David Shackley person
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The Frankenstein monster that Shackley and his colleagues had helped create came home with a terrible vengeance when Virgilio Pablo Paz and Suarez, directed by an American named Michael Vernon Townley, planted a bomb in the undercarriage of…
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The Lettier murder could not have happened at a worse time for Shackley, Clines, and the operations directorate at the CIA. Attorney General Levi's bloodhounds set on the trail of Ambassador Corey were already pressing the CIA to produce do…
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Now that the FBI opened an investigation into the Chilean ambassador's bombing and murder, Shackley believed Bush would protect him. Bush's CIA history and personal life were well known in detail by Shackley, and Shackley had continued to u…
▶ 41:36
Bush apparently had become a captive of Shackley's and his blackmail. The details of the events preceding the Lettier and Moffitt murders demonstrated how and why. On July 26, 1976, eight weeks before the murders, the U.S. ambassador in Par…
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who, for operational reasons, needed to travel to the United States, but were going to be using Paraguayan documents. In other words, false documents. So the U.S. ambassador in Paraguay got a request from the president in Paraguay that he i…
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Ambassador George Landau considered the request extraordinary. The CIA station chief immediately notified Shackley's office. Did Shackley contact Colonel Contreras at Dena to find out why the Chileans were sneaking operatives into the U.S.?…
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The ambassador complied with the Chilean request because he was assured by the Paraguayan government that the two agents would be meeting with top CIA officials once they got to Washington, D.C. Because Landau was uncomfortable with the ent…
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After he did it? Sure. Landau's cable to the CIA went directly to George Bush, who asked Shackley to review it. Valuable time passed while Shackley sat on it. Finally, on August 4th, Bush cabled Landau that the CIA wanted nothing to do with…
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They even had the Chilean embassy notify the CIA that they had arrived in Washington. In the huge investigation that followed the murders, the CIA argued that it had done nothing to further the suspicion of Dina. But equally, and more to th…
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So this is kind of their modus operandi, if you will. This is the plausible deniability. They know exactly what's going on. They know that Chile is sneaking operatives into the United States because they do it in reverse. They do this exact…
▶ 45:04
which still allows plausible deniability. A week after the murders, Robert Shearer, S-C-H-E-R-E-R, an FBI legal attache in Latin America, cabled the CIA and the Departments of State and Justice, notifying them that he had discovered Operati…
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about CIA cooperation in the recent murder probe. But Bush did not turn over any of those files. It took the Department of Justice until 1978. 78. That's two years later. And this is all going on during the Jimmy Carter administration, by t…
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Instead, Bush defended Dena against the accusations that it had conducted the assassinations. Bush briefed Secretary of State Kissinger, telling him that he believed Dena was innocent of any role in the plot, even though, keep in mind, he k…