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Pacific Corporation

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Pacific Corporation
Company typeHolding company
PredecessorAirdale Corporation
Founded1950; 74 years ago (1950)
FounderGeorge A. Doole Jr.
Defunct1979 (1979)
Fateliquidation[1]
Headquarters,
OwnerCIA
Number of employees
0

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:

References

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  1. ^ "[REDACTED] LIQUIDATION PLAN" (PDF). CIA.gov.
  2. ^ Smith, W. Thomas (2003). Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-3018-7.
  3. ^ "N379P-N8068V-N44982 - The Rendition Project". www.therenditionproject.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  4. ^ "[REDACTED] LIQUIDATION PLAN" (PDF).