S. Everett Gleason
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Sarell Everett Gleason was an American historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

, and intelligence analyst.

Life

He grew up in Evanston, Illinois
Evanston, Illinois
Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan...

. He graduated from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, in 1927, magna cum laude, and with a Ph.D. in 1934. He taught at Harvard University, from 1931 - 1938.
On June 19, 1937, he married Mary Eleanor Abbott.

From 1942 to 1946, he was Intelligence Chief for the Office of Strategic Services. He was Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
National Security Council
A National Security Council is usually an executive branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security...

, and on the Solarium Committee. He wrote, with William Langer, The Challenge to Isolation, for the Council of Foreign Relations.
He was a member of the Historical Division of the Department of State, from 1962 to 1970.

His papers are held at the Harry S. Truman Library.

Works

  • The Challenge to Isolation, 1937-1940 (1952) with William L. Langer
    William L. Langer
    William Leonard Langer was the chair of the history department at Harvard University and the World War II volunteer head of the Research and Analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services...

  • The Undeclared War, 1940-1941 Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1953. with William L. Langer (reprint P. Smith, 1968)
  • Foreign relations of the United States 1946, Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972

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