Ernest Ballard Beath Sr., 80, a former Annapolis resident who retired in 1974 after 26 years as a research analyst for the National Security Agency, died of complications from diabetes Feb. 8 at ...

Ernest Ballard Beath Sr., a retired research analyst with the National Security Agency who served as a translator in World War II for Adms. Thomas C. Kincaid, J. J. “Jocko” Clark and John S.