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Record:

ROSTOW, WALT WHITMAN

Sources:

SSCIA 157-10006-10370 (MMF 1800-1802); Who's Who in the CIA, Mader, p. 448; The Espionage Establishment, Wise & Ross, pp. 153, 256; The Invisible Government, Wise & Ross, p. 244; The CIA and Cult of Intelligence, Marchetti & Marks, pp. 181, 225; JFK, Prouty, pp. 210, 321, 325; Yankee and Cowboy War, Oglesby, p. 65; Bay of Pigs, Wyden, pp. 18-19, 266

Mary's
Comments:

DOB: Oct 7, 1916. POB: New York City. Married: Elspeth Davies. He was a Rhodes scholar at Balliol College of Oxford University from 1936 to 1938. 1942-1945 Major in OSS and US Army; 1946-1947 Professor of History at Oxford; 1961 Adviser to US President for National Security Affairs. On 6/9/75, when Bissell testified about Executive Action, he said it could have been Bundy or Rostow who asked him to do it. (MMF 1800-1802)

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