John Stockwell on the CIA Training Terrorists

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Theodore G. "Ted" Shackley, Jr. (July 16, 1927 - December 9, 2002) was an American CIA officer involved in many important and controversial CIA operations during the 1960s and 1970s.He is widely regarded one of the most decorated CIA officers. He was commonly known as the "Blond Ghost" due to his dislike of being photographed. Some reports on the internet claim that he was called Blond Ghost because of the deaths he caused in his initial station postings.

Shackley's work included being station chief in Miami in the early 1960s during the period of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as the Cuban Project (also known as Operation Mongoose), which he directed. He was also said to be the director of the controversial "Phoenix Program" during the Vietnam War, as well as the CIA station chief in Laos between 1966-1968, and Saigon station chief from 1968 through February 1972. In 1976, he was appointed Associate Deputy Director for Operations, and was in charge of the CIA's worldwide covert operations.

Shackley is perhaps best known for his involvement in numerous CIA "Black operations," such as "Phoenix" and "Mongoose," as well as his alleged involvement in other operations.

Shackley was station chief in Miami, Florida during the period of (1962 - 1965). While heading the CIA office (known as "JMWAVE") shortly after the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Shackley dealt with operations in Cuba (alongside Edward Lansdale). JMWAVE employed more than 200 CIA officers, who handled approximately 2,000 Cuban agents. These included the famous "Operation Mongoose" (aka "The Cuban Project"). The aim of this was to "help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime" (of Fidel Castro Ruz). During this period as Miami Station Chief, Shackley was in charge of around 400 agents and general operatives (as well as a huge flotilla of boats), and his tenure here encompassed the "Cuban Missile Crisis" of October 1962.

In 1966, Shackley moved on to the Vietnam War, becoming the CIA station chief in Laos between 1966-1968, where he directed the CIA's secret war of pitting the Hmong villagers against Vietcong who used the Ho Chi Minh Trail. He also helped coordinate local army efforts against the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese Army in the northern regions of Laos.

He then moved on to become station chief for Vietnam (in what was then Saigon) in 1968. Despite popular opinion Shackley did not in fact run the Phoenix Program. Phoenix was alleged to be an assassination campaign aimed at members of the Viet Cong infrastructure. Allegations that thousands of civilians were killed is not supported by historical evidence. After the US Bureau of Narcotics' "Operation Eagle" busted a drug-running scheme in 1970, several of the Cuban-Americans involved in the Bay of Pigs Invasion came to work for Shackley and Donald Gregg in Vietnam, including Felix Rodriguez. The Phoenix Program was eventually handed over to the U.S. and South Vietnamese armies. Shackley served in Vietnam through February 1972 when he returned to Langley, Virginia.

From 1972, Shackley ran the CIA's "Western Hemisphere Division." One of Shackley's jobs whilst in charge of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division was to discredit ex-CIA officer believed to have become under control of the KGB, Philip Agee who was writing an "expose" on the CIA entitled Inside The Company. After Shackley's best efforts to discredit Agee, the parts of the book that would have caused most damage to the reputation of the CIA were not included.

In May 1976, Shackley was made Deputy Director of Covert Operations, serving under director George H.W. Bush, before officially retiring from the organization in 1979. However, it has been widely reported that in reality he was forced out of the organization by Bush's successor as Director, Stansfield Turner. Turner disapproved of Shackleys close involvement with agent Edwin P. Wilson and ex-CIA employee, Frank Terpil. Wilson was later convicted in 1982 for selling 22 tons of "Composition 4" plastic explosive to Muammar al-Gaddafi's Libya, and also the charge of exporting guns. The conviction on the explosives charge was reversed on October 29, 2003. However, in the midst of this scandal, Shackley was relieved of his deputy directorship in December 1977, and when the Jimmy Carter administration announced wide cuts in the CIA's network of officers and informants, Shackley finally left the organization.

Despite his retirement in 1979, controversy continued to surround Shackley over alleged involvement in the alleged "October Surprise" of 1980, and later the "Iran-Contra" affair of the mid eighties.

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[wizardman42]

terror from the CIA still going on today imagine that

[willingtorisk]

Narcissism always ruins it, because the core values fractures turn into self deceptive tyranny base on notions of perfection, which is a faliure to accept.

The CIA is a malignancy to notions of conscience. You can't get into heaven on earth when your a deciever, it won't work, ever.

[takethepowerback83]

ghaddafi ? .. now we get it.



[peterhyang]

fucking terrorists!

[DimebagVision]

@starmanskye

I'm not an extremest. I'm just telling the truth. I don't follow hyped up conspiracy theories like you do. Sorry. Maybe i should be an annoying little liberal twit and revolt against anything that doesn't fit my liberal view and hold my opinion above the constitution, right?

[starmanskye]

@DimebagVision -- Typical dumbed-down apologist for US crimes & hypocrisy; It's not the CIA's job to stage-manage the overthrow of other nation's officials or interfere in their politics. Extremists like you can & do justify the most foul, horrific abuses -- for actual reasons you don't have the slightest clue about, having NOTHING to do with justice or noble ends, but the product of perverted interests, ego & greed;

[DimebagVision]

@bapyou

Rafael Zelaya is a cunt jizz. Before you bash the CIA, do some research on Rafael Zelaya.

[dilbertgeg]

History Commons search for Rahman shows a photo of Bill Casey with our Pakistan terror proxy.

One of Chossudovsky's 3 stories on "9/11 Analysis" shows Gen. Hamid Gul, director general of Pakistan's (ISI), CIA Director Willian Webster; Deputy Director for Operations Clair George; an ISI colonel; and senior CIA official,

Milt Bearden at a mujahedeen training camp in North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan in 1987. Training and arming terrorists.

[grunt12394]

the cia rules!!!!!

[bapyou]

The CIA's latest ambit: The 2009 overthrow of the government of Rafael Zelaya in Honduras. Documents released via Wikileaks document the CIA as the main agent creating the overthrow.

[themeaningoflife38]

Col Fletcher Prouty claims that General Edward Lansdale was photographed in the 3 tramps photo from Dealey Plaza on 11-22-63.Prouty says Lansdale's specialty was "cover stories" like the one used in the JFK murder.