NSC 10/2 operation
also: 10-2, a National Security Action Memorandum, NSC 10-2, 10-2, 10-5, NSC 10-5, directive 10-2, 10-2 directive
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Harry S. Trumanperson · 5CIAintelligence service · 4Frank Wisnerperson · 4Office of Policy Coordinationorganization · 3Soviet Unioncountry · 2United Statescountry · 1Ray Clineperson · 1Walter Bedell Smithperson · 1George F. Kennanperson · 1Psychological Strategy Boardorganization · 1Office of Special Projectsorganization · 1Berlin Blockadeevent · 1Roscoe Hillenkoetterperson · 1Ivan Yeatonperson · 1Dwight D. Eisenhowerperson · 1Robert Joyceperson · 1John F. Kennedyperson · 1Patrice Lumumbaperson · 1U.S. State Departmentorganization · 1Lumumba assassinationevent · 1
Claims (7)
Harry S. Truman founded
NSC 10/2 documented
“included both psychological operations and paramilitary programs. You know, in addition to political warfare, we're just going to do the whole nine yards. Truman signed the new directive 10-2 on June 18th. Both kinds of missions would be ca…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 2:49
NSC 10/2 funded
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“by the Director of Central Intelligence. Composed of representatives of the Secretary of State and Defense, along with the CIA Director, the Secret Committee became the unit of the National Security Council and worked directly for the Presi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 3:21
George F. Kennan member_of
NSC 10/2 host_asserted
“George Kennan, the secretary who later soured on this whole enterprise, so we're told, remained an enthusiastic supporter of covert operations at their inception. It was Kennan who the secretary of state placed on the 10-2 panel as the firs…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 7:44
Harry S. Truman approved
NSC 10/2 book_quoted
“that NSC that we talked about before called 10-2 in 1948. It seemed natural to oversee closely any kind of sensitive endeavor. That summer, there were three NSC meetings that specifically dealt with the Office of Special Projects, which was…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 17:51
Ivan Yeaton member_of
NSC 10/2 host_asserted
“At an early meeting of the 10-2 panel on August 12, 1948, an NSC representative made it clear that the Office of Public Coordination should be controlled by the State Department during peacetime in the Pentagon during war. That disturbed Wi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 24:33
Robert Joyce member_of
NSC 10/2 host_asserted
“He would oppose little that Wisner wanted to do. Kennan soon left the panel, replaced by Robert Joyce, an advocate for increased covert operations. Wisner would resort to the Pentagon, start for intelligence on Russia, to get them, he would…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 25:35
Harry S. Truman proposed
NSC 10/2 guest_asserted
“and it started with Truman, actually, 10-2, a National Security Action Memorandum says, if you are labeled a communist, we have the right to kill you.…”
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Mentions (17)
▶ 33:39
What happens as soon as that phone call is made? They call him a communist. He's not a communist, but because they call him a communist and Eisenhower, and it started with Truman, actually, 10-2, a National Security Action Memorandum says, …
▶ 17:51
that NSC that we talked about before called 10-2 in 1948. It seemed natural to oversee closely any kind of sensitive endeavor. That summer, there were three NSC meetings that specifically dealt with the Office of Special Projects, which was…
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Truman resorted to a special panel as a subordinate entity to the NSC 10-2 activities composed of the DCI, the Director of Central Intelligence, plus representatives from each of the, like, Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense. S…
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Colonel Ivan Yeaton, Y-E-A-T-O-N, for the Pentagon. The degree of cooperation achieved by this panel is suggested by the lack of any record of any of them talking to the full NSC. Yet the cooperation also meant the lack of the opportunity f…
▶ 19:16
Colonel Ivan Yeaton, Y-E-A-T-O-N, for the Pentagon. The degree of cooperation achieved by this panel is suggested by the lack of any record of any of them talking to the full NSC. Yet the cooperation also meant the lack of the opportunity f…
▶ 22:39
There were many conflicts between Hill and Cotter in the main office and Frank Wisner, who ran his fiefdom from a different building. Intelligence authorities like Ray Klein argue that Hill and Cotter lacked the rank, prestige, and politica…
▶ 34:23
The former DCI supported the recommendation to which Truman responded by setting up a Psychological Strategy Board, PSB, under the NSC in the spring of 51. That fall, in approving the NSC 10-5, the president gave the PSB membership on the 1…
▶ 2:49
included both psychological operations and paramilitary programs. You know, in addition to political warfare, we're just going to do the whole nine yards. Truman signed the new directive 10-2 on June 18th. Both kinds of missions would be ca…
▶ 3:49
and approved by the NSC. According to 10-2 directive, quote, the overt foreign activities of the US government must be supplemented by covert operations, unquote, even though they knew it was illegal. Three features of the NSC 10-2 directiv…
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A presidential document specified a mechanism to approve and manage secret operations, making it responsible to the chief executive. That's critical because they try to rewrite history and tell us that Truman regretted creating the CIA. He …
▶ 5:13
sponsored or conducted by the U.S. either in support of friendly governments or against hostile ones. With the stipulation that they were to be, quote, so planned and executed that any U.S. government responsibility for them is not evident …
▶ 5:43
of any responsibility for them, unquote. That's devastating to that narrative. So we're going to do it. We're going to hide it from the American people. And if we get caught, it has to be done so we have plausible deniability so no one in t…
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Such operations shall include any covert activities related to propaganda, economic warfare, preventative direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition, and evacuation measures, subversion against hostile states, including as…
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So anything short of actual declaration of war was covered and the CIA was allowed to do it. The definition of covert operations contained in 10-2 endured for more than three decades. The Office of Special Projects, the new organization cre…
▶ 24:33
At an early meeting of the 10-2 panel on August 12, 1948, an NSC representative made it clear that the Office of Public Coordination should be controlled by the State Department during peacetime in the Pentagon during war. That disturbed Wi…
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Yeaton said little. In his turn, George Kennan demanded the State Department be given a detailed information about objectives and methods to be employed. Instead, Wisner effectively manipulated the system. The Director of Central Intelligen…
▶ 25:35
He would oppose little that Wisner wanted to do. Kennan soon left the panel, replaced by Robert Joyce, an advocate for increased covert operations. Wisner would resort to the Pentagon, start for intelligence on Russia, to get them, he would…