Robert H. McDowell

Robert Harbold McDowell
McDowell in 1944
Born	(1894-05-23)May 23, 1894 Syria, Ottoman Empire
Died	June 2, 1980(1980-06-02) (aged 86) Pinellas County, Florida, United States
Nationality	Armenian, American
Occupation(s)	historian and intelligence officer
Known for	head of American mission with Chetniks during World War II
Notable work	The Key Role in Southeastern Europe during World War Two of the Serbs and Their Commander General Draza Mihailovich despite Their Abandonment by Churchill and Roosevelt.

Robert Harbold McDowell (May 23, 1894 – June 2, 1980) was an American historian and intelligence officer who worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. McDowell, an expert on the Near East, was a professor of Balkan history at the University of Michigan. During World War II he was an OSS desk officer in Cairo and between August and November 1944 a member of an American mission Ranger, to the Chetniks, where he participated in negotiations with Germans to surrender their troops to Chetniks and Americans, and in Operation Halyard, to organize transport of the Allied pilots rescued by Chetniks. In some works he has been described as a man of "violently pro-Chetnik prejudices".