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	AlterNet: The Legacy of Theodore Shackley
		Shackley had been one of the agency's top men, the epitome of a Cold War covert bureaucrat.
		Then Shackley was chief of station in Vietnam, where the agency never succeeded in collecting much valuable intelligence on the Viet Cong and where it was involved in the controversial Phoenix program, a supposed intelligence-gathering operation in which U.S.-assisted South Vietnamese units sometimes assassinated rather than apprehended their targets.
		One of the mysteries of Shackley's career (as seen from the outside) was his rapid ascent in the Agency.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=14767 (1704 words)

	Theodore Shackley - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Shackley was raised in West Palm Beach, Florida and in October, 1945, joined the United States Army.
		Then Shackley was chief of station in Vietnam, where the agency never succeeded in collecting much valuable intelligence on the Viet Cong and where it was involved in the controversial Phoenix program, a supposed intelligence- gathering operation in which U.S.-assisted South Vietnamese units sometimes assassinated rather than apprehended their targets.
		Theodore Shackley and his deputy, Tom Clines, were the higher ups of the Iran/Contra scandal --- Shackley handling the Iran arms side and Clines the Contra end.
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Theodore_Shackley (1026 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Theodore Shackley Dies; Celebrated CIA Agent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Theodore G. Shackley, 75, a retired associate deputy director for clandestine operations of the CIA whose career took him from the streets of Berlin to the jungles of Laos and Vietnam, died of cancer Dec. 9 at his home in Bethesda.
		Shackley spent his career on the front lines of the Cold War and he was involved in some of the agency's most important -- and controversial -- operations.
		Shackley also wrote three books on intelligence and security, "The Third Option," "You're the Target," with co-author Robert Oatland, and "Still the Target: Coping with Terror and Crime." He was the subject of a fourth book, "Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades," by David Corn.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A48202-2002Dec12?language=printer (688 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Theodore Shackley
		THEODORE Shackley was a Central Intelligence Agency agent who led US espionage operations behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, masterminded the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile and plotted to assassinate Fidel Castro.
		Shackley’s next assignment was in Laos, where he organised a covert war in which the CIA persuaded Hmong tribesmen to fight the North Vietnamese-backed Pathet Lao.
		Shackley was thrice a recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA’s highest honour; his role in the Iran-Contra affair was deemed to be minor and he was not charged.
	news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=1403402002 (839 words)

	Guardian \| Theodore Shackley
		Ted Shackley, once in charge of the organisation's clandestine operations, has died at the age of 75.
		Shackley left the CIA in 1979 to run his own consulting firm, from where he continued to associate with old colleagues in the arms trade.
		Shackley is survived by his wife Hazel, and their daughter.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4569480-103684,00.html (707 words)

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		In 1968, Theodore Shackley became the chief of station in Laos, and a man by the name of Santos Trafficantes, from Southern Florida, flew to Southeast Asia and met in a hotel in Saigon with Vang Pao.
		In 1969, Theodore Shackley was transferred to become the CIA chief of station in Vietnam, and they established the now infamous Phoenix Program that carried out the political assassination of some 60,000 non-combatant civilians in the country.
		Theodore Shackley was promoted from director of Far East Operations for the CIA, to the assistant deputy director for the CIA.
	www.skepticfiles.org /socialis/sheehan.htm (14062 words)

	Theodore Shackley \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		Shackley's introduction to the intelligence world came in 1945 after the US army discovered he was fluent in Polish (an inheritance from his immigrant grandmother).
		In 1972, Shackley returned to Washington to run the CIA's western hemisphere division, responsible for activities in central and south America.
		Many of those involved in clandestine operations were sacked, and Shackley was sidelined, at least until it emerged he was a close associate of Edwin Wilson, a former spy eventually jailed for arranging illegal arms sales.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,861812,00.html (707 words)

	Theodore Shackley - SourceWatch
		Shackley, whose nickname was the "Blond Ghost" (because he hated to be photographed) became involved in CIA's Black Operations.
		In 1962 Shackley was appointed by William Harvey as deputy chief of JM WAVE, the CIA station in Miami.
		Shackley was a close friend of Edwin Wilson, an ex-CIA agent, who became an arms dealer.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Theodore_Shackley (1047 words)

	Welcome to WorkingForChange
		Shackley went on to become chief of station in Laos and managed a secret war in which U.S.-encouraged tribal forces fought against the North Vietnamese.
		And he was a contender for higher posts in the CIA -- perhaps the director’s chair -- until his hard-to-explain relationship with Edwin Wilson, a CIA-operative-turned-rogue-arms dealer -- who illegally peddled weapons to Libyan dictator Moammar Qadaffi -- hit the headlines.
		Shackley’s station in Vietnam didn’t get the goods on the VC, but he was elevated into the senior management ranks.
	www.workingforchange.com /printitem.cfm?itemid=14238 (1702 words)

	Robert Parry \| Part III: The Original October Surprise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		When Bush was CIA director in 1976, he appointed Shackley to a top clandestine job, associate deputy director for operations, laying the foundation for Shackley's possible rise to director and cementing Shackley's loyalty to Bush.
		Shackley believed that Turner had devastated the CIA by pushing out hundreds of covert officers, many of them Shackley's former subordinates.
		Allen testified that "Shacklee" was Theodore Shackley, the legendary CIA covert operations specialist.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2006/102906C.shtml (8227 words)

	Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the C.I.A. 's Crusades. - book reviews Washington Monthly - Find Articles
		Shackley was a leading Central Intelligence Agency figure from the onset of the Cold War until his semi-compelled retirement when Stansfield Turner purged the agency during the Carter administration, and later, Shackley's name surfaced as a secondary player in the Iran-contra scandal.
		Shackley rose to be the C.I.A.'s associate deputy director and was, in the 1970s, mentioned as a potential future C.I.A. director (insiders make a great show of calling this job by its formal name, "director of central intelligence").
		Ultimately Shackley became the target of the hallucinogenic Christic Institute lawsuit, which drew considerable publicity for claiming Shackley was the evil mastermind of a globe-spanning drug and assassination conspiracy and which was taken in full seriousness by Hollywood trendy cause donors such as Jackson Browne.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n9_v26/ai_15856838 (755 words)

	[CTRL] Art of Deception: CIA/Drugs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In a lawsuit, Shackley was charged with selling Laotian opium to Santo Trafficante and that "in return Shackley's organization received a fixed percentage of the income." In 1968, Shackley met in Saigon with Trafficante, Vang Pao, and Clines, and they set up a heroin smuggling ring to the United States.
		Shackley and Clines set up Operation Phoenix, a program which was designed to "neutralize" or assassinate Vietnamese civilians who were suspected of collaborating with the National Liberation Front (NLF).
		As the war in Vietnam was winding down, Shackley left Southeast Asia in 1972 to head CIA activities in the Western Hemisphere and sent Ed Wilson and Manuel Artime to meet with right-wing dictator Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg44780.html (7975 words)

	Theodore (Ted) Shackley
		Shackley was also responsible for gathering intelligence and recruiting spies in Cuba.
		Richard Armitage was dispatched by Shackley, from Vietnam to Tehran.
		Shackley also established his own company, Research Associates International, which specialized in providing intelligence to business (in other words he sold them classified information from CIA files).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKshackley.htm (3239 words)

	The Marine's Private Army \| TIME
		Theodore Shackley, who knew Secord in Laos and had been the CIA's station chief in Saigon, worked from 1981 to 1983 as a consultant for Secord's business partner Albert Hakim.
		Shackley had been a candidate to become head of covert operations before his career was sidetracked by Turner.
		Shackley was also used as a conduit by Iranian Middleman Manucher Ghorbanifar in 1984, when the Iranian first proposed swapping money for the release of the American hostages in Lebanon.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101870713-147134,00.html (1138 words)

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		Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines financed a highly intensified phase of the Phoenix project, in 1974 and 1975, by causing an intense flow of Vang Pao opium money to be secretly brought into Vietnam for this purpose.
		During this same period of time between 1973 and 1975, Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines caused thousands of tons of US weapons, ammunition, and explosives to be secretly taken from Vietnam and stored at a secret "cache" hidden inside Thailand.
		The "liaison officer" to Shackley and Clines and the Phoenix Project in Vietnam, during this 1973 to 1975 period, from the "40 Committee" in the Nixom White House was one Eric Von Arbod)) an Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
	www.williambowles.info /ini/goldtrig.txt (19990 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Shackley and Clines then join with Secord and Hakim and "went private" continuing to run their "secret team," the affidavit reads.
		According to the affidavit, Shackley and Clines directed a secret program which trained and used Meo tribesmen "to secretly assassinated over 100,000 non-combatant village mayors, book-keepers, clerks and other civilian bureaucrats in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand." The operation was funded by profits from an illegal opium trade.
		In 1971, Shackley and Clines, from their post the CIA's Western Hemisphere operations, directed the "Track II" operation in Chile which played a role in the assassination of Chilean President Salvador Allende, the affidavit reads.
	www.textfiles.com /conspiracy/contrcia.txt (1377 words)

	Clouds Over George Bush
		"Shackley" was Theodore Shackley, the legendary CIA covert ops specialist known as the blond ghost.
		Though Connally's warning proved to be a false alarm, the notation indicated that Shackley was representing Bush on the sensitive October Surprise issue.
		As Saigon station chief during the Vietnam War, Shackley was the boss of Donald Gregg who was then the CIA representative on Carter's National Security Council.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /History/CloudsOverGeorgeBush.html (3638 words)

	The Consortium
		Shackley believed that Turner, by cleaning out hundreds of covert "old boys," was destroying the agency -- as well as Shackley's career.
		But in 1980, Shackley was set on putting his former boss, George ush, in the White House and possibly securing the CIA directorship for himself.
		Shackley was soon cleared of complicity in the unsavory Wilson matter.
	www.consortiumnews.com /archive/xfile7.html (1966 words)

	Amazon.fr : Spymaster: My Life In The CIA: Livres en anglais: Theodore G. Shackley,Richard A. Finney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The death of CIA operative Theodore G. "Ted" Shackley in December 2002 triggered an avalanche of obituaries from all over the world, some of them condemnatory.
		During his long career, Shackley ran part of the inter-agency program to overthrow Castro, was chief of station in Vientiane during the CIA's "secret war" against North Vietnam and the Pathet Lao, and was chief of station in Saigon.
		Ted Shackley's comments on CIA operations in Europe, Cuba, Chile, and Southeast Asia and on the life of a high-stakes spymaster will be the subject of intense scrutiny by all concerned with the fields of intelligence, foreign policy, and postwar U.S. history.
	www.amazon.fr /Spymaster-Life-Theodore-G-Shackley/dp/157488915X (465 words)

	Theodore G. Shackley
		Theodore G. "Ted" Shackley, a retired associate deputy director for clandestine operations of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose career took him from the streets of Berlin to the jungles of Laos and Vietnam, died of cancer on 9 December 2002 at his home in Bethesda at age 75.
		Theodore Shackley spent his career on the front lines of the Cold War and he was involved in some of the agency's most important -- and controversial -- operations.
		Shackley was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida.
	www.historicalmilitaria.com /Obituaries/Shackley.html (693 words)

	[CTRL] (1) Chronology of the Dulles-Nixon-Bush "Octopus" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Because what we had discovered is that the man who was directing the operations, supplying the guns and the military hardware to the contras in Central America was, indeed, a man by the name of Theodore Shackley.
		Theodore Shackley had been the worldwide director of covert operations for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1976 under George Bush, when he was the director of the CIA.
		Theodore Shackley had been the man in 1961 who had run the major contra operation against the Cuban socialist revolutionary government starting in 1961.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg28823.html (6532 words)

	GRANMA INTERNAtIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA ENGLISH
		From 1962, JM/WAVE was directed by Theodore Shackley, “the Blond Ghost,” who unleashed numerous sabotage, killer and conspiracy operations with diabolical efficiency.
		In August 1963 the presence of “Ted” Shackley in his JM/WAVE command post, located in some dingy shacks constructed in the middle of a 1,571-acre terrain rented from the University of Miami, was highly visible.
		Shackley, Bosch, Posada; all these names constitute motives that explain and justify the presence in the United States of five Cuban patriots who, at risk to their own lives, tried to uncover the criminal plans of a terrorist mafia whose activities are tolerated by the U.S. authorities.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/2003/agosto03/vier1/30terror.html (1651 words)

	Daniel Sheehan
		Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines financed a highly intensified phase of the Phoenix project, in 1974 and 1975, by causing an intense flow of Vang Pao opium money to be secretly brought into Vietnam for this purpose.
		However, because Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Armitage knew that their secret anti-communist extermination program was going to be shut down in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand in the very near future, they, in 1973, began a highly secret non-CIA authorized program.
		The "liaison officer" to Shackley and Clines and the Phoenix Project in Vietnam, during this 1973 to 1975 period, from the "40 Committee" in the Nixon White House was one Eric Von Arbod, an Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKsheehan.htm (9022 words)

	C.I.A.-- Mantra and Truth
		With the Vietnam war reaching its peak of escalation in 1968, Theodore Shackley was transferred from CIA Chief of Station, to the same position in Saigon.
		While critics of the suit, noting that Theodore Shackley was no longer station chief in Saigon, imply that it made a slip, the suit is quite clear that both Shackley and Clines directed it from Washington.
		One of Shackley's colleagues was an old contact, Alberto Sicilia-Falcon, a Cuban exile trained by the CIA as part of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
	johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com /id60.html (8988 words)

	Consortiumnews.com
		When Bush was CIA director in 1976, he appointed Shackley to a top clandestine job, associate deputy director for operations, laying the foundation for Shackley’s possible rise to director and cementing Shackley’s loyalty to Bush.
		Shackley had a falling out with Carter’s CIA director, Stansfield Turner, and quit the agency in 1979.
		Allen testified that “Shacklee” was Theodore Shackley, the legendary CIA covert operations specialist.
	www.consortiumnews.com /2006/102906.html (8213 words)

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