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John R. Stockwell (born 1937) is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving seven tours of duty over thirteen years. Having managed American involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies.
John Prados, William Colby and the CIA. The secret wars of a controversial spymaster (University of Kansas 2003, 2009). W. Thomas Smith, Jr., Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency (New York: Facts on File 2003). Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men. The daring early years of the CIA (New York: Simon and Schuster 1995, 2006).
Giselle Roberge Agee. Children. 2. Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (/ ˈeɪdʒi /; January 19, 1935 – January 7, 2008) [ 1 ] was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer of the 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, [ 2 ] detailing his experiences in the CIA. Agee joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had ...
John Stockwell. John Stockwel may refer to: John Frederick Stockwell (1915−1934), British murderer convicted of the Bow cinema murder in 1934. John Stockwell (CIA officer) (born 1937), American CIA officer and activist. John Stockwell (actor) (born 1961), American actor.
John R. Stockwell, a CIA officer who left the Agency and became a public critic, said of the CIA field officers: "They do not meet the death squads on the streets where they are actually chopping up people or laying them down on the street and running trucks over their heads. The CIA people in San Salvador meet the police chiefs and the people ...
A group of Contras rest after a firefight during the Nicaraguan Civil War. The Contras were organized and funded in part via the CIA. CIA activities in Nicaragua were frequent in the late 20th century. The increasing influence gained by the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a left-wing and anti-imperialist political party in Nicaragua, led ...
The CIA funded UNITA with $32 million in cash and $16 million of weapons. Support was channeled through President Mobutu of the Congo. After MPLA and its Cuban and Russian allies took the capital, the CIA planned on funding an insurgency against the provisional Angolan government but was unable to secure funding in Congress. [3] John Stockwell ...
According to John Stockwell, a former CIA officer, "there was close liaison between the CIA and the South Africans" [43] and "'high officials' in Pretoria claimed that their intervention in Angola had been based on an 'understanding' with the United States". [46] The intervention was also backed by Zaire and Zambia. [47]