On June 4, 2000, John Millis, a former CIA case officer then serving as the top staff member of the House Intelligence Committee, died of a reported suicide at a seedy Fairfax, Virginia motel after he was found with a gunshot wound to the head. Millis' death occurred the day after he forced the CIA to release a controversial report he had authored on the CIA's alleged links to cocaine smuggling by Nicaraguan drug rings who were connected with criminal groups in Los Angeles. The Fairfax police refused to reveal the contents of an alleged suicide note written by Millis and the Fairfax County Coroner's report. Fairfax city detectives told residents of the motel where Millis died not to talk to anyone about the "suicide," including the media. In 1996 and 1997, [Millis] was staff director of a special Congressional committee that investigated the Clinton administration's approval of arms shipments from Iran to Muslim forces in Bosnia. These Muslims forces included two alleged 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mindhar, and alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, along with other Al Qaeda operatives. Two months after Millis' death, Insight Magazine, owned by the right-wing Washington Times, claimed that Millis had killed himself because his wife, Linda, discovered that he was involved in a homosexual relationship. The article is believed to have been CIA disinformation that was part of the coverup of Millis' murder.