David Atlee Phillips papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 840
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; Kidnapping; Foreign relations; World War, 1939-1945; Terrorism; Assassination; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; German Prisoners and prisons
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts and typescripts of books and articles, speech, reports, research material, court documents, biographical notes, and other papers pertaining primarily to Phillips's career in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency dealing chiefly with Latin American affairs.  Subjects include Phillips's captivity and escape from a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp; charges of Phillips's involvement in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Orlando Letelier; and William Niehous's kidnapping and captivity by Venezuelan radicals.  Correspondents include Joseph C. Goulden.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mrs. David A. Phillips, 1988.

Gift, Joseph C. Goulden, 2003.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division.

Newspaper publisher, intelligence officer, and author.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009050