CIA EMPLOYE FOUND SHOT FATALLY IN CEMETERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300100012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: December 9, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST
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Shit Fatally: in Cemetery
James D. Deegan, 43, a Cen-
ts '1inb6'h` igey sup-
ply clerk, was found shot to
death yesterday in . Mount
Comfort Cemetery, Fairfax
County, albout a mile from his
home at 12' W. 'Austin ave.,
Virginia Hills.
Fairfax County Police Chief
William L. Durren, said the
death was prop iced a sui-
cide. Durren sad Deegan ap-
parently had be8 despondent
since the death of hi? brother,
George J. DeY a , *ho shot
himself near t e'eitrance to
Park Lawn Cemetery, Rock-
ville, Oct. 1.
County Medical Examiner
Claude Cooper said Deegan
had been shot twice in the
chest. Police said they .found
Deegan's gun, a .38-caliber
Luger, about 100?feet from the
body.
Deegan's wife, Helen, told
police she heard her husband
leave ; home about midnight
and drive off. Deegan's car
was found parked at the ceme-
tery entrance. An empty hol-
ster and a box of bullets were
in the car, police said.
lA spokesman said
Deegan' %ad been employed by
the Agency since 1953 in a
non-classified position and had
worked here and' . abroad.
Deegari'serv'eti 3n the'Army as.
a warrant officer from 1941 to
1946, worked for the Federal
Security Agency from 1946 to
1951 and for the General Serv-
ices Administration from 1951
to 1953.
He is survived by his wife
and three daughters.
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