Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1918, Feb. 18 | Born, Boston, Mass. |
| 1936 | Graduated, Groton School, Groton, Mass. |
| 1939 | A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Employed by the New York Herald Tribune |
| 1940 | Married Katharine Winthrop Tweed (divorced 1949) |
| 1940-1942 | Employed by newspapers in Spokane, Wash., and San Francisco, Calif. |
| 1942 | Enlisted in the United States Army and reported to intelligence school, Camp Ritchie, Md. Stationed in Morocco |
| 1943 | Stationed in Algeria and Tunisia Office of War Information, Camp Ritchie, Md. |
| 1944 | Stationed in Baghdad, Iraq |
| 1946 | Stationed in Tehran, Iran Traveled through independent Kurdish republic |
| 1947 | Joined the Central Intelligence Agency |
| 1947-1949 | Attaché, American embassy, Beirut, Lebanon |
| 1949-1951 | Chief, Near East Section, Voice of America, New York, N.Y. |
| 1950 | Married Selwa Showker |
| 1951-1953 | Consul, Istanbul, Turkey (CIA station chief) |
| 1953-1958 | Assigned to State Department (Washington offices, CIA) |
| 1958 | Special assistant to United States ambassador to Spain (CIA station chief) |
| 1962-1966 | Attaché, special assistant, American embassy, London, England (CIA station chief) |
| 1966-1974 | Assigned to State Department (Washington offices, CIA) |
| 1974 | Retired from government service Vice president, director of international relations, Chase Manhattan Bank |
| 1988 | Published For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer (Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 500 pp.) |
| 1990, May 31 | Died, Washington, D.C. |