Search On For Former CIA Director

COBB ISLAND, Maryland (AllPolitics, April 29) -- Rescue workers resumed their search today for former CIA Director William Colby, who was reported missing Sunday evening from his Maryland shore vacation home after neighbors discovered his capsized canoe.

Coast Guard and fire and rescue teams are searching the area near where were the Potomac and Wicomico rivers join in Maryland. No foul play is suspected, but an investigation is being conducted by Charles County Sheriff Fred Davis.

Colby was home alone at the time while his wife, Sally Shelton-Colby, was travelling. Reached by Davis, she said that although Colby had complained he wasn't feeling well, he was otherwise in good health.

Authorities said it appeared Colby had not planned on being out of his home for long because there were still dinner items on the table.

Colby, 76, was CIA director from 1973-76 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He ran the CIA's office in Saigon during the Vietnam war and contributed to Operation Phoenix, a strategy to combat rural support for the communists. Colby began his intelligence career as a paratrooper in World War II.

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