Vadim W. Sounitza, 92, an intelligence officer for the CIA's Directorate of Operations from 1947 to 1973, died Sept. 29 at Brighton Gardens retirement community in North Bethesda. He had congestive heart failure.

Vadim Wladimir Sounitza, a Russian native, moved to California with his family as a boy. He received a bachelor's degree in 1940 and a master's degree in 1943, both in history from the University of California at Los Angeles.

He served in the Army during World War II and retired from the reserves in 1953 at the rank of captain.

He moved to Washington in 1947 and had lived in Bethesda since 1963.He was a member of Dacor, an organization for retired Foreign Service officers.

His wife of 32 years, Louise Sounitza, died in 2007. He had no immediate survivors.

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