WP: Publisher Merrill death a suicide. "Merrill was assistant secretary general to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the early 1990s and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 2002 until last year. He frequently took time away from his business to pursue diplomatic and intelligence assignments for the government. ... His death recalled two other high-profile incidents involving prominent Washington area residents. In 1996, former CIA director William E. Colby died from drowning and exposure after falling from a canoe off Charles County. ... In 1978, another former high-level CIA employee, John A. Paisley, disappeared while sailing across the Chesapeake Bay. His body was found a week later near Solomons Island with a fatal gunshot wound in an apparent suicide." What were Merrill's recent intel assignments for the administration? (Anyone read the book about Robert Maxwell? Hard not to be vaguely reminded of it).

Posted by Laura at June 20, 2006 11:43 PM