PAIR SWEPT OVER FALLS; CIA MAN LOST, WIFE SAFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400480017-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: October 23, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

Pair S uptoMpgro F Ajelease : CIA-RDP75-00
CIA Man Lost, Wife Safe
A Central Intelligence Agency
employe back from an assign-
ment in Germany, was missing
pitalized for shock after they
were swept over the Potomac
River's Great Falls.
"We jumped in together,"
'Mrs. Dorothy M. Woodbury.
C. H. Simpson.
Dragging operations for the
body of her 31-year-old hus-
band, James A. Woodbury,
was halted late ' in the after-
noon by-a heavy thundershower
and approaching darkness, put
will be resumed today.
Work "Pressure" Cited'
Mrs. Woodbury, 1 ' semi-
lucid conversation with Pvt.
Simpson, indicated the` "pres-
sure" of her husband's work
was so great that they decided
to do away with themselves, he
said.
They returned from the Ger-
man assignment with ,their two
children about a month ago,
neighbors said, and were living
at 1412 North Hartford street,
Arlington.
One son, Paris, 8, was found
watching television ii} the de-
serted house after the drown-
inge The other boy, Jeff, 10,
was staying with neighbors.
Mrs. Woodbury became sep-
arated from her husband in the
water and was swept into an
arid started walking toward the
river again, seeking, she said,
her shoes and purse. Polich
stopped her before she reached
the edge.
The couple went into the
ut,i ZJ 195S
rr's wife did not talk much,
except to say "Jim's gone."
Earlier, Maynard Woodbury
and his wife had gone to the
Hartford street house, where
they found Paris watching tel-.
evision on the' second floor !
while police searched the neigh-
borhood for him. The front
door was found open and the,
screen door ajar.
Made Previous Trip
Shortly after Paris was found,
Jeff came home from a shop-
ping trip with his friend, Bruce
Ganger, and Bruce's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert;E, Ganger,
of 1305 N. Henderson street.
water, police theorized, about They had left aM it 1:30 p.m.
a quaff ter mile.. north of the ' Mr_ Ganger. said that al
park and 300 feet above the
falls.
,though the boys. were good
friends, he and his wife met
the Woodburys only last Sun-
ay
on Watching TV l
'
"Oddly enough, we went to
In her conversation with Pvt ;Great 1'4I that, day," Mr.
Simpson- before she'was 'taken . Ganger sa,,d
taeoccurred , he
eddy just below the telescopes) to Arlington Hospital, Mrs.'saidotalthounuunusual
on the observation point at Woodbury muttered she was; did climb down the face of a i
Great Falls park. Spectators 11 ?
there saw her sitting on a rocky .. glad to be alive" and said she ,cliff to fish with the boyt.
ledge, brying, and h%lped her hoped her husband would be " Ma5-nard' WoQdbury said' he
to the park pavilion. found alive. Chad seen ;'his brother' about
three weeks age, and that. both'
Mr. Woodbury's brother,
~
Swept Downstream Maynard, of 4519 South Thirty-{he and Dorothy appeared ti be ,
first street, Arlington, and an-+l in good spirits. "
ling spectator, Roy Wil- other relative hurried Mrs. ,i "It comes as a great sho~}~,., am, 42, a t te4lephone com- he said. We knew he had a
pany employe, of- Vienna, Va,, Woodbury out of the hospital's,
back door about 7 p.m, new assignment in this area,
who was visiting the park, but of course didn't ask him
said he saw the man coming Hospital authorities said she what it was, ` I can't imagine
down the river, flailing the suffered no injuries, but was'
what they would, do this #q r."
water with his arms and ap- quite disturbed emotionaly. Another brother, WendeiT a
parently attempting to grasp at
rocks.
He said Mr. Woodbury dis-
appeared in the whirlpool called
the Spout, bobbed up again
and th
t d
en was swep
own
.-
stream.
At the park pavilion, James
IA. Watts, superintendent of
Fairfax County parks, said Mrs.
Woodbury, almost incoherent
when first brought out, said
!"we both wanted to die" and
that her husband had been as-
I signed to duty he didn't want
At one point, when offered
a cup of coffee, she asked to be
(left alone; then went out, got
into their car which they had
parked near the Sarntizied - Approved For Rel
short time later she got out
dives at 417 South Lee street.
;Alexandria, Va. He could give
no explanation for the tragedy.
Maynard Woodbury said
Uthere are,two other brothers:
' ayne, in Texas, and Wallace,
iprNew 1]elii, India, An uncle,
? George Woodbury, lives at 9907;
Portland road, Silver '.Spring,'
Md,
dames Woodbury graduated
from the, University of Iowa,
where he met Dorothy, May-
nard Woodbury said, They,
had teen married about 12
years.'
The Woodbury family is from
ornwith. Iowa, where the par- j
_ nts, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace
uryC fM-#F~DP3~S*0001 Rq
STATINTL
CPYRGHT
00400480017-4