Obituaries

Arthur Tyler PortDefense Department Official

Arthur Tyler Port, 89, a Defense Department official who served NATO as the assistant secretary general for defense support from 1967 until shortly before retiring in 1974, died Jan. 3 at the health center at Falcons Landing retirement community in Sterling. He had congestive heart failure.

While assigned to NATO, Mr. Port was chairman of several committees, including one that appropriated funds for airfields, communications and pipelines. He was also involved with the NATO Conference of National Armaments Directors to standardize the weapons systems procured by the member nations for NATO's defense.

After retiring, Mr. Port did consulting work on NATO affairs for the Stanford Research Institute and Logistics Management Institute.

He was born in Chicago and raised in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was a 1937 cum laude graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina and a 1940 graduate of Yale University law school.

He served in the Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II and later, as a civilian, was a special consultant to Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr. He also was a consultant on psychological warfare and special operations, which played a role in the creation of the Army's Special Forces at Fort Bragg, N.C.

Among his later assignments was director of the office of security policy at the Defense Department and deputy assistant secretary of the Army for installations and logistics.

His honors included two Defense Department distinguished civilian service awards.

He moved from Reston to Falcons Landing in 1996.

Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Aline Gooding Port of Falcons Landing; two children, Cynthia Hosmer of Napa, Calif., and Christopher Port of Manassas; a brother; and three grandchildren.

Leo Thomas 'Tom' HaleyNSA Intelligence Analyst

Leo Thomas "Tom" Haley, 79, who worked about 15 years at the National Security Agency before retiring in the mid-1980s as a senior research intelligence analyst, died of cancer Jan. 12 at his home in College Park.

Mr. Haley, who lived in the Washington area since 1955, was a native of Salamanca, N.Y. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he graduated from Gannon University in Erie, Pa.

He worked at the Pentagon before joining the NSA in the early 1970s.