Monday, November 5, 2007

Harvey Gerald MillerCIA Analyst

Harvey Gerald Miller, 81, a former senior analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency, died Oct. 25 of a heart attack at his home in McLean.

Mr. Miller joined the CIA in 1956 and spent 12 years, including several as chief, with the agency's East Asian staff in the old Office of National Estimates. He also conducted geographic analyses and reviewed intelligence on East Asian affairs.

When he retired in 1978, he received the CIA's Career Intelligence Medal.

Mr. Miller was born in New York and was in the Army during World War II. He began studying the Japanese language at the University of Chicago in 1944, while he was with the Army. After the war, he was an interpreter with the Army's 11th Airborne Division in Japan.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and was elected to the Beta Gamma Sigma national honorary business fraternity. He received a master's degree in geography from the University of Wisconsin in the early 1950s and pursued further graduate studies in geography at George Washington University and in Asian studies at American University.

During the Korean War, Mr. Miller was a civilian geographer with an Army intelligence unit in Tokyo.

After his retirement, he pursued his interests in political geography and world affairs.

Survivors include a sister.

-- Matt Schudel