By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
WASHINGTON — Retired FBI agent James F. McGuire, who joined the bureau in the 1950s in Connecticut and went on to specialize in counterintelligence in Washington, died late last month at an Arlington, Va. hospital, the Washington Post reported. He had leukemia and was 82.
The Post reported that McGuire, after leaving the FBI in 1979, served as the chief of security services for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
Six years later, he became a contractor for the State Department’s diplomatic security service performing background checks, the Post reported. He retired in 2007.
James Francis McGuire served in the Marine Corps during World War II and the Korean War, the Post reported. He had a son, William McGuire, who died in 1988.
