“Frank Anderson, a former U.S. spymaster who supervised clandestine CIA ops in the Middle East, including a smuggling initiative that supplied Afghan rebels with billions of dollars in weapons during their 1980s war against the Soviet Union, died Jan. 27.” washingtonpost.com/local/obituari…
“A station chief for three tours of duty, he presided over the development of new gadgets as head of the CIA’s technical services wing and directed the Near East and South Asia division in the directorate of operations, the agency’s clandestine arm.“
“In recent years he emerged as a fierce critic of the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on accused terrorists, which he equated to torture and called “counterproductive, illegal and morally repugnant.”
