Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board organization
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Claims (36)
J. Patrick Coyne member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board host_asserted
“background as well. He was both FBI and served in the National Security Council, which is where Gladio was ran out of for the U.S. He also was on the Intelligence Advisory Board from 1959 through 61, took a few months off, came back in 61 t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 3:42
Steven Feinberg appointed
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“of the Presidential's Intelligence Advisory Board, which I believe, if I'm not mistaken, is the role that Devin Nunes just took. Okay, so that's very interesting because that board is supposed to be like an independent view of what the CIA …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13 @ 32:47
Jean Kirkpatrick member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“By then, Jean Kirkpatrick had left the administration just to ensure the doctrine's author kept her hand in. Reagan appointed her to the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. Ambassador Kirkpatrick had once visited Tegu, explicitly link…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 23:09
John F. Kennedy appointed
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“what had now become the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, and he called it a watchdog group, specifically to head off congressional efforts to substitute a formal oversight mechanism. Failure at the Bay of Pigs led Kennedy to tighte…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 14:40
Jimmy Carter abolished
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“Probably not an oversight board. Two of the three members, though, former Ambassador Robert Murphy and Leo Schoen, came right out of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. Schoen, having been its most recent chairman, James Farmer ra…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 42:03
Leo Schoen headed
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“Probably not an oversight board. Two of the three members, though, former Ambassador Robert Murphy and Leo Schoen, came right out of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. Schoen, having been its most recent chairman, James Farmer ra…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 42:03
Richard Nixon reconstituted
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“The president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which Nixon reconstituted by executive order on March 20th, 1969, remained the sole alternative. Maxwell Taylor, its first chairman, was in declining health and left after about a year. H…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 21:24
Maxwell D. Taylor headed
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“The president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which Nixon reconstituted by executive order on March 20th, 1969, remained the sole alternative. Maxwell Taylor, its first chairman, was in declining health and left after about a year. H…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 21:24
Franklin Lincoln member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“because generals and admirals aren't supposed to be political. In the style of the Nixon White House, the Intelligence Advisory Board members had lawyer Franklin Lincoln, Los Angeles Times magnate Franklin Murphy, New York Governor Nelson R…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 21:53
Franklin Murphy member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“because generals and admirals aren't supposed to be political. In the style of the Nixon White House, the Intelligence Advisory Board members had lawyer Franklin Lincoln, Los Angeles Times magnate Franklin Murphy, New York Governor Nelson R…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 21:53
Nelson Rockefeller member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“because generals and admirals aren't supposed to be political. In the style of the Nixon White House, the Intelligence Advisory Board members had lawyer Franklin Lincoln, Los Angeles Times magnate Franklin Murphy, New York Governor Nelson R…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 21:53
Robert Murphy member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“and formal diplomat Robert Murphy. In the six years of Nixon's presidency, the board met with the president only eight times. Nixon sometimes convened smaller groups. The senior intelligence advisory board official recalls that the board ex…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 22:22
Ronald Reagan member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“He put his effort into writing alternative papers, exaggerating the threat. Staff thought Anderson's presence a bad influence. Later additions to the board included California Governor Ronald Reagan on the Presidential Intelligence Advisory…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 25:14
Edward Teller member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“He put his effort into writing alternative papers, exaggerating the threat. Staff thought Anderson's presence a bad influence. Later additions to the board included California Governor Ronald Reagan on the Presidential Intelligence Advisory…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 25:14
John Connally member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“He put his effort into writing alternative papers, exaggerating the threat. Staff thought Anderson's presence a bad influence. Later additions to the board included California Governor Ronald Reagan on the Presidential Intelligence Advisory…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 25:14
Alexander Haig member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“Henry Kissinger and General Alexander Haig usually sat in on the presidential intelligence advisory board's meeting with the president. Kissinger, or sometimes the board executive secretary, prepared information papers for Nixon before the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 26:37
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board studied
Turkey book_quoted
“Intelligence Advisory Board to assess the Russian-designed AK-47 assault rifle against the American M-16. Later tasks included examining the capability of the Soviet SA-7, a shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile, commenting on the U.S. sale …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 27:05
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board studied
Vietnam book_quoted
“Intelligence Advisory Board to assess the Russian-designed AK-47 assault rifle against the American M-16. Later tasks included examining the capability of the Soviet SA-7, a shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile, commenting on the U.S. sale …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 27:05
Richard Nixon asked
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“shipments through Cambodia. Sometimes Kissinger made the assignments, but he carefully emphasized that he was acting on behalf of the president each and every time. In June of 70, Nixon met the board opening with a long soliloquy of foreign…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 27:36
Jared Burke member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“focused on political issues. Board Executive Secretary Jared Burke accompanied the group on this trip. The National Security Agency officer with long service as chief of staff to General Marshall Carter and a good friend of Max Taylor's. Bu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 28:34
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board unaware_of
CIA book_quoted
“Gordon Gray studied drug use by American soldiers in Vietnam, yet the Presidential Advisory Board remained entirely unaware of the drug running by the U.S. CIA in Laos. A year later, Burke recalls the board never heard of and did not see th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 30:29
CIA covered_up
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“facilities without encountering the impact of the hunt for alleged Soviet moles that had been tearing apart the CIA for years. Gray's report contained no criticism whatsoever of Langley and its counter-spy, James Angleton, the operator behi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 34:08
Robert Murphy headed
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“After leaving the board, Robert Murphy chaired a presidential commission on the U.S. government and foreign relations. The commission's overview volume in its discussion of intelligence issues included remarks about the presidential advisor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 34:38
Nelson Rockefeller headed
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“the steady external and independent oversight of the performance of the foreign intelligence community as a whole, unquote. Nelson Rockefeller, who chaired another presidential commission in the mid-1970s, also reported that the board's rol…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 35:02
Nelson Rockefeller member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board guest_asserted
“Yeah, let me try it again. Go ahead, Illini. Did you have something you wanted to add? Hey, Colonel. Yeah, the reference to Rockefeller is fascinating. I think you mentioned that he worked on the Covert Oversight Committee. He was on the Pr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 56:22
Ronald Reagan ordered_assassination_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“on neutralization implying assassination stunned Americans. Congressman Edwin Boland denounced it in a storm of criticism disrupted during Reagan's re-election campaign. Reagan felt obliged to order immediate investigation by the Presidenti…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 38:06
William Bennett member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“Clifford, though he was not Helms' lawyer, actively lobbied the Justice Department to drop their investigation because he's afraid that it's going to show up his role in BCCI and the money laundering. Richard Bennett Williams, excuse me, Ed…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 32:42
Nelson Rockefeller member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“No one who makes this criticism notes Rockefeller's role on covert action at the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board or the political vulnerabilities hanging over the vice president as a consequence. Because again, many of the covert o…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 56:25
Robert Lovett member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board host_asserted
“In 1953, he goes back to Brown Brothers Harriman and spends three years this time in the private sector before Eisenhower persuades him to join the president's intelligence advisory board. That's a pretty key moment in time. 1956, what the …”
▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones with War Hamster Brady @ 42:30
Robert Lovett member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“And Alan Dulles was intimately involved in this. It dealt with the Atomic Energy Commission. So that's in light of what I'm saying. More light. Both rose out of the sparks thrown off by the panel report on covert operations entrusted to Rob…”
▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones with War Hamster Brady @ 48:39
Robert Lovett member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“Which is basically, yeah, just the unaccountable independent intel board who is accountable only to POTUS. You know, who sat on that first PIAB was Lovett. So let me explain something to everybody, because this is huge, what you just said. …”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 51:37
Richard Russell headed
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“Creating Operation Gladio with all of his counterparts over there. So just to put that in perspective. Now, that's good. It's very good stuff. So I got lost my notes for a second. So we're on the PIAB. The chairman of the PIAB is worth ment…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 53:00
William Crocker member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board host_asserted
“freaking thing that has to do with Gladio. Also, Admiral Crow was the former chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Crow is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the chairman of the New World Order Group…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 1:03:29
Nelson Rockefeller member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“Salvador Allende's party gained seats, leaving the Christian Democrat party very vulnerable. Hexter, no doubt, was further alarmed when Fry reopened the terms of the trade with U.S. copper companies, settled two years earlier. Fry also canc…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 51:38
William Casey member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“and was part of the presidential's intelligence advisory board for Ford. And Casey basically had no ability to speak in public. And as a result of that, it was considered like his big limiting factor in his functionary duty as the chief of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 36:56
Ronald Reagan reestablished
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“to authorize the actions at the policy level, and to approve CIA budgets via the O&M. Reagan improved the climate within the executive branch for covert action by reestablishing the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board that Carter had d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 43:20
Mentions (86)
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freaking thing that has to do with Gladio. Also, Admiral Crow was the former chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Crow is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the chairman of the New World Order Group…
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Eisenhower's role specifically focused on Latin America. Excellent. Who else gets appointed? Well, this friendly Eisenhower, cowboy-backed administration. Oh, remember my good friend Lovett? He became the Secretary of Defense under Eisenhow…
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Which is basically, yeah, just the unaccountable independent intel board who is accountable only to POTUS. You know, who sat on that first PIAB was Lovett. So let me explain something to everybody, because this is huge, what you just said. …
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Creating Operation Gladio with all of his counterparts over there. So just to put that in perspective. Now, that's good. It's very good stuff. So I got lost my notes for a second. So we're on the PIAB. The chairman of the PIAB is worth ment…
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Clifford, though he was not Helms' lawyer, actively lobbied the Justice Department to drop their investigation because he's afraid that it's going to show up his role in BCCI and the money laundering. Richard Bennett Williams, excuse me, Ed…
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That sounds like a conflict of interest, doesn't it? He's on the intelligence board and he's representing somebody. Whoa. Williams regarded the Washington. He was regarded as one of the Washington's premier lawyer and was angered when Carte…
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In 1953, he goes back to Brown Brothers Harriman and spends three years this time in the private sector before Eisenhower persuades him to join the president's intelligence advisory board. That's a pretty key moment in time. 1956, what the …
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And Alan Dulles was intimately involved in this. It dealt with the Atomic Energy Commission. So that's in light of what I'm saying. More light. Both rose out of the sparks thrown off by the panel report on covert operations entrusted to Rob…
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Between North's office and Casey's were the Intelligence Oversight Board and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. That is where North first began running into Bill Casey. Some of his colleagues said it was deliberate. Unifor…
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and was part of the presidential's intelligence advisory board for Ford. And Casey basically had no ability to speak in public. And as a result of that, it was considered like his big limiting factor in his functionary duty as the chief of …
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to authorize the actions at the policy level, and to approve CIA budgets via the O&M. Reagan improved the climate within the executive branch for covert action by reestablishing the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board that Carter had d…
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but the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the prominent civilian group to which Clark Clifford and Gordon Gray were soon appointed. And you guys remember who Clark Clifford is? Clark Clifford is the guy that goes on to facili…
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a PBCFIA, which was a citizen oversight group later known as the President's Foreign Intelligence Agency Board. And by the way, the only people that get assigned to that are the oligarchs that the CIA is operating on behalf of, just FYI. Sh…
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because we now know that the CIA has them all compromised. Despite the more formal structure, this arrangement could not be called oversight. The intelligence community had no responsibility to cooperate with the presidential oversight boar…
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work behind the scenes to preserve the status quo. As early as the fall of 65, a presidential directive reaffirmed the role of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board had been prepared, which McGeorge Bundy put it, we plan to use as ap…
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Precisely because the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board was being given material that had been denied Congress. Interestingly enough, excuse me, I got a sneeze. All right. Remember the guy that I was talking about yesterday, Walt Rus…
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Okay, there's nothing about this that's democratic. We've messed with everything. The appearance of democratic processes. On July 25th, CIA Director John McComb saw the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board for a general review of…
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along with political warfare and covert actions like the riots. Guyana is under attack by the CIA. By April 1963, Jagen's financial distress had become so serious that he wrote to Kennedy asking about USAID. On April 15th, Cord Meyer, who w…
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deny any assistance coming into Jagan, even though they were basically arranging economic boycotts. June 21st, President Kennedy reviewed the state of play. John McComb and Richard Helms attended for the CIA, and Helms took notes. According…
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background as well. He was both FBI and served in the National Security Council, which is where Gladio was ran out of for the U.S. He also was on the Intelligence Advisory Board from 1959 through 61, took a few months off, came back in 61 t…
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So the Presidential Intelligence Board submitted many recommendations in 1961, some of them on covert operations from the board's own Bay of Pigs post-mortem. Among these were advice that the CIA increase its intelligence work and de-emphas…
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low potential programs, consider moving covert operations outside of the activity, and consider relocating the Directorate of Operations even outside of Washington, D.C. Oh, maybe New York. Yeah, let's put covert operations in Wall Street. …
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problem on covert operations with the president's foreign intelligence advisory board. The day after the Bay of Pigs, the president instructed the board to monitor every aspect more closely. Allen Dulles had begun swinging the back door, te…
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problem on covert operations with the president's foreign intelligence advisory board. The day after the Bay of Pigs, the president instructed the board to monitor every aspect more closely. Allen Dulles had begun swinging the back door, te…
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primarily overseas, but not exclusively. Cord Meyer, who had a tin ear for politics and intelligence, regarded what happened as an act of unilateral political disarmament. The truth is that Radio Free Europe link had already begun to fray. …
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Toward the end of 68, the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board urged LBJ to push for congressional support of one or more publicly funded institutions that would take care of the radios. The crunch came in 69 when funds were depleted. T…
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ever formally considering the expenditure. The case proposal provided $30 million in 72 and temporary policy guidance from the State Department until the board became established. Hearings before the Fulbright Senate Foreign Relations Commi…
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what had now become the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, and he called it a watchdog group, specifically to head off congressional efforts to substitute a formal oversight mechanism. Failure at the Bay of Pigs led Kennedy to tighte…
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the NSC staffer on intelligence, Peter Jessup. McPherson asked Johnson to stay out of the matter. Although advised to still clear, LBJ, like Eisenhower, worked behind the scenes for the status quo. As early as the fall of 65, a presidential…
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put it, quote, we plan to use as appropriate with congressional leaders when there is any question about our effective supervision of the Intelligence Committee, unquote, which means never. The paper proved useless when the issue actually a…
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thus remained entirely in the hands of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, the civilians. Clark Clifford's panel concerned itself primarily with efficiency, not legality. Many of its inquiries during LBJ's last years concerned air…
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could involve itself in the details of the project, and 303 engaged Amory in a protracted negotiation. But the budget was LBJ's budget traffic cop, and this exchange could only end in one way. White House matters arose time and again for th…
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have already been recounted. In the summer of 68, the Presidential Advisory Board asked what the 303 procedures prevented it from simply being a rubber stamp. Clearly, the board aimed to discover how well the 303 reviewed the projects, what…
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14 in Asia, and two in the Middle East. The 303 rejected just six. According to the 303 memo to the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, the Middle East projects followed from the Six-Day War, whose aftermath precluded the political ac…
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The president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which Nixon reconstituted by executive order on March 20th, 1969, remained the sole alternative. Maxwell Taylor, its first chairman, was in declining health and left after about a year. H…
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because generals and admirals aren't supposed to be political. In the style of the Nixon White House, the Intelligence Advisory Board members had lawyer Franklin Lincoln, Los Angeles Times magnate Franklin Murphy, New York Governor Nelson R…
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and formal diplomat Robert Murphy. In the six years of Nixon's presidency, the board met with the president only eight times. Nixon sometimes convened smaller groups. The senior intelligence advisory board official recalls that the board ex…
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The National Security Council staffer of the period observed that in her experience in two and a half years across the hall, she never saw the door open to that office ever. The board retained some dedicated members, in particular Gordon Gr…
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gray-headed a small subcommittee on clandestine collections. Baker and Land continued to focus on technical issues. Possibly the Intelligence Advisory Board's greatest achievement during that period came in their area where Baker and Land f…
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Governor Rockefeller headed the subcommittee on covert operations, which I find absolutely fascinating. A Rockefeller in charge of covert operations. Technically, they've been in charge of them the entire time because we did an awful lot of…
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He put his effort into writing alternative papers, exaggerating the threat. Staff thought Anderson's presence a bad influence. Later additions to the board included California Governor Ronald Reagan on the Presidential Intelligence Advisory…
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but held in contempt by Baker and Land. Texas Governor John Connolly, who propelled the Intelligence Advisory Board into its first ever study of economic intelligence collection. He had a very important influence on President Nixon, because…
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Richard Helms dealt straightforwardly with the board. Typically, the intelligence advisory board staff would tell Helms before a board session about the nature of the meeting, and the CIA director would come prepared to talk about the subje…
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Henry Kissinger and General Alexander Haig usually sat in on the presidential intelligence advisory board's meeting with the president. Kissinger, or sometimes the board executive secretary, prepared information papers for Nixon before the …
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Intelligence Advisory Board to assess the Russian-designed AK-47 assault rifle against the American M-16. Later tasks included examining the capability of the Soviet SA-7, a shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile, commenting on the U.S. sale …
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shipments through Cambodia. Sometimes Kissinger made the assignments, but he carefully emphasized that he was acting on behalf of the president each and every time. In June of 70, Nixon met the board opening with a long soliloquy of foreign…
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focused on political issues. Board Executive Secretary Jared Burke accompanied the group on this trip. The National Security Agency officer with long service as chief of staff to General Marshall Carter and a good friend of Max Taylor's. Bu…
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whom he then replaced. Burke's experience had been in the missile intelligence field, and his initial purpose was to give the board depth on its estimates for Soviets. Now Burke was pulled into everything. For a time, he felt like he was vi…
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Burke sat by the window as board members talked in Cambodia, and he took notes when they spoke to Sovana Foma in Laos. They visited Long Tien and Vang Pao's Hmong Army. Enormously impressed that a war directed by so few CIA field hands seem…
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Gordon Gray studied drug use by American soldiers in Vietnam, yet the Presidential Advisory Board remained entirely unaware of the drug running by the U.S. CIA in Laos. A year later, Burke recalls the board never heard of and did not see th…
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The talking points that Kissinger prepared when the intelligence board group returned indicated that the White House was interested. Nixon, aside from Vietnam, should ask whether Long Nol really commanded or if he reflected the confidence o…
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unquote. Clearly, Nixon's intent here had been to use the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board to fill out Suharto's willingness to engage more deeply as a surrogate for the U.S. in Cambodia. Well, he owes the entire presence of him bei…
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more traditional role. Nixon apologized for not meeting with them more frequently. Their conversation touched on the Soviet estimates, on net assessment, on overhead reconnaissance, human intelligence collection, and the economic intelligen…
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At this very moment, Nixon had resumed pressing the CIA for covert action against Hanoi while the agency had moved into high gear with a paramilitary initiative with the Kurds in Iraq. Any potential for the advisory board might have had as …
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Kissinger himself asked the advisory board to examine the situation in Chile, where Salvador Allende had just been elected president, to see whether the CIA had failed to propose measures that might have prevented this. Huh. Well, they sure…
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Yet Kissinger then refused the board access to the 40 committee minutes and the NSC's records that would have shown that the covert actions were approved and carried out. So how are you going to review something if you're not allowed to see…
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facilities without encountering the impact of the hunt for alleged Soviet moles that had been tearing apart the CIA for years. Gray's report contained no criticism whatsoever of Langley and its counter-spy, James Angleton, the operator behi…
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After leaving the board, Robert Murphy chaired a presidential commission on the U.S. government and foreign relations. The commission's overview volume in its discussion of intelligence issues included remarks about the presidential advisor…
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Yeah, let me try it again. Go ahead, Illini. Did you have something you wanted to add? Hey, Colonel. Yeah, the reference to Rockefeller is fascinating. I think you mentioned that he worked on the Covert Oversight Committee. He was on the Pr…
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But then if you couple that with some potential links to the director of operations, I think it gets interesting. So it says, Governor Rockefeller headed the subcommittee of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board on covert operations.…
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Salvador Allende's party gained seats, leaving the Christian Democrat party very vulnerable. Hexter, no doubt, was further alarmed when Fry reopened the terms of the trade with U.S. copper companies, settled two years earlier. Fry also canc…
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of a foreign country called Chile. Now, what's interesting about this is the kind of disconnect between, okay, the CIA is directly talking to the ITT guy. On the other side of the White House, you have the Presidential Foreign Intelligence …
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Probably not an oversight board. Two of the three members, though, former Ambassador Robert Murphy and Leo Schoen, came right out of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. Schoen, having been its most recent chairman, James Farmer ra…
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Probably not an oversight board. Two of the three members, though, former Ambassador Robert Murphy and Leo Schoen, came right out of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. Schoen, having been its most recent chairman, James Farmer ra…
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Especially by Afghanistan, the CIA's budget for covert operations surpassed its spending for espionage clandestine collections for the first time in history. Within the executive branch, President Reagan worked to improve climate for covert…
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Albert Whelan and airline magnate Robert Six. In this administration, the board was highly restricted. When the White House debated where to put it and how to fund it, the decision was to locate the board in its old offices on the fourth fl…
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with its minuscule $5 million budget, would be more than an order of magnitude ahead of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. There is no evidence of efforts to play watchdog. The advisors reviewed the great spy cases of the day, th…
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that the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board was there because they just don't take minutes. William Casey encouraged President Reagan to change out several people in 1985. And it was focused at anybody that didn't agree to the operati…
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on neutralization implying assassination stunned Americans. Congressman Edwin Boland denounced it in a storm of criticism disrupted during Reagan's re-election campaign. Reagan felt obliged to order immediate investigation by the Presidenti…
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By then, Jean Kirkpatrick had left the administration just to ensure the doctrine's author kept her hand in. Reagan appointed her to the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. Ambassador Kirkpatrick had once visited Tegu, explicitly link…
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He got an intelligence star. That's just crazy. The Senate Armed Service Committee and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board both decided after study that the intelligence support to Somalia had been as good as could be expect…
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Anthony Lake later said, not only in perception of the U.S. abroad, but in our confidence at home. Lake recalls the battle as the worst moment of the first term of Clinton's presidency. All three used the image of the Bay of Pigs. It had no…
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The first Bush had left the board alone for a year, then cut it back because Bush didn't need it. He's Mr. CIA himself. He just does everything. He doesn't need a National Security Council. He doesn't need a special group. He doesn't need a…
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As it could. Don't want to put anything in writing. President Clinton retained most of the institutions, appointing Admiral William Crowe, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to lead the Presidential Foreign Intelligence Advisor…
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after she failed to attain a post as the Attorney General. On the other hand, Clinton's Intelligence Advisory Board actually met and had an agenda. Its post-mortem on the Mogadishu disaster has already been noted. Somalia brought more chang…
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Then put them on the board, the presidential advisory board, the same one that's supposed to approve special operations and covert actions. Yeah, you really suck at it, but here, do it again. Admiral Crowe went to London as U.S. ambassador.…
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Aspen had no intention of slowing down. Instead, he wanted to make the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board the center of things to come, which is what you do when you totally screw up something. Do more of it. The Health Intelligence C…
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But Les Aspin used the Somalia disaster to press Clinton for either a presidential intelligence advisory board study or a presidential commission made up entirely of its own board members. So let us look at ourselves because I'm not going a…
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He rejected the Intelligence Advisory Board study and did nothing until Warner provided a presidential commission in the bill authorizing the CIA budget. So do it or you get no money. The administration opposed this too until Aspen offered …
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And again, it's plausible deniability. So when something goes down, they just all point fingers at each other. He mentions the Intelligence Oversight Board. He mentions the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. All of them specif…
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So Feinberg, who worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert with Leon Black, owns Blackwater via Constellus, and his former Drexel buddy owns DynCorp, which is supposedly a competitor. But they're very good friends. So after a year of speculation of …
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of the Presidential's Intelligence Advisory Board, which I believe, if I'm not mistaken, is the role that Devin Nunes just took. Okay, so that's very interesting because that board is supposed to be like an independent view of what the CIA …
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stands to make billions of dollars off of covert operations, how independent will that guy be? I think that's odd. So in the 1970s, the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board had played a big role. And by 1976, six of the 16 members…
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That said, that had close ties to the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board by the name of Netscape Communications that was founded by James Barksdale, Admiral David Jeremiah and Joan Dempsey. Dempsey was a CIA veteran who became vice pr…
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but he demonstrated integrity as an IG, recommending that the CIA employees who were responsible for the 1953 death of MKUltra victim Frank Olson be punished, although they never were. Kirkpatrick also went on the record within the agency a…
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Rockefeller asked whether Colby ought to be telling so much as if the CIA did not have an obligation to fully inform a presidential commission and as if the commission had no legal responsibility to conduct an actual inquiry. Indeed, it had…