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David Atlee Phillips (October 31, 1922 – July 7, 1988) was an American Central Intelligence Agency officer of 25 years and a recipient of the Career Intelligence Medal. Phillips rose to become the CIA's chief of operations for the Western hemisphere.
Mar 22, 2021 · David Atlee Philips stated under oath to the HSCA on April 25, 1978 he did not know Lee Harvey Oswald. The HSCA accused the CIA of lying to the American people about Oswald, and wanted to charge Philips with perjury. CIA Director McCone even admitted to the HSCA there was an agent using the name Bishop, but later retracted the statement.
Oct 22, 2020 · The directors of the CIA's Chile Task Force, William Broe and David Atlee Phillips, respond affirmatively to the CIA station's request for armaments. They also suggest that coup plotters conduct "low-level overflights" of Santiago and "bomb drops in areas not likely to cause casualties."
Jul 9, 1988 · CIA OPERATIVE, DEFENDER DAVID PHILLIPS, 65, DIES. By Bart Barnes. July 8, 1988 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. David Atlee Phillips, 65, the Central Intelligence Agency's former. chief of Latin...
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Jul 10, 1988 · David Atlee Phillips, who spent 25 years undercover for the C.I.A. and resigned as chief of Latin American and Caribbean operations to plead the agency's case in print and on the...
May 13, 2015 · David Phillips was one of, if not the, most experienced, ingenious, respected, and qualified disinformation officers in the CIA. In 1963 he was stationed in Mexico City, but, in early October, he was temporarily assigned to duty at Headquarters because he was being promoted from running anti-Castro propaganda operations to overseeing all anti ...
In 1998, the non-profit National Security Archive obtained and posted CIA documents showing that Phillips, at the direction of CIA director Richard Helms and President Nixon, had worked with ultra-right-wing Chilean military officers responsible for the assassination of General Rene Schneider in October 1970.
