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Operations Advisory Group organization

also: new Operations Advisory Group, OAG

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Committee of 40organization · 2William Colbyperson · 1Gerald Fordperson · 1National Security Councilorganization · 1208 Committeeorganization · 1

Claims (8)

Operations Advisory Group succeeded Committee of 40 documented document
“The 40 Committee has now been replaced by the Operations Advisory Group…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.51
Operations Advisory Group succeeded National Security Council Intelligence Committee documented document
“Throughout its history the 40 Committee and its direct predecessors... have been charged by various NSC directives with exercising political control over foreign covert operations. Now this task will be the responsibility of the Operations …”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.53
Gerald Ford founded Operations Advisory Group documented document
“President Ford's reorganization will significantly alter this membership The new Operations Advisory Group will consist of the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs the Secretaries of State and Defense the Chairman of the JCS …”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.55
Operations Advisory Group member_of National Security Council documented document
“The Committee also concludes that the appropriate NSC committee (e.g. the Operations Advisory Group) should review every covert action proposal…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.168
Committee of 40 renamed_to Operations Advisory Group documented document
“Authority for State influence over covert operations derives from NSC directives and is exercised through membership on the 40 Committee (now the Operations Advisory Group.OAG)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.317
Gerald Ford proposed Operations Advisory Group documented document
“Under President Ford's Executive Order the Director of OMB will sit as an observer on the Operations Advisory Group the successor to the 40 Committee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.68
Operations Advisory Group succeeded Committee of 40 caller_asserted
“It apparently was named the 303 Committee. The blurb says an NSC National Security Council staffer had recommended the new name, and this is in quotes, be something utterly drab and innocuous to deflect away attention. Yeah. Yeah. So if you…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:07:25
National Security Council succeeded Operations Advisory Group caller_asserted
“When Gerald Ford got in, but basically the same offices make up this. And then Jimmy Carter called it the NSC special coordination committee, the SCC. So every one of the, you know, they basically have it. One of them was called the five, f…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:07:54

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Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program
▶ 1:07:25 It apparently was named the 303 Committee. The blurb says an NSC National Security Council staffer had recommended the new name, and this is in quotes, be something utterly drab and innocuous to deflect away attention. Yeah. Yeah. So if you…
The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued
▶ 57:49 Ford's executive order prohibited assassination, a reiteration of internal directives Colby issued in 1973. It replaced the 40 committee with a panel called the Operations Advisory Group, placing covert action decisions in the hands of a ca…
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