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0-19 (Rev. 1-11-60) @ “ } ~ Ny | D-Milton Ladd Dies FBI Agent 25 Years D Milton Ladd, 56, an FBI agent for more than 25 years, died in an automobile accident near Sanford, Fla, yesterday. Mr Ladd was en route to Daytona Beach with’ his wife from their home in ,£teneva when the accident otcurred. Mrs Ladd was injured in the crash and is in the Semimole Memorial Hospital, Sanford” ’ At the time of his retire- ment from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1954, Mr Ladd, or Mickey, as he was known to his associates, was ‘considered the No 3 man im the organization He had the title of assistant to the direc- tor of the FBI. Early FSI Member One of the earliest members of the Bureau, Mr. Ladd be- came a special agent on No-' lyember 5, 1928. In later years he told a reporter that he Hoover's assistant in j gave him supervision of all the FBI's investigative activities in both criminal and subversive fields He took personal roles in rounding up several Soviet | ples, and m such ¢elebrated jcases as the Greenlease kid- naping. Upon his retirement, Mr Hoover said, “XY have relied upon you over the years and I could not let this opportunity pass without again expressing my deep appreciation for your loyal efforts on behalf of the bureau ” we Mr Ladd was born in Fargo, N Dak, and attended public schools in that State In Washington, he married the former Katherine Pfeiffer At the time of his retirement he lived at 5235 Nebraske avenue NW, but he soon moved to Floriitpeenuae His wife ig the only survivor x v > $ & < 4 “hed Secunty Unit In 1939 Mr Ladd becam joined the FBI not out of any |the assistant director in charge Yr ho notions but because hd@ thought the FBI wolud “ma- tgre” him of the FBI's Identication|f Divisfon and Laboratory In| 1941, when the United States totter ey w.c. Sull Tele. Room Ingram _____ ae PH) Zt e Be ‘e had come to Washington , entered World War IJ, Mr in 1921 when his father, Edwin! Ladd was named the head of Fremont, North Dakota. Helithe important Security Divi- worked for a while in his father’s office and then took a patronage Job running the sub-| agents in the Western Hem- way car between the Senate yisphere and the Senate Office Building, At mghts he attended George Washington University Law School, graduating in 1928 Mr Ladd said that he looked too ‘young to get any clhents—even with a moustache he had grown He postponed returning to North Dakota for two years to achieve his “maturity” but he never made st into law “J liked it too much to quit,” he said of the FBI His first assignment took him’ to Butte, Mont, and then in! rapid succession, he served in New Orleans, St Lows, St Paul, Washington and Chicago. Mr Ladd never liked to talk about cases in which he partic- ipated. Although it was known that he had taken signiftcant roles in capturing many of the Jeading gangsters in the ’30’s, ove writen g6 ou in 1b ; ‘| Se"Was mamed J. Edgat he said on fos retirement, I} - sion, His maim job during the war was in tracking down Nazi When asked about his role during the war, he answered, “Tf you like 16 well enough to talk about it, you should sta ” 99 ~70444-A- a> C JUL 22 5960 51 JuL 25 1960 The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daply ews The Evening Star ao ae New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal Date sUL L 2 1960