Update: Mystery surrounds Nov. 7 death of State Dept. official

[seafan]

Found this on a Google search from Wayne Madsen at From the Wilderness... this story has really fallen down the memory hole.

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November 20, 2003 (FTW), WASHINGTON -- In a case eerily reminiscent of the death of British Ministry of Defense bio-weapons expert, Dr. David Kelly, an official of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research Near East and South Asian division (INR/NESA), John J. Kokal, 58, was found dead in the late afternoon of November 7. Police indicated he may have jumped from the roof of the State Department. Kokal's body was found at the bottom of a 20 foot window well, 8 floors below the roof of the State Department headquarters near the 23rd and D Street location. Kokal's death was briefly mentioned in a FOX News website story on November 8 but has been virtually overlooked by the major media.

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A former INR employee revealed that some one-third to one-half of INR officials are either former intelligence agents with the CIA or are detailed from the agency. He also revealed it would have been impossible for Kokal to have gained entry to the roof on his own. INR occupies both a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) on the sixth floor that has no windows and a windowless structure on the roof that has neither windows nor access to the roof, according to the former official. The other windows at the State Department have been engineered to be shatter proof from terrorist bomb attacks and cannot be opened.

INR and other State Department officials report that a "chill" has set in at the State Department following Kokal's defenestration. A number of employees are afraid to talk about the suspicious death. It also unusual that The Northern Virginia Journal, a local Arlington newspaper, has not published an obituary notice on Kokal.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/cgi-bin/MasterPFP.cgi?doc=http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/112003_kokal.html


Here is the original thread on this eerie story...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=207591

[ProudToBeLiberal]

1. kick

[cliss]

2. Seafan, thanks for kicking this thread.

I missed it the first time around. You're right -- there's an eerie silence surrounding this story. There was no mention of it on Yahoo news, which is really odd. Remember the Kelly story? It was huge when it first came out. Similar, and strangely quiet.

However, when I entered 'John Kokal' on Yahoo search, I got 1,340 web sites covering this story. So there is information out there.

Now Mr. Kokal was evidently involved in some Iraq intelligence gathering, so he could very well have been killed over some information that he had, and they didn't want it to get out. Or, he could have been threatening to go public with some information. In that case, there may have been some previous statements where he had spoken out, or divulged some information publicly. In other words, if he was "going public" he probably did so at some point before he was killed.

My hunch? I think he was killed to send a message to EVERYONE at the State Department as well as the CIA. Karl Rove and the White House wants to make it very clear that if you go against them, you are in mortal danger. Kokal could very well have been a "company man", but was useful in this "demonstration".

However, what's even more shocking are the sheer numbers of people who have been either kicked out or have resigned since this murderous administration set up shop.

This website goes into more detail and covers the death of John Kokal:

http://www.missouri.edu/~quinnl/news/bodies.html

[izzie]

3. We need some of the people in thee House to look into this......

Must be someone interested in this.

[darkstar]

4. 'spooky'

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