“FRANK GARDINER WISNER, a former New York lawyer and for many years a top official of the Central Intelligence Agency, died at his farm in nearby Galena, Maryland, today,” said The New York Times, in an article datelined October 29, 1965. “According to the police in Kent County, Md., Mr. Wisner shot himself in the right temple with a 20-gauge shotgun.” He was only fifty-six.

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