Huntington Denton "Ting" Sheldon (February 14, 1903 – May 19, 1987) was an American who served as the Director of the Office of Current Intelligence of the US Central Intelligence Agency from 1951 to 1961, serving under Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.
[2] He was later the husband of science-fiction writer Alice B. Sheldon (alias James Tiptree Jr.), 12 years his junior.
In 1987, she shot and killed Sheldon and then herself in what was either a murder-suicide or, based on her personal writings, a suicide pact.
[3] As an undergraduate, he earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and was a member of Scroll and Key.
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