Obituaries

-- Patricia Sullivan

Mary-Ann S. RozbickiCIA Senior Executive

Mary-Ann Spodnick Rozbicki, 77, a specialist in international economics who became a senior manager in the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence, died Jan. 13 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County. She had cancer and pneumonia.

Mrs. Rozbicki worked for the CIA from 1951 to 1988 and was among the first women to earn a senior intelligence ranking.

In the early 1980s, she was director of the European analysis office. Her final assignment was Directorate of Intelligence senior representative to the CIA's London office.

After retiring, she did consulting for the CIA inspector general's office and the training and education office.

Mrs. Rozbicki, a McLean resident, was born in Lilly, Pa., and grew up in Bridgeport, Conn. She received bachelor's and master's degrees in international relations at the University of Connecticut before joining the CIA.

Her husband of 43 years, Stephen R. Rozbicki, died in 1997.

Survivors include two children, Karen Rozbicki Stringer of Reston and Christopher Rozbicki of McLean; a sister; and two granddaughters.

-- Adam Bernstein