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The death of CIA operative Theodore G. Ted
Shackley in December 2002 triggered an avalanche of obituaries from
all over the world, most of them condemnatory. Pundits used such
expressions as torturing prisoners, 'heroin trafficking,' training
terrorists,genocide, attempts to assassinateCastro, and Mob
connections. More specifically, they charged him with having played
a major role in the Chilean military coup of 1973 and having left
the agency under suspicion of involvement with Edwin Wilson, who
was convicted in 1983 of selling explosives to Libya. In Spymaster,
Ted Shackley has told the story of his entire remarkable career for
the first time. With the assistance of fellow former CIA agent
Richard A. Finney, he discusses the consequential posts he held in
Berlin, Miami, Laos, Vietnam, Chile, and Washington, where he was
intimately involved in some of the key intelligence operations of
the Cold War. During his long career, Shackley ran part of the
inter-agency program to overthrow Castro, was chief of station in
Vientiane during the CIA's "secret war" against North Vietnam and
the Pathet Lao, and was chief of station in Saigon. After his
retirement, he remained a controversial figure. In the early
eighties, he was falsely charged with complicity in the Iran-Contra
scandal. Ted Shackley's comments on CIA operations in Europe, Cuba,
Chile, and Southeast Asia and on the life of a high-stakes
spymaster will be the subject of intense scrutiny by all concerned
with the fields of intelligence, foreignpolicy, and postwar U.S.
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| ISBN-10: 157488915X ISBN-13: 9781574889154 |
Hardback - April 2005 |
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