Gar Thornsrud person
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“showed up at Marana as president of Inner Mountain, ran by the CIA. His chief lieutenant, Connie M. Seigrist and Douglas Price, had been his deputies at trampoline for the Cuba project. So they just picked up and moved that group of pilots …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 52:19
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And that's the first day of bombing, which is why JFK called off the second round of bombing because the cat was already out of the bag. Okay, when Kennedy continued insisting on reduced visibility, Richard Bissell on his own halved the ini…
▶ 55:13
This is criminal negligence. Jack Esterling added tightly, this is a GD thing I have ever heard of. Tracy Barnes drafted a flash precedent cable to trampoline, canceling the air attack. Gar Thornsrud received it just a half an hour before t…
▶ 51:47
The base had long been the center of air crew training, and the CIA soon used it for that as well. They also used it for modifying aircraft. Once succeeding in making their first solo flights, pilots were dunked in the swimming pool that fe…