Tom Tripati person
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Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugsorganization · 4Adrian Swainperson · 3United Statescountry · 2Vietnamcountry · 2Office of Strategic Influenceorganization · 1Trump administrationorganization · 1Lucien Coneinperson · 1Inger Ingersollperson · 1Richard Nixonperson · 1Medusaoperation · 1Laoscountry · 1U.S. Congressorganization · 1Ted Shackleyperson · 1
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We needed to know what kind of protection the Thai police were affording the traffickers. Well, we could have told them they were being paid by the CIA, $35 million. Organizing the Strategic Intelligence Office then eventually falls to CIA …
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They accompanied Ingersoll to Saigon, where Station Chief Ted Shackley briefed them. Through his CIA contacts, Swain obtained maps of drug smuggling maps in Southeast Asia. Upon their return to the U.S., Swain and Tripati expressed frustrat…
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Seeking a way to circumvent the CIA, they recommended the creation of a special operations or strategic operations staff that would function on its own outside the CIA. Those operations would rely on longer-range deep penetration clandestin…
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to the Strategic Intel Office as desk officers for Europe in the Middle East, Far East, and Latin America, where all of the drugs are being created. Tripati liaisoned with the CIA on matters of mutual interest and the covert collection of n…
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foreign nationals to blow up contraband planes while they were refueling at clandestine airstrips. Another proposal called for ambushing traffickers in America and taking their drugs and money. The creation of the Strategic Intelligence Off…