G. Michael Shackley person
also: Shacklin, Mike Shacklin, Mike Shaplin, Shackley
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Claims (5)
G. Michael Shackley member_of
CIA documented
“One reason the TV crews were set up on the beach was that the CIA cleared the way. Sounds like a setup. Michael Shacklin, former deputy director of the station in Mogadishu, returned to help make this intervention possible. Isn't that nice?…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 20:37
G. Michael Shackley recruited
Mohamed Farah Aidid documented
“Shanklin arrived at the airfield north of the city with the CIA team to reactivate his old network. Among his assets had been a top aide to Mohammad Farhad Hadin, one of the most powerful warlords who controlled much of Mogadishu and was re…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 21:11
CIA recruited
G. Michael Shackley documented
“We still haven't learned that lesson, by the way. About the time Task Force Ranger reached the dish, the CIA lost its prize agent. Playing Russian roulette with aides, the wrong chamber in his revolver came up and the man pointed the gun at…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 38:37
G. Michael Shackley member_of
CIA documented
“but deteriorating security now forced Condor to use a protective detail. 15 men, including four Navy SEALs, restricting its mobility. The safe house Shacklin used in northern Mogadishu sprouted so many antennas, the locals called it the CNN…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 39:01
G. Michael Shackley recruited
Osman Atto documented
“Condor asked Jones what had happened to it, and the station chief found it in a storeroom. Shacklin passed the stick to an agent who gave it to an aide, Osman Otto, who was Adid's financier. The CIA used a helicopter to monitor movements of…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 43:13
Mentions (16)
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to the media. If Wilson exposed the activities of Shackley, Clines, and Bar-Malbach in the media, it could have detailed, derailed the ongoing and now main, like it had already heated up, contra operation. Because basically what they were d…
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that at the time he was telling everything he knew to Barsala. Theodore Greenberg had long since made a plea bargain with Clines and all of the others. As part of that arrangement, Shackley, Secord, and von Marbog went on with their lives a…
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You know, depending on the dates of those transactions, Klein and Shackley worked for the CIA and they weren't entitled to any cut of anything. But what they were doing is they were cutting in their buddies who then gave them kickbacks. And…
▶ 20:37
One reason the TV crews were set up on the beach was that the CIA cleared the way. Sounds like a setup. Michael Shacklin, former deputy director of the station in Mogadishu, returned to help make this intervention possible. Isn't that nice?…
▶ 21:11
Shanklin arrived at the airfield north of the city with the CIA team to reactivate his old network. Among his assets had been a top aide to Mohammad Farhad Hadin, one of the most powerful warlords who controlled much of Mogadishu and was re…
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Whether you like it or not, just like Qaddafi, when they leave, the entire thing falls apart. That man had been on the payroll of Shacklin. The CIA had apprised Hadin of the impending U.S. intervention. In other words, setting them up. On D…
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CIA officers moved one or a few at a time and never had the same priority for reinforcement. Yeah. Shacklin confronted the chaos soon after the invasion as he drove CIA's new station chief to meet an agent. Gunmen stopped them. One grabbed …
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Still, as security deteriorated, the CIA people were forced to surround themselves with protective details, which made clandestine movement impossible. Mike Shacklin had one major advantage. As an African American, he could at least blend i…
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um music from armed forces radio the um dj would say keep your head down in the volume up mike shacklin performed in an assignment that he didn't want code name condor shacklin had had his share of heat and sun as a marine major in vietnam …
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He had been certain of years in the sun and he had gotten them. Sudan, Algeria, Jordan, Chad, then Somalia for the first time. Yeah, that's interesting knowing what we know now about all of those. So he's definitely one of the covert guys w…
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He had also had an abbreviated tour in Liberia, which is really interesting. Shacklin's request was for a place where the water runs and the lights work. Instead, he got Somalia. As the UN built up, Shacklin's relationship became complicate…
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We still haven't learned that lesson, by the way. About the time Task Force Ranger reached the dish, the CIA lost its prize agent. Playing Russian roulette with aides, the wrong chamber in his revolver came up and the man pointed the gun at…
▶ 39:01
but deteriorating security now forced Condor to use a protective detail. 15 men, including four Navy SEALs, restricting its mobility. The safe house Shacklin used in northern Mogadishu sprouted so many antennas, the locals called it the CNN…
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Italian peacekeepers responsible for that sector began handing over to Nigerians, and the Somalis attacked them. Sapele's jeeps were caught in the fighting. Spinelli was shot in the neck, a CIA casualty. General Garrison had him flown to Ra…
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When one spotted Adid Lieutenant, the Rangers made a new raid. Troops arrived within half an hour, but nothing. Another Condor brainstorm resulted in the sole result of the campaign. Shacklin remembered a plan to have his top agent give Adi…
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John Spinelli resigned in March of 1998 after failing to get the CIA to change its disability rules to match those of other federal agencies. He later went to court to force that change. At last report, the litigation continued. Mike Shapli…