Charles Wheeler Thayer (1910–1969)
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- Birthdate
- 1910-02-09
- Date of death
- 1969-08-27
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA
- Place of death
- Salzburg, Austria
- Education
- St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, USA
West Point, U. S. Military Academy (grad. 1933) - Occupations
- diplomat
- Organizations
- United States Army
United States Foreign Service - Short biography
- U.S. Vice Consul in Moscow, 1937, 1940; Berlin, 1937-38; Hamburg, 1939-40; Kabul, 1943; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; head of the State Department's international broadcasting division, including the "Voice of America", 1947-49; U.S. Consul General in Munich, 1952-53; in March 1953, when attacks on his loyalty by U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy inspired a State Department investigation into his diplomatic career, he resigned from the Foreign Service. Married to Cynthia Thayer.
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