John McMahon person
also: McMahon, deputy CIA director, John Horton, Deputy Director McMahon, Horton
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Claims (10)
John McMahon succeeded
Robert Gates documented
“a measure that probably cost the Russians more than the Stingers. There were so many ideal weapons introduced at various times, the CIA officers took to calling them silver bullets. Langley again revamped its high command for the secret war…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 43:49
John McMahon member_of
CIA documented
“The first known Hill briefing on this subject took place on January 9th, 1980. Langley's representatives were Frank Carlucci and John McMahon. He was serving as the director of operations. Chapter 19. Tribes and clans exist not just as ethn…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 13:08
John McMahon headed
CIA documented
“John McMahon would be astonished at what presently occurred in the Hindu Kush. The agency's deputy director of operations, McMahon, knew nothing about the Near East. His baptism of fire had been the Iranian hostage crisis. He had earned goo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 46:25
John McMahon removed_from_power
CIA documented
“He was shifted to head of the agency's analysis directorate, the one that they don't pay any attention to. At Langley, CIA insider favored John Stein for his replacement, but Casey put in Max Hoogle, a business associate with zero intellige…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 55:19
William Casey appointed
John McMahon documented
“much more dedicated to staying within the lines, closely connected to Senator Barry Goldwater. He watched Casey's secret wars with melting anxiety. In mid-1982, Inman resigned. Casey, by then already under attack as a covert action cowboy, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 56:49
John McMahon removed_from_power
Adolf Sien book_quoted
“was the CIA station chief, and he did not like Cien at all. Then, Cesar Bernal, B-E-R-N-A-L, arrived, and he had been not only just in Vietnam, but he had also been in Panama, and the CIA officers agreed that Cien had to go. Okay.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 1:06:18
John McMahon opposed
Libya book_quoted
“the covert operations should be used. And Stein repeatedly resisted escalations of certain operations, specifically including Nicaragua. John McMahon, Casey's deputy director, it was supposedly said that he was opposed to the Libya plan as …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 41:22
John McMahon removed_from_power
Dewey Claridge book_quoted
“Casey sent Claridge to South Africa, leaving immediately after the disastrous Senate hearing on April 10th to solicit aid. But Deputy Director McMahon canceled the approach amid controversy. Instead, the South Americans were asked to help w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 8:22
John McMahon opposed
UNITA book_quoted
“the covert operations should be used. And Stein repeatedly resisted escalations of certain operations, specifically including Nicaragua. John McMahon, Casey's deputy director, it was supposedly said that he was opposed to the Libya plan as …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 41:22
Stansfield Turner appointed
John McMahon documented
“had him replace Bill Wells. Everywhere Turner sought to manage the colossus giant, clandestine service officer, DeWayne Claridge, never slow to criticize weakness, credits Turner while trying to transform the director of operations into the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 53:37
Mentions (37)
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With the firings, the agency had a full-scale mutiny on its hands. Jimmy Carter had taken on a force he didn't understand. Turner's act fell on veterans of some of the most legendary operations. It seemed that Turner was deliberately destro…
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And he is going to get replaced with Dan Meterone. So the. All right. Let me bring her back up. OK. Siennes had been a former cop in L.A. And we know all about the CIA's agreement with the L.A. Police Department. So at the time, John Horton…
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Torture was not a total novelty in Uruguay, but the use of torture against political prisoners had never happened before. Philip Agee learned otherwise when he went with his CIA station chief, John Horton, to call on Colonel Rodriguez, Mont…
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The entire story is made up. First was to give an appearance of authenticity. Horton and Agee took a CIA dossier that they had made up to the police headquarters. As Rodriguez leafed through the false report, Agee heard a weird sound and it…
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But on the other hand, they were very efficient. John Horton was a prototype of a sadistic CIA operator. Now, on the drive back, he referred to what they had heard from upstairs and gave his usual nervous laugh. Shortly afterward, Otero con…
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Horton's dismissive laugh suggested that he was not going to be one of the ones that was interested in researching the torture. Not long before Mitterrand's arrival in Uruguay, Cantrell's position within the U.S. Embassy began to erode. He …
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John McMahon, who had preceded Hoogle as the head of the DO, said with irony, I don't know how those tapes got to the Washington Post. And he's a big fat liar. It might have been one of the agency's covert operative. Hoogle was replaced by …
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capability of operating it in the field. The Senate Intelligence Committee then held up action until April 84, when Casey's deputy, John McMahon, wrote both committees that the CIA favored a field test of the weapon. Senate Committee Chairm…
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the covert operations should be used. And Stein repeatedly resisted escalations of certain operations, specifically including Nicaragua. John McMahon, Casey's deputy director, it was supposedly said that he was opposed to the Libya plan as …
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And Richard Helms was guilty of so many things, to include lying. It is to Director Turner's credit that he persisted and did what he could to make the community more responsible. In the DO, Turner brought forward John McMahon, whose backgr…
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had him replace Bill Wells. Everywhere Turner sought to manage the colossus giant, clandestine service officer, DeWayne Claridge, never slow to criticize weakness, credits Turner while trying to transform the director of operations into the…
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The first known Hill briefing on this subject took place on January 9th, 1980. Langley's representatives were Frank Carlucci and John McMahon. He was serving as the director of operations. Chapter 19. Tribes and clans exist not just as ethn…
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John McMahon would be astonished at what presently occurred in the Hindu Kush. The agency's deputy director of operations, McMahon, knew nothing about the Near East. His baptism of fire had been the Iranian hostage crisis. He had earned goo…
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feelings towards the agency. McMahon responded by turning energy to making sure Afghanistan went smoothly. Admiral Turner's successor, William Casey, later called him the father of the Afghanistan secret war. The sleekness of the CIA's comm…
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like a Soviet invasion. They expected that the Russians, the Afghan government, or both, might make small raids against the insurgent camps where they were training the Mujahideen to go into Afghanistan. Yes, yes, they might. To pursue the …
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was not aggressive enough. When Richard Allen, Reagan's first national security advisor, ordered a covert operation to disable floating dry docks the Soviet had put on the Somali port of Berbera, McMahon objected to this as an act of war. A…
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But before the job could be finalized, it evaporated in a controversy over him, Hoogles, being accused of this petty little thing called insider stock trading. You know, the kind of stock trading you might do if you're actually in charge of…
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much more dedicated to staying within the lines, closely connected to Senator Barry Goldwater. He watched Casey's secret wars with melting anxiety. In mid-1982, Inman resigned. Casey, by then already under attack as a covert action cowboy, …
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His presence suggested the agency would remain within legal bounds. Deputy Director McMahon would have further impact on the Afghan covert action. In its first year, the Reagan administration doubled the size of the previous CIA budget for …
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William Casey, a true believer, never actually made his mind up on the goals of the operation. Well, we know what the goal was. It was to basically take over the opium production, but you can't actually acknowledge that. John McMahon suppor…
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counterpart at State Department recalled that colleagues handling the program had real worries about what they were going to do with all this money. The diplomatic policy for the deputy CIA director, McMahon, craved to, that doesn't make an…
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McMahon saw the CIA paramilitary effort as the fulcrum to open a door to an agreement. The more we spend, the more likely the Soviet Union is to buckle. The UN mediation effort under Diego Cordova's begun early. In 1983, it came to a near b…
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Then he would disappear into his plane for Saudi Arabia and a strategy session with Prince Turki. Casey on Afghanistan was complicated. Biographer Joseph Perseco recounts that when John McMahon briefed Casey on the project for the first tim…
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anti-aircraft guns, Soviet shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile SAMs, a similar British SAM, or two different American SAMs. Charlie Wilson and congressional supporters of the Mujahideen, drawing from a secret paper John McMahon had sent t…
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Nudged by Zia, within a month, Reagan approved an immediate shipment of 100 of them. While the joint staff, Pentagon and State Department opposition melted away. Brigadier Yusuf began to organize and train the rebels to use them. In October…
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General Zia again emphasized giving the rebels Stinger missiles. Finally, the log jam was broken. At a breakfast in early December, McMahon told Fred Eichel that the CIA would ship as many of the missiles as the Pentagon could provide. When…
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a measure that probably cost the Russians more than the Stingers. There were so many ideal weapons introduced at various times, the CIA officers took to calling them silver bullets. Langley again revamped its high command for the secret war…
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John Stein resisted escalation in Nicaragua. John McMahon, Casey's deputy after 82, opposed the kind of effort in Afghanistan, certain Libya plans, and renewed support for UNINA in Angola. For the most part, Bill Casey did all of it and mor…
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Deputy Director John McMahon agonized over this use of CIA services without a presidential finding. I'm sure he did. Meanwhile, McFarlane resigned in December to be replaced by Admiral John Poindexter. At a Christmastime event, Langley aske…
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under Reverend Moon's stay-behind units from Korea. That Langley could not find local recruits said everything. More than 50 covert operations were reported in progress in 1984, half in Central and South America, including both paramilitary…
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to Casey from Leahy or Simmons. Wouldn't send it. Just before the delegation had left Washington, John McMahon had pledged full CIA cooperation. And here they were, refusing to even communicate with the CIA director. Furious, Leahy threaten…
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had done on Afghanistan, Casey and Claridge was now doing in Nicaragua. Early in July, Casey went to Central America. With him, he took Claridge and John McMahon, the National Intelligence Officer for Latin America, John Horton, and another…
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McMahon, representative of career professionals at the CIA, wary about covert operations from church committee days, had learned to work in tandem with Congress, which opposed extravagant initiatives on Nicaragua, bringing McMahon created a…
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Casey sent Claridge to South Africa, leaving immediately after the disastrous Senate hearing on April 10th to solicit aid. But Deputy Director McMahon canceled the approach amid controversy. Instead, the South Americans were asked to help w…
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John McMahon had told the Senate Intelligence Committee in 91 that he had recommended the CIA hand off the Contra project to the Pentagon even before the harbor mining. McMahon felt the secret war exceeded CIA capability. Sure. Similarly, a…
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especially during this timeframe. In the 1970s, he headed the CIA in Belgrade and then was promoted to the Director of Operations, Western European Division. Stoltz had been considered by Turner to be a deputy director, but he chose instead…
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July 14th, 1995. It could be called the seventh floor day. Four of the five witnesses had either been the director of the CIA or the deputy. They included Dick Helms, Webster, John McMahon, and James Woolsey. The commission would hear from …