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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400010036-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: March 27, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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MAR 2 7 1966
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William M. Porterfield Jr.,! versity, Shanghai. He later
an enthnobotanist who be. did research at the Univer-'
came an intelligence officerlsity of Vermont and the Now
for the Central Intelligence I York Botanical Garden and,
Agency, d i c d . lfor the Agriculture Depart-(
Thursday after
at his home,
1247 30th st.
nw. He was 73.
He began his
career in bot-
any as a teach-
ing missionary
in China, lec-
turing f r o in
19,16 to... 1933Mr. Porterfield
on biology at St. John's Uni-
Service. 1
In World War II Mr. Porter-
field served as a technical
editor with the U.S. Army?
Engineers in New York City.
He then worked briefly in
Washington with the Army
Map Service. In 1947 he be-'
came a senior intelligence of-:
ficer with the CIA. /
Since his retirement in 1963'
he had acted as a consultant.
for several research projects.
sponsored by George Washing
ton University. He was the
author of numerous articles
on ethnobiology, the tracing
of plant names and uses, and
scientific subjects.
Mr. Porterfield, a native of
Harrisburg, Pa., 'graduated
from Franklin and Marshall
College and received a Ph.D.
from Columbia University.
The family request that In
lieu of flowers contributions
be made to'the Christ Church
(Georgetown) Endowment
Fund. Mr. Porterfield had
served as a Senior Warden's
there from 1959 to 1961.
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