(Classified)IES; ETHNOBOTANIST SERVED THE C.I.A.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400010037-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: March 27, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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MAR 2 7 1966
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hr. \Cilliam li. Porterfield Jr.,,Scrvice of the Department of,
in cthnobotanist and former Agriculture.
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:emir inLelligence officer %vith, He had pl;bli:.herl numerorls
ire Central Intelligence Agency?articles in scientific journals.
dlicd of a heart attack on.Thurs-,His field, ethnobotany, is the
day at his ljome. He was 72 study of plants as related to the
years old. (customs of a race. .
Dr. Porterfield, who was horn! Daring \Vorld War II Dr.
.a H,ri-lsbur ', Pa., received alPorterfield was technical editor
B.A. degree in 1914 and an 'M.A. 'with the Army Engineers in
'in 1915 from Franklin and lzar-~Ncw York and afterward editor
.Bali College in Lancaster, Pa. of the joint intelligence studies
lie began his career as a teach-'publishing board staff at the
ing missionary in China, where At'mY Map Service here. After
he served on the faculty of SL. `. he retired from the C.I.A. in
'hJohn'S'University in Shanghai.,1963 he became a research
con- _r-lc later did research at the i Ultant for George Washington
;University of Vermont's agri- University.
cultural experimental station inI Dr. Porterfield received a
Burlington, at the New YorkIPa.D. degree from Columbia
iotanical Gardens in the Bronx!Univcrt~ity.
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