Operation 40

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKoperation40.htm

Cover of Barry & ‘the boys’ with Barry Seal (third on left) with CIA colleagues in 1963

[2004] Was Bush Spy Pick on Agency Hit Team? — CIA Nominee in Pic of Agency’s 60s Assassination Squad  Seated with Seal in that nightclub in Mexico City in 1963 are men whose lives and careers comprise a large part of America’s recent secret history, we learned. Arrayed around the table were members of the CIA’s much-whispered about assassination squad, Operation Forty, first helmed by then-Vice President Richard Nixon.