Carl F. Eifler
Carl Frederick Eifler (27 June 1906 – 8 April 2002) was a
Biography
Eifler was born in
Eifler enlisted in the Army(age 15) and spent a year as a private in Panama before being returned to the US as underage. He served in the United States Army Reserve in the 1930s, earning a commission, and he was called to active duty in early 1941. Shortly afterwards, Eifler was ordered to report to "Wild Bill" Donovan, commander of the Coordinator of Information, which would soon become the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
Eifler was selected to command
In 1945, the OSS had Eifler devise a plan to parachute into Nazi Germany disguised as a German general to kidnap
After the war, Eifler earned a doctorate of psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology and worked as a clinical psychologist in Monterey, California. He died in 2002 at the age of 95 in Salinas, California. Eifler (a burly 6'2") had outlived both of his wives as well as his son, Carl Henry Eifler.
Colonel Eifler is a member of the
References
- ^ 1910 U.S. Census, Los Angeles, California, enumeration district 214, sheet 15
- ISBN 978-1-59643-487-5.
- Sacquety, Troy (2001). "Behind Japanese Lines in Burma: The Stuff of Intelligence Legend". Archived from the original on June 13, 2007. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- McLellan, Dennis. "Carl Eifler, 'fearless' colonel, dead at 95". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- ""Deadliest Colonel" dies at age 95". US Customs Today. Archived from the original on 23 October 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
Further reading
Moon, Thomas. The Deadliest Colonel. (New York: Vantage Press, 1975.)
External links
- Partial Inventory of the Carl Frederick Eifler Papers and selected documents online at the Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University.