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“in the Cold War against communism. Mr. Shackley was the subject of the book Blonde Ghost, published by Simon & Schuster in 1994. The author, David Korn, described Mr. Shackley as one of the CIA's best and brightest, a good bet to become dir…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 34:48
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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…
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From the book, Blonde Ghost, Ted Shackley and the Crusades of the CIA, quote, the Iran initiative quickly developed its own momentum. The arms sale to Iran, at first a one-shot deal, would snowball into an 18-month-long project. It would be…
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to NATO. That original trainer was Otto Skorzeny. But even the author of the most detailed account of Shackley's life admits that there are mysteries about Shackley that we'll never know. In the epilogue to Blonde Ghost, here's a quote. The…
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in the Cold War against communism. Mr. Shackley was the subject of the book Blonde Ghost, published by Simon & Schuster in 1994. The author, David Korn, described Mr. Shackley as one of the CIA's best and brightest, a good bet to become dir…
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is that they were partners in the endeavor and they're managing it still to keep the secret. Shifting gears here, let's turn our examination of Ted Shackley and what the CIA Miami station was doing just prior to and just after the Kennedy a…