The Navy’s claim that Pitzer had an ultimately fatal affair was based on “an unsigned, undated summary report of two interviews [with an unnamed woman] conducted by unnamed NIS agents.”[590] The obscurity of the investigation, whose interviews were kept secret and inaccessible until they had been “routinely destroyed,”[591] made it impossible to scrutinize the Navy’s allegation of the character defect that presumably caused Pitzer’s suicide. If Pitzer was instead killed by government forces, the Navy was adding to that crime its assassination of his character. Bill Pitzer had been about to
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