CIA AUDITOR DIES IN PLUNGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300100006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 31, 1958
• Content Type: NSPR

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Dies in Plunge
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Victim- J Here Was
On Sick Leave
An auditor with the, Central;
Intelligence Agency was killed'
today in what was apparently
a plunge from the'roof of the
seven-story Idaho Terrace,
Apartments where he lived.
The victim .was Archibald S.I
Deas, 68, who lived. in apart-
ment 422 of the spacious modern
building at, 3040 Idaho avenue)
IN.W. , _
Police were notified at 6:58i
a.m. that his body was lying one
the one-story garage roof at they
rear of the'apartment buildings
Fence Surrounds Roof
Since the apartment he shared
with his wife, Claire, is at an-
other side of the building, De-
tective Sergt. Lionel Couture,
said Mr. Deasprobably dropped
from the roof.
To reach the edge of the roof,
one would need to step over a 42-
inch chain feiw.hich surrounds
?a roof garden..
Mrs. Alice Ladley, resident
manager who lives in 213, . said I
Mrs. Deas told her that Mr. Deas
had been on sick leave from the'
CIA, suffering-from a nerv:0us
condition.
he e of the 'resident believed
he ard something hit the ga-,
rage roof about 5:30 a.x}z. How-
`e body was not found
iuhtil daylight.
Born in Scotland
Mrs. Deas, Who was reported in
Ia 4istra.ught coTlAition, told po-
lice -Mr. Deas Fad remained at
This .desk when' _he retired. Ap-
parently, he did not go to his
bed at all. ? Theacouiple have lived
at the, apartments about four
years. 1
ECorn March 16,.!1888, in
Dunf, Berwickshire, Scotland,
Mr. Deas became naturalized
American citizen ii 1*17... He
served as a second lieutenant in
the. Fair service daring World
War I. ._
.,Mr. Deas woxlsed as auditor for
;firms in Chicago, New York and
`Paris for many years before
joining the CIA in September,.
1951. He was married in 1948
to Claire Fleming Hardwicke in
New York City.` They had no'
children.
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