Talk:William Francis Buckley

message: Is it Medford or Bedford?
21:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of birth 

message: Anything more personal about him? Just a question. LamaLoLeshLa (talk) 05:14, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: They can have a briefly stated education and a very brief family arficle. His wife's name, names of children. Just so it is clearly focused on Buckley and not on his (for instance) alma mater. Student7 (talk) 18:38, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: We aren't interested in his hobbies, for example! Student7 (talk) 18:39, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Because he wasn't human, of course. Just another robot built in a some factory to complete some list of tasks before termination. Am I right? Angry bee (talk) 06:14, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd rather see his hobbies than the names of family members who could be put in danger. Mannanan51 (talk) 01:59, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

text: I thought the same, reading this, but of course wondered that as a spook, he would have kept his family, if he even had one, as undercover as possible, so his personal life as an adult wouldn't exactly be all over sources that Wikipedia could find. Remember, Wikipedia is a volunteer thing, so who would want to go to the trouble of digging up his personal life? Billyshiverstick (talk) 04:33, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do people like Buckley get to have a life and death beyond the military? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Please discuss. Chris Troutman (talk) 00:48, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also 

message: I have removed the following passage from the article:
:William Casey, who was by then the director of Central Intelligence, asked Ted Shackley for help in securing Buckley's release. Three weeks after Buckley's abduction, President Ronald Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 138. This directive was drafted by Oliver North and outlined plans on how to get the American hostages released from Iran and to "neutralize" alleged "terrorist threats" from countries such as Nicaragua. This new secret counter-terrorist task force was to be headed by Shackley's old friend, General Richard Secord. This was the beginning of the Iran–Contra affair, which culminated in the exchange of missiles for the release of hostages.
First of all, spartacus-educational.com is not a reliable source per various discussions at WP:RSN and the second and third sentences do not have anything to do with Buckley. Secondly, this is not even close to an accurate representation of Shackley's involvement with Iran-Contra or the attempts to release Buckley. As the Iran-Contra report notes on pp. 88-89, Manucher Ghorbanifar told Shackley in late 1984 that it might be possible to release Buckley. Shackley forwarded that information to the State Department, but they had already rejected the ransom plan. In March 1985, Michael Ledeen asked Shackley (in Shackley's words): "You spend a lot of time covering the Middle East. Have you got any bright ideas on how to get the hostages out?" Shackley told him about the report that he filed with the State Department (see pp. 202-203 of Shackley's testimony). TIME mentioned all of this here. Also see Shackley's account published in The Washington Post. -Location (talk) 16:12, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Casey and Shackley