GSA , Politicians , Sen. Ribicoff , The Solomon Scandals , Washington area life

JFK’s murdered mistress: Insider’s book alleges CIA role

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On CIA matters, The Solomon Scandals is fiction—not about what happened, but what could have happened. To this day we still don’t know the full story of why a U.S. senator held a secret stake in a CIA-occupied building in Arlington, VA, that the agency leased by way of the scandal-ridden General Services Administration. What has been established over the years is […]

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Building collapses , GSA , Sen. Ribicoff , Skyline Plaza , The Solomon Scandals , Washington area life

The Solomon Scandals novel vs. online gossip about Skyline Towers and the intel community

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The Solomon Scandals is a novel, but two actual events helped inspire it and are the topics of online gossip today—several decades later: —The deadly Skyline Towers building collapse in Northern Virginia, where 14 workers died and dozens were injured. —The late Sen. Abraham Ribicoff’s secret and illegal investment in a CIA-occuped building in Arlington. […]

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Sen. Ribicoff

Sen. Ribicoff’s spooky investment

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Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, the late Connecticut senator who also served in President John F. Kennedy’s cabinet, secretly held a $20,000 investment in a GSA-leased building that the CIA moved into. My story for States News Service, reproduced below, appeared in the New Haven Register on May 29, 1975, and later made the NBC Nightly News. […]

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