Deuel, Wallace Rankin, 1905-1974

Intelligence officer and journalist.

From the description of Wallace Rankin Deuel papers, 1929-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81153363

Biographical Note

• 1905, June 14: Born, Chicago, Ill.
• 1926: A.B. University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill.
• 1926 - 1929 : Instructor in political science and international law, American University, Beirut, Syria (now Lebanon)
• 1929: Married Mary Virginia Smock (died 1971)
• 1929 - 1941 : Editorial writer and assistant to foreign editor, Chicago Daily News; in charge of New York cable office, 1930-1931; correspondent, Washington, D.C., 1931-1932; correspondent, Rome, Italy, 1932-1934; and correspondent, Berlin, Germany, 1934-1941
• 1941 - 1945 : Special assistant to director, Office of Strategic Services (later Central Intelligence Agency)
• 1942: Published People under Hitler. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company
• 1944 - 1945 : Special assistant to Robert Daniel Murphy, political advisor on Germany, Allied Forces Supreme Headquarters
• 1945 - 1949 : Diplomatic correspondent, Chicago Daily News, Washington, D.C.
• 1949 - 1954 : Diplomatic correspondent, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington, D.C.
• 1954 - 1968 : Foreign intelligence analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
• 1974, May 10: Died aboard airplane enroute from Washington, D.C., to Chicago, Ill.

From the guide to the Wallace Rankin Deuel Papers, 1905-1971, (bulk 1939-1954), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)