Fuat Doğu

After working at different positions in the Turkish Land Forces Staff Lieutenant Colonel Doğu joined the National Intelligence Agency on 14 September 1954.^[2] He was one of the pupils of German military and intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen.^[2] Doğu became a staff colonel and was named as the undersecretary of the National Intelligence Agency on 27 August 1962.^[1] His term ended on 25 August 1964, and he was appointed as the commander of the 59th Division in Sivas.^[2] Then he was made a member of the General Staff Inspection Board.^[2] He retired from the army with the title of lieutenant general.^[2]

Doğu was reappointed as the undersecretary of the intelligence agency on 1 March 1966.^[1] The agency began to collect information for the National Security Council which had been established with the new constitution put into force in 1961.^[3] Prime Minister Nihat Erim and Deputy Prime Minister Sadi Koçaş found that Doğu was heading a secret unit within the National Intelligence Agency.^[4] They fired him from office on 23 July 1971.^[4] In 1973 Doğu was appointed ambassador of Turkey to Portugal and served in the post until 1978.^[2]

Doğu died on 31 May 2004.^[2]