- From the 1989 interview with Dave Ratcliffe
- The National Security Act of 1947
- The Creation of the National Security Council
- The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report
- Opening the Door to CIA Clandestine Operations: Shifting NSC Oversight from Directing to Approving Plans
- The Function of the Director of Central Intelligence: Coordinating Intelligence of the Government Intelligence Community
- Clandestine Operations: Out of Control If Not Directed by the National Security Council
- Four Categories of Military Personnel Employed by CIA
- Final Chapter in the History of War Making: Going From Offense to Defense
- The Threat of Nuclear Weapons: Making War Planning Obsolete
- Creating a Manichaean Devil to Justify Spending $6 Trillion for a Cold War
- Secret Team Foundations:Creation of the CIA Focal Point System Throughout The Government
- The Power of Indirection – Military Units Financed and Controlled by the CIA
- Secret Team Growth: Focal Point Personnel Assuming Broader Roles
- Obtaining Everything Money Can Buy:The CIA Act of 1949 and
Secretary of Defense Johnson’s paper on Covert Operations - Employing the System of Reimbursement To Fund Unaccountable Activities
- Post WWII War Plans–CIA Begins Amassing Its Own Stockpile of Military Equipment
- From the Chairman of the JCS On Down: “where the CIA was concerned
there were a lot of things no one seemed to know” - The Importance of the CIA’s Deputy Director of Support (DD/S) Side of the Agency by the Time of the Bay Of Pigs
- Congressional Non-Oversight of Agency Funding and Executive Branch Responsibility for CIA
- The Significance of the Sense of Infallibility Leaders of the Agency Felt Imbued With
- The ST Running A Government Of Reaction:Develop and Control
- All Secret Intelligence,And Brief The President On It Every Day
- Allen Dulles: Forging a Government of Reaction
- Dispersion of the OSO, Creation of the Office of SACSA
- DOD Adoption of a Counterinsurgency Role in the late Eisenhower Years
- NSAM 55 – JFK’s Attempt to Get CIA out of Clandestine Operations
- Chairman of the JCS: Exit Lyman Lemnitzer, Enter Maxwell Taylor
- Bay of Pigs Post-Mortem and the Dynamics of Personality: Allen Dulles, Maxwell Taylor, & RFK
- Bay of Pigs Report: Taylor’s Letter to the President & the Origin of NSAM 55-57
- Understanding the Military Assistance Program (MAP)
- The Little Red Book‘s Influence on General Stilwell and Lansdale
- MAP as a Sensor to React To
- MAP’s Ultimate Manifestation: Iran
- The Secret Team: Far Beyond the Capability of the CIA
- An Impossible Contradiction: Covert Operations Must Be Deniable
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