Pentagon Office of Special Operations organization

“Let's see. The OSO, the Office of Special Operations, was directly under the CIA and had nothing to do. They didn't talk to state. So in 1952, the OSO and the OPC would be merged into the Directorate of Plans. So they combined special opera…”

“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…”

“who was aware of Wisner's cloak and dagger operations, recalled, some of the people Frank brought in were terrible guys, but he didn't focus on it. Years later, CIA officer Peter Sechel, S-I-C-H-E-L, a member of the Office of Special Operat…”

“The courts, in fact, the entire discussion of Tibet in a book called The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence would have been deleted by the agency's censors. Tibet is buried in the lore of the CIA as one of the successes that are not talked ab…”

“over the Chinese mainland carried out in 1961. It is credited with flights to Tibet, but this very probable is in the four-engine C-54, not the C-130. Such C-130s as flew in the Far East belonged to the Air Force's 315th Air Division based …”

“Office of Special Operations were reassigned other military tasks. According to some officers at the same time, there were fears that the Office of Special Operations, that Lansdell might succeed in taking over as special assistant of this …”

“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 following day, President Truman signed National Security Council Directive 4-A, approving a secret propaganda program and assigning responsibility to the CIA. A week later, the CIA formed a special procedures group within the Office of …”