FORMER OFFICIAL REPORTER OF CIA CHIEF VISITS IN BLUFFS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300570022-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: October 13, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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~q'Kx s 1- areer Men he won the
Former Official Repo ter
0f CIA. Chief T i i s in Bluffs
By Terry Barton
to in me
Iowa typing contest in.Des
Moines in 1938. He, was /t
'
graduated from Cre~ ht
on
University with a journal.
ism major, then completed
his 'academic work for a
lierature at the University I
He said, he is 'certified as'
a court reporter in more
states than any other re-
orter in the antion 14-
c
.ook his court reporting, ,j
chooling in Des Moines.
Mr. Olsen holds "the Army
ommendation Medal for
is service at the Embassy
n Ottawa during World
ar 11. He was fourth in the na~ M
iorial championship speed"
ontest for stenotype re- e
h
Mr. Olsen recalled that'
ie contest was rough. V
It involved three five-min-`
, to takes at dictated speeds \~
220 words per minute onI
1 eraly matter, 240 words
r minute on court charges
a jury and 280 words
per per minute on two-voice?,!
courtroom testimony.
He said he was third oil!'
the literary section and'
placed .85 of a point behind,,
the 1964 champion on two;
voice testimony.
Eesidee his mother, twoN
Council Bluffs. I oosevelt-Churchill confer- J.
, rite
perhaps has been privy to
as many high state secrets
as any one living today, is
visiting his mother here this
week.
M. Eugene Olsen, son of
Mrs. Florence Olsen,, 408
Franklin Avenue, was the!
was the official shorthand
reporter for Allan Dulles, J
chief of the Central Intel- I
'ligence Agency, from 1952
Other portions of his ca- }
reer include:
-Court reporter for the l
Internationtl Military Tri-
burial in Tokyo for the trials
of ex-Premier Tojo and
other Japanses military and
i d4rAPPr.QV0;
and of World War If.
-An assignemnt to a .`~
pecial presidential mission.
hich made an extensive
our of republics of South;""
merica.
-Reporter' for the' Joint;,;
Thief of Staffs and the "9
ombined Chiefs of Staff
Washington in 1952-53.
Now employed as a court "
I eporter in Oregon, Mr.J
lsen arrived here from,
lorida where he was?
warded an' honorary de-
ree from Jones College,;
iami, He is on the college
dvisory board for the De".
artment of Court Reports
sisters, Mrs. Elaine Christ..
ensen and-.,, Mrs. ` Doro
oe thy,:
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