Calhoun Ancrum, Jr served during WWII as a multilingual US intelligence agent and received the Distinguished Service Cross for his Army service. From 1943 to 1945, as an agent in the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency. Lt Ancrum was flown several times a week from England over Germany to convey instructions by radio to anti-Nazi Germans. After the war, he worked for the US Allied Secretariat in Berlin and for the US High Commissioner in Germany.
On June 17, 1945 he married Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia in a Russian Othodox ceremony. They had no children and divorced in 1954. Ancrum became a newspaper columnist. In 1970 he entered an Episcopal seminary and was ordained as a priest; he served as an assistant rector of the Old North Church in Boston.

Calhoun Ancrum, Jr served during WWII as a multilingual US intelligence agent and received the Distinguished Service Cross for his Army service. From 1943 to 1945, as an agent in the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency. Lt Ancrum was flown several times a week from England over Germany to convey instructions by radio to anti-Nazi Germans. After the war, he worked for the US Allied Secretariat in Berlin and for the US High Commissioner in Germany.
On June 17, 1945 he married Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia in a Russian Othodox ceremony. They had no children and divorced in 1954. Ancrum became a newspaper columnist. In 1970 he entered an Episcopal seminary and was ordained as a priest; he served as an assistant rector of the Old North Church in Boston.