For Gus, He died for us.

[donhakman]

You can't die of natural causes.
At least not in Washington DC once you have been a top secret advisor.
Gus was found dead at the bottom of the stairs at the Watergate hotel.
Even his death was a secret for nealy a month.
The determined cause of his death, in the most time honored tradtion of the CIA, was suicide.


He had gone full circle in the Life game of goverment secrets.
One of the very first vetting questions when one is recruited is " You are at the top of the stairs with an important briefcase. There is a person intent on taking it from you coming up the stairs. What do you do?"
Gus went from the bottom of the stairs to the top and back down again.

Gus, the secrets you had did not die, only your ability to
use them to seek justice in accordence with the Constitution of the United States.

I would have loved to hear your old jokes one more time again. Like the one about two guys and a small machine hidden inside an ice chest ..."What is it? Well it can supply the East Coast with power indefinetly or fly an entire aircraft carrier, if an air craft carrier had wings.
Wow, why isn't it in use? Are you kidding , this is classified so secret that we can't ever get clearance to propose its use to anyone for any reason."




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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, 2003, in the obitiuary section at the bottom of page C12. His home town newspaper, The Nashville Tennessean, was only a week late in reporting his death, but at that late date all they could say was, "The circumstances surrounding his death could not be confirmed last night."

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