THE HONORABLE ROBERT CUTLER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300060017-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 17
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The Honorable ROBERT CUTLER
Gen. Robert Cutler was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on June 12, 1895. He
received his A.B. cum laude from Harvard University in 1916 and his L.L.B. cum
laude from the same institution in 1922. He received honorary doctorate degrees
from Trinity College, 1943; Norwich, 1948; Northeastern University, 1949; Colby,
1951; and Boston University, 1952. Gen. Cutler began his work as English instruc-
tor at Harvard in 1916 where he became editor of the Harvard Law Review and
chairman of the Board of Advisors, Harvard Law School in 1919. In 1922 he was
admitted to the Massachusetts bar and practiced law in Boston from 1922 to 1942.
From 1940 to 1942 he was corporation counsel, City of Boston. He has served as
board member and director of many industrial and financial organizations.
He served as Second and First Lieutenant, Infantry, in the American Expedi-
tionary Forces, U.S. Army, 1917-1919. In 1918 he was in the AEF in France and
repent the next year with the Third Army Military Police in Germany.
Gen. Cutler was commissioned a Colonel in the U.S. Army in 1942, when ho . Al
made Assistant Deputy Director, Army Specialist Corps. His next military assign-
ment was Chief, Procurement Division, Officer Procurement Service, where he
remained until 1943 when he was assigned to the General Staff Corps, Office of
the Secretary of War. In 1945 he was made Brigadier General while coordinator
for Soldier Voting for the Army and Executive Officer of the U.S. War Ballot
Commission. Gen. Cutler was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and Legion
of Merit. Among his many positions as an outstanding citizen, Gen. Cutler was
general chairman, Greater Boston 1937 Community Fund Campaign. From 1940
to 1942 he was Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Public Welfare Department
of Massachusetts. Since 1947 he has been president of the Peter Bent Brigham
Hospital and has been overseer of Harvard University since 1949.
In 1952 he was appointed Administrative Assistant to the President of the
United States and at present is the Special Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs.
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