2 AID ADVISORS DIE IN LAOS COPTER CRASH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500130003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 30, 1965
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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October 30, 1965
" :. the 'front lines' of the
long twilight struggle ? for
Two AID ? advisors and the two-:. Deuel had joined AID in early is He is survived by his wife,
man crew of an Air America heli-? .1964 and later went to Laos. In ; Judith, his, parents, Mr. and Mrs.
copter were killed Oct. 12 in a' October that year, he was married; Wallace Rankin Deuel, 3006 Cam- ,
crash near Saravane, Laos. Cause to Judith Anne Marie Dougherty of'? bridge Place, N.W., Washington,
of the crash was believed to be Bullpitt, Ill.,' who was working as 1 D.C.; and a brother, Peter M., 112 .
mechanical failure. a secretary in the Bangkok Em Woodcrest Circle, Streamwood, Ill.
Michael Deuel, 28, and Michael bassy for the' Department of State..: Maloney was born in Hawaii
Maloney, 25, Community Develop- Maloney has spent the past three ',where he attended the University
ment Advisors with the Mission's.', years as a civilian employe with +'In 1950. He received his bachelor's
Rural Development Office, were on the Department of the Army. His! degree in government philosophy,
their way to Pakso when the crash, wife, Adrienne, and year-old son, from Fairfield University, Conn., in
occurred. Michael A., live in Lakeville, 1962, and had attended the Univer.
Maloney, a contract employe, Conn. . :. sity of- Connecticut during the
had just arrived in Laos and was Deuel, born in Berlin where his { summer of 1061.
being taken on an orientation tour, father was stationed at the. time,, He is survived, besides his wife,
by Deuel. Both were stationed at received a B.A. degree at Cornell by his parents, Arthur A. (Col.
Pakse and assigned to the Mission.l? an_`1959. He then worked for, the .U.S' Army Rot.) and Mrs. Maloney.
refugee program in Southern Laos. of Fort Amador, Panama, where
;Department of the Army as a
civilian, next went on active duty
with the Marine Corps and left as
a first lieutenant, then joined the t
~'~ Department of the Air Force as a
h]: civilian' before taking a job with,;
civilian employe; two brothers and
two sisters: Timothy A,, Erin ?M.'
and Sheila M., all of Fort Amador;
and Dennis' at Marianist, Scholas
ticate, l,8140 ' Waiaile Ave., Hone
.lulu,; Hawaii. .
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