John Adrian O'Hare

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Person.png John Adrian O'HareRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Soldier, Spook, Businessman)
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Born1926/11/14
Brooklyn, New York
Died1975/03/23 (Age 48)
Orlando, Florida
NationalityAmerican
ReligionCatholic Church
A Super Secret "Dark Warrior" who was a Special Operator, CIA Contractor and Businessman.

John Adrian O'Hare (aka 'Jack O'Hare', 'Colonel Richard Gray', 'The Gray Ghost') was a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, businessman 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[Which?] in 1975.

CIA career

Jack O'Hare walked a fine line between being a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, CIA Contractor, and businessman. 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 coup d'etat of 1973 and domestic CIA activities which were strictly against the CIA charter.

Exposure

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.

Flight to South Africa

After attention from the US subcommittees, O'Hare faked his own death and left 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 his 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.

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