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Claims (106)
James Douglas member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“Each of the other Eisenhower Administration officials who was active in the Special Group in late 1960... Deputy Secretary of Defense James Douglas…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.79
Allen Dulles met_with
5412 Group documented
document
“On March 14 Dulles and J C King attended a Special Group meeting at the White House…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.107
J.C. King met_with
5412 Group documented
document
“On March 14 Dulles and J C King attended a Special Group meeting at the White House…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.107
William Harvey member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“Harvey testified that upon his return he reported to the Special Group on the 'status of the active and potential sources inside Cuba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.118
Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with
5412 Group documented
document
“Bissell testified that he met frequently with the Special Group in the fall of 1960 to discuss Cuban operations…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.124
Thomas Parrott worked_for
5412 Group documented
document
“Thomas Parrott a CIA officer served as Secretary of the Special Group from 1957 until October 1963…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.127
Dwight D. Eisenhower directed
5412 Group documented
document
“Parrott testified that early in 1959 President Eisenhower directed the Special Group to meet at least once a week to consider approve or reject all significant covert action operations…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.127
National Security Council met_with
5412 Group documented
document
“In March 1960 the National Security Council and the Special Group focused on America's Cuban policy…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.128
Charles Cabell worked_for
5412 Group documented
document
“When the question of 'whether any real planning had been done for taking direct positive action against Fidel Raul and Che Guevara was subsequently raised at a Special Group meeting on November 3 1960 General Cabell reportedly said that act…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.130
James Parrott worked_for
5412 Group documented
document
“Parrott the author of the memorandum testified that although he had no recollection of the November 3 1960 meeting it was his opinion based on the context of weekly Special Group meetings...…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.129
Livingston Merchant worked_for
5412 Group documented
document
“Gray testified that it could be taken to include assassination but he did not know whether Mr Merchant intended to refer to assassination or not…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.130
Maxwell D. Taylor headed
5412 Group documented
document
“General Maxwell Taylor who later chaired Special Group meetings on Operation MONGOOSE stated that he had 'never heard of an assassination effort against Castro…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.133
Committee of 40 succeeded
5412 Group documented
document
“That directive spelled out the duties of the newly-designated 40 Committee which replaced the Special Group as the Executive decisionmaking body on covert operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.77
Allen Dulles met_with
5412 Group documented
document
“CIA Director Allen Dulles who had attended the Special Group meeting…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.147
5412 Group proposed
Covert Operations documented
document
“...such meetings followed the June 1963 decision of the Special Group to step up various covert operations designed to encourage dissident groups inside Cuba...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.19
5412 Group headed
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“At this time review and approval of covert operations against Cuba were the responsibility of the National Security Council's Special Group chaired by McGeorge Bundy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.21
5412 Group member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“At this time review and approval of covert operations against Cuba were the responsibility of the National Security Council's Special Group chaired by McGeorge Bundy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.21
James Jesus Angleton met_with
5412 Group documented
document
“I don't know of any Director who would not take that up with Dr Kissinger or with the National Security Council or the Forty Committee or with the President…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.95
5412 Group funded
CIA documented
document
“The Special Group which was the predecessor of today's 40 Committee authorized over $3 million between 1962 and 1964 to prevent the election of a Socialist or Communist candidate…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.15
5412 Group split_off_from
Committee of 40 documented
document
“The Special Group which was the predecessor of today's 40 Committee authorized over $3 million between 1962 and 1964 to prevent the election of a Socialist or Communist candidate…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.15
5412 Group funded
Christian Democratic Party documented
document
“In 1962 the Special Group (predecessor to the 40 Committee) authorized several hundred thousand dollars for an effort to build up the PDC…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.161
5412 Group funded
Radical Party documented
document
“Small authorizations were made in 1963 and 1967 for support to moderate elements within the Radical Party…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.161
CIA worked_for
5412 Group documented
document
“The CIA presented two papers to the Special Group on April 2 1962…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.165
Committee of 40 succeeded
5412 Group documented
document
“Throughout its history the 40 Committee and its direct predecessors the 303 Committee and the Special Group have had one overriding purpose to exercise political control over covert operations abroad…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.192
5412 Group funded
Eduardo Frei documented
document
“SpecialGroupapproves$3,000,000to ensure electionof PDCcandidateEduardoFrei…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.208
5412 Group member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Beginning in 1955 the responsibility for authorizing CIA covert action operations lay with the Special Group a subcommittee of the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.24
5412 Group renamed_to
Committee of 40 documented
document
“Today this group is known as the 40 Committee…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.24
5412 Group ordered_assassination_of
Patrice Lumumba documented
document
“The Special Group 'finally agreed that planning for the Congo would not necessarily rule out `consideration of any particular kind of activity which might contribute to getting rid of Lumumba'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.29
5412 Group proposed
Patrice Lumumba documented
document
“the Special Group * * * agreed that planning for the Congo would not necessarily rule out "consideration of any particular kind of activity which might contribute to getting rid of Lumumba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.66
Thomas Parrott member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“Also in attendance was Thomas A Parrott Secretary to the Special Group…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.74
Gordon Gray member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“The four standing members of the Special Group were in attendance Allen Dulles Director of Central Intelligence Gordon Gray Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.74
Allen Dulles member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“The four standing members of the Special Group were in attendance Allen Dulles Director of Central Intelligence…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.74
Livingston Merchant member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“The four standing members of the Special Group were in attendance ... Livingston Merchant Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.74
John N. Irwin II member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“The four standing members of the Special Group were in attendance ... and John N Irwin II Assistant Secretary of Defense…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.74
5412 Group targeted_for_regime_change
Patrice Lumumba documented
document
“It was finally agreed that planning for the Congo would not necessarily rule out "consideration of any particular kind of activity which might contribute to getting rid of Lumumba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.74
Allen Dulles proposed
5412 Group documented
document
“Dulles first "noted the possibility that over the long run the F.S will not be able to tolerate the Castro regime in Cuba and suggested that covert contingency planning to accomplish the fall of the Castro government might he in order.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.107
5412 Group operated_in
Cuba documented
document
“By July 1961 the Special Group had agreed that 'the basic objective toward Cuba was to provide support to a U.S program to develop opposition to Castro and to help bring about a regime acceptable to the U.S.'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.149
Robert McNamara member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“He represented the Department on the Special Group and the SGA during the MONGOOSE operations…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.171
McGeorge Bundy headed
5412 Group documented
document
“...the Special Group chaired by McGeorge Bundy reassumed responsibility for reviewing and approving covert actions in Cuba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.184
John F. Kennedy funded
5412 Group documented
document
“President Kennedy approved a sabotage program.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.187
5412 Group funded
Gerard Toriello documented
document
“On December 29 1960 the Special Group considered and approved a broad plan of covert support to anti-Trujillo forces…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.210
Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“The plan presented by Bissell envisioned support to both Dominican exile groups and internal dissidents…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.210
5412 Group supplied_arms_to
Dominican Republic documented
document
“The Group approved the project [that limited supplies of small arms and other material should be made available for dissidents inside the Dominican Republic]…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.210
John N. Irwin member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“The members of the Special Group were at the time ... John N Irwin Deputy Secretary of Defense…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.210
5412 Group funded
Dominican dissidents documented
document
“Consul General Dearborn was advised that approval had been given for supplying arms and other material to the Dominican dissidents…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.211
Robert McNamara member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“a meeting of the Special Group was held with Messrs McNamara Gilpatric Bowles Bundy Dulles Bissell and General Cabell ha attendance…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.216
Roswell Gilpatric member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“a meeting of the Special Group was held with Messrs McNamara Gilpatric Bowles Bundy Dulles Bissell and General Cabell ha attendance…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.216
Bowles member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“a meeting of the Special Group was held with Messrs McNamara Gilpatric Bowles Bundy Dulles Bissell and General Cabell ha attendance…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.216
McGeorge Bundy member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“a meeting of the Special Group was held with Messrs McNamara Gilpatric Bowles Bundy Dulles Bissell and General Cabell ha attendance…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.216
Allen Dulles member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“a meeting of the Special Group was held with Messrs McNamara Gilpatric Bowles Bundy Dulles Bissell and General Cabell ha attendance…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.216
Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“a meeting of the Special Group was held with Messrs McNamara Gilpatric Bowles Bundy Dulles Bissell and General Cabell ha attendance…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.216
Charles Cabell member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“a meeting of the Special Group was held with Messrs McNamara Gilpatric Bowles Bundy Dulles Bissell and General Cabell ha attendance…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.216
John Foster Dulles worked_for
5412 Group documented
document
“Mr Dulles assisted by Mr Bissell then summarized for the benefit of the new members of the Special Group the specific actions taken by the predecessor group during the past year…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.217
Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for
5412 Group documented
document
“Mr Dulles assisted by Mr Bissell then summarized for the benefit of the new members of the Special Group the specific actions taken by the predecessor group during the past year…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.217
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
5412 Group documented
document
“Mr Bundy asked that a memorandum be prepared for higher authority on the subject of what plans can be made for a successor government to Trujillo…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.217
Robert McNamara worked_for
5412 Group documented
document
“Robert McNamara one of the new members of the Special Group in attendance for the briefing had no recollection as to the specificity in which the Dominican Republic was discussed at the February 14 meeting…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.217
McGeorge Bundy met_with
5412 Group documented
document
“Mr Bundy said that this point is covered in the Cuba paper which will be discussed at a high level in the very near future…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.222
Lyman Kirkpatrick met_with
5412 Group documented
document
“On May 18 1961 the Special Group again considered the situation in the Dominican Republic and according to the Minutes Cabell [Deputy DCI] noted that the internal dissidents were pressing for the release to them of certain small arms…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.222
5412 Group operated_in
Dominican Republic documented
document
“The CIA officer's attention was directed to the January 12 1961 Special Group limitation concerning the passage of arms outside of the Dominican Republic…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.223
Adolph Berle headed
5412 Group documented
document
“Berle who was the Chairman of the Inter-Agency Task Force having responsibility for contingency planning for Cuba the Dominican Republic and Haiti…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.286
5412 Group targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro documented
document
“Special Group meeting considers Castro's overthrow…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.305
5412 Group funded
Dominican Republic dissidents documented
document
“Special Group approves plan of covert assistance to internal and external Dominican dissidents…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306
5412 Group supplied_arms_to
Dominican Republic dissidents documented
document
“Special Group meeting approved "limited supply of small arms and other material to Dominican dissidents…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306
Allen Dulles met_with
5412 Group documented
document
“Special Group meeting at which new members are briefed by Dulles and Bissell on "specific actions taken by the predecessor group during the past year…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306
Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with
5412 Group documented
document
“Special Group meeting at which new members are briefed by Dulles and Bissell on "specific actions taken by the predecessor group during the past year…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306
5412 Group member_of
CIA documented
document
“Additionally we found the system used in the records of the Special Group which avoid direct attribution to the President…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.328
David Atlee Phillips member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“when queried by the Committee as to why he never raised the subject of assassination at any of the Special Group Meetings he attended…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.331
Operations Coordinating Board dissolved
5412 Group documented
document
“The OCB's functions were transferred to "designated representatives of the Secretaries of State and Defense and the President This was the first time a "designated representative of the President had been brought into the approval or consul…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.59
McGeorge Bundy headed
5412 Group documented
document
“With the inauguration of President Kennedy in January 1961 Special Group meetings were transferred to the White House under the chairmanship of the President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.60
Maxwell D. Taylor headed
5412 Group documented
document
“For a brief period General Maxwell Taylor President Kennedy's military adviser chaired the group…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.60
U.S. State Department member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“Prior to 1961 the State Department member of the Special Group had been the 'informal chairman'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.60
5412 Group renamed_to
Committee of 40 documented
document
“During the Johnson Administration the Special Group which was renamed the 303 Committee,19 continued to be chaired by the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61
Committee of 40 superseded
5412 Group documented
document
“On February 17 1970 NSDM 40 was issued It created the 40 Committee The directive superseded and rescinded past NSC covert action directives…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61
5412 Group member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Several points stand out in the history of the committees charged with overseeing covert operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.65
National Security Council founded
5412 Group documented
document
“In March and November 1955 two NSC policy directives NSC 5412'1 and NSC 5412/2 were issued outlining revised control procedures They established a group of 'designated representatives...'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
Maxwell D. Taylor headed
5412 Group documented
document
“Directed by General Maxwell Taylor the report recommended strengthening the top-level direction for operations by establishing a review group with permanent membership…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
McGeorge Bundy member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“As a result of the report the standing members of the Special Group included McGeorge Bundy the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs as Chairman…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
U Alexis Johnson member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“As a result of the report the standing members of the Special Group included... U Alexis Johnson Under Secretary of State…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
Roswell Gilpatric member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“As a result of the report the standing members of the Special Group included... Roswell Gilpatric Deputy Secretary of Defense…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
Lyman Lemnitzer member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“As a result of the report the standing members of the Special Group included... General Lyman Lemnitzer Chairman of t1ie Joint Chiefs of Staff…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
Green Board proposed
5412 Group documented
document
“The Taylor Report in June 1961 redefined the membership of the Group in an effort to insure better review and coordination for the anticipated expansion in paramilitary activities…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.76
5412 Group renamed_to
Committee of 40 documented
document
“During the Johnson Administration the Special Group was renamed the 303 Committee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.77
Gordon Gray member_of
5412 Group documented
“The president met to discuss Tibet with a group including Gordon Gray, Secretary Harder, Alan Dulles, Cabell, and Desmond Fitzgerald. Two weeks later, there was another discussion with the 5412 group. In May and June of 1960, mass defection…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 29:48
John Irwin member_of
5412 Group documented
“Member John Irvin, I-R-V-I-N, who represented the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, visited southern Laos for direct talks with Fomi Nozaban. A second Irvin trip occurred before Kennedy took offi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 26:17
Charles Cabell member_of
5412 Group documented
“The president met to discuss Tibet with a group including Gordon Gray, Secretary Harder, Alan Dulles, Cabell, and Desmond Fitzgerald. Two weeks later, there was another discussion with the 5412 group. In May and June of 1960, mass defection…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 29:48
Desmond Fitzgerald member_of
5412 Group documented
“The president met to discuss Tibet with a group including Gordon Gray, Secretary Harder, Alan Dulles, Cabell, and Desmond Fitzgerald. Two weeks later, there was another discussion with the 5412 group. In May and June of 1960, mass defection…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 29:48
Dwight D. Eisenhower member_of
5412 Group documented
“The president met to discuss Tibet with a group including Gordon Gray, Secretary Harder, Alan Dulles, Cabell, and Desmond Fitzgerald. Two weeks later, there was another discussion with the 5412 group. In May and June of 1960, mass defection…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 29:48
Allen Dulles proposed
5412 Group documented
“much as the CIA did in Tibet. The second plan aimed to disrupt Cuban economy by sabotage, including their sugar refineries. Alan Dulles carried the idea to the 5412 group on February 17th, and it became the first one he presented to Eisenho…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 13:55
5412 Group approved
CIA documented
“They don't want to give any, this is, you know, the late 1950s. They don't want to give anybody any idea of doing the same thing in the Western Hemisphere. It cannot stand. The 5412 group conditionally approved. Examination of special group…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 9:47
Allen Dulles member_of
5412 Group documented
“The president met to discuss Tibet with a group including Gordon Gray, Secretary Harder, Alan Dulles, Cabell, and Desmond Fitzgerald. Two weeks later, there was another discussion with the 5412 group. In May and June of 1960, mass defection…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 29:48
Allen Dulles member_of
5412 Group book_quoted
“As the president's special assistant, which now is a designated national security advisor, Gordon Gray is functioning as that before it was created. He became Eisenhower's voice in the 5412 group. Although Allen Dulles officially functioned…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 11:44
Thomas Parrott member_of
5412 Group book_quoted
“harassment of the Chinese communists. They really weren't interested in Tibet independence. They were very interested in harassing the Chinese. Thomas Parrott, who worked directly for the 5412 group as its CIA provided staff officer, adds t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 37:04
Dwight D. Eisenhower founded
5412 Group host_asserted
“It became known as the 5412 group after the directive that established it, which was 512-2. So now we have a junior level, a medium level, and a senior level. All right. And keep in mind, something's going on in order for them to have been …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 22:25
Dwight D. Eisenhower founded
5412 Group book_quoted
“in its statement of the CIA's responsibility to seek approval for operations. The agency interpreted this to mean that not all elements of a plan had to be briefed to anybody because they didn't have a need to know to the president and the …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 7 @ 28:36
5412 Group subsidiary_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“an official on the special group, which is the 5412. That's what they're calling that National Security Council group at the time. The decision to wind down the Congo operation was made in early 1966, which is during the Johnson administrat…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 12 cont @ 34:03
Cyrus Vance member_of
5412 Group host_asserted
“an official on the special group, which is the 5412. That's what they're calling that National Security Council group at the time. The decision to wind down the Congo operation was made in early 1966, which is during the Johnson administrat…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 12 cont @ 34:03
John F. Kennedy member_of
5412 Group documented
“It was a result of the discussion, the DCI, the director of CIA, said he would reorientate his thinking to some extent and would come back with an alternative proposal. About two months later, Charles Cabell briefed the 512 group on Tibet a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 33:45
Allen Dulles member_of
5412 Group book_quoted
“He spent most of 58 observing the CIA's oversight in action. Though the DCI was officially only an advisor to the group, Gray found that the committee exercised virtually no initiative, which left the field largely open to Allen Dulles. The…”
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William H. Pyle member_of
5412 Group book_quoted
“At the meeting on November 29th, which included many of the same people who sat on the 5412 group, he questioned the boldness and imagination behind the project, given the necessity for plausible deniability, as well as whether actions were…”
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E. Howard Hunt member_of
5412 Group book_quoted
“of the Frente, which was kind of the name of this front. Polly, a presidential crony, sided with E. Howard Hunt's view of exile leadership being, quote, too far to the left. Eisenhower showed his unhappiness.…”
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Charles Cabell member_of
5412 Group documented
“It was a result of the discussion, the DCI, the director of CIA, said he would reorientate his thinking to some extent and would come back with an alternative proposal. About two months later, Charles Cabell briefed the 512 group on Tibet a…”
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John Irwin member_of
5412 Group book_quoted
“FOMA, the renunciation of all of their ties to the patent law, in effect, abandoning any chance of them ever being neutral. Subana refused. Shortly thereafter, 5412 group, you know, the assassin group, member John Irvin, I-R-V-I-N,…”
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Gordon Gray member_of
5412 Group book_quoted
“As the president's special assistant, Gordon Gray was Eisenhower's representative on the 40-54-12 group. And remember, that was set up so that Eisenhower has plausible deniability. So this Gordon Gray, who's a Democrat, Eisenhower's a Repub…”
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Gordon Gray member_of
5412 Group book_quoted
“As the president's special assistant, which now is a designated national security advisor, Gordon Gray is functioning as that before it was created. He became Eisenhower's voice in the 5412 group. Although Allen Dulles officially functioned…”
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Desmond Fitzgerald member_of
5412 Group documented
“In the summer of 1960, an international jurist commission established by the UN released a conclusion that genocide had been attempted in Tibet, lending momentum to the CIA's proposal for that fall. On September 15, 1960, the 512 group meet…”
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Graves Erskine member_of
5412 Group book_quoted
“and Eisenhower had made the chairman a 5-4-1-2 group member. Direct coordination and execution of military cover support, like when the CIA's pretending to be military, continued in the hands of the assistant to the SecDef for special opera…”
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Mentions (62)
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Though he claims to have stopped them before they could broach the CIA operation, Cummings necessarily had knowledge of the plan because he was the State Department's intelligence chief. Indeed, we have seen that Foster Dulles discussed ope…
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head of each of the military branches are picked by the same international syndicate that selects the president, which selects the secretary of state. You know what I mean? And what's interesting about that 5412 memo is what it does is tech…
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FOMA, the renunciation of all of their ties to the patent law, in effect, abandoning any chance of them ever being neutral. Subana refused. Shortly thereafter, 5412 group, you know, the assassin group, member John Irvin, I-R-V-I-N,…
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It became known as the 5412 group after the directive that established it, which was 512-2. So now we have a junior level, a medium level, and a senior level. All right. And keep in mind, something's going on in order for them to have been …
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to the belief that this large operation could be conducted with plausible deniability within the guidelines of NSD 5412-2. It was also attributed to lack of coordination among the different agencies to the attempt to command the operation f…
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Yeah, because we just need another layer of bureaucracy to cover up shit that we shouldn't be doing to begin with. Consisting of a chairman, the DCI, and undersecretaries of state and defense, this was nothing less than the exact same thing…
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Assets for Covert Warfare. This instruction led to the interagency study directed by Richard Bissell with Walt Rostow, R-O-S-T-O-W, of the NSC as the prime moving force behind it. The study provided the impetus for the administration's emph…
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Edward Lansdale served as the Pentagon's contact man for matters concerning Operation Mongoose, coordinating military support as well as arranging for the agendas and keeping the records of the NSD special group, which effectively replaced …
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He knows exactly what it takes to get them done, and he was very disappointed they weren't able to get it done. Okay, so there needs to be some changes. The changes would begin with the 5412 group. Now, remember, the 5412-2 memo is the memo…
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coordination between the military and the CIA, making the nature of this formal relationship an important matter. The Pentagon and CIA link ran through the 5412 group, the staff of which is provided by the CIA. One proposal backed by the Hu…
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At the December meeting, President Eisenhower made clear his view that the 5412 group should meet as a fort with minimum staff assistance from their own agencies. Everything depended on this group. One man working for the president made the…
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As the president's special assistant, Gordon Gray was Eisenhower's representative on the 40-54-12 group. And remember, that was set up so that Eisenhower has plausible deniability. So this Gordon Gray, who's a Democrat, Eisenhower's a Repub…
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He spent most of 58 observing the CIA's oversight in action. Though the DCI was officially only an advisor to the group, Gray found that the committee exercised virtually no initiative, which left the field largely open to Allen Dulles. The…
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and the CIA with an eye towards revising the 5412-2 memo. After Christmas, Eisenhower met directly with Dulles and Gray. Eisenhower laid great stress on his arrangements for executive management of intelligence and clandestine operations wi…
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thwart any effort by Congress to provide oversight to covert operations. Allen Dulles no doubt made appropriately conciliatory comments, but Gordon Gray was not satisfied. The semi-annual 5412 review for the president was presented May 15, …
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Four days later, Gray sent a memo to Alan Dulles, the Secretary of State and the Pentagon rep on the 5412 group, which he said they were labeled as his random thoughts. But Gray's criticism was not random at all. They included the following…
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Make shit up. Let's get going. We got operations. We got countries to overthrow. Eisenhower agreed in an effort to force the 5412 to deal with these problems. On December 26, 1958, the president requested that the group hold regular weekly …
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When Gray gave one of his regular briefings to Eisenhower somewhat later, like around June 1959, the president then referred to one particular activity which he was disturbed about, but said that he assumed it had been approved by the group…
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direct access to Eisenhower. The Hall board criticized the many different facets of the Pentagon's involvement in this group and raised the possibility that they needed one single point of contact. Eisenhower said that this was letting the …
▶ 13:47
The 5412 group considered in secret deliberations its answer to the policy question posed by Gordon Gray. Memoranda that remained classified from Alan Dulles to President Eisenhower dated January 22nd and March 3rd, 1959, concerned to bet. …
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In the summer of 1960, an international jurist commission established by the UN released a conclusion that genocide had been attempted in Tibet, lending momentum to the CIA's proposal for that fall. On September 15, 1960, the 512 group meet…
▶ 33:45
It was a result of the discussion, the DCI, the director of CIA, said he would reorientate his thinking to some extent and would come back with an alternative proposal. About two months later, Charles Cabell briefed the 512 group on Tibet a…
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and achieve better synchronization between CIA's black propaganda and the unattributed gray activities carried out by U.S. Information Agency. They were already coordinating. The Killian board told Eisenhower, both in writing and on Decembe…
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Projects became the exclusive preserve of the CIA. The 5412 group approvals were too informal. And in particular, as far as we have been able to determine, there is no real joint planning for any clandestine project. There was lots of plann…
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Dulles said he favored joint approval, but not that if it meant that people all over the government had veto authority over his projects. The president took the CIA side, of course. 5-4-1-2 programs could not be staffed through agencies. Ei…
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Eisenhower's National Security Advisor suggested a limited compromise that the 5412 group members could each designate staff assistants and only those officials would see the proposals. Eisenhower agreed. He went on to say that he had becom…
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It will be discussed in a meeting in this room. In a written response to the Killian Board a week later, the CIA accepted its recommendations on the 5412 matters. In early March, the special group itself noted that proposals within establis…
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Eisenhower worried about controlling the secret warriors, but pursued the Cold War with gusto anyway. The rush of events made it difficult to go back over old ground. The 5412 group provided semi-annual presentations of covert programs, but…
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especially objected to the director of operations, which is covert operations, being solely responsible for the review of their own activity. Imagine that. This evaluation function, which also applied to the review of covert action proposal…
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Project Hake served as an example of how things could go wrong. Robert Lovett, co-author of the board's previous covert study, pressed Eisenhower to transfer review authority to the 5412 group. Gordon Gray, the guy that we talked about earl…
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Noted that the group had not been very active in accommodating the reviewers' critiques. Eisenhower insisted that the 5412 group should meet as a court, implying a capacity that they could review and potentially veto operations.…
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military people involved in CIA operations. Such operations as Project Hague required close coordination with the military. The Pentagon CIA link ran through the 5412 group, whose staff the CIA provided. So just so you guys know, just imagi…
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a conference room, there's a table, and all of the heads of the State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon, they sit at the table. There's an entire staff that line the walls of the conference room. And there's a back shop staff that prepares …
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back shop, and people that line the room. Everything was centered around the 5412 group. Gordon Gray made the 541 group his special concern. Having once hoped to become the CIA director, Gray had seen his chances expire at the end of Truman…
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As the president's special assistant, which now is a designated national security advisor, Gordon Gray is functioning as that before it was created. He became Eisenhower's voice in the 5412 group. Although Allen Dulles officially functioned…
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The special assistant openly raised his doubts in December 1958 in a meeting. After Christmas, Eisenhower met privately with both Gray and Dulles. They were now studying the CIA 5-4-1-2 group relationship. Eisenhower laid great stress on ma…
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The semi-annual covert operation review took place on 15 January 1959. Four days later, Gray sent a memo of random thoughts to Allen Dulles, the Secretary of State and the Pentagon representative on the 5412 group. Gray's criticisms were no…
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had ever been discussed there within the preceding six months, there needed to be a better sense of mission. The criteria with which what matters were brought to the 5-4-1-2 group were ill-defined and they needed to be better defined. In ot…
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And there was no written criteria of what needed to be reviewed there and what didn't. The 5412 needed procedures to evaluate operations in addition to approving them. He went on to say, quote, I strongly believe that the president would ex…
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On December 26, 1958, the president had asked the group to have regular weekly meetings in place of the twice-a-year meetings. At one of Gray's regular briefings to Eisenhower on June 22, 1959, quote, the president referred to one particula…
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and Eisenhower had made the chairman a 5-4-1-2 group member. Direct coordination and execution of military cover support, like when the CIA's pretending to be military, continued in the hands of the assistant to the SecDef for special opera…
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An officer on his staff, Air Force Colonel Fletcher Prouty, who we all know, recounts that a copy of the 541-2-2 memo filled with them contained the president's handwritten notation that equipment delivered to the CIA be limited to that whi…
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That had been approved. The Hall Board criticized many facets of the Pentagon's involvement and raised the possibility of a single focal point, preferably under the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Eisenhower said that this got the mi…
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So in effect, Eisenhower ended by defending the existing arrangements and not making any changes despite all of the mechanisms that were put in place and all the time wasted looking at them. Eisenhower continued with this dilemma of control…
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harassment of the Chinese communists. They really weren't interested in Tibet independence. They were very interested in harassing the Chinese. Thomas Parrott, who worked directly for the 5412 group as its CIA provided staff officer, adds t…
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approval from the 5412 group still cannot be pinpointed. The outcome, however, can. Rebel leaders were told that the United States was considering a move in Tibet, but the decision depended upon what the CIA learned through their initial sc…
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the Nationalists being the Chiang Kai-shek's KMT army. Though the State Department believed it, quote, by no means suicidal, unquote, of Chiang Kai-shek to contemplate such raids. Despite limited possibilities, the 5412 group considered Gor…
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On September 15th, 1960, the 5412 group convened just before the National Security Council meeting. According to the record, quote, as a result of the discussion, the DCI said he would reorient his thinking to some extent, unquote. The key …
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The agency also began monthly subsidies to the Dalai Lama, totaling $1.7 million a year. That continued for many, many years. Just before the 1960 election, CIA General Cabell updated the special group on Tibet, adding comments about Cuba.…
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Bulletin of Activities of General Political Department of the PLA. It basically had covered a period of January to August 1961. The CIA officer personally retrieved the material and carried it to Washington, where Allen Dulles proudly exhib…
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The Tibetans countered with a proposal to split their strength in both places. A couple of months later, William Colby, now the chief of the DO for Far East Division, carried a fresh proposal to the special group. Colby argued for a switch …
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to continue giving the Tibet issue a high international profile, but with a reduced emphasis on military activity. Payments to the Dalai Lama continued. While for the most part, the resistance received CIA cash, a final weapons airdrop took…
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would eventually get cold feet. By 1968, the CIA had told the special group that no current operations justified the Tibetan forces at Mustang. The few telephone taps the CIA wanted could easily be managed by a much smaller effort. The foll…
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A reserve unit of several hundred Guatemalans with their own officers who could be landed behind the Cuban assault team also figured into the scheme. The cable noted that the concept was tentatively approved by Dulles and the White House wa…
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There can be no doubt the revised CIA plan amounted to an invasion. The 5412 group resisted it, making the issue one of the CIA's operations as against a combined agency military one. Because they know they can't do it with this small force…
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Not inside the operation, but outside of it and separately. So now we have another chain of command. In addition, every proposed flight had to be recommended by General Cabell, who had long worked this side of the street and was approved by…
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up until the new president comes in so that the new president is forced to go along with whatever operation that they're initiating. The Cuban exiles could establish a beachhead, declare a provincial government, then call for American help.…
▶ 5:59
At the meeting on November 29th, which included many of the same people who sat on the 5412 group, he questioned the boldness and imagination behind the project, given the necessity for plausible deniability, as well as whether actions were…
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Referring to the transition, he said he did not wish to be in a position of turning over the government in the midst of a developing emergency. If a developing emergency existed, no fault lay with the Eisenhower's intelligence overseers. Mo…
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600 to 750 exiles with U.S. training and equipment. Frank Egan described the Cuban force at Camp Trax and its superior motivation and leadership. Egan felt these exiles would have no trouble extracting a heavy toll on Cuba's larger forces. …
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had been at the apex of the secret war for eight years, he knew better. He knew that almost every one of his successes were almost a failure. He knew the difficulties the 5412 group was having, the CIA's penance for avoiding implementation …
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They were also recruiting Hmong secret armies. Desmond Fitzgerald dropped in to survey the scene. Toward the end of 1960, John Irwin, representing the Pentagon and the 5412 group, visited South Laos and talked to Fumi. A second Irwin trip o…