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John Wilkie
John Elbert Wilkie (1860 – December 13, 1934) was an American journalist and Director of the United States Secret Service from 1898 to 1911.
==Journalist==
At age 19, Wilkie joined the staff of the ''Chicago Times'' as a reporter. His father, Frank B. Wilkie, was an editorial writer at the newspaper; the two traveled to Europe and served as the ''Times European correspondents. Upon returning to the United States, Wilkie joined the staff of the ''Chicago Tribune'', where he initially served as financial editor and later city editor.〔(NEW SECRET SERVICE CHIEF.; Sketch of John E. Wilkie, Who Succeeds W.B. Hazen. ), ''The New York Times'', February 28, 1898, Accessed January 7, 2009.〕 While at the ''Tribune'', Wilkie hired satirist Finley Peter Dunne.
On August 8, 1890, while working for the ''Tribune'', Wilkie wrote a pseudonymous article that first described the Indian Rope Trick. Featured on the front page of the paper's second section, it was soon picked up by newspapers throughout the United States and United Kingdom, and it was translated into nearly every European language. Soon a number of people claimed to remember having seen the trick as far back as the 1850s. Four months later, the ''Tribune'' printed a retraction noting the story had been "written for the purpose of presenting a theory in an entertaining form."〔Teller, ('The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick': The Grift of the Magi ), ''The New York Times'', February 13, 2005, Accessed January 7, 2009.〕 However, the notice of the hoax garnered little attention, and the myth of the Indian Rope Trick persisted for years. When ''The People's Friend'', a British weekly magazine, contacted the ''Tribune'' in order to contact individuals mentioned in the story, Wilkie wrote a personal note: "I am led to believe that the little story attracted more attention than I dreamed it could, and that many accepted it as perfectly true. I am sorry that anyone should have been deluded."〔
By 1893, Wilkie had moved to London to work on behalf of an American railroad and steamship office. He returned to the United States in 1897 to go into private business. Sometime in these years he began working with the United States Secret Service, though those knew him personally were not aware of the fact until he became Chief of the bureau.〔
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