Bill Cregar
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born: | May 2, 1925 Guard / Linebacker |
| NFL draft: | 1947 / Round: 18 / Pick: 158 |
| Career history | |
| Career NFL statistics | |
| Player stats at NFL.com · PFR | |
William Osmund Cregar (May 2, 1925 – December 28, 2019) was an
guard who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college football at the College of the Holy Cross, having previously attended Frank H. Morrell High School.[1] He is a member of the College of the Holy Cross Athletic Hall of Fame.[2][3]
Cregar later joined the FBI in the early 1950s and worked as a CIA–FBI liaison agent and then chief of the FBI counter‐intelligence agency.[4][5] A colleague, Jay Aldhizer described Cregar as having a "high profile in the intelligence community...a flamboyant personality, with a desk-pounding, get what I want type of relationship with CIA".[4] He retired from the FBI as the Assistant Director of Foreign Intelligence and Counter Espionage in 1980.[1]
References
- ^ a b "William O. Cregar". usobit.com. 4 January 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ "William O. Cregar". Archived from the original on 2015-04-16. Retrieved 2015-04-11.
- ^ "Cregar Lost to Steelers For 2 Weeks". The Pittsburgh Press. August 14, 1947. p. 34 – via news.google.com/newspapers.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4516-0385-9.
- ^ "Soviet Held Ahead in American Spying". The New York Times. March 25, 1975. p. 4.
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