U.S. Intelligence Board organization
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Claims (11)
James Killian headed
U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted
“the CIA's reputation in the wake of the Hungarian crisis. The president's board of consultants on foreign intelligence activities, commonly known by the name of its chairman, James Killian, could look into any aspect of intelligence activit…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 7:03
Edwin Land member_of
U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted
“many traveling to Washington to meet. Killian was an inspired choice of this era based on technological developments, supporting strong scientific representation. His experts like Edwin Land, William Baker, and Charles Stark Draper gave U.S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 7:34
William Barr member_of
U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted
“many traveling to Washington to meet. Killian was an inspired choice of this era based on technological developments, supporting strong scientific representation. His experts like Edwin Land, William Baker, and Charles Stark Draper gave U.S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 7:34
Charles Stark Draper member_of
U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted
“many traveling to Washington to meet. Killian was an inspired choice of this era based on technological developments, supporting strong scientific representation. His experts like Edwin Land, William Baker, and Charles Stark Draper gave U.S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 7:34
David Bruce member_of
U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted
“responsible for all dealings with the board, recalled the first encounter as brutal and writes that it was in truth a saturation effort. But Kirk could not head off the initiative to examine covert action. David K.E. Bruce, the respected di…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 8:38
Robert Lovett member_of
U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted
“responsible for all dealings with the board, recalled the first encounter as brutal and writes that it was in truth a saturation effort. But Kirk could not head off the initiative to examine covert action. David K.E. Bruce, the respected di…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 8:38
U.S. Intelligence Board spied_on
Cuba book_quoted
“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 …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 44:59
U.S. Intelligence Board spied_on
Cuba book_quoted
“And again in February 1961. But without deeper knowledge of the CIA plans, their reporting failed to tell the headquarters element of this operation much of what it needed to know about Castro's capability both against the resistance and th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 45:29
U.S. Intelligence Board covered_up
Operation Mongoose book_quoted
“And again in February 1961. But without deeper knowledge of the CIA plans, their reporting failed to tell the headquarters element of this operation much of what it needed to know about Castro's capability both against the resistance and th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 45:29
John Birch member_of
U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted
“after they had bailed out of their B-25 bomber over Japanese-held territory in China. Doolittle had bombed Tokyo during the Doolittle raid off a Navy carrier USS Hornet. Beginning in 1942, Birch, who spoke Chinese, became an Army intelligen…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 1:12:01
U.S. Intelligence Board covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“and achieve better synchronization between CIA's black propaganda and the unattributed gray activities carried out by U.S. Information Agency. They were already coordinating. The Killian board told Eisenhower, both in writing and on Decembe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 11:11
Mentions (29)
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talking and it's by the writer his name is dave troy so i'm just going to walk through this article and i will talk a little bit about it as we go through it so he starts off talking about the new york times dubbed the year 1975 the year of…
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Between North's office and Casey's were the Intelligence Oversight Board and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. That is where North first began running into Bill Casey. Some of his colleagues said it was deliberate. Unifor…
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Army charges in the case were dropped after CIA officers refused to testify at the court-martial. The Green Beret affair, which is what it was called, resulted in Washington in one of the few meetings ever held by the U.S. Intelligence Boar…
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Ewell, the general's kind of strong-arm guy, soaked up Bissell's comments and gave back Taylor's responses. Bissell's paper grew odd tentacles in successive drafts over the fall of 1961, presenting an update on covert action procedures to K…
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Bissell suddenly spoke of regaining public confidence in the CIA's covert action by revealing the existence of the special group, much as Eisenhower had once revealed the Killian board. At another point, Bob Comer did a summary of Bissell's…
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the CIA's reputation in the wake of the Hungarian crisis. The president's board of consultants on foreign intelligence activities, commonly known by the name of its chairman, James Killian, could look into any aspect of intelligence activit…
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and achieve better synchronization between CIA's black propaganda and the unattributed gray activities carried out by U.S. Information Agency. They were already coordinating. The Killian board told Eisenhower, both in writing and on Decembe…
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It will be discussed in a meeting in this room. In a written response to the Killian Board a week later, the CIA accepted its recommendations on the 5412 matters. In early March, the special group itself noted that proposals within establis…
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of covert operations, unquote. But Killian board initiative getting Eisenhower to make Alan Dulles use a chief of staff, the CIA steadfastly refused. The president sided again with Dulles. So all of the rules apply to everybody else except …
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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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on the diplomatic front when you're running operations in that country. William Polly is a good example of that. There's lots of them. President Kennedy reversed this policy. Among the intelligence board recommendations of 1961 had been one…
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refused to furnish data to the special group using the excuse that they were his own pursuit. Neither Kim, Jim Killian, nor fellow board members accepted that the president's panel should be denied any data for inquiries because they were w…
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A CIA is the deputy in the Pentagon and a Pentagon guy is the deputy in the CIA. They wanted a briefing. Carter, General Carter, delayed it. A week later, he refused the briefing altogether. There were complaints and it was finally schedule…
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a comment on the Congo there. To placate them, McCone told Killian he had spoken to the president and JFK agreed with him. Killian shot back that he had talked to him himself, and that was not true. National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy,…
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and hammered out a compromise. The director of the intelligence would present a briefing book specially prepared by the CIA the first time the agency worked up a guide for ongoing covert activity. As it turned out, McComb-Killian compromise…
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When it came to the latest Cuba project, the Intelligence Board found, because the CIA had not briefed on it, that no overall plan seemed to exist. By late 1962, the Killian Board wanted access to the special group's records. This happened …
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exhibiting only records of aerial surveillance on Cuba. Again, from the U2. On March 25th, 1963, McCone told Kennedy the Killian board reports created a misleading record that might leak and be very damaging to the CIA because you're a bunc…
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Typical of the CIA's approach would be that the Intelligence Board meeting of April 23rd, when Lyman Kirkpatrick asked that discussion on the Cuba operation exclude diplomat Sterling Cottrell, who headed the government's interagency Cuban t…
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The Intelligence Board chairman, James Killian, created and his successor, Clark Clifford, continued a subcommittee on covert operations. This group finally received the agency's general briefings. The panel included Gordon Gray, who had re…
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and retired diplomat Robert Murphy. In early April, they received Cord Meyer, chief of the CIA's international organizations branch, and a logistical official to inform the group on actions in Latin America other than Cuba, which involved a…
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that we're very familiar with, where they repeatedly tried to overthrow the government there. Bob Murphy, not impressed, told the full panel that Meyer's presentation consisted only of light touches. Meyer conveyed the impression that cover…
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even though that's the entire purpose of the board. It didn't work. A few weeks later, the Clifford board demanded and received full information. Well, as full as you're going to get from about Cuba. They asked again in June when Clifford a…
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A fresh briefing in September featured CIA big guns, not just Cord Meyer, but Richard Helms and Desmond Fitzgerald. In September and November, John McCone at the Intelligence Board defended the CIA's role in South Vietnam against publicly r…
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which again is a bold-faced lie. So they're just lying to the intelligence board, to Kennedy. So you're left with the question, who do they work for? It's not the president. Board members became increasingly concerned about the system's sel…
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after they had bailed out of their B-25 bomber over Japanese-held territory in China. Doolittle had bombed Tokyo during the Doolittle raid off a Navy carrier USS Hornet. Beginning in 1942, Birch, who spoke Chinese, became an Army intelligen…
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Chinese national Chinese soldiers, which would have meant he was working with Chiang Kai-shek and he regularly risk his life. And who else would he have been working there with? He would have been working with Colonel Paul Helliwell because…
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of the final solution, as well as training some of its most enthusiastic enforcers, personally leading a SS death squad on the Eastern Front. After the war, Six was hired by the Galen Organization, but was later arrested by U.S. Army counte…
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James Critchfield, the news chief of CIA Munich Station, was given the task of evaluating Galen's operation and recommending for or against it. The 31-year-old Critchfield was a Dulles man. He had identified as a talented prospect by Eleano…
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Konrad Adenauer was also involved in delicate negotiations with the U.S. over West Germany's proposed entry into NATO. In October 1954, during a visit by Adenauer to Washington, General Arthur Trudeau, Chief of the U.S. Army Intelligence, m…