John Adrian O'Hare

John Adrian O'Hare (aka: Jack O'Hare, Colonel Richard Gray, The Gray Ghost)

John Adrian O'Hare was a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, Business man and CIA Contractor. He "up and died" in March 1975 and believed to have been relocated to South Africa because of the investigation of CIA domestic improprieties (among other activities) by several senate subcommittees in 1975.

CIA Activities

Jack O'Hare walked a fine line between being a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, a business man and a CIA Contractor. He blended seamlessly between all three activities with ease according to his current needs. As one of the CIA's most successful hidden assets he was in different ways involved with JMWAVE, Dallas, the Congo Operation, Chilean overthrow of 1973 and domestic CIA activities which were against the CIA charter. When Seymour Hersh wrote his infamous New York Times story on December 22, 1974 on CIA Domestic improprieties, that was the end of Jack O'Hare's life as he knew it. In the beginning of 1975 three senate subcommittees were formed to look into CIA activities and this made Jack O'Hare hot as a firecracker as he was in the middle of it. That is what caused him to have to fake his own death and leave the United States and his family to never be heard from again and relocate to South Africa.

The CIA pulled out all the stops to keep Jack's role a dark secret by employing assets such as the infamous Watergate lawyer Bernard Fensterwald and Military Intelligence to help throw the trail off O'Hare.