Edward A. Seitz, 83, Air Force colonel.(Metropolitan Times)(Obituary)

From: The Washington Times | Date: July 2, 1997 | Copyright information

Retired Air Force Col. Edward Anthony Seitz, 83, a career Air Force officer, former CIA officer, and 45-year Arlington resident, died June 23 of congestive heart failure in Toledo, Ohio.

Col. Seitz was born in 1914 in Cleveland's Slovenian neighborhood of Collinwood. Fluent in Slovenian from birth, his language skills proved useful in the late 1940s, when he was recruited into the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency and sent to northern Yugoslavia, where he help...

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