OBITUARIES - SEYMOUR R. BOLTEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100010024-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: June 8, 1985
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OBITUARIES
5eyrnour K. Bolten,
63, a retired official of the Central
Intelligence Agency who was an ad-
viser to the White House and the
Treasury Department on narcotics
enforcement problems, died June 6
at Georgetown University Hospital
He had pneumonia.
Mr. Bolten, who lived in Wash-
ington, was born in New York City.
He graduated from New York Uni-
versity and received a master's de-
gree in political science from Har-
vard University.
During World War II, he served
in the Army. He was captured in
North Africa and imprisoned in Po-
land, where he escaped in 1945. His
military decorations included the
Silver Star and the Bronze Star.
Mr. Bolten moved to Washington
and joined the CIA in 1950. From
1955 to 1960, he was stationed in
Bonn. He then returned here. His
duties concerned the flow of tech-
nology to the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe. He also became an
authority on the international drug
trade and represented the CIA on
interdepartmental committees on
narcotics.
Mr. Bolten retired in 1977. He
remained with the agency for a year
as a consultant and then joined the
White House as a special adviser on
narcotics problems. He also helped
organize the President's Commis-
sion on the Holocaust.
In 1981, he went to the Treasury
as senior adviser to the assistant
secretary for ertfor~eemertt. He re-
mained there until his death.
Mr. Bolten held the Distin-
guished Intelligence Medal and the
Intelligence Medal of Merit.
He was a member of the City
Tavern Club, the American Political
Science Association, the Interna-
tional Association of Chiefs of Po-
lice, and the American Enterprise
Institute.
Survivors include his wife,
Analouise C. Bolten of Washington;
three children, Randall C. of Menlo
Park, Calif., and Joshua B. and E.
Susanna Bolten, both of Washing-
ton, and two brothers, Jerome and
Phillip, both of Gaithersburg.
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