Office of National Estimates organization
also: board of the national estimates, CIA's Office of National Estimates, national estimates, O&E, Offices of National Estimates, ONE, the ONE staff
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Claims (28)
Sherman Kent headed
Office of National Estimates documented
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“Sherman Kent the Director of ONE opposedusing data on U.S capabilities…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.87
William Colby removed_from_power
Office of National Estimates documented
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“After his appointment in 1973 when approximately half the Board positions were vacant Colby abolished ONE and the Board and established in their place the National Intelligence Officers (NIOs)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.93
National Intelligence Officers succeeded
Office of National Estimates documented
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“organized in 1973 to replace ONE…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.110
Office of National Estimates worked_for
United States documented
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“After the Standing Group's meeting on April 23 1963 the CIA's Office of National Estimates was assigned the task of assessing possible developments if Castro should die…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.185
William Langer headed
Office of National Estimates documented
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“An Office of National Estimates (ONE) was established to produce finished intelligence estimates…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.31
Walter Bedell Smith founded
Office of National Estimates documented
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“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
William Colby removed_from_power
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“In 1973 Colby replaced the Board and the ONE staff with a new system of eleven National Intelligence Officers (NIOs)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.83
Office of National Estimates worked_for
CIA documented
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“Helms commented to Abbot Smith Chairman of the Board of National Estimates 'O.K Let's develop the paper as you suggest and do our best to coordinate it within the Agency'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.88
Al Smith founded
Office of National Estimates documented
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“His most significant change was the creation of the Office of National Estimates (ONE) whose sole purpose was to produce National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.112
Office of National Estimates subsidiary_of
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“The establishment of the Office of National Estimates was an attempt to insure direct interaction between senior level officials and the Agency…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.121
William E. Colby dissolved
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“Colby abolished the Office of National Estimates and replaced it with a group of eleven senior specialists in functional and geographical areas known as National Intelligence Officers (NIOs)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.131
Directorate of Intelligence headed
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“Specifically the intelligence activities which the DDI originally administered were Production of finished intelligence by the Offices of National Estimates (ONE)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Office of National Estimates succeeded
National Intelligence Officers documented
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“ONE was abolished in 1973 and its responsibilities were transferred to the newly formed National Intelligence Officers attached to the Office of the DCI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.268
Office of Political Research merged_with
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“Accordingly an Office of Political Research (OPR) was established in 1974 It incorporated the Special Research Staff some people from OCI and the then disbanding Office of National Estimates…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.270
United States Intelligence Board headed
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“Prior to 1973 a formal Board of National Estimates supervised the production of drafts by a special Office of National Estimates…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.194
NSC Standing Group assigned
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“After the Standing Group's meeting on April 23 1963 the CIA's Office of National Estimates was assigned the task of assessing possible developments if Castro should die…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.185
Walter Bedell Smith founded
Office of National Estimates documented
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“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
William Harding Jackson founded
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“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 founded
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“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
William Langer headed
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“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
Office of National Estimates member_of
Deputy Directorate for Intelligence documented
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“ORR OSI OCI and ONE were the centers of DDI's intelligence analysis…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61
Office of National Estimates did_business_with
Office of Research and Reports documented
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“the Office of National Estimates drawing heavily on work done by ORR and by CENIS at MIT produced its estimates of Soviet bomber production…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.62
Office of National Estimates did_business_with
Center for International Studies documented
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“the Office of National Estimates drawing heavily on work done by ORR and by CENIS at MIT produced its estimates of Soviet bomber production…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.62
Office of National Estimates member_of
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“The problem was magnified throughout the DDI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.63
Abbott Smith headed
Office of National Estimates book_quoted
“intelligent estimates captured this well. In a 1969 national intelligent estimate, the board of the national estimates considered the prospects for Chile. Abbott Smith, chairman at the time, had a reputation as a generalist, a former profes…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 52:41
William Langer founded
Office of National Estimates host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Afghanistan @ 1:28:19
William P. Bundy member_of
Office of National Estimates host_asserted
“And he worked as an analyst. Which is Operation Gladio. Go ahead. I worked for something called the Office of National Estimates. I did some work for Eisenhower. So let me just say, the national estimates at that time are the people respons…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 27:33
Office of National Estimates spied_on
Sandinistas host_asserted
“basically are the way the CIA lies to the American people and coerces other government offices to do what they want because they will write the national intelligent estimate on a subject and then everything in the government structure, whet…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Afghanistan @ 1:28:48
Mentions (8)
▶ 1:28:19
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…
▶ 5:14
Another DI unit was the Office of National Estimates, which produced the community's flagship reports, the National Intelligence Estimates. Without bringing it into the circle of knowledge on the plan, Dulles and Bissell asked O&E to assess…
▶ 5:41
memorandum in late January could not have been reassuring to the secret warriors. The analysts judged that time, that time was not on Washington's side, that Castro had successfully consolidated his control over the entire island. Barely a …
▶ 6:10
The board had long complained that the director of operations did not incorporate intelligence and analysts into the covert planning. Dulles had defended his agency and did so again in January of 1961 meeting, responding that the DO used in…
▶ 9:04
Successfully overthrow Castro because of his control over his armed forces and the country in general, unless you had an invading force backed up by intervention of U.S. forces, unquote. JFK received the O&E estimate judging time to be on C…
▶ 44:25
Conditions without Castro, assuming Castro would die or be assassinated. A few days later, on the agenda for the standing group meeting, the death of Castro was listed as a contingency. At the meeting, Robert McNamara, taking McCone's point…
▶ 52:41
intelligent estimates captured this well. In a 1969 national intelligent estimate, the board of the national estimates considered the prospects for Chile. Abbott Smith, chairman at the time, had a reputation as a generalist, a former profes…
▶ 27:33
And he worked as an analyst. Which is Operation Gladio. Go ahead. I worked for something called the Office of National Estimates. I did some work for Eisenhower. So let me just say, the national estimates at that time are the people respons…