Jack Reagan
 Jack Reagan  ( spook) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1929 Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 June 1998 (Age 68) Vienna | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Boston College • Georgetown University | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Religion |  Catholic | ||||||||||||||||||||
His assignments with the Central Intelligence Agency included eight Asian countries. Worked in Indonesia from 1959 to 1963, a in covert paramilitary operations prior to the overthrow of Sukarno in 1965 and the massacre of some one million people that followed.
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John J. "Jack" Reagan was a US spook whose assignments with the Central Intelligence Agency included eight Asian countries, including Chief of Station in Pakistan[1] and Japan. He worked in Indonesia from 1959 to 1963, a period of intensive CIA involvement in covert paramilitary operations prior to the overthrow of Sukarno in 1965 and the massacre of some one million people that followed.
Career
He joined the agency in 1959, and later was a senior intelligence officer and adviser to U.S. ambassadors in Pakistan, Indonesia and Japan.[2]
CovertAction Magazine describes his career as "Mr. Reagan was a 'Plans Officer' with the Department of the Army from 1951 to 1958, and served at the Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia from 1959 to 1963, a period of intensive CIA involvement in covert paramilitary operations prior to the overthrow of Sukaro in 1965 and the massacre of some one million people that followed. He then served several years at the Consulate General in Hong Kong. From 1969 till some time in 1971 he was a Political Officer at the Kuala Lumpur Embassy, advancing to R-3. We have been unable to find State Department records of his assignments between late 1971 and 1977, when he appears in Pakistan, as Attaché. Given his age and his high rating, it appears clear that he is the Chief of Station for Pakistan."[3]
He helped manage the evacuation of Americans from South Vietnam and Pakistan and worked in Washington as CIA representative to the "Cabinet committee to combat terrorism".[2]
