William R. Bode person
also: Bode, Boat
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Nestor Pinoperson · 8U.S. State Departmentorganization · 6Oliver Northperson · 6James Bo Gritzperson · 5Scott Weakleyperson · 4Iran-Contra affairevent · 2Mujahideenorganization · 2Contrasorganization · 2Eugene Wheatleyperson · 2William Snyderperson · 2Department of Defenseintelligence service · 2Southern Front Contrasorganization · 1Iran-Contra Committeeorganization · 1Undersecretary of State for Security Assistanceorganization · 1Bode's Aideorganization · 1Air Force Security Expertorganization · 1CIA Agentsorganization · 1Bode's Daily Agendaorganization · 1Oliver North's Notesorganization · 1Independent Evidenceorganization · 1Unnamed Paramilitary Covert Action Programorganization · 1Censored Intervieworganization · 1Central Americaorganization · 1Government Agenciesorganization · 1
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That's where you get that information from. Before undertaking that mission, they said, they sought to obtain an approval of two State Department officials in Washington. William R. Bode, who at the time was a special assistant to the Under…
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Air Force security expert who knows both of those men personally believes Bode and Pino were CIA agents working under the State Department cover on the Contra project with Oliver North. That office was CIA through and through, he said. Whea…
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During the 1985 and 86, there is some independent evidence to suggest Wheaton's conclusions. In an interview with Iran-Contra investigators, former CIA Central American Task Force Chief Alan Fiers admitted that he and North, in late 1985, d…
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you spell his name B-O-D-E, and a company called Falcon Wings Incorporated. What that program involved is not known. The restifier's interview was censored because of quote-unquote national security. Undersecretary of State William Snyder t…
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In an interview with Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Welch's office, Walch, sorry, Pino confirmed that he and Bode met with North to discuss the purchase of the speedboats. During that meeting, Pino said, North unexpectedly announced that h…
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Like Rodriguez, Pino was close to the Salvadoran Air Force General Rafael Bustillo, the guy who ran El Opengo Air Base. Pino referred to Bustillo as family, and the Salvadoran general sometimes stayed at Pino's house in Virginia when he was…
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who was used on non-routine projects, basically meaning ones that were being ran out of the State Department as opposed to the CIA, Boat's desk calendar obtained from the National Archives show frequent meetings from 1985 and 86 with North …
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Cuban mercenaries working on the southern front. So in other words, he was one of the key coordinators for the entire Contra operation. Gritz testified that he approached Bode and Pena to discuss the Afghan training program he and Weakley w…
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I would call him excited. He said that not only did he approve the proposal, but that he would provide other Afghan groups, since there was a division of about six or seven subgroups, that he would provide other people for us to train also.…
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Grits said. Bode said that that had to be shortened to 30 days, quote, and eliminated some of the classes that he felt were too sensitive for the Mujahideen at the time. It included various secure communication courses that we planned to gi…
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He denied that he authorized the operation. He went on to say, just the fact that we met and had talks didn't authorize anything. The Afghan program is a covert program, okay? All CIA, or perhaps a little bit of Department of Defense, the S…
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The State Department has provided cover for more CIA operations over the years than any other government entity, except maybe the military. Bode's assistant, Nestor Pino, also denied that he had officially authorized the missions. But he sa…