Ted Shackley person
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Ted Shackley member_of
EATSCO documented
“Hussein Salam, an Egyptian. Ex-CIA operative Edwin Wilson put up Klein's $500,000 as the initial capital investment in ITSCO. Former CIA Associate Deputy Director of Operations, the covert side, Ted Shackley, according to his Iran-Contra te…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 25:40
William Harvey supervised
Ted Shackley host_asserted
“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. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 35:37
Ted Shackley headed
Operation Mongoose host_asserted
“I've never been in a base like that. It just blows my mind that that would have been the case. SR-71. Thank you, Colonel. I can add a little more to JM Wave here. One of our favorite names, Theodore Shackley, was the one who headed JM Wave …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 59:59
Ted Shackley founded
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“establishing the Phoenix assassination program in Vietnam, estimated to have killed 40,000 Vietnamese. The Kennedy assassination and the Watergate scandal, the part he played in the Iran-Contra scandal, which nearly brought down the entire …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 10:25
Ted Shackley spied_on
William Harvey book_quoted
“Shackley had denigrated the legend of Bill Harvey, his mentor, to Robert Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Harvey's CIA career was destroyed. Now, according to Robert Crowley, Wells was getting the same treatment Shackley had given t…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 31:36
Ted Shackley headed
CIA host_asserted
“after which Tom Clines became Quintero's case officer. Shackley and Clines boss and headed up the CIA's Miami station after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He was also involved in the CIA's use of mafia to try to assassinate Castro. Jenkins also …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:09:38
Ted Shackley trafficked
CIA host_asserted
“Air America. During that time, Shackley, Secord, and Clines were all involved in the CIA drug operations in that area. Also working with these individuals in that theater was General John Siegel, a Marine officer, along with Oliver North. O…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:10:10
Ted Shackley founded
6I Private Intelligence Network book_quoted
“It was a big year for Ted Shackley and his colleagues that had created the Private Enterprise Intelligence Network. Shackley believed that Slatter, which is Edwin Wilson's buddy, could be turned into another Edwin Wilson and that Wilson bas…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 5:31
Ted Shackley recruited
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“It was a big year for Ted Shackley and his colleagues that had created the Private Enterprise Intelligence Network. Shackley believed that Slatter, which is Edwin Wilson's buddy, could be turned into another Edwin Wilson and that Wilson bas…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 5:31
Ted Shackley spied_on
Israel book_quoted
“during this time. So he's basically bringing classified information into this front company ran by Edwin Wilson, who had a contract to provide training for the Egyptian Guard Force. But even when Shackley left the CIA, he remained in a posi…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 24:38
Ted Shackley traded_network_to
Thailand book_quoted
“and von Marbog were his business associates. Wilson recalled what he had told them. Quote, look, you guys, between you, Shackley, and Secord, you know every head of government, every intelligence chief, and every minister of defense in the …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 31:48
Ted Shackley headed
CIA documented
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 33:10
Ted Shackley headed
CIA guest_asserted
“That definitely was a takeaway of that interview. Here's a quote from the interview. Tucker Carlson. What was Ted Shackley like? Felix Rodriguez. Oh, he was the most intelligent man that I have ever met in my life, says Felix Rodriguez. He …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 39:38
Ted Shackley member_of
CIA documented
“In 1951, he was recruited into the CIA from the army. His first foreign assignment was West Berlin, when the espionage capital of the world at the time. In 1962, he was named CIA station chief in Miami with responsibility for assisting Cuba…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 36:50
Ted Shackley appointed
CIA documented
“In 1951, he was recruited into the CIA from the army. His first foreign assignment was West Berlin, when the espionage capital of the world at the time. In 1962, he was named CIA station chief in Miami with responsibility for assisting Cuba…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 36:50
Ted Shackley headed
CIA book_quoted
“Shackley's job as head of the Far East Division included taking care of his friends from Vietnam and Laos. What made it possible was the collapse of Paul Helliwell's banking empire in the Bahamas, and that would be the Castle Bank. In 1973,…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 5:21
Ted Shackley spied_on
FBI book_quoted
“organizations all over the world, to include the church. Throughout the 1980s presidential campaign, the FBI continued to investigate Wilson. Shackley was a cooperating source of information. I bet he was, because he's the one setting him u…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 20:34
Ted Shackley member_of
EATSCO host_asserted
“The KGB, Mossad, Saudi, and others all knew about the business arrangements. The fact that Shackley was working with the Israelis and had detailed knowledge of ETSCO gave the Israelis a stranglehold on Egypt. And the ultimate irony is that …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 27:33
Ted Shackley headed
Zenith Technical Enterprises documented
“which retained its location in a colonial-style building on the south campus of the University of Miami and its cover as an electronics firm. From Berlin, the agency brought in a new station chief, Theodore Shackley, who was soon running on…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 21:52
Ted Shackley headed
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“He was in charge of Operation Gladio, at least in Italy, if not all of maybe southern Europe. So maybe he wasn't the station chief, but he definitely was in Italy and he was definitely involved in Operation Gladio. So I just wanted to share…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 18:58
Ted Shackley covered_up
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“or the very next magazine that came out, is dated July, August 1991. And do you know who has an article in there? Theodore Shackley. Ted Shackley. The godfather of Operation Gladio. And you're never going to guess what the name of that arti…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 5:46
Ted Shackley spied_on
Italy book_quoted
“And it's specifically talking about, as a matter of fact, this one specifically says, the name of it is Le Circle and the Struggle for the European Continent. It said, this is a quote. I'm not going to read out of the actual article because…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 18:29
Ted Shackley ordered_assassination_of
Pope John Paul II book_quoted
“There's an article on Exploring Real History that basically does kind of a synopsis of Paul Williams' book. And it says that while Ted Shackley was a CIA operative who set up the heroin trade in Southeast Asia, he also played a role in the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 20:03
Ted Shackley recruited
Albert Hakim book_quoted
“That was from the Miami station and again follows this whole group around. The anti-Shah dissidents were later found executed by hired assassins, the hitmen that had been trained by these same people. In August of 76, Shackley recruited an …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 21:46
Ted Shackley member_of
Stanford Technology book_quoted
“and the Carter administration's proposal to sell eight AWACS aircraft to Iran. And Shackley would pave the way for the Reagan administration to deal behind the scenes covertly for the missiles trades. In Tehran, Shackley was a consultant fo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 58:50
Ted Shackley headed
Operation Mongoose book_quoted
“Theodore Shackley's JM Wave had 112 exiles on board from the beginning. In addition, it had 40 CIA officers and 39 more co-located at Opelika. At any given time, there was a dozen or more special forces training exile commandos. Bob Moore a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 42:13
Ted Shackley member_of
CIA book_quoted
“as a Soviet mole, even though he had bamboozled Jim Angleton. He had then run the agency's Berlin base for seven years. Shackley had been his protege doing Polish operations out of Berlin. And in case you guys don't get the correlation, the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 31:30
William Harvey appointed
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“William Harvey's task force boss learned that a colleague from Berlin was back in town. Harvey summoned Theodore Shackley and sent him to Miami to report on the base and what it needed to become a full CIA station. Shackley spent a few week…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 29:27
CIA appointed
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“William Harvey's task force boss learned that a colleague from Berlin was back in town. Harvey summoned Theodore Shackley and sent him to Miami to report on the base and what it needed to become a full CIA station. Shackley spent a few week…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 29:27
Edward Koch exposed
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“asking him to investigate high U.S. officials for crimes concerning Chile. Levi, a highly moral man, at once sent the Corey letter to the criminal division of the Justice Department. The result, the CIA was turned upside down. Corey's lette…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 17:19
Ted Shackley carried_out_attack
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“He launched the reader into a systematic examination of what the old master, Alan W. Dulles, called the craft of intelligence, unquote. Let me tell you how this former CIA intelligence officer and trained analyst interprets the opening. The…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 9:57
Ted Shackley member_of
CIA book_quoted
“The late Ted Shackley's wife, Life, as a spymaster in the CIA, could have made a great novel, but he was much too serious about Life to have written one. Life to him meant work. During the three decades of his career in the CIA, he stands o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 9:02
Ted Shackley headed
CIA book_quoted
“In June, Ted Shackley moved up to the deputy director of operations, replacing Bill Colby. His successor was David Phillips. Only 10 months into a tour in Venezuela, it seemed Phillips was always being called back from places where he was s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 24:18
Ted Shackley member_of
CIA book_quoted
“The division that's handling all of this in May of 1972 was embroiled in the Chilean from the start. Shackley opened a direct channel to the publisher of El Mercurio, the New York Times, through Austin Edwards' lawyer, meeting him several t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 20:48
Danny Sheehan asserted
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“activities of a massive drug smuggling political assassination and ultimately supervised a team of people who assassinated the president of the United States, JFK, unquote. Sheehan also asserted that Shackley was the protege of Nazi Major R…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 29:54
Ted Shackley headed
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“I stumbled across at the secret base where I had been sent, where buried weapons and munitions from the Phoenix program, which Shackley had ran in Vietnam. Had it been a coincidence that Shackley had sent me and my family to that facility w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 33:52
Ted Shackley recruited
Felix Rodriguez host_asserted
“who Felix Rodriguez was. So, of course, when I read this in this book, when I was preparing for this book review, I was like, holy crap. Rodriguez was a young Cuban at the time when Fidel Castro took over in Cuba, was part of the Bay of Pig…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 38:40
Ted Shackley headed
Berlin Tunnel guest_asserted
“That definitely was a takeaway of that interview. Here's a quote from the interview. Tucker Carlson. What was Ted Shackley like? Felix Rodriguez. Oh, he was the most intelligent man that I have ever met in my life, says Felix Rodriguez. He …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 39:38
Ted Shackley recruited
Felix Rodriguez host_asserted
“later in Central America on behalf of the Contra rebels, again under Shackley, and was questioned in the Iran-Contra scandal. In other words, he was one of Shackley's guys. And in the interview, he seemed interested in rehabilitating Shackl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 39:09
United Wa State Army recruited
Ted Shackley host_asserted
“That's called accountability. Okay. That's my opinion. Yeah. But I've actually been in that position. Well, going back to Ted Shackley, I found it interesting. He was recruited out of the military for the CIA because the army tapped him, li…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 1:06:47
Ted Shackley member_of
United Wa State Army host_asserted
“And then finished, he put himself in the army at age 18. So I'm thinking he didn't come from a money background. His mother was a Polish immigrant. So he bootstrapped it with the army, University of Maryland. And then he had been doing some…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 1:07:18
Ted Shackley met_with
George H.W. Bush host_asserted
“Chi Chi Quintero and Douglas Flatter told the FBI that both men had been meeting with George Bush on a regular basis because they're arranging their own October surprise, which is to basically ensure that the hostages don't get released. Me…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:10:01
Ted Shackley worked_for
George H.W. Bush book_quoted
“and a veteran CIA executive by the name of John Bross, B-R-O-S-S. Thanks to Bush, and this is Bush Sr., of course, these teams also turned to a confidential outsider group of advisors that had among them Ted Shackley, who was obviously clos…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 14:40
Richard Stilwell worked_with
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“According to Stilwell himself, he began to reorganize military intelligence working hand in hand with Shackley, with whom he had worked very closely at the CIA. But the fact that Admiral Bobby Ray Inman had an open war with Shackley, all bu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 15:11
Bobby Ray Inman had_conflict_with
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“According to Stilwell himself, he began to reorganize military intelligence working hand in hand with Shackley, with whom he had worked very closely at the CIA. But the fact that Admiral Bobby Ray Inman had an open war with Shackley, all bu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 15:11
Ted Shackley took_over
International Research and Trade book_quoted
“And Klein had basically at this point stolen from him. Shackley, or taken it over. Shackley had to protect his interest in the International Research and Trade, which was called, so that's IRT. That was one of the companies. And then the ot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 17:07
Ted Shackley took_over
EATSCO book_quoted
“And Klein had basically at this point stolen from him. Shackley, or taken it over. Shackley had to protect his interest in the International Research and Trade, which was called, so that's IRT. That was one of the companies. And then the ot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 17:07
Edwin Wilson worked_under_tutelage_of
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“And Klein had basically at this point stolen from him. Shackley, or taken it over. Shackley had to protect his interest in the International Research and Trade, which was called, so that's IRT. That was one of the companies. And then the ot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 17:07
Ted Shackley became_secret_operative_for
George H.W. Bush book_quoted
“The performance, exactly after decades of being a CIA bureaucrat, finally had to play his major role in the new regime offstage. While protesting that he was just a retired spy staying away from anything that boomed or was spooky, he effect…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 18:08
Ted Shackley had_access_to
Richard Stilwell book_quoted
“Despite the security, Shackley still had access to all of Stilwell's secrets. The private intelligence network had placed its loyalists everywhere in the new administration. Frank Carlucci, Danfield Turner's deputy, was rewarded for his lac…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 19:03
Donald Gregg subordinate_to
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“Because he became President Bush's national security advisor, and he immediately turned around and hired Felix Rodriguez, who was front and center in the Iran-Contra scandal. He is also a Cuban exile that was used as an assassin on many, ma…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 22:50
Ted Shackley ran_programs_against
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“You know, lead them on, play them. It was in this area that Casey turned to Bush's off-the-books intelligence apparatus. After all, Shackley had run all of the anti-Castro programs for the Kennedys, and he still maintained a close relations…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 31:05
Bobby Ray Inman wanted_to_indict
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“Rather than keeping him silent, Inman wanted to have him in open court to indict Shackley. The administration quickly began to split into two intelligence factions, Bush and his crew versus Casey, Secretary of State Haig, and Secretary of D…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 28:10
Bobby Ray Inman did_not_trust
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“Casey did not trust Inman because Inman had a close relationship with Bush. Inman did not approve or trust Shackley and was never officially told anything about Shackley's off the book operations with Bush. But Inman felt caught in the midd…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 28:39
William Corson confronted
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“In the 1960s, Corson taught constitutional government at the Naval Academy. He was a linguist, an economist, and an accomplished historian. He did not appreciate shortcuts. And that is why in 1966, with thousands of Marines having died in V…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 8:56
James Tully friend_of
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“One of Brennan's cronies, Lieutenant Colonel James Tully, T-U-L-L-Y, became a friend of Oliver Norse. Tully, who had a knack for making money, was also a close friend of General Richard Secord and Ted Shackley. North did not know it at the …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 25:53
William Corson warned_about
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“References to lunch with WC are a regular feature in the note-taking, and that is Corson. Also, in Oliver North's notes are Corson's warning about Bush, Shackley, Secord, Klein, Wilson, and their cohorts. North knew that Corson had been thr…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 31:43
Ted Shackley member_of
Safari Club book_quoted
“Shackley and Wilson were not members. Only nations could belong. Shackley and Wilson were men who served the club in exchange for power, influence, and money. Pakistani intelligence would handle all of the money going in to facilitate the p…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 17:49
Ted Shackley succeeded
Lawrence Devlin book_quoted
“to the same Vietnam interagency committee that he had left in Washington. In Laos, the embassy team was not quite the same. Ted Shackley moved over to Saigon as chief of station there because that's about the time they were fixing up the Ph…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 38:27
Ted Shackley member_of
Safari Club host_asserted
“I'm not going to cover it extensively, but I am going to make some observations for you. Ted Shackley was involved in this. He was also a member of the Safari Club. And I also don't think that it's a coincidence that Apple's search browser …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Turkey @ 31:32
Ted Shackley funded
Nugan Hand Bank host_asserted
“throughout Vietnam via liquidation. And he also was one of the leading figures in the Nugent Hand Bank, which we've talked about repeatedly. He oversaw billions of dollars being deposited in the Australian bank for laundering purposes. He w…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Turkey @ 32:33
Ted Shackley trained
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“throughout Vietnam via liquidation. And he also was one of the leading figures in the Nugent Hand Bank, which we've talked about repeatedly. He oversaw billions of dollars being deposited in the Australian bank for laundering purposes. He w…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Turkey @ 32:33
Ted Shackley recruited
Mossad guest_asserted
“who was pivotal to reforging ties with the Mossad in the wake of the 1956 and sorry, I think the 70 war. And after the sort of Watergate scandal, there was this kind of like retraction of like all these other broader alliances. And Shackley…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Turkey @ 1:36:12
William J. Bolton worked_with
Ted Shackley host_asserted
“narcotic trafficking, not anti-narcotic trafficking, just to be clear. Bolton directed the CIA's division and station chiefs, and in doing so, he worked closely with Ted Shackley, you know, the guy supplying it all, who in 1972 was appointe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 32:59
William J. Bolton worked_with
Ted Shackley host_asserted
“post-World War II in Germany. They also worked together in the Cuban exile community in Miami during the Bay of Pigs. Later, it was said that Bolton screwed us, according to the BNDD's Latin American division chief, and so did Shackley. Wel…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 33:32
International Research and Trade funded
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“R-O-S-S-O-T-T-I, was the lawyer Tom Clines hired to organize his company called International Research and Trade, the company that had originally been funded by Ed Wilson and Ted Shackley organized, which became Eatsco. So basically, she's …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 29:57
Ted Shackley headed
South Vietnam documented
“40,000 had been killed. But when questions arose over the legality of the program, even under Vietnamese law, authorities rapidly retreated to an admission that 87% of the supposed cadre had been killed. From 1969 to 72, Ted Shackley led th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 18:44
William Colby succeeded
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“In June, Ted Shackley moved up to the deputy director of operations, replacing Bill Colby. His successor was David Phillips. Only 10 months into a tour in Venezuela, it seemed Phillips was always being called back from places where he was s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 24:18
David Atlee Phillips succeeded
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“In June, Ted Shackley moved up to the deputy director of operations, replacing Bill Colby. His successor was David Phillips. Only 10 months into a tour in Venezuela, it seemed Phillips was always being called back from places where he was s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 24:18
Henry Kissinger removed_from_power
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“In June, Ted Shackley moved up to the deputy director of operations, replacing Bill Colby. His successor was David Phillips. Only 10 months into a tour in Venezuela, it seemed Phillips was always being called back from places where he was s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 24:18
George H.W. Bush appointed
Ted Shackley documented
“Deputy Director of Operations, meanwhile, Bush elevated secret warrior Ted Shackley. In a memoir published at the time, Ray Klein advocated taking the covert operations function away from the CIA and giving it to the Pentagon. George Bush o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 34:31
Stansfield Turner removed_from_power
Ted Shackley documented
“Hank knock and discipline Ted Shackley, a Wilson associate, as well as fire a couple of other officers. He stepped in it. Then there was the denouncement of the Helm affair. Admiral Turner found Helms very defensive when they met. Little wo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 51:03
Ted Shackley carried_out_attack
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“However, when one considers the powerful agency like the CIA seeks to control what you think, what actions you take, what their desirable ends are, and are even willing to go so far as to stage what Ted Shackley called paramilitary action, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 45:54
Ted Shackley recruited
Zbigniew Brzezinski host_asserted
“In 1960, when Shackley had came back from the Berlin operating base, Bob, after having been beaten out of the base chief's job, he returned to the CIA headquarters, banished to the East European Division. One of his small pleasures was to r…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 38:05
Ted Shackley spied_on
Zbigniew Brzezinski host_asserted
“Decades later, they were not old friends talking about their best day, said Robert Crowley. It was a control officer talking to his agent. So Shackley was Brzezinski's handler. In this instance, the agent happened to be the president's top …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 38:33
Ted Shackley trafficked
Laos host_asserted
“Ted Shackley was a central figure in the American-controlled Laotian drug business. And yes, he was. And later had been considered as a candidate to be the CIA director. He was also later discovered to be a key player, of course, in the Ira…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 9 @ 53:14
Ted Shackley headed
CIA book_quoted
“The CIA's best defense? It was not set up an assassination unit, even though that's what it quickly became. In December 1968, Shackley took over as chief of CIA station in Saigon, and it was under his tenure the worst of the Phoenix program…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 13:02
Ted Shackley headed
CIA book_quoted
“In the event of any trouble, he would flip it open and duck his head inside. Unquote. It had been 16 years since Shackley had first joined the agency from being humiliated by the Soviets with the fantasy of a rebel Polish army losing and th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 14:00
Ted Shackley headed
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“That the CIA has done this for the last 70 plus years and not a single word gets said about it. So it goes on to say the Phoenix program is thus seen not as an aberration, but as an example of the way the CIA works. Shackley left Vietnam in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 33:58
Stansfield Turner removed_from_power
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“Some members of Congress grumbled that the CIA needed to be reined in, but the bastards aren't going to do it. Shackley had once dreamed of becoming the CIA director, but as the agency went under greater scrutiny, his chances were vanished.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 36:25
Ted Shackley member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“Shackley was able to structure his own retirement in 1980 so that it appeared that he had gone to work for Klein's in Ed Wilson's old company. This gave Shackley deniability when the FBI asked him about activities outside of what he had con…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 22:23
United States Intelligence Agency spied_on
Ted Shackley documented
“and for the Army intelligence, but also that he was reporting to his Army intelligence, hold on, reporting to his Army intelligence control everything that he was told by Wilson. That material, in turn, was being disseminated to Shackley an…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 32:23
Ted Shackley member_of
CIA documented
“At the Miami station, the situation was very confusing. Ted Shackley had seen a stream of orders for more than a week. His exile teams were on edge. Felix Rodriguez, for example, had been accosted by case officer Thomas Clines and asked to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 23:05
Ted Shackley proposed
Operation Mongoose documented
“Believe fluctuations in go and stop orders over past seven days have been such that we are sitting on explosive human situation, which could blow at any time within the next 48 hours. The station chief reminded the headquarters that his 50 …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 23:56
Ted Shackley front_for
Commandos Mambises documented
“Actually, the raids gave the CIA good cover for its own activities. In the Magic City, Shackley invented a phony Cuban exile group, Commandos Mambas, to take credit for the CIA raids. With Deputy David Morales and paramilitary officer Bob S…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 51:01
Ted Shackley carried_out_attack
Cuba documented
“On August 18 and 19, gunboats struck one of Cuba's oil facilities. Desmond Fitzgerald has specifically made Castilla one of the targets, which showed that they had the set of targets from the CIA that they were using for this supposed group…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 51:30
Ted Shackley spied_on
Secret War in Laos documented
“He encouraged the CIA to tell its story and listen to the Armed Services Committee on October 5th, 1967, when Ted Shackley talked for two hours about where fighting took place and how much it cost. The CIA put soldiers on Laotian battlefiel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (32) @ 36:16
William Colby mentored
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“when he was suicided in his Mercedes down in Australia. Colby was the attorney, the staff attorney for Nugent Hand Bank. So Colby clearly looked at Shackley as a future director at some point in the future and basically had been mentoring h…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 4:56
Ted Shackley attempted_coup_against
James Jesus Angleton book_quoted
“because they're money laundering this entire time through the Vatican. And Angleton is the one that handled both of those accounts. Over the years, he had built up a very productive and close relationship with the Israeli intelligence, Moss…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 20:08
Ted Shackley founded
Theodore Shackley and Associates host_asserted
“Theodore Shackley and Associates and several other front companies, which he used as a cover for his work with Bush. For the first time in his life, he was making large amounts of money. With Wilson locked away for the next 52 years, there …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 44:29
Ted Shackley laundered_money_for
M-Fund host_asserted
“of hiding the access to it, like the Ted Shackley's, the Paul Hellywell's, those were all involved in laundering the gold. They created the M Fund and two other funds that basically stashed this gold in banks. And even the people that legit…”
▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 1:40:31
George H.W. Bush funded
Ted Shackley host_asserted
“I was supposed to be Carlucy's boss, but I soon found out who was the actual boss. Carlucy was answering to a higher authority, and I didn't even know it. In the early 1980s, George Bush helped Shackley get established in Kuwait and in the …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 44:05
Ted Shackley supplied_arms_to
Iran book_quoted
“which of course it did. Shackley's proposed deal, which might involve a weapon, a transfer of weapons to the Iranians in return for the release of the Hezbollah hostages, as well as possible cash payment, did not meet with enthusiasm at the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 14:28
Ted Shackley overthrew
Salvador Allende book_quoted
“where they allied themselves with drug-dealing Ving Kao and used his dirty profits to fund a clandestine operation that assassinated over 100,000 civilians in Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand. In Cambodia, it was over a million. The results of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 25:46
Ted Shackley laundered_money_for
Nugan Hand Bank book_quoted
“They set up a base in Tehran and retained Edwin Wilson to head an assassination program. The secret team banked its drug money at Nugent Hand Bank in Australia. It offered assassination services to Somoza in Nicaragua, the bad guy. The Shac…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 27:35
Ted Shackley met
Menaker Hashimi host_asserted
“So this is November 1984. Shackley met Hashimi at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hamburg. Hashimi introduced him to Gorbanifar. He also was a SAVAK agent and an arms dealer. Gorbanifar opened the three-day negotiation with Shackley by suggesting…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 48:21
George H.W. Bush appointed
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“Naughty was Bush's top deputy. He knew better than to cross the clandestine side where Shackley was firmly ensconced in the CIA. So that it for the material for today. I do want. Oh, my gosh. So.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 35:43
Ted Shackley framed
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“because then it talks about, obviously, what happened with Saddam Hussein, and it goes on and talks a little bit about that. It says Ted Shackley died in December 2002. In his own way, he got away with setting up Ed Wilson. Shackley left be…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 1:19:21
Ted Shackley headed
Operation Mongoose book_quoted
“when the Kennedy administration forced the Soviet Union to withdraw missiles from the island. He also ran Operation Mongoose, an anti-Castro intelligence campaign that had been ordered by Attorney General Robert Kennedy and President JFK's …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 37:14
Ted Shackley attempted_coup_against
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Ted Shackley, obviously, not a good guy. And Ted Shackley was hell-bent on figuring out a way to work around Congress so that when they put the stop on funding Nicaragua, the Contras, and they also prohibited the funding of Angola.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 6:31
Ted Shackley funded
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“Once that was accomplished, Shackley and Saigon Station Chief ran the Phoenix program and financed it with drug money from Vang Pao. And actually, it's the CIA's drug money, not Vang Pao. I understand how they like to make him the villain, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 26:13
Ted Shackley introduced
Alexander Haig host_asserted
“but also in Argentina, because remember, they had a second lodge there, a second P2 lodge in Argentina, which is where Operation Condor gets launched from. So it's very interesting that if Alexander Hegg met Gelley, it would definitely be T…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 23:31
Ted Shackley trained
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“as the guy responsible for Latier's bombing, when in fact, the people that were actually convicted of it was CIA operatives under Ted Shackley, trained by Ted Shackley, that were part of the exile Cuban brigade. So, America was getting sick…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 38:46
George H.W. Bush recruited
Ted Shackley host_asserted
“In fact, the previous CIA director had been a strong supporter of Shackley's and would eventually become vice president and later president, George H.W. Bush, where he would bring Shackley in to troubleshoot the tricky operations that they …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 40:15
Felix Rodriguez trained
Ted Shackley host_asserted
“who was a student of Ted Shackley and a member of the Brigade 2506, which was part of the Cuban exiles. And it was Felix Rodriguez that went to work for Shackley over in Vietnam. It was Felix Rodriguez that went down to Latin America and di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 40:44
Ted Shackley trained
Ronald Reagan book_quoted
“Ted Shackley, who had perfected the use of political organizations like labor unions, PR firms, publishers to carry out intelligence operations overseas, were now affiliated with a political campaign that had no hesitation about being used …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 7:23
Ted Shackley recruited
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“the guy they hired to traffic weapons, who participated in the assassination of the former Chilean ambassador in the United States, which he did not, made that an impossibility. He looked like Shackley was on his own, using his intelligence…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 7:36
Ted Shackley recruited
Robert Keith Gray book_quoted
“used to run spies. Gray, according to Wilson, was already in possession of security clearances to work in the government. Shackley had first gotten to know Gray through Anna Chenault. And Anna Chenault is Claire Chenault, General Claire Che…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 15:28
Ted Shackley ordered_assassination_of
South Vietnam host_asserted
“He, plus a number of Green Berets, were remanded for court-martial. Their defense was the CIA. Shackley and the agency's regional officer, Dean Almey, had demanded the man be killed. Lawyers threatened to subpoena Shackley, Almey, and Richa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 20:40
Ted Shackley member_of
Iran-Contra affair caller_asserted
“Mr. Burkholder Smith, Deputy Station Chief of Mexico City, and his statements. He was taken to Argentina to meet with two Nazis working with the CIA on drugs trade with Theodore Shackley, linked to Iran, Contra, etc. to keep his job in the …”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 2:01:31
Joseph Smith traded_network_to
Ted Shackley caller_asserted
“Mr. Burkholder Smith, Deputy Station Chief of Mexico City, and his statements. He was taken to Argentina to meet with two Nazis working with the CIA on drugs trade with Theodore Shackley, linked to Iran, Contra, etc. to keep his job in the …”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 2:01:31
William Harvey appointed
Ted Shackley host_asserted
“It's all an airtight little package until you realize the CIA and particularly Ted Shackley's boss, William Harvey, was in charge of all the parts of the narrative. It's Harvey who picked Shackley to head the Miami station chief in charge o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 29:50
Ted Shackley headed
CIA host_asserted
“But there was a new war to be fought now, and that was going to be in Vietnam. And Ted Shackley would be at the front and center of that effort as well. One might say he was at the peak of his powers, the ultimate arbiter of life and death …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 54:08
Ted Shackley introduced
Licio Gelli host_asserted
“but also in Argentina, because remember, they had a second lodge there, a second P2 lodge in Argentina, which is where Operation Condor gets launched from. So it's very interesting that if Alexander Hegg met Gelley, it would definitely be T…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 23:31
Ted Shackley founded
EATSCO book_quoted
“which stood for Egyptian American Air Transport and Services Corporation. And ETSCO was an airline just like Air America. And it also entailed like ground ops. So it was a whole package. They could deploy anywhere to support any of their dr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 28:04
Ted Shackley ordered_assassination_of
William Cantrell book_quoted
“His conclusion was that the trio had been eliminated because they had discovered profit skimming going on, which again is exactly what the CIA does. They go in and they set these fake companies up. They get all of these military contracts a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 24:14
Ted Shackley carried_out_attack
LaPenta bombing book_quoted
“but not Pastora. Afterwards, Tony Avergan, A-V-I-R-G-A-N, an American journalist who suffered shrapnel wounds, and his wife, Martha Honey, set out to uncover who plotted the attack. A year later, they produced a book that charged a small gr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 23:50
Ted Shackley member_of
Gehlen Organization host_asserted
“While not directly located in Berlin, it was like the hotbed of the operation. So Shackley's presence there with the stay-behind units is very interesting. During this time, Harvey had witnessed the East Berlin riots, supervised the Berlin …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 32:03
Ted Shackley member_of
Safari Club host_asserted
“and other members of his safari club, which again is an off-book CIA covert operation…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 36:14
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allowed Shackley, Secord, and Von Marbog and Klein to continue their profit-making activities while convincing Casey and Bush that they were doing their individual bidding. Deputy Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci supported Von Marbog and…
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and his relationship with Adem and Shackley to be suspicious. Within a few months of the new Islamic government, assumptions of power in Iran, cross-border attacks and attempts to export religious quote-unquote warriors into Iraq began. The…
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Then the Saudis sucked the U.S. into persuading Iraq to undertake a war in Iran. The Reagan-Bush people wanted to please the Saudi family. I soon found out the reason I was there was to make business deals with Bush's friends. And believe m…
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the skull and bone list with the Richie boy list. Cause I think it's going to be a very interesting comparison there. So that'll be another aspect. Would this be one of like my boy Theodore Shackley? Would he be one of them or is that a lit…
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Yeah, Shackley might have just been the pioneer. I know he was in the first class of the CIA. So, but yeah, they definitely are one of the many different versions of Operation Paperclip is how we exfiltrated it. Yeah. So anyway. All right. …
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what Shackley and Clines and Edwin Wilson was doing as it relates to setting up the network. We left it off in Laos and that they were setting up that whole network. We also talked briefly about Eric von Marbog, M-A-R-B-O-D.…
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The colorful special operations expert, General John Sengleb, who shows up in all of these stories, worked in Laos and Cambodia with Shackley. Under Sengleb, during this period, were Secord and a young Marine named Lieutenant Oliver North. …
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will be with us always. One of his assignments for Shackley was to drop dishwashing soap on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in a rainy season. The CIA had concluded that this would make the trail too slippery for the enemy use. Like most of the CIA's…
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but liked his ramrod straight West Point train professionalism. I thought he was arrogant. He acted like a general when he was a captain, but he was the best officer I ever had. General Singalib ran covert air operations in the entire regio…
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We moved many of them down to the Delta and we did not provide for them. We began carpet bombing with B-52s, essentially destroying very ancient cultures. Unquote. By 1967, Mike Hand was the back man between the opium warlords and the banki…
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used the Royal Thai Military Bank, a connection to set up Paul Helliwell's banks to launder the money, kicking back a percentage to fund the Thai officers already under CIA control. And that's where you come up with the $35 million that eve…
▶ 24:34
to provide loans, jobs, and sources of cash to keep the Thai military establishment happy. High Thai officials would exert influence on the bank in respects to loans, Shackley said, and also said a brother of a high official could go to the…
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Although the war was lost, Ted Shackley's boss, William Colby, considered his performance in Laos excellent. And it was because their entire purpose of being there and slaughtering tens of thousands of Americans and almost a million Vietnam…
▶ 27:26
was to get the drugs out of there. It had nothing to do with national security, a domino effect, or anything else. Victor Marchetti, who was at the time an up-and-coming CIA executive, said, quote, we were officially spending $27 million a …
▶ 1:17:32
So on April 10th, the CIA directed at Santiago Station to begin accelerating the efforts against the military target. Three weeks later, the chief of the agency's Western Hemisphere Division, Theodore Shackley, who is in every one of these …
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of hiding the access to it, like the Ted Shackley's, the Paul Hellywell's, those were all involved in laundering the gold. They created the M Fund and two other funds that basically stashed this gold in banks. And even the people that legit…
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was undertaken to keep secret a CIA drug smuggling network ran by Ted Shackley out of Lebanon. And just that you guys know, that had to do with some crazy coded suitcase thing that they had these young Libyans who thought they were transpor…
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It was a big year for Ted Shackley and his colleagues that had created the Private Enterprise Intelligence Network. Shackley believed that Slatter, which is Edwin Wilson's buddy, could be turned into another Edwin Wilson and that Wilson bas…
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The use of Doug Schlachter by Shackley and Clines reveals the kind of poor judgment that had haunted Shackley's operation for years. Mike Pilgrim, said Wilson, was expert at recruiting talent for his businesses and using them within their o…
▶ 6:30
Mount Airy in the spring of 1978. Shackley spoke seriously of how the agency was being destroyed by Carter and Turner and how the only hope they had was to take things private outside of the CIA. Wilson said Shackley was convinced that unde…
▶ 6:56
And I knew that Shackley and Klein were meeting with Bush. Now, keep in mind that Bush ran against Reagan in the primary in 1980. Shackley suggested to Wilson that if he was willing to back a private company that would allow covert operatio…
▶ 7:27
He reminded me that under Bush, when he was the director of the CIA, that I was not a target of any grand jury investigation. But since the time of Lettier's publicity, that I had been a constant target. And Lettier, remember, is the guy th…
▶ 8:26
got any shipping business that came out of it. Wilson told Shackley that he wanted one more thing. Tom Clines is my good friend. I don't mind being in the trenches with him, but he has no head for business. If I put up any money, I want to …
▶ 9:25
which now amounted to more than $30 million in contracts, which while Wilson worked in Libya, more and more of his operations were taken over by Klein under a guy by the name of Don Lowers, L-O-W-E-R-S, management. Wilson's inability to man…
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Wilson moved the company into his townhouse and put Lowers in charge of it. Prior to his incarceration in Ohio on security fraud, Lower had been in the intelligence business. He had been with the Army counterintelligence. The combination of…
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He bought that for me and went into partnership with Lowers and Slatter. It didn't last very long. Whatever this guy, meaning Livingstone, knows about security, he knows about it by reading about it. He's never been involved in it on the fr…
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He was probably the world's worst businessman. Neal's job was to come in and teach him and Joe Collins how to run a business. Neal, if nothing else, was a hustler and a hell of a businessman. Livingstone rarely saw Wilson, but he said that …
▶ 24:06
Livingstone, Shackley and Clines had complete access to all of the security planning for Sadat through the office files, meaning the CIA files. A lot went on that Edwin Wilson didn't know, but Shackley had access as well as Clines. So Shack…
▶ 31:48
and von Marbog were his business associates. Wilson recalled what he had told them. Quote, look, you guys, between you, Shackley, and Secord, you know every head of government, every intelligence chief, and every minister of defense in the …
▶ 32:47
deal. When that's away, you start back and then all of the balls can remain in the air. He's talking about the deal that he was working on for the security. And basically he went on to say that Wilson, Wilson went on to say that having Shac…
▶ 4:42
which again is not true. But Kissinger, with Ted Shackley's help, had recruited the Pentagon to help carry out the overthrow of Allende. And again, pay attention to the CIA deflecting their activity onto others. The thrust here. So the CIA …
▶ 6:15
to handle communications between Kissinger and the Communist China. Moore had not been made privy to any of these Task Force 157 communications. Shackley and Clines also wanted to know more about 157. Normally, the CIA and the National Secu…
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He became very valuable to the CIA because he was available for operations and because he was not financially dependent on the agency. That's the whole purpose. For Shackley and Clines, he would become the key element in creating a private …
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basically developed his entire career. Thanks to Quintero, Clines, and Shackley, they were dining out on Wilson's and the Navy's efforts, giving Wilson little or no credit. In 1973, Clines also brought Cuban exile Felix Rodriguez to Wilson'…
▶ 28:36
Clines and Shackley, Von Marbog, and Secord agreed to help the secret police because Wilson wanted to keep Savak happy. They made it easy for him to do business in Iran. He assisted the Savak, the Shah's torturers, from 1974 to 1977. Well, …
▶ 29:02
He taught the Savak how to intercept opposition radio communications and how to use surveillance equipment. As the trust built between Wilson and the Savak, he flew back and forth to the U.S. to report on his activities to Shackley and Klei…
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in the West End section of Washington, D.C., and to accommodate his growing business. Wilson began offering scores of retired generals, admirals, and other military officers support and backing in exchange for half of the profits that they …
▶ 34:12
in a future chapter and what they do to him because it's crazy. It was during this same period that Shackley and his wife began socializing with the Wilsons like a lot. Although Wilson had been a low-level CIA employee, not the kind of pers…
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But Wilson's beautiful mansion and farm attracted very powerful people to include a lot of congresspeople. Wilson also provided a convenient front for Shackley and Clines to hide operatives and run operations without consulting their superi…
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Paisley was consistently snooping around the CIA using an unescorted visitor's badge. Paisley called an old colleague in the Soviet division and even in Shackley's directorate of operations. He had people nervous. Soviet division officials,…
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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…
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That is precisely why Adam did business with the private enterprise version of the CIA. For Kamal, trust is everything. He had to have a leader in the U.S. that could be trusted. Bush was his friend. Jimmy Carter was not. The ties between A…
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While Israeli intelligence had enjoyed an excellent secret relationship with Adom over many, many years, the Israelis had been much more comfortable with the Israeli-Saudi-American triangle as long as James Jesus Angleton was the American p…
▶ 26:29
most of which he deferred until Iraq could better afford to pay him. Adem understood the level of talent available through Shackley's private network. In cooperation with the Israelis and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Adem led a strange profit-ma…
▶ 27:56
basically come out against the Zionists in Israel. So the entire Middle East became a balancing act. Adem fighting the fundamentalists through the Iraqi surrogates in the Iran-Iraq war and tying up Moscow in Afghanistan by assisting the Muj…
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And no one ever volunteered the information. No one told Carter that the U.S. ambassador to Iran, William Sullivan, who was publicly criticizing Carter's policy in Iran, had been the ambassador to Laos while Ted Shackler was running the sec…
▶ 35:44
Holy shit, these people are crazy. Carter had no way of knowing that Sullivan and Shackley shared a series of secrets that went back to include covering up all of their drug trafficking from Laos. According to William Corson, more than 100 …
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that no one was fighting in Laos. Corson said that the policy of lying about where soldiers had actually been captured or killed had begun under the Johnson administration and intensified under Nixon's administration. Corson believed that t…
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Quote, these men would betray a comrade in arms in the name of policy. To betray a sitting president they did not particularly like was in many ways for them a much lesser matter, unquote. Shackley was prepared to use every resource, every …
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The answer would lie in the possibility that there was more to Brzezinski than what he was inclined to portray. Brzezinski had been a CIA asset while a graduate student at Columbia University in the 1960s. Furthermore, he had kept up his re…
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In 1960, when Shackley had came back from the Berlin operating base, Bob, after having been beaten out of the base chief's job, he returned to the CIA headquarters, banished to the East European Division. One of his small pleasures was to r…
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Decades later, they were not old friends talking about their best day, said Robert Crowley. It was a control officer talking to his agent. So Shackley was Brzezinski's handler. In this instance, the agent happened to be the president's top …
▶ 39:34
Do you see how this whole thing works? And who does the CIA report to? The National Security Advisor. So the CIA hires their own boss. And their National Security Advisor has a CIA handler. Nothing's new. Shackley was finally in a position …
▶ 7:23
Ted Shackley, who had perfected the use of political organizations like labor unions, PR firms, publishers to carry out intelligence operations overseas, were now affiliated with a political campaign that had no hesitation about being used …
▶ 7:55
for the Reagan and Bush campaign. The hidden link between Reagan and Bush campaign and the private network was the businesses that Wilson had financed, like International Research and Trade, IRT. Clines, with Shackley's help, had successful…
▶ 20:04
and Shackley's associates would be the hallmark of the private intelligence operation throughout the Reagan-Bush administration. Instead of working through CIA stations abroad and spying and covert operations that would be done in a normal …
▶ 20:34
organizations all over the world, to include the church. Throughout the 1980s presidential campaign, the FBI continued to investigate Wilson. Shackley was a cooperating source of information. I bet he was, because he's the one setting him u…
▶ 20:59
to the CIA since the early 70s, which of course we've proven throughout this entire thing, that's a false statement. The FBI agents asked Shackley vague questions and then timidly asked him to take a lie detector. Shackley refused to do tha…
▶ 21:26
This was the same Ted Shackley who in Vietnam had had no hesitation in issuing an order to kill a suspected enemy agent who had failed a eye detector test. Peter Kapusta, who was a counterintelligence officer in the Soviet division of the C…
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when he's going to kill the people who were taking it. But he says to the FBI agent that in his opinion, they were not reliable. So they're reliable to kill people when he has the gun, but when it involves him and his credibility, they're n…
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Shackley was able to structure his own retirement in 1980 so that it appeared that he had gone to work for Klein's in Ed Wilson's old company. This gave Shackley deniability when the FBI asked him about activities outside of what he had con…
▶ 22:53
He also told the Bureau that he did not want to get involved in any activity that involved materials that went bang or boom. Sure. It was not until 1983 that Shackley was even mildly questioned about working at Eatsco. More than a year afte…
▶ 23:23
though he was present at every meeting about Itzko. When the FBI confronted him with the allegation that he was one of the original partners, Shackley responded very carefully. According to his FBI 302, this is a quote. At this point in the…
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and Dick Secord had allegedly formed a business group of which each would have 20% interest, with Wilson providing funding, Von Marbog and Secord being silent partners, and Klein and Shackley being out front individuals regarding the busine…
▶ 24:20
He was aware that Tom Clines got a loan for a company called Arcadia Limited and that Ed Wilson assisted Clines in getting the loan. He did not know who the principals were, according to him. And he said that at the time, he was not concern…
▶ 24:51
and consultant at SSI, the API Distributors Incorporated, and in International Research and Trade. Those are the names of all those companies. It goes on to say, Shackley denied having a 20% interest in any business association with Wilson,…
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when IRT was formed, he was interested in it, but he had decided not to participate in its formation, according to the 302. Then Shackley told the FBI agent something a little closer to the truth. Quote, Shackley said he was an office manag…
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He said that if all of these companies did well, he expected to be compensated accordingly. However, there was no formula that does, quote unquote, 20 percent, unquote. Shackley confirmed to the Bureau that he was aware that the seed money …
▶ 26:15
Scores of witnesses such as Clines, Capucci, Secord, von Marburg all told the FBI that Shackley was the boss, not even just an equal partner. He was in charge. As for Wilson, the man who underplayed all of these people, his long run of good…
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On the home front, he was being told that the companies in which he had invested simply were not making money any longer and that he could not be paid back. Klein kept lying to me. He said nothing was panning out, Wilson said. Meanwhile, as…
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They literally fenced up the press, tried to get me killed down there. They really did. So he had an assassination attempt put out on him. So they really, really didn't want to pay it back. Wilson was referring to a series of stories leaked…
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that had a bomb put in his car by who? The CIA. Wilson also had a personal reason to try to find the two fugitives. If they were found and convicted, that might stop the rumors planted by Shackley that Wilson himself was behind the murders.…
▶ 32:23
and for the Army intelligence, but also that he was reporting to his Army intelligence, hold on, reporting to his Army intelligence control everything that he was told by Wilson. That material, in turn, was being disseminated to Shackley an…
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This starts out with President Nixon's appointment of William Colby in September of 1973 as the new CIA director. And about him, let's see, and his relationship with Ted Shackley and all of the associates from Vietnam and Laos, which includ…
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when he was suicided in his Mercedes down in Australia. Colby was the attorney, the staff attorney for Nugent Hand Bank. So Colby clearly looked at Shackley as a future director at some point in the future and basically had been mentoring h…
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Shackley's job as head of the Far East Division included taking care of his friends from Vietnam and Laos. What made it possible was the collapse of Paul Helliwell's banking empire in the Bahamas, and that would be the Castle Bank. In 1973,…
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So by the early 1970s, the CIA needed another bank. And we know that that ended up being Nugent Hand and BCCI. Shackley and Colby turned to two of their Laos colleagues, Houghton and Hand. Nugent Hand Bank was established in 1973 in Austral…
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James Angleton said before his death that Colby destroyed counterintelligence, but because Colby was seen by Shackley and Helms as having betrayed the CIA to Congress, they simply began working with outsiders like Adam and Saudi Arabia. The…
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with actual CIA agents. And the book goes on and says, Colby's reliance on Shackley to cover up leftover embarrassments from Chile to the Vietnam War was in direct conflict with the spirit of openness. He was displaying for a growing number…
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asking him to investigate high U.S. officials for crimes concerning Chile. Levi, a highly moral man, at once sent the Corey letter to the criminal division of the Justice Department. The result, the CIA was turned upside down. Corey's lette…
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because they're money laundering this entire time through the Vatican. And Angleton is the one that handled both of those accounts. Over the years, he had built up a very productive and close relationship with the Israeli intelligence, Moss…
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more trustworthy than Angleton and that he could feel the shoes of Angleton. Angleton says, as far as I know, these overtures were never authorized. After Colby fired Angleton in 1974, it took Angleton nine months to clean out his desk. Nin…
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Why did Bush ask for this assignment? He had no history of any interest in Asia. One possibility is that in return for information from them, he was willing to help out his old friends in the CIA. The Directorate of Operations was desperate…
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The British-born Fitzgerald enjoyed complete access to Bush. Before the Beijing assignment, she frequently traveled with him without his wife. According to both U.S. and Chinese intelligence sources, the relationship was discussed by the Ch…
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After they arrived, neither senator wanted to examine the files. In the end, they didn't even look at the material. As a result of incidents like this, the much-vaulted church committee investigation essentially accomplished not much. But w…
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And oddly, Bush picked Wells without consulting anyone inside the CIA. Wells was probably the worst choice to be Shackley's boss. Many in the agency considered him not to even be a serious man. Robert Crowley summed it up best. When you thi…
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Shackley had denigrated the legend of Bill Harvey, his mentor, to Robert Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Harvey's CIA career was destroyed. Now, according to Robert Crowley, Wells was getting the same treatment Shackley had given 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 that seemed to make people feel pretty good. So he was beginning to earn trust. He knew that it was the kind of an organization doing the kind of things that very often times backfired and caused embarrassment, not only to him, but to t…
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Naughty was Bush's top deputy. He knew better than to cross the clandestine side where Shackley was firmly ensconced in the CIA. So that it for the material for today. I do want. Oh, my gosh. So.…
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I'm not going to cover it extensively, but I am going to make some observations for you. Ted Shackley was involved in this. He was also a member of the Safari Club. And I also don't think that it's a coincidence that Apple's search browser …
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I want to label some of the entities that, well, let me give you a little bit about Shackley for those who may be new. He basically is the one that helped Paul Helliwell set up the heroin network in Vietnam. He oversaw the Operation Phoenix…
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throughout Vietnam via liquidation. And he also was one of the leading figures in the Nugent Hand Bank, which we've talked about repeatedly. He oversaw billions of dollars being deposited in the Australian bank for laundering purposes. He w…
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And he helped them train to set up the death squads. He also worked in Chile with Stefano Dali Chiesi, who was the one responsible for the murder of Salvador Allende. So this guy is basically one-stop shopping, Operation Gladio. Shackley al…
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setting up subsidiaries of main CIA fronts to hide the drug trade. He worked directly with Edwin Wilson, who we covered extensively. Edwin Wilson was an arms dealer that had dealt with Libya and Iraq. One of the front companies that Shackle…
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was called Lake Resources, Inc. He also set up Stanford Technology Trading Group, Inc., and a fiduciary French company called C-O-M-P-A-G-N-I D-Services. Another one was C-S-F Investments Limited, Udall.…
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After leaving the CIA in 1979, Shackley formed Research Associates International, which specialized in, basically, it was a way to, because in 79, keep in mind, that's when Jimmy Carter was cleaning out the CIA. This is one of those CIA fro…
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Yeah, no, no. Thanks for that. That's a great clarification. And I'm glad you made that distinction because I think it's really important when discussing the sort of wider, broader use of strategy of tension, stay behind units further into …
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who was pivotal to reforging ties with the Mossad in the wake of the 1956 and sorry, I think the 70 war. And after the sort of Watergate scandal, there was this kind of like retraction of like all these other broader alliances. And Shackley…
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And he goes on to explain this is how he ended up on the good side of the CIA. Because during this lawsuit, they actually named Richard Secord, who was in the Iran-Contra story, and Ted Shackley, who is in every story. And basically...…
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covert operations and missions. So, like, you learn all these things that most people don't even know ever happened. Like, people like Ted Shackley at the CIA or Stefano Della Chiai, this Italian guy that, like, first he went to Spain, like…
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Ted Shackley, obviously, not a good guy. And Ted Shackley was hell-bent on figuring out a way to work around Congress so that when they put the stop on funding Nicaragua, the Contras, and they also prohibited the funding of Angola.…
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through this operation. Through the 1980s, the number of people carrying the administrative water grew and the scope of their efforts reached around the world. With the expansion, Casey and Bush became even more reliant on Shackley and his …
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The old line veterans at the CIA were shocked to see men like Shackley and Klein being welcomed into Casey's inner circle. Shackley and his partner now had their tentacles throughout the foreign policy side of the administration. Shackley a…
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R-O-S-S-O-T-T-I, was the lawyer Tom Clines hired to organize his company called International Research and Trade, the company that had originally been funded by Ed Wilson and Ted Shackley organized, which became Eatsco. So basically, she's …
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This betrayal occurred incrementally. Fred Dick, the BNDD agent assigned to Saigon, passed the names of the complicit military officers to the White House. But as Dick recalled, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker called a meeting in Saigon at whic…
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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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narcotic trafficking, not anti-narcotic trafficking, just to be clear. Bolton directed the CIA's division and station chiefs, and in doing so, he worked closely with Ted Shackley, you know, the guy supplying it all, who in 1972 was appointe…
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post-World War II in Germany. They also worked together in the Cuban exile community in Miami during the Bay of Pigs. Later, it was said that Bolton screwed us, according to the BNDD's Latin American division chief, and so did Shackley. Wel…
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She's going hunting. She found another buck that she wants. So she may or may not be talking. She may or may not be in a tree stand. All right, SR, what you got? Oh, I'm finding a whole bunch of stuff, Colonel. Amazing how Shackley shows up…
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and checking IDs in and out of the village so you can control every aspect of their life. That's what they're talking about here. Counterinsurgency doctrine recognized that political and economic and social reform could be the foundation of…
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has become a common practice in regions of drug trafficking. The operations of these private defense contractors in the counterinsurgency strategy in Colombia are crucial for corporations. Theodore Shackley, a former CIA operative, wrote in…
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you know, by, you know, authors like, you know, Dulles and Ted Shackley, he'll use their books and then he'll cite, he'll quote the words back to them. Yes. And to say, okay, this is how far you guys are willing to admit. You guys are force…
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An ex-CIA agent who is now in prison charged with selling 20 tons of C4 explosives to Libya. He was set up, by the way, by the CIA because they wanted his company. Some of Wilson's closest associates were CIA officials Thomas Klein and Theo…
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In the late 1970s, Wilson put up half a million dollars to front Klein's half ownership in the Egypt American Transport Services, ETSCO. We've done shows on ETSCO before. Which won the contract to transport billions of dollars worth of Amer…
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The company was later convicted of overbilling the Pentagon for $8 million. In 1990, Clines was convicted of income tax fraud involving payments received for arms shipments to the Contras. Clines had been brought in by Secord to handle arms…
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under George Bush and was even mentioned as a possible future CIA director. In 1984, Shackley participated in some meetings with Iranians regarding the release of the terrorist hostages. Commercial helicopters was started by Haynes and Ross…
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Helicopters Guatemala instructed him to transport a helicopter owned by the company from New Orleans to commercial helicopters facility in Lafayette and then ship it to Guatemala along with an engine belonging to them. Jenkins had other con…
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after which Tom Clines became Quintero's case officer. Shackley and Clines boss and headed up the CIA's Miami station after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He was also involved in the CIA's use of mafia to try to assassinate Castro. Jenkins also …
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Air America. During that time, Shackley, Secord, and Clines were all involved in the CIA drug operations in that area. Also working with these individuals in that theater was General John Siegel, a Marine officer, along with Oliver North. O…