Dr tom dooley biography

American physician

For other people and things with the same name, see Tom Dooley (disambiguation).

Thomas Anthony Dooley III
Thomas A. Dooley, M.D.
Born	(1927-01-17)January 17, 1927 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died	January 18, 1961(1961-01-18) (aged 34) New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Physician, author

Thomas Anthony Dooley III (January 17, 1927 – January 18, 1961) 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-communistpolitical 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 h