Directorate of Intelligence organization
also: DI, Cuban DGI, DO, analytical component of CIA
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Claims (2)
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
CIA covered_up
Directorate of Intelligence book_quoted
“I'm sorry, I just have to laugh. We don't actually want anybody getting intelligence because we're just creating it. We're making it up to justify what we're doing. We don't need the Directorate of Intelligence involved in an intelligence o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 43:27
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▶ 42:55
So Castro knows what's going on. This amounted to very thin supplies. And it was at some point, there was probably rebels wishing the CIA had in fact dropped them the rice and beans, not the CIA agent. Meanwhile, the analytical component of…
▶ 43:27
I'm sorry, I just have to laugh. We don't actually want anybody getting intelligence because we're just creating it. We're making it up to justify what we're doing. We don't need the Directorate of Intelligence involved in an intelligence o…
▶ 43:56
that might even suggest what was impending for Cuba. So again, they may know over here in this office that Castro's on to all of them, but they're insulated by the covert action people because they don't want to hear that because then they …
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All of this had taken place. Dulles knows unequivocally the entire operation is compromised. And again, the place where the intelligence analyst and the intelligence operators, the covert side, meet is at the Cabell and Dulles level. So it …
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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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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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Another DI unit was the Office of National Estimates, which produced the community's flagship reports, the National Intelligence Estimates. Without bringing it into the circle of knowledge on the plan, Dulles and Bissell asked O&E to assess…
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burst into the public in 1972 with leaked ITT documents. Opposition from both Ray Warren and Nathaniel Davis forced Shackley to cancel a planned trip to Santiago. The Cuban DGI had a good station in Chile under Juan Maraditero Ibanez.…
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That was just made up out of whole air. They have no idea whether that was true or not. Analysts in the Directorate for Intelligence told that the project could not achieve more than a disruptive effect. But Bob Gates, its chief from 82 to …