War Department organization
also: Assistant Secretary of War, Department of War, War Department
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Claims (8)
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
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
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
“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
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 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
Thomas Scott appointed
War Department host_asserted
“rail car company. Those were the sleeping class cars for first class travel. It was a new thing in the 1870s and he is an early investor. During the Civil War, his former boss, Thomas Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad was named the Assista…”
▶ Shadow State 47_ Secret Societies 30; The Carnegie Legacy @ 9:54
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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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rail car company. Those were the sleeping class cars for first class travel. It was a new thing in the 1870s and he is an early investor. During the Civil War, his former boss, Thomas Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad was named the Assista…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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The third center for post-war planning consisted of civil affairs specialists on the staffs of the War Department and SHAPE, which was the Supreme Headquarter Allied Expeditionary Forces, who was under the command of Dwight D. Eisenhower. S…
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He met with Churchill, General Eisenhower and his staff and the U.S. staff at the European Advisory Commission. Anthony Eden provided Morgenthau with confidential notes taken at Tehran concerning the Soviets and the British and what the gra…
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and Bernard Bernstein provided him with detailed reports and copies of State Department and War Department's most recent policy documents. Morgenthau emerged as by far the most informed senior US official about all of this. He didn't like w…
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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…
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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…
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Bernays' work at the War Department up to that time had consisted in important part in heading off attempts by the American Jewish community and from the OSS and other U.S. agencies promoting psychological warfare to open anti-Nazi war crim…
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in both Auschwitz and other camps, unquote. Bernays' professional concern was primarily for European businesses, and they used the US POWs as the excuse. Bernays and the War Department did not create a war crimes prosecution strategy under …
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every indication that without this outside pressure, the War Department would have continued to stall. Regardless of what Bernays may have intended, the War Department used his legal advice primarily as a device to avoid taking any action a…
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G-L-U-E-C-K, in articles written in the New Republic, the Harvard Law Review, and in his 1944 book called War Criminals, Their Prosecution and Punishment. President Roosevelt even referred directly to the Nazis as a lawless conspiracy in hi…
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had key roles in that Paris conference. His brief failed to recognize any inherent human rights for Axis civilians beyond what was granted by the government. His proposal soon became props for those at the State Department and War Departmen…
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And at no time did Hackworth tell Pell what he was doing. Hackworth used the meetings to squash Pell's request to attend war crimes policy gatherings then underway at the War Department and to pour cold water on Pell's assertions that FDR w…
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The only real question left, they said, was whether Roosevelt should personally tell Pell that his job was over or if he preferred state do it. Roosevelt replied to Stenekis, you do it. Hackworth believed he was meanwhile making considerabl…
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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 …
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the use of a conspiracy prosecution against the SS and Nazi party for at least the next six months, in part due to Hackworth's prompting, Attorney General Francis Biddle, B-I-D-D-L-E, also opposed Pell's initiatives in the War Department's …
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Wolfe, then still convalescing, replaced his former chief and carried his U.S. administrative burden out at the War Crimes Commission single-handedly after he had just collapsed. Hudson's resignation precipitated a renewed effort at State t…
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including the drafting of the policy for the War Department and for the U.S. occupation government in Germany. To outsiders, Washington seemed strongly committed to openly cooperating with the Allies in war crimes commissions, while behind …