William Langer person

“Dr William L Langer distinguished Coolidge professor of history at Harvard…”

“headed the key Research and Analysis division…”

“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.…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“An Office of National Estimates (ONE) was established to produce finished intelligence estimates…”

“Founded in 1950 as the Board of National Estimates and initially headed by OSS veteran Dr William Langer…”

“At Secretary Byrnes's request Dr Langer came to State in 1946 for six months to set up the intelligence unit…”

“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.…”

“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.…”

“With the help of recommendations from Ludwell Montague an historian and a senior ORE analyst and others Langer personally selected each of the ONE staff members most of whom were drawn from ORE.…”

“Bastion had been Southern Air Transport's lawyer for the CIA. So they're not really selling it. It's just a paper shuffle. Southern Air Transport maintained headquarters and operating facilities in Miami. Operating revenue in 82 totaled alm…”

“Buzz Sawyer's flight log recovered from the wreckage showed that he had performed flights for the U.S. military with Southern Air. It also showed that Southern Air transport personnel, including its president, William Langton, along for som…”

“If you go down and you look at his service during World War II, which is where I start with all these people, of course, he happens to be in the OSS. And he also was moved over into the CIA. As a matter of fact, he was the guy that original…”

“His wife's kind of the philosopher of how to make it sound good. And he's the guy that's initially in the 1950s in charge of telling the president who the good guys and the bad guys are. It just all fits every single time it fits. Of course…”

“His wife's kind of the philosopher of how to make it sound good. And he's the guy that's initially in the 1950s in charge of telling the president who the good guys and the bad guys are. It just all fits every single time it fits. Of course…”