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Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Wallace Rankin Deuel, intelligence officer and journalist, were given to the Library of Congress by his son, Peter MacArthur Deuel, in 1977.
The papers of Wallace Rankin Deuel were arranged and described in 1979. The collection was expanded in 1985. The finding aid was revised and the collection partially reorganized in 2012.
The Wallace Rankin Deuel Papers are described in
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Wallace Rankin Deuel in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
The papers of Wallace Rankin Deuel are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Government regulations control the use of security classified material in this collection. Manuscript Division staff can furnish information concerning access to and use of classified materials.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Wallace Rankin Deuel Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Wallace Rankin Deuel (1905-1974) span the years 1905-1971, with the bulk of the material dating from 1939 to 1954. The collection is strongest for Deuel's career in journalism. The papers are organized into the following series: Correspondence , Writings File , Scrapbooks , Miscellany , Addition , and Classified .
The Correspondence pertains to Deuel's personal and professional life. The general correspondence is largely comprised of personal letters with friends and family, with a few letters related to Deuel's work for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. The correspondence for the
The Writings File includes detailed journals and newspaper stories written by Deuel during his last ten years as a journalist and a typescript of his book
The Scrapbooks contain clippings of Deuel's articles written for the
Miscellany contains biographical sketches of contemporaries, a file on Dean Acheson, and financial records. Included also are memorabilia, photographs, and clippings relating to Deuel's son, Michael McPherson Deuel, who was killed in an airplane crash over Laos in 1965 while ostensibly working for the United States Agency for International Development, but serving as a covert operative for the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Addition contains family papers, writings, and a subject file. The family papers relate to Deuel's wife, Mary Virginia Deuel, and his two sons, Michael McPherson Deuel and Peter MacArthur Deuel, and contain correspondence, clippings, and memorabilia. A collection of material apparently gathered for the writing of a history of the Office of Strategic Services includes correspondence and notes from Deuel's service for that office. The subject file contains material from Deuel's service at the Department of State and the Allied Forces Supreme Headquarters during World War II, and later at the Central Intelligence Agency.
This collection is arranged in six series:
Personal and professional correspondence.
Arranged by type of correspondence and therein chronologically.
Typescripts of journals, a book, newspaper stories, lectures, magazine articles, and radio broadcasts.
Arranged by type of writing and therein chronologically.
Clippings of articles written by Deuel, reader correspondence, and reviews of his book,
Arranged by topic.
Biographical sketches of contemporaries, financial and tax records, family papers concerning Michael McPherson Deuel, card files, a collection of foreign coins, and other material.
Arranged by type of material or topic.
Correspondence, family papers, genealogy, writings, subject files, and printed matter.
Arranged by type of material.
Government security documents.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed.