John Franklin Daniel III (born Ann Arbor, Michigan 1911; died Gordion, Turkey December 17, 1948) was an American archaeologist, known for his work on deciphering the Cypro-Minoan script.
[3] Daniel left the university in 1942 to join the Greek desk of the Office of Strategic Services, an intelligence agency that was a predecessor to the CIA.
He eventually ran the OSS base in Cyprus, an important hub for the flow of intelligence in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.
[2] Daniel met Alice Kober in 1941 at the Archaeological Institute of America, while delivering a presentation on the Bronze Age Kourion.
[5] Sara Anderson Immerwahr, a colleague and friend of Daniel, later stated that she believed he had been poisoned as a consequence of his espionage activities.