In his youth, Richard Fletcher was a hard worker and an accomplished athlete, reported an obituary in the San Mateo County Times of California. He was captain of the Western High School Marching Band for the inaugural parade for President Hoover, and was one of two area scholarship winners to attend Harvard College in the 1930s.
While earning his bachelor’s degree, he worked as a busboy and at the library, and won honors playing three sports at Harvard. He later passed the bar exam by taking night courses at George Washington Law School, but ultimately decided to work for J. Edgar Hoover. He was with the FBI for 37 years, mostly in the San Francisco office. But in 1941, the Times reports, he worked at Headquarters, handling double agent cases in German Intelligence.
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