Roots of Rendition (Albarelli & Kaye)

[Jan Klimkowski]

Austin - welcome to DPF, and thank you for posting that article.

Below is an obituary I found of Dr Ecke when I was researching the Dimitrov case a few years ago. The obituary acknowledges Ecke's CIA work:

ROBERT SKIDMORE ECKE

http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDet...D=76467548



1. Portsmouth Herald Obituaries from May 26, 2001
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/5_ - [Cached]

Published on: 5/26/2001 Last Visited: 8/12/2001

Dr. Robert S. Ecke

ELIOT , Maine - Dr. Robert Skidmore Ecke , of Eliot , passed away Saturday , May 19 , 2001 , at Portsmouth Regional Hospital after a short illness.

Born in Brooklyn , N.Y. , Nov. 22 , 1909 , he was the son of the late Albert D. and Grace ( Dekker ) Ecke.

He was educated in New York City public schools and in 1931 graduated from Bowdoin College , receiving an A.B. degree cum laude in German , chemistry and biology. At college he also was a member of the varsity football team and president of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.

In 1935 , he received his M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University and following that was a surgical intern with the Baltimore City Hospitals in 1936 and a research fellow with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1937. Prior to World War II , he was on the staff of Notre Dame Memorial Hospital in Twillingate , Newfoundland , Canada. His experiences there are recounted in his recent book , Snowshoe & Lancet..

During World War II , he served in the United States Army in the Medical Corps. Most of his service was in the European Theatre where he was decorated for meritorious service in connection with his work for the Typhus Commission. The work with the Typhus Commission took him to a number of countries in southern Europe and Africa during the latter stages of the war. During the last six months of the war , he served with the partisan forces in Yugoslavia and he pioneered typhus control in that country.

Immediately after World War II , while still in the Army , he served as a consultant to SHAEF and subsequently was honorably discharged as a lieutenant colonel. Following the war , he briefly served as medical director for Notre Dame Memorial Hospital. He left after a short term there and took on special projects with the CIA. He continued to work for the CIA until 1964. His official comment on this portion of his career was always No comment..

He then engaged himself in medical research until 1969. From 1969 through 1979 , he was in the private practice of medicine in Hartsdale , N.Y. In 1979 , he retired and moved to Eliot.