CIA airline holding company
Pacific CorporationCompany type | Holding company |
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Predecessor | Airdale Corporation |
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Founded | 1950; 75 years ago (1950) |
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Founder | George A. Doole Jr. |
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Defunct | 1979; 46 years ago (1979) |
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Fate | liquidation[1] |
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Headquarters | , |
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Owner | CIA |
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Number of employees | 0 |
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The Pacific Corporation (originally Airdale Corporation) was a holding company that the Central Intelligence Agency used to control several aviation front companies.
Former US Army pilot George A. Doole Jr. created Pacific Corporation, incorporated in Delaware in 1950.[2] He concealed the agency's involvement by shuffling aircraft continuously among various shell corporations and altering aircraft registration numbers, a tactic the agency apparently still uses (see N44982[3]) and also using three corporate Officer/ Board Members in the name of the Sigler Corporation, the nominee of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. custodian.[4] The corporation dissolved in 1979 after selling its assets.
Pacific's affiliates included:
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