Bradley Ayers

Bradley Earl Ayers (March 7, 1935 – February 10, 2017) was a U.S. Army special operations officer,[1] CIA operative, writer and political activist. He was known for saying that the CIA played a role in the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.[2] Ayers was one of the first career officers to voice opposition to the Vietnam War and to speak out publicly against it. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Ayers contributed to various technical military publications as well as writing about skin diving, parachuting, and flying for popular magazines.[3]

Ayers died in Somers Lake, Wisconsin on February 10, 2017, aged 81.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Ayers, Bradley E. (Winter 2004/2005). Review of American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone, by Four Arrows (aka Donald Trent Jacobs) and Jim Fetzer. Rain Taxi Online Edition. Full issue.
  2. ↑ O'Sullivan, Shane (Nov. 20, 2006). "Did the CIA Kill Bobby Kennedy?" The Guardian, pp. 10 / G2.
  3. ↑ Ayers, Bradley (1976). The War That Never Was: An Insider's Account of CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba. Back jacket description. Bobbs-Merrill Company. ISBN 978-0672521805.
  4. ↑ Staff writer (Feb. 20, 2017). "Bradley Ayers" (obituary). Stillwater Gazette. ECM Publishers. Retrieved February 22, 2017. Archived from the original.

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