- Understanding The Secret Team
- The National Security Act of 1947
- President Truman abolished the OSS, created the National Intelligence Group
- A new branch of the service: the Air Force, a single Department of Defense
- Intelligence … wasn’t coordinated, new ways of gathering intelligence
- CIA is created to coordinate the intelligence of the rest of the government
- An atom bomb … has no real value until it’s been delivered
- We were made a defensive nation by the Department of Defense
- OSS members, well-trained in covert work, came into CIA
- OPC (Office of Policy Coordination), was to preserve certain assets
- The creation of the National Security Council
- President, Vice-President, Secretaries of State and Defense, no others
- Directive “10-slant-2” (10/2) recognized … covert action
- In 1948, the Allen Dulles, William Jackson, Mathias Correa Report
- Dulles … saw that report as, you might say, his own Mein Kampf
- The single primary character of the CIA is Allen Dulles
- There is no law that says it is a covert operations agency
- President Truman wrote, greatest mistake, to create the CIA
- Shifting NSC oversight from directing to approving plans
- OCB was the Operations Coordinating Board, a part of NSC
- OPC was the residual OSS organization, from World War II
- Dulles was able to circumvent the law, to have clandestine capability
- NSC found itself, approving reactive covert operations
- Gulf of Tonkin, North Vietnamese, had been provoked, they did not initiate
- Deputy Director Plans, just our euphemism for covert operations
- His brother, Secretary of State, the dominant vote in the NSC
- Only one, NSC had directed the CIA to involve itself in Tibet
- The intelligence community, was not homogenous
- Futile to try to enforce the law, on either Defense or CIA or State
- There exists a Secret Team that is out of control
- Covert operations in Customs, Treasury, even in FAA
- It’s not CIA all the time, they say it was the CIA
- Experienced military intelligence officers, work with the CIA
- Military officers … say pilots … will be assigned to CIA
- Reserve military, employed as civilians by CIA, called to active duty
- CIA men, call him Commander Jones, he works for CIA
- All of a sudden went into this guise of defense
- General Westmoreland, had no place to go in Vietnam and win the war
- General Krulak, devised a war plan, to march on Hanoi, and end the war
- Offense is the core of war, the antithesis of, a Department of Defense
- They are unable to assimilate, nuclear weapons into war planning
- We can still go on the offense, we are doing it economically
- Evolution of warfare, ended with the explosion of the hydrogen bomb
- CIA could promote, counterinsurgency or covert operations
- We had to create this Manichaean devil so we created Communism
- Then you can justify having a navy, air force, and an enormous army
- I was, “to provide military support of clandestine operations of the CIA”
- National Security Council Directive #5412 of March 15, 1954
- Dulles said, “I want an office that has access to a system in the Pentagon”
- That agency might not even know that employee was our man
- Colonel Lansdale, a full colonel in the Air Force, that was his cover story
- A member of the office of the Secretary of Defense, his home is really CIA
- We bought hundreds of airplanes for the CIA, technically for the Air Force
- Millions and millions of dollars, never went through Air Force procurement
- Units in the Army that were supporting CIA, there were 605
- A lot of these people worked right up into the White House
- Eisenhower, did not want the CIA to create a capability that was on-going
- The secret of covert operations is the control of money
- Reimbursement is very important, it keeps bills from appearing in public
- Reimbursement, can be used, without explaining that it was for salaries
- Congress, allocate a bulk sum and then just sit back
- An awful lot of potential for money to be handled without an accounting
- CIA considered as a fourth force, Army, Navy, Air Force, and CIA
- 234 Provisional Support Group, CIA people in military uniforms
- The agency was able, to create quite a well-equipped military force
- Generals Lemnitzer and Shoup, never knew they were part of a covert operation
- “I want 2,008 missiles”, you have to have the authority
- CIA, used an Air Force unit, without raising any eyebrows at all
- All covert operations require foreign alliances
- The Bay of Pigs, thirteen hundred troops, is not covert
- They didn’t ask for airplanes, rifles, trucks, they already had all that
- President Eisenhower never, never authorized an invasion of Cuba
- The Agency told us, that their target would be an invasion of Cuba
- The plan was to wipe out all Castro’s combat aircraft
- To control the CIA we created an organization called the NSC
- “I don’t need to know about that, Colonel. What I don’t know …”
- To really understand CIA, the world is all just one big chess board
- Dick Helms was a very effective person in charge of covert operations
- The Agency has been given, the early morning presentation to the President
- That briefing, during the day, that becomes their agenda
- Intelligence, began to lead the Government every single day
- Dulles went to Paris with the Wilson peace conference group after WW I
- John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulle, Sullivan & Cromwell
- John Foster Dulles, principal spokesman for the World Council of Churches
- Allen Dulles, who is a missionary, a diplomat, a financier, a lawyer
- The government itself was becoming a government of reaction
- Kennedy was making moves to rid the government of this reactive motivation
- Kennedy, planned moves that would set the course of our history for years
- Set up Special Operations under the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- SACSA, the Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities
- Deception is an extremely important function, rarely talked about
- The shift from Eisenhower to Kennedy, was most unexpected
- Kennedy asked General Taylor to review the Bay of Pigs
- This Taylor/Burke/Dulles/Kennedy report, was NSAM No. 55, 56, and 57
- “You are my advisor in peacetime as you would be in wartime”
- Not going to depend on Allen Dulles and the CIA
- In fact it may have caused a major move toward that deadly decision
- Kennedy put JCS in charge of Cold War activities, removed CIA from the scene
- Maxwell Taylor was not the right man to do that.
- Kennedy’s years of Congressional experience, paid off in a big way for him
- Member of the House and of the Senate, had grown up in the Court of St. James
- Allen Dulles was becoming effective indoctrinating Bobby and Maxwell Taylor
- NSAM 55 had been extracted, practically verbatim, out of the Taylor/Dulles report
- “That little son-of-a-bitch Bobby was there all the time”
- Lansdale was assigned to Vietnam as Chief of CIA’s Saigon Military Mission
- Stabilize any other country, the strengthening of its army
- They were all reading Mao Tse-tung’s Little Red Book
- The army was a school of fish living in the water and the water was the people
- US military out in all these countries as Military Assistance Program people
- We moved into Iran after 1949 in large numbers
- Richard Helms, former Director of Central Intelligence, Ambassador to Iran
- People in Iran who are in power have access to the people that we’ve trained
- Allende was elected by the people and then he was killed by Pinochet
- The Kennedy administration began to stop some of these activities
- These activities don’t take place within the CIA alone, this is the Secret Team
- “All of a sudden, people from the Pentagon are calling me buying sugar stock”
- Leave room for the U.S. government to plausibly disclaim its role
- They asked me for 42,000 rifles, that was not covert
- What you are really doing is denying the sovereignty of another nation
- Everyone except the American people knew … about these things
- We live in a one-world financial communications sphere
- In the United States, we have had the advantage in economic power
- What we’re going to do … is move into the energy and food eras
- The big war will be over the energy supplies, transport and food suppliesFor more www.proutypedia.com or prouty.org
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