CIA EMPLOYE FOUND SHOT DEAD IN CEMETERY NEAR ALEXANDRIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300100010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 8, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA Employe Found Shot Dead
In Cemetery Near Alexandria
Pat,
'I' e body o a en -
iigence Agency employe was Police Said) trail of blood Maureen and Janet. e seL_VUUi
found today with a bullet I as a warrant officer in the Army
led to a spot 200 feet from the of t
o ort service supply from 1940 to
wound in the heart in
body where a German Luger 1946; was with the Federal Se-
used ter, on
near Mount Groveton. Va Va. . 1 was found. curity Agency from, 1946, to l
Cemetery, j
1951, and General Services Ad-'
He was identified by Fairfax Mr. Deegan was found lying ministration from 1951 to 195'
County police as James D. Dee- face down, with a bullet wound when he joined the CIA.
gan, 43, of 12 West Austin ave- in the left side of his chest,,
nue, Virginia Hills, near Alex- police said. The bullet appar-1 Montgomery County police;
andria. i ently entered from . the front said George Deegan's body was
Mr. Deegan's death occurred and went out his back, police found behind bushes at the en-1
said. trance to Park Lawn Cemetery
less than two months after his An empty holster and some about 500 ,feet off the Rock-1
brother, George J. Deegan, 34, shells were found in Mr. Dee- ville pike on October 1. Ai.
,of 4915 H ls, s Oxbow road, the en- gap's white Volkswagen, parked i passerby made the discovery.
tran shot Park of at the e y, at the cemetery entrance, po-I George Deegan shot himself
trance Park Lawn Cemetery, lice said. in the ,chest with a shotgun
near Rockville, Md. The body. was found by two which was found between his;
The CIA said 1VIr. Deegan was cemetery employes, "Robert legs The death was pronounced
dministrative officer in its Cheeks and Charles Mobley. a suicide by Dr. Frank J. Bros-!
I an administrative'
supply service. A spokesman Policy said Mr. Deegan's wife chart, county medical examiner.
would not comment on reports had reported him missing dur:- Police quoted George Dee- `1
from neighbors that Mr. Dee- ing the night. on's wife' as saying, he had
gan had recently returned from Police Chief William -L Dur "been depressed about, his job.
service in Germany, rer said a formal ruling woul'dl
A neighbor said the Deegan not be issued until an autopsy
family went to Germany in is performed.
1959 and returned here last Mr,.Deegafl was married and
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