CIA Technical Services Division organization
also: Langley Technical Service Division, Technical Services Directorate, Technical Services Division, Technical ServicesDivision, TSD, TSS
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Claims (28)
CIA Technical Services Division attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
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“During this period TSD impregnated a box of cigars with a chemical which produced temporary disorientation hoping to induce Castro to smoke one of the cigars before delivering a speech…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.86
CIA Technical Services Division worked_for
CIA documented
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“According to the 1967 Report of the CIA's Inspector General an official in the Technical Services Division (TSD) recalled discussing a scheme to spray Castro's broadcasting studio with a chemical…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.86
CIA Technical Services Division supplied_arms_to
David Atlee Phillips documented
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“The Support Chief received the pills from TSD probably in February 1961 with assurances that they were lethal…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.94
Joseph Scheider headed
CIA Technical Services Division documented
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“Joseph Scheider who by then had become Chief of the Technical Services Division…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.197
Sidney Gottlieb worked_for
CIA Technical Services Division documented
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“In January 1973 MKULTRA records were destroyed by Technical Services Division personnel acting on the verbal orders of Dr Sidney Gottlieb Chief of TSD…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.397
Sidney Gottlieb headed
CIA Technical Services Division documented
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“In January 1973 MKULTRA records were destroyed by Technical Services Division personnel acting on the verbal orders of Dr Sidney Gottlieb Chief of TSD…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.397
Henry Beecher worked_for
CIA Technical Services Division documented
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“In one long memorandum on current research with LSD which was supplied to TSD Henry Beecher described the dangers involvedwith such research in a prophetic manner…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.404
CIA Technical Services Division member_of
CIA documented
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“The Technical Services Division which was responsible for the operational use of LSD abroad...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.408
Richard Helms worked_for
CIA Technical Services Division documented
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“Under the proposal six percent of the research and development budget of TSD would be expended…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.412
CIA Technical Services Division supplied_arms_to
CIA documented
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“The Technical Services Division which was providing support to the Clandestine Services in the use of chemical and biological agents…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.417
CIA Technical Services Division covered_up
Office of Medical Services reported
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“a representative of the Office of Medical Services consistently sought to have medical personnel participate in the use of chemical and biological agents suggested that TSD did not inform the Office of Medical Services in order to prevent t…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.418
Inspector General exposed
CIA Technical Services Division documented
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“After the Inspector General's survey of the Technical ServicesDivision he recommended termination of the testing program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.304
CIA Technical Services Division member_of
Directorate of Operations documented
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“These three are the Missions and Programs Staff... and the Technical Services Division which produces in its own laboratories the gimmicks of the spy trade…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.267
CIA Technical Services Division worked_for
CIA documented
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“the fact of the Technical Services Division having a role of support for our intelligence activities was reported to various supervisory committees of the time…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.24
Nathan Gordon member_of
CIA Technical Services Division documented
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“TESTIMONY OF NATHAN GORDON FORMER CHIEF CHEMISTRY BRANCH TECHNICAL SERVICES DIVISION CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.56
CIA Technical Services Division subsidiary_of
CIA documented
document
“TESTIMONY OF NATHAN GORDON FORMER CHIEF CHEMISTRY BRANCH TECHNICAL SERVICES DIVISION CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.56
Chemistry Branch subsidiary_of
CIA Technical Services Division documented
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“TESTIMONY OF NATHAN GORDON FORMER CHIEF CHEMISTRY BRANCH TECHNICAL SERVICES DIVISION CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.56
CIA Technical Services Division did_business_with
United States Army Biological Laboratories documented
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“why we in TSD/CIA TSD Technical Services Division made the decision to accept the shellfish February 1970 from the Special Operations Division of the United States Army Biological Laboratories at Fort Detrick Md…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.57
Dr. Gordon worked_for
CIA Technical Services Division documented
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“a chemist who had the technical responsibility of performing a support and service function for the Technical Services Division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.78
CIA Technical Services Division member_of
CIA documented
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“It was a middle-level officer in the Technical Services Division of the CIA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.118
William Karamessines headed
CIA Technical Services Division documented
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“A component under my overall jurisdiction one component out of a considerable number would have received these dangerous materials and that was the Technical Services Division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.120
Mr. Osborn worked_for
CIA Technical Services Division documented
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“Mr OSBORN... representative of the Agency's Technical Services Division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.37
CIA Technical Services Division funded
New York City documented
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“The cost of the new lab including personnel and equipment will be borne by TSD…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.186
CIA Technical Services Division spied_on
Soviet Union documented
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“detection of USSR censorship techniques and development of butter operational methods to avoid ranch techniques…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.184
CIA Technical Services Division member_of
CIA documented
document
“There is no single point in the Agency to which one might look for policy and operat:ionul t;u:idance on the project as a whole…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.188
CIA Technical Services Division did_business_with
Counterintelligence Staff documented
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“SR Divioion requirements arc forwarded through Cl Staff to the Office of Security hut SE Division has little lulowl.edge of the capabilities of the interceptor group the :i.nt:erccpbor. have even less ]cnowtodgeof the over-all o:imoand obje…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.188
CIA Technical Services Division supplied_arms_to
Department of Information and Intelligence book_quoted
“Some of the equipment came from the CIA's Technical Services Division and was used specifically for torture. So the CIA is giving torture equipment to these barbarians in order for them to carry out torture, and they're teaching them how to…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 14:47
CIA Technical Services Division supplied_arms_to
Fidel Castro documented
“The Langley Technical Service Division scientists impregnated the suit with a fungus to trigger a skin disease, and the breathing apparatus had tuberculosis in it. The suit was carried to Donovan by an unwitting lawyer, John Nolan, who lear…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 28:21
Mentions (5)
▶ 14:47
Some of the equipment came from the CIA's Technical Services Division and was used specifically for torture. So the CIA is giving torture equipment to these barbarians in order for them to carry out torture, and they're teaching them how to…
▶ 16:50
death squads, which was created throughout Latin America, primarily by police officers who bombed and strafed the homes of suspected Tupomaro sympathizers and engaged in assassination and kidnapping. The death squads received some of the mo…
▶ 53:30
the police to work for the CIA. The commanding officers seemed to favor cooperating with the CIA. This brought praise and promotions to those who did because the CIA had tons of access to equipment. A well-connected police commander who wan…
▶ 57:28
and where to place them on the body. Word was passed that the CIA could supply more than tear gas, and the laboratories both at the Technical Service Division in Panama and in Washington had devices that would make the pain so sharp that a …
▶ 28:21
The Langley Technical Service Division scientists impregnated the suit with a fungus to trigger a skin disease, and the breathing apparatus had tuberculosis in it. The suit was carried to Donovan by an unwitting lawyer, John Nolan, who lear…