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Claims (76)

Leo Amery worked_for War Department documented document

“This text—which had been prepared by Leo Amery, assistant secretary to the War Cabinet—was sent by Balfour to Walter on November 2.…”

source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FOURTEEN Deluges (1915-1945)

Division of Monetary Research worked_for War Department documented document

“Besides staffing these offices the Division detailed personnel to the War and Navy Departments to furnish financial advice and aid to military authorities outside the United States…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.233

War Department supplied_arms_to Division of Communications and Records documented document

“The War Department was asked to help out and twenty enlisted men trained in cryptography were loaned temporarily...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.238

War Department acquired War Information Office documented document

“On December 30 1945 the Service was transferred to the War Department.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.243

Alfred McCormack worked_for War Department documented document

“Colonel Alfred McCormack Director of Military Intelligence in the War Department…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.277

Mark Skinner Watson worked_for War Department documented document

“Watson Mark Skinner United States Army in World War II The War Department Chief of Staff Prewar Plans and Preparations Washington U.S Govt Print Off. 1950 551 p D769.A533…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.313

War Department renamed_to Department of the Army documented document

“The Department of War shall hereafter be designated the Department of the Army and the title of the Secretary of War shall be changed to Secretary of the Army…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.220

United States Department of Defense headed War Department documented document

“the existing organizationoftheWarDepartmentundertheprovisionsof Executive OrderNumbered9082of February28 1942as modifiedby Executive Order Numbered9722of May13 1946... may to the extent determinedby the Secretaryof Defense…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.227

Department of the Air Force acquired War Department documented document

“Such other unexpended balances of appropriations allocations nonappropriated funds or other funds available or hereafter made available for use by the Department of War or the Department of the Army in exercise of functions transferred to t…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.228

Mark Sykes worked_for War Department documented document

“An official report to the War Cabinet sent by Sykes on 22 September said that the Zionists did not want "to set up a Jewish Republic or any other form of state in Palestine or in any part of Palestine" but rather preferred some form of prot…”

source: url — Balfour Declaration · p.1

David Lloyd George worked_for War Department documented document

“And their official Trade Unions had to be taken into consultation. As Government control was slowly extended over vital parts of the economy, organised labour had to be given representation on such organisations as the Cotton and Wool Contr…”

source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.194

Arthur Henderson member_of War Department documented document

“Henderson himself, though a member of the inner War Cabinet, was not admitted to its deliberations…”

source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.201

Edwin Montagu worked_for War Department documented document

“Wolf had influential supporters, including the Liberal Minister Edwin Montagu (who returned to the Cabinet in July 1917)...…”

source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FOURTEEN Deluges (1915-1945)

David Lloyd George worked_for War Department documented document

“Finally, however, Lloyd George was converted to the idea of a British-controlled Palestine; he and two other members of the inner War Cabinet—the South African Jan Smuts and Milner—began to worry...…”

source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FOURTEEN Deluges (1915-1945)

Jan Smuts worked_for War Department documented document

source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FOURTEEN Deluges (1915-1945)

Alfred Milner worked_for War Department documented document

source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FOURTEEN Deluges (1915-1945)

War Department transferred Strategic Services Unit documented document

“In the spring of 1946 SSU's duties responsibilities and personnel were transferred to CIG along with SSU's seven overseas field stations and communications and logistical apparatus…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.110

War Department founded War Department Cipher Bureau documented document

“In 1917 a War Department Cipher Bureau was created by administrative directive…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.331

War Department acquired Office of Strategic Services documented document

“The Department of War absorbed some of its functions such as the work of its Secret Intelligence group and of its Counterespionage program…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.332

National Security Act of 1947 merged_with War Department documented document

“The National Security Act of 1947 ... strengthened civilian authority over military services by drawing the War and Navy Departments together under a single Secretary of Defense…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.333

Military Intelligence Division subsidiary_of War Department documented document

“Military Intelligence Division of the War Department…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.42

William Friedman worked_for War Department documented document

“Washington, D.C.: Signals Office, War Department.…”

source: url — William F. Friedman · p.1

War Department operated_in Colorado documented document

“On 28 April, Wilson spoke with Secretary of War Lindley Garrison and ordered the Department of War to begin moving units towards Colorado...…”

source: url — Colorado Coalfield War · p.1

War Department funded United States Secret Service documented document

“With $50,000 in War Department funds the Secret Service had organized an emergency auxiliary force to track down Spanish spies…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.384

Allan Pinkerton worked_for War Department documented document

“Allan Pinkerton who had worked for the War Department under President Lincoln founded a private detective agency…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.384

Military Intelligence Section subsidiary_of War Department documented document

“The Secretary of War established a Military Intelligence Section... to conduct investigations of military personnel and civilians working for the War Department…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.386

Military Intelligence Division member_of War Department documented document

“Military Intelligence Division of the War Department…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.409

Temporary Commission on Employee Loyalty member_of War Department documented document

“the other members represented the Departments of State War Navy and Treasury and the Civil Service Commission…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.438

Woodrow Wilson ordered War Department documented document

“On 28 April, Wilson spoke with Secretary of War Lindley Garrison and ordered the Department of War to begin moving units towards Colorado...…”

source: url — Colorado Coalfield War · p.1

Lindley Garrison worked_for War Department documented document

“On 28 April, Wilson spoke with Secretary of War Lindley Garrison...…”

source: url — Colorado Coalfield War · p.1

Stuart Symington worked_for War Department documented document

“Commenting on the maintenance of SST Secretary Patterson wrote to the President in October 1945 saying that 'the functions of OSS chiefly clandestine activities had been kept separate in the Strategic Services Unit of the War Department as …”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.15

George Matthews worked_for War Department documented document

“he did not disdain to work for the War Department as a special agent on the Florida frontier.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.25

William L. Marcy worked_for War Department documented document

“[William L.] Marcy the secretary of war…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.27

Simon Cameron worked_for War Department documented document

“The War Department was then administered not by the tireless and incorruptible Stanton but by that cynical party boss Simon Cameron…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.31

Allan Pinkerton worked_for War Department documented document

“His activities in and around Washington were under the direction of the Secretary of War and Colonel Andrew Porter provost marshall responsible for the capital's security while under martial law…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.31

Andrew Porter worked_for War Department documented document

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.31

Lafayette C. Baker worked_for War Department documented document

“The success of the mission earned Baker a permanent position with the War Department…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.41

Laurence F. Baker worked_for War Department documented document

“Baker was recommended to the War Department and its new Secretary Edwin M Stanton.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.42

Edwin M. Stanton headed War Department documented document

“Baker was recommended to the War Department and its new Secretary Edwin M Stanton.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.42

Lafayette Baker worked_for War Department documented document

“Secretly commissioned as a colonel Baker initially represented himself when absolutely necessary as an agent of the War Department…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.44

Albert J. Myer proposed War Department documented document

“Myer wrote to the War Department in 1856 asking if the government might be interested in his signaling system…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.57

Robert E. Lee headed War Department documented document

“a board of evaluation headed by Lieutenant Colonel Robert E Lee considered the matter…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.57

War Department headed United States Military Telegraph documented document

“the function of censoring the dispatches sent over the wires from the national capital was at different times under the charge of the Treasury the State and the War Departments…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.60

Charles Almarin Tinker worked_for War Department documented document

“One operator Charles Almarin Tinker remained in the War Department telegraph office until 1869…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.63

George H. Sharpe worked_for War Department documented document

“For a while a Bureau of Military Information was maintained in the War Department under Colonel George H Sharpe…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.63

Fernandez del Campo worked_for War Department documented document

“A secret agent using the name Fernandez del Campo was dispatched to Spain by the War Department during the hostilities of 1898…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.71

War Department removed_from_power Richard H. Williams documented document

“In January 1917 the War Department in Washington ordered its widely experienced attache home.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.83

A.E.F. G-2 did_business_with War Department documented document

“Secret service in tactical zone and co-ordination with War Department and with French English and Belgian system…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.93

Military Intelligence Division subsidiary_of War Department documented document

“Aside from the Bureau of Investigation the League's other great champion and supporter was Colonel Ralph Van Deman and the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.111

Military Intelligence Division member_of War Department documented document

“But 1924 marked the end of anti-radical activity for both the War Department and the Justice Department…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.112

Military Intelligence Division worked_for War Department documented document

“it is desired that a brief radio report in secret code be made to War Department…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.130

William Friedman worked_for War Department documented document

“In 1921 Friedman and his wife also a skilled cryptologist entered into a six-month contract with the Signal Corps and continued the relationship as civil servants on the War Department payroll until 1922…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.132

Military Intelligence Division member_of War Department documented document

“this report marked the beginning of a controversy continuing into the time of United States entry into the war between the Military Intelligence Division War Department and the Air Corp's Intelli gence organization over air intelligence act…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.175

Henry H. Arnold worked_for War Department documented document

“The Board also suggested that General Arnold as Chief of the Air Corps and principal adviser on air matters to the Chief of Staff WDGS be allowed to establish in his office an air intelligence agency considerably larger than the existing In…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.175

War Department supported A.E.F. G-2 documented document

“On September 10 1941 Arnold had his decision the War Department supported G 2's position for continuing the unity of strategic intelligence responsibilities saying The responsibility imposed on the Military Intelligence Division W.D.G.S. by…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.178

Special Observer Groups worked_for War Department documented document

“the SPOBS "provided the War Department with a listening post which relayed intelligence concerning the world's war fronts.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.184

War Department founded Army Ground Forces documented document

“the War Department through Circular 59 issued on 2 March 1942 and effective on 9 March decided that the most effective organization... was one having three autonomous and co-ordinate commands under the Chief of Staff Army Ground Forces Army…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.186

War Department founded United States Army Signal Corps documented document

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.186

War Department founded Services of Supply documented document

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.186

Signal Intelligence Service member_of War Department documented document

“S.I.S was the first agency in the War Department to receive more funds personnel and space…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.219

War Department merged_with Signal Security Agency documented document

“On September 6 four days after the war ended the War Department ordered the creation within G 2 of a new cryptologic organization by merging the Signal Security Agency the field cryptanalytic units and Signal Corps cryptology…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.220

Department of Defense succeeded War Department host_asserted

“motivation is the people and the mission as opposed to kissing somebody's ass. The worst thing that ever happened to the military was the transition into the Department of Defense from the War Department. A War Department has a specific mis…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2 @ 2:16:06

John J. McCloy member_of War Department host_asserted

“Justice. The secretary passed FDR's tough marching orders to draw up a new handbook on Germany to his aide. And guess who his aide was? None other than John McCloy, who in turn passed the problem of war crimes prosecution to a specialist on…”

▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 25:20

Murray Bernays member_of War Department host_asserted

▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 25:20

Green Hackworth covered_up War Department documented

“Hackworth accepted the War Department's proposal, but in working sessions, he helped draft policy directives for U.S. commanders in the field that were as close as possible to Hackworth's strategy on war crimes. At the same time, Hackworth …”

▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 38:06

Henry Stimson headed War Department host_asserted

“You know, Stimson is right there in all the decisions being made about World War II. You know, that skull and bones right there. You talk about the guys who founded the OSS and CIA, you know, all the decisions, all the decision making, all …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 3 @ 1:14:54

Henry Stimson member_of War Department book_quoted

“When I got back to the department, I found news from G2 that a Japanese expedition had started. Five divisions had come down from Shantung and Shanxi to Shanghai, and there they had embarked on ships, 30, 40, or 50 ships, and have been sigh…”

▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones @ 56:44

John J. McCloy member_of War Department host_asserted

“corporations in the world throughout history, the same one that Alan Dulles represented. And so that's what he's doing for most of the 30s, working in private law, international banking. World War II breaks out, and Secretary of War, Henry …”

▶ The Shadow State Pt. 10; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (2 of 2) @ 5:08

Henry Stimson headed War Department host_asserted

“was a Secretary of War from 1899 to 1904. You know, when he was doing all this stuff in Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico. Do you know who his successor was as Secretary of War? I did, but I just, I got into, grew and my brain's blank. That wo…”

▶ The Shadow State 20 Secret Societies 4; Skull & Bones 1837-1888 @ 1:15:40

War Department front_for Strategic Services Unit book_quoted

“near Wiesbaden. To handle the removal or retention of agent networks, the WDD was actually a cover name for a newly formed strategic services unit, that SSU. So that was just going to be the in-theater version of what was set up back in Was…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 33:21

Allen Dulles headed War Department book_quoted

“who was part of Skorzeny's command structure. Dulles had been in contact with Skorzeny at the end of the war. As the head of WDD, Dulles retained management of his secret records to prevent exposure of former spies and double agents that th…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 34:21

Richie Boys member_of War Department host_asserted

“Fort Ritchie in Maryland back in the day. And they all had some commonalities and how they grew up. So let me just read to you briefly what the Ritchie Boys is. The Ritchie Boys was part of U.S. Military Intelligence Services and the War De…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 4:02

Henry Stimson headed War Department host_asserted

“who appears to have disliked Pell for his own independence and refusal to be a team player with the State Department. Pell remembered the acting Secretary of State as, quote, one of the stupidest men I have ever known, unquote. The War Depa…”

▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 24:17

Adrian Sanford Fisher worked_at War Department documented

“But we make these connections. You do need to ask the questions. It's a data point. Nothing more. It is not proof of anything. Fair enough? Yeah. Okay. Continuing on to our next alumni, Adrian Sanford Fisher. He was associated with the Depa…”

▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #42 @ 39:39

Henry Stimson headed War Department host_asserted

“Yeah, Stimson is right there in all the decisions being made about World War II. You know, that's skull and bones right there. You talk about the guys who founded the OSS and CIA, you know, all those decisions, all those decision-making, al…”

▶ The Shadow State 20 Secret Societies 4; Skull & Bones 1837-1888 @ 1:15:10

United States Department of Defense replaced War Department host_asserted

“talk about wanting to be every once in a while. And I found it very interesting that I can, my personal opinion, and I know people will think this is heresy. I don't care. The way the War Department used to work is that we had a four-star g…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner 911 Eve conversation @ 36:20

Mentions (34)

Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2

▶ 2:16:06 motivation is the people and the mission as opposed to kissing somebody's ass. The worst thing that ever happened to the military was the transition into the Department of Defense from the War Department. A War Department has a specific mis…

Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2

▶ 2:16:35 Putting the War Department, which was always ran by a four-star general directly for the president, who was the combatant commander, is a lot better than having it under a bunch of civilians that don't know their head from the hole in the g…

Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption

▶ 4:02 Fort Ritchie in Maryland back in the day. And they all had some commonalities and how they grew up. So let me just read to you briefly what the Ritchie Boys is. The Ritchie Boys was part of U.S. Military Intelligence Services and the War De…

Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption

▶ 14:49 The extreme secrecy and small size of the pond are the reasons why it survived. The budget, well, we don't need about the budget. The pond employed personnel and agents, observers from, oh my God, from large corporations around the world. S…

Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption

▶ 24:18 In order to put feathers in his cap and to stave off being consolidated into the CIA. These people have no ethics whatsoever. So he wanted to stay under the State Department as opposed to going to either the War Department. Because initiall…

Secret Societies Skull and Bones

▶ 58:16 I told him I did not think anyone would do nothing in this situation, and he agreed with me. I said of the other two, my choice is the latter one, which means to fight at once. That's what Stimson was suggesting at the time. And just so eve…

The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history

▶ 34:58 The clandestine officers went to the War Department as a new unit called the Strategic Services Unit under Brigadier General John Magruder, who had been the OSS Special Warfare Chief. So Magruder mandate was not to preserve or enlarge the S…

The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2

▶ 25:20 This message went to everyone. It went to the State Department, the Department of War, Navy, Army, Joint Chiefs of Staff. They all knew. Despite precautions taken to keep these dealings secret, word leaked out among military circles. Before…

The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 3

▶ 18:44 from Nuremberg. By the spring of 46, policymakers in the State Department, War Department, and a coordination committee were in a quandary. Besides having to deal with Ishii and the Unit 731 personnel, they were now faced with how to procee…

The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 3

▶ 20:22 presidential directive to get these people into the United States. In August of 1946, Acting Secretary of State Dean Atkinson sent a copy of a memo, the memo that said you can't do it, and basically attempted to revise the paperclip policy …

The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 3

▶ 20:53 They would be entering the country without visas. And after the War Department screened their backgrounds, the State Department could approve them. They would be offered contracts with either the military or private employment. No member, t…

The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 7

▶ 42:48 we're going to have 10,000 to 15,000 people to transport out of Russian control, both by two U.S. military generals and then Eisenhower's staff saying there's 3,000. On the same day that Eisenhower's cable explained that only a small number…