Program Branch 7 organization
also: assassination unit, PB/7, special operations unit
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Boris T. Pash headed
Program Branch 7 documented
document
“The Committee staff investigation concluded that a special unit headed by Colonel Pash in the early days of the CIA was assigned among other things responsibility for assassinations and kidnap pings…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.134
Program Branch 7 subsidiary_of
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“Pash served as Chief of Program Branch 7 (PB/7) a "special operations unit within the Office of Policy Coordination the original clandestine services organization…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.134
Boris Pash headed
Program Branch 7 documented
document
“The Director testified that 'the heads of the program branches were all involved in general discussions of assassination as a tactic although the subject did not have a high priority.'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.136
Program Branch 7 dissolved
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
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“None of the witnesses testified that any actual assassination operation or planning was ever undertaken by PB/7 which was disbanded along with the other program branches when the DDP was formed in late 1952.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.136