Copp, DeWitt S., 1919-1999.

DeWitt Samuel Copp was a writer whose work often focused on the cold war. Mr. Copp wrote more than 30 books, both fiction and nonfiction, and many articles about the cold war and espionage, as well as books about his other passion, aviation. A flight instructor and pilot, he served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Later as the international marketing director of the Weather Engineering Corporation, he helped develop equipment that created artificial rain by using airplanes that dropped silver-iodide crystals into clouds. Mr. Copp also taught history and civics at St. Luke's School in Wilton, Conn., and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. He died at the age of 80 in Burlington, Vermont.