Having trouble connecting the dots? There are people out there eager to help. Their theories about Foster’s death are all over the radio, the Internet and in full-page ads in major newspapers.

Sherman K. Skolnick of Chicago is one of the theorists. Just prior to Foster’s death, Hillary reportedly told Foster that his spying for Israel was known; that he was about to be indicted on charges bordering on treason, Skolnick wrote last month in his Conspiracy Nation newsletter on the Internet.

Foster, reportedly an official of the supersecret code-cracking factory, the National Security Agency, turned over confidential international bank data to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, said Skolnick, a self-styled citizen’s investigator who once pursued Watergate and the John F. Kennedy assassination.

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The Mossad apparently blackmailed Foster by setting up a Swiss bank account in his name with millions of dollars in marked money, Skolnick reported.

Almost two years after Foster’s body was found in Fort Marcy Park in northern Virginia outside Washington, Skolnick and other die-hards remain fascinated with Foster’s death, from the origins of carpet fibers found on his suit to rumors of a briefcase missing from his car.

Not all of them advance theories as fantastic as the Israeli-spy notion, but they all agree that two exhaustive federal inquiries and two congressional panels have not gotten to the bottom of what happened to the deputy White House counsel, and that the mainstream media, by and large, have turned a blind eye.

The conspiracy theorists’ audience is limited, but the White House still researches records and puts out statements in hopes of refuting the suggestions of a coverup.

More significantly, the continuing allegations have kept the pressure on independent counsel Kenneth W.

Starr to painstakingly reinvestigate Foster’s death.

As recently as a month ago, Starr sent FBI agents door to door in the Fort Marcy area to ask residents what they know about July 20, 1993, the day Foster’s body was found with a bullet wound of the head and a .38-caliber revolver in one hand.

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