OBITUARIES - RICHARD P. CRENSHAW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100010084-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: July 12, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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12 July 1986
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RICHARD P. CRENSHAW~
82, a retired intelligence officer with
the Central Intelligence Agency, died
of congestive heart failure July 9 at
Georgetown University Hospital.
Mr. Crenshaw joined the CIA in
1951 and held several posts in Latin
America. He also was staff represent-
ative for the Interagency Working
Group on Latin America, Antarctica
and Iceland while on loan to State
Department. He retired in 1962.
A native of Martinsburg, W.Va.,
Mr. Crenshaw moved to Washington
in 1914. He was a graduate of Yale
University and Harvard Law School
and before World War II he practiced
law in New York. He served in the
Army Air Forces in North Africa,
England and Washington during the
war and won the Legion of Merit.
He was recalled to active duty in
the Air Force from 1949 to 1951
and was assigned to the legislative
division in the Office of the Secre-
tary of the Air Force.
Mr. Crenshaw, a resident of
Washington, was a member of St.
John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette
Square, the Society of the Cincin-
nati, the Colonial Lords of the Man-
or, the Jamestowne Society, the
Society of Mayflower Descendants,
the American Legion and the Eng-
lish-Speaking Union.
His marriage to the former Mary
Jroesbeck Cabell ended in divorce.
"there are no immediate survivors.
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