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	William E. Colby, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
		William E. Colby (4 January 1920-28 April 1996), intelligence officer, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Elbridge Colby, an army officer and educator, and Margaret Mary Egan Colby, an ardent Catholic who guided her son in the path of that religion.
		William Colby was also influenced by his father's liberal views and by the family's peripatetic movements to locations as diverse as China and Vermont, where he studied at Burlington High School.
		Colby was CIA station chief in Saigon from 1959 to 1962 and headed the agency's Far East division from 1962 to 1967.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /wcolby.htm (2760 words)

	William E. Colby Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		William Egan Colby was born on 4 January 1920 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the son of an army officer.
		Colby admitted that the CIA had erred, but he never confessed that the agency was to blame.
		Had Colby chosen not to be so forthcoming or attempted to justify what in retrospect should not have been undertaken, two courses many in the CIA urged upon him, Congress may have responded by curtailing certain operations.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-e-colby (1694 words)

	William Colby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His father, Elbridge Colby, was a professor of English and an Army officer who served in Army and university positions in in Tientsin, China; Georgia; Vermont; and Washington.
		Colby, despite a career spent in the DDP, agreed with Schlesinger's reformist approach and Schlesinger appointed him head of the clandestine branch in early 1973.
		Colby believed that the CIA had a moral and practical obligation to cooperate with the Congress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Colby (1397 words)

	Obituary: William Colby
		WILLIAM COLBY, who has died aged 76, was director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 1976.
		Colby, determined to show willing, displayed to the Senate committee (and to a television audience) a dart gun (in CIA terminology, a "Nondiscernible Micro-bioinoculator") as well as several bottles of deadly shellfish toxin and cobra venom which had been found gathering dust in the CIA storerooms.
		William Egan Colby was born on Jan 4 1920 in St Paul, Minnesota, the son of an army officer, and was brought up in a series of army posts.
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	William Colby
		William E. Colby, the son of an army officer, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on 4th January, 1920.
		Colby was attacked by right-wing figures such as Barry Goldwater for supplying this information to the Frank Church and on 30 January 1976, President Gerald Ford replaced him with George G. Bush.
		Colby was a political liberal, and no great fan of the Nixon White House; as Helms' damage-control officer on Watergate, he would be perfectly positioned to leak; he was later rumored to use underground parking structures for secret meetings of a personal nature.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SScolby.htm (3815 words)

	William Colby - The Education Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Colby himself had indeed made cryptic remarks about the JFK assassination in one interview shortly before his death, so perhaps there is reason for suspicion.
		Colby, who had just been dismissed by President Ford, but was asked to remain in office until his designated successor, Ambassador George Bush, returned from China and won Senate confirmation, argued in his testimony that the balance of power was shifting in Israel's favor.
		Colby's testimony, which disputed figures offered by Israeli officials, was widely seen as having damaged the Administration's own pending request before the Congress for $1.5 billion in military aid for Israel during that fiscal year'.
	educationforum.ipbhost.com /index.php?showtopic=7144 (2698 words)

	A Conversation with William Colby - Show Transcript
		And William Colby, a former director of the CIA in the 1970s, now criticizes the US military establishment for continuing to fight the Cold War and wasting billions of dollars on unneeded weapons and excessive forces.
		Colby became, as he said, "an unabashed supporter of the nuclear weapons freeze," an attempt to halt the nuclear arms race between the United States and Soviet Union at a time when nuclear weapons were being amassed at unprecedented levels.
		COLBY: Well, the first mission was to organize, arm, lead, be a liaison, be a reporter on resistance forces out to harass the Germans as much as possible as the armies moved forward, as our armies moved forward to give the Germans as much trouble in the back as they could.
	www.cdi.org /adm/832/transcript.html (4385 words)

	William E. Colby
		Colby: Well, I was hoping that he would understand that that is the real function of intelligence today, to clarify on both sides, misunderstanding.
		Colby was a member of the 462nd Parachute Artillery Battalion, as well as a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
		Colby received the National Security Medal in 1976, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal in 1973, and the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award in 1972.
	sun3.lib.uci.edu /racyberlib/Quest/interview-william_e_colby.html (4370 words)

	William Colby, the Hmong and the CIA
		Colby is better known for giving away the CIA's "family jewels," top level cloak and dagger secrets which included plots to topple foreign governments and schemes of assassination.
		Colby - then CIA Deputy Director - was instructed by Assistant Secretary W. Averell Harriman of the State Department to keep the effort in Laos purely defensive in nature.
		Colby maintains that the defensive strategy devised by the CIA and employed by the United States was ultimately in the best interest of the Hmong.
	www.hmongnet.org /hmong-au/hmongcia.htm (2260 words)

	William E. Colby, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
		The remains of former CIA Director William Colby were buried with military honors Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.
		Colby was in Vietnam in November 1963 — the former director said: "Oliver Stone came to see me once to get the material released that the CIA had, and I said I believed in releasing it, maybe save the names of a couple of agents.
		Colby said the game's plot was realistic and proved the need for good intelligence in the post-Cold War era.
	ngothelinh.tripod.com /wcolby.htm (1746 words)

	Key Figures in Sierra Club History: William E. Colby - History - Sierra Club
		The ambitious Colby was not to be denied his goal, however; he made two round-trips daily across the Bay, one to attend an early-morning class at Hastings Law School, and then another Bay crossing in the afternoon to attend more classes at Hastings.
		Colby was also the first chairman of the California State Park Commission in 1927.
		Colby achieved notable eminence as an attorney who specialized in mining and water law, which served him well in his conservation work.
	www.sierraclub.org /history/key_figures/colby.asp (521 words)

	CNN - Colby devoted life to espionage - May 6, 1996
		Colby himself described the perfect secret operative as the traditional gray man -- so inconspicuous that he can never catch the waiter's eye in a restaurant.
		Back at CIA headquarters in the early 1970s, Colby was in charge of secret intelligence gathering and political operations.
		Colby insisted the agency did not support or bring about the 1973 coup against Chile's President Salvador Allende, even though the Nixon administration had budgeted millions of dollars to destabilize Allende's left-wing government.
	www.cnn.com /US/9605/06/colby.obit/index.html (470 words)

	William A. Colby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William A. Colby was elected to the Hall of Fame for his achievements in the sport of basketball.
		Colby, captain of the 1957-58 team, was the recipient of the Alumni Basketball Trophy as the team's Most Valuable Player in 1956, '57 and '58.
		Colby was elected to numerous All City and All New England teams and as a senior played in the New England Hall of Fame Basketball game.
	www.gonu.com /hall/wcolby.html (198 words)

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		Colby, who was in Texas at the time her husband disappeared, the AP stated Colby had spoke via phone with his wife on the day he disappeared.
		A week later, Colby's wife rebutted the AP report, telling the Washington Times her husband was well, and made no mention of canoeing.
		In the days after Colby's demise, I was disturbed by the many parallels to the Foster death: the circumstances that just didn't add up, the outrageously phony initial press reports, the quick official rush to judgment by investigative agencies, the questionable autopsy.
	www.homestead.com /fsbvg/files/Colby.txt (2845 words)

	William Colby
		Colby and former KGB counterintelligence chief Maj. Gen.
		William Colby dies of hypothermia and drowning, canoeing in the middle of the night, at his home in Rockpoint MD. He did not mention any canoeing plans to his wife, nor was it normal behavior for him to engage in nocturnal caneoing adventures.
		William Colby's body actually found after the canoeing accident, lacking his usual lifevest.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/usa/william-colby (317 words)

	Tribute to Former CIA Director William Colby
		Colby's passing, of course, is the signal of the passing of an era in some ways.
		Colby that I know from personal experience that is, if not unique, certainly something that we again do not see too often.
		In all the years that I knew Bill Colby, and he supported me politically, he supported me in many ways, I never asked him whether he was a Republican or a Democrat, and I do not know.
	www.fas.org /irp/congress/1996_cr/h960514a.htm (288 words)

	CIA - DCIs - Colby
		Colby had an eye for the good intelligence story, asked pointed questions, gave clear instructions, and treated underlings distantly but with respect.
		[Colby] paid dearly for revealing the agency's transgressions, but he was comforted by the knowledge that what he did was right for his country and his conscience.
		Prados is "firm in his conclusion that Colby's basic strategy [during the CIA's troubles in the 1970s] was to reveal only enough information to preserve the CIA." The amount of detail included by the author, while "germane to his arguments," is "sometimes difficult for the uninitiated to follow.
	intellit.muskingum.edu /cia_folder/ciadcis_folder/dciscolby.html (860 words)

	General William Wirt Colby, by Rebecca Harding Davis
		Colby continued his stroll, and William remained with me. It was then that I gained a knowledge of the secret of his life.
		James Colby was shrewd enough to understand the place his lack of education and means must give him beside her.
		It was, curiously, on this very spot, and on just such an evening that years ago James and William Colby made their choice of life: James, the part of a shoe clerk; and William, that of a helper of his brother-men.
	wheeling.weirton.lib.wv.us /history/people/others/colby.htm (5139 words)

	2005 William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		WILLIAM E. William E. Butterworth IV began his writing career in 1982 as a reporter on The Dallas Morning News.
		Paul Colby, the son of the late Ambassador William Colby, is an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Formerly a White House Attorney Advisor for the Iran-Contra investigation, Mr.
		He was the Founding Director of the William Benton Fellowships program in broadcast journalism of the University of Chicago and has hosted Front and Center a live monthly military and public affairs panel discussion and webcast at the Pritzker Military Library in Chicago since January 2004.
	www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org /colby/2005-04-06-participants.htm (989 words)

	William E. Colby Papers \| Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William E. Colby (1920-1996) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1940 and a law degree from Columbia in 1947.
		Noted as the "gentleman spy who let the sun shine in" on the CIA, Colby was at the agency's helm at the height of public concerns over its activities.
		Colby married Barbara Heinzen in 1945 and they had five children, Jonathan, Catherine, Carl, Paul, and Christine.
	libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/colby.html (617 words)

	Amazon.com: Long Goodbye: Books: William Colby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1987, as a young lawyer, Colby took as his first case what appeared to be a simple probate issue--guardianship rights of the parents of a young woman who was in a persistent vegetative state after being severely injured in a car accident.
		Colby is a highly readable author (at times, I felt like I was reading a Grisham novel), the Cruzan's case is deeply compelling, the story is truly tragic, and readers will come away with an appreciation of the law and concepts that are involved in pursuing these matters.
		The tale is told by attorney William Colby who, together with members of Nancy's family, battled both the medical community and the legal system to ensure that Nancy's right to be free from unwanted medical treatment would be honored.
	www.amazon.com /Long-Goodbye-William-Colby/dp/1401901328 (1845 words)

	colby
		Thus Colby was the name of a place long before it was the name of a man; and there is no doubt that it was the name of the place in Denmark long before it was the name of the villages in England.
		Anthony Colby was christened on September 8, 1605 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England and died February 11, 1660/61 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts.
		The house was occupied by Colbys until the Twentieth Century, when it was donated by Luther Colby to the Amesbury Historical Cemetery Society to be kept as a museum by the Daughters of the Revolution.
	www.xmission.com /~search/colby.htm (10940 words)

	William E. Colby
		Colby, William E. "OSS Operations in Norway: Skis and Daggers." Studies in Intelligence (Winter 1999-2000): 53-60; CIRA Newsletter 25, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 38-45.
		The former DCI was convinced that mistakes, both of omission and of commission, made in the White House and by the military cost the United States a victory in Vietnam.
		Perhaps not so surprisingly he has fallen short." Colby's explanation of how he developed the Phoenix Program "is inadequate because he fails to delve deeply enough into his own frame of mind....
	intellit.muskingum.edu /alpha_folder/C_folder/colby.html (577 words)

	UCM - Colby to Address Constitutional Issues
		Colby is visiting campus as part of the university's participation in the American Democracy Project.
		Colby represented the family in the first right-to-die case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
		With Colby's counsel, her family fought to end efforts to sustain her life until the request was granted in 1990.
	www.cmsu.edu /x91943.xml (396 words)

	Online NewsHour: William Colby -- April 29, 1996
		ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: William Colby was last seen at this retreat about 40 miles South of Washington on Saturday.
		William Colby's career was as dramatic and controversial as the spy agency he headed from 1973 to '76.
		ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: For more on the Colby story, we are joined by Burton Hersh, author of The 'Ol Boys: A History of U.S. Intelligence Gathering, and by Walter Pincus, who covers national security issues for the "Washington Post." Thank you both for being with us.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/colby_4-30.html (1278 words)

	William Colby - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William E. Colby (03/13/13-4/28/96) was a WWII parachuter, started in the OSS, served in the CIA in Stockholm (1951-1953), in Italy (1953-1958) mainly working against the communists.
		He served as legal council to Admiral Earl F. Yates who was president of the Nugan Hand Bank when charges of money laundering, drug dealing, and arms transfers surrounded the bankrupt bank.
		On April 28, 1996, Colby went missing and was found eight days later, drowned, in the Wimocico River, off the Potomac, near his home.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=William_Colby (234 words)

	Ketchikan Volunteer Hospice - William Colby
		William Colby knows all too well the difficult choices families must face before and after the death of a loved one.
		Colby will speak to that issue during a free public forum sponsored by Ketchikan Volunteer Hospice, Coast Alaska/KRBD and the Foundation for End of Life Care in Juneau.
		Colby is a well-known national expert, who has presented these issues to the U.S. Supreme Court and to groups across the country.
	www.sitnews.us /FrontPage/KVH/william_colby.html (398 words)

	William Colby was Murdered [Free Republic]
		One William Colby, the former director of the CIA, is the person who sent a representative to inform us that indeed this videotape contained hard-core evidence of the government’s misdeed.
		Colby was found face down in the Potomac River in a canoeing accident.
		Colby, 76, was director of the CIA in the 1970s.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3893ae0703a4.htm (9306 words)

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