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... 234–35 Graham , Kay , 191 Great Britain , 40 Greece , 38 , 39-40 , 275 Green , Marshall , 153 , 155 Green Berets ... 96 Hedley , John H. , 274 Heflin , Clifford J. , 12 Helble , John , 71 Helgesen , Herbert , 31 , 32–33 Helliwell ...
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John Carney and picked up a DeHavilland DH-6 Twin Otter modified for long range, taking it to Rome to load the CIA-designed strip lights. They went through Cairo and Masirah to Desert One, landing the night of March 31.
At the end of March, Admiral Carney sent a dispatchto CINCPAC informing Stump of the Washingtontalks with General Ely. Thenextday, Carney cancelled a longplanned visitto Pearl Harbor. He neededto be in Washington.
217 “Well, lieutenant, how to do you like your new assignment?” et seq.: Ibid., 93. 217 “He was a can-do lawyer”: Bart Barnes, “L. R. Houston Dies; CIA's First General Counsel,” Washington Post, Aug. 17, 1995, p. B5.
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I felt that you preferred informing the President privately.” Bill Harvey acquired more poison capsules from CIA's Technical Services Division for Mafioso Johnny Rosselli in April 1962, two months after getting a ...
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