B6.- THTHISRAy, MARCH 15, Root R DM VA ME OBITUARIES Key CIA Figure Cord Meyer Dies; Headed 'Dirty Tricks Department' By Orts.nat Zrziamsra Washington Pau Staff Writer

Cord Meyer Jr., 80, a figure cen- by critics of its tactics. In both tral to many of the Central In- cases, Mr. Meyer said he had not telligence Agency's covert opera- run afoul of the law and had the na- tions ' during the Cold War, tion's security interests at heart. In including the secret funding of stu- a statement yesterday, CIA Direc- dent, labor and literary groups, tor George J. Tenet called Mr. Mey- died' March 13 at the Washington er 'a passionate defender of free- Prize in 1946 for the best first- Home. He suffered from a variety of dom around the world." published story. ailments, including lymphoma. Mr. Meyer and his twin brother After the war, he served as an Mr. Meyer, who was with CIA Quentin were born in Washington, aide to , the United from 1951 to 1977, joined as a where his father, a diplomat and States delegate at the drafting in- prominent young liberal who was Long Island real estate developer, San Francisco of the United Na- active in the world government was in between overseas postings. tions Charter. Mr. Meyer then be- movement He advanced to become The fitmily later settled in New came active in the world govern- the top deputy in a 'section of the York City, where Mr. Meyer en- ment movement, where his agency called the "dirty tricks de- joyed a youth of privilege. He at- intellect and good looks made him partment" by detractors because of a popular spokesman for the post- its elaborate activities aimed at World War II generation. He helped curbing communist influence. found the United World Federal- ists, which sought to avoid nuclear Mr. Meyer gained notoriety in tended St. Paul's preparatory war by a loose federation among na- 1967 when it was revealed in the school in New Hampshire and Yale tions. radical magazine Ramparts that, University. He graduated a semes- Mr. Meyer also took an active under his direction, the CIA had ter early in 1942, with bachelor's part in formation of the American been subsidizing groups such as degrees in English and philosophy, Veterans Committee, a liberal the National Student Association so that he could enter the Marine group dedicated to the idea that and the literary journal Encounter. Corps. veterans should get no special In's 1978 interview, Mr. Meyer He fought in the Pacific and was treatment. said of the controversy, which was badly wounded by a Japanese gre- investigated by a presidential pan- Mr. Meyer, who was considered nade during a landing on Guam in a rising star in liberal circles, el, that "the object was not to sub- 1944. He lost an eye as a result of stunned some of his fellow activists vert students, of course, but to the wound and spent the next sev- when he joined the CIA in 1951 af- make it possible for the American eral months in military hospitals. ter being recruited by ; point of view to be represented." At His decorations included the who later became CIA director. the time. Soviet operatives were Bronze Star and the Purple Heart Shortly after he joined the agen- having success recruiting student He later learned that his twin had cy, Mr. Meyer was accused by the organizers around the world. been killed in the fighting on Olcina- FBI of having communist sympa- Mr. Meyer again made headlines wa. thies. He was exonerated in an in- in 1972, when it was revealed that In war dispatches that were pub- ternal hearing. he had asked an old friend from the lished in the Atlantic Monthly and He had married the former Mary world government movement, who in a 1946 autobiography titled Pinchot shortly after the war. Their was then in the publishing busi- "Waves of Darkness; Mr. Meyer 9-year-old son, Michael, was-killed ness, to allow the CIA to review the articulated an ideology colored by in an automobile accident in 1959. galley proofs of a book critical of his war experiences. In an excerpt the agency's dealings with the drug from the autobiography, he wrote: traffic in Southeast Asia. "The only certain fruit of this insan- The instances offered rare ity will be the rotting bodies upon glimpses into the internal mechan- which the sun will impartially shine ics of a shadowy agency that was tomorrow. Let us throw down coming under increasing scrutiny these guns that we hate." The book won him the O. Henry

Mi.ROVI nt-AllMTRAIIS54) MCMM. ARM ..•-11,1YITST IMAMIIIMMPS ES'N-7!0,717,,M7AMMENY471,-FMAV:77F,SSIs:n.A.51! Shortly afterward, the couple di- vorced. Mary Meyer was murdered along the C&O Canal towpath in 1964. In the days after her death, her sister, Tony Pinchot, and Pinchot's then-husband. Benjamin C. Bra- dlee; observed CIA counterintelli- gence chief , a colleague of Cord Meyer, attempt- ing to break into Mary Meyer's house and recover a diary. Mr. Bra- dlee would later became executive editor of . The diary, discovered later that day by Mr. Bradlee and Ms. Pin- chat, revealed a romantic connec- tion between President John F. Kennedy and Mary Meyer. Mr. Meyer's official title from 1967 to 1973 was assistant deputy director of plans, a post in which he worked with legendary spymaster Thomas H. Karamessines, also known as "The Greek." Among Mr. Meyer's duties was the CIA's man- agement of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It was assumed that Mr. Meyer would eventually advance to Mr. Karamessines's position, but the public disclosure about the book deal and the subsidization of the National Student Association ap- parently dampened his prospects. Over the years, colleagues had de- scribed him as intelligent, but also hard to get along with. He retired from the agency in 1977 after a posting as the London station chief. He was honored by the CIA as a "trailblazer" in 1997, when the agency celebrated its 50th anniver- sary. He was awarded three Dis- tinguished Intelligence Medals dur- ing his career. After retiring, Mr. Meyer pub- lished several books, including a memoir titled "Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA." He also wrote a column that ran in such papers as the Washing- ton Tunes and reflected his staunchly anti-communist posi- tions. He was a member of the Met- ropolitan Club. the Yale Club of Washington and the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Meyer is survived by his wife of 35 years. the former Starke Pat- teson; two sons from his first mar- riage, Mark, of Ashland, Va., and Quentin, of Washington; a stepson, Nicholas Anderson of Great Falls; a stepdaughter. Alexis Anderson of Washington; a brother, and a grandson.

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