Obituaries

In Memoriam

Vince Carnes - Former NSA Officer

William V. “Vince” Carnes passed away on June 7, 2025 at the age of 81. He was born at the U.S. Navy hospital in Miami Beach, Florida.

Thomas Kady - CIA Officer

Thomas Francis Kady, 84, of Middletown, MD, beloved husband of Travis Zeiler Kady for more than 60 years, passed away on Thursday, June 12, 2025, after a cardiac event.

Fredrick Forsyth - MI6 Cooptee and Author

Frederick Forsyth, who has died at the age of 86, wrote meticulously researched thrillers which sold in their millions.

Vernon Dibeler - AFIO Member and CIA Computer and Telecom Systems Officer

Vernon H. Dibeler, II, passed away on May 16, 2025, at the age of 80, unexpectedly. He was born in 1945 in Washington, DC and raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Bill Stevenson - Former NSA Executive and National Crypto Museum Docent

William Francis Stevenson, Jr. passed away peacefully surrounded by family on June 6, 2025. “Bill” was born in Statesville, NC.

Richard Meade - Former Army Intel Agency and US Customs Service

Richard H. Meade, a veteran and lifelong public servant, passed away on May 16, 2025.

Lois Dokken - CIA Directorate of Operations Officer

Lois E. Dokken, 83, died at home in Falls Church on April 26, 2025, succumbing to fallopian tube cancer after a long and courageous fight.

Bernard Kerik - AFIO Member and NYPD Chief during 9/11

Bernard Kerik, the New York City police chief who was hailed for leading the department during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Marthe Cohn - French Jewish secret agent who posed as a nurse in wartime Germany

Marthe Cohn, who has died aged 105, was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in France; she survived the Holocaust and after the liberation of Paris in 1944, joined the French First Army intelligence service and crossed over into southern Germany, posing as a German nurse looking for her fiancé.