July 2008

Joseph G. Schaffner Jr. CIA Technology Analyst

Joseph G. Schaffner Jr., 58, a CIA technology analyst and manager for 30 years, died of acute myeloid leukemia May 31… Dr. Schaffner's work in the directorate of intelligence ranged from assessing foreign electronics and information technology to identifying emerging technologies that would enhance U.S. national reconnaissance. Those technologies included semiconductors, electro-optics, high-performance computers, quantum computing, fiber-optic lasers and mobile or satellite communications. He was on loan to the National Reconnaissance Office when he retired in 2006……(Washington Post, 1 Jul 08)

Henry F. Connor CIA, County Employee

Henry F. Connor, 82, who worked for the CIA and later for the Fairfax County government, died June 13… Mr. Connor worked on several overseas assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, including in Taiwan and Germany, and also at the CIA's Langley headquarters. He retired in the 1970s after about 25 years…..(Washington Post, 1 Jul 08)

June 2008

Robert Ernest Lytle Navy Captain, Intelligence Officer

Robert Ernest Lytle, 87, a retired naval aviator and intelligence officer, died of cancer June 19…Capt. Lytle flew 44 combat dive-bombing missions against Japanese forces on Bougainville Island and in Rabaul, New Guinea, during World War II, and he was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses and eight Air Medals. He later received two Legions of Merit.  Recalled to duty during the Korean War, he was an instructor at the Naval Intelligence School for three years. He then served in a variety of posts, including intelligence officer with the commander of the Naval Air Forces, Atlantic fleet; in the office of the chief of naval operations; on the Joint Strategic Target Planning staff in Nebraska; and with the Defense Intelligence Agency…..(Washington Post, 28 Jun 08)

Winston C. Oliver CIA Officer

Winston C. Oliver, 82, a CIA officer who spent 30 years in the directorate of operations before retiring in 1980, died of cancer June 17… Mr. Oliver was an operations officer for much of his early career, mostly stationed in Asia. From 1973 to 1980, he worked at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters at Langley. His decorations included the CIA's Career Achievement Medal…..(Washington Post, 28 Jun 08)

Austin W. Kibler Air Force Colonel

Austin W. Kibler, 78, a retired Air Force colonel and an experimental psychologist who managed research programs for government agencies including the Defense Department and the CIA, died of respiratory failure June 19…Col. Kibler served in the Air Force from 1953 to 1975…From 1978 to 1987, he was a research division director at the CIA……(Washington Post, 26 Jun 08)

J. Donald Huppert FBI Assistant Section Chief

J. Donald Huppert, 86, an FBI special agent who became an assistant chief in the agency's investigative division, died June 2…Mr. Huppert worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1947 to 1975 and had been based at the headquarters since 1962. He retired as assistant chief of the investigative division's criminal section. From 1987 to 1999, he worked for the Greenbelt-based MSM Security Services as a security clearance investigator for military and intelligence organizations……(Washington Post, 26 Jun 08)

Irving J. Albert CIA Translator

Irving J. Albert, 83, a multilingual translator for the Central Intelligence Agency for more than 30 years, died of brain cancer June 11…Mr. Albert worked for the CIA from 1950 to 1984, using his proficiency in almost a dozen languages during postings in Europe, Scandinavia and Southeast Asia. When he retired, he received the CIA's Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal. He spoke Russian, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, French and Italian and was a student of Turkish, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese……(Washington Post, 25 Jun 08)

Roger E. Wheeler, 88; NASA Intelligence Specialist

Roger Eugene Wheeler, 88, a retired intelligence specialist who later operated an air charter service, died June 5… After serving in the Army for four years during World War II, he received a master's degree in economics and sociology from the University of Nebraska in 1947…Mr. Wheeler moved to Washington and joined the old Army Security Agency. He then worked for an Air Force intelligence unit for several years before joining NASA in 1962. He was an intelligence management specialist and assisted in developing cryptographic linkages for space missions, including Apollo 11, the first manned flight to reach the moon…..(Washington Post, 21 Jun 08)

John G. Bonner, Portrait Artist, Retired CIA

John G. Bonner, 83, a portrait artist who earlier had spent 20 years with the Central Intelligence Agency, died of cancer May 25…He graduated from SMU in 1948 and attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., until 1951. Mr. Bonner then worked at the CIA. He retired in 1971……(Washington Post, 21 Jun 08)

Ward Boston, Navy attorney in USS Liberty investigation dies

Ward Boston, a former Navy attorney who helped investigate the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 crewmen and years later said President Lyndon Johnson ordered that the assault be ruled an accident, has died… Boston was assigned as a legal adviser to a military board of inquiry investigating the attack on the Liberty, an electronic-intelligence-gathering ship that was cruising international waters off the Egyptian coast on June 8, 1967. Israeli planes and torpedo boats opened fire on the Liberty in the midst of the Israeli-Arab Six-Day War. In addition to the 34 Americans killed, more than 170 were wounded……(AP, 18 Jun 08)

Leonard F. Crowe  Computer Programmer

Leonard Fulton Crowe, 83, a former computer programmer, died May 30…He graduated from the University of Colorado and came to Washington in 1970. He worked for the Department of the Army as a cryptographer and intelligence communications specialist for 13 years……(Washington Post, 17 Jun 08)

Nancy Lovell Dean CIA Officer, Budget Analyst

Nancy Lovell Dean, 75, a former CIA officer and budget analyst at the National Institutes of Health, died of a pulmonary embolism June 4… Mrs. Dean worked for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953 to 1959. She joined the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1971 as a budget analyst and later switched to the NIH, from which she retired in 1989……(Washington Post, 12 Jun 08)

Ralph Whitebergh Air Force Intelligence Officer

Ralph Whitebergh, 86, a former U.S. Air Force chief warrant officer, died of vascular dementia May 20… Mr. Whitebergh organized the service's Human Intelligence Reserve Program, which eventually enrolled 1,000 to 1,500 reservists. After he retired from the Air Force in 1967, he worked 25 years as a civilian in the same job at Fort Belvoir. He retired a second time in 1992…..(Washington Post, 9 Jun 08)

Norman Longfellow Smith, 83; CIA Official

Norman Longfellow Smith, 83, a former deputy chief of operations in the CIA's counterintelligence service, died of congestive heart failure and complications of Guillain-Barre Syndrome on May 26… Mr. Smith, who joined the CIA in 1951, analyzed Soviet armaments and, after the Soviets launched Sputnik, specialized in ballistic missiles and space vehicles. In 1960, he chaired an intelligence community task force to monitor missile activity outside the Soviet Union……(Washington Post, 7 Jun 08)

Robert W. Moore Foreign Service Officer

Robert W. Moore, 86, a retired Foreign Service officer who had seven overseas assignments with the State Department, died May 9…After serving in the Army during World War II, he joined the Foreign Service in 1946. He was assigned to U.S. embassies in Paraguay, Chile, Ecuador and Malaysia and to consulates in Indonesia and Scotland. In addition, he was the consul general in Karachi, Pakistan, and Vancouver, B.C…..(Washington Post, 5 Jun 08)

William Odom, 75, National Security Director, Dies

William E. Odom, a director of the National Security Agency in the Reagan administration who became an early and outspoken opponent of the Iraq war, died last Friday…Mr. Odom, who also worked at the National Security Agency under President Jimmy Carter, was once described as a “blue-ribbon hawk” for his opposition to détente with the Soviet Union……(New York Times, 5 Jun 08)

Heinz Geyer, deputy head of former East German spy agency, dies

Heinz Geyer, a deputy head of the former East Germany's foreign intelligence service, died Tuesday… Geyer was a deputy to Markus Wolf _ who notoriously outwitted the West as communist East Germany's long-serving spymaster _ and the last chief of staff of the foreign intelligence arm of the Stasi secret police, known by its German initials, HVA… During his tenure, Wolf, who died in 2006, planted some 4,000 agents in the West _ most famously placing Guenter Guillaume as a top aide to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. The agent's unmasking forced Brandt to resign in 1974…..(AP, 3 Jun 08)

CIA acknowledges two dead with stars on memorial wall

Two unidentified Central Intelligence Agency employees killed over the past year were acknowledged Monday with stars on a memorial wall at the intelligence agency's headquarters…The new stars raised to 87 the number of fallen CIA members memorialized on the wall -- 35 of whom have not been identified. The two new additions "were killed in the past year while conducting missions in the war zones…..(Focus, 3 Jun 08)

CIA pilot to be honored

A former CIA spy pilot from Birmingham will be honored at Battleship Memorial Park on the 40th anniversary of his death…Jack Weeks, a 1955 University of Alabama graduate, was killed June 5, 1968, when his A-12 Blackbird spy aircraft crashed during a "checkout flight" out of Okinawa, Japan, according to Bill Tunnell, the park's executive director. Weeks is credited with being the first to locate and photograph the USS Pueblo in North Korea on Jan. 26, 1968, after it had been seized three days earlier by the North Koreans…..(Alabama, 2 Jun 08)

William E. Odom, 75; Military Adviser to 2 Administrations

William E. Odom, 75, a retired Army lieutenant general who was a senior military and intelligence official in the Carter and Reagan administrations and who, in recent years, became a forceful critic of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, died May 30…Because of his fierce anti-Soviet stance, Gen. Odom was known as "Zbig's superhawk" and his "crisis coordinator," who helped plan responses to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the capture of hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. Gen. Odom spent four years in Army intelligence before being named director of the National Security Agency, the government's largest spy operation, in 1985. He threatened to prosecute journalists at The Post and other media outlets in 1986 for compromising national security after exposing a U.S. eavesdropping operation by submarines in Soviet harbors….(Washington Post, 1 Jun 08)

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