Background
He was the third child of Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt III and Eleanor Butler Alexander and therefore the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Cornelius Roosevelt
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He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a member of Saint Anthony Hall, and graduated in 1938.
Career
He served in the Navy during World World War World War II He was commissioned as a ensign in the Naval Reserve on May 28, 1942 and promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) on July 1, 1943. He remained in the Naval Reserve after the war and was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1951. Foreign part of 1960 and 1961 he was head of the Technical Services Division of the Central Intelligence Agency. Evan Thomas wrote that Roosevelt was the person who originally suggested the Central Intelligence Agency project that attempted to poison Fidel Castro.
Roosevelt, as a head of the Central Intelligence Agency technical division, supervised Sidney Gottlieb, who brought a biological poison to Congo during the autumn of 1960.
To friends and family, he said that his work for the Central Intelligence Agency mainly involved creating devices to detect listening devices. He also mentioned that he took part as a subject in the Central Intelligence Agency experiments on LSD (part of MKULTRA).
Roosevelt at various times in his life worked as an electrical engineer and in the Andes as a mining engineer He also may have worked in the Philippines.
Roosevelt had many lifelong hobbies and interests and published about them: the archaeology of Peru, the history of early sugar processing machines in the Caribbean, Japanese Netsuke carvings, and scuba-diving.
He gave a collection of more than 50 M. C. Escher prints to the National Gallery of Artist
