Donald Gregg

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Donald P. Gregg worked for the CIA for 31 years, from 1951-1982, then was National Security Advisor to Vice-President George H. W. Bush, US ambassador to South Korea (1989 - 1993), and the chairman of the board of the Korea Society, where he has called for greater engagement with North Korea.

Gregg joined the CIA in 1951. (It is not known if Gregg worked in the Miami JM/WAVE office, as Tarpley and Chaitkin claim,[1] or if he knew Bush from that time, when the latter was CEO of Zapata Corporation.) Gregg then served in Burma (1964-1966), Japan (1966-1969), Vietnam (1970-1972). He worked on the Phoenix Program, where he reported to Ted Shackley. (In 1976, Shackley became Bush's Associate Deputy Director for Operations, the #3 post at the CIA.)

A friend of President George Bush, Sr. Gregg was involved with the Iran-Contra scandal from the inception. On March 17, 1983, Felix Rodriguez met with Gregg at the White House, and presented his five-page proposal for the creation of a "Tactical Task Force" for the "pacification" efforts in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. Gregg then recommended Rodriguez' plan to National Security Council adviser Robert McFarlane, with a secret one-page memo on "anti-guerrilla operations in Central America." This marked the beginning of US support for the Nicaraguan Contras. In June 1985 Gregg met with Rodriguez and Col. Steele of the Salvador military group working with the Contra supply network. In December 1985 Rodriguez attended Bush's White House Christmas party and was introduced as an old friend of Gregg's. In January 1986 Rodriguez met with Gregg's deputy in Salvador. In May 1986 Rodriguez met with Gregg, Bush, and Oliver North in Bush's office. In August 1986 Gregg met with Rodriguez and Bush. (Gregg soon meets with Alan Friers to support arms purchases from Rodriguez instead of Richard Secord.) John K. Singlaub warned North in September 1986 that too much contact with Rodriguez would be bad for the Administration.[2][3][4][5]

[edit] In Fiction

Donald Gregg's role as ambassador of South Korea was loosely portrayed as the character Gregory Donald in the 1995 novel Op-Center, part of the Tom Clancy's Op-Center series