Wheeler worked for the Mitre Corporation - see Wikipedia:
"a not-for-profit organization based in Bedford, Massachusetts and McLean, Virginia. It manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) supporting the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Department of Veterans Affairs. . .Mitre operates branch offices around the world, most co-located with military bases."
They have a big biological warfare operation for the U.S. government, which is probably what Wheeler was involved with? They are a big time contractor:
"Mitre operates branch offices around the world, most co-located with military bases."
And see this:
Date of Issuance: 9/30/2010
Branch of Service: Air Force
The MITRE Corp., Bedford, Mass., was awarded a $374,794,108 contract which will provide systems engineering.
There are other shady deaths associated with the U.S. and British biowarfare programs - Dr. David Kelly and Dr. Bruce Ivins, both mysterious "no-note suicides."
Why doesn't the article mention any of this? Why were all the comments scrubbed?
Read more:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/01/03/national/a140339S13.DTL#ixzz1ACnYDNr3