(Classified), SENIOR OFFICER WITH CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200650032-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: June 22, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON Si"iS;}
JUN 2 2 1966
Jo hi, n. Castkk, Sex or
With Central ~nteUfigcnce'
John B. Castle, 52, a senior
Central Intelligence Agency
officer, died Monday at Doctors
Hospital after a long illness.
Mr. Castle, who lived at 6900
Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill, had
been with the CIA since 1949.
Born in the District, he was
the son, of Navy Commander
and Mrs. Guy W. S. Castle. His
father was a holder of the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
Mr. Castle attended schools in
Washington and was graduated
from St. Alban's School in 1932.
He then attended the Wharton
School of Finance of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. ' '
In 1934, he was appointed an
assistant to Undersecretary of
State Sumner Welles. Four
years later he joined the Nation-
al Youth Administration, serv-
ing as an area administrator in
Southern Maryland.
Mr. Castle was commissioned
in the Navy in 1942 and served
in the Office of Naval Intelli-
gence. He later served in India
and Ceylon, before being re-
leased from the Navy as a
lieutenant commander in 1946.
Mr. Castle was graduated
from George Washington Uni-
j versity in 1949 and in 1955 from
the Naval War: College at
Newport, R.I.
:Mr. Castle was a member of
the Virginia State Society of the
I 1
Cincinnati and Psi Upsilon
fraternity. '
He leaves his wife, Margue-
rite, a daughter, Marguerite,
two sons, John B. Jr. and Car-
ter H., and his mother, Mrs.
Harriet B. Castle, all of the
home.
Friends may call at Gawler's
Funeral Home, Wisconsin,
Avenue and Harrison Streets
NW. Services will be at 2 p.m.
tomorrow at the Bethlehem
Chapel of the National Cathe-
dral: Burial will be in Arlington,
Cemetery.',:.,
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