Office of Policy Coordination organization
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Claims (148)
Office of Special Operations merged_with
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“In August 1952 OSO and OPC were merged into the Directorate for Plans (DDP)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.116
Office of Policy Coordination split_off_from
Directorate for Plans documented
document
“In August 1952 OSO and OPC were merged into the Directorate for Plans (DDP)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.116
Allen Welsh Dulles headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
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“lately head of the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination which carried out political subversion missions…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.261
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
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“The supervisor testified that he consulted with Frank Wisner the Director of OPC who agreed that Pash should have jurisdiction over assassinations.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.135
CIA acquired
Office of Policy Coordination documented
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“the unit was abolished in 1951 and its functions and personnel were transferred to the Central Intelligence Agency…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.316
Program Branch 7 subsidiary_of
Office of Policy Coordination documented
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“Pash served as Chief of Program Branch 7 (PB/7) a "special operations unit within the Office of Policy Coordination the original clandestine services organization…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.134
Office of Special Operations merged_with
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“Merged with OPC in 1952 to form the Directorate for Plans…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.113
Office of Policy Coordination merged_with
Strategic Services Unit documented
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“real integration at the operations level did not occur until August 1952 when OSO and OPC became the Directorate of Plans (DDP)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.44
Strategic Services Unit merged_with
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“real integration at the operations level did not occur until August 1952 when OSO and OPC became the Directorate of Plans (DDP)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.44
Allen W. Dulles worked_for
Office of Policy Coordination documented
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“Dulles was responsible for supervising both OPC and OSO although the two components were independently administered by their own Directors…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.44
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
United States Department of State requested
Office of Policy Coordination documented
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“In the summer of 1950 following the North Korean invasion of South Korea the State Department requested the initiation of paramilitary and psychological operations on the Chinese mainland…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.42
Office of Policy Coordination funded
Radio Free Europe documented
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“The National Committee for Free Europe a group of prominent American businessmen lawyers and philanthropists and Radio Free Europe were products of the OPC program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.42
Office of Policy Coordination funded
Anti-Communist Free Europe Committee documented
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“The National Committee for Free Europe a group of prominent American businessmen lawyers and philanthropists and Radio Free Europe were products of the OPC program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.42
Office of Policy Coordination acquired
Economic Cooperation Administration documented
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“In addition to SPG's propaganda activities OPC acquired the ECA's fledgling labor projects as well as the accompanying funds…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.41
Office of Policy Coordination acquired
Special Procedures Group documented
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“After the issuance of NSC 10/2 SPG turned over to OPC all of its resources including an unexpended budget of over $2 million a small staff and its communications equipment…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.41
Douglas MacArthur removed_from_power
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“until 1950 both CIA (OSO) and OPC were excluded from the Far East by General Douglas MacArthur who refused to concede any jurisdiction to the civilian intelligence agency in the Pacific theater…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.41
Office of Policy Coordination operated_in
Europe documented
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“Geographically the area of concentration was Western Europe…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.41
Frank G. Wisner appointed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
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“Responsibility for coordination with the State and Defense Departments rested with Frank G Wisner appointed Assistant Director for Policy Coordination (ADPC) on September 1 1948…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.40
United States Department of Defense did_business_with
Office of Policy Coordination documented
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“The State Department encouraged political action and propaganda activities to support its diplomatic objectives while the Defense Department requested paramilitary activities to support the Korean War effort and to counter communist-associa…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.38
U.S. State Department did_business_with
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“The State Department encouraged political action and propaganda activities to support its diplomatic objectives while the Defense Department requested paramilitary activities to support the Korean War effort and to counter communist-associa…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.38
Office of Policy Coordination operated_in
Washington, D.C. documented
document
“OPC was divided between field personnel stationed overseas and Headquarters personnel stationed in Washington…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.39
Office of Policy Coordination operated_in
China documented
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“OPC's participation in the war effort contributed to its transformation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.37
Office of Policy Coordination operated_in
Korea documented
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“OPC's participation in the war effort contributed to its transformation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.37
Office of Policy Coordination merged_with
Office of Special Operations documented
document
“By 1952 when it merged with the Agency's clandestine collection component the Office of Special Operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.37
Office of Policy Coordination subsidiary_of
CIA documented
document
“As a CIA component OPC was an anomaly…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.36
Office of Special Projects renamed_to
Office of Policy Coordination documented
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“Office of Special Projects soon renamed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.36
Office of Policy Coordination headed
Air America documented
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“The air proprietary was managed by elements of the Office of Policy Coordination…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.229
Walter Bedell Smith merged_with
Office of Policy Coordination documented
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“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
Office of Procurement acquired
Office of Policy Coordination documented
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“For example during this period the CIA's Office of Procurement acquired some $152 million worth of foreign weapons and ammunition for use by guerrilla forces that never came into existence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.153
United States Department of Defense worked_for
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“At the same time Defense Department pressure shifted the focus of OPC activities toward more aggressive responses to Soviet and Chinese Communist threats particularly military incursions…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.153
Office of Policy Coordination operated_in
Europe documented
document
“Extensive OPC labor media and election operations in Western Europe in the late 1940's for instance were designed to undercut debilitating strikes by communist trade unions and election advances by communist parties…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.153
Office of Policy Coordination funded
Radio Liberty documented
document
“Many covert action programs initiated in the first few years as an adjunct to the United States policy of communist containment in Europe eventually developed into large-scale and long-term operations such as the clandestine propaganda radi…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.153
Office of Policy Coordination renamed_to
Office of Special Projects documented
document
“This latter task was assigned to the Officeof Special Projects later renamed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.30
Office of Policy Coordination worked_for
U.S. State Department documented
document
“but was directly responsible to the Denartments of State and Defense…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.30
Office of Policy Coordination worked_for
United States Department of Defense documented
document
“but was directly responsible to the Denartments of State and Defense…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.30
National Security Council founded
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“In 1948 an independent CIA office.the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC).was established to carry out the covert mission assigned by the NSC…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
Office of Policy Coordination merged_with
Office of Special Operations documented
document
“At this same time the Officeof Policy Coordination (OPC) was merged with the CIA's Officeof SpecialOperations which was responsiblefor espionage…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
Office of Policy Coordination merged_with
CIA documented
document
“At this same time the Officeof Policy Coordination (OPC) was merged with the CIA's Officeof SpecialOperations which was responsiblefor espionage…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
Office of Policy Coordination funded
Radio Free Europe documented
document
“Many covert action programs initiated in the first few years as an adjunct to the United States policy of communist containment in Europe eventually developed into large-scale and long-term operations such as the clandestine propaganda radi…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.153
Office of Policy Coordination operated_in
Soviet bloc countries documented
document
“OPC did conduct some guerrilla-type operations in this early period against Soviet bloc countries using neighboring countries as bases and employing a variety of "black activities."…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.153
Office of Policy Coordination operated_in
Europe documented
document
“These early activities were directed against the Soviet threat They included countering Soviet propaganda and covert Soviet support of labor unions and student groups in Western Europe...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.152
Office of Policy Coordination subsidiary_of
CIA documented
document
“To organize and direct these activities a semi-independent Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) was established within the CIA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.152
Office of Special Projects renamed_to
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“In June 1948 a CIA component the Office of Special Projects soon renamed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) was established for the execution of covert operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.114
Office of Policy Coordination operated_in
China documented
document
“Following the North Korean invasion of South Korea the State Department as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff requested the initiation of paramilitary activities in Korea and China…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.114
Office of Policy Coordination targeted_for_regime_change
Soviet Union documented
document
“Officials throughout the government regarded the Soviet Union as an aggressive force and OPC's activities were initiated and justified on the basis of this shared perception…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.115
Frank G. Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“Hillenkoetter's clashes with the State and Defense Departments as well as with Frank G Wisner the Director of OPC were frequent…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.116
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“Paul Nitz, just finished working on a massive study of aerial bombing who had fingers in policy pies. Wisner jumped at the opportunity to take charge of a new Cold War action group and soon found himself ensconced at CIA headquarters. The N…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 18:45
Frank Wisner member_of
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“Security Council order, which prescribed the procedures for approval. Truman's 10-5 panel, the Psychological Strategy Board, had endorsed covert operations informally, but Truman's directive merely gave the group authority to regulate the O…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 5:14
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“They did it here. They did it here in 2020. You have only have to ask, where else have they done it and when else have they done it? We know that they tried to do it in 2016. How long have they been doing it? My guess would be since 1947. J…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 6 @ 57:23
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“Alan Dulles was the head of the CIA and his brother, John Foster Dulles, was running the State Department. And the two have been working just like that ever since. Set up to run just like that. And just let me put one other stamp on that. W…”
▶ SitRep with War_Hamster and Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 7:05
Manny Pena member_of
Office of Policy Coordination caller_asserted
“Okay, sorry. Can you hear me? Yes, go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to point out, he was involved in the policing for Richmond, Indiana, where Jim Jones is from. He was involved in the CIA Office of Public Safety program, which, as you probabl…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:41:33
Richmond Police Chief member_of
Office of Policy Coordination caller_asserted
“Okay, sorry. Can you hear me? Yes, go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to point out, he was involved in the policing for Richmond, Indiana, where Jim Jones is from. He was involved in the CIA Office of Public Safety program, which, as you probabl…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:41:33
Jean Kirkpatrick member_of
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“I'll just give you some of the names. William Jackson was involved, Lyman Kirkpatrick, Willard Wyman, Colonel Kilburn Johnson, and Allen Dulles. Lyman Kirkpatrick also wanted the DO staff kept to a minimum to avoid managers getting in the w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:08:17
Robert Lowe member_of
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“A former diplomat running a covert operation? Wow. He found the task so rewarding that he moved to the CIA. You know, almost like they change seats. Often. The first OPC field officer assigned would be Robert Lowe, a veteran of the OSS, Cai…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 33:38
James McGarger member_of
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“were the SIS liaison man and their Balkan expert at the embassy. Americans included Robert Joyce, representing the State Department. What? The State Department's doing covert operations? I'm shocked. And James McGarger in Frank Wisner's off…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 33:06
Harry Rozeski member_of
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“where they met with Harry Carr and other senior SIS officers concerned about these operations. Harry Rositsky led the group for the CIA, and one of the more suspicious Baltic officers accompanied the OPC team. Officers like Lindsay and Jerr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 22:29
Office of Policy Coordination carried_out_attack
Lithuania book_quoted
“October 3, 1949. A team was parachuted into Lithuania by Czech air crew working for OPC, Frank Wisner. Communications remained poor. The agent's messages garbled. The Baltics warned that the operation had been penetrated by the enemy, but t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 19:09
Frank Wisner funded
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“Here's where the CIA could be helpful. You know, our money. In particular, Frank Wisner. He had money to burn because of the Marshall Plan. Not only was Wisner liberally funded by three different agencies and the Marshall Plan, he had other…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 13:09
C.D. Jackson headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“But the organization that set up to be the liaison between National Security Council and the executive departments that is post-policy approval and that was first run by C.D. Jackson, the same dude who later obtains the Zapruder film in 196…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:50:29
Nelson Rockefeller headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“But the organization that set up to be the liaison between National Security Council and the executive departments that is post-policy approval and that was first run by C.D. Jackson, the same dude who later obtains the Zapruder film in 196…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:50:29
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“Oh, and Nazis. These individuals were generally assigned to a super secret Office of Policy and Coordination, later known Office of Dirty Tricks, under Frank Wisner. In 1949, an act was passed to legally permit the CIA to import as many as …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 19:55
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“Things like this kind of tend to get put in the waste paper basket. The Office of Policy Coordination was the entity within the State Department that did all of this prior to World War II. It was at the time during World War II headed up by…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea part 3 @ 4:05
Office of Policy Coordination subsidiary_of
CIA book_quoted
“So anything short of actual declaration of war was covered and the CIA was allowed to do it. The definition of covert operations contained in 10-2 endured for more than three decades. The Office of Special Projects, the new organization cre…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 6:19
Office of Policy Coordination merged_with
Special Operations Group host_asserted
“The Office of Policy Coordination, OPC, which were the covert operations section, and the Office of Special Operations, OSO, which was the intel collection and spies group, were united to create a clandestine service field mission for the f…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea part 3 @ 3:34
Office of Policy Coordination carried_out_attack
Eastern Soviet Union host_asserted
“400 tons of leaflets over the Soviet Union. I guess we didn't care about littering back then. C.D. Jackson becomes Radio Free Europe's president. Politician Harold Stassen, journalist Drew Pearson, all were part of this program. Creation of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 34:36
Office of Policy Coordination trained
Colombian National Police host_asserted
“So basically what this is saying is the same follow-on to the Office of Public Safety was being used in Columbia to set up and train a national police force. Now, this is the 80s, and we know officially the OPS, Office of Public Safety, clo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 30:26
CIA trained
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“It is known not only that the CIA was using such teams in Vietnam, but that in 1963, it was responsible for collaborating in training with the national police, you know, under that program like the Office of Public Safety. But the murders c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 1:02:38
Office of Policy Coordination carried_out_attack
Soviet Union book_quoted
“threw itself into the black arts of espionage, including sabotage, subversion, and assassination. By 1952, the Office of Public Coordination was running 47 overseas stations, and its staff had ballooned to nearly 3,000 employees, with anoth…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 21:09
James McCall member_of
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“a detached foreign service officer for the Office of Policy Coordination, which is Frank Wisner's area. It also included Frank Wisner's deputy, Franklin Lindsay, with a leadership role in the Albanian campaign. So the first OPC, Office of P…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 10:03
Franklin A. Lindsay member_of
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“a detached foreign service officer for the Office of Policy Coordination, which is Frank Wisner's area. It also included Frank Wisner's deputy, Franklin Lindsay, with a leadership role in the Albanian campaign. So the first OPC, Office of P…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 10:03
Robert Lowe member_of
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“a detached foreign service officer for the Office of Policy Coordination, which is Frank Wisner's area. It also included Frank Wisner's deputy, Franklin Lindsay, with a leadership role in the Albanian campaign. So the first OPC, Office of P…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 10:03
Office of Policy Coordination funded
National Committee for a Free Europe book_quoted
“A number of Albanian exile leaders held a press conference to announce the formation of an Albanian National Committee. This group of leaders then secretly toured Britain and made open visits to the United States, where it was sponsored by …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 17:34
E. Michael Burke headed
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“were the former pixies that kept getting killed. One of them says, we were used as an experiment. We were a small part of a big game, ponds that could be sacrificed. That's what they feel about all of us. There was never enough chance of su…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 28:23
E. Howard Hunt reassigned
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“CIA manager Franklin Lindsey left for the Ford Foundation, which is a CIA front, while Washington subordinate E. Howard Hunt welcomed his orders to transfer to the Latin Division, where he would be embroiled in coup after coup after coup wi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 29:24
Hank Hernandez member_of
Office of Policy Coordination caller_asserted
“Okay, sorry. Can you hear me? Yes, go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to point out, he was involved in the policing for Richmond, Indiana, where Jim Jones is from. He was involved in the CIA Office of Public Safety program, which, as you probabl…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:41:33
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“and several other Operation Gladio peripheral activities. As far as Gladio is concerned, the chief architect at OPC was Frank Wisner and his British counterpart, Sir Colin Govans. They basically maintained the already existing Gladio networ…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 19:28
CIA funded
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“50% of the Office of Public Safety that taught national police forces in over 50 countries how to torture dissidents. And there's no better example than the Phoenix program, which we went over extensively, of the CIA participating in tortur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 3:26
CIA trained
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“50% of the Office of Public Safety that taught national police forces in over 50 countries how to torture dissidents. And there's no better example than the Phoenix program, which we went over extensively, of the CIA participating in tortur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 3:26
Office of Policy Coordination front_for
CIA host_asserted
“to get a particular outcome. And then they set up, they had already set up the Office of Policy Coordination in the State Department long before it ever was moved to the CIA. They were going to use the intelligence gathered, and you can't e…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 1:10:54
Office of Policy Coordination member_of
CIA host_asserted
“As an experiment, the small Latin American branches of both OPC and OSO joined together, branch by branch, becoming the Eastern Hemisphere Division. That would be the first. General Lucian Trescott, CIA chief in Germany, saw Smith in early …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:09:51
Office of Policy Coordination used
Fort Benning book_quoted
“to train the CIA paramilitary forces. While the request for a detailee was later withdrawn, in mid-November, the OPC and Army representatives agreed to use Fort Benning, Georgia, so now you know why they relocated the School of Americas the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 37:25
Dwight D. Eisenhower removed_from_power
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“had approved covert operations informally, but the NSC directives merely gave it authority to regulate the Office of Planning. That was Wisner's group. These procedures was dismantled by Eisenhower. Also gone was the Psychological Strategy …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 5:51
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“had approved covert operations informally, but the NSC directives merely gave it authority to regulate the Office of Planning. That was Wisner's group. These procedures was dismantled by Eisenhower. Also gone was the Psychological Strategy …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 5:51
Franklin A. Lindsay headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“He's actually, I mentioned he was studying music. Well, he has a very famous baritone, or a very good one, I guess. And he was actually president of the Yale Glee Club. That was a big part of his bio, all of his singing stuff. I'm not going…”
▶ Shadow State 30 Secret Societies 14; Rhode Island Rats @ 53:01
Office of Policy Coordination subsidiary_of
CIA host_asserted
“It eventually moves out of the State Department into the CIA. And Frank Wisner, who was originally in charge of it in the State Department, moves with it to the CIA. And he becomes kind of the chief covert black ops guy. So they basically w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 32:17
Office of Policy Coordination merged_with
CIA documented
“What you have to do is go back prior to World War II and the setup of the CIA. The office of policy coordination inside the State Department was Frank Wisner. They took that entire office out of the State Department, plugged it in the CIA, …”
▶ JFK ASSASINATION WITH COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY @ 38:58
Office of Policy Coordination carried_out_attack
Soviet Union book_quoted
“The National Security Council approved Wisner's appointment on August 19, 1948. A week later, issuing the directive formally creating Wisner's organization, Admiral Hillencotter adopted the new name of Office of Policy Coordination. Weird n…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 18:11
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“Nonetheless, an attempt would be made. Wisner's move into paramilitary action was preceded by the British Secret Intelligence Service, SIS, whose controller, North, became the first to make contact and give the Baltics hope and support. It …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 4:31
Office of Policy Coordination trained
CIA book_quoted
“to train the CIA paramilitary forces. While the request for a detailee was later withdrawn, in mid-November, the OPC and Army representatives agreed to use Fort Benning, Georgia, so now you know why they relocated the School of Americas the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 37:25
Office of Policy Coordination recruited
U.S. Army book_quoted
“The military's interest became Frank Wisner's entree into outflanking the 10-2 panel when he encountered obstacles from CIA and State Department. In August of 49, Wisner asked the Army for extensive assistance, including the designation of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 36:55
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“The military's interest became Frank Wisner's entree into outflanking the 10-2 panel when he encountered obstacles from CIA and State Department. In August of 49, Wisner asked the Army for extensive assistance, including the designation of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 36:55
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“There was a total of a little over 300 people working for him. The OPC had access to another fund that had been set up of unused currency stabilization accounts at the treasury. From their headquarters, Wisner's web began to encircle the wo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 19:43
Office of Policy Coordination funded
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“Radio Free Europe employed Eastern European immigrants as broadcasters, obviously because they know the language. Radio Free Europe was secretly given Wisner's radio transmitter. A search began for more powerful equipment. The OPC kept in c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 30:08
Office of Policy Coordination supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang book_quoted
“Under the program of the Office of Policy Coordination, OPC, which remember, that is Frank Wisner, which was originally in the State Department and then moves for the clandestine part of the CIA once it's set up, worked under private cover …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 26:22
NSC 10/2 funded
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“by the Director of Central Intelligence. Composed of representatives of the Secretary of State and Defense, along with the CIA Director, the Secret Committee became the unit of the National Security Council and worked directly for the Presi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 3:21
George F. Kennan founded
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 1:19
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“and buried it in the State Department's bureaucracy called the Office of Policy Coordination, which of course is where Frank Wisner was placed. It was kind of a combative agency that Dulles envisioned the CIA becoming in the Dewey administr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 20:40
Allen Dulles founded
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“The Nazi treasure, looted from Jewish families and German-occupied nations, had become a key funding source for Dulles' secret operations. Private citizen Dulles further spread his influence by inserting close allies like Frank Wisner into …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 20:09
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“That sleight of hand was likely performed by none other than Frank Wisner, a close collaborator of Dulles' from their OSS days, who had recently been appointed as head of the State Department's Office of Policy Coordination that would later…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 50:22
Office of Policy Coordination funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“They were all being coordinated out of the Office of Policy Coordination, which we know is Frank Wisner. Kennan, together with the CIA and the Office of Policy Coordination, before it moves to the CIA, because it does, were supporting vario…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6 @ 12:39
Allen Dulles headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“happened at the invitation of none other than Alan Dulles, who at the time was the deputy director of PLANS, which is their covert operations, i.e. Operation Gladio. During his stay, he wrote up reports that eventually appeared in multiple …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti-Communism #3 @ 22:53
Irving Brown financed_via
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“AFL Washington, Brown was the man through whom money from AFL was sent to Office of Policy Coordination and then the CIA. The Office of Policy Coordination is an entity that comes up several times, especially back in the early days of Opera…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti-Communism #3 @ 27:00
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“to get a particular outcome. And then they set up, they had already set up the Office of Policy Coordination in the State Department long before it ever was moved to the CIA. They were going to use the intelligence gathered, and you can't e…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 1:10:54
Office of Policy Coordination recruited
Robert Lansing book_quoted
“and was in search of even more powerful equipment so they could have a bigger broadcast. The OPC kept in close contact with Radio Free Europe, assigning officers to work there and hiring former OSS radio experts like Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 21:12
Office of Policy Coordination recruited
Peter Mero book_quoted
“and was in search of even more powerful equipment so they could have a bigger broadcast. The OPC kept in close contact with Radio Free Europe, assigning officers to work there and hiring former OSS radio experts like Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 21:12
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“the wrong person being elected in Italy. So their very first operation of interfering with an election for the CIA was 1948. Covert action also received a tremendous boost from the man selected by the Secretary of State to head the Office o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 14:21
Harry S. Truman approved
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“of the National Security Council, and it became the Office of Special Projects. As if that name did not sound innocuous enough, it was soon changed again to the Office of Policy Coordination, OPC. This unit was the action group that all cov…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 12:30
Hans Tofte member_of
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“The Office of Strategic Services, the old OSS, European veteran by the name of Hans Tofte, T-O-F-T-E, who also worked in the Office of Policy Coordination where Wisner was, had other ongoing projects. His paramilitary operations chief, a Ma…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea part 3 @ 23:15
Office of Policy Coordination funded
Radio Free Europe book_quoted
“Radio Free Europe was secretly given Wisner's radio transmitter. A search began for more powerful equipment. The OPC kept in close contact, assigning a couple of officers undercover to work inside Radio Free Europe staff. He also had them a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 29:22
Office of Policy Coordination funded
Pilgrim Baker host_asserted
“Was he really on vacation or was he recruiting? Ongoing at this very moment and in the very same area of the Alps was a highly classified war preparations mentioned earlier being carried out by Frank Wisner's OPC. Under the code name Pilgri…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 11 - 12 @ 56:18
Office of Policy Coordination funded
Pilgrim Dog host_asserted
“Was he really on vacation or was he recruiting? Ongoing at this very moment and in the very same area of the Alps was a highly classified war preparations mentioned earlier being carried out by Frank Wisner's OPC. Under the code name Pilgri…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 11 - 12 @ 56:18
Office of Policy Coordination founded
Operation Aerodynamic host_asserted
“C, the Office of Policy Coordination, worked together to create this organization. Washington was especially pleased with the high level of training in the Ukraine and its potential for further guerrilla activities with the extraordinary ne…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 4 and 5 @ 1:01:53
Frank Wisner member_of
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“He had brought Chenault and the aviation company to the attention of Frank Wisner, who we know very well. He was in the Office of Policy Coordination, which was originally in the State Department, and then he moved over with it to the CIA. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:27:01
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“What you have to do is go back prior to World War II and the setup of the CIA. The office of policy coordination inside the State Department was Frank Wisner. They took that entire office out of the State Department, plugged it in the CIA, …”
▶ JFK ASSASINATION WITH COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY @ 38:58
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“The National Security Council approved Wisner's appointment on August 19, 1948. A week later, issuing the directive formally creating Wisner's organization, Admiral Hillencotter adopted the new name of Office of Policy Coordination. Weird n…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 18:11
NSC 10/2 founded
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“included both psychological operations and paramilitary programs. You know, in addition to political warfare, we're just going to do the whole nine yards. Truman signed the new directive 10-2 on June 18th. Both kinds of missions would be ca…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 1:55
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“is Frank Wisner's OPC, which had been the point of contact prior to Skorzeny's arrival in Spain, was also under Air Force cover. Imagine that. So, in 1956, when Captain Winnington, let's see, Captain Winnington departed Spain in 51, but tha…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 11 - 12 @ 47:21
Joseph Kennedy Sr. headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“and create a new world order those are my words cia psychological warfare division gladio meets the congress for cultural freedom so she goes back in time again um 1948 joseph fire brian the third a former classmate of burnham's joined the …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:07:51
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“C-O-R-A-N. He was very well connected with the government. Corcoran put Chenault in contact with CIA officers, culminating in a series of meetings during the summer. By August, Chenault was talking to Colonel Richard Stilwell, chief of staf…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 9:02
E. Howard Hunt member_of
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“for the OPC unit, which included the notorious E. Howard Hunt. Weird how that guy's name keeps coming up. The campaigns to harass communist governments, such as a Ukraine ban that until the early 1950s waged guerrilla war on the Soviet rule…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:09:23
Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“went to work for Averill Harriman to work on the Marshall Plan. He worked in the State Department in the Office of Policy Coordination. If you guys remember, that was Frank Wisner's area that was chopped out of the State Department and basi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and Martha Sheshan @ 24:12
Frank Wisner led
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“and moved over to lead that branch once it was set up. And during World War II, Burnham would leave his teaching post at NYU to work for the OSS in 1944. Carried on the work of the CIA when the OSS was disbanded, Joseph Bryan III offered Bu…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:08:50
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“trick squad was Frank Wisner, W-I-S-N-E-R. He had essentially a free hand in Asia. CIA director Alan Dulles knew little about Asia. He spent his wartime in Europe. So he gave that part of the world basically to Wisner's Office of Policy Coo…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 27:16
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination documented
“What you have to do is go back prior to World War II and the setup of the CIA. The Office of Policy Coordination inside the State Department was Frank Wisner. They took that entire office out of the State Department, plugged it in the CIA, …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 16 JFK Assassination - w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 39:14
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“It eventually moves out of the State Department into the CIA. And Frank Wisner, who was originally in charge of it in the State Department, moves with it to the CIA. And he becomes kind of the chief covert black ops guy. So they basically w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 32:17
Office of Policy Coordination operated_in
Fort Benning book_quoted
“to train the CIA paramilitary forces. While the request for a detaillee was later withdrawn, in mid-November, the OPC and Army representatives agreed to use Fort Benning, Georgia, so now you know why they relocated the School of Americas th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 36:32
Franklin D. Burnham member_of
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“repression. You gotta love this. Western freedom. The freedom they're trying to destroy. So the Congress for Cultural Freedom is basically a CIA front. And he, Burnham joined in preparation for the conference as an agent of the OPC, which n…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:15:08
James Burnham worked_for
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“That media is part of the mockingbird media. So I'm trying to make sure everyone knows when you see that, don't think it's like, what happened? You know exactly what happened. It's an intel op. So later, Burnham would work for the Office of…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 26:54
John Layton Stewart member_of
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“John Layton Stewart was originally, now he's the pretend ambassador to the Republic of China called Taiwan, was in the CIA as part of, again, it had a different name at the time, Office of Policy Coordination, the covert operations area.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 41:58
Franklin A. Lindsay headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“He applies to the OSS in 1943 and gets denied by, this is a direct quote, by not having Gaelic speakers, G-A-L-I-C. They didn't think he was handsome enough to be a spy. Well, it's hard having Bozo for a spy. All right. Oops. Interestingly,…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 37:06
James Burnham worked_for
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“and moved over to lead that branch once it was set up. And during World War II, Burnham would leave his teaching post at NYU to work for the OSS in 1944. Carried on the work of the CIA when the OSS was disbanded, Joseph Bryan III offered Bu…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:08:50
James Burnham worked_for
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“While he was in the OSS slash CIA, in the Office of Policy Coordination, which is, if y'all remember, that's the people that are in charge of Gladio. That's the people that are in charge of the covert operations of the CIA. In particular, h…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 4:38
George F. Kennan key_figure_in_creation_of
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“where many of the agency's recruits of the ex-Nazis were located, which is very important. Again, that blending of fascism. George Kennan, State Department policy planning staff, was a key figure behind the OPC's creation, which we know bec…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:08:23
Franklin A. Lindsay headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“He applies to the OSS in 1943 and gets denied by, this is a direct quote, by not having Gaelic speakers, G-A-L-I-C. They didn't think he was handsome enough to be a spy. Well, it's hard having Bozo for a spy. All right. Oops. Interestingly,…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 37:26
Office of Policy Coordination member_of
USAID host_asserted
“During that time, because this is a time when Dan Mederone was training his police officers at IU where they were supporting the Office of Public Safety for USAID. And he's right in the middle of that, too. I'll tell you a bit more about th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:14:41
Dan Mitrione member_of
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“I know when we talked about the Office of Public Safety a long time ago when we first ran across that Mitteroni, Dan Mitteroni is his name, that we did talk about the other people that we could find that were also in that program and was tr…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:42:53
Office of Policy Coordination supplied_arms_to
Uruguay host_asserted
“USAID torture devices into Uruguay for Dan Mitterrand to use on the citizens of Uruguay. And the Office of Public Safety and USAID, because many of these people were actually CIA agents themselves using this diplomatic pouch capability to s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 58:55
Office of Policy Coordination front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“who is the head of the offices of policy coordination, which is basically the political warfare arm of the CIA. That's his brother-in-law. And the policy coordination is Frank Wisner's thing that they took basically out of the State Departm…”
▶ Shadow State 30 Secret Societies 14; Rhode Island Rats @ 53:29
Frank Wisner headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“After a few months at its strategic intelligence school in Colorado, where he rose to lieutenant colonel, Lansdale was sent back to the Philippines as a full colonel working for Frank Wisner. And Frank Wisner is definitely one of the premie…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:22:49
Stuart Alsop member_of
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“people from each other, but they basically didn't pay attention to that. Wisner developed Stuart Alsop as one of his media people. For his secret propaganda programs, Wisner included a shortwave radio transmitter that he had acquired from t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 27:07
Office of Policy Coordination front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“While he was in the OSS slash CIA, in the Office of Policy Coordination, which is, if y'all remember, that's the people that are in charge of Gladio. That's the people that are in charge of the covert operations of the CIA. In particular, h…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 4:38
Office of Policy Coordination funded
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“At the time in 1951, would you be surprised to learn that half of Frank Wisner's people were in the Far East Division, like Taiwan, Burma, Vietnam area? What were we doing in the 1950s in that area? Oh, that's right. We were running drugs. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:09:19
Joe Bryant headed
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“There would be a psychological warfare staff under Joe Bryant. Stalin had mobilized the Soviet Union for World War II by fanning flames of nationalism in his country. The motherland theme and propaganda cloaked a nationality problem that pr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 22:31
Office of Policy Coordination carried_out_attack
South Africa book_quoted
“He was doing it largely around a group of people that will later be the ones that goes down and kills all the indigenous Indians in Latin America. Spoiler alert. Okay, so great segue. I think that's, oh, look at you, Stellar. I love your pi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:52:54
Dan Mitrione trained
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“During that time, because this is a time when Dan Mederone was training his police officers at IU where they were supporting the Office of Public Safety for USAID. And he's right in the middle of that, too. I'll tell you a bit more about th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:14:41
Office of Policy Coordination trained
CIA host_asserted
“Because every one of them ended up with an Office of Public Safety detachment in order to teach them how to disappear people under the guise of democracy. So if you're looking for a pattern, the pattern is that anytime the CIA destabilizes …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 1:16:27
Otto Skorzeny trained
Office of Policy Coordination speculative
“The French and Americans were working to create an Austrian guerrilla force to defend the Alpine fortress from a Soviet invasion. Or were they just setting up Gladio units? The operation involved the secret stockpiling, oh my gosh, look at …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 11 - 12 @ 56:45
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▶ 1:14:50
precursor to the DEA. They were embedded in the IRS. They were embedded in the State Department's Office of Policy Coordination. That replacement was called Research and Coordination. It's something like that in the State Department. That t…
▶ 3:34
The Office of Policy Coordination, OPC, which were the covert operations section, and the Office of Special Operations, OSO, which was the intel collection and spies group, were united to create a clandestine service field mission for the f…
▶ 4:05
Things like this kind of tend to get put in the waste paper basket. The Office of Policy Coordination was the entity within the State Department that did all of this prior to World War II. It was at the time during World War II headed up by…
▶ 23:15
The Office of Strategic Services, the old OSS, European veteran by the name of Hans Tofte, T-O-F-T-E, who also worked in the Office of Policy Coordination where Wisner was, had other ongoing projects. His paramilitary operations chief, a Ma…
▶ 1:41:33
Okay, sorry. Can you hear me? Yes, go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to point out, he was involved in the policing for Richmond, Indiana, where Jim Jones is from. He was involved in the CIA Office of Public Safety program, which, as you probabl…
▶ 1:42:03
of the CIA assassination of RFK, they ran it, and they were in the same program as that police chief of Richmond, Indiana, for CIA. Nominally, it was training interrogation techniques. So I just wanted to add that because, you know, as you …
▶ 1:42:53
I know when we talked about the Office of Public Safety a long time ago when we first ran across that Mitteroni, Dan Mitteroni is his name, that we did talk about the other people that we could find that were also in that program and was tr…
▶ 53:29
who is the head of the offices of policy coordination, which is basically the political warfare arm of the CIA. That's his brother-in-law. And the policy coordination is Frank Wisner's thing that they took basically out of the State Departm…
▶ 1:50:02
Helen Carter's resistance to the DCization of the CIA. You know, I think it's noteworthy that in 1953 and 1954 and 1955 is the key organization of the Office of Policy Coordination. Oh, shoot. Darn, I may.…
▶ 1:50:29
But the organization that set up to be the liaison between National Security Council and the executive departments that is post-policy approval and that was first run by C.D. Jackson, the same dude who later obtains the Zapruder film in 196…
▶ 1:51:00
And this is like an area that is just so surrounded by, you know, darkness because these folks in the office of policy coordination, office of policy coordination, because it's, it's easy to mix it up with several other lettered groups that…
▶ 1:51:29
And their job was to implement a policy already approved by the president. And they were, they were supposed to coordinate it with all of the executive departments. There's a lot of leg room there because it was post approval for some, a lo…
▶ 1:51:59
JFK abolished that OCB in February 1961, and at the time of the Bay of Pigs failure, there was a little bit of commentary in the print press about how maybe JFK's abolishing of the OCB resulted in the Bay of Pigs, quote, confusion. I think …
▶ 1:52:28
It's significant that the OCB was formed in those 53 to 55 years. And God knows what Nelson Rockefeller was doing in 1955. Sorry, I had to say it again. Well, I can tell you what he was doing because that big, ginormous 700-page book I'm re…
▶ 12:00
They organized resistance there right away. The captive nations, disaffected minorities, and groups of disillusioned social democrats and communists were fertile recruiting grounds for the CIA and Western intelligence. The first unit at CIA…
▶ 12:30
of the National Security Council, and it became the Office of Special Projects. As if that name did not sound innocuous enough, it was soon changed again to the Office of Policy Coordination, OPC. This unit was the action group that all cov…
▶ 13:00
In the heat of the Cold War, government records showed that it was originally intended that the Office of Policy Coordination maintain its capabilities for only extraordinary times. In the 10-2 panel, which is the managing oversight group c…
▶ 13:28
made clear that the OPC should be controlled by the State Department during peacetime and by the Pentagon during war. In turn, George Kennan, who of course was the State Department, specified that his department be given detailed informatio…
▶ 14:21
the wrong person being elected in Italy. So their very first operation of interfering with an election for the CIA was 1948. Covert action also received a tremendous boost from the man selected by the Secretary of State to head the Office o…
▶ 15:42
The Office of Policy Coordination, OPC, was basically an espionage staff that fell under the CIA's Office of Special Operations. And it had been divided into regional divisions like the Eastern European Division would handle the areas of th…
▶ 21:12
and was in search of even more powerful equipment so they could have a bigger broadcast. The OPC kept in close contact with Radio Free Europe, assigning officers to work there and hiring former OSS radio experts like Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, an…
▶ 24:37
If there was no invasion, and obviously throughout Europe, if there was no invasion by the Russians, they would be able to use them for other purposes. Frank Wisner went to the Pentagon for assistance. A relationship with the Defense Depart…
▶ 24:59
The Secretary of Army initially prohibited the assignment of Army officers to the Office of Policy Coordination on the grounds that he wished his service to have nothing to do with covert operations. But in 1948, the Joint Staff went on rec…
▶ 25:29
their own units to do it. Isn't that amazing? In early August 1949, Wisner asked the Army for extensive assistance and basically designated an Army officer to serve as the Chief OPC Guerrilla Warfare Group. And the use of Army facilities be…
▶ 25:57
for the CIA to use as training, which is how we ended up with Schools of America, Fort Benning, Fort Bragg being used for Operation Gladio training. While the request for an officer was later withdrawn, by mid-November, a conference had alr…
▶ 30:26
So basically what this is saying is the same follow-on to the Office of Public Safety was being used in Columbia to set up and train a national police force. Now, this is the 80s, and we know officially the OPS, Office of Public Safety, clo…
▶ 58:55
USAID torture devices into Uruguay for Dan Mitterrand to use on the citizens of Uruguay. And the Office of Public Safety and USAID, because many of these people were actually CIA agents themselves using this diplomatic pouch capability to s…
▶ 59:25
That's what I'm saying. You almost know based on our research, no matter what their actual job title is, if they are representing the United States government in a foreign country, there is a higher chance, almost 100 percent. I mean, ninet…
▶ 1:16:27
Because every one of them ended up with an Office of Public Safety detachment in order to teach them how to disappear people under the guise of democracy. So if you're looking for a pattern, the pattern is that anytime the CIA destabilizes …
▶ 1:18:26
And that dictatorship invites in all of the enablers of this fascist dictatorship, like the U.S. oligarchs, the Office of Public Safety, the Office of Transition Initiatives, and every other USAID, National Endowment for Democracy, and more…
▶ 1:13:01
And so everything about it was really a red flag for me. But again, that was my knowledge of Belize. And when I started looking back over all of the Central American countries that had been noticeably overthrown, like we were just talking h…
▶ 3:04
after country after country we went through every single entity almost all of them that was set up and in most cases that we've uncovered 50 that would be a good approximate number…
▶ 4:46
Are you aware of Operation Gladio, Operation Condor, the Phoenix program? Are you aware of decade after decade? I named examples. I named the exact same torture that he describes in episode five of them doing it under the Office of Public S…
▶ 1:02:38
It is known not only that the CIA was using such teams in Vietnam, but that in 1963, it was responsible for collaborating in training with the national police, you know, under that program like the Office of Public Safety. But the murders c…
▶ 1:14:12
Taking down USAID with all of the machinations of the still existing, under a different name, Office of Public Safety, which is where they were doing all the training of these national polices to torture and kill people, and the Office of T…
▶ 1:24:44
that reminded me of, you know, when you're talking about the Operation Mockingbird-like interrogation techniques, it very strongly reminded me once again of, you know, LAPD's little helpers there on the RFK investigation, you know, the lite…
▶ 1:25:12
was interrogating the most important witnesses. And there's actually stunning video of that where you could see Office of Public Safety CIA member Hank Hernandez interrogating the most important witness, Sandra Serrano, basically manipulati…
▶ 34:33
When they talk about Chinese nationalists, they're actually talking about a drug lord, Chiang Kai-shek. Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War on July 10th, 1950, Civil Air Transport, along with its holding company called Airedale Cor…
▶ 26:22
Under the program of the Office of Policy Coordination, OPC, which remember, that is Frank Wisner, which was originally in the State Department and then moves for the clandestine part of the CIA once it's set up, worked under private cover …
▶ 26:55
was the CIA, and by May 1950, this was in full bloom. The true author of the plan, as noted previously, was General Claire Chenault, whose airline, Civil Air Transport, became OPC-LEMI Supply Line, and it's spelled L-E-M-I, so it's OPC-LEMI…
▶ 28:21
which ranged from 1,250 tons to 1,400 tons yearly. The OPC later merged into the CIA, which is what I was telling you. They were originally set up in the State Department. This was vital to this surge in production. Starting in February 195…
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CIA just cut themselves into this process so they could get covert funds to do the Gladio programs as well. So this assumes that OPC and CIA were using the KMT and organized crime. But one could also ask, wasn't it the other way around? We …
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In June of 1950, Whitting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, who supposedly was working for the Civil Air Transport Airline, flew to Washington to negotiate the final takeover of the airline by the U.S. government's Office of Policy Coordination, p…
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decided to acquire the airline. So by June 28th of 1950, CIA Director Hillen Cotter formally approved the OPC CIA takeover of the airline. This was three days after the outbreak of the war that would generate 15,000 missions to be flown by …
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their citizens and installed a Gestapo-like government structure with, and I can name the names, I mean, the Office of Transition Initiatives, the Office of Public Safety, they used all of the same things, USAID, U.S. Information Agency, al…
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back when the CIA in the 1960s began training the Colombian police officers in sabotage and terror tactics. And where have we seen that before? That is the Office of Public Safety and the USAID, at the time it was AID, and their program tha…
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Office of Public Safety, USAID, the CIA, they had created basically that same elite class in Venezuela. And it's not coincidental that after the revolution, many of that elite class, not all of them, because there's still a whole bunch of t…
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just like we had little Cuba. And they all want their old lifestyle back in Venezuela. And I will speak out against that. That doesn't mean that I'm not pro-Trump. I just know that history. I know that it was the CIA that set up the death c…
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had approved covert operations informally, but the NSC directives merely gave it authority to regulate the Office of Planning. That was Wisner's group. These procedures was dismantled by Eisenhower. Also gone was the Psychological Strategy …
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They wanted a fusion of the two offices called the Office of Planning and Coordination and the OSO. And they wanted them to have what they referred to as a shotgun marriage put into one operation, which meant they were basically marrying cl…
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Operation Valuable was coordinated by a joint committee in Washington. The British representatives were the SIS liaison man and their Vulcan expert at the embassy. Americans included Robert Joyce, who represented the State Department and it…
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a detached foreign service officer for the Office of Policy Coordination, which is Frank Wisner's area. It also included Frank Wisner's deputy, Franklin Lindsay, with a leadership role in the Albanian campaign. So the first OPC, Office of P…
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had collaborated with the Germans and Italians in the war, and they were very well-established fascists in their views. Gee, they're going to work great for Operation Gladio because we love those fascist people. One leader had been the inte…
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A number of Albanian exile leaders held a press conference to announce the formation of an Albanian National Committee. This group of leaders then secretly toured Britain and made open visits to the United States, where it was sponsored by …
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Acquiring American entry visas for some of these leaders was very problematic because they were actual Nazis. But somehow that stuff doesn't ever seem to matter. But absolutely don't come in here without a vaccine. That's not allowed. The O…
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Frasheri, F-R-A-S-H-E-R-I, suddenly died of a heart attack in the Lexington Hotel. OPC Officer Lowe was called in to identify who the dead Albanian was and what his connection was. By coincidence, that same night in the Adriatic, a British …
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in Germany and set up bases there in Greece. Seven, because by that time we had overthrown Greece too. Seven Poles with wartime experience in Royal Air Force partisan support units were hired to fly transport and parachute people into Alban…
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Hollywood and covert operations. Who would have ever figured that out? The first fully American pixie insertion occurred by airdrop in late 1950. Camp Philby retained his post in Washington through the summer of 51, when he at last fell und…
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There was a spectacular failure in July 1951, after Philby had already been under investigation. Three groups were parachuted in by OPC, one wiped out on landing, one surrounded in a house and burned alive, while two Pixies of the last grou…
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were the former pixies that kept getting killed. One of them says, we were used as an experiment. We were a small part of a big game, ponds that could be sacrificed. That's what they feel about all of us. There was never enough chance of su…
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Security Council order, which prescribed the procedures for approval. Truman's 10-5 panel, the Psychological Strategy Board, had endorsed covert operations informally, but Truman's directive merely gave the group authority to regulate the O…
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Eisenhower abolished the PSB, the Psychological Strategy Board, in the summer of 53, making the Truman directive obsolete. With the OPC, Frank Wisner's, merging into the CIA, the Iran and Guatemala covert operations were approved in ad hoc …
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ultimately creating a secret police called the DINA, thanks to USAID and the Office of Public Safety, because we've covered this extensively, along with the CIA. Colonel Manuel Quintero's Sepulveda, conceived as a Chilean version of the CIA…
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We are on the Secret Warriors chapter in Safe for Democracy. American capabilities for covert operations came too late for some. In the Baltic states, where nationalists waged a tragic struggle against the re-imposition of Soviet control, t…
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Instead, the OPC materialized under Frank Wisner. The CIA joined the British intelligence in the Baltic partisan struggle using Wisner's Office of Policy Coordination. Wisner, in turn, relied on Franklin Lindsay, his Eastern European divisi…
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October 3, 1949. A team was parachuted into Lithuania by Czech air crew working for OPC, Frank Wisner. Communications remained poor. The agent's messages garbled. The Baltics warned that the operation had been penetrated by the enemy, but t…
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where they met with Harry Carr and other senior SIS officers concerned about these operations. Harry Rositsky led the group for the CIA, and one of the more suspicious Baltic officers accompanied the OPC team. Officers like Lindsay and Jerr…
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A former diplomat running a covert operation? Wow. He found the task so rewarding that he moved to the CIA. You know, almost like they change seats. Often. The first OPC field officer assigned would be Robert Lowe, a veteran of the OSS, Cai…
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We want just a little bit of them because we're not going to listen to them anyway. So why waste a lot of money on them? And then it goes on to say, at the moment of consolidation, the Office of Public Coordination had 47 field stations and…
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As an experiment, the small Latin American branches of both OPC and OSO joined together, branch by branch, becoming the Eastern Hemisphere Division. That would be the first. General Lucian Trescott, CIA chief in Germany, saw Smith in early …
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In his memoirs, Helms is completely silent about his role in the integration of the office. Helms commented on the people, quote, I was reminded how much there was to be said for the way some OPC officers achieve so many of their objectives…
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this function away from Wisner. Lyman Kirkpatrick in Thailand to reconcile OSO and OPC station chiefs who had a little war between themselves. Thailand, like where we spent $35 million to own the ports and run drugs out of there. The OSO an…
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What I'm looking at, what I'm hearing out of this and seeing what was going on with MI6 and, of course, the CIA or prior to the CIA, OPC and everything else, this sounds to me like the initial beginnings of Five Eyes in trying to get everyb…
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During that time, because this is a time when Dan Mederone was training his police officers at IU where they were supporting the Office of Public Safety for USAID. And he's right in the middle of that, too. I'll tell you a bit more about th…
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So anything short of actual declaration of war was covered and the CIA was allowed to do it. The definition of covert operations contained in 10-2 endured for more than three decades. The Office of Special Projects, the new organization cre…
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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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There was a total of a little over 300 people working for him. The OPC had access to another fund that had been set up of unused currency stabilization accounts at the treasury. From their headquarters, Wisner's web began to encircle the wo…
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By mid-50s, there was another 1,000 on top of that. George Kennan, who fancied himself as a political warfare expert, supposedly reacted negatively to the transformation of the OPC being foreign interventionist. They all seem to have really…
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And then they all want, again, plausible deniability for history. And all seem decades later when the cat's already out of the bag. Oh, I really didn't mean to do that. By October 1948, Wisner had developed a general scheme of action. He en…
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involved the OPC in every imaginable clandestine activity possible. Proud of their capabilities, particularly those spreading propaganda and misinformation, Wisner began calling it his Wurlitzer. Wisner's Wurlitzer. The OPC expanded steadil…
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At an early meeting of the 10-2 panel on August 12, 1948, an NSC representative made it clear that the Office of Public Coordination should be controlled by the State Department during peacetime in the Pentagon during war. That disturbed Wi…
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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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of NSC 10-2. The State Department, impressed with the results of the CIA's intervention in the Italian general election, and the CIA then being criticized for failing to warn of a coup that had occurred in Colombia, were not inclined to cha…
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as a way to sexually intimidate the Russians. These proposals grew so outlandish that the CIA director threatened to close them down. The more serious schemes involved massive propaganda campaigns and radio broadcasting. To conceal CIA's ha…
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Radio Free Europe employed Eastern European immigrants as broadcasters, obviously because they know the language. Radio Free Europe was secretly given Wisner's radio transmitter. A search began for more powerful equipment. The OPC kept in c…
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not to form their own units for it. They wanted that left strictly with the Office of Public Policy Coordination. Individual military men could be given special training, but OPC would be the only organization with a comprehensive capabilit…
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The military's interest became Frank Wisner's entree into outflanking the 10-2 panel when he encountered obstacles from CIA and State Department. In August of 49, Wisner asked the Army for extensive assistance, including the designation of …
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to train the CIA paramilitary forces. While the request for a detailee was later withdrawn, in mid-November, the OPC and Army representatives agreed to use Fort Benning, Georgia, so now you know why they relocated the School of Americas the…
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One of the OPC's men at the conference was in fact on detached service from the Army. It was Colonel Richard Stilwell, who had served in Europe. As a military officer, Stilwell played a major role in the CIA-Army relationship. There are cer…
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with its 66th CIC detachment at Stuttgart. The 66th CIC had the responsibility for screening all displaced persons who would be the main source of OPC's agents. Some 42,000 people were screened by the 66th in 1949 alone. As late as 1951, 50…
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basically Dulles running Gladio for all intents and purposes. And Gubbins would have been his counterpart. So, you know, they're kind of coordinating all of this. On the American side, we obviously were introduced in this book right now to …
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and several other Operation Gladio peripheral activities. As far as Gladio is concerned, the chief architect at OPC was Frank Wisner and his British counterpart, Sir Colin Govans. They basically maintained the already existing Gladio networ…
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Both the OPC and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sought to organize the collaborators for covert war, sabotage, and assassination operations. The origins of this design go back to 1947 when the U.S. was developing plans for nuclea…
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to get a particular outcome. And then they set up, they had already set up the Office of Policy Coordination in the State Department long before it ever was moved to the CIA. They were going to use the intelligence gathered, and you can't e…
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That was kind of a hybrid between the DOD and the State Department before it was then finally moved inside of the CIA. But that was what they were gonna do. They had already in the middle, towards the end of World War II, set up the stay-be…
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That sleight of hand was likely performed by none other than Frank Wisner, a close collaborator of Dulles' from their OSS days, who had recently been appointed as head of the State Department's Office of Policy Coordination that would later…
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and buried it in the State Department's bureaucracy called the Office of Policy Coordination, which of course is where Frank Wisner was placed. It was kind of a combative agency that Dulles envisioned the CIA becoming in the Dewey administr…
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threw itself into the black arts of espionage, including sabotage, subversion, and assassination. By 1952, the Office of Public Coordination was running 47 overseas stations, and its staff had ballooned to nearly 3,000 employees, with anoth…
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out of the State Department. The Office of Public Coordination was run with little government oversight and few restrictions. Many of the agency's recruits were ex-Nazis. While President Truman continued to regard the primary purpose of the…
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Although the OPC's tactics had been sanctioned by the National Security Council memo NSC 10-2, which had formulated in the heat of the 1948 presidential campaign when Truman was fending off Dewey and the Republicans charged that he was too …
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So they didn't want anybody affiliated with them because, again, that's how Congress would know or Americans would know that they're paying for literal mercenaries. And in the case that they just brought up, some of Penashe's evildoers that…
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Before the end of 2011, the company changed its name again to Academy. Academy's first CEO was Ted Wright, a former, you just can't make this shit up, a former executive at Kellogg Brown and Root Incorporated. And for those of you who may h…
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along with it, PSSI that we found out that was really the CIA's version and that they had infiltrated all of the Office of Public Safety offices. That PSSI was sold to Vanell, Brown and Root. So, this is literally the CIA. Just throwing tha…
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Oh, and Nazis. These individuals were generally assigned to a super secret Office of Policy and Coordination, later known Office of Dirty Tricks, under Frank Wisner. In 1949, an act was passed to legally permit the CIA to import as many as …
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receipt after receipt. You go through that book about Operation Condor and USAID shipping in the generators for the black site prisons, USAID's Office of Public Safety that was teaching people how to torture, kidnap, and assassinate people.…
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happened at the invitation of none other than Alan Dulles, who at the time was the deputy director of PLANS, which is their covert operations, i.e. Operation Gladio. During his stay, he wrote up reports that eventually appeared in multiple …
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AFL Washington, Brown was the man through whom money from AFL was sent to Office of Policy Coordination and then the CIA. The Office of Policy Coordination is an entity that comes up several times, especially back in the early days of Opera…
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They were all being coordinated out of the Office of Policy Coordination, which we know is Frank Wisner. Kennan, together with the CIA and the Office of Policy Coordination, before it moves to the CIA, because it does, were supporting vario…
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a form of anti-communist struggle that should proceed without official support, i.e. Gladio, because they have to have plausible deniability, distancing the U.S. government, allowing for deniability and maintaining diplomatic relations with…
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These were often supported by covert means to perpetuate their image as private spontaneous initiatives driven purely by concerns of active and concerned citizens. They ranged from the initially MI6 supported World Assembly of Youth in 1946…
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He applies to the OSS in 1943 and gets denied by, this is a direct quote, by not having Gaelic speakers, G-A-L-I-C. They didn't think he was handsome enough to be a spy. Well, it's hard having Bozo for a spy. All right. Oops. Interestingly,…