Well, since 'they' would actually have sent him "sleeping with the fishes", instead of swimming with them, that there's a blatant clue of a coverup. I don't believe a Gubbenmint agency would make such an obvious mistake.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
