By Ted Shackley, Richard A. Finney
The loss of life of CIA operative Theodore G. "Ted" Shackley in December 2002 brought on an avalanche of obituaries from around the globe, a few of them condemnatory. Pundits used such expressions as "heroin trafficking," "training terrorists," "attempts to assassinate Castro," and "Mob connections." extra particularly, they charged him with having performed a big function within the Chilean army coup of 1973.But who was once the true Ted Shackley? In Spymaster, he has advised the tale of his complete notable profession for the 1st time. With the help of fellow former CIA officer Richard A. Finney, he discusses the consequential posts he held in Berlin, Miami, Laos, Vietnam, and Washington, the place he used to be in detail taken with many of the key intelligence operations of the chilly battle. in the course of his lengthy occupation, Shackley ran a part of the inter-agency application to overthrow Castro, used to be leader of station in Vientiane throughout the CIA's "secret battle" opposed to North Vietnam and the Pathet Lao, and was once leader of station in Saigon. After his retirement, he remained a debatable determine. within the early eighties, he was once falsely charged with complicity within the Iran-Contra scandal. Ted Shackley's reviews on CIA operations in Europe, Cuba, Chile, and Southeast Asia and at the lifetime of a high-stakes spymaster could be the topic of extreme scrutiny via all taken with the fields of intelligence, international coverage, and postwar U.S. background.
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It was a very detailed, comprehensive report on how the installation was organized and who the personalities were, and I reread it carefully. The telephone rang. With no secretaries present, I picked it up. It was the Marine guard over in the Consular Section on Clay Allee. He said he was calling in compliance with the procedure that had been set up for walk-ins. He had called a couple of other numbers and nobody had responded. The switchboard in our office complex had given him my number, and he thought I ought to come over right away.
It was a good place for slipping agents over, and when the wind was right, it was a good place for them to return to, for the smell that wafted from the sulfur baths at Bad Sooden was as good as any homing beacon. On the day in question, my principal agent and I were preparing to dispatch an agent team into East Germany with the aid of one of the numerous border guides we were employing in those days. There had been some hitch in the delivery of the false documents and concealment devices which the agents were to carry with them, so I had had to stay behind in Nürnberg to await the completion of these essential items, while my principal agent went ahead to make last-minute arrangements with the guide.
Britain’s MI6 has known numerous traitors, none worse than the KGB agent Harold “Kim” Philby. A virtual cottage industry has developed in the world of intelligence literature about Philby. Not wishing to invite an argument on this matter, I will say only that Bill Harvey asserted more than once in my presence that he had identified Philby as a probable KGB penetration of MI6 as early as 1951. The British obviously took the American charges into consideration, conducted their own investigation, and cleared Philby in 1955.