CIA Directorate of Plans organization
also: Clandestine Service, DDP, Directorate of Plans, Directorateof Plans, director of plans, Dirty Tricks Squad, DP, DPD, OPC, OSO, plans area, plans directorate, Plans Directorate
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Claims (30)
Brian Mulroney worked_for
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
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“At the time Mulroney was the Deputy Chief of an extraordinarily secret unit within the Directorate of Plans…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.52
Western Hemisphere Division subsidiary_of
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
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“An official in the Western Hemisphere Division of the Directorate of Plans who was responsible for evaluating potential Cuban assets…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.164
Sidney Gottlieb worked_for
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
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“Neither the Chief of TSS nor the DDP specifically authorized the experiment in which Dr Olson participated.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.404
Frank Wisner headed
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
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“Under this arrangement Wisner was named Deputy Director for Plans and assumed the command functions of the ADSO and ADPC…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.44
Richard Helms worked_for
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
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“Wisner's second in command Chief of Operations was Richard Helms drawn from the OSO side to strike a balance at the senior level…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.44
CIA Directorate of Plans subsidiary_of
CIA documented
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“Three Directorates had been established In addition to the DDP and the DDI Smith created the Deputy Directorate for Administration (DDA)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.46
Counterintelligence Staff member_of
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
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“Blurred lines of authority continued to characterize relationships among the DDP components…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.53
Covert Action Staff member_of
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
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“Blurred lines of authority continued to characterize relationships among the DDP components…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.53
CIA Directorate of Plans member_of
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“The DDP's relative autonomy in the Agency also affected the mission and functions of the other two Directorates…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.54
Foreign Intelligence Staff member_of
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“After the intelligence priorities were defined the DDP's Foreign Intelligence Staff reviewed them and accepted or vetoed the requirements unilaterally…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.54
Program Branch 7 dissolved
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“None of the witnesses testified that any actual assassination operation or planning was ever undertaken by PB/7 which was disbanded along with the other program branches when the DDP was formed in late 1952.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.136
CIA Directorate of Plans member_of
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“The D1)/Pand the DDS direct a coordinated evaluation or this Project with particular emphasis on costs potential and substantive contribution to the Agency's mission…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.190
Deputy Director for Plans headed
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
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“component responsible for clandestine operations was the Directorate of Plans headed by the Deputy Director for Plans (DDP).…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.25
CIA Directorate of Plans renamed_to
Directorate of Operations documented
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“The Directorateof Plans is presentlycalledthe Directorateof Operationsand is headedbytheDeputyDirectorforOperations(DDO)…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.25
CIA Directorate of Plans subsidiary_of
CIA documented
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“Within the Agency the DDP was a Directorate apart…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.120
CIA Directorate of Plans sold_to
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“At its founding in 1952 the Intelligence Directorate inherited the Officeof Operations (00) from the then Directorate of Plans.today's Operations Directorate…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.270
Domestic Contact Service merged_with
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“It maintained this separate status after the founding of CIA but in 1951 joined the Directorate of Plans…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.270
Foreign Broadcast Information Service member_of
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
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“It was formally included in the Agency's Directorate of Plans at its founding in December 1950…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.271
Office of Policy Coordination merged_with
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
“Let's see. The OSO, the Office of Special Operations, was directly under the CIA and had nothing to do. They didn't talk to state. So in 1952, the OSO and the OPC would be merged into the Directorate of Plans. So they combined special opera…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 8 @ 17:30
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
James Jesus Angleton headed
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“He's really good friends, of course, with James Jesus Angleton, who is all over the JFK assassination. Also the guy who flew out when Alan Dulles died. He flew out across the country to Dulles' house and stashed all his, grabbed all his pap…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #37 @ 28:02
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
Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
“Quote, it 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, ins…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 9 @ 7:50
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
“didn't like blow back on him. Starting out as a Naval Reserve Lieutenant, Helms successfully served in the OSS and then in the CIA. His specialty was Central European espionage, which is going to fit in great with the fact that 10th Special…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 12 @ 51:00
Cord Meyer headed
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
“62 to 67, he leads the covert action staff of the Directorate of Plans. What is that, Colonel? That's overthrowing other governments. Why don't they just call it that? 67 to 73, this is during the Vietnam War, of course. Cord Meyer is the A…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:02:52
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
Cord Meyer member_of
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
“62 to 67, he leads the covert action staff of the Directorate of Plans. What is that, Colonel? That's overthrowing other governments. Why don't they just call it that? 67 to 73, this is during the Vietnam War, of course. Cord Meyer is the A…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:02:52
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
Mentions (15)
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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…
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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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
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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 …
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
▶ 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…
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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…
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62 to 67, he leads the covert action staff of the Directorate of Plans. What is that, Colonel? That's overthrowing other governments. Why don't they just call it that? 67 to 73, this is during the Vietnam War, of course. Cord Meyer is the A…