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| − | '''Robert R. Bowie''' (born August 24, 1909) is an American diplomat and scholar who served as [[CIA]] Deputy Director from 1977-1979. | + | '''Robert R. Bowie''' is Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, at Harvard University.<ref> |
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| − | Robert Bowie graduated from [[Princeton University]] in 1931 and received a law degree from [[Harvard University]] in 1934 and turned down offers to work as a corporate lawyer with New York's major law firms, returning to [[Baltimore]] to work in his father's law firm, Bowie and Burke. He served in the U.S. Army (1942–1946) as a commissioned officer with the Pentagon and in occupied Germany from 1945 until 1946. In 1946 he resigned as a lieutenant-colonel. He taught at Harvard from 1946-1955. The youngest professor of the school, he was a trusted confidant to [[John J. McCloy]] the "unofficial chairman of the American establishment". During periods of leave from Harvard between 1950 and 1952 Bowie worked for McCloy as one of his legal advisers in Germany.<ref>[http://ohr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/26/2/29.pdf Oral History Review 26/2 (Summer/Fall 1999): 29^46] Interviews with Robert Bowie: The Use of Oral Testimony in Writing the Biography of Professor Robert Richardson Bowie, Washington Policy Planner and Harvard
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| − | University Professor by Andrew McFadzean</ref>
| + | |title=Eisenhower Memorial Commission - Legacy Committee}}</ref> He was CIA deputy director for intelligence from 1977 to 1979.<ref>{{cite web |
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| − | He served as Director of Policy Planning from 1953–1957; co-founder of Harvard's [[Weatherhead Center for International Affairs|Center for International Affairs]] (1958); Counselor for the State Department from 1966-1968. He is a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]], the [[Trilateral Commission]], and the [[American Academy of Diplomacy]]. | + | |title=CIA's senior management structure}}</ref> |
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| − | [http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/legacycommittee/bios.htm Bio from the Eisenhower Memorial Commission]
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| − | [http://www.gilman.edu/news/detail.asp?pageaction=ViewSinglePublic&LinkID=4413&ModuleID=36 100th Birthday Celebration]
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Latest revision as of 13:56, 2 March 2011
Robert R. Bowie is Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, at Harvard University.[1] He was CIA deputy director for intelligence from 1977 to 1979.[2]
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