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unusual facts about Ted Shackley



JMWAVE

Under Ted Shackley's leadership from 1962 to 1965, JMWAVE grew to be the largest CIA station in the world outside of the organization's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, with 300 to 400 professional operatives (possibly including about 100 based in Cuba) as well as an estimated 15,000 anti-Castro Cuban exiles on its payroll.


see also

Royal Lao Air Force

David Corn, Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades, Simon & Schuster, 1994.