>> lets see....didn’t a CIA director die in a canoeing accident? <<
You’re probably thinking about Bill Colby, CIA director in the 1970’s, who died mysteriously while sailing alone on Chesapeake Bay about a dozen years ago.
But this incident was so long after Colby’s retirement that even the most imaginative conspiracy theorists haven’t been able to spin out a convincing narrative. Probably just a freak accident.
Colby died in an alleged canoeing accident somewhere between his home on Neale Sound and the Wicomico River in Charles County, Maryland, a long way from the Chesapeake Bay.
Speculation as to his death being other than an accident arose from his being involved in evaluating FLIR footage of the Waco massacre, which allegedly contained images of US personnel firing on the Branch Davidians as they attempted to exit the burning complex, and which allegedly contained images of Government personnel engaging in firing on the Davidians after breaching part of the building from the back.
Speculation as to who caused the fire may also have been verified/refuted by that footage as well.
Colby was one of three FLIR experts to (seperately) meet an apparently untimely end as the information was being examined, was an experienced canoeist, knew the waters there and their quirks of tide and weather (had lived there some time), and his body was found without a life jacket about 100 yards downriver of Lancaster's Bar (that's a sand/oyster bar, not the drinking kind) after a three day search, the most extensive ever conducted in the area for a missing boater.
It is unlikely that he would have gone out without a flotation device alone, and injuries to the body further fueled speculation that his demise was not an accident.