TRUCK KILLS CIA COUPLE IN LONDON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300010020-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: September 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEWS AMERICAN
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S EP 15 1967
Truck Kills
CIA Couple
4.
In London
News American
London Bureau
I LONDON, Sept. 15--A mare
.ate
40
Iday in a street accident in Pi
eadilly were employes of the U.
S. Central Intelligence Agency, !
lit was learned yesterday.
The deaths were immediately
reported to MI6--British equiv-
alent of the CIA--and Ameri- i
can Embassy security officials.
They quickly confirmed there
was no reason to suspect any,
more than an accident.
The couple, Mr. and Mrs.,
Dwight Collins, both 59, of
Washington, was on the second
day of a month's European hol-
1 iday.
They had worked for the
CIA since 1951 in ".reasonable
administrative positions at
headquarters."
A van belonging to a West
Kondington paper bag manu-
facturer was involved. An of-
ficial of the firm said "our
driver had just come out of the
Hyde Park Corner underpass.
Suddenly they were in front of
him. He didn't even have time;
to brake."
Police think they may have;
forgotten that traffic herel
!drives on the opposite side of
the road from America-and
(looked left instead of right be-
Ifore stepping off the pavement,
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