13-09-2009, 02:40 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:...
Shackley, along with Nugan-Hand's attorney — former CIA Director William Colby — directed the infamous "Phoenix Program," a largely successful attempt to "neutralize" by torture and murder approximately 40,000 Vietnamese civilians suspected of being Viet Cong sympathizers. One Phoenix operative, testifying before Congress, stated that Phoenix was "a sterile, depersonalized murder program… it was completely indiscriminate." The assassinations would continue in Nicaragua under the code-name "Operation Pegasus."[1135][1136]...
No discussion of Shackley would be complete without noting him as a familiar face in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963.
On edit: See http://www.deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/...php?t=2191 / Post #5 / Theodore (Ted) Shackley