William Wells person

“took an 11-page proper based on Palencio's statement to the Justice Department official William Weld. Weiner later wrote in a memo describing the meeting, quote, Weld read about half a page and chuckled. I asked him why. He said, this isn't…”

“I asked him why he was laughing. He said, this isn't the first time I've seen these allegations about CIA agents' involvement in drugs. He stated several times in reading Wanda's statement that while he couldn't vouch for every line, there …”

“A few months later, he selected E. Henry Nock over Nelson to be the deputy director. Nelson retired. That opened up the deputy director of operations position for which Bush chose William Wells, a experienced officer who had served in the O…”

“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…”

“Turner reassigned both men to what he believed was meaningless jobs. Shackley's colleagues in the DO, the demotion was basically a body blow to a small, very close-knit group of covert operators. Although he could have retired, Shackley rem…”

“Bush allowed the Directorate of Operations, being run by William Wells and his deputy, Ted Shackley, to operate almost without restraint. If the Justice Department, for example, made a request for its investigation into the CIA, officials c…”

“people that may be protégés of these people, because eventually, like William Sowell, goes out on his own and unequivocally moves away from anything that's liberal. And he is the first one to tell you that he was very much a liberal early o…”