HUFF served on the front lines of the Cold War, frustrating Soviet intelligence efforts time after time. While assigned to the 441st Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) Detachment in Japan from 1947 to 1950, he served as Chief, Repatriation Section, responsible for the interrogation of Japanese prisoners of war repatriated by the Soviet Union. The Soviets were known to indoctrinate selected Japanese
prisoners to infiltrate back into their homeland to conduct espionage. Through careful and detailed interrogation, then 1LT Huff uncovered 25 Soviet-trained spies. Ten of the 25 spies were successfully turned against the Soviets as double agents. As a result of 1LT Huff’s efforts, the Soviet attempts to infiltrate, conduct subversion, and increase communist influence in Japan were greatly frustrated. He also thwarted communist influence locally by penetrating the Japanese Communist Party. COL Huff persuaded one of the ranking members of the party to become an informant. After returning from Japan, COL Huff held a variety of military counterintelligence assignments in Seattle, Houston, Okinawa, and North Carolina. He commanded the 701st MI Detachment at Fort Bragg and supported the XVIII Airborne Corps. In 1964, COL Huff retired from the Army in 1964 to enter the Military Intelligence Civilian Career Excepted Program (MICEP). From 1964-1973, he was assigned as Executive Assistant to the Chief, Operations Support Section, 902d MI Group in Washington, DC. He then served a year with the 500th MI Group in Hawaii before returning to the 902d. In April 1973, he was assigned to establish security for the “Black Program”—a program designed to prevent the Soviets from determining the technical thrust of new Army research and development. He was a pioneer in establishing techniques to provide protection in support of national security objectives. Despite the complexities of establishing such a security program, he was highly successful and wrote a guidebook documenting this important undertaking. LTC Huff retired from the MICEP on 14 April 1984 following more than 37 years of combined federal service. His awards include the Bronze Star Medal, Army Commendation Medal (1 Oak Leaf Cluster), Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Navy Unit Commendation, and the Department of Army Meritorious Civilian Service Award (1 Oak Leaf Cluster) LTC Huff was inducted into the MI Hall of Fame in 1989 and passed away in May 1994.
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