Charles C. Stelle (25 October 1910 – 11 June 1964) was a United States

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...

Early life

Stelle was born to missionary parents in Peking in 1910, and lived in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

until he was 14 years old.

Career

During World War II, Stelle worked on the Far East for the

Office of Strategic Services The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branc ...

(OSS). Stelle was a member of the

Dixie Mission The United States Army Observation Group, commonly known as the Dixie Mission, was the first US effort to gather intelligence and establish relations with the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army, then headquartered in the m ...

(1944–1947), an American observation mission to Yan'an, China, to investigate the Chinese Communists.Carolle J. Carter, ''Mission to Yenan: American Liaison with the Chinese Communists 1944-1947'' (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1997).

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