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The Pitzer File by Dan Marvin and Jerry D. RoseU.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander William Bruce Pitzer was found dead in his Bethesda Naval Hospital TV Studio on Saturday, the 29th of October, 1996. The Navy investigated and ruled it suicide, yet the FBI's investigation of the incident found nothing to support that finding. Why should you be interested in the death some 31 years ago of one Naval Officer? Why? Because there is a strong possibility that Pitzer was murdered and that his murder is inextricably linked to a well orchestrated, high-level, continuing cover-up of the JFK assassaniation conspiracy. Follow: In early August, 1965, then Green Beret Captain Daniel Marvin was asked to "terminate" Pitzer by an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who described Pitzer as a "traitor" about to give state secrets to the "enemy." (1) He didn't accept that mission - He didn't kill Pitzer. But someone did, another of the same ilk, loving danger, motivated by a twisted sense of patriotic fervor, and trained to kill without question. Perhaps the same CIA agengt passed on the order: Pitzer was to be silenced, terminated. He was shot in the head.We doubt that someone within the CIA pulled the trigger. They seldom do the personally dirty jobs, the killing or terrorizing. They bring in the likes of Marvin and nothing is written. We'll likely never know who killed Pitzer, but we'll know where the order came from. Whoever it was that pulled the trigger, if he is alive today - he is in hiding and careful to trust few if any of those with whom he comes in contact.Retired Green Beret Major John Strait, said it right when he said to Marvin, "Dan, I don't like 'em. They (CIA) use us and then throw us away like a used condom."Since the publication of his earlier article, Marvin has devoted a major part of his life to the attempt to develop all possible information about Pitzer's death. Without going into the many vicissitudes he has encountered-which he intends to recount in a book that he and Jacqueline K. Powers (Read about her in Mark Lane's book "Plausible Denial") are co-authoring, The Pitzer File-The Truth about the U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander William Bruce Pitzer-Vicyum of the JFK Assassanaition Conspiracy Cover-up- suffice it to say that he, like many researchers, has been stone-walled not only bu agencies of the U.S. government but at least one person within the research community itself.In spite of these problems, Marvin has been able to obtain a thick file of investigative material on Pitzer's death and, in this article, we want to share with the reader some of the results of the persuing this file. Copies of all this research material may be ontained from the editorial office of the Fourth Decade.This file represents investigations by three agencies: the Montgomery County (Maryland) Medical Examiner's Investigation Report with Certificate of Death; an investigation of the Navy; and another by the FBI. The Montgomery County Maryland Medical Examiner's Investigation Report and Certificate of Death and the Navy's Informal Board of Investigation Report (with its own Certificate of Death) are quite categorical in characterizing the death as a suicide; the Pitzer autopsy and the FBI investigations raise some fundamental indications to the contrary.

Let us briefly recap the known circumstances of LCDR Pitzer's death. He was employed, as he had been in 1963, at the National Naval Medical center at Bethesda hospital in the television syudio. On the day of his death, a Saturday, he had gone to his office from his home in Tacoma Park, Maryland, as he often did on a Saturday afternoon in order to "clean up his desk." At around 4:30 pm, his wife called him and received no answer; when she called again and received no answer at 7:30 pm, she called the Security Office at the hospital. Security officials entered the office and found the body of Pitzer, dressed in civilian clothes, a gun shot wound in his head and his body lying in a pool of blood, his head partly resting beneath the lower rung of an aluminum ladder and with a nearby Smith & Wesson .38 caliber revolver. Forensic investigation established that he probably dies some 3-5 hours later.One of two death certificates relating to Pitzer was signed John G. Ball, Deputy Medical Examiner of Montgomery County on October 30, 1966, included Ball's certification of his having conducted an autopsy and an inquiry. Ball stated unequivocally that Pitzer's death was suicide, noting in the space used to describe how the injury occurred, "Shot Self in head with .38 cal. pistol." (2) According to Ball's 11/15/66 interview by the FBI, (3) he was called to the scene at 8:50 pm. arriving at 9:15 pm. He also made some remarkable statements to the FBI. For one, he said he observed "muzzle marks around the wound and powder burns," an observation emphatically contradicted in page 2 of Pitzer's autopsy, completed at 8 am the next day, the prosecutor refers to an "area of charring of the skin,' surronding the wound, but says specificalluy that no "powder burns surronding the area are noted." (4) Mr. Ball also attempted to account for the strange locations of Pitzer's body with his head under the ladder: "he concluded that Pitzer was probably sitting in a chair and shot himself in the head with the pistol which was lying next to the body and the pistol sort of spun around and he kind of slid his head under the step-ladder." (appendix A) Ball's "kind of" and "sort of" language suggests that he was making up a scenario in which not even he could believe.The second and "other" Form NAVMED N certificate of Death, included as exhibit (7) to the Board report, was not signed until February 1, 1967. (5) No conclusion of suicide and no reason for the delay were noted by signers.Inconsistancies and contradictions abound in various Navy, FBI, and Maryland State documents on significant issues. Marvin them to be a part of a pattern of subterfuge designed to cover up the truth about Pitzer's death and its relationship to the JFK assassination conspiracy. One such contentious issue: just who did perform the autopsy on Pitzer's remains? On 30 October, 1966, in the Maryland States Medical Examiners Certificate of Death Montgomery County's Depity Medical Examiner John G. Ball certifies that he "took charge of the remains of (William Bruce Pitrzer)," and "held an autopsy and inquiry," Sounds straight forward - and it is further attested to by John G. Ball in the State of Marylands Office of the Chief medical Examiner Investigation Report on the death of Pitzer. (31) But, is it? In the latter, Ball claims that an autopsy was conducted on "10/30" at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, not by Bethesda personnel. Again, Ball establishes "suicide" as the "manner" of death.This will be continued.........!