Howard Hart worked as the CIA chief of station in Islamabad, Pakistan from May 1981 until 1984.
11 Facts About Howard Hart
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Howard Hart was succeeded by William Piekney in the summer of 1984.
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Joseph Howard Hart was a banker with Citi Bank and following an assignment in Calcutta, India they returned to Manila in 1950.
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Howard Hart attended Kent School and graduated from Brent School in the Philippines in 1958.
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Howard Hart joined the CIA after finishing graduate school at the University of Arizona in 1965.
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Howard Hart was captured a few days after the Shah's fall by an armed group of supporters of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and escaped summary execution by appealing to a mullah, who agreed that the Koran did not sanction such punishment.
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Howard Hart established and managed an extraordinary CIA-in-country support structure for the ill-fated Iran Rescue Mission in 1980, and accompanied the mission on deployment.
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Howard Hart jump-started the CIA's efforts to equip the Afghan resistance with weapons and supplies to allow them to mount an effective campaign during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
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Howard Hart was a weapons collector with a "passion for weapons and paramilitary tactics," making him a natural choice for the Islamabad post.
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In 2010 Howard Hart published a book called: Intelligence Thoughts: Afghanistan and Iran.
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In 2015 Howard Hart published A Life for a Life: A Memoir: My Career in Espionage Working for the Central Intelligence Agency.