LAWYER ROBERT AMORY JR., RETIRED CIA OFFICIAL, DIES

Robert Amory Jr., 74, former deputy director for intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency and the retired secretary and general counsel of the National Gallery of Art, died of cancer April 19 at Georgetown University Hospital. Mr. Amory was also a former chief of the international division of the Bureau of the Budget, and he served as treasurer of the Washington Cathedral from 1969 to 1977. A resident of Washington, he was born in Boston. He graduated from Harvard University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. From 1939 until 1941, when he joined the Army as a private, Mr. Amory practiced law in New York. During World War II he commanded an Army Engineer boat battalion in New Guinea and the Philippines, and he participated in four campaigns and 20 assault landings. He was awarded a Silver Star, Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit. He was discharged from the Army as a colonel, and later wrote a book, "Sand and Surf," about his unit's campaigns in the Pacific. After the war he was a professor at Harvard Law School, where he developed the school's first course on accounting. He was author of "Materials on Accounting." Mr. Amory came to Washington in 1952 to work for the CIA, and he became deputy director for intelligence in 1953. In that role his duties included intelligence gathering, but not covert operations. While at the CIA he also served on the National Security Council Planning Board. He left the agency in 1962, served three years as chief of the international division of the Bureau of the Budget, then joined the Washington law firm of Corcoran, Foley, Youngman and Rowe. He was secretary and general counsel of the National Gallery of Art from 1973 until retiring in 1980. Mr. Amory had been a trustee of Arena State theater in Washington for 24 years. He was a sailor and a member of the Cruising Club of America. He was also a member of the Cosmos, the Metropolitan and the Chevy Chase clubs. In 1961 and 1962 he was president of the Harvard Alumni Association, and he served as its director for seven years. He was a member of Harvard's board of overseers from 1963 to 1969, president of the Harvard Law School Alumni Association and chairman of the sesquicentennial fundraising campaign of the law school. Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Mary Armstrong Amory of Washington; two sons, Robert Amory III of Boston and Daniel Amory of Portland, Maine; a brother, the writer Cleveland Amory of New York; a sister, Mrs. Thomas Sawyers of Claremont, Calif., and three grandsons. ANITA COYN KNEMEYER TUCKER Geographic Statistical Clerk Anita Coyn Knemeyer Tucker, 69, a senior statistical clerk at the National Geographic Society and a former president of Maryland women's clubs, died of cancer April 15 at Holy Cross Hospital. Mrs. Tucker, who lived in Rockville, was born in Boulder, Colo., and attended the University of Denver. She joined the staff of the National Geographic as a keypunch operator in 1968, and she had been a senior statistical clerk since 1975. She had also worked since 1971 as a part-time receptionist at the Pavilion Hotel in Rockville. Mrs. Tucker was president of the Woman's Club of Rockville from 1958 to 1960, chairman of the Over-60 Counseling and Employment Service of Montgomery County from 1964 to 1966, president of the Montgomery County Federation of Women's Clubs from 1966 to 1968, and president of the Suburban Woman's Club of Montgomery County from 1985 to 1988. In 1981 she received the Outstanding Clubwoman Award from the Maryland Federation of Women's Clubs. She served on the Montgomery County Commission for Women from 1976 to 1978. Her marriage to Hugo Nathaniel Eskildson ended in divorce, and she was separated from her second husband, Robert F. Tucker. Survivors include two sons by her first marriage, Howard N. Eskildson of Rockville and Loyd Edwin Eskildson of Phoenix; her mother, Coyn Knemeyer, and a sister, Ernestine Shriner, both of Cheyenne, Wyo. E. MICHAEL CASSADY Water Resources Executive E. Michael Cassady, 61, retired executive vice president of the Water Resources Congress, died April 12 at his home in Orlando, Fla., after a heart attack. Mr. Cassady was born in Sioux City, Iowa. He served in the Navy in the Atlantic during World War II, and he graduated from the University of Iowa. He moved to the Washington area from St. Louis when the Water Resources Congress relocated here. As executive vice president, his duties included the encouragement of public support for water resources development in the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio river basins. He retired in 1981 and moved from Alexandria to Orlando shortly thereafter. Survivors include his wife, Deloris Cassady of Orlando; two daughters, Cathy Quinn of Springfield and Nancy Lambert of St. Louis; a sister, Maryjane Selby of Los Angeles, and three grandchildren. H. WILLIS TOBLER Agricultural Lobbyist H. Willis Tobler, 89, a Mason and a retired lobbyist who had worked for several agricultural organizations, died of cancer April 16 at St. Luke's Humana Hospital in Richmond. He lived on his farm in Mount Holly, Va., and spent the winter in Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Mr. Tobler was born in Traverse City, Mich. He graduated from the University of Michigan and the Brooklyn Law School in New York. From 1933 to 1937, he was the assistant business manager of the Teachers College at Columbia University. He moved to the Washington area in 1939 and worked for the American Farm Bureau Federation until 1950. For the next 24 years, he was employed by the National Milk Producers Federation, where he became director of legislation. In 1975, Mr. Tobler joined E.A. Jaenke & Associates Inc., a Washington food and agriculture consulting firm. He retired in 1979 and moved from Silver Spring to Mount Holly. His marriage to the former Mary Ellen Jennings ended in divorce. Survivors include a brother, Ted R. Tobler of Three Rivers Falls, Mich., and two sisters, Louise Wellington of Three Rivers Falls and Esther Mumby of Mendon, Mich. GILBERT H. ANKENEY C&P Telephone Official Gilbert H. Ankeney, 83, a retired general staff supervisor with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., where he worked for more than 40 years, died of cancer April 11 at his home in Daytona Beach, Fla. Mr. Ankeney, who moved from Washington to Florida in 1967, was born in Washington and graduated from the old Central High School. He began his career with C&P in 1926 and retired in 1967. He was a life member of the Telephone Pioneers of America and he belonged to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Washington, where he had been a vestryman and warden. His first wife, the former Audrey Wyne, died in 1974. Survivors include his wife, the former Alta Kirk Sydnor of Daytona Beach; two sons by his first marriage, Gilbert H. Ankeney Jr. of Fort Lauderdale and Aubrey A. Ankeney of Port Charlotte, Fla., and a grandson. CORNELIA COPELAND PERSAUD Teacher Cornelia Copeland Persaud, 76, a retired teacher with the D.C. public schools, died of a stroke April 19 at George Washington University Hospital. She lived in Washington. Mrs. Persaud was born in Washington and graduated from Dunbar High School and the Miner Teachers College. She joined the D.C. public school system in about 1945. She was assigned to Gibbs Elementary School when she retired in 1983. She was a member of the John Wesley AME Zion Church in Washington, where she was president of Missionary Society No. 2, the Cathedral Choir and the Education Club. Her husband, Dr. James Persaud, died in about 1977. She leaves no immediate survivors. BRUNA RITA SLOVER Teacher Bruna Rita Slover, 83, a retired teacher with Montgomery County public schools, died of cancer April 20 at Manor Care Nursing Home. She lived in Ocean City and maintained a home in Chevy Chase. Mrs. Slover was born in Italy and grew up in Mystic, Conn. She graduated from Willimantic State Teachers College in Connecticut. She also studied at Yale University and the University of Maryland. She taught in the public schools of Stonington, Conn., before moving to the Washington area in 1928. She went to work for the Montgomery County public schools in 1945 and taught sixth grade at Somerset Elementary School in Chevy Chase until she retired in 1980. Her husband, Albert L. Slover, died in 1972. Survivors include a son, William Slover of Potomac; a brother, Noah Carocari of Stonington, and three grandchildren.

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(armory is listed in 1955 as official next higher in line of authority on the ransom eng FOIA)

(checking out three pages of subversive organizations they'd sign off as NOT being a part of . . . )