OTTO DOERING, FORMER O.S.S. LEADER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100100049-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: July 14, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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.Otto C. Doering Jr., a N.ew York lawyer
who was second in command in the Office
ei Strategic Services under Gen. William
J. Donovan during World War II, died of a
heart attack yesterday at his summer
i home in Lake Placid, N.Y. He was 74
years old and lived in Scarsdale, N.Y. :'
Mi. Doering was a senior partner in the
'.law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton &
Irvine. : ~. ~,
As a lieutenant colonel in the Army, he
served with [he O.S.S. from 1942 to 1945.
He was awarded the Legion of Merit, the
Order of the British Empire and, from
Thailand, the Order of the White Ele-
phant. He was also a director of the Inter-
national Rescue Committee. .---
As. a lawyer, lie handled such major
corporate cases as the receivership of the
RKO Corporation and actions before the
International Court of Justice: blr. Dcer-
ingjoined the firm in 1929, the year it was
founded by William Donovan. He became
a partner in 1935.
Mr. Doering was born in Wilmette, Ill.
He was a graduate of Cornell University
and' of the Cornell Law School, class of
`27. Before joining Donovan, Leisure, he
worked with Lhe IYew York law firm of ',
Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood. ~
Survivors include his wife, Lucy; three
sons, Rogers of Scarsdale, Paul of Straf-
ford Manor, Pa.,: and Otto 3d of West ~
Lafayette, Ind., and nine grandchildren.
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