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Claims (117)
Office of Strategic Services succeeded
CIA documented
document
“First OSS provided an organizational precedent for the CIA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.106
Office of Strategic Services recruited
CIA documented
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“many OSS personnel later joined the CIA in 1947 the year of the CIA's establishment…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.106
Office of Strategic Services worked_for
U.S. State Department documented
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“He estimated that approximately 1,600 OSS personnel were transferred to State…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.278
Allen Welsh Dulles worked_for
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Allen Welsh Dulles the OSS master spy in Switzerland during World War II…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.261
Harry S. Truman dissolved
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“President Truman anticipating criticism for the continuation of the agency when world peace had been restored hastily abolished this entity in a directive (E.O 9621) of September 20 1945 effective ten days later…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.247
William Langer worked_for
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“He called on William Langer formerly chief of the Research and Analysis section of the OSS to come to Washington from Harvard in 1950 to head a small staff for analysis and the production of intelligence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.31
Office of Strategic Services relationship_with
William J. Donovan documented
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“Mr ANGLETON... during World War II the OSS had many people who were loyal to General Donovan…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.73
CIA succeeded
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“CIG was the direct predecessor of the CIA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
William J. Donovan founded
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Through the driving initiative and single-minded determination of General William J Donovan sponsor and later first director of OSS the organization became the United States first central intelligence body…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.105
William J. Donovan headed
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Through the driving initiative and single-minded determination of General William J Donovan sponsor and later first director of OSS the organization became the United States first central intelligence body…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.105
Foreign Broadcast Information Service subsidiary_of
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) an element of OSS monitored overseas broadcasts…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.110
Allen Dulles worked_for
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Dulles role as DCI was rooted in his wartime experience with OSS…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.118
CIA succeeded
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“The purpose of the CIA was to take over the functions of the CIG which had acted as a foreign intelligence agency.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.144
Foreign Broadcast Information Service member_of
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“shortly thereafter became one of the original elements of the OSS…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.271
Harry S. Truman dissolved
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“It was clear in President Truman's decision to dismantle the Office of Strategic Services scattering its functions to the military departments and the Department of State…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.27
James Jesus Angleton worked_for
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Mr ANGLETON I began in 1947 having come from OSS (Office of Strategic Services)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.58
Federal Bureau of Investigation did_business_with
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“The Bureau jealously guarded its intelligence functions and prerogatives fought a number of agencies including the Office of Strategic Services for jurisdiction in these matters…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.232
United States Department of State acquired
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“At the end of the war the research and analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) numbering over 1,500 was transferred to the Department…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.315
James F. Byrnes dissolved
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Byrnes also adopted the recommendations of the Department's geographic divisions and broke up the OSS research and analysis unit which State had inherited dispersing its personnel to those divisions…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.315
Franklin D. Roosevelt founded
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“One of the first steps taken by President Roosevelt in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor was to order the creation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in June 1942 under the direction of General William Donovan…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.332
Joint Intelligence Committee headed
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“During World War II OSS together with the Army and Navy intelligence organizations was coordinated by the Joint Intelligence Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.332
War Department acquired
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“The Department of War absorbed some of its functions such as the work of its Secret Intelligence group and of its Counterespionage program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.332
William J. Donovan founded
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“The man proposing the new intelligence entity was William J Donovan... he agreed to form the new agency under the somewhat misleading title of Coordinator of Information.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145
William J. Donovan headed
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“William J Donovan is hereby designated as Coordinator of Information…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.147
Office of Strategic Services subsidiary_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff documented
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“and is hereby transferred to the jurisdiction of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.147
William J. Donovan headed
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“William J Donovan is hereby appointed as Director of Strategic Services…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.147
Joint Chiefs of Staff supplied_arms_to
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“This meant that all funds to operate OSS must come from Congress primarily the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and its budget requests must first be submitted to and approved by the gimlet-eyed Bureau of the Budget…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.148
William J. Donovan proposed
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Preparing his own case Donovan with staff assistance drafted and redrafted a proposed OSS directive establishing the agency's operational authority…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.148
British Security Coordination supplied_arms_to
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“they supplied the pioneer American agency at the outset with much of its secret intelligence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.149
British Intelligence Service trained
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Experts in counterespionage and subversive propaganda and special operations were put at Donovan's disposal and he was shown their methods of communicating with resistance forces behind the lines…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.149
Office of Strategic Services operated_in
United States documented
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“Faced with the necessity of quickly organizing an effective intelligence operation for the United States…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.149
William Langer headed
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“headed the key Research and Analysis division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.151
James Phinney Baxter headed
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“who served briefly as the first chief of R&A…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.151
Office of Strategic Services carried_out_attack
Spanish embassy in Washington documented
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“In January 1942 Donovan's officers secretly penetrated the Spanish embassy in Washington and began photographing the code books and other official documents of Franco's pro Axis government…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.154
Chester Nimitz worked_for
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Admiral Chester Nimitz had it small OSS maritime unit for underwater demolition action with his fleet…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.154
Office of Strategic Services supplied_arms_to
Tenth Army documented
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“and another OSS force delivered special weapons to the Tenth Army for the Okinawa landing…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.154
Office of Strategic Services operated_in
French North Africa documented
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“OSS took primary responsibility for subversion in North Africa (as well as China Korea the South Pacific and Finland)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.155
Preston Goodfellow worked_for
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“negotiated in London by OSS Colonels Preston Goodfellow .. and Garland Williams…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.155
Office of Strategic Services operated_in
United Kingdom documented
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“Rather than engage in destructive competition the British yielded OSS Special Operations (SO) and Counterintelligence (X 2) greatly strengthened their ETO and were given access to the extensive files which Britain had taken decades to devel…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.156
Office of Strategic Services funded
Norway documented
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“In turn OSS provided funds manpower resistance supplies three sub-chasers for Norwegian operations and a squadron of Liberator bombers for airdrops to occupied countries…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.156
Shortwave Research Inc. front_for
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Early in the war influential German emigres to the United States were recruited by Shortwave Research Inc. a COI front to broadcast anti-Nazi messages to their homeland.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.156
Milton Miles worked_for
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“The deputy director of the unit was Captain Milton "Mary" Miles who while chief of OSS Far Eastern operations and commander of Navy Group/China had befriended Tai Li…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.156
William J. Donovan worked_for
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Eventually Donovan personally intervened fired Miles and challenged Tai Li to try and halt OSS agents operating in his country…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.156
Allen Dulles worked_for
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“And in the middle of neutral Switzerland attached to the American Legation at Bern as a Special Assistant to the Minister was Allen Dulles an OSS master agent literally surrounded by the Nazi regime…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.156
Harry S. Truman removed_from_power
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Without consulting Donovan or the Joint Chiefs of Staff President Truman on September 20 directed (E.O 9621) that OSS terminate operations effective October 1 1945…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.160
Office of Strategic Services split_off_from
Strategic Services Unit documented
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“The Secret Intelligence (SI) and Counterespionage (X 2) sections were transferred to the War Department where they formed the Strategic Services Unit…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.160
United States Congress funded
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Donovan was the first man to whom Congress made a grant of twenty-five million dollars without requiring an accounting…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.161
Office of Strategic Services paid
Ernst Floege documented
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“One lone parachutist Ernst Floege of Chicago who dropped into the Hericourt district of France wound up the war in command of an underground force of thirty-five hundred…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.162
Map and Photograph Branch did_business_with
Office of Strategic Services documented
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“Materials were also drawn from the Aeronautical Chart Service Navy Hydrographic Office Coast and Geodetic Survey U.S Geological Survey Office of Strategic Services and several commercial firms including the National Geographic Society.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.213
Office of Strategic Services succeeded
Office of the Coordinator of Information documented
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“Office of Strategic Services established by military order of June 13 1942 the presidential directive of July 11 1941 was simultaneously cancelled…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.316
U.S. State Department acquired
Office of Strategic Services documented
document
“The State Department assumed others…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.332
William Colby member_of
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“had to admit that Roman Catholic Colby was CIA royalty, bathed in the blood of the Lamb. As an OSS officer, Colby had parachuted into occupied France and fought Germany behind the scenes in France. He had also helped out in Italy. And Colby…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 23:43
Evan Parker Jr. member_of
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“Special Operations Division, and it became an elite special operations group and cross-trained paramilitary officers that was known as low-intensity warfare. Enders and Gregg looked up to Parker with great respect. Having served in the OSS …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 25:45
Franklin D. Roosevelt supported_formation_of
Office of Strategic Services documented
“of a special tactical capability called the SOEs. Americans had monitored with great interest the success and efficiency of the British Secret Services, SOE, and commandos. Roosevelt immediately supported the formation of such a group, whic…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 9:25
Allen Dulles member_of
Office of Strategic Services documented
“provided clearances for senior German bankers and industrialists seeking permission to remain active in Germany post-war economy. Now, keep in mind, these are the same bankers and industrialists that him and his brother did deals with. As a…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12B @ 1:52
John Magruder chief_of
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“on the 1st of November. And I bet they were singing, we're in the money. Meanwhile, on October 28th, a detailed proposal for covert operations in China from General John Magruder went to the Secretary of Defense. Magruder, citing his experi…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 15:21
William J. Donovan founded
Office of Strategic Services documented
“yeah that's pretty insidious the timing of all this stuff happening is interesting um and i think it's worth noting that the united states prior to world war ii never had intelligence agencies during peacetime they had to develop one on cod…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 7; Robert Maxwell - Man of Many Vices @ 20:45
Office of Strategic Services succeeded_by
CIA documented
“yeah that's pretty insidious the timing of all this stuff happening is interesting um and i think it's worth noting that the united states prior to world war ii never had intelligence agencies during peacetime they had to develop one on cod…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 7; Robert Maxwell - Man of Many Vices @ 20:45
Allen Dulles member_of
Office of Strategic Services documented
“provided clearances for senior German bankers and industrialists seeking permission to remain active in Germany post-war economy. Now, keep in mind, these are the same bankers and industrialists that him and his brother did deals with. As a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 3:11
William R. Pears headed
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“got hurt during one of these training things, and so William Pears replaces him. Pears subsequently becomes the head of OSS operations in the China-Burma-India Theater. He personally oversaw the commando operations carried out by the KMT tr…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:19:02
Office of Strategic Services predecessor_of
CIA host_asserted
“in the United States prior to and during World War II. What I was wanting to know was because during World War II, the United States started up the OSS, Office of Strategic Services, which was active in Burma and Southeast Asia. A few units…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 1:26:07
Office of Strategic Services trained
Carl Eifler book_quoted
“Eifler and Joe Lukarski got their starts in this very operation. Dozens of spies deep in Japanese rear, plus about 400 agents surveying nearby enemy positions, helped those units plan their missions. They in turn helped trap two powerful Ja…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 12:23
Office of Strategic Services trained
Joe Lukarski book_quoted
“Eifler and Joe Lukarski got their starts in this very operation. Dozens of spies deep in Japanese rear, plus about 400 agents surveying nearby enemy positions, helped those units plan their missions. They in turn helped trap two powerful Ja…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 12:23
William Casey headed
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“went to the continent in this campaign, including two future directors. Bill Colby led one of the 90 Jedburgh teams in France. And later, the operational group in Norway, William Casey masterminded the overall OSS effort to infiltrate Germa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 14:47
Harry S. Truman removed_from_power
Office of Strategic Services documented
“The surrender of Japan in August of 1945 brought a scramble to demobilize armies, one that extended to the intelligence service. The OSS had built up a strength of 13,000 people when President Truman ordered its dissolution on September 20,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 16:48
Office of Strategic Services succeeded
CIA documented
“I know you've covered a lot of this stuff, but to answer that question specifically, what I would say is we never had intelligence agencies during peacetime until after World War II. And what really brought that about, you know, after the w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:47:08
Office of Strategic Services recruited
Ho Chi Minh host_asserted
“Ho Chi Minh was fine when the OSS was helping him during World War II, working alongside of him. The precursor to the CIA adopted him, used his entire army to kick the Japanese out.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins på X CIA are the terrorists @ 4:14
Office of Strategic Services transported
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“Mistress of Mussolini's. And he whiled his time by reading it. Dahlman was not an entirely free man. He was still a guest of U.S. intelligence officers. But even though he remained under close surveillance compared to his accommodations aft…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 9:47
Office of Strategic Services recruited
Ho Chi Minh host_asserted
“would also be valuable assets to the war against Japan. Soon thereafter, Ho Chi Minh became an OSS agent. His name under the OSS secret agent name was Lucius, L-U-C-I-U-S. The OSS then sent in Deer Team, Deer Team commanded by Major Allison…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 6:52
Office of Strategic Services founded
Franklin D. Roosevelt book_quoted
“to be conducted on things like riot control, choking agents. With the two German nerve gases satisfactorily filling the requirement for future chemical weapons, both the military and the CIA shifted Edgewood's doctors and chemists' attentio…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 10:16
Paul Helliwell member_of
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“And he features prominently in the foundational approach to most countries at the beginning of Operation Gladio, none more so than Italy. So he basically spent time in China during the OSS days. And he watched while he was in China.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 5:24
John Magruder member_of
Office of Strategic Services documented
“the CIA signed a formal agreement in November. In the Pentagon, a few days before, a detailed proposal for covert operations in China had been sent to the SEC DEF by a General John Magruder, M-A-G-R-U-D-E-R. Magruder endorsed the proposal, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 14:11
William J. Donovan founded
Office of Strategic Services caller_asserted
“I never finished the book, Wild Bill Donovan, the spymaster who created the OSS. But early on in that book, it brings up his extreme amount of extramarital affairs and how he would use it against his political rivals. And then also, I think…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 6 @ 44:20
Tom Corbley member_of
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“Even after selling the bulk of Paradise Island to Resorts International, Hartford retained an interest in the gaming company, which was the Mafia. Hitchcock's roommate in London during the early 60s, this is number two, was Tom Corbley, a v…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 3:27
Brigadier General Magruder headed
Office of Strategic Services documented
“The detachment of clandestine officers went to the War Department as a new strategic services unit under Brigadier General Magruder, the former OSS Special Warfare Chief. By early 1946, General Magruder's mandate, not so much to preserve or…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 17:17
Alfred Ulmer headed
Office of Strategic Services documented
“In Russian occupied areas, including Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany. It screened refugees, prepared cover stories to support its agents, and maintained relationships with other services. Al Ulmer, the SSU station chief for Vie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 19:45
E. Michael Burke member_of
Office of Strategic Services documented
“meeting place for spies. So two men come up from Washington to talk with Burke. They had gotten his name from a friend at the OSS, most likely Frank Lindsey. E. Michael Burke had served in the Navy and had been seconded to the OSS. In other…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 38:40
Hans Jeschonnek member_of
Office of Strategic Services documented
“a leader of a tiny nationalist conservative wing of the German resistance, who had been an important member of Allen Dulles' intelligence network. Gessowitz was still working as a full-time U.S. intelligence source in 1945. Both he and Wood…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 33:20
Julia Child worked_in
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“It says later Patty retired from the military in 1957. He worked for the Office of Emergency Planning. And I guess he's the one, and I don't know if this was the first mentioning of it, but that Julia Child had actually worked in the OSS as…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 20:16
William J. Donovan ran
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“That's where the OSS came in. And we know that it was at the time ran by Wild Bill Donovan. And Wild Bill Donovan, once he was told to establish a presence in the Pacific, decided that they were going to put the base at a place called Kunmi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 27:10
William J. Donovan headed
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“had convinced Harry Truman that we needed a peacetime version of it as well. Truman, of course, agreed and set up all types of intelligence capability, mainly what originally was termed the Central Intelligence Group, which became the Centr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 11:17
Hoyt Vandenberg headed
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“Succeeded in gaining control of the former OSS Strategic Services Unit, the espionage and secret intelligence organization that had both commandos, paramilitary, and spies. That grew his organization to 1,300 people. Vandenberg was not sati…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 14:19
Office of Strategic Services trained
Ho Chi Minh guest_asserted
“They work to go in and disrupt countries in order to steal their resources. And there is no better example than Vietnam of that process because the OSS, the precursor to CIA, was in bed with Ho Chi Minh. We developed him. We trained him. Ye…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 1:43:06
Allen Dulles headed
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“to enabling the mafia to be the distribution nodes of the drugs. Crazy. Okay. One of the misconceptions held by many people is to believe that the CIA's creation in 1947 is the date to which we should look when things started to diverge fro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 6:57
Harry S. Truman removed_from_power
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“In September 1945, President Truman abolished the OSS as a separate spy agency and placed what remained under the War Department, first calling it the Strategic Services Unit. A few months later, designating it a National Intelligence Autho…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 23:26
Viet Minh worked_with
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“and were preaching the gospel according to Ho to anyone interested in independence. Viet Minh held six provinces near Hanoi and was working with the forerunner to the CIA, the OSS, recovering downed pilots as a part of 14th Air Force. A stu…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 41:22
Office of Strategic Services carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“And on April 15th, 1943, the OSS was charged with implementing plans for the Allied invasion of Sicily. And the other thing that they wanted him to do was basically contact all of his family in Sicily and help them stage an invasion into Si…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 30:36
Office of Strategic Services sent
DEER host_asserted
“would also be valuable assets to the war against Japan. Soon thereafter, Ho Chi Minh became an OSS agent. His name under the OSS secret agent name was Lucius, L-U-C-I-U-S. The OSS then sent in Deer Team, Deer Team commanded by Major Allison…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 6:52
William J. Donovan headed
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“A guy by the name of Wild Bill Donovan becomes the first coordinator of information. By the way, the FBI and military did not want Wild Bill Donovan. He was a New York Republican lawyer. This concept of fraternal hostility was born. And bas…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 9; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (1 of 2) @ 30:57
William J. Donovan headed
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“Shows deleted is a guy by the name of Wild Bill Donovan. Coincidentally, Donovan was a lawyer from New York. Joining this, you know, other people who had a lot of intelligence experience, of course, went to these other law firms like Solomo…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 9; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (1 of 2) @ 54:39
Office of Strategic Services recruited
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“all the stay-behind lines. This is what our OSS was building towards. I find one of the other fascinating things about World War II and the OSS is what they were doing in Asia. They'd been working with Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek w…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 9; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (1 of 2) @ 57:27
Office of Strategic Services covered_up
Otto Skorzeny host_asserted
“It was the OSS that set up the rat lines to save most of them and put them in Italy, put them in Spain, Otto Skorzeny, Reinhard Galen, set them up as the chief intelligence officer of the soon-to-be West German government. So no, the OSS wa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 1:21:28
Office of Strategic Services covered_up
Reinhard Gehlen host_asserted
“It was the OSS that set up the rat lines to save most of them and put them in Italy, put them in Spain, Otto Skorzeny, Reinhard Galen, set them up as the chief intelligence officer of the soon-to-be West German government. So no, the OSS wa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 1:21:28
Office of Strategic Services originated_from
William Stephenson book_quoted
“It talks about Churchill immediately turned his attention to going on the offense after those were established, quote, to set Europe ablaze using subversive warfare and covert actions, unquote. It talks about the Office of Strategic Service…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 8:23
William J. Donovan member_of
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“Basically connected to the World Commerce Corporation, FDR. That's his wife. One of the mob bosses, Paul Helliwell, that we talked about. And of course, he worked for the OSS, follow on CIA, numerous examples. So if you want to look at this…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 6:35
Paul Helliwell member_of
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“Hitchcock would also be enlisted by his former in-law, David Bruce, to get to the bottom of the Profumo allegations, along with Corbley. Bruce was a full-blown OSS veteran himself. Hitchcock, less than a decade later, would be using Paul He…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER through Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 12:55
Richard Helms member_of
Office of Strategic Services documented
“here for the Navy Reserve and ended up at Harvard after all, as an officer trainee. Detailed to the Navy's anti-sub warfare staff, after just a few weeks, Helms was simply detached to the OSS. One Sunday morning, two weeks of training, assi…”
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Allen Dulles headed
Office of Strategic Services documented
“a master of clandestine operations in Europe. He soon moved to Paris with Casey, continuing the work. By the end of the war, Helms was an established expert on Germany. When OSS sent a mission into the defeated nation, Helms went along. Ala…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 36:52
William Casey member_of
Office of Strategic Services documented
“in the field. In early 45, that finally happened when he went to London, where William Casey led the OSS efforts to penetrate Germany. The London job helped Richard Helms to the inner sanctums of the operation. He was sold. This is what he …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 36:23
Paul Helliwell member_of
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“Paul Helliwell's boss during the OSS days was Wild Bill Donovan. He has a very interesting background I'm going to delve into for just a little bit as it relates to this. Donovan takes this idea and runs it past James, Jesus, Angleton, Alle…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 10:19
World Commerce Corporation front_for
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“It was a private intelligence firm established by none other than Wild Bill Donovan, which was set up right after they closed up shop of the OSS. The WCC or World Commerce Corporation was staffed with all the former OSS officers. So basical…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER through Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 16:59
Hans Tofte member_of
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“Manchuria before the war. Another of the band of OSS veterans, Tofke was part of the OSS. His World War II experience had been in organizing armed shipments to guerrillas across the Adriatic Sea from Bari, Italy, which would have been Alban…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 46:46
Tom Corbley member_of
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“Even after selling the bulk of Paradise Island to Resorts International, Hartford retained an interest in the gaming company, which was the Mafia. Hitchcock's roommate in London during the early 60s, this is number two, was Tom Corbley, a v…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER through Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 12:25
David Bruce member_of
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“Hitchcock would also be enlisted by his former in-law, David Bruce, to get to the bottom of the Profumo allegations, along with Corbley. Bruce was a full-blown OSS veteran himself. Hitchcock, less than a decade later, would be using Paul He…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER through Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 12:55
Robert Solberg member_of
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“S-O-L-B-O-R-G. Two important leaders of the OSS and SOE that were in Paris at the time with Donovan's plan to eliminate the communist threat was Colonel Robert Solberg of the OSS, Deputy for Special Operations, and Wing Commander F.F. Edwar…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 3 - 4 @ 52:17
Paul Helliwell headed
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“The Amazon trucks here. Let's see. All right. That's the invasion into Sicily. And then he gets to the part. Well, and while the mafia was assisted in the defeat of the Axis powers, another threat loomed in Europe, Stalin and the communists…”
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CIA succeeded
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“The precursor to the CIA adopted him, used his entire army to kick the Japanese out.…”
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Office of Strategic Services spied_on
Soviet Union host_asserted
“much of the OSS, while they were supposedly focused on defeating Germany, was actually already starting to spy on the Soviet Union…”
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John Foster Dulles headed
Office of Strategic Services guest_asserted
“Dulles came to realize that the problem is not only in Italy, but the same movement, this communist movement, was erupting in the Netherlands, in England, in France, in Portugal, in Spain. So something had to be done about that. So the OSS,…”
▶ Interview with PAUL WILLIAMS Author OPERATION GLADIO @ 26:03
Gordon McLendon member_of
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“That, oh yeah, he's a Yale graduate too. World War II interpreter. So he was in the OSS.…”
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Office of Strategic Services recruited
Sun Myung Moon host_asserted
“He gets deployed into the Soviet sector, and they're equipping training stay-behind units. And how do we know that? Well, he gets arrested for it. And he's actually accused of being a spy and put in jail. One of the very first things we do …”
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Office of Policy Coordination funded
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“At the time in 1951, would you be surprised to learn that half of Frank Wisner's people were in the Far East Division, like Taiwan, Burma, Vietnam area? What were we doing in the 1950s in that area? Oh, that's right. We were running drugs. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:09:19
Allen Dulles member_of
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“If you go back to the founding of our intelligence agencies, almost all of the people, even back to the OSS days, the Dulles's, Wild Bill Donovan, these are all lawyers, but more specifically, they're international investment bankers.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 40:30
William J. Donovan member_of
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“If you go back to the founding of our intelligence agencies, almost all of the people, even back to the OSS days, the Dulles's, Wild Bill Donovan, these are all lawyers, but more specifically, they're international investment bankers.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 40:30
Office of Strategic Services funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“You had a lot of those same operations going on in other OSS territories, Asia being one of the most significant, because it was the future funding covertly using opium for the covert actions that took place all over the world under the ban…”
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Office of Strategic Services used
United States host_asserted
“And in the use of the National Parks, I have links to where the, not CIA, but precursor, OSS, actually, I mean, on the parks website, brags about them using the parks. So all of this just fits completely as he was used, and my guess is that…”
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Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of
Office of Strategic Services guest_asserted
“he held the purse strings for OSS. He was Richard Bissell Jr.…”
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McClendon, who was in charge of KLIF. That, oh yeah, he's a Yale graduate too. World War II interpreter. So he was in the OSS. He's the guy that founded Liberty Broadcasting System. Oh yeah, so he's the CIA media guy in the bunch. And let's…
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I've done the research and I know for a fact that much of the OSS, while they were supposedly focused on defeating Germany, was actually already starting to spy on the Soviet Union. They were doing it in Eastern German countries like Albani…
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So it's absolutely no coincidence that CIA would be involved in international banking. If you go back to the founding of our intelligence agencies, almost all of the people, even back to the OSS days, the Dulles's, Wild Bill Donovan, these …
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worked for who during World War II? Eisenhower in Europe as his logistician, okay? So he would have been present while they were formulating the plan to lay in Operation Gladio with Alan Dulles, who was OSS at the time in Europe with Wild B…
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tactics of Operation Gladio. So these stay-behind units, you've got the concept now, were post-World War II, supposedly we defeated the Nazis, but all of these stay-behind units are still there. And General Galen, being an SS Nazi officer, …
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But he was selling opium to fund his battle. And do you know who his aide was for the OSS while they were trying to kick the Japanese out of China? Paul Helliwell. Look up Paul Helliwell. Paul Helliwell was a CIA agent that created fake ban…
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And in the Phoenix program, you had to have an enemy, and that became the Viet Cong. Not because the Viet Cong was communist, because they were not. They were nationalist. Ho Chi Minh was fine when the OSS was helping him during World War I…
▶ 21:35
The guy that chose the place and oversaw the U-2 aircraft was, he held the purse strings for OSS. He was Richard Bissell Jr., who was good buddies with Alan Dulles. Everybody hears about him all the time, but nobody too much hears about Ric…
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There were several in his class that end up going on to be not just in the OSS, but in the CIA as career. But Bissell stood out to me because he was one of the ones that was sent over to London in order to go to the School of Economics over…
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Galen begins having conversations with Alan Dulles, who is in Switzerland as part of the OSS organization. And he basically tells Dulles that he will reveal all of their network of stay behind units if he's allowed to maintain his current p…
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Also, at the end of World War Two, you had a civil war going on in China. You had Mao fighting against Chiang Kai-shek and other warlords in the South. Well, Colonel Paul Helliwell was one of the OSS officers is somehow also in the military…
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and the first several CIA chiefs, you find them also involved in other Operation Gladio destabilization efforts. So, for example, the first station chief in 1949 assigned to Formosa, now called Taiwan, was Raymond Pierce. He was an OSS vete…
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And he features prominently in the foundational approach to most countries at the beginning of Operation Gladio, none more so than Italy. So he basically spent time in China during the OSS days. And he watched while he was in China.…
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Paul Helliwell's boss during the OSS days was Wild Bill Donovan. He has a very interesting background I'm going to delve into for just a little bit as it relates to this. Donovan takes this idea and runs it past James, Jesus, Angleton, Alle…
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They provided air support to the KMT Army while it was temporarily located in Burma before they moved to Taiwan. And all of these airplanes were used to fly weapons one way and drugs the other. The pilots who flew these aircraft were basica…
▶ 15:43
That would eventually be based in Taiwan as well. So just want to put that all in context. Not all of that is in Paul Williams book, but that's all of the stuff that I've accumulated knowledge wise since reading his book. So the CIA with wh…
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And on April 15th, 1943, the OSS was charged with implementing plans for the Allied invasion of Sicily. And the other thing that they wanted him to do was basically contact all of his family in Sicily and help them stage an invasion into Si…
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fallout effect onto the new CIA and the former OSS, which had already set up all the stay-behind units and are the ones that provoked the conflict to begin with. And before that are the ones that installed Reed and created a civil war in th…
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America's new civilian intelligence agency, the CIA, in an awkward position. Now, see, they act like the CIA is new. The OSS is the precursor, and they've been there for years, at least five years by this time. There's nothing new going on …
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And during World War II, MacArthur had basically excluded from his command headquarters, not their entire presence in the theater, because there were CIA and OSS all over. We've already talked about Paul Helliwell shadowing Chiang Kai-shek …
▶ 5:57
and were only interested in acquiring weapons to fight the French, not the Japanese. Because they knew the Japanese weren't going to be there forever. The French planned on being there forever. With their normally busy wires now silent, nat…
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from the 14th Air Force the previous year when he escorted a downed American pilot out of Vietnam into China. The OSS agent, Charles Finn, F-E-N-N, tracked down the man in question, Ho Chi Minh, describing him as articulate, charismatic, an…
▶ 6:52
would also be valuable assets to the war against Japan. Soon thereafter, Ho Chi Minh became an OSS agent. His name under the OSS secret agent name was Lucius, L-U-C-I-U-S. The OSS then sent in Deer Team, Deer Team commanded by Major Allison…
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the OSS officers. This apparent U.S. recognition of Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese independence further inflamed the French, whose opinion, as most colonials had expected, the Americans to refuse to deal with this upstart government and help Fr…
▶ 11:10
also angered the French. Although the Viet Minh in the South did not enjoy the same level of control as they did in the North, they were every bit as concerned with making a positive impression on the Americans. Dewey, like Patty, was royal…
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Tall, handsome, very rich, idealistic, it was only natural for the Vietnamese to fall in love with Americans. This seemed true even at the highest levels. Perhaps the relationship can best be illustrated by one of the last meetings between …
▶ 14:57
In their last transmission to the OSS headquarters in autumn of 1945, Captain Peter Dewey reflected this sentiment. China is burning. The French and British are finished here, and we ought to clear out of Southeast Asia. On the day of his s…
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that was a party to the French because they were very, very resentful of the fact that the U.S. had entertained Vietnam being free. So just let you guys know that. One of the guys that was part of this whole thing I mentioned was Archimedes…
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And I wanted to read this statement from him. It was during an interview that he did in 1981. In my opinion, the Vietnam War was the greatest waste. There was no need for it to even happen in the first place at all. None whatsoever. During …
▶ 18:18
for their own benefit. This Wikipedia entry on this guy goes on and it acknowledges the fact that he was part of the OSS deer team and that they worked directly for a major Allison Thomas and with Ho Chi Minh. And it says that…
▶ 20:16
It says later Patty retired from the military in 1957. He worked for the Office of Emergency Planning. And I guess he's the one, and I don't know if this was the first mentioning of it, but that Julia Child had actually worked in the OSS as…
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All right. So we have one more. There will be a little bit of overlap with this one, but this one is a very interesting paper. And this was part of a university paper that was the name of it is called The Impact of OSS on Vietnam.…
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Ho Chi Minh's distinctive character significantly resulted or contributed to this result. It is the focus of easy essay on the relationship between the U.S., namely the OSS, and Ho Chi Minh before and after the proclamation of Vietnamese in…
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That's where the OSS came in. And we know that it was at the time ran by Wild Bill Donovan. And Wild Bill Donovan, once he was told to establish a presence in the Pacific, decided that they were going to put the base at a place called Kunmi…
▶ 28:09
drug war, sorry, and Paul Helliwell. This is where they're all hanging out. All of the 14th Air Force that's flying all the missions there, all are at this Kunming base. In mid-August 1942, Price was appointed as the chief for secret intell…
▶ 28:39
OSS officers could launch missions into Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Indochina, which is basically Vietnam, and Japan. Although the importance of Indochina probably ranked last on that list in 1942, that situation changed. Chinese, America…
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Naturally, there's a functioning French administration and a French intelligence in that territory. However, the goals of the Allies diverged toward the oncoming war. An urgent need for independent firsthand intelligence emerged. Thus, Dono…
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Don't forget, Japan is there, too. So all of this is, you know, a lot of turmoil right now going on in China and then in all of these Asian countries. So the person chosen for the job is a U.S. Navy captain, Milton Miles. Ty Lee, who's the …
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The Navy captain, Miles, was interested in Chinese culture. He spoke a little bit of Chinese, so he was the logical guy to get the job. Miles and Tay Lee quickly became good friends, and Lee permitted Miles to pursue all of his intelligence…
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So she was Vietnamese on her mother's side. Despite the anticipated advantages because of his wife's connections, Minear's operations were almost dominated by French agents. However, because of the tension between Miles and the OSS headquar…
▶ 23:43
had to admit that Roman Catholic Colby was CIA royalty, bathed in the blood of the Lamb. As an OSS officer, Colby had parachuted into occupied France and fought Germany behind the scenes in France. He had also helped out in Italy. And Colby…
▶ 25:45
Special Operations Division, and it became an elite special operations group and cross-trained paramilitary officers that was known as low-intensity warfare. Enders and Gregg looked up to Parker with great respect. Having served in the OSS …
▶ 26:15
Like Colby, he was one of less than 100 Americans trained with the OSS Jedbergs in Scotland. And the Jedbergs was the stay-behind units from the UK. See how this all overlaps? He was sent to Burma in 1945. And 1945 would have been the end o…
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and were preaching the gospel according to Ho to anyone interested in independence. Viet Minh held six provinces near Hanoi and was working with the forerunner to the CIA, the OSS, recovering downed pilots as a part of 14th Air Force. A stu…
▶ 52:05
So Lansdell is the one who coined the term Viet Cong as opposed to Viet Minh. So he did not. And it's all about labeling. OK, keep in mind, Lansdell is a PR guy from San Francisco. That's what he did before he went in the OSS. He is the qui…
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I know you've covered a lot of this stuff, but to answer that question specifically, what I would say is we never had intelligence agencies during peacetime until after World War II. And what really brought that about, you know, after the w…
▶ 20:58
During the Afghan resistance to the Soviet Union in the 1980s, bin Laden became the financier and logistics expert in Afghanistan for the Saudi-backed Office of Services, an organization that, through the Muslim Brotherhood, recruited forei…
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in the United States prior to and during World War II. What I was wanting to know was because during World War II, the United States started up the OSS, Office of Strategic Services, which was active in Burma and Southeast Asia. A few units…
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And what happened in really at the close of World War Two and, you know, the the old days of the OSS. And I'll pause here for you to. So and I guess from what you're saying, that key word of subversion is kind of the tell. Right.…
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There was an agency set up called the Office of Strategic Services. Now, the members of that, it was the OSS. And the members of the OSS didn't come from the rank and file of the ordinary. Like I came from an ancestry of coal miners. I mean…
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wealth and society. The members of the OSS at that time included such figures as Nelson Rockefeller, even William Buckley, who I just mentioned, the head of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the head of Morgan Stanley, the head of Goldman Sachs. Th…
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the OSS, Dulles started to proclaim that the real enemy probably never was the Nazis. It's the communists. Because if they take over, if they take over Central Europe and the economics of Central Europe, then the United States lost its posi…
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to take over all the Vatican's holdings and to tax them. So Pius XII was, of course, beside himself with dread because this was happening right before his eyes. So at that time, the CIA was created. The first officials of the CIA came from …
▶ 1:43:06
They work to go in and disrupt countries in order to steal their resources. And there is no better example than Vietnam of that process because the OSS, the precursor to CIA, was in bed with Ho Chi Minh. We developed him. We trained him. Ye…
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the CIA signed a formal agreement in November. In the Pentagon, a few days before, a detailed proposal for covert operations in China had been sent to the SEC DEF by a General John Magruder, M-A-G-R-U-D-E-R. Magruder endorsed the proposal, …
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All right. So the chief of the division within the CIA was an officer on detached service from the army. He had actually been part of it. See, that's why I don't buy this whole these people are like in the army, because while he was suppose…
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on the 1st of November. And I bet they were singing, we're in the money. Meanwhile, on October 28th, a detailed proposal for covert operations in China from General John Magruder went to the Secretary of Defense. Magruder, citing his experi…
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nor were they first developed by the US. But American participation in World War II opened many eyes in Washington to the potential of special operations to provide a nucleus of personnel to use in clandestine operations. Early American int…
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while Bill Donovan used the OSS globally with major commands in the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, Burma, and China. OSS teams parachuted into France, Norway, former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere. They blew up bridges in the Balkans, worked wi…
▶ 10:26
established elite units for commando missions. The Army's 5307th Composite Unit, better known as Merrill's Marauders, played an important part in the Burma Campaign, along with the OSS. They also created American Psychological Warfare Units…
▶ 10:53
An OSS formation called Service Unit Detachment 101 sent to establish a base in India began burrowing into areas occupied by the Japanese Empire. Agents from Detachment 101 infiltrated the Burmese hill country beginning in 1944, forged link…
▶ 11:54
extirpate Chiang Kai-shek. By 1944, the area was fighting in conjunction with Merrill Marauders and the British Chendik Brigades. More than 10,000 of the locals were fighting a year later, including a fierce force of seven battalions, each …
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and to find targets for them later. The use of outside bases for specialized training and major support. The use of clandestine air supply and communications between the locals and outside bases. These techniques became essential features o…
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The surrender of Japan in August of 1945 brought a scramble to demobilize armies, one that extended to the intelligence service. The OSS had built up a strength of 13,000 people when President Truman ordered its dissolution on September 20,…
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The detachment of clandestine officers went to the War Department as a new strategic services unit under Brigadier General Magruder, the former OSS Special Warfare Chief. By early 1946, General Magruder's mandate, not so much to preserve or…
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The detachment of clandestine officers went to the War Department as a new strategic services unit under Brigadier General Magruder, the former OSS Special Warfare Chief. By early 1946, General Magruder's mandate, not so much to preserve or…
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and in Burma and elsewhere, went back to their homes, law practices, school, or to the army. But Magruder also was responsible for producing fresh intelligence data. He and his deputies virtually begged army senior commanders to make use of…
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took over the SSU in 1946, it had been reduced to fewer than 200 people. In addition to the SSU, the Army's Counterintelligence Corps remained as a clandestine operation entity. Military intelligence, or G2, controlled the CIC. The G2 was w…
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In Russian occupied areas, including Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany. It screened refugees, prepared cover stories to support its agents, and maintained relationships with other services. Al Ulmer, the SSU station chief for Vie…
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As agents, this unit used certain notorious former Nazis in Germany, such as Kloss Barbie. The shift in American priorities could be encapsulated in the life of Net Master Gordon Stewart, who headed the CIA station in 1948. A former OSS man…
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We've got State Department people moving to the CIA and we have OSS turned journalist turned CIA running covert operations. I'm totally shocked. Okay, the British initially provided almost all the manpower. It was the Brits who had the peop…
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Lindsay's, whose wartime OSS service was in Yugoslavia, was well known there too. The hopes in Washington were high. Frank Wisner exclaimed to Joyce, quote, a clinical experiment to see whether larger rollback operations would be feasible e…
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meeting place for spies. So two men come up from Washington to talk with Burke. They had gotten his name from a friend at the OSS, most likely Frank Lindsey. E. Michael Burke had served in the Navy and had been seconded to the OSS. In other…
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unfortunately, and had been sent to Italy with a team in connection with the surrender of the Axis nation. Toward the end of the war, Burke had gone into Yugoslavia and worked with Lindsay with partisan activities. Another member of the tea…
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He parlayed them into a post-war job as a technical advisor to Warner Brothers. Oh my gosh, another spy in Hollywood. I'm shocked. He worked personally on a film released in 1948 as a tribute to the OSS called Cloak and Dagger. Isn't that f…
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had been born rich. The OPC took over the unexpended funds of the CIA until it was replaced and made deals with Treasury to use funds and got money from the Marshall Plan. The OSO got none of that. General Sho's clandestine service people, …
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the only true professionals. Wisner's Wurlitzer had a proportion of former OSS officers, but they were going back to spying after a time that had witnessed huge changes. They were amateur cowboys with missionary zeal. Wisner's people viewed…
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where it should be noted he had good friends. Bob Joyce represented state, while General John Magruder, once head of the pre-CIA Strategic Services Unit, stood in for the Secretary of Defense. Admiral Leslie Stevens, a member of the Joint C…
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had Alan Dulles brought in who was hired to be a consultant. The brains at CIA came up with the idea of bringing better cooperation between Wisner and the OSO office by co-locating them. That didn't work out very well. It didn't work out at…
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As an experiment, the small Latin American branches of both OPC and OSO joined together, branch by branch, becoming the Eastern Hemisphere Division. That would be the first. General Lucian Trescott, CIA chief in Germany, saw Smith in early …
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july 1952 that basically said um that i'm trying to find the beginning of the quote there would be a single chain of command with a single set of administrative procedures so the province of the oso and the office of public safety plus para…
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this function away from Wisner. Lyman Kirkpatrick in Thailand to reconcile OSO and OPC station chiefs who had a little war between themselves. Thailand, like where we spent $35 million to own the ports and run drugs out of there. The OSO an…
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You had a lot of those same operations going on in other OSS territories, Asia being one of the most significant, because it was the future funding covertly using opium for the covert actions that took place all over the world under the ban…
▶ 2:54
in Korea, just like we did in China. Korea had been basically a colony of the Japanese empire for a few decades prior to the outbreak of World War II. And our deployment of OSS agents basically…
▶ 5:39
Because they viewed them as chicken shits. So in the actual war, not only were we interested in defeating Japan, we were very interested in finding out who those people were. Who were the figures that the populace gravitated to? So the OSS …
▶ 8:35
initiatives OSS launched was stay behind units and specifically because they knew Kim was going to be a problem from his nationalistic viewpoint a large majority of the stay behind units in the Korean peninsula was fielded in the what we no…
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Number two, we're going to use the opportunity of having the OSS in theater of deciding who's going to be the winners and losers. Well, when you go back and do the research, it wasn't China who had been an ally of ours, just like the Soviet…
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They didn't want the French back in. Unfortunately, the allies had decided that Vietnam was going to be returned to the French. And basically, Ho Chi Minh had his own OSS detachment assigned to him because he was such a fierce fighter and s…
▶ 17:53
rise up against him, the actual Formosans that lived on the island didn't want him there. And so, of course, we're there with our OSS slash CIA helping prop him up. The same thing is happening in Vietnam with the French. They're attacking H…
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Even after selling the bulk of Paradise Island to Resorts International, Hartford retained an interest in the gaming company, which was the Mafia. Hitchcock's roommate in London during the early 60s, this is number two, was Tom Corbley, a v…
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So I imagine that they're still doing it. And these kids are trained in such a way that they grow up to be psychopaths. As a matter of fact, most of the people in today, we're seeing it now, their parents were in the CIA. Their grandparents…
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C-O-N-I, who was a former SS Nazi, a journalist by the name of Renato Mili, M-I-E-L-I, who also was part of the Allied Psychological War Bureau as part of the OSS, and another guy, Guido Giannattini,…
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Mistress of Mussolini's. And he whiled his time by reading it. Dahlman was not an entirely free man. He was still a guest of U.S. intelligence officers. But even though he remained under close surveillance compared to his accommodations aft…
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In fact, Pagnotta's team of Nazi hunters was headquartered in the same building with Angleton's rival intelligence operation, the Strategic Services Unit X-2 Branch. Pagnotta's counterintelligence army unit was on the first floor, Angleton …
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I never finished the book, Wild Bill Donovan, the spymaster who created the OSS. But early on in that book, it brings up his extreme amount of extramarital affairs and how he would use it against his political rivals. And then also, I think…
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to be conducted on things like riot control, choking agents. With the two German nerve gases satisfactorily filling the requirement for future chemical weapons, both the military and the CIA shifted Edgewood's doctors and chemists' attentio…
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had grown into a huge paramilitary organization that employed spies and soldiers. The OSS, I mean, it employed a whole bunch of people, mainly bankers and lawyers. The OSS was active in all theaters of the war and utilized people of both Am…
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had convinced Harry Truman that we needed a peacetime version of it as well. Truman, of course, agreed and set up all types of intelligence capability, mainly what originally was termed the Central Intelligence Group, which became the Centr…
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Succeeded in gaining control of the former OSS Strategic Services Unit, the espionage and secret intelligence organization that had both commandos, paramilitary, and spies. That grew his organization to 1,300 people. Vandenberg was not sati…
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Succeeded in gaining control of the former OSS Strategic Services Unit, the espionage and secret intelligence organization that had both commandos, paramilitary, and spies. That grew his organization to 1,300 people. Vandenberg was not sati…
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provided clearances for senior German bankers and industrialists seeking permission to remain active in Germany post-war economy. Now, keep in mind, these are the same bankers and industrialists that him and his brother did deals with. As a…
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Dulles's recently declassified OSS telegram shows that his principal sources of information on the German financial and industrial elites were officials at none other than the Bank of International Settlements in Switzerland, which had work…
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that clears all the people in Germany that he wants cleared, irregardless of whether they were doing business with the Nazis. Everybody keeping up? It's so crazy. He had provided regular information and services to the OSS station in Bern t…
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Once the war was over, Allen Dulles and the OSS turned to McKittrick, Oboin, the Bank of International Settlement, and to Dulles' own pre-war business contacts in Germany for advice on the political leanings of German bankers. This was an o…
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favorably on the banker. An argument can be made that the State Department had an obligation to provide any evidence that they had, but they went way beyond that. They went looking for people to try to find a defense for this guy. State's l…
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into who got saved and who didn't. After the German surrender, SS General Karl Wolf proceeded on the assumption that Wolf's cooperation with Dulles had won him a place in post-war German government. Wolf sought to pick up the political thre…
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and Eugene Winner and others also escaped prosecution, even though they were charged with crimes against humanity and other charges by Italian officials. Alan Dulles and his colleagues in the U.S. clandestine operations could not order Telf…
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SS officers and Gestapo officers that had operated in Italy, including Wolf and his senior assistants. That triggered inquiries from the State Department to the U.S. Central Intelligence Group, which is what the OSS had turned into, CIG, co…
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was using these Nazis to set up Gladio. The use of the Central Intelligence and the OSS at the end of the war to protect Nazis, and all of these Nazis end up incorporated into NATO, the BND, the CIA, and Gladio overall.…
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So here's what was found in a document. The records of the former OSS provide proof that Eugene O'Dolman, aide to General Wolfe, and former SS Fuhrer, as well as former SS Eugene Winner, also connected with Wolfe, and now being held captive…
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Mr. Allen Dulles, formerly of OSS and later SSU, a short-lived iteration of OSS, initiated the negotiations, has been contacted here and confirms the foregoing. Major General Lyman Lemesker, who also participated in these negotiations, is c…
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The Amazon trucks here. Let's see. All right. That's the invasion into Sicily. And then he gets to the part. Well, and while the mafia was assisted in the defeat of the Axis powers, another threat loomed in Europe, Stalin and the communists…
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to enabling the mafia to be the distribution nodes of the drugs. Crazy. Okay. One of the misconceptions held by many people is to believe that the CIA's creation in 1947 is the date to which we should look when things started to diverge fro…
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were the elite of New York's financial world, and yet managed to worm their way into the administration of FDR, even though they considered him a traitor to his class. John Foster Dulles would be Eisenhower's Secretary of State, but it was …
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while Bill Donovan, head of the intelligence agency, that he should go to Bern, Switzerland, as it was the financial capital of the war. The small mountain nation promised neutrality to both sides, but actively profited from both sides. Dul…
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and Royal Tyler, a wealthy Boston Globe trotter. Bostonian, sorry. Quote, now Dulles and Holenlo and their mutual friend, Royal Tyler, were gathered amicably around the OSS man's fireplace. Dulles broke the ice by recalling old times with P…
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In September 1945, President Truman abolished the OSS as a separate spy agency and placed what remained under the War Department, first calling it the Strategic Services Unit. A few months later, designating it a National Intelligence Autho…
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This DIA was definitely not set up by anybody with the slightest understanding of how completely screwed up and twisted people can get in the absence of any oversight. While Bill Donovan and his gang had just pulled off one of the greatest …
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President Truman authorized Dulles to supervise the organization of the new agency. In keeping the OSS protocol, Dulles recruited almost exclusively from the elite millionaire businessmen, Wall Street bankers, lawyers, members of the nation…
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yeah that's pretty insidious the timing of all this stuff happening is interesting um and i think it's worth noting that the united states prior to world war ii never had intelligence agencies during peacetime they had to develop one on cod…