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Claims (72)
Walter Bedell Smith merged_with
Office of Special Operations documented
document
“He decided to merge OPC with the CIA's Office of Special Operations.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.153
Walter Bedell Smith headed
CIA documented
document
“The new Director of the CIA General Bedell Smith was determined to improve CIA's estimating and forecasting capabilities…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.31
Walter Bedell Smith appointed
William Langer documented
document
“He called on William Langer formerly chief of the Research and Analysis section of the OSS to come to Washington from Harvard in 1950 to head a small staff for analysis and the production of intelligence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.31
Walter Bedell Smith founded
Board of National Estimates documented
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“To carry out this responsibility to produce independent and objective national intelligence DCI Walter Bedell Smith established the Board of National Estimates in 1950…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.82
Walter Bedell Smith founded
Office of National Estimates documented
document
“The Board was comprised of senior government officials academicians and intelligence officers and had a small staff known as the Office of National Estimates (ONE)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.82
Walter Bedell Smith succeeded
Roscoe Hillenkoetter documented
document
“It was precisely because of Hillenkoetter's weakness that General Walter Bedell Smith was selected to succeed him in October 1950…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.109
Walter Bedell Smith headed
CIA documented
document
“Smith was a tough-minded hard-driving often intimidating career military officer who effected major organizational changes during his tenure…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.109
Allen Dulles succeeded
Walter Bedell Smith documented
document
“Unlike Bedell Smith before him and John McCone after him Dulles was reluctant to take on the military…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.122
Walter Bedell Smith merged_with
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“He decided to merge OPC with the CIA's Office of Special Operations.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.153
Walter Bedell Smith headed
CIA documented
document
“This assistance came as the result of a request from Under-secretary of State James Webb to General Bedell Smith then Director of the CIA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.191
Walter Bedell Smith succeeded
Roscoe Hillenkoetter documented
document
“It was precisely because of Hillenkoetter's weakness that General Walter Bedell Smith was selected to succeed him in October 1950…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.17
Walter Bedell Smith worked_for
Dwight D. Eisenhower documented
document
“later became Dwight Eisenhower's Chief of Staff after Eisenhower's appointment as Commander of the European theater…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.17
Walter Bedell Smith worked_for
Soviet Union documented
document
“Following the war Smith served as U.S Ambassador to the Soviet Union…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.17
Walter Bedell Smith headed
CIA documented
document
“By the time Walter Bedell Smith became DCI it was clear that the CIA's record in providing national intelligence estimates had fallen far short of expectation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.22
Walter Bedell Smith founded
Office of National Estimates documented
document
“Within three months the two men had redefined the position of the DCI had established the Office of National Estimates whose sole task was the production of coordinated "national estimates"…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.23
Walter Bedell Smith worked_for
CIA documented
document
“Smith acted on Houston's advice and informed the members of the IAC that he would not submit to their direction.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.24
Walter Bedell Smith founded
Office of National Estimates documented
document
“To organize the Office of National Estimates Smith called on William Langer the Harvard historian who had directed the Research and Analysis Branch of OSS during the war.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.24
Walter Bedell Smith headed
CIA documented
document
“The extent to which Souers Hillenkoetter Vandenberg and Bedell Smith saw this as a primary role is difficult to determine…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.30
Walter Bedell Smith worked_for
CIA documented
document
“In 1951 DCI Walter Bedell Smith took the initiative in requesting more specific high-level policy direction…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.41
Walter Bedell Smith proposed
Psychological Strategy Board documented
document
“More importantly Smith proposed that the newly created Psychological Strategy Board provide CIA guidance on the conduct of covert operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.41
Walter Bedell Smith succeeded
Roscoe Hillenkoetter documented
document
“As OPC continued to grow Smith's predecessor Admiral Hillenkoetter resented the fact that he had no management authority over OPC…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.42
Walter Bedell Smith headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“Less than a week after taking office Smith announced that as DCI he would assume administrative control of OPC…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.43
Walter Bedell Smith appointed
Allen W. Dulles documented
document
“Among them was the appointment of Allen W Dulles as Deputy Director for Plans in January 1951.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.44
Walter Bedell Smith worked_for
CIA documented
document
“Certainly the present administrator and the former administrator Gen Bedell Smith stated that they were ready at all times to answer any questions we might wish to ask them…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.59
Walter Bedell Smith headed
CIA documented
document
“Subsequently this Board of Analysts provided the model for the CIA Board of National Estimates set up in 1950 by Dr Langer for General Bedell Smith.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.152
Walter Bedell Smith headed
CIA documented
document
“These problems diminished with the arrival of Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith... as Director of Central Intelligence in 1950…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.260
Walter Bedell Smith worked_for
George C. Marshall documented
document
“former Secretary of the General Staff under General George C Marshall…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.260
Walter Bedell Smith worked_for
Dwight D. Eisenhower documented
document
“and Chief of Staff to General Dwight D Eisenhower in Europe…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.260
Allen Welsh Dulles succeeded
Walter Bedell Smith documented
document
“When Smith departed from the CIA directorship in 1952 he was succeeded by a man who was not only his equal in organizational abilities but an individual virtually without equal in intelligence operations Allen Welsh Dulles…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.261
Walter Bedell Smith worked_for
United States Department of State documented
document
“his superior the Undersecretary of State who happened to be ex-CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.264
Walter Bedell Smith founded
Cable Secretariat documented
document
“The former was established in 1950 at the insistence of the Director General Walter Bedell Smith…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.266
Richard Helms succeeded
Walter Bedell Smith reported
document
“I do not remember whether they started when General Smith was the Director or when Allen Dulles was the Director... when I became Director…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.107
Walter Bedell Smith headed
CIA book_quoted
“I don't know if there's any relation here, but I'll just read it. Investigative journalist Edward J. Epstein agrees with the high regard in which Angleton was held by his colleagues in the intelligence business and adds that Angleton earned…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 1:01:16
Walter Bedell Smith supervised
Allen Dulles documented
“Foster soon had Eisenhower in his palm, observed a State Department aide. Allen Dulles felt as firmly entitled to run the CIA under Eisenhower as his brother did at State. The junior Dulles had worked uncomplainingly for two years as Walter…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 9 @ 48:41
Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed
Walter Bedell Smith documented
“Levitt's deputy, John Pendleton, and James Darling, chief of the Near East Division, paramilitary operations. Woody Woodhouse headed the British group. Meanwhile, Bedell Smith's days at the CIA were coming to an end. Eisenhower selected Gen…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 48:40
Richard Helms met
Walter Bedell Smith documented
“Helms met many who became towering figures of the CIA during this time. And that would have been a time Operation Sunrise was going on and they were transitioning all of the stay-behind units into the future NATO. He would meet Dulles, Case…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 37:27
Lucian K. Truscott served_on_staff_of
Walter Bedell Smith book_quoted
“Trescott and Bedell Smith had both been at Fort Leavenworth in the 30s, and in World War II, Trescott had briefly served as Eisenhowers on his staff, which Smith was in charge of. Trescott became one of the most successful U.S. commanders i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 6 @ 30:22
Walter Bedell Smith appointed
Gordon Gray documented
“General Smith told Gray that he, Smith, wanted Gray to succeed him as the CIA director and that service in a new NSC unit, the Psychological Strategy Board, would make him the logical choice to do so. Bedell Smith also said the president is…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 6 @ 45:50
Walter Bedell Smith induced_to_return
Lucian K. Truscott book_quoted
“the pedophile. Trunscott had retired in 47. Walter Bedell Smith induced him to return to Germany. Trunscott had a natural ability for intelligence. He quickly became concerned with agents' losses in Russian operations. Investigating the CIA…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 6 @ 30:52
Walter Bedell Smith represented
CIA documented
“Representative of the SEC DEF, John Magruder, safeguarded defense interests. The State Department repeatedly construed the Psychological Strategy Board inquiries as infringements. General Smith was CIA's delegate. Frank Wisner, the alternat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 6 @ 1:02:36
Walter Bedell Smith proposed
CIA book_quoted
“George Kennan continued to press for the special studies group under the State Department control for things like the Italian operation, which was election interference. Admiral Hillenkotter now advised the White House that the CIA could ca…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 0:28
Walter Bedell Smith appointed
Gordon Gray host_asserted
“Guy that would have been in charge was Gordon Gray. General Walter Bedell Smith and William Jackson brought the word. Jackson, a Gray associate since 1930s, represented the token of trust. General Smith told Gray that he, Smith, wanted Gray…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 40:37
Walter Bedell Smith covered_up
Richard Nixon book_quoted
“Smith demanded that Mason immediately gather up every scrap of incriminating material against Nixon and bring it into his office. The story was cleaned from the books, said Mason. Wisner, too, had no doubt what was done with the evidence. B…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 21:16
Walter Bedell Smith removed_from_power
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“As Smith prepared to step down at the CIA, he lobbied against Dulles as his replacement, advising Eisenhower that it would be politically unwise to have the brother of the Secretary of State serve as the administration's chief intelligence.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 52:08
Harry S. Truman appointed
Walter Bedell Smith documented
“Truman already had Hill and Cotter's successor lined up. He was going to ask Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith. The 54-year-old officer had been a wartime chief to Dwight D. Eisenhower. From 46 to 49, Smith had served as a U.S. ambassa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:03:41
Walter Bedell Smith appointed
William Harding Jackson documented
“Walter Bedell Smith had the clout to make things happen and sufficient prestige among the U.S. military to knock down the opposition to working with the CIA. The military intelligence unit had resisted acknowledging the primacy of the direc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:04:16
Walter Bedell Smith persuaded
National Security Council documented
“As DCI, the general said, he had all the authority necessary to direct the OPC. The arrangements made in 48 had been overtaken by events and were no longer valid. As for Wisner's problem with the wartime military control, General Smith pers…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:05:18
Walter Bedell Smith served_as
Soviet Union book_quoted
“was General Walter Bedell Smith, who assumed office in October 7, 1950. Beadle, which was his nickname, had the prestige and contact that Hill and Cotter lacked. General Smith had been General Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff during the w…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 26:59
Walter Bedell Smith headed
CIA book_quoted
“Walter Bedell Smith. Others involved in a queue included Winston Churchill. The organization was funded by both the Rockefeller and the Ford Foundation. On the board of a queue were an amazing and powerful group of intelligence officials an…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 @ 24:32
Roger Waters did_business_with
Walter Bedell Smith documented
“made a trip to Washington to meet with CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith. The meeting was likely to discuss details of the ongoing anti-communist projects, which is Gladio, to include the use of peace and liberty. Logically, discussion point…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 @ 47:54
Pierre Bertraud did_business_with
Walter Bedell Smith documented
“made a trip to Washington to meet with CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith. The meeting was likely to discuss details of the ongoing anti-communist projects, which is Gladio, to include the use of peace and liberty. Logically, discussion point…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 @ 47:54
Walter Bedell Smith headed
CIA documented
“Oh, no kidding. Probably. Let's see. That's around the same time that Otto Skorzeny is working for the CIA. His work became especially important during the period when General Walter Bedell Smith was the director and Alan Dulles was the dep…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:11:47
Walter Bedell Smith member_of
American Committee on a United Europe book_quoted
“Committee officers of the American Committee on United Europe was none other than Alan Dulles, Tom Braden, Mr. CIA officer who then sneaks into the role of a reporter, General Walter Bedell Smith. As for the committee's rank and file, they …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 2 @ 27:37
Walter Bedell Smith headed
CIA host_asserted
“Oh, no kidding. Probably. Let's see. That's around the same time that Otto Skorzeny is working for the CIA. His work became especially important during the period when General Walter Bedell Smith was the director and Alan Dulles was the dep…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12B @ 1:10:34
Walter Bedell Smith headed
CIA host_asserted
“So after their failed coup happens, they contact the CIA and Kermit Roosevelt goes over to London and sits down with the MI6 guys to decide what they're going to do. At the time, the chief of intel at the CIA was Walter Bedell Smith. So Smi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 14:06
Walter Bedell Smith member_of
United Fruit Company book_quoted
“She was Eisenhower's personal secretary. Under Secretary of State and former director of the CIA, Walter Bedell Smith was seeking an executive position with United Front. At the same time, he planned the coup. He was later named to the comp…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 25:38
Thomas Corcoran did_business_with
Walter Bedell Smith host_asserted
“He met with the Undersecretary of State at the time, which was Walter Bedell Smith. Yes, he was also CIA. And although one account of the Guatemala operation alleges that it was approved by the National Security Council Special Group Review…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 30:35
Walter Bedell Smith member_of
Dwight D. Eisenhower host_asserted
“the CIA. And Kermit Roosevelt goes over to London and sits down with the MI6 guys to decide what they're going to do. At the time, the chief of intel at the CIA was Walter Bedell Smith. So Smith, who had worked for Eisenhower as his chief o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 14:41
Thomas Corcoran recruited
Walter Bedell Smith host_asserted
“He met with the Undersecretary of State at the time, which was Walter Bedell Smith. Yes, he was also CIA. And although one account of the Guatemala operation alleges that it was approved by the National Security Council Special Group Review…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 31:04
Walter Bedell Smith member_of
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“began lobbying the White House to overthrow Arbenz. Walter Bedell Smith, the president's trusted friend and undersecretary of state, was seeking an executive position with the company, Mr. CIA himself. Henry Cabot Lodge, who argued the Unit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 36:41
Walter Bedell Smith worked_for
Dwight D. Eisenhower host_asserted
“who had worked for Eisenhower as his chief of staff during World War II, knows all of the players. And of course, we have John Foster Dulles of Secretary of State. We have Alan Dulles as the, he was the deputy director at the time and then …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 14:35
Walter Bedell Smith member_of
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“redistributing 70% of the country's farmland back to the people and out of the hands of the 2% landowners. Amongst the 2% was the United Fruit Company, which had multiple ties to Washington, D.C. and the CIA, including Walter Bedell Smith, …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 43:12
Allen Dulles succeeded
Walter Bedell Smith documented
“Smith firmly rejected the plan. He shuddered at the thought of it being presented. As Smith prepared to step down at the CIA, he lobbied against Dulles as his replacement, advising Eisenhower that it would be politically unwise to have the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 9 @ 51:09
Walter Bedell Smith appointed
Gordon Gray documented
“A North Carolina state senator, both before and after the war, an assistant secretary at the Pentagon and then secretary of the Army, Gray left government service in 1950 to preside over the University of North Carolina. A few short months …”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 41:29
Walter Bedell Smith opposed
Allen Dulles documented
“Smith firmly rejected the plan. He shuddered at the thought of it being presented. As Smith prepared to step down at the CIA, he lobbied against Dulles as his replacement, advising Eisenhower that it would be politically unwise to have the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 9 @ 51:09
Walter Bedell Smith exposed
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“Doolittle cited their mutual comrade, Walter Bedell Smith, who had said at one time that Allen was too emotional to be in the critical spot as director and that his emotionalism was far worse when it appeared than it appeared on the surface…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 7 @ 24:16
Walter Bedell Smith appointed
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“by state defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A couple of months later, when Smith learned that a subordinate actually controlled communications between headquarters and the field stations so that the DCI did not see all of the cables, he…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 28:01
Walter Bedell Smith succeeded
Roscoe Hillenkoetter book_quoted
“and 74% of the budget. When Roscoe Hillencotter was gone, he turned to a sea command, a cruiser division in the Pacific, and reached Korean waters soon enough to lead the ship, giving gunfight support to the U.S. Marines in the evacuation a…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 26:30
Walter Bedell Smith served_as
Dwight D. Eisenhower book_quoted
“was General Walter Bedell Smith, who assumed office in October 7, 1950. Beadle, which was his nickname, had the prestige and contact that Hill and Cotter lacked. General Smith had been General Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff during the w…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 26:59
Walter Bedell Smith appointed
Frank Wisner host_asserted
“They were just going to ignore that legal opinion. When State refused to go along with this political warfare thing in any sane or sound matter, the CIA director threw up his hands. Early in June of 1948, Hill and Cotter told a Truman aide …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 1:48
Walter Bedell Smith covered_up
Richard Nixon host_asserted
“material against Nixon and bring it into his office. The story was cleaned from the books, said Mason. Wisner, too, had no doubt what was done with the evidence. Beadle just flushed it down the toilet. Without a copy of the check, Drew Pear…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 9 @ 20:29
Walter Bedell Smith succeeded
William J. Donovan host_asserted
“Sweet. So enough of that. That makes me sick. But anyway, Walter Bedell Smith, who succeeded killing Coyter as the CIA director, despite bringing Alan Dulles in and making him his deputy, had supposedly he didn't like Alan Dulles, but he un…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 4 and 5 @ 42:09
Mentions (60)
▶ 1:01:16
I don't know if there's any relation here, but I'll just read it. Investigative journalist Edward J. Epstein agrees with the high regard in which Angleton was held by his colleagues in the intelligence business and adds that Angleton earned…
▶ 25:38
She was Eisenhower's personal secretary. Under Secretary of State and former director of the CIA, Walter Bedell Smith was seeking an executive position with United Front. At the same time, he planned the coup. He was later named to the comp…
▶ 22:14
military general running the CIA, Walter Bedell Smith, satisfied the concerns of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington and General MacArthur by combining assets in Korea. Navy underwater demolition teams, marine raids on North Korea infra…
▶ 16:49
Truman's lack of sympathy for the way the CIA had been diverted into covert operations did not result in any curb to the CIA by anyone involved. On the contrary, the CIA began to grow under Bedell Smith. All seven persons who are known to h…
▶ 17:12
The CIA had grown too top-heavy. Doolittle remarked that Alan Dulles had taken criticism of himself pretty well, but not of the actual mission or function, and that he had became very emotional. Doolittle cited their mutual comrade, Walter …
▶ 26:59
was General Walter Bedell Smith, who assumed office in October 7, 1950. Beadle, which was his nickname, had the prestige and contact that Hill and Cotter lacked. General Smith had been General Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff during the w…
▶ 27:32
Having stood up to Joseph Stalin in the position as the Moscow ambassador, Smith had a lot more prestige. Less than a week after he came on board at the CIA, the new director of intelligence announced that he was unilaterally assuming direc…
▶ 28:01
by state defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A couple of months later, when Smith learned that a subordinate actually controlled communications between headquarters and the field stations so that the DCI did not see all of the cables, he…
▶ 29:00
and had authored books of his exploits. He was the author of the NSD-50 study, basically setting up the whole structure. The merger idea was known as a fusion project. Both Wisner and the OSI director, who at that time was General Willard W…
▶ 37:45
vigorously. In late December 51, Gray was forced to appeal to Walter Bedell Smith to send CIA representatives to the PSB office for meetings. Gray also sent Smith copies of his informational briefings on what their psychological warfare obj…
▶ 38:11
the DCI Smith was still reacting angrily to continued claims that the CIA support for the PSB remained inadequate. In particular, some PSB planners felt the CIA had not developed sufficient information on political differences among Soviet …
▶ 41:29
A North Carolina state senator, both before and after the war, an assistant secretary at the Pentagon and then secretary of the Army, Gray left government service in 1950 to preside over the University of North Carolina. A few short months …
▶ 41:57
Smith said he wanted Gray to succeed him as the DCI and working at the PSB would make him the logical choice. Besides, said Smith, the president is serious about setting this up and we think that you'd be well equipped to do it. Gordon Gray…
▶ 14:41
the CIA. And Kermit Roosevelt goes over to London and sits down with the MI6 guys to decide what they're going to do. At the time, the chief of intel at the CIA was Walter Bedell Smith. So Smith, who had worked for Eisenhower as his chief o…
▶ 31:04
He met with the Undersecretary of State at the time, which was Walter Bedell Smith. Yes, he was also CIA. And although one account of the Guatemala operation alleges that it was approved by the National Security Council Special Group Review…
▶ 14:28
The study was a constructive critique. He thought Dulles' basic problem was organizational. The CIA had grown a little topsy, but neither the director nor Frank Wisner were especially good organizers. Doolittle remarked that Alan Dulles had…
▶ 33:00
Richard Helms as the key field officer for this initiative. Helms met many who became towering figures of the CIA during this time. And that would have been a time Operation Sunrise was going on and they were transitioning all of the stay-b…
▶ 1:03:41
Truman already had Hill and Cotter's successor lined up. He was going to ask Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith. The 54-year-old officer had been a wartime chief to Dwight D. Eisenhower. From 46 to 49, Smith had served as a U.S. ambassa…
▶ 1:04:16
Walter Bedell Smith had the clout to make things happen and sufficient prestige among the U.S. military to knock down the opposition to working with the CIA. The military intelligence unit had resisted acknowledging the primacy of the direc…
▶ 1:04:48
co-author of the 49 CIA panel study and Frank Wisner's friend and former law partner. Jackson and Wisner and CIA General Counsel Larry Houston drafted new language for the 10-2 directive, which they took to Bedell Smith. Smith drew through …
▶ 1:05:18
As DCI, the general said, he had all the authority necessary to direct the OPC. The arrangements made in 48 had been overtaken by events and were no longer valid. As for Wisner's problem with the wartime military control, General Smith pers…
▶ 1:05:47
where it should be noted he had good friends. Bob Joyce represented state, while General John Magruder, once head of the pre-CIA Strategic Services Unit, stood in for the Secretary of Defense. Admiral Leslie Stevens, a member of the Joint C…
▶ 1:06:51
George Marshall that DCI Smith sought a fair solution to avoid an open battle. Marshall had subordinates at the chairman's meet with Bedell Smith and the 10-2 panel to hammer out an answer. They went along with a formula under which they co…
▶ 1:19
So, George Kennan continued to press for the special studies group under the State Department control for things like the Italian operation, which was election interference. Admiral Hillenkotter now advised the White House that the CIA coul…
▶ 1:48
They were just going to ignore that legal opinion. When State refused to go along with this political warfare thing in any sane or sound matter, the CIA director threw up his hands. Early in June of 1948, Hill and Cotter told a Truman aide …
▶ 19:12
Issuing the directive formally creating Wisner's organization, Admiral Hillenkotter adopted the new name of Office of Policy Coordination. Weird name for a covert operation. The Office of Policy Coordination went to war. Before years end, F…
▶ 25:03
Yeaton said little. In his turn, George Kennan demanded the State Department be given a detailed information about objectives and methods to be employed. Instead, Wisner effectively manipulated the system. The Director of Central Intelligen…
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body of Americans with varying skills and talents dispersed in a dozen locations throughout the country. They had all kinds of operations going on. In May of 51, the CIA sent army officers to Germany as Director Smith's personal representat…
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army. Trescott and Bedell Smith had both been at Fort Leavenworth in the 30s, and in World War II, Trescott had briefly served as Eisenhower's on his staff, which Smith was in charge of. Trescott became one of the most successful U.S. comma…
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Guy that would have been in charge was Gordon Gray. General Walter Bedell Smith and William Jackson brought the word. Jackson, a Gray associate since 1930s, represented the token of trust. General Smith told Gray that he, Smith, wanted Gray…
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Shortly before Congress created the CIA, Gray, from his post with the Army, nominated himself for director of the CIA to replace Hoyt Vandenberg. This major departure from his usual manner suggests how serious Gray must have been about the …
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The Psychological Strategy Board staff under Gordon Gray constituted a central planning authority. In effect, the staff aimed to become the U.S. command center for all psychological operations. But something went wrong along the way. Genera…
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Representative of the SECDEF, John McGruder, safeguarded defense interests. The State Department repeatedly construed the Psychological Strategy Board inquiries as infringements. General Smith was CIA's delegate. Frank Wisner, the alternate…
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If Frank Wisner needed to know anything from the board, he would go to Tracy Barnes, who became something of a CIA spy at the board. Thus, Director Smith arranged through the board for other agencies to assist CIA in their expanded program …
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but only made Beadle Smith more angry. In November of 1951, Gray began to host private luncheons of the Psychological Strategy Board members where differences could be thrashed out before the monthly meeting. In December, Gray held a briefi…
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Gray appealed to Smith to ensure the CIA's representatives would attend the meetings, but Smith refused. In January of 52, Gray resigned. He would be succeeded by Raymond Allen, president of the University of Washington. Allen's background …
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which again was completely a CIA front. An intense period in the relationship came at the end of 1950. On November 24th, Walter Bedell Smith, Frank Wisner, and Carmel Offey met with Jay Lovestone and other union officials, including George …
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1950 meeting, Lovestone complained about the funding level and Wisner countered by citing the amount the agency had actually given that year, $250,000. This is 1950. Just a few months later, Lovestone submitted even more ambitious proposals…
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While the Truman administration remained in office, official U.S. policy favored a solution, not the overthrow. Thus, nothing happened with the British proposal. But Truman had already become a lame duck, and Eisenhower, working on his tran…
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then CIA director, was very much in favor of a more aggressive plan. Smith discussed it at a meeting in Washington in December, even though Iran had not even been on the agenda. The session brought together key CIA officers and British offi…
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Levitt's deputy, John Pendleton, and James Darling, chief of the Near East Division, paramilitary operations. Woody Woodhouse headed the British group. Meanwhile, Bedell Smith's days at the CIA were coming to an end. Eisenhower selected Gen…
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as an intermediary now selling this scheme to the CIA. It didn't take much selling because those guys still basically worked for Sullivan and Cromwell as agents pretending to work for the U.S. government. He met with Undersecretary Walter B…
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Committee officers of the American Committee on United Europe was none other than Alan Dulles, Tom Braden, Mr. CIA officer who then sneaks into the role of a reporter, General Walter Bedell Smith. As for the committee's rank and file, they …
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when it was initially launched from 1948 until 1952. And that's when it was kind of operating out of the State Department. And then it basically folds into the CIA. And that was under CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith. Though, of course, we'…
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began lobbying the White House to overthrow Arbenz. Walter Bedell Smith, the president's trusted friend and undersecretary of state, was seeking an executive position with the company, Mr. CIA himself. Henry Cabot Lodge, who argued the Unit…
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After Wisner and Mason showed him Mille Lacs' $100,000 check, the deputy CIA director knew that he would have to send it up the chain to his boss, General Walter Bedell Smith. But Dulles also realized that in this case, passing the buck was…
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devoted to Ike as Dulles was. It was Gordon Mason who was given the unpleasant task of showing the evidence of Nixon's corruption to General Smith, who predictably flew into a rage. Smith was a man who could cuss in three languages in almos…
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Smith demanded that Mason immediately gather up every scrap of incriminating material against Nixon and bring it into his office. The story was cleaned from the books, said Mason. Wisner, too, had no doubt what was done with the evidence. B…
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under Eisenhower as his brother did at State. The junior Dulles had worked uncomplainingly for two years as Walter Bedell Smith's deputy director, though he had considerably more intelligence experience than Smith. Dulles good-naturedly put…
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Wasn't he? Ha ha. Dulles would chuckle. During the 1952 presidential race, Dulles proved his loyalty to the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign by channeling funds to the Republican ticket through CIA front groups and by leaking embarrassing intellig…
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which they have routinely done ever since. But even though Smith recruited Dulles for the agency and made him the deputy, he never warmed up to him. Beadle, who as Eisenhower's former wartime aide, enjoyed a unique access to Eisenhower, and…
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After two years of close personal observation, wrote a CIA historian, Smith lacked confidence in Dulles' self-restraint. The general felt Dulles was too enamored with the dark arts of spycraft. Smith would tell friends that running the CIA …
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who was all too easy to abandon his scruples because he didn't have any. The deputy CIA director had no qualms about advocating the assassination of foreign leaders. We know. Even presenting a plan to Smith in 1952 to kill Stalin at the Par…
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As Smith prepared to step down at the CIA, he lobbied against Dulles as his replacement, advising Eisenhower that it would be politically unwise to have the brother of the Secretary of State serve as the administration's chief intelligence.…
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He probably did better than anybody else, but it still wasn't a good job. Despite Beatlesmith's close ties to Eisenhower, he found himself outmaneuvered by the Dulles brothers. Anticipating Smith's objections, Foster got to Eisenhower first…
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Beatlesmith's investigators discovered that it was questionable source in Romania gossip circles. They're talking about this guy who had been responsible for the salacious charges that had been leveled against Wisner. The source was Nicolae…
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Let me see what else they said. He's in here three different times. I don't know why I even have this book sitting here, but that's hilarious that I do. Let me see if I can find it quickly where he's talking about him here. There it is. So …
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Oh, no kidding. Probably. Let's see. That's around the same time that Otto Skorzeny is working for the CIA. His work became especially important during the period when General Walter Bedell Smith was the director and Alan Dulles was the dep…
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In 1952, the director of CIA was Walter Bedell Smith, and the man he tasked with CIA operations in Western Europe was named Frank Wisner, who was tasked with preventing the Soviet takeover. As detailed in a 2007 National Book Award winner, …
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CIA slipping LSDs to prisoners and its own employees who were squeaky clean. This is the CIA with Ted Shackley joined, and he would soon have his own similarly spectacular failure in Poland with a phantom army of freedom fighters. Quote, to…