Obituaries

In Memoriam

Susan Patteson - CIA Officer

Susan Scott Patteson, 57, passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 27, 2025, at her home in Strafford, NH, surrounded by the love of her family.

Chanley Mohney - former CIA Analyst

Chanley Milton Mohney, 76, of North Chesterfield, formerly of Northern Virginia, passed away on December 6, 2025

Helen Hix - CIA U2 Project Officer and Radio Operator

Helen Joyce Hix passed away peacefully on December 14, 2025. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, on July 8, 1937, she was the youngest child of Henry and Lula Mae Wilson.

Aldrich Ames - CIA Mole

Aldrich H. Ames, the CIA officer whose spying for Moscow was the most damaging breach in the agency’s history, reportedly causing the deaths of at least 10 recruited CIA or allied intelligence agents, died Jan. 5 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland. He was 84.

George Rader - Decorated former CIA Executive

George Stanley Rader passed away quietly at home on October 12 with his loving wife by his
side. He was 97 years old.

Brian Bramson - Former CIA Executive

Brian Hugh Bramson passed peacefully at home Thanksgiving morning 2025 with his wife of 34 years Andrea by his side. We want to think he waited for everyone to be in town for the holiday before taking his last breath at 8:20 a.m.

Tom Pamatier - Former NSA Cryptographer

Tom Palmatier, devoted husband, father, grandfather, and friend to so many, passed away suddenly from cardiac arrest on November 18, 2025.

Ken Minihan - Former DIA and NSA Director

Lieutenant General Kenneth A. Minihan, United States Air Force, a Texas-born son of a World War II bomber pilot and longtime Florida resident who rose to lead both the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency and later helped build America's modern cyber capabilities from the private sector, died November 1, 2025 in FL.

Dan Edwards - Former Intel Community Computer Pioneer

Daniel J. Edwards, retired computer scientist and early computer pioneer passed away peacefully Monday, January 27, 2025 close to his home in Troutville, Virginia.