Robert Dutton person
also: Colonel Robert Dutton, Dutton
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“Vought's chief operations planner, Colonel Robert Dutton, had three distinguished flying crosses for his operations in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Dutton had served under Secord in Iran, too. So this is like old home week. The Joint Ta…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 6:35
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▶ 6:35
Vought's chief operations planner, Colonel Robert Dutton, had three distinguished flying crosses for his operations in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Dutton had served under Secord in Iran, too. So this is like old home week. The Joint Ta…
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The Honey Badger Force stood ready from August 1980. Whenever there was a fair consensus on the intelligence picture, Dutton and the operations staff put together a new plan. General Watt's forces conducted at least six major exercises rehe…
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job, but by the spring of 86, he was pretty burnt out. Secord was doubly pleased at this time, therefore, to hear that his friend, Colonel Robert Dutton, had retired from the Air Force. Secord had served with him during the Iran hostage mis…
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Secord spoke of a legal situation at their very first encounter, handing Dutton a copy of the Brenton Sarconi's sanitized opinion, which Secord considered sufficient lawyering to satisfy him. He told his manager to avoid violating the Neutr…
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Dutton immediately went to El Salvador to meet the people, see the equipment, carrying the legal opinion under his arm. There, he reviewed ground rules with the crews. He emphasized William Cooper's role as air boss and restricted Rafael Qu…
▶ 57:07
The air crews sent mission reports to Dutton, who passed them to Secord and North, whom he saw as co-commanders of the operation. By June, Secord considered Rodriguez, the project's biggest enemy, a leak waiting to happen. When TV reporters…
▶ 58:34
Bill Cooper, Calero, Quintero, and Rodriguez also had no security clearances. But they were all using this classified encryption machine without authorization. Beyond the use of secret encoding devices, there was many ways in which the U.S.…
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May 21st, Quintero informed Dutton that the CIA officers were saying that they could not talk to Secord's people at all. That applied to Bill Cooper's crew and presumably enjoined CIA Joe Fernandez from helping. Secord went to North, who fo…