HPD high-speed chase ends in death, deeper mystery

[lovuian]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5741363.html

Mystery continues to envelop a man shot and killed by Houston police Tuesday morning after a high-speed chase that ended near the Galleria.

The victim was identified by friends as Roland Vincent Carnaby, 52, of Houston. But who he really was — or more precisely, what he was — is something police are still trying to piece together.

Carnaby held himself out as a federal intelligence agent but was sometimes cagey about his precise job and employer. At times he mentioned the Central Intelligence Agency or the Department of Homeland Security. He was the president of the local chapter of the Association for Intelligence Officers, a legitimate national organization whose board contains luminaries such as former President George H.W. Bush. Friends said they have seen him in the company socially of local law enforcement officials and high-level CIA bureaucrats.

The CIA told KHOU that Carnaby was not an employee of the intelligence agency.

Car dealer Alan Helfman met Carnaby more than a decade ago when "a mutual friend high in law enforcement" brought him by the dealership. "He bought eight or nine cars from me over the years," Helfman said.

Carnaby told Helfman he was a federal officer who worked in intelligence. The two men struck up a close friendship.
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Its a mystery

[kestrel91316]

1. Was he perhaps one of those fakers who bragged about his

background but was actually a janitor or something?? Just wild-ass speculation on my part....

[tanyev]

2. Whoa. How bizarre.

Are you in the Houston area, lovuian? Will you post an update if any more info comes out?

[Horse with no Name]

3. The CIA lies

we know this.
It is quite possible that he was a NOC.