Thomas Anthony Dooley III, American physician and humanitarian (d. 1961) was born on January 17, 1927.

January 17, 1927

Thomas Anthony Dooley III, American physician and humanitarian (d. 1961) was born on January 17, 1927.

Thomas Anthony Dooley III was an American physician who worked in Southeast Asia at the outset of American involvement in the Vietnam War. While serving as a physician in the United States Navy and afterwards, he became known for his humanitarian and anti-communist political activities up until his early death from cancer. After his death, the public learned that he had been recruited as an intelligence operative by the Central Intelligence Agency, and numerous descriptions of atrocities by the Viet Minh in his book Deliver Us From Evil had been fabricated.