The Washington Post for November 11, 2000 has the obituary of R. Whitney Tucker. He was Robert Whitney-10 Tucker (Ethel-9 Whitney Tucker, Thaddeus-8, Zebulon-7, Eli-6, Zebulon-5, Abel-4, Nathaniel-3, Benjamin-2, John-1 and Elinor). The obituary reads: "R. Whitney Tucker, 94, a retired Central Intelligence Agency reports officer who was an authority on classical languages, died of complications from an aortic aneurism Nov. 8 at George Washington University Hospital. "Mr. Tucker worked for the CIA for 31 years, mostly at the agency's headquarters. He also had assignments in Germany after World War II and in the 1950s and in Miami after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. "A Washington resident, he was born in Chicago and raised in New York, where he graduated [sic] from Cornell University and received a doctorate in philology. Fluent in a number of languages, mainly German, he joined the Office of Strategic Services during World War II as an interpreter and analyst of intelligence reports. "A prolific writer, he wrote articles on classical languages for journals of the Linguistics Society, Philological Society, the American Philological Society and other organizations of which he was a member. Most recently, he wrote a series of arfticles on the changes of Greek dialect since 1500 B.C. "He was a member of Goose Creek Friends Meeting in Lincoln, Va. "His wife, Kathleen Tucker, died in 1987. "Survivors include two sons, Robert W. Tucker, Jr. of Philadelphia and David Tucker of Sterling [Virginia]." Mike Poston Rockville, Maryland