Theodore Shackley
Where each worldview places it
A CIA covert-operations chief who "ran a huge assassination and drug operation in South East Asia in the 1970s", masterminded Operation Phoenix, and became George Bush's appointee and "speech writer" in the Iran-Contra network[1].
- Aliases
- Ted Shackley
- Controls / directs
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- Answers to / controlled by
- Places
- Key events
- Vietnam War: masterminds Operation Phoenix, with Oliver North working under him[2]
- 1970s: runs the South East Asia assassination and drug operation with Donald Gregg and Felix Rodriguez[2]
- named by Bush the CIA's associate deputy director for covert operations[2]
- controls the Acta Non Verba company[2]
- Author's claims · 2
- 01Khun Sa's people named him as a past American associate in the Golden Triangle heroin trade[3].
- 02Thomas Clines and Michael Hand operated with him during Vietnam[4].