* John T. Hughes; Expert in Military Photo Intelligence

John T. Hughes, 64, an expert in photographic intelligence who President John F. Kennedy chose to brief the nation in a 1963 broadcast about the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. Hughes retired in 1984 as deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, where for 23 years he reported to top national officials about Soviet military concentrations. Over the years he briefed Presidents Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan on secret aerial intelligence photographs of Soviet military installations and other sensitive security matters. In October, 1962, as special assistant to the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Hughes used photographs taken from a U-2 spy plane to determine that the Soviets were placing nuclear missiles in Cuba. Hughes became widely known five months later when Kennedy directed him to explain on national television and radio how the crisis developed and how it was resolved. He used aerial photographs taken by American spy planes to allay public doubts that the Soviet Union had removed the missiles. On Tuesday in Falls Church. Va. of a cerebral hemorrhage.