George L. Cary Jr.
2008
George L. Cary Jr., 85, the CIA's legislative counsel from 1974 to 1978  who served as a liaison between the spy agency and the Senate intelligence oversight committee as well as the White House, died April 20 at his home in Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg. He had pulmonary fibrosis.
Mr. Cary spent 27 years with the Central Intelligence Agency before retiring in 1978, initially in human resources before becoming an agency lawyer.
After the CIA, he served three years as the Army Department's legislative liaison.
His honors included two awards of the CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal and the Army's Distinguished Civilian Service Award.
George Lee Cary Jr. was a native Washingtonian, a 1940 graduate of  Roosevelt High School and an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II. He was a 1949 government and politics graduate of the University of Maryland and a 1951 graduate of George Washington University law school.
He was a founding member of Faith United Methodist Church in Rockville, where he was a former chairman of the board of trustees as well as church treasurer. He also taught Sunday school and sang in the choir.
He was a Rockville resident before moving to Asbury Methodist Village more than two years ago. Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Katherine Martin Cary of Asbury Methodist Village; two children, Lisa M. Cole of Derwood and Bradford C. Cary of Potomac; a nephew he raised, G. Ronald Ames of Omaha; and four grandsons.
-- Adam Bernstein