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Claims (24)
Gordon Gray recruited
Tracy Barnes documented
“All of them had worked in the same Wall Street law firm called Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn before World War II. Gray hired as his assistant in this psychological warfare area a guy by the name of Tracy Barnes, B-A-R-N-E-S.…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 36:14
Desmond Fitzgerald succeeded
Tracy Barnes documented
“They wanted to go to the highest level at headquarters, which meant the Far East Division Chief. The China mission became huge. At the same time, back in D.C., the Psychological Strategy Board was in its heyday. Fitzgerald finally returned …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 16:56
Gordon Gray recruited
Tracy Barnes host_asserted
“That is unions preceding Bill Colby at that institution. You know, another spy at the entity that is in charge of unions. Then came home spending three years with a Providence, Rhode Island law firm. It was Gordon Gray, who we've already ta…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 39:05
Gordon Gray appointed
Tracy Barnes host_asserted
“as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Army. Gray left his position as secretary just as Barnes arrived. But Barnes stayed on under Clifford Alexander. A year later, Gray reappeared as director of the Psychological Strategy Board. H…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 39:41
Allen Dulles appointed
Tracy Barnes host_asserted
“Director Dulles put Barnes in charge of a new unit at the DO. What was that unit? Oh, no big deal. Just the paramilitary and psychological operations staff. So he's there at Operation Sunrise, works with all the underground Nazis, and then …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 40:44
Gordon Gray recruited
Tracy Barnes host_asserted
“The best the Psychological Strategy Board finally achieved was to help prevent interagency rivalries from crippling ongoing field efforts. Gray brought an OSS veteran, Tracy Barnes, as his deputy director. By 1952, the Psychological Strateg…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 55:14
Tracy Barnes headed
Domestic Operations Division documented
“Fittingly, perhaps Tracy Barnes became chief of the domestic operations division and E. Howard Hunt was a senior staffer there. You know, the guy that's working with the stay behinds in the United States called Cuban exiles. Yeah, that's wh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 45:08
Tracy Barnes member_of
Carter, Lanyard, and Milburn host_asserted
“And its greatest claim to fame in 1905 was when it hired FDR. At Carter Ledyard, Frank Wisner labored for seven years, eventually becoming a partner. There he met other associates like William Jackson, Gordon Gray, and Tracy Barnes. Jackson…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 13:47
Tracy Barnes reassigned
West Germany documented
“In a 1966 interview with New York Times reporter Richard Bissell conceded that the action went well beyond the established limits of policy. Frank Wisner and Tracy Barnes celebrated. Barnes would be rewarded with stewardship of the station …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 55:36
Allen Dulles recruited
Tracy Barnes host_asserted
“In this case, the CIA saw no possibility of foreign intervention, yet there were definite advantages to be had in cooperating with United Fruit, which, of course, has already pulled off several coups on their own before the CIA was even set…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 32:31
Tracy Barnes headed
CIA host_asserted
“Information Agency was a CIA front. In Italy, where the CIA political action built towards the May 1958 election, the U.S. Information Agency operation grew as large as the secret warriors supporting them. Tracy Barnes and then Miles Copela…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 42:17
Tracy Barnes member_of
Operation PBSUCCESS documented
“Less than one year after the Iranian coup, the CIA director and his team had won a second opportunity to boast about their successful coup machine. PB's success would forge deep, lifelong bonds among Dulles and his Guatemala crew, which inc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 43:10
James Crosby wrote_to
Tracy Barnes documented
“The general retired to write a book that advanced forces to meet the full spectrum of contingencies, including brush fire wars, as he called them. No doubt Tracy Barnes agonized over the Bay of Pigs, paid little attention when a letter cros…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 37:58
Tracy Barnes headed
Operation Mongoose book_quoted
“Bissell preoccupied on many fronts, spy satellites, a new generation of reconnaissance aircraft, the U-2 affair investigation, to which Bissell had to respond. There were other, oh, and there were other CIA operations going on, you know, li…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 28:53
Tracy Barnes spied_on
E. Howard Hunt host_asserted
“Allen Dulles took Kennedy into the back garden for a private conversation. Bissell stayed on the terrace. Soon after the top bosses returned, Tracy Barnes told E. Howard Hunt that JFK had given a quote-unquote qualified go-ahead. Meanwhile,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 52:30
Tracy Barnes recruited
Adlai Stevenson II book_quoted
“acquaintance with the ambassador, Barnes imparted minimal information. This would be an all Cuba affair, merely helped by the U.S., not a word about the airstrikes or any other details. Bissell had told Barnes to say as little as possible, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 32:44
Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of
Tracy Barnes book_quoted
“acquaintance with the ambassador, Barnes imparted minimal information. This would be an all Cuba affair, merely helped by the U.S., not a word about the airstrikes or any other details. Bissell had told Barnes to say as little as possible, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 32:44
Tracy Barnes member_of
CIA host_asserted
“His undergraduate degree from Yale made Barnes a full-spectrum member of the CIA's Ivy League clique. He also had the good luck to marry into money. The connection with Alan Dulles came with the big war, which for Barnes was glory eternal. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 36:35
Tracy Barnes member_of
CIA host_asserted
“It shone so bright that Barnes sought out the CIA official soon to be its boss. Tracy could see that the strategy board led nowhere in terms of power and influence. The nation's premier Cold War agency was calling his name. Barnes moved ove…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 40:17
Tracy Barnes member_of
CIA documented
“On June 3rd, Tracy Barnes attended a meeting at CIA that considered retaliation in kind. Again, retaliation for United Fruit? You don't work for United Fruit. Supposedly, you work for the United States government. Why are we getting involve…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 31:01
Tracy Barnes reassigned
CIA documented
“Dio, Bissell, and John Brose all walked the plank in his staff meeting. His subordinate said that. The staffer was shunted to a job at the Pentagon, but Barnes moved over to become division chief of a newly established domestic operations d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 24:11
Tracy Barnes member_of
Psychological Strategy Board host_asserted
“with two personal assistants, one Tracy Barnes, two Richard Bissell Jr. Barnes had been in the OSF in Switzerland working for Dulles. He later worked for Gordon Gray on the psychological strategy board that we talked about a couple of chapt…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 33:00
Tracy Barnes carried_out_attack
Operation Sunrise host_asserted
“There, Alan Dulles reigned as OSS station chief. For the rest of the war, Barnes did odd jobs for Dulles, most especially helping arrange the surrender of German troops in northern Italy, where we came across Operation Sunrise. Barnes was i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 37:38
Tracy Barnes carried_out_attack
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“He also was involved in dangerous forays to meet undercover with Nazi officers who above ground would still be fighting the war. Again, Operation Sunrise and the beginning of Operation Gladio. The highlights was smuggling out the widow of M…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 38:05
Mentions (95)
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and of course was used in Watergate as well. Also, David Attlee Phillips. He was a newcomer to the CIA, but he will later be in many of these as well. When Phillips was first approached about the assignment, he asked his superior, Tracy Bar…
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and throw him out of office, unquote. For a moment, wrote Phillips later, I detected in the face a flicker of concern, a doubt, the reaction, but Barnes quickly recovered and repeated the party line, quote, the Soviets were establishing an …
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So, yeah. And so you tell them, yeah, you can come over here and look at this shit. We're going to freeze your ass off while you're over here. And we're not going to tell you it's in Spanish until you get here. So you can't read any of it. …
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Now, Tracy is a Costa Rican official. I assume he's Costa Rican national. So how in the world did they manage to get him into a hearing? Oh, I mean, you can do that multiple ways. You can take depositions. You know, there's ways to do that.…
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I'm sure we're going to hear more about that. SR-71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. I can't help but believe that Tracy is the one who put the icing on the cake. Without him, there's no doubt in my mind that Kelso would have been toast. Peri…
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overviews with very little detail that enabled the ambassador to play his role effectively. Barnes was probably encouraged by the ambassador's reaction. Stevenson's doubted that Kennedy had thought through the problem in approving this inva…
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The first ship sailed on April 11th, the fastest vessels on the 13th. And the next day, Tracy Barnes and a senior paramilitary guy went to New York to inform the Cuban exile politicians, which, if you recall in the other book, they basicall…
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This was not a Cuban plane. It was not Cuba that bombed a Cuban actually from the island that day that bombed his fellow, you know, Cuban aircraft. So there's lots of problems. And Adlai Stevens was pissed. So he realized that Tracy Barnes …
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And aside from the specialist that integrated into special forces, the army did nothing with this mandate with which it had been saddled. The Russian propagandists had a field day with it, though. And Frank Wisner told Tracy Barnes in the w…
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Richard Bissell was considered the leading candidate to succeed Dulles. Now he was asked to resign instead. When Bissell resisted, he was offered an inferior job. At the end of 1961, he left ahead the Institute of Defense Analysis. Tracy Ba…
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in an organization that is not allowed to operate domestically. E. Howard Hunt and Hans Tochte reported to Tracy Burns in his new organization. Jerry Drahler, another Bay of Pigs guy, was promoted to Special Assistance for Political Action …
▶ 36:14
All of them had worked in the same Wall Street law firm called Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn before World War II. Gray hired as his assistant in this psychological warfare area a guy by the name of Tracy Barnes, B-A-R-N-E-S.…
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with two personal assistants, one Tracy Barnes, two Richard Bissell Jr. Barnes had been in the OSF in Switzerland working for Dulles. He later worked for Gordon Gray on the psychological strategy board that we talked about a couple of chapt…
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to fuel their trucks and airplanes to attack Nicaragua to exact revenge. The Nicaraguan dictator turned to Rip Robertson, the top CIA officer at the airfield, and demanded that the ship be stopped. Robertson asked Apalaca for orders, but hi…
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The general retired to write a book that advanced forces to meet the full spectrum of contingencies, including brush fire wars, as he called them. No doubt Tracy Barnes agonized over the Bay of Pigs, paid little attention when a letter cros…
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The letter commented on what Barnes had said about another CIA initiative, a study group on the deterrence of guerrilla warfare. Cross believed that officials already understood this problem. They had to be told how to make the most of asse…
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Military attaches are in the embassy there, fully aware of what's going on. Hans Toft, T-O-F-T-E, took that frustration to Tracy Barnes. But the staff chief could do no better. We are still in the intro over on Rumble. What the heck? Sorry,…
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Project PB Success became the first real CIA covert operation for David Atlee Phillips, brought in after a brush with Florida police who had arrested him for trying to spend an alleged bogus check that almost broke his CIA cover and ended h…
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as well as a quote-unquote journalist, originally recruited in Chile four years earlier, had a flair for colorful language, but was not dumb. He put the key question to Tracy Barnes at their first meeting. Quote, but Arbenz became president…
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On March 16th, Frank Wisner met with Richard Helms, Tracy Barnes, and J.C. King and others for a high-level review. Haney warned that delaying D-Day would cause morale problems and weather difficulties. Wisner saw no need to change the ops …
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would join the rebels. None. At this point, the State Department backed off. So if you want to get your operation approved, just lie at will. A few days later, a full headquarters delegation visited Opelika in triumph. Frank Wisner, Tracy B…
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on the amount of rebels that were supposedly going to take up arms against the government that they just voted for. Among themselves, Wisner talked with Barnes about a paper for Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland at State Department…
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Reporting cables crowed that when Somoza called in the diplomats and reporters to look at the weapons conveniently marked with hammer and sickle, even the U.S. ambassador was taken in. The French ambassador, who had been in Greece during th…
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or making rounds at forward bases, returned to the headquarters for consultations. These meetings were in the deputy director's office. They included Richard Helms, Dick Bissell, Kim Roosevelt, J.C. King, and Jake Esserlin. Wisner hammered …
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Cabell. Barnes described the status of the various PB success elements. The CIA project seemed to be moving along smoothly. One action by the Arbenz government did play into the preparation for the success. The Guatemalans turned to Czechos…
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as did one of Robertson's strikers. Two later commando attacks also failed. With the gloves off, it became increasingly obvious what was going on. Opelika wanted to mix some bombing runs with leaflet drops. Barnes preferred to smuggle leafl…
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The military plan had to be changed at the last minute when Salvadorian officials refused to allow the invasion to be mounted from their country. At the beginning of June, Tracy Barnes argued that the paramilitary plan, as originally concei…
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The vessel carried gasoline with which the Guatemalans would need for their trucks and airplanes. Somoza turned to Rip Robertson, top CIA officer at the airfield, and demanded the ship be stopped. Robertson asked Opelika for orders, but his…
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In a 1966 interview with New York Times reporter Richard Bissell conceded that the action went well beyond the established limits of policy. Frank Wisner and Tracy Barnes celebrated. Barnes would be rewarded with stewardship of the station …
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They wanted to go to the highest level at headquarters, which meant the Far East Division Chief. The China mission became huge. At the same time, back in D.C., the Psychological Strategy Board was in its heyday. Fitzgerald finally returned …
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Wisner told Tracy Barnes in the winter of 51 that the U.S. was taking a beating on this question because the Soviet Union was pointing out accurately that we were recruiting fascists into our military. Congress nevertheless appropriated mon…
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They produced no new ideas. Mac Carger brought in a former senior Hungarian politician and sent him to Vienna to contact people at home. But that resulted in little information. Wisner proceeded to Germany. Tracy Barnes found the DO staff s…
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of the people could not fail to give Radio Free Europe listeners the hope that the U.S. would come to their aid, unquote. Wisner, too, in a way, broke on the Hungarian anvil. After one night at the border watching these activities happen, W…
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Information Agency was a CIA front. In Italy, where the CIA political action built towards the May 1958 election, the U.S. Information Agency operation grew as large as the secret warriors supporting them. Tracy Barnes and then Miles Copela…
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for the Caribbean, but this arrangement the survey viewed as inadequate. Bissell appointed as assistant DO just for psychological operations in paramilitary areas. The staff for these activities were regrouped into an operational services u…
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Eisenhower accepted the CIA's Cuba project. Not before some discussion, however. Once Allen Dulles presented the basic plan, Bissell did most of the talking. Bissell, whose skills lay elsewhere, and who had appointed Tracy Barnes as his ass…
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Alan Dulles had barely begun his introductory remarks when he had to take a call from the president. The group waited, Bissell silent, worked through a stack of cables. General Cabell slouched in his chair. Gossip over a Georgetown party wa…
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On June 3rd, Tracy Barnes attended a meeting at CIA that considered retaliation in kind. Again, retaliation for United Fruit? You don't work for United Fruit. Supposedly, you work for the United States government. Why are we getting involve…
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Richard Bissell supplied details. Tracy Barnes, Bissell's assistant, supervised. Richard Helms sat quietly, which was rather out of character for him. Soon Helms stopped coming to project meetings altogether. Beyond his help in drafting the…
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In the preparation for and conduct of the Bay of Pigs, there were an awful lot of operational decisions that I couldn't possibly take back to Alan Dulles, unquote. Tracy Barnes also believed in the Cuba project. Helms saw Barnes as someone …
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despite endless efforts to master a foreign language. Barnes, in Helm's view, had turned in totally unremarkable performances as the station chief in Germany and London. He was promoted by Dulles, remained blissfully unaware of his inadequa…
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He was, Helms devastatingly noted, quote, a man of Allen Dulles' imagination, unquote. Similarly, the CIA official historian considers that Barnes larded the files with numerous memorandum that went over well-trodden ground, contributing li…
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Bissell preoccupied on many fronts, spy satellites, a new generation of reconnaissance aircraft, the U-2 affair investigation, to which Bissell had to respond. There were other, oh, and there were other CIA operations going on, you know, li…
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to ask for particular officers, and if denied, he could appeal that. That would have been appealed to Tracy Barnes, who would take the request to Bissell. As early as April 22nd, Barnes told the DO chief personnel officer that he believed h…
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at the DO weekly staff meeting after the president's August decision, the personnel chief reiterated the rules. Division chiefs were to bring disputes to either him or Barnes. The problem lay specifically with the DO. He says that the agenc…
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four months later. The IG would record that almost half of those in the top tier of the task force ranked in the bottom third according to performance ratings in the agency. And 20% was in the bottom 10%. Literally the dregs of the CIA.…
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Allen Dulles took Kennedy into the back garden for a private conversation. Bissell stayed on the terrace. Soon after the top bosses returned, Tracy Barnes told E. Howard Hunt that JFK had given a quote-unquote qualified go-ahead. Meanwhile,…
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author Schlesinger, to brief the ambassador together with the CIA and State Department. Schlesinger arrived late for the meeting in Stevenson's suite at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel the morning of April 8th. As a consequence, Tracy Barnes, the…
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acquaintance with the ambassador, Barnes imparted minimal information. This would be an all Cuba affair, merely helped by the U.S., not a word about the airstrikes or any other details. Bissell had told Barnes to say as little as possible, …
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Stevenson doubted JFK had thought through the issues. Within days of the effort of Tracy Barnes' inadequate briefing, it became painfully apparent. Meanwhile, Project ATE accelerated. Two final postponements resulted in an invasion set for …
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Candido, slowed by propeller damage from a log when departing New Orleans, sailed on April 11th, the fastest vessel on the night of the 13th and 14th. Tracy Barnes and a senior paramilitary man went to New York on April 12th to inform the C…
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A follow-up strike the day before the invasion dropped out of the planning. There was no lack of warning on the criticalness of this element. On their way to a late White House meeting, General Gray asked Tracy Barnes whether the senior off…
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Henry Raymont, the UPI reporter in Havana, saw the attack planes and confirmed they had no markings on them at all. Exposed as a fabrication, Stevenson's statements flopped. The ambassador realized that Tracy Barnes had deceived him. Embarr…
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Returning to the agency, the CIA officials went directly to the WH4 offices to report the denial of the appeal. Bissell let Cabell tell the bad news. There's been a change in our marching orders, Cabell said. They would have to go headsy, h…
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largely the work of Tracy Barnes, and practically as long as the IG report itself, that paper went to the director on January 18, 1962. Denunciations of the report was also filed separately by Alan Dulles, by Richard Bissell, and by Charles…
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doing science and technology that the agency was about to create. Bissell declined. He left instead to head a think tank. Of course, that's what all CIA guys do. The Institute of Defense Analysis in Alexandria, Virginia. There was no farewe…
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infuriating Barnes, who felt that he had not lied and that the UN ambassador could have asked questions. Lie by admission. The atmosphere soured so much that a few months later, a junior officer had no compassion about standing up in a staf…
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Dio, Bissell, and John Brose all walked the plank in his staff meeting. His subordinate said that. The staffer was shunted to a job at the Pentagon, but Barnes moved over to become division chief of a newly established domestic operations d…
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is moved to do the CIA shit in the United States. Rest assured, everything's fine. Holy crap. So what that tells me is Barnes was moved over to begin the planning for the assassination of JFK. General Charles Cabell returned to the Air Forc…
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Fittingly, perhaps Tracy Barnes became chief of the domestic operations division and E. Howard Hunt was a senior staffer there. You know, the guy that's working with the stay behinds in the United States called Cuban exiles. Yeah, that's wh…
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who finally brought Barnes down by getting the agency and the newspapers again under dubious circumstances. A junior CIA officer looking at an apartment Toft offered to rent saw secret documents in Toft's home and reported the security viol…
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Now he experienced the real headaches involved. The committee administered the proprietaries directly, effectively taking them away from Tracy Barnes' division. In 1968, the agency's inspector general, by then Gordon Stewart, conducted a st…
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reported back that he had told Tracy Barnes that an up-to-date report be furnished as soon as possible on what was going on and what was being planned. Parrott then added, I did not tell Mr. Barnes about the presidential interest. Coinciden…
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in Royal Air Force Partisan Support Units, led by Polish Colonel Roman Rukowski, were hired to fly transport aircraft. During the summer, Wisner's group used the planes to drop leaflets and propaganda material created by the CIA's psycholog…
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And its greatest claim to fame in 1905 was when it hired FDR. At Carter Ledyard, Frank Wisner labored for seven years, eventually becoming a partner. There he met other associates like William Jackson, Gordon Gray, and Tracy Barnes. Jackson…
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The war clearly approached in mid-1941 before Pearl Harbor. Wisner volunteered for the Navy Reserve. Gray took up psychological warfare. Jackson became a senior officer in the Army G2. So, we've got a trifecta there. Tracy Barnes went into …
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The best the Psychological Strategy Board finally achieved was to help prevent interagency rivalries from crippling ongoing field efforts. Gray brought an OSS veteran, Tracy Barnes, as his deputy director. By 1952, the Psychological Strateg…
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That put his people right in with the spooks and could have encouraged cooperation. Better than that, Gray had been Frank Wisner's colleague at the Wall Street firm. Deputy Tracy Barnes had also been with Wisner on Wall Street, as well as A…
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If Frank Wisner needed to know anything from the board, he would go to Tracy Barnes, who became something of a CIA spy at the board. Thus, Director Smith arranged through the board for other agencies to assist CIA in their expanded program …
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thought Wisner was a little off his rocker, saying that he lacked depth and judgment, but he got on better with Tracy Barnes, who went to the same grooming school of Groton with Kermit Roosevelt. He also really liked Miles Copeland, former …
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Through Barnes, Kim quickly opened his own channel to Alan Dulles while he was still deputy director. It became clear to everyone that the Middle East would be Roosevelt's private preserve after a startling performance in Egypt. Kim knew Fa…
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The Psychological Strategy Board, in its capacity as arbiter of America's secret war, approved the concept on August 12th, 1953. And two weeks later, PSB, the Psychological Board, gathered together to give Guatemala the next highest priorit…
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See Tracy Barnes. Barnes was a lot like Frank Wisner, another of the young hires from Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn. Tracy had other social sacraments as well. Law Review at Harvard, Groton, the grooming school that Boerhamster and I talked …
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His undergraduate degree from Yale made Barnes a full-spectrum member of the CIA's Ivy League clique. He also had the good luck to marry into money. The connection with Alan Dulles came with the big war, which for Barnes was glory eternal. …
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Barnes strove to get into the field and transferred to Lord Monbatten, the pedophile, Special Forces Headquarters, then the OSS. He made parachute drops over Britain Air Base just for sport. He twice dropped into France to work with the Fre…
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There, Alan Dulles reigned as OSS station chief. For the rest of the war, Barnes did odd jobs for Dulles, most especially helping arrange the surrender of German troops in northern Italy, where we came across Operation Sunrise. Barnes was i…
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He also was involved in dangerous forays to meet undercover with Nazi officers who above ground would still be fighting the war. Again, Operation Sunrise and the beginning of Operation Gladio. The highlights was smuggling out the widow of M…
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Dulles told others that Tracy Barnes was the bravest man he knew. And Barnes had a silver star and two French crosses to prove it. With the piece, Barnes worked for a time with the, wait for it, National Labor Relations Board. He's a spy wo…
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That is unions preceding Bill Colby at that institution. You know, another spy at the entity that is in charge of unions. Then came home spending three years with a Providence, Rhode Island law firm. It was Gordon Gray, who we've already ta…
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as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Army. Gray left his position as secretary just as Barnes arrived. But Barnes stayed on under Clifford Alexander. A year later, Gray reappeared as director of the Psychological Strategy Board. H…
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It shone so bright that Barnes sought out the CIA official soon to be its boss. Tracy could see that the strategy board led nowhere in terms of power and influence. The nation's premier Cold War agency was calling his name. Barnes moved ove…
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Director Dulles put Barnes in charge of a new unit at the DO. What was that unit? Oh, no big deal. Just the paramilitary and psychological operations staff. So he's there at Operation Sunrise, works with all the underground Nazis, and then …
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The key conversations took place in Alan Dulles' office. In mid-afternoon on Friday, September 18th, Dulles brought together the players and concerned observers. Those present besides Dulles included General Cabell, Frank Wisner, Tracy Barn…
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Joseph Codwell King's division had formal control over the stations Haney needed to use. King privately thought Project Success was daffy and didn't want some task force poaching on his turf. Haney's deputy, Jacob Esterlin, proved more amen…
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and his opportunities to wrinkle everybody limited. Dulles began flying Haney up for a weekly private meeting at his house. Richard Bissell, whom Dulles had brought in as a special assistant, also found himself acting as a go-between, shutt…
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Present were General Cabell, Frank Wisner, Tracy Barnes, Kermit Roosevelt, J.C. King. Dulles worried that Eisenhower wanted quick results. The historian Richard Immerman and David Barrett have shown that the White House itself was being pre…
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published in the New York Times back in 1950 saying that, you know, Arbenz was a communist. Right. The question that I guess I have on all of this is, you know, on Tracy Barnes, you know, Barnes isn't a, it's not a rare last name, but it's …
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100%. All along, go ahead. Yes, Carla. I just wanted to kind of emphasize, along with what Elida was saying about this Tracy Barnes guy, he is a kind of more enigmatic fella, as it were. It seems like he's very, very important in the late 5…
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Some of the folks like when Bissell is kicked out and but he he seems to I mean, at least nominally from my recollection. And I, you know, I was reading a lot trying to find out more about him, you know, about 20 years ago when I was, you k…
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He's a hard one to get information on. And I and because of his more, I guess, you know, domestic orientation or so they say, it just seems to be very difficult to get, you know, a lot of good information on him. So I think it would be wort…
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yummy secrets to just really spend some time on him um and because i think you know to some extent he might embody some of the overlap between the the folks who jfk fired versus at but we're still you know had a lot of ties both with you kn…
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Less than one year after the Iranian coup, the CIA director and his team had won a second opportunity to boast about their successful coup machine. PB's success would forge deep, lifelong bonds among Dulles and his Guatemala crew, which inc…
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to put in the lobby of the CIA. That same year, Dulles published a rose-colored memoir of his World War II spy days called The Secret Surrender. And with the help of a former CIA comrade, Tracy Barnes, the book was turned into a Hollywood m…
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who called on Dulles, the OSS veterans like Richard Helm, Frank Wisner, Tracy Barnes, and Kermit Roosevelt, all shared the view that this blissful reign of post-war peace would be short-lived, and the West must quickly gird itself to go to …
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President Truman authorized Dulles to supervise the organization of the new agency. In keeping the OSS protocol, Dulles recruited almost exclusively from the elite millionaire businessmen, Wall Street bankers, lawyers, members of the nation…