ELMO H. HUTCHISON, 54, IS DEAD; DIRECTOR OF U.S. MIDEAST GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100740021-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2014
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: June 26, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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JUN 2 6 1964 /
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Elmo H. Hutchison, 54, is Dead;
Director of U .S . Mideast Group
Speclal to The New York Times.
; CAIRO, June 25 ? Elmo H. During his chairmanship there
;Hutchison, Middle East director were a series of incidents in-
of the American Friends of the volving destruction of border
villages and loss of many lives
Middle East, drowned yesterday on both sides. ?
while swimming in an inlet of
Mr. Hutchison gave his
the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. He account of the Arab-Israeli con-
was 54 years old. flict of 'those years in book
, Mr. Hutchison lived here since titled "Violent Truce." In this
1956 when he took charge of book the author also took note ,
the Cairo office of his organiza- of Soviet maneuvering in the -
tion. The American Friends of
Middle East and recommended! ;
;the Middle East is a privately solutions serving American in-;
.sponsored American organiza- terests and adverting war. .
tion whose purpose is to im- He had gone to Jeddah, Sau-1
Drove relations between the di Arabia, on business earlier
United States and countries of this wee'..
this part of the world.
Mr. Hutchison is survived by
In recent years Mr. Hutchison his widow, Thelma, and a son,
visited Arab countries through- Gu?.
out the region and was widely ?
known in all the capitals of the ?
Arab world., Protest by Israel
From 1943 to 1945 he was During Mr. Hutchison's
gunnery officer aboard the chairmanship of the Israel-Jor-
U.S.S. Warren and took. part dan Mixed Armistice Commis-
in the amphibious assaults on sion, Israel withdrew for sev-
Kwajalein, Saipan, Guam, Pele- en months in .1954 in protest
:Hu, Leyte and Lingayen Gulf. of his refusal to join in a
He came to the Middle East in vote condemning Jordan for
1951 as a military observer with the Scorpion Pass massacre in
the United Nations Truce Super- which 11 bus passengers were
vision Organization. This was murdered on March 17, 1954.
the organization set up to main- Mr.- Hutchison ruled there
'fain the truce between Israel and was insufficient evidence to,
the Arab countries after the condemn. Jordan. In a report the
war of 1948. next year he indicated that:
In 1952 Mr. Hutchison was the ? crime ? might have been
named head of the:Israel-Jordan committed by dispossessed Ne4.
Mixed ?,,Arrnistice Commission...gev Bedouins. , turned ..bandit...
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