OBITUARIES - CLAUD CORRIGAN, EX-CIA EDITOR, HEAD OF GOLF ASSOCIATION, DIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100010079-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: November 28, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APffASP. WASHINGTON POST
ON FM r 28 November 1986
OBITUARIES
Claud Corrigan, Ex-CIA Editor,
Head of Golf Association, Dies
Claud H. Corrigan, 65, a retired
editor with the Office of Central
References of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency and president of the
Washington Metropolitan Golf As-
sociation, died Nov. 25 at Fairfax
Hospital after a heart attack.
Mr. Corrigan, who lived in Vien-
na, was born in Michigan. He grew
up in Coral Gables, Fla., and grad-
uated from the University of Miami.
During World War II, he served
in the Navy in Europe. He remained
in the Navy Reserve, retiring in
1974 as a captain. He joined the
CIA in 1947 and retired in 1975.
Mr. Corrigan was a past presi-
dent of the Westwood Country Club
in Vienna, where he edited the club
newsletter. He wrote a weekly golf
column for the Northern Virginia
Sun newspaper and was the editor
of the monthly newsletter of the
Mid-Atlantic Association of Golf
Course Superintendents.
He was a member of the Golf
Writers Association of America, the
Golf Collectors' Society and the
Golf Club Repairmen's Association.
His marriage to Dorothy Corri-
gan ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife, Peg-
gy, of Vienna; three sons from his
first marriage, James, of Baltimore,
Daniel, of Anderson, S.C., and Phil-
ip, of Reston; three stepdaughters,
Lynne Francis of Sloatsburg, N.Y.,
Marianne Francis of Fort Worth,
and Carol Francis of Fairfax; a
brother, George of Coral Gables,
and five grandchildren.
Europe. He graduated from George
Washington University, where he
also earned a master's degree and a
doctorate in psychology.
He became a civilian employe of
the Army Department in the early
1950s and retired as a research
psychologist in 1971.
Later, Mr. Kaplan, a member of
Southeast Neighbors, worked for
the Southeast Neighborhood
House. Mayor Marion Barry and
the D.C. Council proclaimed Nov.
16, 1984, "Harry Kaplan Day" in
recognition of his outstanding com-
munity service.
Survivors include his wife, Ruth,
of Washington; five daughters, Mar-
jorie Kaplan and Maryann Lazer,
both of Annapolis, Eleanor Adams
of Columbia, Md., Laura Murray of
Havre de Grace, Md., and Harriet
Kaplan of Bismarck, N.D.; a sister,
Mary Weiss of Chicago, and five
grandchildren.
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