Background
Matthias, Willard C. was born on March 6, 1914 in Fennimore, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Nathaniel and Ernestine Caroline (Braun) Matthias.
Matthias, Willard C. was born on March 6, 1914 in Fennimore, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Nathaniel and Ernestine Caroline (Braun) Matthias.
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, U. Iowa, 1936; Master of Arts, University Minnesota, 1938; Master of Arts (Littauer fellow 1938-1939), Harvard, 1944.
Staff member, Brookings Institution, Washington, 1939-1940;
instructor, then assistant professor government, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio., 1940-1943;
intelligence officer, Central Intelligence Agency, 1947-1958, 59-64, 66-73;
member board national intelligence estimates, Central Intelligence Agency, 1961-1964, 66-73;
adjunct faculty, Washington Center for Learning Alternatives, 1980-1983. United States representative British Joint Intelligence Committee London, 1953-1955. Fellow Center International Affairs, Harvard, 1958-1959.
1st secretary embassy, Rome, 1964-1966. Research director American Committee on United States-Soviet Relations, Washington, 1978-1981.
Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Sally L. Seashore, June 26, 1937. Children— Jane Iris, Theodore Willard.