by hanshan » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:59 pm
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>CIA officials, however, offered a possible motivation to Fairfax police, saying that Yannuzzi had been one of a number of employees questioned about a month ago by the CIA's inspector general in an internal investigation triggered by a manager who complained that her privacy rights had been violated, police said.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br><br>Huh? Bait & switch. Where's Waldo?<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Rick E. Yannuzzi, the CIA's deputy national intelligence officer for strategic and nuclear programs, died Tuesday at his home in the Oakton area of an apparent suicide, according to a CIA spokesman and the Fairfax police.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br>Apparent suicide. Where's forensics?<br><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>There's also a follow-up story in the Post, which is where I got the details I posted about the Yannuzzi suicide being an automobile suicide in his home garage, due to carbon monoxide poisoning. I haven't found that one on-line yet.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br>Autopsy please? Carbon monoxide poisoning. Chained to the wheel? Bound & gagged? <br>What?<br>Motive?<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>It concerned the suicide of CIA officer Rick Yannuzzi, a former In-Q-tel founding exec, on April 9, 2001, in the midst of the infamous internatinal incident surrounding the collision of the Chinese fighter plane with the Aries spy plane, a collision that led to vast majority of the technology entering Chinese hands. ( Check out the capabilities of the Aries EP-3 some time, in Jane's Defense Weekly. )</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>This was a story that died a rather quick death but for the<br>fact that the crew was held hostage, which then took over the national attention.<br>However, as I recall, in a follow up story regarding<br>how the plane was forced down, the Chinese pilot flew so close that his wingtip touched the EP-3, & he ( the<br>pilot, hotdogging) grinning, held up his business card w/ his internet address on it so the the crew of the EP-3 could see it.<br>The story was high-strangeness.<br>What was being conveyed <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>sotto-voce</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> was that the hijack was a ruse for a bought & paid for exchange<br>of the latest in snoop-gear. Yannuzzi took the hit. <br>Impossible to document w/out an inside source.<br><br>The Washington Post sashay is hardly surprising.<br><br>Thanks for the refresher, robert.<br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>