Oral history interview with Douglas Josiah Bell, 2017 January 6

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Identifier: MSS 9148 File 11

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Scope and Contents

Don E. Norton oral history interview with Douglas Josiah Bell, dated January 6, 2017. Includes transcript with photos throughout and accompanying index. Also includes photocopies of articles written by Douglas and a bound copy of his transcription.

Dates

2017 January 6

Creator

Bell, Douglas J. (Douglas Josiah Bell), 1946- (interviewee, Person)
Norton, Don E. (1934-) (interviewer, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from Reference Services at specialcollections@byu.edu.

Biographical History

Douglas Josiah Bell was born in American Fork, Utah in 1946. After graduating from high school, he served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Netherlands and Belgium. When he got home, he married Caryl Williams. The Vietnam War was beginning, and he signed up to be a Dutch linguist and to be trained as an interrogator. He worked with NATO as a US Army Intelligence agent. He attended BYU and the University of Utah, where he earned his master's degree in Business Administration, and then received his Ph.D. from BYU in Higher Education, where he worked as a Full Clinical Professor. He was deployed to Kuwait and then Iraq in 2003, where he had much interaction with high-ranking Iraqi officers.