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>>Reminds me of a story from back in the 50s. Mississippi. Black man found in a swamp with his hands tied behind his back, wrapped in chains, throat cut, shot in the back of the head. Sherrif said it was the worst case of suicide he ever saw.
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>Did anything sinister ever come out about that ex-spook head dying in a one man boat accident a few years ago? That sounded like something straight out of LeCarre.
William Colby. I don't know of anything other than head shaking but it is a world where random accidents are seldom even considered seriously.
Interesting guy. Looked like a high school chemistry teacher. Parachuted into France and Norway as a very effective OSS agent. Politically very liberal but ran the Phoenix program in Vietnam (under the philosophy I share that it is better to target violence rather than use blunt edged weapons like massive air power or military force) and compared to Dick Helms was cooperative with the Church committee, which of course was not popular with some.
I knew people in SE Asia who had a lot of respect for him. Had his accident occured in the late 70s I would have been more suspicious.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
