Huntington Denton Sheldon person
also: Huntington Denton, Ting Sheldon, Ting, Sheldon, Huntington Ting Sheldon, Mr. Denton Ting Sheldon
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Claims (7)
Huntington Denton Sheldon member_of
United Wa State Army host_asserted
“The CIA married the drug company? He's not in the CIA yet. Okay. They actually divorced in 1936. He'd get married three times in his life. He gets involved in banking. We'll get there for sure. Okay. He gets involved in Wall Street banking …”
▶ The Shadow State 59 Spooks & Infectious Disease @ 46:56
Huntington Denton Sheldon headed
Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted
“And what this guy was, was a SIGINT analyst, signals intelligence. And we're just now learning something called photo interpretation. He's the pioneer. You take these aerial photographs and you got to piece them together. And he's very good…”
▶ The Shadow State 59 Spooks & Infectious Disease @ 48:07
Huntington Denton Sheldon married
Magda Merck host_asserted
“Ting is, I guess, an abbreviation of Huntington, but that was his name. Born in 1903 in Greenwich, Connecticut, came from a patrician New York family, and his father was an educated Yale lawyer. Sheldon would marry a woman by the name of Ma…”
▶ The Shadow State 59 Spooks & Infectious Disease @ 46:21
Ray Cline removed_from_power
Huntington Denton Sheldon host_asserted
“D.I. in early 1962, right after Dulles left, he wanted OCI to be under his control. And he booted Sheldon aside or pushed Sheldon aside, I should say. But Ting stayed on for several years as the agency's signals intelligence officer and als…”
▶ The Shadow State 59 Spooks & Infectious Disease @ 55:05
Huntington Denton Sheldon married
Alice B. Sheldon host_asserted
“And I bet because he'd love with the CIA where they are on spying now. His third marriage is to an author named Alice B. Sheldon. She was a renowned science fiction author who wrote under the pseudonym James Tipty Jr. Apparently women autho…”
▶ The Shadow State 59 Spooks & Infectious Disease @ 56:09
Huntington Denton Sheldon died
La Jolla, California host_asserted
“Yeah. They're found dead in 1987 with a murder-suicide. And she shot him and then shot herself. And they went into her writings, and apparently there was a murder pact, suicide pact, or whatever you want to call that. But that was the end o…”
▶ The Shadow State 59 Spooks & Infectious Disease @ 56:45
Huntington Denton Sheldon member_of
CFR host_asserted
“Amazing amount of overlap with the Council of Foreign Relations. Yes. Then finally he retired and went downhill fairly fast. He lost his eyesight and all kinds of things. And I'll leave it there. So the watch committee, in my definition, wo…”
▶ The Shadow State 59 Spooks & Infectious Disease @ 55:35
Mentions (14)
▶ 45:45
In La Jolla, California. All right. How are we doing on time? Pretty good. 12.5. Yep. Yeah. Let's talk about our next scrolling key alumni. You know that name? Huntington. I can't read it. Huntington Denton. Nicknamed Ting Sheldon. Yes. Tin…
▶ 46:21
Ting is, I guess, an abbreviation of Huntington, but that was his name. Born in 1903 in Greenwich, Connecticut, came from a patrician New York family, and his father was an educated Yale lawyer. Sheldon would marry a woman by the name of Ma…
▶ 46:56
The CIA married the drug company? He's not in the CIA yet. Okay. They actually divorced in 1936. He'd get married three times in his life. He gets involved in banking. We'll get there for sure. Okay. He gets involved in Wall Street banking …
▶ 48:07
And what this guy was, was a SIGINT analyst, signals intelligence. And we're just now learning something called photo interpretation. He's the pioneer. You take these aerial photographs and you got to piece them together. And he's very good…
▶ 49:32
is a follow-on to the reconnaissance aspect of being able to assess um current environment via photography yeah absolutely and i'm just going to mention that exact same thing with the youtube um that's a big part of what he did he would be …
▶ 50:04
He was responsible for producing time-sensitive reports on global crises. And during his stewardship, what was going on geopolitically? You had the Korean War, the U-2 spy plane inception, Sputniks in 56. We had to get information on that. …
▶ 51:41
And that's where Brennan came back and forced the Steele dossier into the intelligence. So they had a PDB that said one thing, and they wouldn't give it to presidential nominee, president-elect Donald Trump. Had they done that, had they not…
▶ 52:15
And he builds the precursor to the modern fusion centers. And now it's the most powerful intelligence agency in the world, thanks to him. So he steps down in 61. His health's starting to fail a little bit. I want to read something else for …
▶ 52:51
The same bio, but I just want to read three or four paragraphs. This is by Richard Lehman, and we've talked about his brother Robert Lehman before. I would like to talk a bit about Huntington Ting Sheldon, because he was a great man. He had…
▶ 53:23
He built an empire while he was at it because OCI had its own security, its own courier service, its own print shop, and a lot of other things that were all justified by the fact that communications intelligence needed special handling. Tha…
▶ 53:55
completely ruthless in how he did it. People he didn't like were brushed aside one way or another so that he built a core of people who were basically what he wanted for his shop, which were versatile generalists. He didn't mind having peop…
▶ 55:05
D.I. in early 1962, right after Dulles left, he wanted OCI to be under his control. And he booted Sheldon aside or pushed Sheldon aside, I should say. But Ting stayed on for several years as the agency's signals intelligence officer and als…
▶ 56:09
And I bet because he'd love with the CIA where they are on spying now. His third marriage is to an author named Alice B. Sheldon. She was a renowned science fiction author who wrote under the pseudonym James Tipty Jr. Apparently women autho…
▶ 56:45
Yeah. They're found dead in 1987 with a murder-suicide. And she shot him and then shot herself. And they went into her writings, and apparently there was a murder pact, suicide pact, or whatever you want to call that. But that was the end o…