Project Brushfire operation
also: Project, Brushfire, brush fire
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CIAintelligence service · 4Dwight D. Eisenhowerperson · 3Maxwell D. Taylorperson · 2Tracy Barnesperson · 1James Crosbyperson · 1Max Millikanperson · 1Lyman Lemnitzerperson · 1Institute for Defense Analysesorganization · 1Joint Chiefs of Stafforganization · 1Center for Strategic and International Studiesorganization · 1
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Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered_assassination_of
Project Brushfire documented
“Brushfire became one of the series of research contracts the CIA gave to MIT, which it had originally funded. On his copy of an information memo regarding Brushfire, Eisenhower's Joint Chiefs Chairman commented, I think the answers are so p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 35:59
CIA funded
Project Brushfire documented
“one chief of staff resigned over it. With notable exceptions, other army generals also opposed Ike's new look. The CIA was the one shop with a common interest in the army's limited war capability. Paramilitary operations was limited war, po…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 34:56
James Critchfield wrote
Project Brushfire documented
“The letter commented on what Barnes had said about another CIA initiative, a study group on the deterrence of guerrilla warfare. Cross believed that officials already understood this problem. They had to be told how to make the most of asse…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 38:29
Mentions (7)
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As early as 1955, the CIA had commissioned a detailed study called Project Brushfire of the political, psychological, economic, sociological factors that led to peripheral wars, which are basically wars fought on the edges or paramilitary o…
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That's basically another CIA front. Under an economist called Max Milliken, he worked at MIT, another organization that strangely has CIA ties. Brushfire was one among a continuing series of contractors doing research reports for the CIA. O…
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one chief of staff resigned over it. With notable exceptions, other army generals also opposed Ike's new look. The CIA was the one shop with a common interest in the army's limited war capability. Paramilitary operations was limited war, po…
▶ 35:59
Brushfire became one of the series of research contracts the CIA gave to MIT, which it had originally funded. On his copy of an information memo regarding Brushfire, Eisenhower's Joint Chiefs Chairman commented, I think the answers are so p…
▶ 36:59
but its interests were scarily known outside the government while army officers trumpeted their opposition to downsizing. The most prominent army spokesperson was General Maxwell Taylor. Specifically, Taylor asserted that the strategy of ma…
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The general retired to write a book that advanced forces to meet the full spectrum of contingencies, including brush fire wars, as he called them. No doubt Tracy Barnes agonized over the Bay of Pigs, paid little attention when a letter cros…
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You know, both in CIA history and to some degree in the United Nations history. And again, just... We lost you. Yeah, we lost him. Take him down, Bridget, please, and bring him back up. Ron, go ahead. A couple things. You know, you said, wh…