Garfield Thorsrud (February 20, 1928 - November 23, 2014) was a Montana pilot and smoke jumper who was initially contracted by the Central Intelligence Agency to fly aircraft for the Tibetan insertion operation, encrypted STBARNUM, in the early 1950s. He was one of the first eight smokejumpers recruited out of the University of Montana by the Central Intelligence Agency's famed Special Activities Division (renamed Special Activities Center in 2016 ) in Spring 1951.
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20 February 1928
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Died |
23 November 2014 (aged 86)
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Zodiac | Pisces |
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