Office of Current Intelligence organization
also: OCI, ONI
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Huntington Denton Sheldonperson · 6U.S. Air Forceorganization · 1United Statescountry · 1U.S. Navyorganization · 1Ray Clineperson · 1Englandplace · 1Directorate of Intelligenceorganization · 1Richard Lehmanperson · 1Randall Lee Gibsonperson · 1Allen Dullesperson · 1Hugo Kohlerperson · 1
Claims (5)
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
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“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
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
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…