John Magruder person
also: Brigadier General John Magruder, Brigadier General John McGruder, General John Magruder, General Magruder, Magruder, McGruder
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Claims (11)
John Magruder worked_for
Strategic Intelligence Service Unit documented
document
“General John Magruder Chief of SISU openly questioned the willingness of the separate agencies to cooperate in intelligence production…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.14
John Magruder chief_of
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“on the 1st of November. And I bet they were singing, we're in the money. Meanwhile, on October 28th, a detailed proposal for covert operations in China from General John Magruder went to the Secretary of Defense. Magruder, citing his experi…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 15:21
John Magruder circumvented
Harry S. Truman book_quoted
“September 26, 1945, Brigadier General John Magruder, Donovan's former Deputy Director of Intel and Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, reportedly circumvented Truman's disbandment order and acted to save what they could of the OSS. T…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 25:48
John Magruder reassigned
Edward Lansdale host_asserted
“who still headed the Strategic Services Unit, the last vestige of the OSS office, and before the new Central Intelligence Group was created under General Hoyt Vandenberg. It was Magruder who had moved Lansdell to Manila two months earlier. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 49:37
Edward Lansdale briefed
John Magruder host_asserted
“There were all in the high valleys north of Manila in a triangle and near the northern tip of Luzon. When they returned to Manila in mid-October, Lansdale reported to Colonel McMickering, then flew to Tokyo where he briefed Willoughby, Whit…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 49:10
John Magruder represented
United States Department of Defense documented
“Representative of the SEC DEF, John Magruder, safeguarded defense interests. The State Department repeatedly construed the Psychological Strategy Board inquiries as infringements. General Smith was CIA's delegate. Frank Wisner, the alternat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 6 @ 1:02:36
John Magruder headed
Strategic Services Unit book_quoted
“Officers from the Special Operations Branch and Special Intelligence Branch were transferred to a new government organization called the Strategic Services Unit. General Magruder was then placed in charge of it, which was officially formed …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 26:14
John Magruder headed
Strategic Services Unit book_quoted
“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…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 29:29
John Magruder headed
Strategic Services Unit book_quoted
“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 Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 34:58
John Magruder headed
Strategic Services Unit documented
“Echols, E-C-H-O-L-S, of the CIA signed a formal agreement in November. In the Pentagon, a few days before, a detailed proposal for covert operations in China had been sent to the SEC DEF by a General John Magruder, M-A-G-R-U-D-E-R. Magruder…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 10:57
John Magruder member_of
Office of Strategic Services documented
“the CIA signed a formal agreement in November. In the Pentagon, a few days before, a detailed proposal for covert operations in China had been sent to the SEC DEF by a General John Magruder, M-A-G-R-U-D-E-R. Magruder endorsed the proposal, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 14:11
Mentions (8)
▶ 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…
▶ 14:11
the CIA signed a formal agreement in November. In the Pentagon, a few days before, a detailed proposal for covert operations in China had been sent to the SEC DEF by a General John Magruder, M-A-G-R-U-D-E-R. Magruder endorsed the proposal, …
▶ 40:07
There's a bunch of more jargon, but it all sounds basically like that. The close relationship between psychological warfare and covert operations is further demonstrated by the composition of the strategy boards themselves. An early represe…
▶ 15:21
on the 1st of November. And I bet they were singing, we're in the money. Meanwhile, on October 28th, a detailed proposal for covert operations in China from General John Magruder went to the Secretary of Defense. Magruder, citing his experi…
▶ 15:53
Louis Johnson forwarded the proposal and the accompanying memorandum from Wisner to Truman. But the collapse of the resistance, i.e. the Nationalists, on the mainland temporarily paused the process. This became a defining moment for civil a…
▶ 1:05:47
where it should be noted he had good friends. Bob Joyce represented state, while General John Magruder, once head of the pre-CIA Strategic Services Unit, stood in for the Secretary of Defense. Admiral Leslie Stevens, a member of the Joint C…
▶ 1:06:17
We're going to create a paper that says we want to do what we want to do. Not an objective look. Truman, it came back, studied the paper that they wrote, came back, studied with marginal notes in Truman's own hand. One of the few times Harr…
▶ 57:38
Representative of the SECDEF, John McGruder, safeguarded defense interests. The State Department repeatedly construed the Psychological Strategy Board inquiries as infringements. General Smith was CIA's delegate. Frank Wisner, the alternate…