Tuck, Robert L., 1922-

Robert L. Tuck, born 17 May 1922, was a graduate of North Central College, Naperville, Ill., and of Columbia University, N.Y. His work at the Russian Institute (now the Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Studies of the Soviet Union) at Columbia University led him to a job at the Central Intelligence Agency in 1949, where, over the years, he worked within several directorates. He served as policy director for Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany, 1961-1972, and then returned to New York where he assisted with Radio Liberty's domestic programming, before returning to Munich in 1976 to serve as the deputy director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He retired in 1981.

From the description of Recollections, records, and reminiscences of Robert L. Tuck, 2006. WorldCat record id: 137289350

Robert L. Tuck, son of Leslie Tuck and Helen Marr Tuck, was born in Portland, Maine, on 17 May 1922. He spent his early childhood in Colorado where his father served as a minister. Following Helen Marr Tuck's death in 1927, Tuck's father moved his family to Illinois where he married Ethelyn Gladys Honeywell.

Tuck attended North Central College in Illinois, from which he received his Bachelor's degree, before beginning active duty in the United States Army on 23 February 1943. During World War II, Tuck was stationed at various camps throughout the United States. In 1943, while stationed in Rochester. N.Y., Tuck met Evelyn McNutt, whom he married on 11 May 1945.

Following the war, Tuck, used his G.I. Bill benefits to enroll at Columbia University, where he received a Master's degree in history and a certificate from the Russian Institute.

In 1949, Tuck moved his family to Washington, D.C., where he began work with the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1953, he moved to Regensburg, Germany, to study Russian with the Army's advanced training program, known as Detachment R . Upon his return in 1956, he resumed his responsibilities at the CIA working for various directorates. In August 1961, he moved to Radio Liberty (formerly Radio Liberation) in Munich, Germany, as policy advisor. He and his family remained there for eleven years, returning to New York in 1972, where Tuck assisted with Radio Liberty's domestic programming. Tuck returned to Munich as deputy director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in 1976 and retired to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1981. Robert L. Tuck died in 2009.

From the guide to the Recollections, Records, and Reminiscences of Robert L. Tuck, 2006, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)