by robertdreed » Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:00 am
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>CIA Senior Analyst an Apparent Suicide, Police Say<br><br>By Vernon Loeb and Tom Jackman<br>Washington Post Staff Writers<br>Friday, April 6, 2001; Page A19 <br><br>Rick E. Yannuzzi, the CIA's deputy national intelligence officer for strategic and nuclear programs, died Tuesday at his home in the Oakton area of an apparent suicide, according to a CIA spokesman and the Fairfax police. <br><br>Yannuzzi, 46, a physicist and lawyer who specialized in weapons analysis, was found by a family member inside his home at about 3 p.m. Tuesday. The state medical examiner performed an autopsy yesterday morning and determined that the cause of death was asphyxiation, police said. <br><br>In an internal message to employees, CIA Director George J. Tenet called Yannuzzi "a highly respected and admired agency officer" and said that his death "is a profound loss for all of us who had the privilege knowing and working with him." <br><br>"Rick's intellect, talent, vibrancy and warmth will be sorely missed," Tenet said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Ann, and their three children." <br><br>Yannuzzi joined the CIA in 1977 as a weapons and telemetry analyst and rose through the ranks to hold several positions within the senior intelligence service, the agency's top management cadre. <br><br>Yannuzzi's apparent suicide caught colleagues by surprise and left them searching for possible explanations. Yannuzzi apparently left a suicide note in which he expressed love for his family but gave no explanation for taking his life, sources said. <br><br>CIA officials, however, offered a possible motivation to Fairfax police, saying that Yannuzzi had been one of a number of employees questioned about a month ago by the CIA's inspector general in an internal investigation triggered by a manager who complained that her privacy rights had been violated, police said. <br><br>The manager filed a complaint with the IG last fall after fellow employees sent a series of anonymous letters to agency officials protesting her receipt of two cash bonuses and a promotion despite an incident in which she was found to have choked a subordinate during a workplace outburst in September 1998, according to a CIA official. <br><br>Accused of assault, the manager ultimately received a letter of admonishment in her personnel file and was denied promotional opportunities for one year, the official said. Despite those sanctions, the manager received a $5,000 bonus for outstanding performance in early 1999, prompting an anonymous protest by a fellow employee, the official said. <br><br>After the manager received a $1,500 bonus and a promotion from GS-15 to the senior intelligence service last year, CIA management received additional anonymous letters protesting her career advancement, the official said. <br><br>Last fall the manager asked the IG to investigate whether the anonymous letter writers had illegally obtained information from her personnel file, the official said. </em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Addendum: for some reason, the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Washington Post</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> link I originally posted in my post above leads to a "page not found" refeence.<br><br>However, when I accessed the <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://listarchives.his.com/intelforum/2001-April/msg00071.html">listarchives.his.com/inte...00071.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> site, I was able to retrieve the text of the WP article. <br><br>Summary and link, as found on that site:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>CHOKING SUBORDINATES! This story in the Post is about the tragic<br>suicide last Tuesday of Rick Yannuzzi, 46, the CIA's deputy national<br>intelligence officer for strategic and nuclear programs. The article<br>goes on to speculate that the suicide might be related, somehow, to a<br>somewhat bizarre story that has been going around. Yannuzzi, it seems,<br>had been one of a number of CIA employees questioned about a month ago<br>by the CIA's inspector general in an internal investigation triggered by<br>a manager who complained that her privacy rights had been violated,<br>police said. The manager filed a complaint with the CIA IG last fall<br>after fellow employees sent a series of anonymous letters to agency<br>officials protesting her receipt of two cash bonuses and a promotion<br>from GS-15 to SIS despite an incident in which she was found to have<br>choked a subordinate during a workplace outburst in September 1998,<br>according to a CIA official.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45714-2001Apr5.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...1Apr5.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>So the above is a working URL. But when I clicked it to find the article, in the course of linkig to the text of the story, the URL in the address bar changed to <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A45714-2001Apr5¬Found=true">www.washingtonpost.com/ac...Found=true</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>There's also a follow-up story in the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Post</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, which is where I got the details I posted about the Yannuzzi suicide being an automobile suicide in his home garage, due to carbon monoxide poisoning. I haven't found that one on-line yet. <br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 8/2/05 10:33 pm<br></i>