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A senior CIA official has died in an apparent suicide this week from injuries sustained after jumping off a building in northern Virginia, according to sources close to the CIA.
CIA spokesman Christopher White confirmed the death and said the incident did not take place at CIA headquarters in McLean, Va.
We can confirm that there was an individual fatally injured at a facility where agency work is done, White told the Washington Free Beacon. He was rushed to a local area hospital where he subsequently died. Due to privacy reasons and out of respect for the family, we are not releasing additional information at this time.
A source close to the agency said the man who died was a middle manager and the incident occurred after the man jumped from the fifth floor a building in Fairfax County.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cia-official-dies-in-apparent-suicide/
CIA official dies in apparent suicide
Death reportedly did not occur at CIA headquarters
Spokesman said death occurred at a 'facility where agency work is done'
Man was reportedly a middle manager and jumped from the fifth floor of a building in Fairfax County
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2597684/CIA-official-dies-apparent-suicide.html#ixzz2y5mjLZj9
(Paragraph 2. Accidents.)
For secret assassination, either simple or chase, the contrived accident is the most effective technique. When successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated.
The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface
-- From "A study of assassination" here.
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/ciaguat2.html
Cali_Democrat
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(6,943 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)It's not being reported by anyone except the Moonie sites or affiliates.
Additionally, I could not find a Christopher White except as a spokesman for the FAA or the TSA.
Nothing shown as someone who works for the CIA.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)a tabloid reported this as did The Daily New
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/cia-agent-dies-apparent-suicide-northern-virginia-article-1.1747094
We shall see if other papers pick it up and verify it.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)the "apparent suicide" happened last week. I'm skeptical.
reorg
(3,317 posts)than the Daily Mirror (which is sometimes the ONLY source of LBN posts) and any mention of a Christopher White? Well, I guess that's a reason to block news from LBN, then.
REVEALED: INSIDE THE SENATE REPORT ON CIA INTERROGATIONS
Exclusive: Intelligence Committee probe concluded some techniques used in CIA interrogations were not legally authorized
March 18, 2014 8:45AM ET
by Jason Leopold
... In early 2008, in a conference room that is referred to as a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF), I gave a classified briefing on Abu Zubaydah to staffers of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Soufan wrote. The staffers present were shocked. What I told them contradicted everything they had been told by Bush administration and CIA officials. When the discussion turned to whether I could prove everything I was saying, I told them, Remember, an FBI agent always keep his notes.
The committee tried to gain access to Soufans notes then in possession of the CIA and FBI after it launched a review of the agencys detention and interrogation program in 2009. But Senate investigators were told, according to Al Jazeeras sources, that Soufans notes were missing and could not be found in either the FBIs or CIAs computer system, where other classified records about the interrogation program were stored. More than a year later, the notes ended up with the Senate Intelligence Committee (...).
Two Senate staffers told Al Jazeera that the Panetta documents question the Bush administration claims about the efficacy of Abu Zubaydahs torture, and the staffers noted that some of the techniques to which he was subjected early in his captivity had not yet been authorized.
Christopher White, a CIA spokesman, declined to answer questions about the Senate reports conclusions on Abu Zubaydah, Soufans notes or Panettas documents.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/18/revealed-inside-thesenatereportonciainterrogations.html
Former FBI agent missing in Iran was working for the CIA report
Spencer Ackerman in Washington
The Guardian, Friday 13 December 2013 00.37 GMT
... Christopher White, a CIA spokesman, neither confirmed nor denied Levinson's affiliation with the agency. We have no comment on any purported affiliation between Mr Levinson and the US government. The US government remains committed to bringing him home safely to his family.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/12/robert-levinson-fbi-cia-iran-missing
It could be argued, of course, that someone who always "neither confirms nor denies" is not properly called a "spokes"man...
Okay, so he DOES speak every now and then, if only about not making comments "one way or the other":
By Tara McKelvey
BBC News Magazine
Sandra Grimes knew that one of her colleagues was a traitor - one of the biggest in US history, as it turned out. She helped put him in prison for the rest of his life. Her story is now told in a TV miniseries.
CIA spokesman Christopher White says they avoid discussions about these kinds of programmes. "We don't endorse - one way or the other," he says.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25658606
and here is finally one where he DOES appear to say something:
7/30/13 By Jodi Helmer of MSN News
In an emailed statement, Christopher White, a spokesman for the CIA's office of public affairs, told MSN, On a subject like climate change, the agency works with scientists to better understand the phenomenon and its implications on national security.
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/experts-%E2%80%94-and-cia-%E2%80%94-look-at-manipulating-climate
and another one:
By Jay Greene
Seattle Times business reporter
In response to the GAO decision, the CIA has taken corrective action and remains focused on awarding a cloud contract for the intelligence community, said agency spokesman Christopher White.
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021649799_amazonciaxml.html
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)for the source. The White comments was an aside, and I was mistaken about that, but not about the Beacon being a source that does not comply with the SOP of Latest Breaking News. The mail lists their source as the Beacon.
Statement of Purpose for Latest Breaking News Forum
Post the latest news from reputable mainstream news websites and blogs. Important news of national interest only.
No analysis or opinion pieces. No duplicates. News stories must have been published within the last 12 hours.
Use the published title of the story as the title of the discussion thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=about&forum=1014
Additionally, this was not a unilateral decision. I did the lock, but other hosts agreed. The article can and is being read in this very thread, so cries of censorship are bogus.
reorg
(3,317 posts)of the Daily Mirror and neither do you know if or how the other newspapers and blogs verified what the "Beacon" reported.
I know this is not the appropriate forum to discuss LBN host activities, but I remember certain actions from certain individuals in the same vein, and that's why I very much enjoyed our little exchange here, demonstrating that the righteous can also be wrong, LOL.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)are Right-wing sites. If that is righteous, then I'll accept it.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,728 posts)Extremely right-wing and noted for making up crap to further their ultra-conservative editorial policy.
The Daily Mail is to the U.K. what the New York Post is to the United States, and what the Drudge Report is to the Internet: to wit, gossipy tabloid "journalism" for those who cannot digest serious news, with a flippantly wingnut editorial stance. The Daily Mail is notable among British tabloids for rejecting the standard red-top banner order to try to appear more upmarket and respectable, although it does sometimes go in for the full front-page picture or headline characteristic of the working class rags. It is also notorious for its frequent harassment of individuals, campaigns of hate directed at various minorities, and willfully deceiving and lying to its readers.
The Mail is usually considered the furthest right of all UK newspapers/tabloids; it competes for this spot with the Daily Express. Although some of the red-top tabloids might throw about more extreme rhetoric, their laddish attitude often means they're not taken too seriously - the Mail, however is entirely Serious Business. Their primary editorial stances are:
Anti-immigration
Anti-welfare and poor people in general
Health sensationalism (particularly with respect to cancer)
Antigovernment
Anti-LGBT
Anti-Europe
Anti-taxes (mainly for those who can afford to pay them)
Pro-objectification of women
Declinism about UK life, the economy, etc.
Pro-complaining about anything and everything
A traditionally conservative tabloid (by UK standards), The Mail is currently blaming the European Union and European immigration to Britain for the economic crisis in Britain. It likes to incite its readers against minorities with sensationalist headlines about the benefits immigrants receive and the threat they pose to British culture and security (almost always entirely founded on lies). It frequently reports that the country is "going to the dogs" and we're all going to die, while at the same time wondering why people are voting for the British National Party. Some British people find this amusing as the Mail's editorial stances are indistinguishable from BNP policies.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Mail
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)needs to be acknowledged as a falsehood.
Thanks.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)I did say that I made a mistake in a previous post, however my first post was in the first person. I wrote " I could not find".
It matters not anyway. It still is not in reputable media. I don't really care if it's true or not. I don't know why some really, really want it to be true however.
I'm done
reorg
(3,317 posts)other mentions because the first two pages of search results only refer to the article mentioned in the OP. If you looked further and "could not find it", you must have not wanted to, I guess, QED.