# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-francis-buckley
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:24:05.170Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-francis-buckley"
name: "William Francis Buckley"
slug: "william-francis-buckley"
description: "William Francis Buckley was an American intelligence officer, and was the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief in Beirut from 1984 until his kidnapping and killing in 1985."
tagline: "United States Army officer and the CIA station chief in Beirut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Francis_Buckley_badge_photograph.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1928-05-30"
deathDate: "1985-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.828909333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Buckley"
    title: "William Buckley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "وليام فرانسيس بكلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%83%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "وليام فرانسيس بكلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley"
    title: "William F. Buckley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Buckley"
    title: "William Francis Buckley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A1_%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%99"
    title: "ויליאם פרנסיס באקלי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley"
    title: "William F. Buckley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1643835"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump