LAUDWEIN ROBERT F. LAUDWEIN Robert F. Laudwein, 93, an FBI Special Agent for 21 years, died March 6, 2011 at Montgomery General Hospital after a short illness. He was a resident of Damascus, MD. Mr. Laudwein began his career as an FBI agent in 1947. In his early years with the Bureau, he was assigned to offices in Albany, NY, Pittsburgh, PA, Butte and Great Falls, MT and the Washington, DC Field Office. From 1954 until his retirement in 1968, he served in the New York Office assigned to the Soviet Squad and was involved in counterintelligence investigations involving agents of the Soviet Union. He participated in the investigation and arrest of a number of Soviet agents including Robert Glenn Thompson who received a 30 year sentence for spying in 1965. Robert F. Laudwein was born and raised in Spokane, Washington. He attended Gonzaga University in Spokane and the University of Washington where he graduated in 1942. While attending college, he worked for the Great Northern Railroad. He entered the US Army immediately upon graduation and served as an officer in the Army during World War II. After his retirement from the FBI he worked for Eastern Airlines in Miami, FL until 1985. He was an avid tennis player all his life and was a member of the tennis team at Gonzaga University. While assigned to the FBI's New York Office, he won both the FBI singles and doubles titles. He also won local tennis tournaments in both River Edge, NJ and Plantation, FL. He was a Little League baseball coach. His memberships included the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity, The University of Washington Alumni Association, The Eastern Airlines Retirees Association and St. Paul's Catholic Church in Damascus, MD. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Anna Urquhart Laudwein; three children, John Laudwein, Catherine Laudwein, and Frederick Laudwein; two sisters, Katherine Wicker of Portland, OR, and Mary Clark of Spokane; five grand children and numerous nieces and nephews.