Is Cofer Black another Ted Shackley?

A CIA operative who just happens to be at the right place at the right time when global events of historic significance take place.

Ted Shackley:

Miami and the Cuban crisis
Vietnam, Laos and the "Phoenix Program"
Western Hemisphere Division and Chile
Deputy Director of Covert Operations
October Surprise
Iran-Contra Affair

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Cofer Black:

Lusaka, Zambia during the Rhodesian War next door.

South Africa, government's war against guerrilla movements opposing the apartheid system.

Zaire, Reagan's covert action program to arm anti-communist guerrillas in Angola.

Khartoum, Sudan, CIA Station Chief at the time Sudan was harboring Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.

Director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center, 1999-2002 during 9/11

September 11, 2001
After the 9/11 strikes on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon, some CTC staff were exempted from an order to evacuate the CIA headquarters building at Langley. They included the shift of the Global Response Center on the exposed sixth floor, which Black argued had "a key function in a crisis like this". Tenet finally agreed with Black that their lives would have to be put at risk


In early 2005 Black became Vice Chairman of Blackwater USA (later renamed Blackwater Worldwide),