Western Hemisphere Division organization
also: CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, the Western Hemisphere Division, Western Division staff, WesternHemisphereDivision, W H Division
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Claims (5)
Western Hemisphere Division subsidiary_of
CIA documented
document
“According to the memorandum of the meeting J C King Chief of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division had stated...…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.129
Western Hemisphere Division subsidiary_of
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
document
“An official in the Western Hemisphere Division of the Directorate of Plans who was responsible for evaluating potential Cuban assets…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.164
William Broe member_of
Western Hemisphere Division documented
document
“With the exception of the Division Chief William Broe his deputy and the head of the Chile Branch no other officers in the Division were aware of the task force's activities…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.249
Western Hemisphere Division member_of
CIA documented
document
“By 1962 the Western Hemisphere Division had experienced considerable success in penetrating the major Communist Parties in Latin America…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.55
J.C. King headed
Western Hemisphere Division documented
document
“J C King Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division within the Directorate for Plans.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.87
Mentions (5)
▶ 8:53
and closed the mafia-owned casinos in Havana. Then Castro declared his commitment to communism, putting a Soviet ally only 90 miles from American territory. The CIA's Western Hemisphere Division got the job of ridding Cuba of Castro, and th…
▶ 29:59
took the Western Hemisphere divisions of both offices and put them together, of the OSS and the OPC, just to see how it would work. Fused them together. The last straw came in 1952 as a byproduct of the Lee-Me partisan operation. The OPC, W…
▶ 35:31
and all of the nations surrounding Guatemala, because they're going to do to Guatemala exactly what they did to Nicaragua. Nicaragua was surrounded by Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and they basically set up terrorist training camps, as …
▶ 1:01:45
Now, six months later, Eisenhower approved measures that began a secret war. So again, Castro hasn't even been there very long at all, six months, and they've already declared war on him. The CIA already had an answer. In August of 59, disc…
▶ 23:21
An extra 1,000 CIA personnel supported the director of operations work. Field stations in Africa increased by half between 59 and 63. You know, because we're going to overthrow a bunch of governments there. Reflecting the rise of Tweedy's A…