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Administration officials tried to counter charges that the U.S. had sponsored the Hasenfus flight by suggesting that he and the crew had been working for retired Army Major General John K. Singlaub, 65, the controversial head of a Phoenix-based group called the World Anti-Communist League, which raises money to support anti-Communist insurgents around the world. A frequent visitor to El Salvador, Singlaub is said to have helped the contras buy arms, but he denies any connection to the downed plane or its unfortunate crew...
Retired Major General John Singlaub was also quoted in a way that seemed to confirm that American defectors were intentionally killed. He was not, however, involved in the Tailwind mission, and he says he has no knowledge of the events there. Subsequently he has been among those denouncing the assertion that sarin gas was used...
...quoted one officer on the mission saying he had seen and killed two defectors. Questions have subsequently been raised about his credibility. This officer and a sergeant said they were told by their Montagnard mercenaries there were a dozen to 20 Caucasian bodies found. Former special-operations commander John Singlaub told CNN, "It may be more important to your survival to kill the defector than to kill the Vietnamese or Russian." He justified that policy by pointing out that the defector's knowledge of communications and tactics "can be damaging...
...Court case that it has used successfully to fend off past suits by agents who claimed to have been cheated. In that case, a Civil War spy was denied back pay because the court ruled it had no jurisdiction to enforce secret contracts for espionage. Retired Major General John Singlaub, who ran the SOG program from 1966 to 1968, gives another defense. He insists that the South Vietnamese government, not the U.S., decided which commandos should be taken off the lists. "I don't think there is a legal or moral justification for saying we should accept responsibility for them...
...activists on the left and right, was filed on behalf of Journalists Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey, who claimed that the 1984 bombing of a press conference held by Nicaraguan Rebel Leader Eden Pastora Gomez was the work of 29 conspirators, including retired Generals Richard Secord and John Singlaub and former CIA Deputy Director of Operations Theodore Shackley. Sheehan, who will appeal the dismissal, claims it is a "conscious action to stop this case from going to trial before the election...