LT. COMDR. ROBERT L. GUILL, OFFICER AT CIA FOR 15 YEARS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300240020-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: January 21, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Former Navy Reserve Lt. tional work for the St. Louis
Cmdr. Robert L. Guill, 56,. a CIA (Mo.) Department of Health and
intelligence officer for,15 years, served on the St. Louis Globe-
died Thursday of a heart attack. Democrat as special assistant to
He lived at 1901 Wyoming Ave. the publisher on business and
NW. editorial management policy.
During World War II, Cmdr. Before joining the'CIA in 1950,
Guill's Navy assignments in- Cmdr. Guill did public relations
eluded posts on Navy Secretary work for the Republican Nation
James V. Forrestal's committee I al Committee and served on the
on research and reorganization 1 staff of the Brookings Institu-'
and as public relations officer jtion.
for the exhibition of wartime
naval inventions at Rockfeller An author and historian, he',
Center, N.Y. in 1945-46. contributed to the best-selling
1 series "B' the P. rt " a histo- `
After being discharged from
the Navy in 1947, Cmdr. Guill
served as a special civilian
assistant at the International
Military Tribunal for the Far
East in Tokyo, where his duty
was to indoctrinate the Japanese
press in the reasons and pur-
poses of the tribunal.
Born in Carmi, Ill., Cmdr.
Guill was a graduate of Univer-
.sity of Missouri School of Jour-
nalism and did graduate work at
the University of Michigan.
Before taking his reserve
commission in 1942, he did
public information and educa-
po ,
ry of the Navy in World War II,'
and collaborated in preparing
"Victory at Sea," a popular
television series.
Cmdr. Guill also wrote for'
encyclopedias' and educational
books on the history of the,
International War Crimes Trials'
in Japan and contributed arti
.cles on foreign policy and the
history of U.S. military assist-'
ance to Brookings Institution
publications.
He belonged. to the Army-
Navy Club, the National Press
Club and Sigma Phi Epsilon,
and was a past vice president of
Alpha Delta Sigma, the national
honorary advertising fraternity..
He leaves his wife, Grace; ~a
brother, John L. of Racine,'
Wis., and two sisters, Mrs.
James Jamieson of Omaha,
Neb., and Mrs. Frederick'. Gir
and of Chicago, Ill.
Services will be at 10 a.m:
Monday at Ft. Myer Chapel,
with burial in Arlington Ceme-
tery.
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