Thomas G. Clines

Thomas Gregory Clines (August 18, 1928 – July 30, 2013[1]) was an American covert operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, and a prominent figure in the Iran-Contra Affair.

[2] Clines left Laos in 1970 and spent a year at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.

In 1978, Clines left the CIA[4] and joined several other ex-CIA officials and contract operatives, including Rafael Quintero, Ted Shackley, and Ricardo Chavez in establishing API Distributors.

[6] Clines, as well as Oliver North, Edwin Wilson and Richard Secord, were involved in the conspiracy to provide arms to the Contras, and Clines himself as a key player[4] in the web of business operations founded by Secord and Iranian arms dealer Albert Hakim known as the "Enterprise".

The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, on February 27, 1992, upheld his convictions, and Clines served his prison sentence.