Obituaries

Richard Hyatt LansdaleCIA Associate General Counsel

Richard Hyatt Lansdale, 89, former associate general counsel for the CIA, died of pneumonia Feb. 4 at the Alfred House Elder Care V in Rockville.

Mr. Lansdale worked in the Central Intelligence Agency's legal office from 1948 until he retired in 1977, then continued to consult on intelligence matters and Freedom of Information requests.

He was born in Sandy Spring and graduated from Sherwood High School there, where he was captain of the basketball team and a volunteer firefighter.

He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1945 and received a juris doctor degree from Georgetown University; in 1962, Mr. Lansdale received a master's degree in law from Yale University.

Mr. Lansdale worked first for the Covington & Burling law firm in the District until 1946, when he was recruited to join the American prosecutorial team in Nuremberg to address the Nazi atrocities during World War II. He was a junior prosecutor on the U.S. zone war crimes trials, researching and helping to present cases against German industrialist Friedrich Flick, who was sentenced to death, and Alfred Krupp, who had died.

He returned to the United States in 1948 and joined the CIA.

During the 1970s, Mr. Lansdale was commissioner of Montgomery Soccer Inc. and was a volunteer in the Palisades neighborhood association in the District.

Survivors include his wife of 43 years, Phoebe Taylor Lansdale of Silver Spring; three children, Elizabeth Hyatt Lansdale of New York City, Katherine Taylor Lansdale of Fairfield, Conn., and Steven Ballard Lansdale of Dallas; and two granddaughters.

-- Patricia Sullivan

John Whetten ReedGeographer

John "Jay" Whetten Reed, 28, a geographer with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, died after a heart attack Feb. 16 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He lived in Silver Spring.