Frank H. Laubinger
Friday, March 30, 2007
	CIA Officer
Frank Herbert Laubinger, 80, who retired from the CIA in 1980 as a technical operations officer, died March 10 at the Greenspring Village retirement community in Springfield. He had pneumonia and Parkinson's disease.
Mr. Laubinger joined the Central Intelligence Agency in the early 1950s as a chemist and later served as chief of a technical support branch.
He was a native Washingtonian and a 1944 graduate of  Eastern High School. He served in the Pacific during World War II and participated in amphibious landings on Borneo. He was a 1952 education and chemistry graduate of George Washington University.
He moved to Greenspring Village from McLean in 2002. He was a former president of the Salona Village residents association in McLean. He had memberships in several nature preservation groups.
In Westmoreland County, Va., where he had a second home, he worked to preserve bluebirds. He also became a certified master gardener.
He formerly attended Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax in Oakton.
Mr. Laubinger had an interest in genealogy and helped unite family members in the United States and Germany.
Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Alice Griffin Laubinger of Springfield; three children, Donna Herring of Cocoa Beach, Fla., Scott Laubinger of Reston and Kurt Laubinger of Great Falls; two sisters, Elsie Beach of Fredericksburg and Virginia Barnes of McLean; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.