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CIA Directorate of Plans organization

also: Directorate of Plans, Dirty Tricks Squad, Plans Directorate, DP, DDP, plans area

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Claims (6)

James Jesus Angleton headed CIA Directorate of Plans host_asserted
“Flew out when Alan Dulles died. He flew out across the country to Dulles' house and stashed all his, grabbed all his papers. So that's that, Angleton. He was the head of what's called the Directorate of Plans from 1962 onward. He becomes th…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508 @ 28:16
Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed CIA Directorate of Plans book_quoted
“is undesirable for a group of this type to have responsibility for evaluating its own work, unquote. No shit, Sherlock. The CIA did act on this administrative question. Lyman Kirkpatrick and the new director of plans, Bissell, instituted a …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 9:00
Richard Helms headed CIA Directorate of Plans documented
“Um, let's see. He also had presided over the peak of the secret war, the years that the Kennedy administration, um, and then on into the Nixon. Helms was one of the few senior officers untouched by the Bay of Pigs through chief of operation…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 50:27
Frank Wisner headed CIA Directorate of Plans documented
“forming the Directorate of Plans, later the Directorate of Operations. That's a name change, not a role change. Just so everybody understands that. And then they were moved into the CIA. Correct. With Frank Wisner in charge the entire time.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 53:33
Kermit Roosevelt headed CIA Directorate of Plans host_asserted
“Kermit Roosevelt returned to Washington as the assistant director of the Directorate of Plans, working directly for Wisner. And, you know, Wisner is the guy that runs all the covert operations. And it says Roosevelt directed the political a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 25:46
Frank Wisner headed CIA Directorate of Plans host_asserted
“Kermit Roosevelt returned to Washington as the assistant director of the Directorate of Plans, working directly for Wisner. And, you know, Wisner is the guy that runs all the covert operations. And it says Roosevelt directed the political a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 25:46

Mentions (14)

Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 12:23 the U.S. ambassador in Ghana, participated in a candid discussion in Washington with CIA Director John McCone and the Deputy Chief of the CIA Africa Division, whose name has been withheld. Significantly, the African Division was part of the…
Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508
▶ 28:16 Flew out when Alan Dulles died. He flew out across the country to Dulles' house and stashed all his, grabbed all his papers. So that's that, Angleton. He was the head of what's called the Directorate of Plans from 1962 onward. He becomes th…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12
▶ 49:27 Directorate of Plans remained the largest component of the CIA, a thousand stronger than when Ike had taken, basically was in charge. Accounting for 54% of the agency's budget, it had field stations in Africa that increased by 55% from 1959…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12
▶ 50:27 Um, let's see. He also had presided over the peak of the secret war, the years that the Kennedy administration, um, and then on into the Nixon. Helms was one of the few senior officers untouched by the Bay of Pigs through chief of operation…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12
▶ 1:00:44 DCI at the time, was a California businessman. He made no pretense at micromanagement of the CIA. Such experts as Houston and Richard Helms knew their jobs. The general counsel and the plans department and other component chiefs were given …
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12
▶ 1:01:12 Though he had endeavored to emphasize espionage, Helms recognized the increased interest in counterinsurgency and encouraged plans efforts in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, where all the coups happened. By the mid-1960s, Helms h…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12
▶ 1:01:42 covert action officers served in the Plans area, and 4,800 officers were assigned to the area's division, of which Far East was the largest, with about 1,500, and Africa with the smallest.…
The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6
▶ 25:46 Kermit Roosevelt returned to Washington as the assistant director of the Directorate of Plans, working directly for Wisner. And, you know, Wisner is the guy that runs all the covert operations. And it says Roosevelt directed the political a…
The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6
▶ 33:29 B-I-S-S-E-L-L, had been an economist by trade and came to the CIA from the Ford Foundation. Together, they coordinated the Washington Inn of the planning. Frank Wisner's task as deputy director of plans was to select who's going to be the f…
The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont
▶ 5:35 given the rubber stamp of national security and was able to go and do whatever they wanted. And there's zero accountability on purpose because they don't want it to be able to be tracked back to the president. Let's see. They also had plans…
The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont
▶ 8:32 And they personally presented it to the president on December 16th. The spokesperson for the board was General Hull. He made covert operations the second highest priority on his list of topics. He pointed out that the initial evaluations of…
The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont
▶ 9:30 Allen Dulles argued in a memo submitted the following February that the CIA took into account all available intelligence before beginning any operation, that the agency was always on guard against self-serving intelligence bullshit, and the…
The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont
▶ 10:25 The CIA saying that the people that are on the board, one of which is Doolittle, don't know what they're doing. In fact, executive council was a more important issue than ever. Rather than shrieking after the Korean War, the plans directora…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7
▶ 53:03 so to speak, okay? Concerns over the OPC's autonomy and potential to overshadow the CIA's primary intelligence role led to reforms. In April 51, President Truman established the Psychological Strategy Board to better coordinate U.S. psychol…