Prominent diplomat, publisher missing

BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) -- Rescue crews searched the Chesapeake Bay for a prominent publisher and diplomat Sunday, hours after his sailboat was discovered empty in the water with the engine still running.

The Coast Guard dispatched a C-130 aircraft, a helicopter and a boat to assist in the search for 72-year-old Philip Merrill, who had been sailing alone Saturday.
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In December 2002, he was sworn in by Vice President Dick Cheney as president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.....

Before that, Merrill was chairman of the board of the Annapolis-based Capital-Gazette Communications Inc., which publishes The Washingtonian magazine, The Capital and four other Maryland newspapers.

He served as assistant secretary-general of NATO in Brussels from 1990 to 1992. Between 1983 to 1990, he served on the Department of Defense Policy Board......

He is a former special assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State and has worked in the White House on national security affairs.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/06/11/missing.boater.ap/

Prominent Md. Publisher Missing From Boat (from The Guardian by Brian Witte)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5879095,00.html

In 1997 Merril participated in a panel discussion on NATO-his views exhibit classic neo-con influences and ideology when it comes to going to war for energy and related matters.
http://www.commongroundradio.org/shows/97/9745.html

So yet another "coincidence" like hunting accidents, suicides, accidents etc. involving associates of the administration.

I believe we ran out of coincidences quite some time ago.

The article doesn't specify when he worked at state.

Here's his profile from Right Web-

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1300

foundations bearing his name and support-like other structural components of the BFEE that attract and corrupt the "best and brightest" imo.

I just don't think coincidence applies anymore when it comes to these events.

http://news.inq7.net/entertainment/index.php?index=2&story_id=77964&col=134

CHARLOTTE, NORTH Carolina—

Paul Newman still a driven man at 81

At 81, Paul Newman might have looked frail when he walked into the media room
of the Lowe’s Motor Speedway but, as the cliché goes, looks are deceiving.

After our press con with one of Hollywood’s statesmen, he suited up and took to the track,
the roar of his race car drowning out our subsequent press con with Owen Wilson,
his co-star in Pixar’s latest animated film, “Cars.”

You wouldn’t normally expect that from a silver-haired man dressed in a light purple tee,
khaki jacket and pants, canvas sneakers and a pair of reading glasses hanging from his neck.
But hey, Paul Newman is not the world’s oldest racing car champ for nothing.
He earned that honor in a Daytona event when he was a young man of 70.

So at this stage in his distinguished career, what is Paul doing in an animated film?
The actor, coughing intermittently and speaking in a voice that’s slightly hoarse
(he blamed the “allergy season”) explained,
“I’m 81 years old and I do less than I used to.....

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If 50 is the 'new' thirties, then 81 must be the new "middle age'!!
;)

;) :hi: :thumbsup:
BTW..So glad your son is home safe and sound.

He's safe and sound but will NOT talk about it.
He refuses to watch ANY news... :-(

My ex and I had a friend who was in VietNam When he came home...same reaction.

Robert Maxwell did it too. He didn't mysteriously disappear, he just mysteriously died.

on edit: did I mention he was a newspaper publisher too?

of small plane accidents involving politically-connected figures. On Excel. It was probably incomplete but it was the best I could come up with from an internet search. The figures were startlingly bizarre.

Except for one 4-year stretch, every politically-connected plane accident I could find involved a Democrat. During the 4-year stretch, ONLY Republicans crashed. (So far as I was able to find out.) The four years were the years in which George H.W. Bush was president.

I thought it was odd.

Just the events surrounding Wellstone's crash were mucho bzarre, with Wolf
Blitzer basically dribing off the local reporter at the Everett MN airpost.

She was stating *emphatically* that weather conditions had nothing to do with
the crash...

And the plane was a top of the line airplane, with not one but TWO pilots
at the helm.

Is there a way you could email it to me at cjsterrittATsethreturns.com ?

This guy had lots of information. Funny how the article doesn't talk about sea conditions. It reads like an obit.

poretty soon.

There are so many that "know too much" and they must hold it together.

Ex-CIA director Colby disappeared from a canoe in the Chesapeake after he began discussing the Nugan-Hand drug laundering bank and Air America drug flights in Laos.

I have brought it up several times in reference to BCCI, but no one responds.

welcome to DU.

...a few years ago. Who was it?

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKpaisley.htm

snip:

Paisley returned to the CIA in 1957 and was placed in charge of the CIA's Electronic Equipment Branch, Industrial Division. In 1959 Paisley spent a great deal of time in Eastern Europe where he analyzed developments being made in Soviet technology.

According to Dick Russell, Paisley may have been linked to the decision of Lee Harvey Oswald to defect to the Soviet Union. Paisley, who was later appointed as deputy director of the Office of Strategic Research, retired from the CIA in 1974.

On 24th September, 1978, John Paisley, took a trip on his motorized sailboat on Chesapeake Bay. Two days later his boat was found moored in Solomons, Maryland. Paisley's body was found in Maryland's Patuxent River. The body was fixed to diving weights. He had been shot in the head. Police investigators described it as "an execution-type murder". However, officially Paisley's death was recorded as a suicide.

According to the journalist, Victor Marchetti, Paisley was a close friend of Yuri Nosenko. Marchetti also claimed that Paisley knew a great deal about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and was murdered during the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation because he was "about to blow the whistle".


fly

You would think these spooks would know better than to go out alone. Or maybe they had no choice.

companies.

IUC, they make loans of taxpayer money to private companies which don't have to paid back if there's a default.

For example, IIRC, Enron got a lot of money from the EIB to invest in that Indian power plant. When the Indian government cancelled the whole project, Enron didn't have to pay back the bank (and taxpayers ate that loss while Enron execs bought land and homes in Colorado with the money they were making out of that company).

especially on flat water while stinkpotting...

Looky! Merrill is/was on the board of trustees of the Aspen Institute!

http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/b.612749/k.9FA2/Philip_Merrill.htm

Philip Merrill is Chairman of the Board of Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc., which publishes the Washingtonian magazine, The Annapolis Capital, five other Maryland newspapers, and operates the Capital Investment Company. He is also Chairman of the Capital-Gazette Foundation and the Merrill Family Foundation. An entrepreneur and investor, Mr. Merrill has combined publishing and public service throughout his career. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Merrill was Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im), from 1990 to 1992 Merrill served in Brussels as Assistant Secretary-General of NATO. From 1983 to 1990, and again from 2001 to 2003, 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.

The aspens are turning indeed :tinfoilhat:

His wallet was found on the boat.

Pure speculation, I admit.

One evening, an extremely wealthy 72 year old man, residing in a posh waterfront estate near Annapolis MD, decides to walk down to his pier and take the sailboat for a motor (notice that the article says the CG found the boat motoring without Merril aboard). After making way, old man needs to relieve his weak bladder. While standing at the rail peeing overboard, old man loses balance and falls overboard while sailboat motors off without him. Old man swims for a while, then loses strength and drowns.

http://farshores.org/secdeath.htm

Some of ways the did it were really gruesome too.

Thanks!!

Bush Junior is NOT a 'regular', average guy!!


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