Roosevelt, Archibald, 1918-1990

Intelligence officer with U.S. Army (1942-1946) and Central Intelligence Agency (1947-1974).

From the description of Papers, 1838-1988 (bulk 1942-1947). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28424337

Intelligence officer , diplomat, and consultant. Full name: Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr.

From the description of Archibald Roosevelt papers, 1838-2002 (bulk 1942-1990). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983400

Biographical Note

• 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.

From the guide to the Archibald Roosevelt Papers, 1838-2002, (bulk 1942-1990), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)