Operation Solarium event
also: Solarium, strategic review dubbed Solarium
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Volunteer Freedom Corpsorganization · 2Chiang Kai-shekperson · 1CIAintelligence service · 1Kuomintangorganization · 1Irancountry · 1Guatemalacountry · 1Dwight D. Eisenhowerperson · 1Soviet Unioncountry · 1National Security Councilorganization · 1Albaniacountry · 1George F. Kennanperson · 1Chinacountry · 1
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Dwight D. Eisenhower approved
Operation Solarium documented
“Among the long-term actions, CIA had primary responsibility for a program to implement a Volunteer Freedom Corps initiative. Training and equipping, you guessed it, stay-behind units to sustain warfare. The president also ordered an overall…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 53:14
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▶ 53:14
Among the long-term actions, CIA had primary responsibility for a program to implement a Volunteer Freedom Corps initiative. Training and equipping, you guessed it, stay-behind units to sustain warfare. The president also ordered an overall…
▶ 53:45
Three task force assembled, each to argue for a particular line of action. The rollback approach was subsumed in Solarium's Alternative C, designed to increase efforts to disturb and weaken the Soviet bloc, attacking the communist apparatus…
▶ 55:26
And option B was continuing previous policies. Few have noticed that Eisenhower did not select a pure strategy, containment. Kennan's option A, he mixed with elements of Task Force C, in particular, covert action. That this was the decision…