Roger Hilsman
American soldier, government official, political scientist, and author (1919-2014) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 94
Roger Hilsman Jr. was an American soldier, government official, political scientist, and author. He saw action in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II, first with Merrill's Marauders, getting wounded in combat, and then as a guerilla leader for the Office of Strategic Services.
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A Hilsman memorandum in November 1962 tried to account for the deployments of Soviet intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba
Hilsman (far right) at the White House in April 1963 during a presentation of gifts with Kennedy and Deputy Prime Minister of Malaya Tun Abdul Razak
Professor Hilsman (second from right) at a conference at the United States Military Academy at West Point in December 1969, with syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft, U.S. Representative from Ohio Robert A. Taft Jr., and Colonel Amos A. Jordan Jr.About this person
He later became an aide and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, and briefly to President Lyndon B. Johnson, in the U.S. State Department while he served as Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1961 to 1963 and Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in 1963 to 1964.
