Office of Strategic Influence organization
also: office of strategic intelligence, OSI, sio, SIO, special ops strategic operations staff
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Claims (12)
Allen Dulles worked_for
Office of Strategic Influence documented
document
“Between 1954 and 1956 Dulles hedged on the problem and was unwilling to press OSI's claims…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.67
Office of Strategic Influence member_of
Deputy Directorate for Intelligence documented
document
“ORR OSI OCI and ONE were the centers of DDI's intelligence analysis…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61
Office of Strategic Influence member_of
Directorate of Intelligence documented
document
“In 1955 there were 466 analysts in ORR 217 in OCT and 207 in OSI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.63
Office of Strategic Influence merged_with
Directorate of Science and Technology documented
document
“When DDS&Twas created in 1963 OSI became part of that Directorate…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.86
Lucien Conein member_of
Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted
“The White House hired Koenig as an expert on Corsican drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. He was assigned as a consultant to the SIO's Far East desk. His activities will be discussed more. Now, what's important about this is, remember, it w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 40:19
Henry Kissinger proposed
Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted
“Seeking a way to circumvent the CIA, they recommended the creation of a special ops strategic operations staff of their own. Basically, own CIA using a backdoor approach to gather intelligence. Those operations would rely on longer range, d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 35:18
CIA recruited
Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted
“file room, and computer system, the safe and still doors. The Whitting agents had to obtain CIA clearances, so they own the computer system. There's no computer system the CIA has ever owned that doesn't have a back door. See where we're go…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 36:18
Adrian Swain proposed
Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted
“Seeking a way to circumvent the CIA, they recommended the creation of a special ops strategic operations staff of their own. Basically, own CIA using a backdoor approach to gather intelligence. Those operations would rely on longer range, d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 35:18
Tom Tripati headed
Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted
“Everywhere there's drugs, Europe, Middle East, Far East, and Latin America. Tripati was assigned as chief of operations. He spent the previous six years in the CIA's security research service, where his duties included penetrating peace gro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 36:46
Marvin Warner headed
Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted
“for special operations three weeks later nixon declared a war on drugs at which point congress responded with funding these operations sio director warner was given a seat on the u.s intelligence board so they could get raw intelligence fro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 35:48
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted
“for special operations three weeks later nixon declared a war on drugs at which point congress responded with funding these operations sio director warner was given a seat on the u.s intelligence board so they could get raw intelligence fro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 35:48
SAIC front_for
Office of Strategic Influence book_quoted
“SAIC had been involved in the program to feed disinformation to foreign press on its behalf. You know, fake news.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 12 @ 31:16
Mentions (10)
▶ 30:17
It seems clear that SAIC was at the forefront of psychological warfare operations during the onset of the war on terror. In addition to the corporation's relentless propaganda blitz that linked Saddam Hussein to weapons of mass destruction,…
▶ 30:46
Its acronym is OSI, not to be confused with the Office of Special Investigations, OSI in the Air Force. This one's completely separate. This entity was set up within the Department of Defense in October of 2001 with a mandate to engage in p…
▶ 31:16
Before the OSI was shuttered in November of 2002, about a year later, SAIC had been involved in the program to feed disinformation to foreign press on its behalf. You know, fake news. It is possible that SAIC's work for the OSI never ended …
▶ 31:42
In 2003, the New York Times reported that SAIC had been awarded a $300,000 contract from the Pentagon to study how the Pentagon could design an effective strategic influencing campaign to affect the war on terror. This may have been a conti…
▶ 33:43
by harassing them with pro-US fake media by calling it free and independent. Given SAIC's role in promoting the false weapons of mass destruction narrative in the lead up to the US invasion of Iraq and its work on behalf of OSI and the Iraq…
▶ 26:07
E. Drexel Godfrey to review BNDD's intelligence procedures. Among other things, Godfrey recommended that the BNDD create regional intelligence units and an office of strategic intelligence. The regional offices were to be up and running wit…
▶ 26:36
intelligence units with suspicion. The major strategic intelligence office that they all reported to was harder to implement. Given its arcane function as a tool to help managers formulate plans and strategies, the chief director, John Warn…
▶ 27:59
Seeking a way to circumvent the CIA, they recommended the creation of a special operations or strategic operations staff that would function on its own outside the CIA. Those operations would rely on longer-range deep penetration clandestin…
▶ 28:26
Kissinger presented a $120 million drug control proposal, of which $50 million was earmarked for this special operations. Three weeks later, Nixon declared his war on drugs, at which point Congress responded with funding of the Strategic In…
▶ 32:02
on drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. He was assigned as a consultant on the Far East Asian desk of the BNDD's Strategic Intelligence Office. So he's the fox in the henhouse again. He is also the guy that gave the information to Nixon for …