2D CIA AGENT WITHIN 8 DAYS TRIES SUICIDE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: April 9, 1953
• Content Type: NSPR

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TIMES-HERALD-WASHINGTON, D.
2 o CIA-, AGENT
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was not satisfied with the job
he was doing at ? the CIA detec.;
tives said.
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W aid, cated the was depressed
13Y the pressure of his adminis-;
rative duties at the agency.
In the Kronthal case, police..
Analyst Fails in Effort
To,End life
or;
I central intelligence agency was
near death here last night after
an apparent attempt at suicide
was thwarted by his precautions
that no one else be harmed.
Police said they found Frederick
E. Crockett, 45, sprawled uncon-
scious on a chair in his apartment
at the Carillon house, 2500 Wiscoin-
The Crockett 'case was similar
to, one involving another CIA of.
ficial which' occurred eight days
earlier. The earlier victim was
James Speyer Kronthal, 40, who
died an apparent suicide. The cor-
oner has yet to rule in Krontlial?s
-death pending completion of chem
ical analysis.
Pair Not in Contact
A spokesman at the agency sai
pital. Capt. Daniel 0. Fletcher, of!
No. 7 police precinct, said there
was evidence that the federal
.worker had taken barbiturates. 1
Crockett's name was entered in
the book at No. 7 for mental
observation. '
He was found after a newspaper
carrier boy noticed. a note propped
on a window sill of the apartment
warning anyone. who entered::
"Danger, gas-do not 1 i g h t'
matches." The boy 'notified build
ng manager James Robertson,'
who said four gas., jets on the
apartment stove'were wide open.
Ironically, the natural'gas used:
in Washington causes no toxic
effects. An accumulation of the
gas sufficient to replace all the;
oxygen present Pventually could,
smother a person, however.
Police Find Notes
Also found in the apartment',
? police said,: were notes addressed
to police and to'a brother, Davey
Crockett, of Ipswich, Mass. The'
dote to police declared crocked
ound an empty vial near the vie-:
im's body -in his home at 1662
hirty-second St, NW. Investiga-
ors yesterday said they found an
mpty vial and an empty bottle:
6 both of which are believed to',
ave contained seconal-in Orock-'
aboratory experts assigned to de
ermine the cause of Kronthal's'
each are conducting a' "very dif-.
icult analysis," and that they. are;
concentrating their efforts 'on
finding traces of morphine in the
ictim's organs.
Served in War
Altho Crockett lives alone,
IA records, show that he is'
arried. He served with the Army;
is a 'lieutenant colonel during'
orld War II, and also holds a`
?eserve lieutenant. commander's