Richard Shackley person
also: Shackley, Shackler
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Claims (7)
Richard Shackley ordered_assassination_of
Edwin Wilson guest_asserted
“After Wilson had finished setting up IRT Arcadia deal, he learned that Shackler had hired an ex-Green Beret by the name of John Dutcher, D-U-T-C-H-E-R, who was training Libyans to put a hit out on me and have me killed. This is Wilson talki…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 47:33
Richard Shackley covered_up
Kevin Mulcahy documented
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 28:09
Richard Shackley covered_up
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“I think if the, in talking about the prosecutor, if he could have joined the CIA, he would have. Shackley spared no effort to persuade Barcella to go after his employee and quote unquote friend. When Shackley planted the idea that Wilson wa…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 40:57
Richard Shackley recruited
John Dutcher guest_asserted
“After Wilson had finished setting up IRT Arcadia deal, he learned that Shackler had hired an ex-Green Beret by the name of John Dutcher, D-U-T-C-H-E-R, who was training Libyans to put a hit out on me and have me killed. This is Wilson talki…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 47:33
Richard Shackley trafficked
CIA host_asserted
“The Shackley and Klein were intimately involved in the drug side of our wagon wheel. Wilson was the person that they used for drug or excuse me, for arms trafficking. And in that respect, even though he was not a high placed person within t…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 36:02
Richard Shackley targeted_for_regime_change
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“Wilson had no hint that he was a suspect in the Orlando Latier bombing or that he was under any investigation beyond a minor CIA internal issue. Complicating all of this was the divided loyalties inside the CIA with the old boys versus the …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 38:17
Richard Shackley ordered_assassination_of
Tom Clines book_quoted
“Klein, when she met Shackley and his wife, Hazel, she found the tall, blonde CIA officer very laid back and almost shy. Klein told her Shackley was paranoid and would not work with anyone but Klein. Shackley had a particular fondness for Ge…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 32:21
Mentions (31)
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more than $4 billion to bring Egypt's military up to standard with Israel's. According to Wilson, there were millions to be made for the company that would be designated the shipper of all of these military goods. I wanted the group to be a…
▶ 34:43
Wilson recalls that Klein rented a hotel room at Crystal City Marriott, stayed there many times, for their meeting. We all met in this hotel room, von Marburg, Shackley, Klein, and Secord, and myself, just the five of us. Wilson said he ope…
▶ 36:06
According to Wilson, Shackley said that he would be getting out of the CIA in the next year and that Klein's would be holding his stock in the company in the meantime. Wilson and the other four agreed that Wilson could set up a company in S…
▶ 38:34
are the contracting officers for this purchase, which they're going to be pocketing money personally as a result of it. The fact that Wilson's business partners accepted his second condition, let's see, Wilson claimed that Shackley had asse…
▶ 39:05
The fact that Wilson's business partners accepted his second condition caused him to pay less attention to the operation than he should have. That condition was the same one that he had made in setting up API two years earlier, that Shackle…
▶ 40:29
of the same name. Funds would be transferred from Arcadia in Geneva to IRT offshore and then onshore to the U.S. branch. Wilson had a specific sense of what everyone in the room could contribute. Klein and Shackley could agree, could guaran…
▶ 41:55
and the proprietary vehicle used by the government. He didn't do it because he was patriotic. He did it because he wanted to make money and appear legitimate. He also goes on to say, I felt if I could get involved with these people, that th…
▶ 45:05
Climes debriefed him every time, saying he was doing it for the CIA. At about the same time, Shackley later told the FBI that he introduced Climes to an old colleague, Donald Jamison, J-A-M-E-S-O-N, for the purpose of putting together a com…
▶ 45:32
Since Klein's had told Wilson and others that Around the World Shipping would receive new business in exchange for Wilson's financing Klein's company. This was very curious, unless one knew that Klein's and Shackley had already begun to loo…
▶ 46:01
On Wilson's next trip to the U.S., Shackley summons Tim to a meeting at the Albert Pick Hotel near Washington Post headquarters. Wilson had done small acts of kindness for Shackley over the years, like giving Shackley's daughter a horse. No…
▶ 46:29
but he had never given money to Shackley. When Shackley asked him for this loan, he made it clear to me that it was a loan and that it may not ever be paid back. Kind of like a perk. I told him that Libyans were very slow in paying at the m…
▶ 47:03
stopped protecting him, and started working to bury him, at least in Wilson's head. More important, he says, I wish I had just enough sense to do that one thing. Wilson, if you said, Wilson, what is the one thing that you wish you would hav…
▶ 47:33
After Wilson had finished setting up IRT Arcadia deal, he learned that Shackler had hired an ex-Green Beret by the name of John Dutcher, D-U-T-C-H-E-R, who was training Libyans to put a hit out on me and have me killed. This is Wilson talki…
▶ 48:03
Both Dutcher's correspondence and Barnes with the FBI confirms Wilson's statement. Once Wilson picked up this information, he decided to put Shackler out of business once and for all. Wilson had heard that Shackler bragged about doing this …
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The Shackley and Klein were intimately involved in the drug side of our wagon wheel. Wilson was the person that they used for drug or excuse me, for arms trafficking. And in that respect, even though he was not a high placed person within t…
▶ 52:27
Even though it's true, as you're suggesting, with the narrative of Shackley, Wilson, and that whole thread can kind of maybe suggest an alternative explanation to 1980 being a key turning point in terms of CIA total access. It's subject to …
▶ 23:40
But Clines was also bringing in Cubans who had gone to work for Santo Trapacani or had dabbled in the cocaine business. Wilson went along because he believed that Clines was doing what the CIA wanted him to do. As investigations battered th…
▶ 28:09
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…
▶ 31:02
and John Harper's son were still in Libya. The Libyans would not let them leave until they got someone down there to take their place. Wilson's Libyan operation may provide the key to an enduring mystery in the Latier Cape. How, even with G…
▶ 31:32
keep the Cuban nationalist community from being implicated in the Latier case. Was Frank Turple really a fired CIA employee who met Wilson by chance at a Christmas party? Or was Turple on assignment for Shackley and Klein? Did Turple even s…
▶ 38:59
It was all turple. The piece of paper was given to Clines. Clines gave it to Shackley. Shackley put it in a record. CIA records indicate that on the day of the Latier bombing, September 21st, 1976, Clines wrote a memorandum about Wilson's a…
▶ 39:57
The version that the Veliverdes told prosecutors indicated that Wilson, not Turple, was the boss, which again was not true. That visit by the Veliverdes put Wilson straight in the sights of the prosecutors. To Larry Barcella and Eugene Prop…
▶ 40:24
was fascinated with the covert world, according to a friend and a former Washington police detective named Carl Schoffler. Shackley and Barcella as someone potentially useful, saw someone, saw Barcella as someone potentially useful to him a…
▶ 40:57
I think if the, in talking about the prosecutor, if he could have joined the CIA, he would have. Shackley spared no effort to persuade Barcella to go after his employee and quote unquote friend. When Shackley planted the idea that Wilson wa…
▶ 41:27
discovered that it was Clines who had brought Wilson and Ray May together. Shackley had to appear to discipline his old comrade. The penalty was that Clines would continue in his post running Wilson's operation while providing the CIA's Off…
▶ 31:20
but that he regularly asked her about classified documents. For years, she said, I would watch Klein operate outside the law on the instructions of Shackley and get away with it. Chi Chi Quintero, who lived in Miami with his family, was a f…
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on a regular basis and throw them away. Brill said Tom and I had some problems over that. I said to him, where did you get them? And he said, Shirley, don't ask me questions. He also said, Shirley, go in the other room. But they were cuttin…
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Klein, when she met Shackley and his wife, Hazel, she found the tall, blonde CIA officer very laid back and almost shy. Klein told her Shackley was paranoid and would not work with anyone but Klein. Shackley had a particular fondness for Ge…
▶ 38:17
Wilson had no hint that he was a suspect in the Orlando Latier bombing or that he was under any investigation beyond a minor CIA internal issue. Complicating all of this was the divided loyalties inside the CIA with the old boys versus the …
▶ 43:19
I got him back to his hotel and told him that he was fired. He threatened to kill me. We disarmed the guy, and the next morning, I took him out of Libya to Geneva. To make matters worse, in order to get closer to Gaddafi regime, Ed Wilson e…
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I would have to go back and individually look at the sequence of events. But in doing research of other countries, it has become really apparent to me that Saudi Arabia, through Shackley and Turple and all of these other guys in the CIA,…