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Office of Special Investigations organization

also: Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, BOSI unit, osi, OSI, plumbers, Plumbers, plumber squad, plumbers secret narcotic mission, SIG, Special Investigation Unit

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Office of Special Investigations member_of Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference documented document
“The Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference shrillbe constituted as set forth in the Presidential Directive of .June 26 1939 that is the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation the Director of the Intelligence Division of the Army…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.583
Jack Caulfield member_of Office of Special Investigations book_quoted
“change from the BNDD to the DEA that was immediately corrupted. John Caulfield, a plumber, was a former agent of the New York City Police Department, Bureau of Special Services, BOSS. And depending on who you talk to, that was a very corrup…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 5:34
Miles Ambrose member_of Office of Special Investigations book_quoted
“not necessarily cleaning them up. They also had a specialty of surveilling what they deemed terrorist organizations. So surveillance. In 1960 presidential campaign, he had been assigned to protect candidate Nixon in New York City. He also h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 6:08
Walter Minnick member_of Office of Special Investigations book_quoted
“was a on-again, off-again temporary plumber. He was a graduate of Harvard Business School. Oh, look at that. He went from Harvard Business School to the CIA and then joins the plumbers in 1971. He also was a co-author of the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 5:02
Egil Krogh member_of Office of Special Investigations book_quoted
“and within three years found himself in charge of both Nixon's narcotics and law enforcement campaign. He also was appointed to the plumber squad. His single-minded ambition surfaced in the declaration to a noted psychiatrist and narcotics …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 3:58
E. Howard Hunt member_of Office of Special Investigations book_quoted
“And one to three years for his job of the break-in of the psychiatrist's office. And then we have one of our favorite guys, E. Howard Hunt. He himself, a CIA agent, closely connected to the entire Gladio Cuban exile community, many of whom …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 8:36
G. Gordon Liddy member_of Office of Special Investigations book_quoted
“former FBI agent, whose narcotics intelligence job was at the Treasury Department. It had been terminated only a week prior to his recruitment into the plumber's squad. He was a lobbyist against gun control legislation. Eventually, he would…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 8:02
Richard Nixon headed Office of Special Investigations book_quoted
“The new White House Intelligence Enforcement Unit, envisioned by the Houston plan, and a comprehensive narcotic control apparatus, similarly under direct presidential control. The two converged in a conspiratorial and political criminal net…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 1:27
Philip Heymann member_of Office of Special Investigations host_asserted
“Yeah, and we do that by sending him to Sorbonne in Paris to study from 1954 to 55. Spends two years in the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, where his job was to review security clearances. Kind of important gatekeeper position.…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 44:55
Newton Scotty Milner member_of Office of Special Investigations book_quoted
“This unit was so secret that many members of the counter intel staff didn't even know it existed. So this begs the question, was it really the unit to investigate Soviet penetrations or was this the unit inside of the CIA that managed Opera…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 13 @ 45:20
Raymond and James Roman member_of Office of Special Investigations book_quoted
“Myler. Angleton's most trusted subordinate. Myler's name is on the distribution list of several declassified CIA documents pertaining to Otto Skorzeny, so he definitely knew he was used. Other members included Raymond and James Roman. They …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 13 @ 45:52
James Jesus Angleton founded Office of Special Investigations book_quoted
“It was said that Angleton's hallmark was the formation of secret units within secret units, which, you know, it's Operation Gladio. Shortly after taking over the CIS, the counterintel, Angleton created a section to investigate Soviet penetr…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 13 @ 44:57

Mentions (9)

Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 1:13:51 I knew that they did this in the form of like Office of Special Investigations, OSI, which is kind of like the NCIS for the Air Force. So when those people come to your base, they have these personnel files that makes it look a little weird…
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 1:14:18 And so, although there's no difference between that. So they basically set up a persona. They put them in there. They make up a record so that they are supposedly on the outside look like everybody else. When in fact, they're an OSI agent. …
The Colonel’s Corner Charlie Kirk Shooting and PRE 9_11 conversation
▶ 1:43:46 called a recorder on promotion boards. That's basically just one of the people that facilitates the colonels. When I was a lieutenant colonel in a major, I did this several times on promotion boards. So the people who work like at the Offic…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 1:18:14 You know, that was in South America. But it was not simply Manny Pena and Hank Hernandez, you know, who were literally using CIA interrogation techniques on the key witnesses in the RFK assassination. But they had a lot of other people in L…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28)
▶ 1:05:11 And they even will go to the point where like our investigators in the Air Force under the Office of Special Investigations, OSI, which is like NCIS for the Navy, they will come to your base and do a covert investigation. Even as the person…
The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats
▶ 44:55 Yeah, and we do that by sending him to Sorbonne in Paris to study from 1954 to 55. Spends two years in the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, where his job was to review security clearances. Kind of important gatekeeper position.…
The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats
▶ 46:35 consulates all over the world, the actual physical security. The only, he has literally no experience at doing this, zero. You can't even consider, depending on what he actually did at OSI, so for people who don't know, NCIS, OSI is the equ…
The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats
▶ 47:02 I wouldn't call them covert operations, but they do do that. They will come to your base pretending to be a staff sergeant in a particular squadron to basically infiltrate that squadron if there's allegations of wrongdoing there. So they ar…
The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats
▶ 52:18 He was right there during all the Watergate stuff. He kind of came into the background once all the Deep Throat stuff started coming out. The rest of his career is not very remarkable. He died of a stroke in 2021 at the age of 89. Interesti…
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