Bill Cregar

William Osmund Cregar (May 2, 1925 – December 28, 2019) was an American football 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]

Bill Cregar
Position:Guard / Linebacker
Personal information
Born:(1925-05-02)May 2, 1925
Newark, New Jersey
Died:December 26, 2019(2019-12-26) (aged 94)
Glassboro, New Jersey
Height:5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight:195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
High school:Frank H. Morrell
College:Holy Cross
NFL Draft:1947 / Round: 18 / Pick: 158
Career history
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com
Player stats at PFR

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
  1. "William O. Cregar". usobit.com. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. "William O. Cregar". Archived from the original on 2015-04-16. Retrieved 2015-04-11.
  3. "Cregar Lost to Steelers For 2 Weeks". The Pittsburgh Press. August 14, 1947. p. 34 – via news.google.com/newspapers.
  4. Riebling, Mark (2010). Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: How the Secret War between the FBI and CIA Has Endangered National Security. Simon and Schuster. pp. 317–318. ISBN 978-1-4516-0385-9.
  5. "Soviet Held Ahead in American Spying". The New York Times. March 25, 1975. p. 4.


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