IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 1, 1958

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• Publication Date: May 1, 1958
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Brigadier General John Magruder., U.S.A. (Ret.) will be buried tomorrow, (friday)
afternoon in the Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Services
in the Fort Myer Chapel will be at 1 p.m., LDST.
The 19 honorary pallbearers are as follows:
Mr. Allen W. Dulles
General Thomas D. White, U.S.A.F.
Major General James Lawton Collins, U.S.A. (lit.)
Major General Harry J. Maloney, U.S.A. (Ret.)
Brigadier General T. J. Betts, U.S.a. (Ret.)
Brigadier General W. C. Crane, U.S.A. (Ret.)
Brigadier General Hamilton L. Maguire, U.S.A. (Ret.)
Brigadier General Oscar William Koch, U.S.A. (Ret.)
Brigadier General John N. Gree.ly U.S.A. (Ret.)
Colonel John Nash, U.S.A. (Ret.)
Colonel J. Lawton Collins, Jr., U.S.A.
L'olonel Samuel Marshall, A.U.S. (Ret.)
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Brigadier General John Magruder, United States Army, (Retired) died last
night at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m.,
Friday, May 2, at the Chapel, Fort Myer, Va. Burial in Arlington Memorial
Cemetery with full military honors. General Magruder lived at 1061 Thomas
Jefferson Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. with his wife, nee Helen Schurman.
They had three children, Barbara, Malcolm and Munro. Munro was killed in
combat in Korea. Mrs. Magruder's father was President of Cornell University
and former Ambassador to China and Germany.
General Magruder had a distinguished military career, including in
particular, service with the Army Intelligence, on the War Department
General Staff, and with the Office of Strategic Services. He was one of
the champions of Central Intelligence and was instrumental in the
establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was long associated
in intelligence with Allen W. Dulles, the Director of Central Intelligence.
General Magruder was graduated from the Virginia Military Academy in 1909,
with a Bachelor of Science Degree. He was commissioned in the Regular Army
in 1910, serving with the Infantry for one year after which he was transferred
to the Field Artillery. He served in the Philippine Islands from 1913 to 1915,
with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in 1918-1919; was assistant
military attache in France 1926-1930; from 1932 to 1935 he was Commandant of
the Virginia Military Institute, and was Military Attache at Bern, Switzerland,
from 1935 to 1938. He returned to Washington in 1938 and became Chief,
Intelligence Branch, War Department General Staff until 1941 when for a short
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time he commanded the Artillery of the First Infantry Division. In August
1941 he went to China as Chief of the United States Military Mission. He
returned to the United States in May 1942. In March, 1943, General Magruder
was designated Deputy Director of the Office of Strategic Services continuing
to serve in that position under Major General William Donovan until September
1945. He was known to marry newspapermen for his daily briefings at the
Pentagon. He was named Director of the Strategic Services Unit, War Department,
in October 1945 and served until April 1946. He was retired from active
military service in September of 1946 but from 1949 to 1952 he served in the
Office of Secretary of Defense on special duty.
General Magruder was born on 3 June 1887 at Woodstock, Virginia. He
attended Massanutten Academy before entering the Virginia Military Institute.
He was a distinguished graduate of the Army's Command and General Staff
school (1926), and of the Army War College (1931), and of the advanced course,
Field Artillery school (1925).
He and Helen Schurman were married on 4 March 1922.
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Since 1910
Dies Here
army in 1910.Gen. Magruder
He served in France in World
War I, and participated in the
battle of St. Mihiel.
In 1920 he went to Peking,
where he was a military, at-
tache. He returned to this
country in 1924 to attend field
artillery school, and then went
back to China.
The general was appointed
to the faculty of VMI in 1932,
but left three years later to
become military attache in
Berne, Switzerland. -In 1939 he
!became chief of the Intelli-
gence Branch of the Military
Intelligence Division of the
'War Department General
]Staff.
President Roosevelt appoint-
ed Gen. Magruder to head the
t u t e and was
c o mmissioned
in the regular
agencies, died
Tuesday at
Walter Reed
Army Hospital.
Born i n
W o o d s t ock,
Va., G e n. Ma-
gruder attend-
ed Virginia
Brig. Gen. John Magruder
(ret.), 70, who sal' service with
the War Department General
Staff' and Army intelligence
U. S. military mission to China
in pre-war 1941 as overseer of
the Lend-Lease . equipment
then going to Chiang Kai-
Shek's army. He returned to
Washington in 1943 to direct
the Office of Strategic Serv-
ices under Maj. Gen. William
Donovan.
In 1944, Gen. Magruder
served as official m i l i t a r y
analyst of the Public Relations
Bureau here. He was respon-
sible for daily press briefings
on developments in the final
battles of World War H.
He is survived by his Avife,
the former Helen Schurman,
of the home address, 1601
Thomas Jefferson st. nw.; a
son, Malcolm Magruder, of
Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Robert E. O'Brien, of
Roswell, N. Mex.; two sisters,
Lulu Magruder and Mrs.
Charles McGee, of Woodville,
Miss., and two grandsons. An-
other son, Munro, was killed
in combat i?n~Korgesa.
A `fPf .r i d'gjy~l
dtr t
Myer Chapel. Burial, with full
military honors, will be in
Arlington Cemehterv_