# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-welch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:28:37.216Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-welch"
name: "Richard Welch"
slug: "richard-welch"
description: "Richard Skeffington Welch was a career Central Intelligence Agency officer. He was the Chief of Station (COS) in Athens, Greece, when he was assassinated by the Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N). His assassination led to the passage of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, making it a crime to expose or identify officers working in covert roles who had not officially been acknowledged as such by the U.S. government."
tagline: "American spy (1929-1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Welch.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-12-14"
deathDate: "1975-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.591622666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "رچرڈ ویلچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ρίτσαρντ Γουέλς"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Welch"
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    title: "Richard Welch"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump