CLOAK AND DAGGER

Top secret advisor to four Presidents dies 'violently' In DC

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 -- in the obitiuary section at the bottom of page C12.
His home town newspaper, The Nashville Tennessean, was a week late in reporting his death, but said, "The circumstances surrounding his death could not be confirmed last night."
Readers of The Tennessean 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."
The Washington Post reported that Mr Weiss -- who had in the past been honoured with CIA's Medal for Merit and the National Security Agency's Cipher Medal -- died in a fall from a Watergate East residential building and that the D.C. medical examiner ruled his death a suicide.
The Tennessean obituary said Harris Gilbert, a Nashville attorney who had been friends with Mr. Weiss since childhood said Weiss 'was very interested in diplomatic strategy and was very, very opposed to the Iraq war. It was the first military action he ever opposed'.