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10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ted Shackley.md

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 ### JMWAVE Miami (1961-1965)
 
-Shackley’s transformation from capable officer to major CIA figure came with his assignment as chief of JMWAVE, the CIA’s Miami-based anti-Castro station, in 1961. JMWAVE was at its peak the largest CIA station in the world outside Langley, employing hundreds of officers and overseeing a fleet of boats, a network of Cuban exile paramilitary groups, and extensive infrastructure for operations against Cuba. Shackley ran JMWAVE through the [[Bay of Pigs]] aftermath, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the assassination attempts against [[Fidel Castro]] organized under what eventually became the AMLASH program. [[Felix Rodriguez]], [[Luis Posada Carriles]], and other Cuban exile paramilitary figures who would reappear decades later in the [[Iran-Contra Affair]] had their operational origins in JMWAVE’s networks.[^1]
+Shackley’s transformation from capable officer to major CIA figure came with his assignment as chief of JMWAVE, the CIA’s Miami-based anti-Castro station, in 1961. JMWAVE was at its peak the largest CIA station in the world outside Langley, employing hundreds of officers and overseeing a fleet of boats, a network of Cuban exile paramilitary groups, and extensive infrastructure for operations against Cuba. Shackley ran JMWAVE through the [[Bay of Pigs]] aftermath, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the assassination attempts against [[Fidel Castro]] organized under what eventually became the AMLASH program. [[Felix Rodriguez]], [[Luis Posada Carriles]], and other Cuban exile paramilitary figures who would reappear decades later in the Iran-Contra Affair had their operational origins in JMWAVE’s networks.[^1]
 
 ### Laos (1966-1968)
 
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 ### Saigon (1968-1972)
 
-Shackley was transferred to serve as Saigon station chief in 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive, taking charge of CIA operations in the most active and politically significant theater of the Vietnam War. He oversaw the Phoenix Program (Operation Phung Hoang), the pacification initiative that attempted to destroy the Viet Cong political infrastructure through identification, capture, and in many cases assassination of Viet Cong cadres. Phoenix operated through the Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) - South Vietnamese paramilitary teams advised by CIA and U.S. Special Forces - and is credited with killing or capturing tens of thousands of Viet Cong infrastructure members between 1968 and 1972, though its methods became a source of congressional and public controversy.[^1]
+Shackley was transferred to serve as Saigon station chief in 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive, taking charge of CIA operations in the most active and politically significant theater of the [[Vietnam War]]. He oversaw the Phoenix Program (Operation Phung Hoang), the pacification initiative that attempted to destroy the Viet Cong political infrastructure through identification, capture, and in many cases assassination of Viet Cong cadres. Phoenix operated through the Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) - South Vietnamese paramilitary teams advised by CIA and U.S. Special Forces - and is credited with killing or capturing tens of thousands of Viet Cong infrastructure members between 1968 and 1972, though its methods became a source of congressional and public controversy.[^1]
 
 [[William Colby]] was the Phoenix Program’s civilian director within the Civil Operations and Rural Development Support (CORDS) structure during this period, placing Colby and Shackley in overlapping authority over the program’s most sensitive activities. John DeCamp served as an Army captain in Vietnam and as an aide to Colby during this period.
 
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 ### Private Network
 
-After leaving CIA, Shackley established himself as a private intelligence and consulting figure, working through a network of former CIA colleagues that included Tom Clines, Edwin Wilson (until Wilson’s arrest and conviction for arms sales to Libya), and others from his JMWAVE and Vietnam networks. This private network - funded partly through the [[Safari Club]] connections to Saudi and other Gulf money, and through arms brokering - became a conduit for operations that the Reagan administration’s CIA could not or would not conduct through official channels.[^2]
+After leaving CIA, Shackley established himself as a private intelligence and consulting figure, working through a network of former CIA colleagues that included Tom Clines, Edwin Wilson (until Wilson’s arrest and conviction for arms sales to Libya), and others from his JMWAVE and Vietnam networks. This private network - funded partly through the Safari Club connections to Saudi and other Gulf money, and through arms brokering - became a conduit for operations that the Reagan administration’s CIA could not or would not conduct through official channels.[^2]
 
-Shackley’s network intersected with the [[Iran-Contra Affair]] through multiple channels. Tom Clines, his former deputy, was directly involved in the Oliver North-Richard Secord arms-for-hostages network known as "the Enterprise." Richard Secord, another Shackley associate from the Laos air operations period, co-directed the Enterprise with Albert Hakim. The private covert infrastructure that ran the Enterprise had organizational roots in the networks Shackley had built during his CIA career.[^2]
+Shackley’s network intersected with the Iran-Contra Affair through multiple channels. Tom Clines, his former deputy, was directly involved in the Oliver North-Richard Secord arms-for-hostages network known as "the Enterprise." Richard Secord, another Shackley associate from the Laos air operations period, co-directed the Enterprise with Albert Hakim. The private covert infrastructure that ran the Enterprise had organizational roots in the networks Shackley had built during his CIA career.[^2]
 
-Shackley was also connected through [[Michael Hand]] to the Nugan Hand Bank (Sydney, founded 1973, collapsed 1980), an Australian merchant bank that multiple sources identified as a CIA financial conduit. The bank’s board and senior advisers included former CIA Director William Colby (in a legal advisory role) and a number of Shackley-connected U.S. military and intelligence veterans. Its collapse after co-founder Frank Nugan’s death in January 1980 and Hand’s subsequent disappearance generated significant Australian investigative journalism about CIA connections to the bank.[^2]
+Shackley was also connected through Michael Hand to the Nugan Hand Bank (Sydney, founded 1973, collapsed 1980), an Australian merchant bank that multiple sources identified as a CIA financial conduit. The bank’s board and senior advisers included former CIA Director William Colby (in a legal advisory role) and a number of Shackley-connected U.S. military and intelligence veterans. Its collapse after co-founder Frank Nugan’s death in January 1980 and Hand’s subsequent disappearance generated significant Australian investigative journalism about CIA connections to the bank.[^2]
 
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