OBITUARIES - EDWIN ATLEE BUCHANAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100010045-3
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: December 24, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
24 December 1986
OBITUARIES
EDWIN ATLEE BUCHANAN,
76. a retired CIA official who be-
came president of commercial sales
fQr the DeRand Corp a real estate
development company in Arlington,
died of cancer Dec. 23 at Arlington
Hospital,
Mr. Buchanan, who lived in Ar-
lington, was born into a missionary
family in Kobe, Japan. In 1931 he
graduated from Maryville College
in Maryville, Tenn., and then re- -
turned to Japan to teach. Later in
the 1930s he moved to California.
During World War fl, he was an
officer in Naval Intelligence and
served in the Pacific After the war
he was the U.S. Naval attache in
Canton, China.
In 1949 Mr Buchanan moved to
the Washington area and joined the
?L&.. He remained with the agency
until retirino in 1 69 He received
the Intelli ence Medal of Merit for
work in connection with U.S.
ris-
oners of war and persons missing in
action in Vietnam.
Later Mr. uc anan worked for a
number of real estate and invest.
ment firms in Northern Viginia. He
had worked for the DeRand Corp.
since about 1980.
Mr. Buchanan was a member of
the Presbyterian Church of the
Covenant, the Washington Golf and
Country Club and the Japan-Amer-
ica Society of Washington.
His first wife, the former Kath-
erine Jeannette (Jane) Blythe, died
in 1956.
Survivors include his wife, Bar-
bara Bailey Buchanan of Arlington;
two children by his first marriage,
Kay Blythe Buchanan Stamer of
Catskill, N.Y., and Judith Atlee Bu-
chanan Sprague of Princeton,
W.Va.; one stepson, James Martin
Brewbaker of Columbus, Ga.; two
sisters, Mary Wilson Buchanan
Holmes of Midland, Tex., and Ruth
Agnes Buchanan Briggs of Easton,
Md.; two brothers, Donald Whittet
Buchanan of Santa Cruz, Calif., and
Dr. Walter William Buchanan of
.Mammoth Lakes, Calif., and eight
grandchildren.
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