Major General John
Kirk Singlaub (July 10, 1921 – January 29, 2022) was a major general in the United States Army, founding member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and a highly decorated officer in the former Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
In 1977, Singlaub was relieved from his position as
Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in South Korea after criticizing President Jimmy Carter's
proposal to withdraw U.S. troops from the Korean peninsula in an interview with
the Washington Post. Less than a year later, Singlaub was
forced to retire after publicly questioning President Carter's national
security policies. In 1979, Singlaub founded the Western Goals Foundation, a private intelligence network that
was implicated for supplying weapons to the Contras during the Iran–Contra affair. Singlaub contributed to several books and
wrote an autobiography.