WILLIAM H. DANIELS, EX-JUDGE; WAS U.S. SPY IN WORLD WAR II

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100100042-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: January 26, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Iv'E"-,' YORK TIMES
26 JANUARY 1983
William H. Daniels, Ex-Judge;
Was U.S. Spy in World War II
I BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 25 (UPI)
- Former Judge William Hawk Dan-
iels, who served as a spy behind Ger-
man lines in World War II, has died. He
was 6S years old.
Mr. Daniels, a former city judge, died.
Saturday of cancer.
He spent 20 years in public office
after working as a reporter for newspa-.
pers in Minden, Shreveport and Lake
Charles, La. Near the end of his judicial
career he was chastized by legal offi-
cials for reaching verdicts by flipping
coins. I
He resigned from the bench in 1 7r,
citing illness. The retirement came just
after he won an indefinite delay in a dis-
ciplinary hearing before the Louisiana
Judiciary Commission.
Mr. Daniels described himself in a
1966 autobiographical 'sketch as an
---agent of-the Officeof-Strategic-Service--?-
n-World War. II, working as a spy in
France.
He later served four years in the
counterintelligence corps in Korea.
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