Robert Amory Jr. person
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Robert Amory Jr. member_of
CIA documented
“on their evaluation reports. The IG reported, concluded that Dulles had allowed his division chief to dump their disposable people on the Cuba project. Robert Amory Jr., the CIA's highly respected chief of analysis, was one of those who was…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 12:53
Robert Amory Jr. headed
Directorate of Intelligence book_quoted
“as Fidel Castro. Some secret warriors saw that as a serious security breach, but he didn't care. He had a point to make. Of course, one level of Amory could not break secrecy. As chief of the Directorate of Intelligence, he led a CIA unit w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 1:10
Robert Amory Jr. member_of
United States book_quoted
“um democrats amory had already seen the depths of failure hungary several years into his watch had affected amory deeply in atonement he and his wife mary subsequently sponsored a hungarian refugee into the united states um let me get sr up…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 3:10
Robert Amory Jr. member_of
CIA book_quoted
“but no one consulted him. Amory, far from alone in his views, represented the element at CIA that was skeptical about the Cuba project. Some doubted the internal resistance could cripple Castro. Others questioned the outcome, even if the CI…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 4:41
Robert Amory Jr. member_of
United States book_quoted
“Its head, Art Longdahl, who we've read all about in our other U2 series, kept Amory apprised of the pictures passing through his shop. Photos of the Cuban coast were worthy of comment to the boss. Robert Amory Jr., a solid Republican, the t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 2:40
J. Edgar Hoover spied_on
Robert Amory Jr. host_asserted
“Hoover even suspected Dulles of secret communist leanings, a delusion as fantastic as any of McCarthy's wild claims. At least one high-ranking CIA official, Robert Amory, the agency's top intelligence analyst, was convinced that the FBI had…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 37:12
Mentions (17)
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Ernst Cuneo, and you spell his last name, C-U-N-E-O, who also happened to have been in the OSS, Robert Amory, A-M-O-R-Y, ex-CIA, and James Rowe, R-O-W-E, one of Lyndon Johnson's early advisors, along with Corcoran himself, continue to keep …
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We don't want to hear it. It's like the deaf, dumb, and blind monkeys. The analysts were deemed not to have a need to know about what they were doing. The chief analyst, Deputy Director Robert Amore Jr., went to many of the same Georgetown …
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Amori undoubtedly found out. They all got through a capital briefing on January 6, 1961, where Alan Dulles presented the Senate CIA subcommittee some details of the Cuban project. But Amori had no standing to supply reports that might call …
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and Alan Dulles, Richard Bissell, and other senior CIA people had also encountered Kennedy on the Washington social scene. Dulles, Bissell, and Kennedy, for example, all shared friendships with newspaper columnists Joe Alsop, Robert Amory, …
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be fed into the campaign, according to Bissell. Bob Amory's impression was that Kennedy regarded Bissell as one of the four or five good people in the government. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Allen Dulles briefed JFK on internatio…
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Where we left off, Bay of Pigs, failure at Playa Garan. And we're on page 242 of Safe for Democracy in this series. Okay, where we left off, the Robert Amory stunned colleagues when he attended one of Kennedy's inaugural celebrations, a Cam…
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as Fidel Castro. Some secret warriors saw that as a serious security breach, but he didn't care. He had a point to make. Of course, one level of Amory could not break secrecy. As chief of the Directorate of Intelligence, he led a CIA unit w…
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Amory knew about all of this. The DI chief at that time held responsibility for the Photographic Interpretation Center. And what do we know about that from our U2 studies? We know that that's the area that processes all of the films from th…
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Its head, Art Longdahl, who we've read all about in our other U2 series, kept Amory apprised of the pictures passing through his shop. Photos of the Cuban coast were worthy of comment to the boss. Robert Amory Jr., a solid Republican, the t…
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um democrats amory had already seen the depths of failure hungary several years into his watch had affected amory deeply in atonement he and his wife mary subsequently sponsored a hungarian refugee into the united states um let me get sr up…
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He also had a lot more experience with invasions than anyone involved in the Cuba Project. In World War II, Amory had been a landing craft operator, finishing the war as a colonel in charge of a whole regiment of vessels. A veteran of 26 as…
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The actual invasion boss had participated in exactly two. The massive Irojimo endeavor, where the United States had held all the cards and put ashore many thousands of troops in operation in Korea. Amory thought Hawkins, quote, just didn't …
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but no one consulted him. Amory, far from alone in his views, represented the element at CIA that was skeptical about the Cuba project. Some doubted the internal resistance could cripple Castro. Others questioned the outcome, even if the CI…
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in the Guyanese parliament. Approving the consolidated budget for covert operations, an annual exercise always generated heat. A special issue in the summer of 66 was the degree to which the Washington Bureau of Budget, Bob Amory, the forme…
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Hoover even suspected Dulles of secret communist leanings, a delusion as fantastic as any of McCarthy's wild claims. At least one high-ranking CIA official, Robert Amory, the agency's top intelligence analyst, was convinced that the FBI had…
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on their evaluation reports. The IG reported, concluded that Dulles had allowed his division chief to dump their disposable people on the Cuba project. Robert Amory Jr., the CIA's highly respected chief of analysis, was one of those who was…
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would acknowledge that JFK was indeed a little bit trapped by the CIA on the Bay of Pigs, though Amory himself had nothing to do with it. But if Dulles thought he could force Kennedy to carry out his Cuba plan, he underestimated JFK. Around…