Walter Bedell Smith person
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Claims (19)
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
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
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 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
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 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 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 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
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 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 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
Mentions (59)
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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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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…