Wallace Rankin Deuel

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)

CHICAGO,, May 11 (AP)—Wallace R. Deuel, a former foreign correspondent of The Chicago Daily News who was well known for his wartime dispatches, died yesterday at the age of 68.

Mr. Deuel died while returning to Chicago to live with his son, Peter, a former Daily News reporter who now is associate clerk of the Cook County (Chicago) Circuit Court.

At invasion of Poland

As chief of the Berlin bureau of the Chicago. Daily News from 1935 to 1940, Mr. Deuel accompanied the German artillery on its invasions of Poland and Western Europe.

Out of this experience came a book, “People Under Hitler,” an account of his observations of German life in the Nazi era, and a thoroughgoing knowledge of the German mentality.

“People Under Hitler,” published in 1942, drew this comment from The Times Book Review: “Its description of the systematic away in which liberty has been extracted from German life is accurate, in part novel, and, definitely interesting and informative.”

Mr. Deuel graduated from, the University of Illinois in 1925, taught at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, and joined The Daily News in 1928 as a writer on the Middle East. He served also in Rome, New York and Washington and became assistant to the foreign editor and an editorial writer.

Among the events he reported for The Daily News, The New York Post, The St. Louis Post‐Dispatch and other newspapers and magazines, were the Munich crisis, the re-militarization of the Rhineland, the Nazi party congresses at Nuremberg, and the Nazis’ persecution of the Jews

Mr. Deuel left The News in 1940 to join the Office of Strategic Services, a forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. Later, he was an aide to Robert Murphy, the adviser on Germany to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower.

He returned to The Daily News in 1949, left to join the staff of The, St. Louis Post=Dispatch and joined the C.I.A. in 1953. He retired in 1972.[1]

Sources
↑ New York Times Obituary New York Times, May 12, 1974, page 51. https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/12/archives/wallace-deuel-reporter-...

"Wallace Deuel,a former correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 1972, died Friday on an ambulance plane between Washington and Chicago, where he was going to live with his son. Mr. Deuel suffered from emphysema. He lived on 45th St. NW. He worked for the Chicago Daily News in New York before being assigned to Rome in 1932 and as chief of the Berlin bureau in 1935. In 1942 his book, "People Under Hitler" was published. During World War II he was special assistant to the director of the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the "C"IA, and was a special assistant to Robert J. Murphy, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's political adviser. He was diplomatic correspondent here [Washington, D.C.] for the Daily News from 1945 to 1949, during which time he received a Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in reporting. In the early 1950's he worked for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. A native of Chicago, Mr. Deuel was a graduate of the Univ. of Illinois. He leaves his son, Peter M., a sister and seven grandchildren."

 Contributed By Florence Wilson Morgan, 15 January 2015

In the source attachment: US Genealogy Bank Historic Newspaper Obits 1815-2011, Gen Dwight D Eisenhower is listed in the source.

• Immigration: 1929 - New York, New York, United States
• Immigration: 1939 - New York, New York, United States
• Immigration: 1940 - New York, New York, United States
• Residence: 1910 - Chicago Ward 25, Cook, Illinois, United States
• Residence: 1920 - Chicago Ward 25, Cook (Chicago), Illinois, United States
• Residence: July 14 1946 - Washington, D. C.
• Residence: Apr 13 1950 - Washington, Washington Township, Macomb, Michigan, United States
• Residence: May 10 1974 - Berlin
• Residence: May 12 1974 - Berlin
• Residence: May 13 1974 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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• Immigration: 1929 - New York, New York, United States
• Immigration: 1939 - New York, New York, United States
• Immigration: 1940 - New York, New York, United States
• Residence: 1910 - Chicago Ward 25, Cook, Illinois, United States
• Residence: 1920 - Chicago Ward 25, Cook (Chicago), Illinois, United States
• Residence: July 14 1946 - Washington, D. C.
• Residence: Apr 13 1950 - Washington, Washington Township, Macomb, Michigan, United States
• Residence: May 10 1974 - Berlin
• Residence: May 12 1974 - Berlin
• Residence: May 13 1974 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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• Immigration: 1929 - New York, New York, United States
• Immigration: 1939 - New York, New York, United States
• Immigration: 1940 - New York, New York, United States
• Residence: 1910 - Chicago Ward 25, Cook, Illinois, United States
• Residence: 1920 - Chicago Ward 25, Cook (Chicago), Illinois, United States
• Residence: July 14 1946 - Washington, D. C.
• Residence: Apr 13 1950 - Washington, Washington Township, Macomb, Michigan, United States
• Residence: May 10 1974 - Berlin
• Residence: May 12 1974 - Berlin
• Residence: May 13 1974 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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