SIR WILLIAM WISEMAN

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29853, 20 June 1962, Page 8

SIR WILLIAM WISEMAN

Death In New York

(Ng. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, June 18

Sir William Wiseman, who was head of Britain’s Intelligence Service in the United States in World War I, died of a stroke yesterday in New York Hospital. He was 77. the “New York Times” reported today. He became ill on May 26 while he was visiting his daughter at Mamaroneck. New York. He had been on his way to London from his home in Jamaica.

From 1929 to 1958 Sir William Wiseman was an active partner in the Wall Street investment banking firm of Kuhn. Loeb and Company Sir William George Eden Wiseman was born on February 1, 1885, the oldert son of Captain Sir William Wiseman of the Royal Navy. He succeeded to the title in 1893. Credited with playing a key role for Britain in the United States during World War I, he established an organisation to provide the British Government with information from top levels in the United States Government.

He was a confidant of President Woodrow Wilson and the President's adviser. Colonel E. House, and became, for all practical purposes, the liaison officer between the British and United States War Cabinets. Sir William Wiseman’s branch of intelligence was credited with purloining a brief-case of the head of German propaganda, uncovering a German general travelling as a stoker and stopping the scuttling of German ships in New York Harbour.