Intelligence & Espionage
- The Association of Former Intelligence Officers New England Chapter, the David Atlee Phillips Chapter, was formed in 1984. The Association of Former Intelligence Officers New England Chapter Intelligence Studies Collection consists of videotape…
- Tom McNiff Jr. (1940-2017) was son of Thomas McNiff and Loretta M. Glennon. He researched the American side of the British-American intellegence Operation BGFIEND / OBOPUS (1949-1958), a western paramilitary attempt to infiltrate and arm the Albanian resistance against Communist dictator Enver…
- Special CollectionsHanford Wentworth Eldredge (1909-1991) was a sociology professor at Dartmouth College who served as a counter-intelligence officer in the United States Army Airforce during World War II. This collection consists of a manuscript of his drafts for an autobiography.
- Special CollectionsIsadore Zack (11 October 1912-January 8, 2011) was born in Quincy, MA. He served in the U.S. Army from 1941-1945 and was assigned as Special Agent in Charge of the Counter Intelligence Group/Subversive Squad, First Service Command, Boston, CIC from…
- Special CollectionsRobert Wear was born in Yunnan-fu, China on September 6, 1916, the son of missionaries who met while in China. His mother, Alice, née von Niederhauser, worked for the German Evangelical Church while his father, Robert Benjamin, worked for the YMCA.…
- Special CollectionsWinn L. Taplin of Stowe, Vermont was a former CIA agent and member of the Board of the New England Chapter of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO/NE). The Winn L. Taplin Archive of CIA Recruiting Materials includes booklets, brochures, pamphlets, and information sheets used in the…
- Special CollectionsRichard Wilmer Rowan (1894-1964) has been described as the foremost American non-fiction writer on the history of espionage. He was educated at Brown and Columbia and served in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service during World War I. He maintained a…
- Special CollectionsFranklin Norvish (1911-2010) was a professor of English at Northeastern University and an espionage agent for the United States Army during World War II. In 1943, Norvish was dispatched to Nazi-occupied France to catalog pro-German collaborators and…
- Special CollectionsMargaret Carson Hubbard (1897-1989) was born in Clinton, Iowa. She accompanied her husband Wynant, a geologist, to Northern Rhodesia in 1922. After her divorce, she returned to Africa in 1936 to film a documentary, the first of a number of trips.…
- Special CollectionsAllard K. Lowenstein (1929-1980), the subject of The Pied Piper, was assassinated by a former civil rights movement protegé. He was president of the National Student Association in 1950 and a civil rights organizer in the South, later serving one term as a Congressman and was appointed a United…
- Special CollectionsKenison (1919-1971) was born in Methuen, Massachusetts and was a graduate of Kennett High School in Conway, N.H. and the University of New Hampshire, where he received a B.S. in entomology in 1940. He served with the Naval Intelligence Office in India…
- Special CollectionsMember of the CounterIntelligence Corps in Germany, 1946-1947. Materials related to the European Theater Intelligence School in Oberammagau, Germany and eight reports filed from Headquarters, Region IX, 970th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment, Port Operations Office in Bremerhaven, Germany,…
- Special CollectionsEdith Nelson was born in Malden, Mass. in 1894. An experienced secretary, Nelson became a field clerk in the U.S. Army Intelligence Section during World War I. She was charged with investigating German nationals and subversives in the Boston area. She…
- Special CollectionsThe Association of Former Intelligence Officers New England Chapter, the David Atlee Phillips Chapter, was formed in 1984. The Association of Former Intelligence Officers New England Chapter Intelligence Studies Collection consists of videotape…
