Update:
Seems like Merrill Speeter could very well have been the first or (one of the firsts to synthesize it)
-> Wikipedia says that DPT was firstly reported in 1973.
but the first report is from this paper:
Speeter, M. E., & Anthony, W. C. (1954). THE ACTION OF OXALYL CHLORIDE ON INDOLES: A NEW APPROACH TO TRYPTAMINES. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 76(23), 6208–6210. doi:10.1021/ja01652a113
if you read the second page (or page 6209) you can find the following text:
Footnote No. 5:
"Studies by Dr. Nolen Connor of our Laboratories indicate the hydroxyl group is not essential for activity on the central nervous system as 3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl) indole has grossly the same action in the dog as bufotenine. In contrast, 3-(2-methylaminoethyl)-indole has slight activity while 3-(2-N-propylaminoethyl)-indole produced no apparent symptoms.
According to pubchem, 3-(2-(Dipropylamino)ethyl)indole is DPT itself.
Also, the following:
THE COMPARISON OF THE PSYCHOTIC EFFECT OF TRYPTAMINE DERIVATIVES WITH THE EFFECTS OF MESCALINE AND LSD-25 IN SELF-EXPERIMENTS
Szara writes: "The N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and the N,N-diethyltryptamine (T-9) were obtained synthetically by the method of SPEETER AND ANTHONY."
Note that N,N-diethyltryptamine is DET itself.
So, Szara admits he used the Speeter method.
And Speeter says something about studies of a "Dr. Nolen Connor".
Did Connor just supervised the study or was he the chemist? In any way, DPT has been used since 1954 and seems like Speeter was perfectly capable of synthesizing it.
extra edit: both Merrill E. Speeter and Dr. Nolen Connor were prominent figures in The UpJohn Pharmaceutical Company.