Former Diplomat Missing From Boat

by **Ike Broflovski** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:48 pm

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Missing-Boater-Publisher.html">AP story on nytimes.com</a> Former Diplomat Missing From Boat By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 11, 2006 Filed at 2:04 p.m. ET BALTIMORE (AP) -- Rescue crews searched the Chesapeake Bay on Sunday for a prominent publisher and former diplomat whose sailboat was found sitting on the water with its engine running. Philip Merrill, 72, an experienced sailor, had been sailing alone in breezy weather Saturday, said Tom Marquardt, executive editor of The (Annapolis) Capital, one of seven periodicals Merrill publishes. Merrill ''has been an avid yachtsman since he first learned to sail at age 7. He has been actively cruising the Chesapeake since 1958,'' his wife, Eleanor, and children said in a statement issued by Marquardt. ''If there was anyone who could captain a boat competently alone, it was Phil. ... He just couldn't resist a sunny day with the wind at his back.'' The wind blew at 15 to 20 mph Saturday near Annapolis, with gusts up to 30 mph, said David Manning, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sterling, Va. State and federal agencies joined the search. The Coast Guard sent both aircraft and boats, and was operating under the assumption that Merrill fell overboard, said Senior Chief Steve Carleton. ''When we found the boat, the engine was running and his wallet was found on board the vessel,'' he said. Two boaters found Merrill's 41-foot sailboat near Breezy Point, about 25 miles south of Annapolis, officials said. Merrill is chairman of the board of Annapolis-based Capital-Gazette Communications Inc., which publishes The Washingtonian magazine, The Capital and four other Maryland newspapers. Merrill took leave from publishing in December 2002 to be president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. His term expired in July 2005. He served as assistant secretary-general of NATO in Brussels from 1990 to 1992 and from 1983 to 1990 he served on the Department of Defense Policy Board. From 1981 to 1983, he was counselor to the undersecretary of defense for policy. In 1988, the secretary of defense awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Service, the highest civilian honor given by the department. Merrill has represented the United States in negotiations on the Law of the Sea Conference, the International Telecommunications Union and various disarmament and exchange agreements with the former Soviet Union. He is a former special assistant to the deputy secretary of state and has worked in the White House on national security affairs. The college of journalism at the University of Maryland was named for him, as was the headquarters of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation -- both after multimillion-dollar donations. ------ Associated Press Writer Brian Witte contributed to this report.

by **Ike Broflovski** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 9:00 pm

<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1300">rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1300</a> Philip Merrill Center for Security Policy: Adviser U.S. Export-Import Bank: President Capital Gazette Communications: Chairman Right Web News last updated: November 20, 2003 Highlights & Quotes Phillip Merrill, a minor media mogul and current president of the U.S. Ex-Im Bank, is on the advisory council of the hawkish Center for Security Policy. In 2003, Merrill donated $4 million to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies to set upa new Center for Strategic Studies, which is to be headed by Eliot Cohen, a key neocon scholar and member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. Merrill has also served as the assistant secretary general of NATO and in a number of U.S. government posts in the State and Defense Departments. In 1988 he was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Service, the highest civilian honor given by the Defense Department. Institutional Affiliations # Center for Security Policy: National Security Advisory Council Member (2) # Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments: Former Vice Chairman (1) # International Institute of Strategic Studies: U.S. Director (1) # Capital Gazette Foundation: Founder (1) # Merrill Family Foundation: Founder (1) # Council on Foreign Relations: Member (1) # Chief Executives' Organization: Member (1) # World Presidents' Organization: Member (1) # University of Maryland Board of Visitors: Former Member (1) # Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies: Former Board Member; benefactor--donated $4 million to SAIS in 2003 (1, 3) # Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory: Former Board Member (1) # Aspen Institute: Trustee (1) # Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Trustee (1) # Johns Hopkins University: Trustee (1) # Cornell University: Trustee (1) # Corcoran Gallery of Art: Trustee (1) # North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Assistant Secretary General (1990-1992) (1) Government Posts/Panels/Commissions # Export-Import Bank of the United States: President and Chairman (2002-current) (1) # U.S. Department of Defense Policy Board: Member (1983-1990) (1) # U.S. Department of Defense: Counselor to Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (1981-1983) (1) # Law of the Sea Conference: Former U.S. Representative (1) # International Telecommunications Union: Former U.S. Representative (1) # U.S. Department of State: Former Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State (1) # U.S. Department of Defense Business Board: Former Member (1) # White House Fellow Commission: Former Chairman of Regional Panels (1) # Gulf War Air Power Survey: Former Member (George H.W. Bush Administration) (1) # Commission on Cost Control in the Federal Government: Former Member (Reagan Administration) (1) Corporate Connections/Business Interests # Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.: Chairman of the Board of Directors (1) Education # Cornell University (1) # Harvard Business School: Program for Management Development (1) Sources (1) Export-Import Bank of the United States: Philip Merrill Biography http://www.exim.gov/about/leadership/pmerrill.htm (2) Center for Security Policy: National Security Advisory Council http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=static&page=nsac (3) SAIS Media Advisory, January 21, 2003 http://www.sais-jhu.edu/pubaffairs/media_events/Media_Advisories/MA2003/philipmerrill_jan03.html

by **sunny** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 9:41 pm

Merrlll was a member of the Aspen Institute. Look who else is: <a href="http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/b.612063/k.AE55/Board_of_Trustees.htm">www.aspeninstitute.org/si...ustees.htm</a> Remember Scooter Libby's letter to Judy Miller, cryptically referring to "Aspen roots?" <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning," Mr. Libby wrote. "They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them.Come back to work---and life."<hr></blockquote> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Interestingly, Judith Miller, the former NY Times reporter implicated in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame, is another emeritus member of ASG. I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, indicted in October 2005 on a total of five counts of obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury, wrote a cryptic letter to the jail-bound Miller that seemed both to reference Miller's association with the Aspen Group and to attempt to silence her before she testified before the grand jury: "Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them." Several prominent current and former Bush Administration figures are emeritus members of ASG, including Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Armitage. It's an odd turn of phrase, one that seems to insinuate that to give evidence against Libby might implicate some of these other "aspens."<hr></blockquote> <a href="http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20051128144916707">www.911truth.org/article....8144916707</a> <a href="http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/b.612047/k.1222/Aspen_Strategy_Group.htm" target="top">Look at the members of the ASG.</a> Maybe no connection at all, but interesting.

by **chiggerbit** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:03 pm

Reminds me a bit of the Murdock (?) and Colby(?) boat "mishaps".

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