I was half expecting this to be related to the death of former CIA director William Colby, who was found dead in a marsh near his canoe in Maryland after a heart attack.
"An attempt to hire former CIA director William Colby to lead a state of Nebraska investigation of the Franklin scandal failed in a legislative committee 4 to 3 vote. Instead, the committee appointed attorney Kirk Naylor as its chief investigator. A major figure involved in investigating Franklin told WMR that Naylor was the most incompetent person the committee could have found to lead the investigation. Colby was a Vietnam War colleague of Nebraska state Senator John De Camp, one of major investigators of the Franklin scandal. Colby reportedly was ready to expose the CIA's own involvement in the use of child prostitutes for the purposes of political and diplomatic blackmail. Colby died in a suspicious canoeing accident on the Chesapeake Bay on April 27, 1996."
I'd forgotten this story. Apparently it spun up a lot of conspiracy stories and theories about not-natural causes. Thanks for flagging this, it's interesting.
