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This is a strange one.
If you were going to commit suicide would you grab both a handgun *and* a
shotgun, hike 300 yards down the road, climb into a water-filled "pit", and
then shoot yourself with the revolver close enough to the water that the
revolver would drop from your hand and fall into the water afterwards...and in
the process use up two rounds from a 357?
Former Alltel President shot in head, coroner says suicide
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Saturday, January 9, 1999
Page 2B
Alltel ex-director's death ruled suicide
^^^^^^ BY JIM BROOKS
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
The November death of Charles Wilbourne Miller, 63, a prominent businessman
whose father co-founded the telephone company that became Alltel
Communications, has been ruled a suicide, authorities said.
Miller's body was discovered Nov. 17 in a shallow pit about 300 yards from his
ranch house at 5100 Studer Road near Ferndale.
On Wednesday, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette obtained a copy of the autopsy
report prepared by assistant medical examiner Frank Peretti.
Miller died of a "contact gunshot wound of the head", Peretti wrote. The
assistant medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.
Police found a .410 gauge shotgun near Miller's body and a Ruger .357-caliber
revolver submerged in the water. Two spent rounds were in the handgun's
cylinder, Peretti wrote.
Investigators said the Ruger was the weapon Miller used to kill himself.
Miller's wife, Katie Campbell Miller, 44, reported her husband msising earlier
on Nov. 17. He had not been seen at their Little Rock home since 11 a.m. that
day, a police report said.
She told police that when she drove to the ranch, she found the cattle gate
locked and the house lights off, but Miller's pickup was in the garage,
unlocked, with his cellular phone inside.
Deputies and Miller's sons Alan H. Miller and Charles M. Miller searched the
ranch and found Miller's body.
Miller had been president and chairman of the board of Allied
Telephone,founded
by his father, Charles B. Miller and his uncle, Hugh R. Wilbourne Jr. He then
served as executive vice president and a member of the board of directors of
Alltel, Allied's successor.
In 1989, he left Alltel and founded Network Design Engineering, where he was
president and chief executive officer.
Vince Foster involved with Systematics
J. Orlin Grabbe
1995 J. Orlin Grabbe
The sequence of events leading the banking software company Systematics
(ALLTEL
Information Services) to hire a libel attorney to deny it was operating on
behalf of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) began more than a decade
ago.
In the early 1980s, the War on (Some) Drugs and the War on (Some) Terrorists
led to various U.S. government initiatives to "follow the money."
The evidence indicates that at some point NSA made the logical decision that
continual access meant the NSA had to become a major provider of banking
software. James R. Norman, Senior Editor at Forbes--in an article entitled
"Fostergate," an article scheduled to appear in the May issue of Forbes, but
killed at the last minute by Steve Forbes, apparently through the persuasive
urging of Casper Weinberger, the former Defense Secretary who is Publisher
Emeritus at Forbes--makes specific allegations about several companies which
may have become part of such an NSA operation, and about the role of Vincent
Foster:
"Forbes' sources say that since at least the late 1970s, Foster had been a
silent, behind-the-scenes overseer on behalf of the NSA for a small Little
Rock, Ark., bank data processing company. Its name was Systematics Inc.,
launched in 1967 [ 1968? ] and funded and controlled for most of its life by
Arkansas billionaire Jackson Stephens, a 1946 Naval Academy graduate. Foster
was one of Stephens' trusted deal- makers at the Rose Law Firm, where he was
partner with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Webster Hubbell and William Kennedy
(whose
father was a Systematics director). Hubbell also played an overseer role at
Systematics for the NSA for some years according to intelligence sources.
"Systematics has had close ties to the NSA and CIA ever since its founding,
sources say, as a money-shuffler for covert operations. It is no secret that
there were billions of dollars moving around in 'black' accounts--from buying
and selling arms to the Contras, Iran, Iraq, Angola and other countries to
paying CIA operatives and laundering money from clandestine CIA drug dealing.
Having taken over the complete computer rooms in scores of small U.S. banks as
an 'outsource' supplier of data processing, Systematics was in a unique
position to manage that covert money flow. Sources say the money was moved at
the end of every day disguised as a routine bank-to-bank balancing
transaction.... ....
"Systematics' money-laundering role for the intelligence community might help
explain why Jackson Stephens tried to take over Washington-based Financial
General Bankshares in 1978 on behalf of Arab backers of the Bank of Credit and
Commerce International. BCCI's links to global corruption and intelligence
operations has been well documented, though many mysteries remain.
"According to a lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission,
Stephens insisted on having then-tiny Systematics brought in to take over all
the bank's data processing. Representing Systematics in that 1978 SEC case:
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Webster Hubbell. Stephens was blocked in that
takeover. But FGB, later renamed First American, ultimately fell under the
domination of BCCI through Robert Altman and former Defense Sec. Clark
Clifford. According to a technician who worked at First American in Atlanta,
Systematics became a key computer contractor there anyway.
"In the 1980s Systematics' business boomed. When it first sold stock to the
public in 1983, revenues were $64 million. That had risen to $230 million by
the time Stephens arranged Systematics' sale to Alltel Corp., a telephone
holding company which then moved its headquarters to Little Rock. Last year
Systematics sales hit $861 million--a third of Alltel's total. Stephens now
owns more than 8% of Alltel and wields significant influence over the company.
....
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