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Director of House Intelligence Committee Commits Suicide
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JOHN MILLIS
- STAFF DIRECTOR OF HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE COMMITS SUICIDE
IN VIRGINIA MOTEL
June 6, 2000
According to a report in today's "New York Times," John Millis,
Republican Staff Director of the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) committed suicide in a Fairfax County
Virginia motel last Sunday. According to the Times, "A spokesman
for the Fairfax City police said officers were called to a motel about
8 p.m. on Sunday because a man was threatening suicide. Officer Jeff
Morrison said that when the police arrived they found Mr. Millis dead
of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound."
The Times reported that Millis, appointed to his post as staff director
by Republican Chairman Porter Goss of Florida three years ago, was himself,
like Goss, a former CIA case officer. In his 13 year career with CIA,
Millis served in Pakistan with Afghani "Freedom Fighters"
in the 1980s. Those Freedom Fighters, known as Mujahedeen, and led by
radical Islamic leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar, have been documented as supplying
or producing as much as 50% of the heroin entering the United States
by 1984.
Just recently HPSCI closed out its four year investigation into allegations
of CIA involvement in the cocaine trade during the 1980s. Its final
report, dated in February but not publicly released until May 11th,
stated that there was "no evidence" that the CIA had any involvement
or connection with cocaine trafficking as alleged by a series of 1996
stories in "The San Jose Mercury News." [SEE MAY ISSUE OF
FROM THE WILDERNESS]. FTW Publisher and Editor Mike Ruppert, himself
an eyewitness to CIA involvement in drug dealing, had dealt extensively
with HPSCI during the four year investigation and had provided the committee
with 6,000 pages of documents indicating CIA involvement in both cocaine
and heroin trafficking over a period of three decades.
MILLIS' "UNUSUAL" ACTIVITIES COVERED BY FTW IN MARCH, 2000
ISSUE Millis, in unprecedented style for a Congressional staffer, made
volatile and highly critical comments about the performance of former
CIA Director John Deutch and President Bill Clinton in a February 18,2000
interview with "Washington Post" reporter Vernon Loeb. Loeb
is one of the Post's primary intelligence beat reporters and regarded
by FTW as being a conduit for CIA "inspired" stories. In a
lengthy article covering the back story behind allegations that former
CIA Director (DCI) John Deutch, a Clinton Democratic appointee, had
misused CIA computers at his home, Loeb included a series of quotes
from Millis that FTW noted were unusually candid. The remarks merit
inclusion in their entirety.
Loeb wrote, " Over on the other side of the Capitol this week,
the chief staffer of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
former CIA operations officer John Millis, proclaimed Deutch the worst
CIA director ever. "Asked at a public lecture at the Smithsonian
Tuesday night to rate the various directors of Central Intelligence,
Millis said Deutch now takes 'first, second and third prize,' adding
that he did 'major damage' to the CIA's Directorate of Operations."
Loeb included additional quotes from Millis praising current DCI George
Tenet but closed his story with the following passage: "Where Tenet
hasn't done as well, Millis said, is coordinating the overall affairs
of the 13-agency intelligence community. But Millis blamed that shortcoming
on a lack of support by President Clinton, whom Millis ranked as one
of the worst presidents when it comes to support of, and regard for,
the intelligence community."
FTW noted in the March issue that such on-the-record quotes by a senior
Congressional staffer, in an apparently pre-arranged news story, were
highly unusual. Statements of strong opinion are usually reserved for
elected Members of Congress. In an election year marked by unusually
strenuous behind the scenes conflicts, Millis' statements struck us
as especially unusual for their apparent candor and premeditation.
Already comparisons have been made linking the circumstances of Millis'
death to those of White House lawyer Vincent Foster and investigative
reporter Danny Casolero. Anti-Clinton groups will certainly add Millis'
name to the so-called "Clinton Body Count" while others will
likely wonder if Millis had pangs of conscience or inside knowledge
that might have jeopardized other interests in the intelligence community
during a highly volatile period of American history.
FTW finds the timing of Millis' death, especially in proximity to the
close-out of HPSCI's investigation of CIA's drug connections, both suspicious
and worthy of additional investigation before the trail grows cold and
leads become hard to find or deliberately obscured.
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