Howard Bane person
also: Howard Bain, Bain
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And for eight months there, there was no U.S. ambassador. Station Chief Howard Bain, B-A-N-E, had him much freer hand. He proposed the CIA sponsor a coup. The views of African Division Chief Glenn Fields are not known. But he began, he was …
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And his deputy, John Waller, had made his mark in the 1953 CIA coup in Iran. So the whole thing is filled with coup guys. So what? Bain thought it was short-sighted, as a colleague later put it. He had no patience for what was going on. How…
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A knuckle-dragger in Korea, he had run a net to rescue downed flyers. In India, he had been a backstop to the Tibet Project, which we've already talked about, which was an insurgent into Tibet to create stay-behind units. He also had been i…
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Bain took advantage of his instructions to keep a close watch on Ghana military. With a complement of various case officers, at one point, there were 36 case officers. A few winks and a nod from Bain with U.S. support to Ghana soldiers with…
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There were not that many to convince. Bain had time to suggest that Langley send a few officers from the Special Operations Division, the coup machine, who could not only shore up the expression of support, but use the coup to get documents…
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headquarters was all supportive. But in mid-January of 1966, Bain reported that a rash of coups elsewhere in Africa had basically scared off the Ghana officers. And on February 17th, there was concrete indications of a plot called Operation…