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CIA trafficked
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“at least for the CIA. An era passed unheralded when a deeply depressed Frank Wisner put a shotgun to his head and killed himself in 1965. Lots of questions about that. It was Richard Helms, the professional espionage specialist, that then b…”
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CIA funded
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“as a sort of in-house liaison between the clandestine and the analytical side of the agency. During this period, and championed by Dulles, the CIA sought funds for and began to work with a new headquarter complex at Langley, eight miles fro…”
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Layton also claims that Huddle undermined Horn's efforts to provide Burma's prosecutors and police with U.S. assistance to implement its drug laws. Why? Well, we know why. In contrast, Layton pointed out in his letter to Senator Shelby, Mr.…
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The conflicting evidence says that the second base was not an annex, but a CIA facility. According to Frank Wolf, a U.S. congressman who represents the district, contains CIA headquarters Langley. It operated independently from the consulat…
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were not on a mine clearing operation at all, that they were teaching Libyans how to make terrorist bombs. According to CIA documents, Klein went to Langley and told Shackley that Mrs. Harper believed her husband was involved in much more t…
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But if Bush thought his political experience would give him an edge over the characters like Ted Shackley and Tom Klein, he was mistaken. Bush began his tenure not by digging in with the slow methodical approach, but Bush came in from China…
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And he got himself briefed by us a lot. But there was an awful lot of concern, not only within the Senate, but out of Langley about his background. He became aware of that. He came out of a staff meeting, a senior staff meeting. And he woul…
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you know, an FBI down in the Langley area. There were some down there, but they put all of these training camps for these paramilitary assets to include OSS in these national and state forested areas to hide what they were doing from the Am…
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So they don't plan on going anywhere, folks. Having put his management team and facilities in place, Donahue next had to demonstrate that the CIA could develop people into these action teams in a quantity necessary for this program to work.…
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President John F. Kennedy formed a National Security Council special group to manage U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Vietnam and elsewhere. A special assistant for covert activities was assigned to the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, a…
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If I don't get to it today, we will do it tomorrow. In 1981, Casey summoned retired intel officer Robert Crowley, which is one of the guys that donated the papers for this book, and a retired colleague from New York to his office in Langley…
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In 1980, Float was affiliated with Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge. That law firm's come up quite often, too. The law firm became so important to the CIA in its business dealings with branch offices that there was one established in Mc…
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However, reported back through CIA channels that the ambassador had regarded the cable as an order to support a coup d'etat. Richardson opposed this. At Langley, William Colby backed him up. John McCone was on vacation but was quickly infor…
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And San Jose was quickly relayed back to the CIA headquarters in Langley, which was informed that Hugo Spadafora had made quote-unquote vague allegations to DEA that Gonzalez, Manuel Noriega, and other Contra leaders were engaged in drug tr…
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archives confirmed that agents from the DEA, FBI, and IRS arrived at the office and for two days poured through the seized files, making copies of everything. Later that night, a cable from the CIA's LA office marked immediate director was …
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CIA was asking about Menendez in connection with the Blanton raid was unclear since he was never arrested nor named in the search warrants. Please respond. This is the cable went on. Please respond immediately indicating what portions of re…
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that spying was going on. His new associates at the Office of Public Safety heard him arguing heatedly with a CIA officer in Langley, Virginia, as he tried to retain some measure of being a separate entity. Throughout the early 60s, Engel s…
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At the moment of the assassination, it was immediately obvious that the assassins had the cooperation of Sadat's CIA-trained security force. No one attempted to protect the president. Members of his own army lifted their rifles and shot him…
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The CIA's experience of buying and shipping mules to Afghanistan over the next few years became the subject of legendary stories in the halls of Langley. At one point, the Pakistanis became so irritated that they wouldn't permit the CIA's t…
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at least for the CIA. An era passed unheralded when a deeply depressed Frank Wisner put a shotgun to his head and killed himself in 1965. Lots of questions about that. It was Richard Helms, the professional espionage specialist, that then b…
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were basically less literate because they went through quite a few of them by this time. Naturally, the Americans did not stand by idly through all of this. The CIA did everything it could to shore up their old buddies. By this time, the La…
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a master spy and an asset to his administration. Now he did not. At lunch with Arthur Schlesinger and James Reston during the last days of the Pluto operation, the president said, quote, Dulles is a legendary figure and it's hard to work wi…
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the chief of operations task force running Mongoose, with a CIA group under him called Task Force W and headed by William K. Harvey from the new CIA headquarters at Langley. Harvey supervised the activities of Ted Shackley's Miami station. …
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And we took ours out from Turkey because that was the other reason that the Soviet unions was pithed is because we already had nuclear weapons in Turkey aimed at them. As for the covert forces in play, the CIA was ordered to reorganize agai…
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taken place in 1962. The final agreement on the prisoner exchange was made on December 22, 1962. Some 1,179 veterans of Brigade 2506 returned to the U.S. In a covert twist within this game, CIA assassination planners bought a scuba diving s…
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Richard Nixon helicoptered out of Langley with Richard Helms to address senior people at the CIA in a large auditorium. As in common previous ceremonial pep talks, the president painted the role of the CIA in glowing terms. Quote, I look up…
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The House unit held no meetings at all in 71 and 72, while in 1967, the CIA appropriation was approved by both the House and Senate after a single congressman went to Langley to observe a rehearsal of the budget presentation. The CIA contin…
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William Colby had to be circumspect with the president, who was aboard Air Force One when Colby called. The two had spoken over an open line in a radio patch to the White House switchboard. William Colby's bad year got off to a rousing star…
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as a sort of in-house liaison between the clandestine and the analytical side of the agency. During this period, and championed by Dulles, the CIA sought funds for and began to work with a new headquarter complex at Langley, eight miles fro…
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at staff positions at the headquarter CIA. Cox had been the chief of the paramilitary branch of the CIA covert action staff, but though Cox could put pieces back together, some doubted his dedication to the initiative. He stood among those …
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increasingly cut out FaceTime in the Oval Office for him. This annoyed McCone. By early 65, John McCone was at loggerheads with LBJ over Vietnam access, and he'd had enough, so he quit. A few days later, Johnson's aide, Marvin Watson, telep…
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others at NSA of the CIA connection and began talking to the San Francisco-based magazine called Ramparts. That magazine had already raised eyebrows at Langley because of an expose reporting that the CIA had hired Michigan State University …
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In fact, the CIA before the event acted preemptively to limit the damage that would be associated or directed at the CIA. A special assistant to the deputy director of operations ordered to pull together data on ramparts, progressed to sche…
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In early January of 67, Langley picked up rumors in New York publishing circles that Rampart's piece on the agency and the National Student Association, written by Marcus Raskin, yes, that's Jamie Raskin's dad, had been scheduled and would …
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But the same time the agency intercepted a letter from an unknown organization, probably contrived, mailed from Vienna, still a spy haven. The letter alleged that the CIA employed someone in the coordinating secretariat of the International…
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The NSA was a conference affiliate. This permitted Langley counter-spy James Angleton to assert that the entire matter was a Soviet disinformation plot. Had the CIA followed Angleton's advice, it would have been even less prepared for the c…
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Langley had reason to want the hostages freed. The Iranians had captured the CIA station in Tehran. They quickly identified Thomas Ahern as its chief and kept him in solitary confinement. Although CIA records in Tehran had been evacuated wh…
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The trucks were to be driven by Iranian agents the CIA recruited elsewhere and sent back home. One wealthy Iranian volunteer drove to Langley headquarters in a Mercedes but had no knowledge of the standard gear shifts of trucks and had to b…
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Carter preferred to await diplomatic developments, but new preparations were necessary. Stanford Turner had pressed for permission to make Desert One reconnaissance since January. Carter then approved it, the reconnaissance mission to get t…
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remained the need to do things covertly. The cautious approach was quite evident. In the 74 survey, ranging over the many examinations of intelligence through the years, the CIA characterized the Lindsay report as concluding that there was …
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But on the afternoon of March 7th, 1969, Nixon helicoptered to Langley with Holmes to address senior leaders at the CIA. Quote, I look upon this organization as not one which is necessary for the conduct of conflict or war, or call it what …
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One of the agency's officers captured in 52 as a goodwill gesture. Langley had no idea why that happened, and the second CIA prisoner, John Downey, stayed in jail, though with a reduced sentence. When the CIA learned of Nixon's China trip, …
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Shackley confirmed his instructions and said that they stood. At Langley, at the same time, Shackley reviewed the covert action program for the director, suggesting additional measures. Among them were payments of $350,000 for the Christian…
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Casey called and inquired how things were going. Fires asked Casey if he wanted the story plain or gilded. When Casey said he wanted it straight, Fires told him his prospects were terrible. They agreed to meet the next morning. At Langley, …
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The Boland Amendment took effect on October 1, 1984, the first day of the new fiscal year. The final contingent of 73 CIA trainers left Honduras. Langley's orders to its station were explicit. Field stations are to cease and desist with act…
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All future contact with these entities are, until further notice, to be solely, repeat solely, for the purpose of collecting positive intelligence information in the interest of the U.S. That's just a cover story. Now, supposedly, there wer…
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from his brother that his father had passed away. So Webster established himself at Langley. And again, like Admiral Turner under Carter, Webster had brought with him an entire inner circle from the FBI. Isn't that interesting? So because h…
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Quote, the American government, including the CIA, had no idea in January of 1989 that a tidal wave of history was about to break upon us, unquote. Now, keep in mind, we've had the CIA since 1947, and they're shocked that this is going on i…
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began tearing down the wall. These events excited everybody in Washington and the CIA. President Bush said in his Oval Office meeting with Brent Scrocoff that they turned on the television immediately and watched the entire thing. At Langle…
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They had brought down the Soviet Union. They credited, of course, their success in Afghanistan for doing that. Over the next months, the communist government of Eastern Europe were swept away. Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Roma…
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Gates himself returned for something fairly dramatic around the follow-up testimony refuting critics. The hearings became the most extensive examination of U.S. intelligence since the Church and Pike investigations. Work at Laneley basicall…
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We need more spies. The Directorate of Operations officers in the field met with silence when they proposed new operations or recruitments. Iran-Contra showed that Langley would not back its officers in trouble and now morale was suffering.…
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Gates never completed his mission. George H.W. Bush lost the 1992 election to Clinton. A few days later, on November 7th, Gates announced his retirement. He stayed only long enough for Clinton's new CIA director. The lame duck President Bus…
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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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U.S. Central Command built up its own intelligence support element with 80 people. Then came the CIA station. At first, it was just a couple of rooms. Then it moved out near the base at the airport. Soon the station became overrun. They had…
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Langley's cadre for the DISH was interesting. The DO clearly chose security specialists over covert operators. African Division Chief William Pickney, a veteran of the 1980s ISI Afghan war, reached out to Garrett Jones, then completing his …
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Besides, RFK was already beginning each morning by dropping by the CIA headquarters in Langley on his way to work so that he could keep an eye on him. JFK even raised the possibility of putting Schlesinger in Dulles' chair. I imagine that t…
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And so I'm definitely anti-CIA. They've been a thorn in the side of this government for long enough. I'm really hoping at this moment in time they're getting purged. That would really make me happy. That would make us happy. Yeah. And so, a…
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He says that he submitted the manuscript to the agency for the required publication review, but that it blacked out large swaths of information, like the accounts of his children's nosebleed, strange rashes, vomiting, severe asthma, and mem…
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It was getting too much and I needed to take this up the chain of command. And to whom did my request go? None other than Buzzy Cromguard. We had discovered the black mole beneath our house and that it was in our air ducts. After four reque…
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He remembers the events as ruining not only the Christmas season for me, but nearly all of the next year as well. Aw, too bad. Colby arrived on the seventh floor of Langley just in time to face the explosion. The ground had been well prepar…
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On a certain level, it is not surprising that Richard Helms had felt confident in deliberately misleading Congress on Chile. But the pressure built with each time the White House avoided reforms until 1974. The pot boiled over. The CIA's Co…
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This document gathered together allegations of illegal questionable activities observed by employees throughout the agency. It happened that Kissinger had never been briefed on the family jewels. Completed as Colby replaced Lessinger at Lan…
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Others at Langley, the inspector general actually commissioned a poll and interviewed a significant fraction of the agency employees, demonstrating that morale remained high, except at the very top, where they knew everything. The charges a…
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At the third level, the inquisitors had a visit to the CIA headquarters where fondling files were housed in the IG office. Investigators would make notes only, copying was prohibited, and notes were reviewed by the CIA before they walked ou…
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But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…