsoe, I ran a check on familysearch. She was born in Grove, TX, 6 Aug 1929, and spent her whole life there. Maiden name was Gish, and she married a Douglas Berry Bledsoe, also of Groves. He died Aug 2005. A helpful obit on familysearch includes spouse & children and extended family, none of whom are called Mary E. So I think we can discount that one. Bledsoe, incidentally, is a not uncommon name in TX.

Thanks for checking that out OB. Appreciate it.