Howard Hart

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Howard Hart is a former American CIA officer. He worked as the CIA Chief of Station in Islamabad, Pakistan from 1981 until 1984. He was succeeded by William Piekney in the summer of 1984.

He studied Asian politics along with the Hindi and Urdu languages in the United States. He completed his graduate school in 1965, after which he joined the CIA. He spent two years at Camp Peary in Virginia in the standard two-year course for case officers. After graduation, he joined the Directorate of Operations.

In 1978 Hunt began working the streets of Tehran. His reports that, contrary to over 15 years of CIA estimates, the Shaw's rule was far from stable or secure was suppressed by more senior personnel within the CIA. He was captured a few days after the Shaw's fall by an armed group of supporters of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and escaped summary execution by appealing asking to speak to a mullah, who agreed that the Koran did not sanction such punishment.^[1]

Hart jump-started the CIA efforts to equip the Afghani resistance with weapons and supplies to allow them to mount an effective campaign during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In his words: "I was the first chief of station ever sent abroad with this wonderful order: `Go kill Soviet soldiers’. Imagine! I loved it.” “the mission was not to liberate Afghanistan,” “it was a noble goal,”1

Currently, Howard Hart lives in the hills above Charlottesville, Virginia.

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[Reference] 1. Cold War II, Noam Chomsky.