Jacob Esterlin person
also: Jake Esserling, Jake Esterling, Jacob Esserling
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Claims (6)
Jacob Esterlin headed
Congo Task Force documented
“18 persons were assigned to WH-4 at headquarters, 20 at the Havana station, and two more under diplomatic cover at the U.S. consulate in Cuba. Jacob Esterling became chief of the task force. A Burma OSS veteran, Esterling had graduated from…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 6:29
Jacob Esterlin headed
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état documented
“and Congress forced it to be closed, they just increased and changed the name of the presence at Fort Benning and continued running their operation. Esterling had never had anything to do with Latin America, yet suddenly found himself the d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 8:00
Frank Wisner recruited
Jacob Esterlin documented
“but he didn't get listened to. Then he witnessed a state visit by Fidel Castro and he was widely heralded in Venezuela. Frank Wisner passed through town about then and Esterling told him that if the agency decided to do anything about Castr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 9:05
Jacob Esterlin headed
Operation Mongoose documented
“To get Desmond and avoid the impression that a Far East baron had taken a demotion to lead a task force, the Mongoose unit became a DO special staff. Desmond, simultaneously a deputy chief of a division responsible for Cuban matters. Genera…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 30:35
CIA trained
Jacob Esterlin documented
“He was recalled into service during the Korean conflict. He had been noticed among the names of assignment list by Ray Pierce, who had him seconded to the CIA. The agency used Esterlin at its Fort Benning training camp, then sent him to the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 6:58
Jacob Esterlin member_of
CIA documented
“He was recalled into service during the Korean conflict. He had been noticed among the names of assignment list by Ray Pierce, who had him seconded to the CIA. The agency used Esterlin at its Fort Benning training camp, then sent him to the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 6:58
Mentions (21)
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sending pre-recorded tapes that could be broadcast. Sherwood's radio equipment arrived aboard a late black flight. Meanwhile, the State Department developed cold feet about the direction the U.S. was headed. Jack Esterline of the task force…
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Them saying they don't want to do it because they don't want to stop PB's success. They're going to abandon the people eventually. They're key people. They relocate to the United States. We know that for further use. But they always abandon…
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or making rounds at forward bases, returned to the headquarters for consultations. These meetings were in the deputy director's office. They included Richard Helms, Dick Bissell, Kim Roosevelt, J.C. King, and Jake Esserlin. Wisner hammered …
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18 persons were assigned to WH-4 at headquarters, 20 at the Havana station, and two more under diplomatic cover at the U.S. consulate in Cuba. Jacob Esterling became chief of the task force. A Burma OSS veteran, Esterling had graduated from…
▶ 6:58
He was recalled into service during the Korean conflict. He had been noticed among the names of assignment list by Ray Pierce, who had him seconded to the CIA. The agency used Esterlin at its Fort Benning training camp, then sent him to the…
▶ 8:00
and Congress forced it to be closed, they just increased and changed the name of the presence at Fort Benning and continued running their operation. Esterling had never had anything to do with Latin America, yet suddenly found himself the d…
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where they ran the coup from. Then he went to Venezuela as the station chief. He built networks to control Venezuela. He learned of plans of Venezuelan groups to protest a visit by Richard Nixon and attempted to persuade Washington to cance…
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but he didn't get listened to. Then he witnessed a state visit by Fidel Castro and he was widely heralded in Venezuela. Frank Wisner passed through town about then and Esterling told him that if the agency decided to do anything about Castr…
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Eisenhower listened. Then he said, Alan, this is fine, but if you're going to make any move against Castro, don't just fool around with sugar refineries. Let's get a program that is really going to do something about Castro. Yes, sir, Dulle…
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King also noted that unless the top folks could be eliminated in one package, the operation might draw out, in which Castro could be overthrown by force. The plan crafted by Esterling and Richard Drain envisioned an exile force gathered ove…
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Dulles had his plan. Esterling and Drain prepared a paper. It was a scheme that was revealed on March 14th after the annual review of the 5412 activities. Based on the discussion, there was a quick revision titled, quote, a program of actio…
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The agency estimated it could have an organization up and running in two months. Although Esterling and Drain presented their concept in fair detail, the CIA's budget estimate did not provide for the size of the force that it eventually rea…
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Gray reminded the president of what Allen Dulles had proposed, then reported the current thinking about the timetable and events. Weeks later, with Eisenhower at Newport, Rhode Island, Gray told him of a fresh CIA bid to expand the exile fo…
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whose gambling profits from Havana casinos had disappeared as Castro prohibited the practice. So we've got a motivated player here. Edwards undertook the task. This track of the Cuba operation remained entirely separate from the exile proje…
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that on August 16th, he was asked about a box of Cuban cigars impregnated with lethal chemicals. The cigars were ready by October, but not delivered until four months later. Jake Esterling recalled keeping a box of poison cigars in his safe…
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Though O'Connell and Edwards told the inspector general, money went to Verona for the job. He got paid for it. He just didn't do it. When Jake Esserling learned this, he went through the roof, properly insisting that the anti-Castro leaders…
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as Jacob Esserling had done with Tom Mann in Guatemala when Mann had been the ambassador to El Salvador. But this had been voluntary. After a 1958 interagency study, Eisenhower gave the CIA virtually complete autonomy, directing the ambassa…
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To get Desmond and avoid the impression that a Far East baron had taken a demotion to lead a task force, the Mongoose unit became a DO special staff. Desmond, simultaneously a deputy chief of a division responsible for Cuban matters. Genera…
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As Cuba operations wound down, agency logistics wizard Jim Garrison took Jake Esserling with him on a visit to a secret CIA supply dump in the Midwest. Esserling thought he had better things to do, but Garrison talked him into going on the …
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Said Garrison, you made me buy that. Esterling ended his career in Miami running JM Wave years after Shackley had left. Through the Cuban project, the secret warriors created a cadre of military skills, one that far outlasted the CIA operat…
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Joseph Codwell King's division had formal control over the stations Haney needed to use. King privately thought Project Success was daffy and didn't want some task force poaching on his turf. Haney's deputy, Jacob Esterlin, proved more amen…