After all, when you want to be the best you’ve got to learn from the best. And taking down CIA agents and former SecDefs is no small feat. 
On May 22, 1949, the body of the man generally regarded as the leading government official warning of the communist menace abroad and within the United States government, the nation’s first Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal, was found on a third floor roof 13 floors below a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda Naval Hospital. He had been admitted to the hospital, apparently against his will, diagnosed as suffering from “operational fatigue” and kept in confinement in a room with security-screened windows on the 16th floor since April 2, some seven weeks before. The body had been discovered at 1:50 a.m., and the last edition of the May 22 New York Times reported the death as a suicide, although the belt, or sash, of his dressing gown was tied tightly around his neck, a more suspicious happenstance than anything associated with Masaryk’s death.
(The death of Czechoslovak foreign minister Jan Masaryk on March 10, 1948 remains a mystery. The communist regime initially ruled his death a suicide by jumping from his bathroom window at the Foreign Ministry, but some suspect he was defenestrated by communist agents.)
Four years later, a CIA officer named Frank Olson was tossed out of a New York hotel window. It was claimed that Olson jumped as well, after a reported bad trip on LSD. But the Olson family refused to accept the official story and forty-one years later, after Olson’s body was exhumed, forensic analysis proved that Olson had suffered a severe blow to the head immediately prior to his fall.
On May 22, 1949, the body of the man generally regarded as the leading government official warning of the communist menace abroad and within the United States government, the nation’s first Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal, was found on a third floor roof 13 floors below a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda Naval Hospital. He had been admitted to the hospital, apparently against his will, diagnosed as suffering from “operational fatigue” and kept in confinement in a room with security-screened windows on the 16th floor since April 2, some seven weeks before. The body had been discovered at 1:50 a.m., and the last edition of the May 22 New York Times reported the death as a suicide, although the belt, or sash, of his dressing gown was tied tightly around his neck, a more suspicious happenstance than anything associated with Masaryk’s death.
(The death of Czechoslovak foreign minister Jan Masaryk on March 10, 1948 remains a mystery. The communist regime initially ruled his death a suicide by jumping from his bathroom window at the Foreign Ministry, but some suspect he was defenestrated by communist agents.)
Four years later, a CIA officer named Frank Olson was tossed out of a New York hotel window. It was claimed that Olson jumped as well, after a reported bad trip on LSD. But the Olson family refused to accept the official story and forty-one years later, after Olson’s body was exhumed, forensic analysis proved that Olson had suffered a severe blow to the head immediately prior to his fall.
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