◆ SpookStack

0-19 Rev.1-11-60) D. Milton Ladd Dies; Hoover's asststant in ot Belmont supervision oi all the FBI's Investigative activities'in both FBI Agent 25 Years criminal and subversive nelds eLc Malch He took personal roles in rounding up several Soviet McG D Milton Ladd, 56, an FBI |sples, and in such celebrated !cases as the Greenlease kid- AHose agent for more than 25 years. 'naping. Tamm. died in an automobile accident near Sanford. Fla. yesterday. Upon his retrement, Mr Irotter Hoover said, have relied Mr Ladd was en route to upon you over the years and W.C. Sullu. Daytona Beach with his wife I could not let this opportunity. Tele. Room from their home in Geneva pass without again expressing when the accident occurred. Ingram my deep appreciation for your Mrs Ladd was injured in the 'loyal efforts on benalf of the! Gandy crash and is in the Seminole bureau " Memorial Hospltal, Sanfard Mr Ladd was born in Fargo, At the time of his retire- N Dak, and attended public ment from the Federal Bureau schools in that State Washington, he married the In of Investigation in 1954, Mr Ladd, or Mickey, as he was former Katherine Pfeiffer known to his associates, was the time of his rettrement he consdered the No 3 man in ived at 5235 Nebraske avenue the organization He had the NW."but he soon moved to Ititle of assistant to the direc- Flor tor of the FBI. His wife is the only survivor Early FBI Member One of the earliest members D. MILTON LADD of the Bureau, Mr. Ladd be- came a special agent on No- vember 5, 1928. In later years Led Securty Unit he told a reporter that he In 1939 Mr Ladd becam Jolned the FBI not out of any the assistant director in charge rq nantio notions but because of the FBI's Identification h thought the FBI wolud "ma- Division and Laboratory In tre"him 1941, when the Unted States He had come to Washington entered World War II, Mr In 192i when his father, Edwini'Ladd was named the head of! Fremont, North Dakota. He the important Security Div- patronage job running the sub- agents in the Western Hem- way car between the Senate isphere and the Senate Office Building. When asked about his role At nights he attended George during the war. he answered, Washington University.. Law "If you like it well enough tol School, graduating in 1928 Mr talk about it, you should stay. The Washington Post Ladd said thathe looked too in it" Was named J. Edgar Times Horald jyoung to get any clients -even The Washington Dajly New with a moustache he had grown He postponed returning The Evening Star to North Dakota for two years New York Herald Tribune [to achieve his "matunty" but he never made it into law New York Journal-Amorican I Hiked it too much to quit," New York Mirror ne said of the FBI New York Daily News His nirst assignment took him to Butte, Mont, and then in New York Post rapid succession, he served in The New York Times New Orleans, St Lows,St Paul, 7J-70444- Washington and Chicago. The Worker Mr Laad never liked to talk about cases in which he partic- The Wall Street Journal ipated. Although it was known [that he had taken significant] JUL 22 j96O Date roles in capturing many of the Jeading gangsters in the '30's, sUL 1 2 1960 Idon't Snnrove of peonle who o out and write boo 51 JUL 25 1960