May 22 1949, US Defense Secretary James Forrestal 'Suicide'

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Was the 1949 'Suicide' of Defense Secretary James Forrestal the First Major Domestic Political Assassination of the Emerging U.S. Deep State After WWII?
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By Jeremy Kuzmarov on Oct 27, 2021 01:13 pm

Will reopening what now appears to be the deliberately covered-up murder of Secretary James Forrestal implicate the CIA?

“He was brought before his time
To Arlington to reside.
Now, at last, the truth is known:
It wasn’t from suicide.”

On May 22, 1949, just before 2:00 a.m., America’s first Defense Secretary James Forrestal plunged to his death from a 16th floor window in the main tower of the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

Forrestal had been admitted to the hospital against his will, diagnosed as suffering from “operational fatigue,” and kept in confinement in a room with security-screened windows for seven weeks while being treated with insulin-induced shock therapy and barbiturates.

Nobody except his immediate family was allowed to visit him, though then-Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson managed to gain entrance to his suite “against Forrestal’s wishes.”

The New York Times subsequently reported Forrestal’s death as a suicide, though the belt, or sash, of his dressing gown was tied tightly around his neck—indicating murder.. […]

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