Perhaps Forrestal’s psychological state was such that he did commit suicide.
 Although the facts of his death do not point toward this conclusion, we do not
 have definitive knowledge, either. But consider the case of American journalist
 George Polk. A year before, Polk had been investigating corruption in the Greek
 military regime, elements of which then murdered him. The Communists were promptly
 blamed, while America’s intelligence and media communities knowingly went along
 with the charade. Or, just a few years later, in 1953, when American biological
 weapons expert Frank Olsen "fell" from the 10th floor of the Statler Hotel in
 New York City, after he had a very bad LSD trip, courtesy of the CIA, and had
 become a security risk.

 During the bad old days of Stalin’s Russia, airbrushed photographs were a normal,
 if crude, way to sanitize history. American methods are less crude, but no less
 normal.

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 Notes: Perhaps not surprisingly, there are precious few sources on Forrestal.
 See Arnold Rogow, James Forrestal, A Study of Personality, Politics, and Policy
 (MacMillan, 1963); Townsend Hoopes & Douglas Brinkley, Driven Patriot: The Life
 and Times of James Forrestal (Knopf, 1992); the extremely rare Cornell Simpson,
 The Death of James Forrestal (Western Islands Publishers, 1966); and the extremely
 sanitized The Forrestal Diaries edited by Walter Mills (Viking Press, 1951).

 http://keyholepublishing.com/Death%20of%20James%20Forrestal.htm

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 "Perceptions" note

 The "Kelly" in this file's URL is Dr. David Kelly - a UK citizen who worked

 as a Gov't expert on various things, including armaments.

 He died mysteriously after critizing (maybe) the UK `justification for war'
  
 in Iraq.

 http://www.perceptions.couk.com/updates.html#kelly

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly

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