Post-World War II
He completed his accounting degree after WWII, and joined a Pennsylvania law firm. When the Korean War began, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency. He became a guerilla warfare instructor at the CIA training facility known as "The Farm" (Camp Peary) at Williamsburg, Virginia. He was given command of the CIA Washington, D.C. task force in the operation (code-name PBSUCCESS) to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala in 1954. He was CIA station chief in Guatemala, Venezuela and Panama. Jacob Esterline's first child was a boy, who has his father's namesake. He is still living and exhibits many characteristics of having Asperger's disease.
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