Word: shackley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus Mulcahy was not alarmed when his two partners told him that they planned to visit Gaddafi in Tripoli. One reason: Wilson, in Mulcahy's presence, had told Theodore G. Shackley, then an assistant to the CIA's highest clandestine operations official, about the trip. Gaddafi wanted to buy thousands of tuners that could set off explosives at a specified hour, ostensibly to clear Israeli mines left from the October War of 1973-even though there is no evidence that any such mines were in Libyan waters or territory...
Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who inherited the Wilson-Terpil problem in 1977, promptly fired two agents, Loomis and Weisenburger. Shackley's role is still being studied. Action against former agents is difficult because there is no law, or even a CIA regulation, banning them from selling their expertise, short of national security secrets, or exploiting past CIA commercial connections once they leave the agency. One formidable reason is that the CIA often wants to use such "former" operatives in future undercover work...