Obituaries

Edgar C. DuinCIA Research Analyst

Edgar C. Duin, 89, a former research analyst with the CIA, died of pulmonary fibrosis March 21 at The Virginian retirement home in Fairfax.

He specialized in the Soviet Union within the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service and spoke Russian, French, Spanish and Dutch.

Dr. Duin wrote the two-volume "Lutheranism under the Tsars and Soviets" (1975), and contributed to a 50-volume Soviet encyclopedia, translating a number of primary sources from the original German.

He was born in St. Paul, Minn., and grew up in the German-speaking town of New Ulm, Minn. He graduated from the University of Minnesota and served in the Army in the Signal Intelligence Service in the Pacific theater.

After the war, he worked at the old Army Security Service in Washington before joining the Central Intelligence Agency. He received a doctoral degree in history from Georgetown University in 1955.

One of his last assignments at the CIA was to write a history of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service's foreign documents division. When he retired in 1980, he was awarded the Career Intelligence Medal.

He was an elder and choir member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Falls Church.

Two sons predeceased him, Jonathan Duin in 1948 and Michael Duin in 1983.

Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Dorothy Duin of Fairfax; two daughters, Nancy Duin of London and Holly Duin of Seaside, Calif.; and a grandson.