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Richard Helms member_of
Strategic Services Unit documented
“Ralph Kingsley, and Robert Joyce, all of them intelligence officers and diplomats that would play a big role in the future CIA covert operations. Like many of them, Richard Helms stayed on when the OSS became the strategic service unit and …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 33:33
John Magruder headed
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“The clandestine officers went to the War Department as a new unit called the Strategic Services Unit under Brigadier General John Magruder, who had been the OSS Special Warfare Chief. So Magruder mandate was not to preserve or enlarge the S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 34:58
Strategic Services Unit supplied_arms_to
Ho Chi Minh book_quoted
“excuse me, former OSS officers who had served with the Jedbirds and elsewhere went back to their homes, to law practices, to school, or some of them went back to their former army jobs. Teams from the OSS SSU were pulled out of Vietnam, whe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 35:31
Counterintelligence Corps succeeded
Strategic Services Unit book_quoted
“on helping him get the Japanese out of Vietnam. In addition to the SSU, the Army Counterintelligence Corps remained as a clandestine operations center and eventually becomes the G2 of the Army. So given the role of the official intelligence…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 35:58
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The clandestine officers went to the War Department as a new unit called the Strategic Services Unit under Brigadier General John Magruder, who had been the OSS Special Warfare Chief. So Magruder mandate was not to preserve or enlarge the S…
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excuse me, former OSS officers who had served with the Jedbirds and elsewhere went back to their homes, to law practices, to school, or some of them went back to their former army jobs. Teams from the OSS SSU were pulled out of Vietnam, whe…
▶ 35:58
on helping him get the Japanese out of Vietnam. In addition to the SSU, the Army Counterintelligence Corps remained as a clandestine operations center and eventually becomes the G2 of the Army. So given the role of the official intelligence…
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Ralph Kingsley, and Robert Joyce, all of them intelligence officers and diplomats that would play a big role in the future CIA covert operations. Like many of them, Richard Helms stayed on when the OSS became the strategic service unit and …
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but higher duties called. All right, we're in May of 1945. Alan Dulles and OSS Chief Bill Donovan met in Frankfurt with Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson, who had just been named Chief U.S. War Crimes Prosecutor by the new pres…
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underlined the various ways that he could be of use as Jackson prepared the cases, including providing German witnesses for the prosecution as well as secret enemy documents. Jackson was delighted by Dulles' offer of assistance, noting in h…
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by putting a number of OSS agents on his staff. Now, keep in mind, Allen Dulles has already prepared to ratline Nazis out. And just like he did with JFK's assassination, he worms his way in to basically controlling Nuremberg. And that's wha…
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of Nuremberg. Jackson after having agreed to this began realizing that he had fallen into an OSS trap. It became clear to the Nuremberg prosecutor that Donovan and Dulles harbored ulterior motives and agenda that did not always mesh with th…
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Donovan and Jackson began to grow in July when the OSS chief moved to take over what Nuremberg prosecutors referred to as the trial's economic case. As Wall Street lawyers, Donovan and Dulles considered themselves uniquely equipped to take …
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was a part of FDR's Justice Department. He had taken on corporate interests like the Mellon family and fought tax evasion and antitrust battles. Well aware of the corporate conflict of interest that Donovan and Dulles brought to the Nurembe…
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The banker knew where much of the Nazi Germany's assets were hidden, which continued to make him valuable. Behind the scenes, Donovan took the shameless step of working out a deal with these two prominent defendants, offering them leniency …
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Goring and Slatt, the prosecutors, were aghast. Telford Taylor, Jackson's assistant prosecutor, later called Donovan's actions ill-conceived and dangerous. Goring was a surviving leader and the symbol of Nazism. To put him forward as a man …
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On November 26, a few days after the trial began, Jackson wrote a letter to Donovan making it clear that their views were far apart and there was no role for the OSS chief on Nuremberg's team. By the end of the month, Donovan was gone. But …
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was crucial. Dulles and his intelligence colleagues had been secretly meeting with Wolf and his SS aides since late February, trying to work out a separate surrender of the German forces in Italy that would save the Nazi officers next and w…
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a man well known to the Italian resistance fighters in the border area by his nickname, Scotty. Gavernich thought that Scotty, a man who risked his life each day fighting SS soldiers, would balk at the idea of saving the general who command…
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Agent Scotti and three Swiss intelligence operatives. The second was filled with the Italian partisans and a third conveyed to SS officials Dulles had recruited to ease the convoy's passage through German-controlled areas. It was one of the…
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Dulles used his OSS command post in Switzerland to look out for Sullivan and Cromwell's business clients in Europe, stopping the war before their clients' manufacturing and power plants were bombed. And some people argue they weren't bombed…
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In his reports back to OSS headquarters, he framed Wolf in the best possible light as a moderate and probably the most dynamic German personality in North Italy. Although some US and British intelligence officials suspected him as serving a…
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that named him as one of the major war criminals. With Hitler and Himmler both dead, Wolf was among the highest Nazi officials to survive the war. Determined to keep Wolf out of the defendant's dock, however, Dulles went so far as to bury i…
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and the collective reprisal against Italian citizens, but also for the torture and murder of OSS agents in Bolzano SS headquarters. The feelings against Wolf was running understandably high, even in the OSS, where the SS general was suspect…
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But Dulles betrayed his own men, blocking the OSS report on Wolfe from ever reaching the Nuremberg staff. Instead, it was Dulles' portrait of Wolfe as a moderate and gentleman that was sent to the legal team, with a recommendation that he n…
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shared Dulles' strong anti-Soviet sentiments, and he had colluded with the OSS officials to keep the secret talks with Wolf going forward, even after Roosevelt and the Allied command thought they had pulled the plug on Sunrise. After the Ge…