Terry Reed

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(soldier, spook, businessman, whistleblower)
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Member ofTask Force Alpha

Terry Read is/was a former-CIA

Career

Ex-Vietnam, CIA. He set up and ran a machine tools front company in USA, then in Mexico for the CIA, connected to production of weapons without serial numbers for distribution to the Contras in Nicaragua.

Drug trafficking

When he discovered that his warehouse was being used for the transshipment of tonnes of cocaine to Mena, Arkansas, he decided to quit. In The Mena Connection he tells how he and his wife then spent about 6 months on the run after his handlers accused him of drug trafficking and claimed that he and his wife were both armed and dangerous. Later they spent 2.5 years going through the US justice system before both being found innocent.

Whistleblowing

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Terry Read co-authored the 1994 Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA with John Cummings, which Mark Gorton references,[1] and in 1995 he created the 2 hour 15 minute film.The Mena Connection[2]

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