Office of Current Intelligence organization
also: Current Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, OCD, OCI, OCT, Office of Current Intelligence, O&I, ONI
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Claims (27)
Office of Current Intelligence subsidiary_of
CIA documented
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“These Include Intelligence Memoranda produced by the CIA's Office of Current Intelligence (OCI)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.195
Office of Current Intelligence founded
Office of Strategic Research documented
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“In 1962 the Office of Current Intelligence established a military intelligence division and five years later the military intelligence units of OCI and ORR were combined into a separate office the Office of Strategic Research (OSR)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.127
Office of Research and Reports merged_with
Office of Current Intelligence documented
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“five years later the military intelligence units of OCI and ORR were combined into a separate office the Office of Strategic Research (OSR)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.127
Directorate of Intelligence headed
Office of Current Intelligence documented
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“Specifically the intelligence activities which the DDI originally administered were... Current Intelligence (OCT)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Central Reference Service succeeded
Office of Current Intelligence documented
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“The task was taken over by OCD's successor organization now the Central Reference Service…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.269
Office of Current Intelligence founded
CIA Operations Center documented
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“One of the results of its work was the establishment of an operations center under the administrative direction of the Officeof Current Intel ligence (OCI)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.270
Office of Research and Estimates renamed_to
Office of Current Intelligence documented
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“The group was renamed the Office of Current Intelligence (OCI) on January 12 1951…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.28
United States Army supplied_arms_to
Office of Current Intelligence documented
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“Subsequently they joined with the small COMINT (communications intelligence) unit which had been established in 1948 to handle raw COMINT data from the Army…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.28
Office of Current Intelligence member_of
Deputy Directorate for Intelligence documented
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“ORR OSI OCI and ONE were the centers of DDI's intelligence analysis…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61
Office of Current Intelligence member_of
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“In 1955 there were 466 analysts in ORR 217 in OCT and 207 in OSI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.63
Office of Technical Information merged_with
Office of Current Intelligence documented
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“In A 2 an Office of Technical Information with a nucleus of four officers transferred from the public relations branch was created as a part of the Current Intelligence Section…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.187
Office of Current Intelligence merged_with
Informational Intelligence Division documented
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“The Current Intelligence Section was also removed from its A 2 staff status and made part of the Informational Intelligence Division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.188
Rufus Taylor headed
Office of Current Intelligence documented
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“once Director of Naval Intelligence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.105
Directorate for Intelligence merged_with
Office of Current Intelligence documented
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“In addition to ONE the DDI's intelligence production components included... the Office of Current Intelligence (OCT)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.112
Edwin Wilson worked_for
Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted
“Because Edwin Wilson is a very interesting Operation Gladio guy. He worked both for the CIA and the Office of Naval Intelligence. And a long time ago in one of our videos, when we were doing book reviews, we talked about the Navy having set…”
▶ Operation Gladio - THE OCTOPUS - Danny Casolaro Murder @ 28:43
Guy Banister member_of
Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted
“Former chief of the Chicago FBI office and deputy superintendent of the police in New Orleans, which is dirty. He started his career in the Office of Naval Intelligence. Oh, big shock. So he opens a small detective agency in New Orleans and…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 57:32
Ian Fleming related_to
Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted
“the Office of Naval Intelligence in World War II, the early OSS, and all of the characters of basically post-World War II, sort of the setup of the OSS especially. And then when he sort of retired to Jamaica and set off to write his Bond no…”
▶ Operation Gladio - THE OCTOPUS - Danny Casolaro Murder @ 1:01:52
Philip Strong worked_for
Office of Current Intelligence documented
“He didn't want anything that you could put nuclear weapons on. Gardner and Norton then decided to seek CIA support for the high-flying aircraft. At the time, the agency's official involvement in overhead reconnaissance was limited to advisi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 56:13
Hugo Kohler member_of
Office of Current Intelligence documented
“He was a U.S. Navy commander and secret agent, as well as a socialite. So following World War I, he served as the Office of Naval Intelligence and also served in the State Department as an operative. So he's basically like the pre-OSS guy. …”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 1:27:59
Huntington Denton Sheldon headed
Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted
“And what this guy was, was a SIGINT analyst, signals intelligence. And we're just now learning something called photo interpretation. He's the pioneer. You take these aerial photographs and you got to piece them together. And he's very good…”
▶ The Shadow State 59 Spooks & Infectious Disease @ 48:07
Richard Lehman member_of
Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted
“the part of the CIA that was actually legitimate in the National Security Act of 1947 before they decided to give them the ability to do covert operations as well. One of his other big things was he was always emphasizing these one-page dai…”
▶ The Shadow State 59 Spooks & Infectious Disease @ 50:37
Knight McMahon member_of
Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted
“completely ruthless in how he did it. People he didn't like were brushed aside one way or another so that he built a core of people who were basically what he wanted for his shop, which were versatile generalists. He didn't mind having peop…”
▶ The Shadow State 59 Spooks & Infectious Disease @ 53:55
Bobby Ray Inman headed
Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted
“before, Admiral Bobby Inman, who was the director of Naval Intelligence, had set this up and given basically the NCIS kind of capability, the intel segments of the Navy, the authority to create fake companies, and basically had hired, wheth…”
▶ Operation Gladio - THE OCTOPUS - Danny Casolaro Murder @ 29:43
Hugo Kohler member_of
Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted
“He was a U.S. Navy commander and secret agent, as well as a socialite. So following World War I, he served as the Office of Naval Intelligence and also served in the State Department as an operative. So he's basically like the pre-OSS guy. …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 1:27:59
Office of Current Intelligence did_business_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“The Office of Naval Intelligence is the ones that was working with Meyer Lansky in World War II. These things have been done before we ever had a CIA. We have had covert intelligence collection before we ever had the CIA. And they were unde…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 1:38:04
Meyer Lansky worked_with
Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted
“You just said another gobsmacking moment. Was Mayor Lansky, Florida and Las Vegas, was he a CIA asset? So he worked, obviously he worked with the Navy. I don't know if you know his story, but he worked with the Office of Naval Intelligence …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 15 @ 1:09:44
Randall Lee Gibson founded
Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted
“It also says that while he was in Congress, he served on the Committee for Armed Forces and framed the early plans for the modern-day U.S. Navy. That would be the right time for that, huh? Oh, yeah. Hey, he's in there right when the Office …”
▶ The Shadow State 51 Scroll and Key Pt. 1 @ 43:47
Mentions (12)
▶ 26:49
because the very first U.S. intelligence agency was founded just a few years earlier, a few years earlier than that, the Office of Naval Intelligence, the ONI, was founded in the 1870s. The excuse for founding the Office of Naval Intelligen…
▶ 27:17
somehow get the plans for what battleships are all about, this guy steps in as the Secretary of the Navy and basically remakes our entire fleet. So, interesting. Well, and it also is interesting because it's shortly after his stint as the S…
▶ 43:47
It also says that while he was in Congress, he served on the Committee for Armed Forces and framed the early plans for the modern-day U.S. Navy. That would be the right time for that, huh? Oh, yeah. Hey, he's in there right when the Office …
▶ 48:07
And what this guy was, was a SIGINT analyst, signals intelligence. And we're just now learning something called photo interpretation. He's the pioneer. You take these aerial photographs and you got to piece them together. And he's very good…
▶ 49:32
is a follow-on to the reconnaissance aspect of being able to assess um current environment via photography yeah absolutely and i'm just going to mention that exact same thing with the youtube um that's a big part of what he did he would be …
▶ 51:41
And that's where Brennan came back and forced the Steele dossier into the intelligence. So they had a PDB that said one thing, and they wouldn't give it to presidential nominee, president-elect Donald Trump. Had they done that, had they not…
▶ 52:51
The same bio, but I just want to read three or four paragraphs. This is by Richard Lehman, and we've talked about his brother Robert Lehman before. I would like to talk a bit about Huntington Ting Sheldon, because he was a great man. He had…
▶ 53:23
He built an empire while he was at it because OCI had its own security, its own courier service, its own print shop, and a lot of other things that were all justified by the fact that communications intelligence needed special handling. Tha…
▶ 55:05
D.I. in early 1962, right after Dulles left, he wanted OCI to be under his control. And he booted Sheldon aside or pushed Sheldon aside, I should say. But Ting stayed on for several years as the agency's signals intelligence officer and als…
▶ 1:27:59
He was a U.S. Navy commander and secret agent, as well as a socialite. So following World War I, he served as the Office of Naval Intelligence and also served in the State Department as an operative. So he's basically like the pre-OSS guy. …
▶ 23:41
testify in front of congress and they just say no it's national security we can't tell you correct and there's every single element yeah uh fun little side note on the history of intelligence in the in the us i like this little stories our …
▶ 14:47
Funny, funny. Do you know who the first director of intelligence in the United States was? No, sir. That was General George Washington. Interesting. But we never had any kind of intelligence in peacetime. And that was a bit of a disadvantag…