Pentagon Office of Special Operations organization
also: OSO, OSI, Pentagon's Office of Special Operations
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Claims (2)
Fletcher Prouty member_of
Pentagon Office of Special Operations host_asserted
“the Air Force colonel who worked with General Erstein's Office of Special Operations. He was the Joint Chiefs of Staff in that trio of people that you work with that we were just talking about. This reluctance to discuss Tibet is undoubtedl…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 36:46
Frank Wisner headed
Pentagon Office of Special Operations book_quoted
“to open dissension between them. So, as it ends up, they fuse the whole thing together, and Frank Wisner ends up being the boss of the entire operation. As the Wurlitzer, called Jupebok, Wisner, he was called the Wurlitzer, because he playe…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 30:28
Mentions (5)
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He was involved in all of those psychological operations. And then it says his other work at the Pentagon in the Office of Special Operations. Lansdale occasionally got the chance to vocalize his views. One such occasion happened in 1959. N…
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by state defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A couple of months later, when Smith learned that a subordinate actually controlled communications between headquarters and the field stations so that the DCI did not see all of the cables, he…
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and had authored books of his exploits. He was the author of the NSD-50 study, basically setting up the whole structure. The merger idea was known as a fusion project. Both Wisner and the OSI director, who at that time was General Willard W…
▶ 36:46
the Air Force colonel who worked with General Erstein's Office of Special Operations. He was the Joint Chiefs of Staff in that trio of people that you work with that we were just talking about. This reluctance to discuss Tibet is undoubtedl…
▶ 37:08
With the Pentagon's Office of Special Operations and proponents of a foreign legion air force, we're never able to work out all of the problems of how to hide it and where it would be based. Nonetheless, this exercise established the Nation…