Cartha D. DeLoach, No. 3 in the F.B.I., Is Dead at 92

Cartha D. DeLoach, No. 3 in the F.B.I., Is Dead at 92


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Cartha D. DeLoach spoke before the Senate panel on intelligence in December 1975.

By BRUCE WEBER

Published: March 15, 2013


Cartha D. DeLoach, who as a top aide and confidant to J. Edgar Hoover was the F.B.I.’s liaison to the White House and a powerful intermediary between Hoover and President Lyndon B. Johnson during an especially tense political era, died on Wednesday on Hilton Head Island, S.C. He was 92.