Graves Erskine person
also: General Graves Erskine, Erskine, Lieutenant General Graves Erskine, General Erston, General Erskine, Graves Earthen, Erston
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Claims (7)
Fletcher Prouty member_of
Graves Erskine book_quoted
“He had managed secret air missions for General Erston's Office of Special Operations. Evidence indicate a steady growth in CIA interest in the area of Tibet. There were meetings recounted by George Patterson, former CIA officer, recalled th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 36:04
Graves Erskine covered_up
Operation Overflight book_quoted
“So who was the government hiding it from? General Graves Erskine, Assistant Secretary of Defense under Eisenhower, wrote a memo to Walter Robinson at the State Department that sheds light on the official attitude. Quote, your attention is a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 8 @ 33:25
Graves Erskine founded
Aviation International Limited documented
“Operation Coordination Board, the staff of General Graves Erskine, Assistant to the SecDef for Special Operations, prepared a plan. The concept provided for an international volunteer air group, almost like the Flying Tigers, that could be …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 32:59
Graves Erskine member_of
U.S. Air Force host_asserted
“Set C-130s that flew in the Far East belonged to the Air Force's 315th Air Division based in Korea and Okinawa. Their use was controlled by General Erskine's office in Washington. Clandestine work did consume Air Force resources, but not on…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 52:55
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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 15:35
Graves Erskine member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted
“kind of things from the SecDef's perspective. Throughout the Eisenhower period, the officer was Marine Lieutenant General Graves Erskine. You spell his name E-R-S-K-I-N-E. He worked basically directly for the SecDef, which at the time was N…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 17:53
Graves Erskine founded
Air America host_asserted
“They would have loaned them the American air crews if they were to do that. The Eisenhower administration was nonetheless so impressed with the civil air transport performance that it considered forming its own proprietary airline to operat…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 33:48
Mentions (18)
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Graves Erskine had run a tight ship, but perhaps there was just too much work for a single office to handle. At the time, the Office of Special Operations was truly an intelligence focal point. Not only did it handle liaison on covert opera…
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and everything else. McNamara had advised that he did not really need a special assistant for these matters. In a sudden move the day after the defeat at the Bay of Pigs, the Office of Special Operations were reassigned other military tasks…
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to the Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Deception responsibilities went to a special planning office on the Navy staff, and Lansdell retained a small staff to handle special activities only. Some credit Erston with accomplishin…
▶ 33:48
They would have loaned them the American air crews if they were to do that. The Eisenhower administration was nonetheless so impressed with the civil air transport performance that it considered forming its own proprietary airline to operat…
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kind of things from the SecDef's perspective. Throughout the Eisenhower period, the officer was Marine Lieutenant General Graves Erskine. You spell his name E-R-S-K-I-N-E. He worked basically directly for the SecDef, which at the time was N…
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successor, Thomas S. Gates Jr., took office December 1959 and served throughout the remainder of Eisenhower's administration. He had been a Naval Reserve officer in Irojimo in 1955 when Graves Erskine had commanded the 3rd Marine Division. …
▶ 18:55
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 …
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the Air Force colonel who worked with General Erstein's Office of Special Operations. He was the Joint Chiefs of Staff in that trio of people that you work with that we were just talking about. This reluctance to discuss Tibet is undoubtedl…
▶ 52:55
Set C-130s that flew in the Far East belonged to the Air Force's 315th Air Division based in Korea and Okinawa. Their use was controlled by General Erskine's office in Washington. Clandestine work did consume Air Force resources, but not on…
▶ 32:59
Operation Coordination Board, the staff of General Graves Erskine, Assistant to the SecDef for Special Operations, prepared a plan. The concept provided for an international volunteer air group, almost like the Flying Tigers, that could be …
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and the International Security Affairs, which is another part of the SecDef staff. Not one person from the secretary, like the deputy that represented them all. Three different avenues that the CIA had to work with. Since the Truman period,…
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to whom the SecDep, Neil McElroy, had complete confidence. McElroy's successor, Thomas Gates Jr., in office in December 1959 and through the remainder of Ike's presidency, had been a Navy Reserve officer in Irojima in 1945. Graves Erskine h…
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routed, the Chinese lost 7,000 to 8,000 troops. Even today, it is not yet possible to provide a detailed analysis of the Washington's decision-making on Tibet. The records remain classified. Tibet remains buried in the lore of CIA as one of…
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Changes also occurred in the Pentagon. The Office of Special Operations transformed itself after the Bay of Pigs. Although the Office of Special Operations representatives, such as Ed Lansdale, had raised objections to the Cuba project, the…
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McNamara was told that he did not really need a special assistance for these matters. Suddenly, the day after the final defeat of the Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs, most of the Office of Special Operations personnel were reassigned to oth…
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On September 12th, Lansdale defined the terrain in a paper to the Joint Chiefs. And all service secretaries' routine matters could be handled by those already assigned to liaison between the military and the CIA. But anything requiring poli…
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but Vietnam and other conflicts. Quote, the military course of action apparently cannot be taken unilaterally. The problem becomes a philosophical one. If we are at war, cold or hot or otherwise, casualties and losses must be expected and p…
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So who was the government hiding it from? General Graves Erskine, Assistant Secretary of Defense under Eisenhower, wrote a memo to Walter Robinson at the State Department that sheds light on the official attitude. Quote, your attention is a…