Chip Tatum
Chip Tatum (pilot, spook, drug trafficker, whistleblower, assassin) | |
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Member of | Task Force Alpha |
Dois Gene "Chip" Tatum claims to have been an assassin for George H. W. Bush who quit in 1992 after Bush ordered him to "neutralize" Ross Perot. He became active as a whistleblower in 1995 after being charged with treason, which the state blamed on a data error.[citation needed]
Career
Chip Tatum was a helicopter pilot for the United States Army from 1982 to 1986, during which time he flew missions in Central America and also from Ft Campbell, Kentucky. From 1986 to 1992 I was an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency, operating under a deep-cover assignment.
Iran-Contra
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Yes.
Whistleblowing
In 1996 he published an affidavit in which he named William Barr, Buddy Young, Felix Rodriguez, Oliver North, Joe Fernandez, Manuel Noriega and Mike Harari as passengers in his drug smuggling flights. He further claimed that George H. W. Bush, Oliver North and Bill Clinton were in the loop via satellite phone.[1] He also published a book, The Tatum Chronicles in which he provides a longer account of his life and activities as a spook, supplemented by Flight Plans and Mission Briefs.[2]
Death Rumour
An internet posting claimed that he had been killed in around 2007, and his faceless body was washed up on a beach in Panama, but this may have just been disinformation.