Obituaries

Tybel B. LitwinCIA Official

Tybel B. Litwin, 82, a retired official of the Central Intelligence Agency's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, died of respiratory failure Dec. 11 at a hospital in Boston. She had lived nearly 50 years in Arlington before moving to Lexington, Mass., in 1999.

Mrs. Litwin, who studied Romance languages in college, began her civil service career in the 1940s as a foreign broadcast monitor and translator with the Office of Strategic Services, a predecessor to the CIA.

A charter member of the CIA in 1947, she worked her way up from an editor and analyst to become, in the mid-1970s, one of the first women to obtain senior intelligence service status.

She held a succession of managerial and executive positions overseeing the collection, translation and analysis of information gathered from foreign media.

Her professional honors include the CIA's Intelligence Medal of Merit.

After her CIA retirement in 1985, Mrs. Litwin joined the senior technical staff at Logicon Inc. in Arlington. She worked there for 12 years.

She later was a consultant and volunteer teacher of English as second language with the Arlington Literacy Council.

She practiced tai chi and studied watercolor painting and pastel drawing at the Torpedo Art Factory in Alexandria.

Mrs. Litwin, a native of New Haven, Conn., graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at Berkeley, where her father was a professor of mathematical logic.

Her husband of 19 years, Herman M. Litwin, died in 1969.

Survivors include a daughter, Janice Litwin of Lexington; and a granddaughter.

Henry E. MooberrySea Cadet Corps Leader

Henry E. Mooberry, 77, lieutenant commander of the Navy's Washington area Sea Cadet Corps for the past 28 years, died of acute gastrointestinal bleeding Dec. 7 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington.