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“WHO MURDERED THE CIA CHIEF?
WHO MURDERED THE CIA CHIEF? William E. Colby: A Highly Suspicious Death
William E. Colby: A Highly Suspicious Death
By Zalin Grant
This was Saturday, April 27, 1996. William Colby, a former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, was alone at his weekend house across from Cobb Island, Maryland, 60 miles south of Washington, D.C. Colby, who was 76 years old, had worked all day on his sailboat at a nearby marina, putting it in shape for the coming summer.
After he got home from the marina, Colby called his wife, Sally Shelton, a high-ranking State Department official who was in Houston, Texas, visiting her mother. He told her that he had worked hard all day and was tired. He said he was going to steam some clams, take a shower, and go to bed.
Colby made the call at 7 p.m. He was seen a few minutes later by two sets of witnesses in his yard watering a willow tree. One of the witnesses was his gardener who dropped by to introduce his visiting sister. His two next-door neighbors saw him at the same time from their window. After he finished watering his trees, he went inside and had dinner.
The witnesses saw him at 7:15 p.m. The sun set at 7:57—42 minutes later.
When he was found dead in the water nine days later, it was said that he had gone out paddling his canoe at nightfall and drowned. I was in Paris when I read the story in the International Herald Tribune. I knew William Colby. And I didn’t believe that for one second.
Sunday April 28 1996
Kevin Akers lived near Rock Point, not far across the water from William Colby, although he did not know him. Akers was a wiry five-foot-two and 29 years old. An unemployed carpenter, he was the kind of guy found in fishing villages around the world—a handyman who could do most anything connected with the sea. He wasn’t getting rich but he loved the water and the freedom that came with it.
Around noon on Sunday Kevin Akers took his boat out, with his wife and two kids. He hadn’t gone far when he spotted a green canoe beached near the point where Neale Sound turned into the Wicomico River. Akers wasn’t surprised. Small boats often broke their mooring during wind storms and wound up beached somewhere on the Sound.
Akers routinely towed the boats to a nearby marina where the word would eventually reach the owners. Then he would go back to look for paddles or life jackets, anything that would float, so he could return those to the owner. Kevin Akers was known as a helpful guy in Rock Point and Cobb Island.
But on this Sunday Akers immediately spotted something out of the ordinary. The canoe was turned on its side and filled with so much sand that it took him and his wife nearly an hour to empty it before he could tow it to the marina.
Akers was out on the water the day before and had not seen the canoe. That meant it probably had been beached for only two cycles of the tide. And there was no way, he thought, that two tide cycles could have put that much sand in the canoe. It looked to him like somebody wanted the canoe to stay put right there.
Something else didn’t seem right. Lots of people left their life jackets in their boats and it was easy to find a floating jacket. But when Akers searched the area he couldn’t find a life jacket or paddles anywhere.
Akers didn’t tell anyone about his suspicions. Maybe it was just a coincidence, he thought. He had never heard of William Colby. He dropped the boat off at the marina and left.
But next day when the media frenzy began and the TV satellite trucks arrived, Akers believed he might be in personal danger. The first thing he had told the police when they started investigating was about the extraordinary amount of sand in the canoe. Something was wrong, he said. Too much sand. No life jacket. No paddles. It didn’t fit.
Now the media wanted to talk to him. But Kevin Akers didn’t want to talk to reporters. He thought it might get him killed. So he made himself scarce. When he learned that a former CIA director was the owner of the canoe, Akers was hit by one thought.
Colby got whacked.
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On Sunday afternoon Alice Stokes, Colby's next-door neighbor, kept peering out the window. Colby's red Fiat was parked near the house. The boat was gone. The ladder was still in the water. And she hadn’t seen Colby all day long. It was the ladder that finally pushed Alice Stokes to call 911. Colby would never leave his ladder in the water if he had returned.
Policewoman Sharon Walsh arrived at 8:18 p.m. She and Alice checked the house. Both doors were closed but unlocked. The computer was on, so was the radio. A search was made of the surrounding area. Sharon Walsh saw no signs of foul play and reported it that way.
It looked to her like an old guy had got himself drowned. That had happened times before on Cobb Island. Colby had been a practicing lawyer for the past few years. He lived a quiet, almost anonymous life. Neither Sharon Walsh nor anybody else connected with the police realized he was a former CIA director—and one with lots of enemies.
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Colby’s Wife Speaks
I interviewed Sally Shelton Colby, 52, in her office at the State Department. She was a petite blonde, 24 years younger than her husband, his second wife. Sally Shelton was an accomplished woman. From Missouri, she was a Phi Beta Kappa who had done graduate study as a Fulbright Scholar in Paris. She was the assistant administrator for global programs at the Agency for International Development, and a former ambassador to Grenada and Barbados. Our conversation, tape recorded in front of a witness June 25, 1996:
ZG
I know you've gone over your conversation with your husband, and I hate to ask you to go over it again. But would you?
Shelton-Colby
Well, he called, he uh—
ZG
He called? Or you called?
Shelton-Colby
He called, uh-huh. We spoke everyday, at least once a day. Both of us were traveling a lot. He said he had just--normally it takes two days to get the Eagle Wing ready for the summer. But he'd compressed it into one day, so he'd worked very hard. And he'd had a wonderful time, and he said he was tired. He had stopped and picked up some clams and he said he was going to have the clams, which was his favorite dish. Then he was going to take a hot shower and go to bed.
ZG
Do you recall whether he said he was going to have dinner? Or whether he had already had dinner?
Shelton-Colby
He said he was going to have dinner.
ZG
Since the Maryland phone records show up at your Washington house, is there any way you can check so I can develop a chronology?
Shelton-Colby
If it's important. I can tell you it was right at six o'clock [Houston time—7 p.m. Washington] when he called me. My mother had just walked in and I was looking at the news.
ZG
Well, could you check to see if he made any calls after that?
Shelton-Colby
I can check if you'd like. I don't have time to do it before I leave on Friday.
ZG
Then I would appreciate if you would check. So I can see if there were any other calls and I can put together a chronology.
Shelton-Colby
Sure, I'll do it.
ZG
Would you?
Shelton-Colby
Uh-huh, sure, I'll do it.
How the Killers Got Away With It
Just as I’d thought, the killers didn’t make many mistakes. The first was unavoidable—Kevin Akers--but with luck they got away with it. I’d say there were from three to five of them. Two on a boat, maybe two or three who went to his house in a car around 8:30 p.m., at nightfall. The two in the car made Colby empty his pockets so if they were stopped he would have no ID to back up his claim that he was an ex-CIA director and these thugs were officers he’d fired. One of the men put the ladder in the water and took the life jacket. Then they drove to the end of Rock Point Road to rendezvous with the boat.
Meanwhile the boat backed up to Colby’s canoe, which was pointed outward and tied to the pier by a small rope at the rear. They hooked their tow rope to the front and jerked the canoe so hard in taking off that the tie-up rope frayed and released. They towed the canoe to the place where Akers found it. One guy from the boat pulled the canoe to shore and another guy from the car joined him in helping fill the canoe with sand. The boat took off immediately. The second guy from the boat climbed into the car with the other two guys and Colby.
Why did they want to make sure the canoe didn’t move?
They wanted everybody to think that Colby had drowned in this specific area. That was because they were coming back by car with Colby’s body the next weekend and would dump him in the water not far from where the canoe was found. This was the only place on Neale Sound where they would have unobserved access to the water from a dead-end road only 40 meters away.
In Kevin Akers’ opinion, the canoe could not have washed up at the place it did unless someone towed it against the clockwise current. It would have washed up on the same side of the spit as Colby’s body. But the killers had to tow the canoe there because it was the only place in the area that had enough sand to anchor the boat so it wouldn’t move.
The place where Colby’s body was found, on the other side of the spit, had little sand, as is apparent in the photos I took with Akers.
Why didn’t they just kill him there and dump him into the water?
Because it wouldn’t be easy to drown Colby and to make it look like an accident. But if they killed him and let his internal organs decompose for a week the medical examiner couldn’t tell how he had died. And they were betting the examiner would call it a drowning accident.
What errors did they make?
1. Kevin Akers – This wasn’t an error but a coincidence. They pulled the operation off within five hundred meters of his house. He knew better than anyone the water and the currents around Rock Point. He became immediately suspicious when he saw the canoe. He told the police about the excessive sand and they wrote it in their report. But his information was ignored. He was just a fishing village guy with not a lot of education, and it looked to the police like a routine boating accident.
2. The Missing Life Jacket – The killers didn’t know whether or not Colby always wore his life jacket. If it turned out he did, and they just threw the life jacket in the water, then where was his body? They decided to take the jacket with them and hoped that nobody noticed. In fact, everybody did notice the missing life jacket and talked about it, including his son Paul, who brought it up with me. But most people did not want to connect the missing jacket to possible foul play.
3. The Unexplained Tow Rope – In their haste the killers left their tow rope attached to the front of Colby’s canoe. No one had ever seen a tow rope on Colby’s canoe. Why would he need it? Again, that was a point people talked about but nobody wanted to connect it to possible foul play.
My Investigation Ends
I thought there was a good chance that Colby had made an outside call on Saturday night at 8:30 or later and it would show up on his telephone bill. I felt this would be serious proof that somebody had killed him.
Sally Shelton assured me she would find the telephone bill that would include any outside calls made on Saturday, April 27, 1996, and let me know. Since I knew how meticulous Colby was—he paid the bills—I was sure the bill was there.
But I did not get to see the phone bill, despite my repeated requests. I drew no conclusions or inferences then or now concerning Sally Shelton Colby’s refusal to help me obtain the telephone record. She was a wife who had lost her husband two months before and still in that state of grief that happens to all of us when we lose a loved one.
On my last call to Mrs. Colby, when I asked about the telephone bill, she said to me, with exasperation: “I think you are on a fishing expedition.”
She was right.
I was fishing to find out who murdered her husband, William Egan Colby, a former CIA director, and the man I considered the most capable and effective American to serve in the Vietnam War.
ZALIN GRANT served as an Army Intelligence Officer in Vietnam. A former journalist for Time and The New Republic, he is the author of six books, including FACING THE PHOENIX: The CIA and the Political Defeat of the United States in Vietnam, which was also translated and published without permission in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. For further bio, see:
www.pythiapress.com/letters/war.htm
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