CIA Code Expert Found Dead on Palm Springs Trail

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http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/CIA-Code-Expert-Found-Dead-on-Palm-Springs-Trail.html


A Central Intelligence Agency employee who died on a trail near Palm Springs was identified Saturday as a 64-year-old Fort Collins, Colo., resident.

Robert Allen Liebler was found dead on a trail about 100 feet west of West Arenas Road and South Tahquitz Drive about 11 a.m. Sunday amid 100-degree-plus heat, according to a coroner's spokesman.

Liebler was a Colorado State University professor and CIA communications expert, who had been working in the Palm Springs area, the Desert Sun reported.

Liebler, who had a doctorate from the University of Michigan, specialized in discrete mathematics and did security work for the U.S. government, a friend and former colleague, Ben Manvel, told the newspaper.

Liebler worked for the "brains branch" of the CIA, developing secret codes for stealth communication, he said.

Liebler, reported missing Saturday, was in Palm Springs working with a local think tank, Manvel said. He began his hike up the Carl Lykken Trail with a friend about 3:45 a.m. Saturday. About three hours later, he told the friend he was cramping up and headed back.
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isn't this the second Code expert to die recently?

or am I wrong?

[Beetwasher]

1. Where Was Cheney?

n/t

[Walk away]

2. Hiking is getting a bad rap these days.... ...n/t

[maglatinavi]

3. palm spring hicking

palm spring temperature is horrid, the poor man must have died of heat stroke...let it be a lesson to all seniors and children, do not be out in the heat.