This gets even more interesting. Sutton didn't miss the trip, like that head of DynCorp. He was on it, but, like Ira Sockowitz, he managed not to be on the fatal flight. And the article tells us Enron executives remained interested enough in Bosnia and Croatia to go on Kantor's trip a couple of months later.
The next question then to me (just to eliminate the obvious) is whether or not Sutton or Enron had any dealings with Samir Ferrat.
BROWN'S ASSOCIATE DIED ON TWA 800 http://www.usvetdsp.com/usvet/story23.htm According to a CNN international report, Mohamed Samir Ferrat, an Algerian business associate of Secretary Brown, who was scheduled to accompany Brown on the Bosnian trip but withdrew at the last moment for reasons still unclear, died July 17, on the ill fated TWA Flight 800. Ferrat was initially treated by the FBI as a suspected terrorist in the TWA Flight 800 explosion because he was the sole passenger on the flight roster listed only by last name. The FBI, within hours of beginning their investigation of Ferrat, oddly withdrew, telling the New York Times that "Ferrat was not at all the kind of person to take a bomb on a plane. Nor was he a likely target of a bomb plot. U.S. government investigators have yet to determine whether missile, bomb or mechanical failure brought TWA 800 down, killing all 230 passengers and crew. "Ferrat, it turned out," the New York Times said, "was a wealthy and highly respected businessman, money manager and investor with offices and residences in the Ivory Coast, France and Switzerland . . . FBI agents learned all this without questioning Ferrat's family, friends or business associates, many of whom were gathered in their grief at the family hotel in Virginia." One source, who asked not to be identified, suggested the FBI cleared Ferrat quickly because they either learned of his connection to Secretary Brown or Ferrat may have been on the payroll of U.S. intelligence, possibly the CIA. Ferrat was also involved with Chadwick International Inc., a northern Virginia company that exports modular homes. Chadwick, Inc., founded in 1991, got its start, according to its chairman Ronald M. Nocera, by Ferrat arranging meetings with real estate contacts in Algeria. Nocera said Chadwick, Inc. currently holds or is negotiating deals worth $560 million with developers from Argentina to Vietnam.
As many as 12 other top executives may have been traveling with the secretary but their whereabouts could not be determined. Officials from five companies confirmed that executives that had been slated to travel with Mr. Brown were safe."RON BROWN'S PLANE CRASHES IN CROATIA NO SURVIVORS FOUND NO SIGNS OF FOUL PLAY " JOURNAL OF COMMERCE," Journal of Commerce April 4, 1996, Pg. 1A .A spokesman at Parson Corp., of Pasadena, Calif., said the group was supposed to break up into two traveling parties. He said he didn't know if Leonard Pieroni, the company's chairman, was aboard the plane that crashed.
Four executives scheduled to join the trip were not on board. Joseph Sutton, president of Enron Development Corp., Houston, Texas, was not on the plane. A company spokeswoman said he is in the Balkans looking at company projects.
Alfred Checchi, Northwest Airlines co-chairman, and Ronald B. Woodard, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group president, were scheduled to join the group later on Wednesday in Bosnia. And Daniel Bannister, president of Dyncorp, decided at the last minute to cancel the trip.