A Record from Mary's Database
CD 1213 (1-3); HSCA, Vol. II (499); Espioage Establishment, Wise & Ross (272-274); KGB, Barron (85-87, 454); picture in Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook 1964 (439); World Book Yr. Book, 1964 (322); Britannica Yearbook (87, 440, 843); Public Papers of President John F. Kennedy, 1963, Nov. 14, 1963, Press Conference (Paper No. 459, paragraphs 2, 8, 19, 24); Espionage Establishment, Wise & Ross (pp. 272-274); Power Shift, Sale (129); Government by Gunplay, Blumenthal & Yazijian (159-160); Uncloaking the CIA, Frazier (152); Penthouse, Oct. 1979 (86); Target America, Tyson (250); Who's Who in Espionage, Payne & Dobson (12); Council on Foreign Relations, Membership Roster 1985; Cloak and Gown, Winks (417); Blowback, Simpson (110); New York Times, Tues. Nov. 26, 1991.
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DOB: 7/4/11; POB: Queens Village, New York, NY. Grew up in Dayton, Ohio. Undergraduate degree from Amherst College. Doctorate in history from Harvard. Worked for State Department in Washington in 1930's. Was on staff of American Embassy in Moscow, Russia, from 1942-47. Worked for State Dept. interviewing 200 Soviet defectors in West Germany from 1949-51. Taught at Univ. of Chicago, Columbia and Yale. Was Yale professor when arrested in Moscow in Oct. 1963 and placed in Lybyanka prison. Held 16 days and released 11/16/63 under pressure from Pres. Kennedy. Member of Council on Foreign Relations. Died Wed., Nov. 20, 1991 at 80 years of age in Willows Convalescent Home in Woodbridge, Conn. Survived by wife Nina Piroumoff of New Haven and a nephew Steven Barghoorn of Carlisle, Mass.
