Halloween Massacre operation
also: Halloween massacre
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CIAintelligence service · 3Stansfield Turnerperson · 3Frank Carlucciperson · 1Jimmy Carterperson · 1Tom Clinesperson · 1George H.W. Bushperson · 1Directorate of Operationsorganization · 1Richard M. Bissell Jr.person · 1
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Stansfield Turner ordered_assassination_of
Halloween Massacre documented
“Bush had taken no action on it at all. In August 1977, Turner ordered the CIA to reduce the Directorate of Operations by 823 positions within two years. The DO sent out the cable firing 823 veteran case officers on Halloween. Inside the age…”
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Halloween massacre that people talk about where almost a thousand CIA officers get the axe. Well, now you can see why, because they're basically all criminals. And he's Turner, to his credit, starts almost immediately in getting rid of all …
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Bush had taken no action on it at all. In August 1977, Turner ordered the CIA to reduce the Directorate of Operations by 823 positions within two years. The DO sent out the cable firing 823 veteran case officers on Halloween. Inside the age…
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and wasn't really there to do any job that had anything to do with nuclear. Shackley now had a man at the top of American nuclear security. By the time of the Halloween massacre, Turner had issued a former letter of reprimand to Tom Clines.…
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that it was Carter that scaled back significantly covert operations, didn't do away with them, scaled them back by the Halloween massacre and firing like 800 of the people doing them. And that notably, because we give credit where credit's …