WILLIAM WHEELER, SENIOR EXECUTIVE WITH THE CIA
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CIA-RDP75-00001R000400470002-1
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Document Creation Date:
November 11, 2016
Document Release Date:
April 30, 1999
Sequence Number:
2
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Publication Date:
March 22, 1966
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jemor Executive
With Che CIA
William M. Wheeler Jr., 52, a
senior executive with the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency, died
Sunday at Georgetown Universi-
ty Hospital of a heart ailment.
Born in Buffalo, N. Y., Wheel-
er was a 1935 graduate of Yale
and received his law degree
from the University of Califor-
nia at Berkeley in 1938.
He worked for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation until
.1944, when he transferred to the
,Department of War. He trans-
ferred to the State Depart-
ment's Foreign Service in 1954.'
Following service in Brazil,
Portugal and Spain, he went to
the CIA in 1960.
He leaves his wife Janet,
whom he married in 1948, and'
two daughters, Susan and!
Barbara, all of the home at 6804
Algonquin Ave., Bethesda, and
three sisters, Mrs. Frederick H.
McCrea of St. Helena, Calif. and
Priscilla and Mary Wheeler of,
Oakland, Calif.
Services will be private.
The family requests than
expressions of sympathy be
made in the form of contribu
tions to the department of
cardiology, Georgetown Univer-
sity Medical Center, in care
Dr. Charles A. Hufnagel.
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