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Survivors include her husband of 62 years, Stephen Harrison of Bethesda; two daughters, Barbara Harrison of Bethesda and Frances Stroscio of Myersville, Md.; two sisters; and three grandchildren.

Harlan G. MoenState Department, Film Official

Harlan Glenn Moen, 74, a retired State Department Soviet and Eastern Europe specialist who became an executive with the Motion Picture Export Association of America, died Dec. 31 at his home in Washington. He had renal cell carcinoma.

Mr. Moen worked for the State Department from 1961 to 1986. Early on, he spent several years as special adviser to the U.S. ambassador in the Hague on U.S.-Soviet relations.

He also participated in strategic arms limitations talks and, in the early 1980s, served as a Vienna-based spokesman for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. His final assignment was political adviser to the commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the U.S. Space Command.

In 1986, he joined the motion picture organization, which represented the export interests of the U.S. film industry, and became senior vice president and managing director of the Brussels-based European office before retiring in 1995.

Mr. Moen was born in Milwaukee and served in the Army in France from 1953 to 1955.

He was a 1958 history and economics graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He received a master's degree in European political and economic integration from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in 1960 and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University in 1972.

His marriage to Dorothy Haase Moen ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 43 years, Maria Luisa Scaccianoce Moen of Washington; a daughter from his first marriage, Dana Furman of Cedarburg, Wis.; three children from his second marriage, Alexander G. Moen of Bethesda, Roberta Di Piazza of Milan, Italy, and Christian H. Moen of New York; and six grandchildren.


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