Association of Former Intelligence Officers

Association of Former Intelligence Officers
Founder	David Atlee Phillips
Membership	•  John B. Alexander •  James Jesus Angleton •  James Angleton Jr. •  Frank Archibald •  Michael Aquino •  Thorton D. Barnes •  Cofer Black •  Douglas S. Blaufarb •  Charles A. Briggs •  Thomas A Brooks •  Reese Brown •  George H. W. Bush •  John L. Butts •  Frank Carlucci •  Roland Carnaby •  William J. Casey •  James Clapper •  Ray S. Cline •  Richard L. Cohn •  William E. Colby •  Ralph E. Cook •  James H. Critchfield •  Lois M. Critchfield •  Robert T. Crowley •  Richard H. Cummings •  Richard M. Cummings •  Kenneth E. DeGraffenreid •  Paul W. Dillingham Jr. •  Robert C. "Bob" Dreyfuss •  James Enney •  Lincoln Faurer •  Mary Ferrell •  Sully de Fontaine •  Gerald Ford •  Philip S. Freund •  Robert K. Geiger •  John W. Gittinger •  Joseph C. Goodwin •  Porter Goss •  Georges R. Guay •  John J. Guenther •  Ransom S. Haig •  Samuel "Sam" Halpern •  Donald P. Harvey •  Michael Hayden •  Ronald J. Hays •  Edward Heinz •  Richard Helms •  Henry E. Hockeimer •  James A. Holt •  John R. Horton •  Max C. Hugel •  Bobby Ray Inman •  Carl E. Jenkins •  John Smith Jenkins •  George Joannides •  Richard X. Larkin •  John H. Leavitt •  James J. "Jim" Leusner •  Neil C. Livingstone •  Clare Lopez •  John L. Marocchi •  Don H. McDowell •  John N. McMahon •  Newton S. Miler •  Edgar Mitchell •  William C. Mott •  David E. Murphy •  Nicholas A. Natsios •  Hayden B. Peake •  David Atlee Phillips •  Eugene Poteat •  Erik Prince •  Hal Puthoff •  Charles R. Rambo •  David A. Ramsey •  Earl F. Rectanus •  Frederick W. Rustmann Jr. •  James R. Schlesinger •  Ted Shackley •  Sumner Shapiro •  Grant Sharp Jr. •  John K. Singlaub •  Maurice A. Sovern •  Thomas R. Spencer Jr. •  Robert D. Steele •  Rodney Stich •  Richard G. Stilwell •  Sanford J. Stone •  Jack Thomas •  Edmund R. Thompson •  Hugh Tovar •  Michelle Van Cleave •  Jack Vorona •  Raymond Wannall •  William H. Webster •  Albert D. Wedemeyer •  Sidney T. Weinstein •  James A. Williams •  Norman Wood •  James Woolsey
Founded to promote the US intelligence agencies

Membership is not limited to Former Intelligence Officers.

Official narrative

"AFIO members subscribe to the US intelligence community’s core values of patriotism, excellence, integrity, dedication and loyalty. By understanding the history of intelligence from its ancient world underpinnings to twenty-first century wizardry, AFIO’s key objectives and principles are to support today’s needs and foster forward thinking for:

• A strong and responsible national intelligence establishment able to manage growing threats and issues in today’s globally intertwined environment.
• Understanding of the intellectual, political, business and public communities for an effective and cohesive national intelligence infrastructure.
• Strategies in intelligence operations that support leaders at the local, state and federal levels as they make timely security decisions.
• Stimulation of interest in the career needs of US Intelligence and its contractors, among a wide range of students at high schools and universities around the country.
• Execution of effective national policies that advance the defense and security of the country, its citizens and its allies."

Leadership

Joël van der Reijden notes that both Richard Helms and Theodore Shackley were leading figures in the AFIO until both died in 2002. Charles A. Briggs was chairman of the board of the AFIO for 4 years. George H. W. Bush is honorary chairman of AFIO. Frank Carlucci is honorary director.

In 2007/2008 Roland Carnaby was president of the Houston AFIO when he was shot by an officer of the Houston Police. Although he was named as president of the Houston chapter of the AFIO at http://afiohouston.com, the CIA (and FBI) denied that he had ever worked for them.

Activities

The AFIO and David Atlee Phillips sued Donald Freed, Fred Landis and the publisher after their 1980 book Death in Washington, named David Atlee Phillips as being involved in a cover-up of the 1976 assassination of Orlando Letelier and reiterated Gaeton Fonzi's claim that Phillips served as Lee Harvey Oswald's case officer while using the alias 'Maurice Bishop'. A settlement was reached in 1986 with Phillips receiving a retraction and an unspecified amount of money.

 

Known members

31 of the 101 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
James Jesus Angleton	"The dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world", according to Richard Helms, DCI.
Michael A. Aquino	US spook, psyop specialist, satanist
Frank Archibald	Former director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service
Cofer Black	US deep state operative with a leading role in the CIA's kidnapping and torture
Charles A. Briggs	As the 3rd highest ranking CIA officer, he produced an affidavit, known by many CIA spooks to be mendacious, but which was only exposed after about 20 years.
George H. W. Bush	Skull and bones mastermind of the bush family busine$$.
Frank Carlucci	A Princeton roommate of his fellow US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
Roland Carnaby	A senior spook who was shot by a Houston police officer following a high speed motor car chase and died of his wounds.
Ray Cline	Senior CIA, spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
William Colby	CIA boss who maybe became too loose-mouthed, died in suspicious circumstances
Robert Crowley	Second in command of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, which was in charge of covert operations. Source for several interesting interviews and lists, but of uncertain reliability.
Robert Dreyfuss	American investigative journalist, worked for the Executive Intelligence Review
Lincoln D. Faurer	United States Air Force officer who was director of the National Security Agency from 1981 to 1985.
Mary Ferrell	Independent researcher who created a large database on the John F. Kennedy assassination
Gerald Ford	US Deep State functionary who was made US President by The Cabal after they removed Richard Nixon with the Watergate Coup
Porter Goss	Director of the CIA 2005-2006
Samuel Halpern	CIA officer from 1947 to 1974
Michael Hayden	US Spook, NSA Director 1999-2005, CIA Director 2006-2009, News Guard advisory board
Richard Helms
Bobby Ray Inman	NSA director 1977-1981
George Joannides
David Atlee Phillips	Widely fingered as a key player in the JFK Assassination.
James Schlesinger	USDSO, DCI, RAND, US Defense secretary
Theodore Shackley	A key member of the US deep state, involved in a huge list of deep events from the JFK assassination, Iran Contra, Arms for Libya and possibly also 9-11
Sumner Shapiro	Director of Naval Intelligence 1978-1982
John Singlaub	Founding member of the CIA, where he for more than half a century organized death squads and terrorist groups around the world, funded by drugs smuggling.
Rodney Stich	A writer of over 20 books exposing US government corruption.
Richard Stilwell
Hugh Tovar	A spook involved in Vietnam and Indonesia
William Webster	A "key member" of Diligence
James Woolsey	Ex CIA director still (per 2020) very active in deep state networks.

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