DC Dave
Top Secret Advisor To 4 Presidents Dies 'Violently' In DC
Tue Dec 9 20:25:34 2003
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Top Secret Advisor To 4 Presidents Dies 'Violently' In DC

>From 'DC' Dave Martin = dcdave1@erols.com
12-8-3

Gus W. Weiss, 72, adviser to four presidents on top secret policy
matters, died violently in Washington, DC, on November 25, 2003, but
his death was not reported by The Washington Post until December 7,
2003, in the obituary section at the bottom of page C12. His home
town newspaper, The Nashville Tennessean, was only a week late in
reporting his death, but at that late date all they could say
was, "The circumstances surrounding his death could not be confirmed
last night."

Readers of The Tennessean http://makeashorterlink.com/?C288413C6
might have had their suspicions aroused not only by the delay in the
reporting of this important man's death, but also by the very next
sentence in the article: "Friends of Mr. Weiss expressed shock at his
death."

But the article is not at all clear as to why that might have been
the case. The man was already two years past our allotted three score
years and ten, after all. Subsequent passages in the article only
heighten the mystery:

"Driven by an insatiable intellectual curiosity and a desire to solve
foreign policy problems, Mr. Weiss devoted his life to his career,
friends recalled. He served as assistant to the secretary of defense
for space policy and on the Pentagon Defense Science Board and the
U.S. Intelligence Board under President Carter. Mr. Weiss was a
foreign affairs officer and member of the National Security Council
under Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan."

"Mr. Weiss...was involved in numerous intelligence projects, and
friends said there were many aspects of his career he could never
discuss with them."

'''He was wired into the intelligence community, and there were a lot
of mystical secrets we weren't privy to,' said Harris Gilbert, a
Nashville attorney who had been friends with Mr. Weiss since
childhood. 'He was very interested in diplomatic strategy and was
VERY, VERY OPPOSED TO THE IRAQ WAR. It was the first military action
he ever opposed, but he believed we shouldn't go to war in the Middle
East without knowing what we were getting into.''' (emphasis added)

Might it not appear that if one is sufficiently connected to power,
strong opposition to our ongoing naked aggression in the fertile
crescent could well be fatal?

Let's see if The Post's belated obituary
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42132-2003Dec6.html
clears matters up, or muddies the waters further:

Gus W. Weiss, 72, a former White House policy adviser on technology,
intelligence, and economic affairs, died Nov. 25 of a fall from the
Watergate East residential building in the District. The D.C. medical
examiner ruled his death a suicide.

A spokesman for the D.C. police said that officers found his body at
a service entrance to the apartment cooperative. Dr. Weiss lived in
the building.

Dr. Weiss was a graduate of Vanderbilt University in his native
Nashville. He received a master's degree in business from Harvard
University and a doctorate in economics from New York University,
where he also taught.

He served on the staff of the National Security Council under
Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. In the Ford
administration, he was also executive director of the White House
Council on International Economic Policy.

Much of his government work centered on national security,
intelligence organizations and concerns over technology transfers to
communist countries. As an adviser to the Central Intelligence
Agency, he served on the Pentagon's Defense Science Board and the
Signals Intelligence Committee of the U.S. Intelligence Board.

During the Carter administration, Dr. Weiss was assistant for space
policy to the secretary of defense.

His honors included the CIA's Medal for Merit and the National
Security Agency's Cipher Medal. He was awarded the French Legion of
Honor in 1975 for helping resolve national security concerns over a
joint venture between General Electric's aircraft engine division and
a French jet engine company.

Since 1992, Dr. Weiss had been a guest lecturer at George Washington
University, where he spoke about his experiences in the government.
He was also adviser to the dean of arts and sciences and established
a cash prize awarded to a top physics student.

His interests included piano and history.

There are no immediate survivors. (end obituary)

In other words, if we may paraphrase The Post: "Would you believe it
was a suicide?"

On what basis did the medical examiner rule that it was a suicide? On
what basis could any mere medical examiner so rule, particularly when
someone has died from a fall, presumably from a high altitude? All a
medical doctor is qualified to do is to determine the cause of death.
That, we are told, was "a fall from the Watergate East residential
building." How does the medical examiner know what caused the fall?

Even in the case of the May 1949 death of former Secretary of Defense
James Forrestal, the official investigation of his death concluded
only that Forrestal died from wounds inflicted by a fall from the
16th floor of the Bethesda Naval Hospital, but it remained agnostic
on the cause of the fall. In this instance we are not told even
approximately how far the victim fell or precisely where he fell
from, but the medical examiner, for some unstated reason, is certain
it was a suicide.

Interestingly, The Post doesn't even name the medical examiner. It
doesn't even name the police spokesman who did no more than tell us
approximately where the body was found.

I'm sorry, but all this sounds more than a bit suspicious to me.

DC Dave

Author, "Who Killed James Forrestal?"
"America's Dreyfus Affair, The Case of the Death of Vincent Foster"
"Upton Sinclair and Timothy McVeigh" "Seventeen Techniques for Truth
Suppression"
http://www.thebird.org/host/dcdave
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Searched the web for Gus W. Weiss.

Gus W. Weiss, 72; White House Adviser
Sunday, December 7, 2003; Page C12
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42132-2003Dec6.html

Gus W. Weiss, 72, a former White House policy adviser on technology, intelligence and economic affairs, died Nov. 25 of a fall from the Watergate East residential building in the District. The D.C. medical examiner ruled his death a suicide.

A spokesman for the D.C. police said that officers found his body at a service entrance to the apartment cooperative. Dr. Weiss lived in the building.

Dr. Weiss was a graduate of Vanderbilt University in his native Nashville. He received a master's degree in business from Harvard University and a doctorate in economics from New York University, where he also taught.

He served on the staff of the National Security Council under Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. In the Ford administration, he was also executive director of the White House Council on International Economic Policy.

Much of his government work centered on national security, intelligence organizations and concerns over technology transfers to communist countries. As an adviser to the Central Intelligence Agency, he served on the Pentagon's Defense Science Board and the Signals Intelligence Committee of the U.S. Intelligence Board.

During the Carter administration, Dr. Weiss was assistant for space policy to the secretary of defense.

His honors included the CIA's Medal for Merit and the National Security Agency's Cipher Medal. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1975 for helping resolve national security concerns over a joint venture between General Electric's aircraft engine division and a French jet engine company.

Since 1992, Dr. Weiss had been a guest lecturer at George Washington University, where he spoke about his experiences in the government. He was also adviser to the dean of arts and sciences and established a cash prize awarded to a top physics student.

His interests included piano and history.

There are no immediate survivors.


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