Whiting Willauer (1906–1962) was an American ambassador to Costa Rica and Honduras.
Along with General Claire L. Chennault, Willauer founded the Civil Air Transport (CAT) company in China in 1946.
In 1950, Whiting Willauer sold CAT to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Ambassador to Honduras, after his appointment on 5 February 1954, was to provide the CIA team within neighboring Guatemala with any assistance that they required in the overthrow of that Government of Guatemala led by Jacobo Arbenz Guzman; he was even instructed to report to the CIA via the Under Secretary of State, Walter Bedell Smith, who had previously been the Director of Central Intelligence.
[4] After a short retirement, Whiting Willauer died on 6 August 1962 at Nantucket, Massachusetts.