Special Operations Division organization
also: SOD, SOD division, SO Division, SO Division facility, SOD personnel, SOD scientists, the Division, TSD
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Special Operations Division worked_for
CIA documented
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“The Army agreed that the Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick would assist the CIA in developing testing and maintaining biological agents and delivery systems…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.368
Special Operations Division located_in
Fort Detrick documented
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“The Army agreed that the Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick would assist the CIA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.368
CIA funded
Special Operations Division documented
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“The CIA was careful to ensure that its moneys were transferred to SOD to cover the cost of CIA projects…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.369
Special Operations Division worked_for
United States Army documented
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“SOD's work for the Army from 1952 until the early 1960s was primarily to assess the vulnerability of sensitive installations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.369
Special Operations Division supplied_arms_to
CIA documented
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“SOD on occasion physically transferred biological agents in form various delivery devices and most importantly delivery devices containing biological agents to CIA personnel…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.369
United States Army invested_in
Special Operations Division documented
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“By the early 1960s the Army also became interested in the type of work SOD was doing for the CIA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.370
CIA acquired
Special Operations Division documented
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“a CIA scientist acquired from SOD personnel at Fort Detrick approximately 11 grams of shellfish toxin…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.370
Special Operations Division did_business_with
CIA documented
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“The transfer from SOD to the CIA resulted in a major quantity of the toxin being retained by an agency in a manner which clearly violated the President's order…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.371
Special Operations Division did_business_with
CIA documented
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“Under an agreement reached with the Army in 1952 the Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick was to assist CIA in developing testing and maintaining biological agents and delivery systems…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.396
Frank Olson member_of
Special Operations Division documented
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“Olson an expert in aerobiology who was assigned to the Special Operations Division (SOD)...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.403
Special Operations Division operated_in
Deep Creek Lake documented
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“On November 18 1953 a group of ten scientists 'from the CIA and Camp Detrick attended a semi-annual review and analysis conference at a cabin located at Deep Creek Lake Maryland…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.403
Special Operations Division member_of
Directorate of Operations documented
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“Grouped with the area divisions the Special Operations Division's "main function is to provide the assets for paramilitary operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.267
Special Operations Division located_in
Fort Detrick documented
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“CIA association with Fort Detrick involved the Special Operations Division (SOD) of that facility…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.10
Special Operations Division worked_for
United States Army documented
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“Its principal customer was the U.S Army…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.10
CIA did_business_with
Special Operations Division documented
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“The CIA relationship with SOD was formally established in May 1952 through a memorandum of agreement with the Army chief chemical officer for the performance of certain research and development in the laboratory facilities of the Special Op…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.10
Special Operations Division member_of
Army Biological Laboratory documented
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“CIA association with Fort Detrick involved the Special Operations Division (SOD) of that facility…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.14
Special Operations Division did_business_with
United States Army documented
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“Its principal customer was the US Army…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.14
Special Operations Division operated_in
Fort Detrick documented
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“Special Operations Division in Fort Detrick Army Biological Laboratories…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.65
CIA funded
Special Operations Division documented
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“We were in effect piggybacking or giving some additional dollar technical support to Special Operations Division who were being funded by the Army component namely the Special Forces for purposes which interested us and we wanted to stay wi…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.80
U.S. Army Special Forces funded
Special Operations Division documented
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“We were in effect piggybacking or giving some additional dollar technical support to Special Operations Division who were being funded by the Army component namely the Special Forces for purposes which interested us and we wanted to stay wi…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.80
Mr. Gordon worked_for
Special Operations Division documented
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“This was tied in with the relationship that we had with the Special Operations Division and for that matter the rest of the Army Biological Warfare Laboratory with respect to staying abreast of the state of the art…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.80
U.S. Public Health Service did_business_with
Special Operations Division reported
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“I believe the U.S Public Health Service I cannot address myself to the mechanism of how it arrived from the Public Health Service to Fort Detrick specifically the Special Operations Division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.84
Special Operations Division member_of
Biological Laboratories reported
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“I do not believe that that was the Special Operations Division or the Biological Laboratories that made that request I believe that it was another component research component separate and apart from the Special Operations Division of the B…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.84
Mr. Senseney member_of
Special Operations Division documented
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“it was from the project officer a Mr Senseney in the Special Operations Division of Fort Detrick…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.90
Dr. Schantz supplied_arms_to
Special Operations Division documented
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“I furnished to SO Division that was Special Operations Division toxin as I had purified it and as they asked for it…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.145
U.S. Public Health Service supplied_arms_to
Special Operations Division documented
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“There was some prepared of course too by the Public Health Service which was supplied to the SO Division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.145
Special Operations Division alias_of
Army Bacteriological Warfare Division documented
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“It was the Army Bacteriological Warfare Division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.146
Dr. Schantz supplied_arms_to
Special Operations Division documented
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“But you did transfer to them over a period of time more than 15 grams or approximately 15 grams of the substance…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.147
Special Operations Division member_of
U.S. Army documented
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“But any material that was sent outside of the Army was done by permission of headquarters at Fort Detrick…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.149
Special Operations Division did_business_with
U.S. Public Health Service documented
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“Well SOD as I understand it made the contract agreement with Public Health Service…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.150
Charles A. Senseney worked_for
Special Operations Division documented
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“TESTIMONYOF CHARLES A SENSENEY DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EMPLOYEE FORMERLY IN THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIVISION AT FORT DETRICK…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.163
Charles A. Senseney reassigned
Special Operations Division documented
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“and transferred to the SO Division in about 1953…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.164
Dr. Schantz did_business_with
Special Operations Division reported
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“Dr Schantz said he got 100 milligrams…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.167
Dr. Cowan headed
Special Operations Division documented
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“The Division Chief Dr Cowan…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.167
Leonard Thompson worked_for
Special Operations Division documented
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“the agent side of the thing either Mr Leonard Thompson or Mr Wally Pannier…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.167
Wally Pannier worked_for
Special Operations Division documented
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“the agent side of the thing either Mr Leonard Thompson or Mr Wally Pannier…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.167
Special Operations Division did_business_with
Federal Bureau of Investigation documented
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“they used those to show to the agents as well as to the FBI to acquaint them with possible ways that other people could attack our own people…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.167
Special Operations Division located_in
Suitland, Maryland documented
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“Four of these boxes were identified as coming from the Special Operations Division... in the Suitland Md. repository…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.183
CIA supplied_arms_to
Special Operations Division documented
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“Fort Detrick used this designation to describe the working funds used by the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick which had been supplied by the CIA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.184
Special Operations Division member_of
CIA documented
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“EXHIBIT13 17February1970 SpecialOperationsDivision ToxinInventory ... CIA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.248