OS - KING, JOSEPH CALDWELL(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005642324
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2011
• Case Number: F-2009-01102
• Publication Date: December 29, 1949

2u December 1949
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Chief, Research Division
KING, Joseph Caldwell
2. BACKGROM% Subject is 49, years of age, and a native of New
YorIC7 -His rents were both native Americans. Subject's father
was engaged for many years in the chemical manufacturing business
in Bound Brook, New Jersey.
Subject has been twice married, and has three children by his
first marriage. All three are between 19 and 21 years of age.
Subject was reportedly divorced from his first wife 10 years ago.
He married again in Uruguay in 1942. His present wife is a native
of Hungary and is not a naturalized American citizen. He has two
sons by this marriage, both minors. His wife was formerly a singer
in a South American night club.
The Subject was sa. 1923 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy
at West Point. In 1925, he received a B.S. degree from Princeton.
University. Subject prepared for college at the Lawrenceville School
in New Jersey, and subsequently studied in Paris in schools of political
science and oriental languages.
He served briefly as a 2nd Lieutentant, Infantry, after his
graduation from West Point and once more entered on active duty in
June 1943, at which time he Wa.a assigned as Assistant to the Military
Attache in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was promoted to 11t. Colonel,
AUS, on October 1944, and in February 1946, received an honorable
discharge in the rank of Lt. Colonel. He holds a reserve omission
an a Lt. Colonel, Military Intelligence Reserve.
The Subject claimed to have spent about a year after completing
his education in mining exploration and c ve opment in Mexico and is
known to have associated with his father in the management of King
(ibemical Company, Bound Brook, New Jersey for about two years.
In 1930 the Subject became associated with the Johnson and Johnson
Company, pharmaceutical manufacture th headquarters in New Brunswick,
New Jersey. He has been employed co t o.usl?y from that time in various
capacities for the Argentine and Braziltan companies for Johnson and
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 Jo eon, as a special representative, and later Vies Pre 'dent and
ere tually President. This service was interrupted only by the
of time which he spent in t Army.
Subject is reported to be fluent in Portugese, 3n.sh and
`talian.
$_. i0 1NO1 T}1Y EA C TQRSe A reference described the Subject as having
J. keen mind fte: Yig very competent in both planning and execution
bP anything he tackles. There is no question as to his loyalty, nor
y indication that he .ubscribes to subversive doctrines.
Army records contain a reference to the Subject which was dated
August 1943 and described him as being outspoken and inclined to be
lce a tongued, and that' he attracts attention by his manner, and while
'thking and -holding. conversation in public places, he has reportedly
3:eoussed parfioulars of his detachment's operations. His efficiency
rating received as a result of hies work in Argentina.was "Superior,"