Theodore Shackley

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Person.png Theodore Shackley  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
BornJuly 16, 1927
DiedDecember 9, 2002 (Age 75)
Member ofAssociation of Former Intelligence Officers, JFK/Assassination/Perpetrators, Le Cercle, Operation 40, Systems Services International, US/Deep state
Perpetrator ofArms for Libya
Interest ofDavid Corn

Employment.png Chief of East Asia division

Dates unknown
EmployerCIA
Maybe concurrent with being Vietnam Station Chief?

Employment.png Chief of Western Hemisphere division

In office
1972 - 1973
EmployerCIA
Responsible for the 1973 Chilean coup d'état

Official Narrative

Theodore 'Ted' Shackley was an American CIA officer deeply involved in many "controversial" CIA operations during the 1960s and 1970s. Commonly known as the "Blond Ghost" due to his dislike of being photographed, he was one of the most decorated CIA officers.

Deep State

A mound of unexplained evidence and strange coincidences testify that Theodore Shackley was a key player in the formation of the US deep state.

JFK Assassination

Full article: JFK Assassination

Shackley was station chief in Miami during the Bay Of Pigs operation. He was a member of the assassination squad Operation 40 named by Mark Gorton as a key player in the JFK Assassination[1].

Deputy Director of Covert Operations

In May 1976, Shackley was made Deputy Director of Covert Operations, serving under CIA director George H.W. Bush, before leaving the organization in 1979.

He remained deeply involved in deep state operations such as the October Surprise and Iran-Contra.

Lies about the 1970 Chilean ITT Plot

In 1972, syndicated journalist Jack Anderson revealed that two years earlier the CIA and the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation had been involved in a "bizarre plot" to block the election of Salvador Allende. Senior CIA and ITT officials in the United States had discussed causing economic chaos in Chile to encourage a military coup. Soon a Senate subcommittee was investigating, which Shackley was tasked to cover up. Shackley had one of his deputies conspire with an ITT operative in Chile, arranging for him to testify falsely before the subcommittee. This successfully foiled the subcommittee's efforts to uncover the truth, and the CIA's involvement in Chile was only revealed years later.[2]


 

An event carried out

EventLocationDescription
Arms for LibyaLibya
US
Around 20 tonnes of C-4 plastic explosive, training in bomb making, together with thousands of rifles, handguns & other weapons sold by a CIA operative to Muammar Gaddaffi's Libya in the late 1970s - early 1980s. Then "the biggest arms-dealing case in U.S. history", still lacking its own page on Wikipedia as of 2020.

 

A Quote by Theodore Shackley

PageQuoteSource
Alexander Zakharchenko“Keep hitting the insurgents in their base areas with small, elite anti guerilla units. Use booby traps.”The Third Option, page 96, Dell Publishing, 1988

 

Related Quotations

PageQuoteAuthorDate
James Critchfield“Besides the Deuss connection to Oman, Shackley's other link is James Critchfield, the former head of the CIA's Middle East desk, and later chief of intelligence for energy. Critchfield is president of Tetra Tech International, a subsidiary of Honeywell, Inc. Tetra Tech has a contract with Oman to develop the economic infrastructure of the Masandam Peninsula, which is at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz.”Executive Intelligence Review
James Critchfield
24 June 1988
Timothy Landon“The key British power broker with influence in Oman is Timothy Landon. In 1970, the sultan ran a bloodless coup against his father with the help of Landon, a British military and intelligence figure. Known as the "Lawrence of Arabia" of Oman, Landon, who now lives in England, was the sultan's college buddy at Sandhurst. According to British intelligence sources, Shackley has a working relationship with Landon's associates and operatives.”Timothy Landon24 June 1988

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Colloquium on Clandestine Collection30 December 198131 December 1981A spooky colloquium in Washington DC
Colloquium on Counterintelligence24 April 198026 April 1980Spooky 1980 Washington conference
Colloquium on Intelligence and Policy9 November 198410 November 1984A spooky conference in November 1984
Le Cercle/1983 (Bonn)30 June 19833 July 1983Germany
Bonn
Le Cercle/1984 (Capetown)12 January 198415 January 1984South Africa
Stellenbosch
Capetown
4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Capetown exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011
Symposium on the Role of Special Operations in US Strategy for the 1980s4 March 19835 March 1983Spooky conference attended by the US MICC
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