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A Family Affair (Denning), 219

Abrams, Creighton W., 4, 114, 173

Adams, John Quincy, 232

Aeronautics (Prouty), 32

AIDS, 115

Air America, 54, 69, 70, 80, 134, 139, 144, 154

Air Force

Air Communications and Resupply (ARC) wings transported Special Forces, 52

establishment of ROTC, 1946, 31

Alexander, Sir Harold, 9

Allende, Salvador, 186

Arab oil embargo, 234-238

Aramco, 12, 37

Army Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC), 21-22

Army intelligence, 107

Artime, Manuel, 147

Arundel, Arthur, 180

Astor, Jacob, 232

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 120



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B-1 (bomber), 192

B-17 (bomber), 23

B-2 ("stealth" bomber), 121, 192

B-26 (bomber), 54, 59, 61, 62, 63, 65, 68, 144, 147

B-29 (bomber), 15, 16

B-50 (bomber), 52

Bay of Pigs, 61-63, 68, 97, 144-148, 165, 167, 186-188

"Zapata" was code name for, 60

1959-1960: from over-the-beach work to invasion, 55-59

Allen Dulles in Puerto Rico during, 62

CIA built air base near Retalhuleu, Guatemala to prepare for, 145

Cuban Study Group post-mortem, 63-66

Adlai Stevenson telling McGeorge Bundy "No more air attacks", 64, 66

Allen Dulles worked up witness list for, 175

Maxwell Taylor's "Letter To The President", 63, 169-170, 176-177

published as Operation Zapata (Luis Aguilar, editor), 1984, 66, 67

McGeorge Bundy canceled final air strike, 63-65, 66

General Cabell's involvment in final air strike cancellation, 62-63, 65

Kennedy first briefed by Dulles and Bissell after 1960 election, 146

lameduck CIA gamesmanship -- described plan as "invasion", 57

Kennedy knew Cuban leaders in August, 1960, 146-147

Marine Colonel Jack Hawkins did tactical planning, 59, 60, 65, 147

Pentagon people buying sugar stock prior to invasion, 187

Bissell, Richard, 146, 172

Blowback, 20

Boeing Company, 201-202

Bohanon, Charles, 38, 180

Bowell, John -- founder of Navy Seal team concept, 172

Bradley, Omar, 7, 9, 10, 93

Braun, Werner Von, 32-34

Bretton Woods Conference, 17

British East India Trade Company, 219

British Society of Psychic Research, 228, 246

Buckley, William F., 31

Bundy, McGeorge, 125, 177

involvment in Bay of Pigs, 63-65, 66

Bundy, William, 64, 67, 125

Burke, Arleigh

Bay of Pigs post-mortem involvment in, 63, 64, 169, 175, 176, 177

Bush, George, 31, 153, 158, 169

involvment in Iran-Contra, 87, 109, 110, 142



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C-119 (transport, "flying boxcars"), 38

C-122 (transport), 137

C-123 (transport), 54, 68, 137

C-130 (transport), 189

C-46 (transport), 145

C-47 ("Gooney Bird"), 8

C-54 (transport), 54, 139, 144

Cabell, Charles P., 172

involvment in Bay of Pigs, 62, 63, 65

Cabot, Bruce, 22

Cairo Conference, 13

Califano, Joseph, 129

Casey, William, 155

Castro, Fidel, 144, 145

control of Cuba, 55-56

Catherine the Great, 232

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 37

"where the CIA was concerned there were a lot of things no one seemed to know", 137-143

Air America, 54, 69, 70, 80

Allen Dulles

primary character and creator of the CIA, 99

and Office of Special Operations, 79

as "fourth-force" of U.S. military, 52-53, 135-137

amassed a great deal of military equipment, 53-55

major combat force by 1960-61, 148

treated as part of military budget, 135-137

as Special Forces involved in post-nuclear exchange, 52

Atsugi Air Base, 29

CIA Act of 1949, 131-133

created in the mindset of the later 1940s, 100

created to coordinate government intelligence, 93

Deputy Director of Administration (DDA), 162

abolished by Allen Dulles, 162

Deputy Director of Intelligence (DDI), 162

Deputy Director of Plans (DDP), 104, 162

euphemism for covert operations, 105

Deputy Director of Support (DDS), 143-144, 154, 162

L. K. "Red" White, 154

developed community of "stateless people" called "mechanics" (hit men), 49

dual records for military personnel employed by, 111

Focal Point

"breeding", 123

Dulles philosophy: control focal point area, 123

See Also Prouty, L. Fletcher

Focal Point Office

Tab-6 organization, 46, 123, 132

when the office was created, 122

four categories of military personnel employed by, 110-112

funding; the Agency budget

able to do all it is "funded to do", 109

Congressional non-oversight of agency funding and NSC responsility for, 148-151

employing the system of reimbursement, 80, 132, 133-135, 139-141

fourth force treated as part of military budget, 135-137

how CIA was an outgrowth of National Security Act of 1947, 91-99

initially, a roll-over of WWII, militarily trained people, 95

it is a coordinating agency, 99

its best cover story is that it's an intelligence organization, 153

meaning of "notionally", 103

no law that says is an intelligence organization, 99

no law that says it is a covert operations organization, 99, 177

origins, 92

OSS residual members and capability rolled into the agency, 95

Saigon Military Mission, 180-181

Special Forces role in post-nuclear exchange, 136

Suydam, CIA street name account, 134

The Farm, the Agency's training camp in Virginia, 60

Vietnam

operating command for military forces from 1945 to 1965, 53, 68-70

Chase Aircraft, 137

Chennault, Claire L., 17

Chiang Kai-shek, 16

at Cairo Conference, 13

at Teheran Conference, 15, 17

Christic Institute, 83

Churchill, Winston, 28

"High Cabal", 203, 220

story of Churchill using the term during WWII, 219-220

at Cairo Conference, 13

at Teheran Conference, 14-15, 17

Iron Curtain speech in Missouri, 94

Civil Air Transport (CAT) Airline, 38

clandestine operations

See Special Operations

Clauswitz, Karl Von, 114

Clifford, Clark, 94

Cline, Ray, 152

Colby, William, 153

Colson, Charles, 74

Columbus, Christopher, 228

Communism

"us" and "them", 120

Conein, Lucien, 30, 180

Correa, Mathias, 98, 104

counterinsurgency, 106, 118

Bay of Pigs review moved JFK closer to doctrine of, 169

developed from the Special Forces, 167

DOD adoption of in late Eisenhower years, 168-169

move by military to get into area of CIA activity, 167

Cover and Deception, 166-167

covert action

See Special Operations

covert operations

See Special Operations

Craft of Intelligence, The (Dulles), 85, 153

Cryptocracy, 219

Cuban Missile Crisis, 187



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Dallas Morning News

printing erroneous parade map route, 208-209

Darwin, Charles, 228, 229

The Origin of Species, 226

Dayan, Moshe, 47

de Varona, Manuel A., 147

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

establishment of, 70, 85, 165

Office of Special Operations was key to development of, 79

Department of Defense

change at the top from Eisenhower to Kennedy, 67

new distinction between "offense" and "defense", 92-93

Office of the Secretary

Deputy of Defense for Research and Engineering (DDR&E), 165

International Security Agency (ISA), 165

Senior WWII officers averse to this new term, 92

the enormous mistake made in calling this military the Department of Defense, 95, 112-115

Department of Treasury, 134, 156

working with Office of Special Operations, 79, 110, 123

DeSilva, Pier, 152

Dewey, Thomas E., 98

Allen Dulles' speech writer in 1948 election, 98

Diem, Ngo Dinh, 57, 82, 112, 180, 181, 213

murder of, 73-74

Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), 133, 157, 159

Bush, George

first DCI to ever be President, 158

Casey, William, 155

Colby, William, 153

Dulles, Allen, 99, 153, 155

abolished Deputy Director of Administration (DDA), 162

Fitzgerald Desmond, 153

function of the, 106-108

Helms Richard, 153

McCone, John

replaced Allen Dulles as DCI, 172

not part of the NSC, 97

Raborn, William F., Jr., 153

signature authority to spend classified budget, 133

Smith, Walter Bedell, 95-96, 157, 163

started the pre-briefings, 163

sole chief of intelligence community, 108

Donovan, William, 155

Dornberger, Walter, 32, 33-34

Douglas, James, 168

Drucker, Peter

The End of Economic Man, 230-231

Dulles, Allen, 131, 153, 155, 232

appointed DDP in 1950, 95

Bay of Pigs

involvment in, 146, 147

post-mortem involvment in, 169, 175, 176

indoctrination of Maxwell Taylor and Robert Kennedy, 174, 175-176

worked up the witness list, 175

Bay of Pigs post-mortem involvment in, 63, 64-65

creating a bi-polar world with no neutrals, 162

forging a government of reaction, 160-164

setting up global set of inputs to react to, 105, 106

in WWII, 21

member of Sullivan and Cromwell, 98

philosophy on creation and control of focal point area/office, 123

senior direcotr of Sullivan & Cromwell, 160

subverting NSC watchdog role, 101-102, 104-105

the mind of this man, 98, 160-162

understood The Craft of Intelligence, 85, 153

when he became DCI, 99, 104

Dulles, Eleanor, 232

Dulles, Foster Rhea

The Road To Teheran, 232-234

Dulles, John Foster, 232

and Suez Crisis of 1956, 47-48

dominant vote in the NSC, 105

involvment with World Council of Churches, 161

senior direcotr of Sullivan & Cromwell, 160

when he became Secretary of State, 99

Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report, 130, 148, 171

Allen Dulles' Mein Kampf, 98, 148, 176

method of placing CIA agents throughout the government, 122

recommended getting into clandestine operations, 98

Truman's selection of to study the CIA, 161



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East India Trading Companies

development of, 223-225

emblem and American flag, 229

Haileybury College, Malthus, and Darwin, 225-229

psychic research, mind control, 228-229

Economy Act of 1932, 43, 44, 45

used in Iran-Contra, 80, 82

very secret money channel established for covert operations, 80, 82

Edgerton Germeshausen and Grier (EG&G), 141

Einhoven, Alan, 67

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 102, 116, 163, 165, 169, 174

adamant about CIA logistical support on a "one time only" basis, 130, 137

as General, intelligence not always coordinated in European Theater, 93

Bay of Pigs

approval of early actions that led to, 55, 144, 145

never authorized an invasion of Cuba, 55-56, 146

when he became President, 99

End of Economic Man, The (Drucker), 230-231

Erskine, Graves B., 43, 57, 85, 129, 166, 213

retired after study establishing DIA was approved, 165

afterwards Office of Special Operations was abolished, 70, 88

was Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Special Operations, 77

wrote study establishing Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 70, 165



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F-51 (jet fighter), 53, 54

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 79, 111, 128, 131

working with Office of Special Operations, 110, 123

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 106, 123, 124

Fitzgerald, Desmond, 153, 154

Flynn, Errol, 22

Focal Point Office

See Central Intelligence Agency

Forrestal, James, 164

Freedom, 219

Fuller, R. Buckminster, 219, 246

"Power Elite", 220

most valuable asset is anonymity, 221



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Garrison, James

On the Trail of the Assassins

newspaper parade map route altered, 208-209

Gehlen, Reinhard, 21, 52

General Dynamics Company, 201-202

genocide, 116

Gesell, Gerhard, 81

Gilpatric, Roswell, 202

McNamara's Deputy Secretary of Defense, 166

Gold Key Club, 204

Goldberg, Arthur, 201

Great Conspiracy, The, (Kahn), 233

Green Berets, 167, 172, 213

antecedent was Special Forces, 53

Gulf of Tonkin incident, 104-105



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Haig, Alexander, 129, 172

Haileybury College, 219, 224, 225-230

Hand, Frank, 124

worked for CIA

operated out of office of Sec. of Defense, 125, 128

worked for Gen. Erskine in Office of Special Operations, 85

Harriman, Averill, 114

Harvard University, 229

Hassenfuss, Eugene, 137

Hawkins, Jack, 59, 60, 65, 147

Helio Aircraft Co, 126

Helio Courier (L-28), 126

Helms, Richard, 131, 152, 153, 154, 185

High Cabal, 219, 219-221

Hillenkotter, Admiral, 95

Hinckley, John Jr., 217

Hitler, Adolph, 21, 52, 230

Ho Chi Minh, 16, 30

9/2/45: read Declaration of Independence of Vietnam with U.S. representatives present, 30

supported by U.S. before end of WWII, 17

Houston, Larry, 44, 46

Hunt, Howard, 74, 153



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Indonesia, Secret War of 1958, 139-140, 147, 183, 189

Iran-Contra, 45, 76, 87, 97, 137

Anastasio Somoza, 81

biggest abberation on covert opeartions Prouty ever saw, 82

Christic Institute, 83

Edwin Meese, 82, 83

Gerhard Gesell, 81

King of Saudi Arabia, 82

Lawrence Walsh, 81

NSC statutory members "out of the loop", 109-110, 142, 151

Secret Team bred the Enterprise, 187

Sultan of Brunei, 81

used the Economy Act, 80, 82

Iraq-Iran war, 82-83, 117, 237

Iron Curtain speech, 28, 94



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Jackson, William H., 98, 104

Jesuit Square, 227

JFK, The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (Prouty), 208, 219

Johnson, Louis

1949 paper on reimbursement to fund CIA activities, 132

Johnson, Lyndon B., 49, 105, 114



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Kahn, Alfred

The Great Conspiracy, 233

Katzenbach, Nicholas, 67

Kennedy, John F., 102, 169

and mistaken idea that counterinsurgency role began with him, 168

assassination of

cover-up's durability as indicator of its scope, 199-200, 207, 209

Secret Servive, Military, and Police in Dallas

inserting false actors in their place, 206-207

support being cancelled, 205-210

volume and significance of photographic evidence, 210-212

3 "tramps" that were never booked, 210-211

Lansdale in photo of 3 "tramps", 211-212, 213

what would constitute a proper murder investigation, 197-200

Bay of Pigs, 61-63, 68

and the 1960 presidential campaign, 146-147

CIA first briefs in November, 1960 calling it an invasion, 57, 146

Cuban Study Group post-mortem, 63-66

briefed by Eisenhower in January, 1961, 68

critical initiatives by in August-November 1963

formulating and publishing NSAM No. 263, 70-72, 202-203

TFX Fighter Program, 201-202

UN speech urging going to the moon with Russia, 201

decision to transfer Gen. Lemnitzer to Paris, 179

NSAM 55

putting JCS in charge of Cold War Activites, 170, 171, 172

tried to take Special Operations away from CIA with, 169-173

tried to get rid of reactive system of government, 163

result of attempting to led to JFK's murder, 186

Vietnam and his decision to withdraw from, 70-72, 202-203

Kennedy, Robert

Bay of Pigs post-mortem involvment in, 63, 64-65, 169, 175

involvement in preparation of Taylor-McNamara Report (NSAM 263), 72

Khomeni, Ruhollah, 185

Khrushchev, Nikita, 47, 48

Kipling, Rudyard, 193

Kirkpatrick, Lyman

The Real CIA, 151-152

Kissinger, Henry A., 129

Korean War, 34, 35, 116

Korean war, 97

Kraigher, George, 7, 13-14, 21

Krosigk, Lutz Schwerin Von, 28

Krulak, Victor H., 75, 114, 167, 203, 212

involvement in preparation of Taylor-McNamara Report (NSAM 263), 71-72

learned of President Diem's murder, 74

Kubitschek, Juscelino, 220



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L-28 (Helio "Courier"), 54

Lackland Air Base, 145

Lansdale, Edward, 38, 166, 181, 213

an author of Military Assistance Program (MAP) report, 183, 186

as member of Office of Special Operations, 57, 70, 79

was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, 213

was Gen. Erskine's Deputy in, 85

hoped to be Ambassador to Vietnam under President Kennedy, 57-58

in 3 "tramps" photo taken after JFK assassination, 211-212

instrumental bringing Diem to power in S. Vietnam, 57-58, 82

Magsaysay campaign in the Philippines, 38, 144, 180, 182

Arundel, Arthur, 180

Bohanon, Charles, 180

Phillips, Rufus, 180

nominated L.F.P. for his 11/63 South Pole trip, 74-75

not the type of man to run OSO, 88

Operation Mongoose, 204

Saigon Military Mission

assigned as Chief of, 180

The Little Red Book influence upon, 182

worked for CIA, promoted to Air Force General, 124, 132

Laos, 54, 68, 202

counterinsurgency: move by military to get into area of CIA activity, 167

Lemay, Curtis, 124, 132

Lemnitzer, Lyman L., 63, 88, 127, 138-140, 179

briefed on NSAM 55-57, 170, 171

difference between a Maxwell Taylor and a Lemnitzer JCS meeting, 172

JFK's decision to transfer LLL to Paris, 179

Lenin, Vladimir, 233

Lieddke, 60

Life

purchasing the Zapruder film, reversing frames, 207

Little Red Book, The

influence on authors of Military Assitance Program, 182-183, 185

London Times, 28

Lord Balfour, 228

Lord Denning

A Family Affair, 219

Lord Fairfax, 224

Lord Oliphant, 228



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MacArthur, Douglas D., 27, 28, 40, 93, 116

Magellan, Ferdinand, 219

circumnavigation of the globe, 222-223

Magsaysay, Ramon, 180, 213

Malthus, Thomas, 225-226, 228, 229

Malthusianism, 116, 226, 228

Mansfield, Mike, 72, 172

tried to establish watchdog committee to oversee CIA, 148

Mao Tse-Tung, 15, 16

Marchetti, Victor, 152

Marks, John, 152

McCone, John

replaced Allen Dulles as DCI, 172

McFarlane, Robert, 82, 88, 109

McNamara, Robert S., 58, 67, 114, 165, 202

abolished Office of Special Operations in 1961, 88

asked Prouty to take his portion of OSO to office of JCS, 86

approved plan to create Defense Intelligence Agency, 70

authorized Prouty to establish Office of the Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities (SACSA; JCS), 70, 166

Taylor-McNamara Report (NSAM 263), 72

Meese, Edwin, 82, 83

Military Aid and Assistance Group (MAAG), 46

Military Assistance Program (MAP), 181-182

Iran was ultimate manifestation of, 184-185

paper's authors: Generals Stiwell and Lansdale, 183

set up as a sensor to react to, 183

Montgomery, Sir Bernard Law, 9, 10



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Nasser, Gamel Abdul, 47

National Intelligence Group, 91

National Security Act of 1947

CIA Powers and Duties, Section 3:"to correlate and evaluate intelligence relating to the national security", 108

covert operations totally overlooked in the law, 95

creation of Department of Defense, 92

creation of U.S. Air Force, 92

language of the law based on the reality of WWII, 92

original intent of Congress regarding role of CIA, 91-101, 149

National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM)

No. 263, 73, 202-203

origins of, 70-72

No. 55, 170

origins of, 176-177

putting JCS in charge of Cold War Activites, 170, 171, 172

significance of to Kennedy's Presidency, 170-172

No. 56, 170, 178

No. 57, 170, 178, 189

Nos. 55-57

a family of documents, 178

after JFK assassination never mentioned again, 178

National Security Agency (NSA), 107, 129

and closeness with Office of Special Operations, 79

clarifying role of, 83-85

closely allied with Defense/CIA, 77

direction of put under Office of Special Operations, 79

National Security Council (NSC)

10/2 (10-slant-2) directive, 130

recognized U.S. government might be involved in covert action, 97

and Office of Special Operations, 79

created the 10/2 directive in the forties, 97

creation of, 96-99

Directive #5412 of March 15, 1954, 42, 65, 76, 78, 87, 122

four statutory members, 96

DCI not part of, 97

great significance of, 109-110

in the Iran-Contra period, 97

is supposed to control the CIA, 149

Special Group 5412/2, 101-102

neutralized oversight functions of the OCB, 101

statutory members "out of the loop" during Iran-Contra, 109-110, 142

NATO, 117

Navy intelligence, 107

Needham, Joseph, 239, 241

New York Times, 144, 230

Nimitz, Admiral Chester, 93

Nitze, Paul, 67

Nixon, Richard M., 129, 169, 185, 201

Bay of Pigs and the 1960 presidential campaign, 146, 147

Noriega, Manuel A., 185

North, Oliver, 43, 45, 81, 82, 87, 88, 109, 110, 190

delivering 2,008 T.O.W. missiles to Iran, 140

paid by the Marine Corps, not the National Security Council, 45, 78

nuclear weapons

Air Force selected as organization most able to deliver atom bomb, 94

Armed Forces Staff College mock NATO-USSR confrontation, 39-40

beginning to shape U.S. military strategy after WWII, 94

Bravo Shot, 41

creating a Manichaean Devil, 118-122

making war planning obsolete, 115-118

Manhattan Project, 119

what to do with, militarily, 41, 94



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Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), 37, 96, 101

created to preserve highly classifed WWII assets, 96, 103

created without law, 96

residual OSS organization, 103

Office of Special Operations (OSO)

and closeness with National Security Agency, 79

direction of National Security Agency put under OSO, 79

dispersion of, 85-87, 164-166

effect of abolishing in 1961, 85-88

Reagan tried to create another under NSC, 87

explanation of, 76-79

run by Gen. Erskine, 85

Lansdale was Erskine's Deputy, 85

Prouty was Chief Air Force Officer for Special Operations, 85

transferred to Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962, 70

worked with many Executive Branch Departments, 79

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 17, 19, 28, 37, 91, 95, 96, 98, 103, 105, 155

Office of the Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities (SACSA; JCS), 172

creation of, 164-168

Oligher, Floyd, 37

On the Trail of the Assassins (Garrison), 208

Operation Mongoose, 204

Operation Zapata: The "Ultrasensitive" Report and Testimony of the Board of Inquiry on the Bay of Pigs. (Aguilar), 66, 67

Operations Coordinating Board (OCB), 103

responsible for seeing NSC decisions carried out, 101-102

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 198, 199, 207, 210, 215, 216-217



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P-51 (fighter), 68

Patton, George S., 4, 118

Pepper, Claude, 233

Phillips, Rufus, 180

Pinochet, Augusto, 186

Poindexter, John M., 82, 88, 109

Ponchardier, Pierre, 48

Power Elite, 219

Prouty, L. Fletcher

1959 Commendation from Antartic Office, 75

Aeronautics, 32

Air Force ROTC classes inaugurated at Yale, 31-32

as student commander of mock NATO-USSR nuclear confrontation, 39-40

Bay of Pigs

CIA changes plan from over-the-beach work to invasion, 55-57

coincidence of George Bush, "Zapata" the Houston and Barbara J., 60-61

Eisenhower's involvement

approves CIA organizing brigade of Cuban exiles in U.S., 55

never approved an invasion, 57

 

escorting 4 Cubans from JFK's Senate office to Sec. of Defense, 146-147

post-mortem, 63

asking Arleigh Burke about final report, 177

recognizes Dulles' implanting witnesses in, 175

purchased the 2 transport ships used, 60

briefing JCS Chairman Gen. Lemnitzer & Marine Commandant Gen. Shoup, 137-139

briefing JCS Chairman on NSAM Nos 55-57, 170, 171, 176, 178

briefing officer role, 141, 150

briefing Senator Saltonstall, 150

Cuba

Pentagon people buying sugar stock prior to Bay of Pigs, 187

U.S. indecisive about letting Castro take over or not, 55

discovered Taylor's "Letter To The President" was NSAM 55, 176-177

Evolution of Warfare course taught at Yale, 92

experiences with Edward Lansdale

bought Lansdale's desk set for Diem, 58, 82

met during flights between Manila and Saigon, 38

nominated L.F.P. for his 11/63 South Pole trip, 74-75, 213

Focal Point Office

1955 assignment to become USAF Officer of, and create, 42, 78, 122

1960 transferred to Office of Sec. of Defense, 57

1962 transferred to JCS, 70-71

Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Special Operations), 78

Military Support of the Clandestine Operations, 70, 80

wrote "Military Support of the Clandestine Operations of the United States Government", 42

sent by Allen Dulles to meet his "Chiefs of Station" worldwide, 46

CIA in Athens

developed "stateless people" community of hit men, 49

used Military Aid and Assistance Group for cover, 46

in Istanbul during from Suez Crisis, 47-49

Tab-6 organization, 46

half of Okinawa "500,000 Manpack" sent to Vietnam in 1945, 29-30

High Cabal, 235

possible origins and composition of, 238-242

Iran-Contra

biggest abberation on covert opeartions L.F.P. ever saw, 82

explanation for, 82-83

JFK assassination

Christchurch Star and timing of news story releases, 214-217

"three bursts of automatic weapons fire", 214

elaborate Oswald story with photo in business suit, 215

timing of Oswald story release, 216-217

examined how many officials were moved out of Washington that day, 213

how Secret Service "Protection of the President" wasn't followed, 205-206, 208-209

Lansdale nominated L.F.P. for his 11/63 South Pole trip, 74-75, 213

pressures resulting in, 201-204

JFK, The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, 208, 219

Military Manager of Tokyo International Airport, 1952-53, 36-37

moving from military to economic warfare, 41, 190-191, 192-193, 234-238

no longer such a thing as "sovereignty", 190-191

Office of Special Operations, 43

assigned to be USAF Officer of and create in 1955, 42, 78, 122

dispersion of, 164-166

explanation of, 76-79

mistake in abolishing: authority no longer centralized, 85, 86-88

transferred to JCS in 1962, 70-71, 85

transferred to office of Sec. of Defense in 1960, 43, 57

office structure in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 143

philosophy derived from knowing the Earth was a sphere, 221-230

retired from the service on January 1, 1964, 75

Rockets and Guided Missiles, 32

Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities (SACSA; JCS)

creation of, 164-168

Team B, 43, 103, 131

"Chief of", euphemism for being in charge of special operations, 42

Transport pilot flying

American POWs and Nazi intelligence officers out of Turkey, 19-20

C-54 (Douglas), 26

C-57 (Lockheed Lodestar), 8, 16, 17

Chinese delegation to Teheran Conference, 14-15, 16, 17

DC-3 (transport), 7

evacuated over 700 B-17 crewmen stranded in Soviet Union, 23

Far East squadron commander 1953-54, 37-38

Gen. C.R. Smith and USGS team to Saudi Arabia in 1943, 8-9, 11-13

group of MacArthur's elite guard to Japan, 9/1/45, 26-28

helped Army CIC break up Nazi gold-smuggling ring, 21-22

Navaronne guns demolition commandos out of Turkey, 18-19

Turkish ambassador at Bretton Woods back home, 17

VIP pilot for Gen. Omar Bradley, 7, 9-11

war devastation

in Hiroshima, 30-31

in the Soviet Union, 23

wrought to recapture Manila, 25

work in the Pacific, 24-25

working in Gen. Krulak's office

helped prepare Taylor-McNamara Report (NSAM 263), 71-72, 203

learned of President Diem's murder, 73-74

working with Secret Service during Eisenhower's Mexico visit, 206

psychological warfare technicians

Arundel, Arthur, 180

Phillips, Rufus, 180



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Raborn, William F., Jr., 153

Rambo Effect, 141

Reagan, Ronald

assassination attempt, 217

attempted to create another OSO under NSC, 87

involvment in Iran-Contra, 109, 110, 142

Strategic Defense Initiative, 115

Rhodes, Cecil, 229-230

Rickover, Hyman G., 220

Risk and Other Four-Letter Words (Wriston), 190

Road To Teheran, The (Dulles), 232-234

Rockets and Guided Missiles (Prouty), 32

Rommel, Erwin, 9

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 28, 96, 98, 220

at Cairo Conference, 13

at Tehran Conference, 15-17

Ross, Betsy, 229

Rusk, Dean, 62

Russell, Richard, 148



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Saigon Military Mission, 38, 180-181

Saltonstall, Leverett, 148

Schultz, George

involvment in Iran-Contra, 109, 142

Secord, Richard, 43, 129

Secret intelligence, 155, 156

called "Black intelligence" by the Navy, 156

springboard for Dulles to justify covert operations, 155

Secret Team (ST), 109, 156

bred the Iran-Contra Enterprise, 187

Creation of the CIA Focal Point System, 42-44, 122-125

Focal Point personnel assuming broader roles, 128-131

Military Assistance Program: an indicator of "the way things were going within the world of the", 186

much larger than just the CIA, 110, 143, 186-188

running a government of reaction, 155-158

Military Assistance Program (MAP), 183

Secret Team, The, 110

excerpts quoted, 76-78, 100, 101-102, 106, 112-113, 117, 118-119, 122, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 135, 137, 138, 142, 143, 148-149, 151, 160, 164, 168, 174, 178, 179, 179-180, 181, 184, 186, 188, 192

Explanation of the Office of Special Operations, 76-79

revised after release of Pentagon Papers, 178

SHAPE headquarters, 117

Sharp, U.S.G., 114

Shoup, David M., 138-140

Smathers, George, 146

Smith, C.R., 8, 36

Smith, Walter Bedell, 95, 102, 104

Bay of Pigs post-mortem premier witness, 175, 178

brought Allen Dulles into CIA as Deputy Director of Plans, 95

Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)

appointed in October, 1950, 95

started the pre-briefings, 163

took control of Office of Policy Coordination, 96

as an expedient, 96

Eisenhower's closest confidant during WWII, 163

forging a government of reaction, 163

left DCI to be John Foster Dulles's deputy, 163

went from WWII General to Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 163

when he became Deputy Secretary of State, 99

Somoza, Anastasio, 81

Sorensen, Theodore C., 177

Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities (SACSA; JCS)

creation of, 164-168

Special Forces, 53, 167, 169, 213

Air Communications and Resupply (ARC) wings transported, 52

became involved in post-nuclear exchange war planning, 52, 136

center at Fort Bragg, 168

Special Group 5412/2

See National Security Council (NSC)

Special Operations, 76-79

as euphemism, 76

clandestine operations, 42

attempt to overthrow Indonesian government in 1958, 53-54

Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report recommended engaging in, 98

involving covert work, 95

NSAM 55 -- JFK's attempt to take away from CIA, 169-172

residuals of WWII, 96

Shifting NCS Oversight from Directing to Approving Plans, 101-106

truly clandestine because they were small, 97

uniform, worldwide system for via OSO and NSA, 79

covert action

and Office of Special Operations, 79

creation of 10/2 directive, 97

Cuban Bay of Pigs, 97

decisions to engage in had to be made by NSC, 97

covert operations, 76

Allen Dulles' justification for collecting intelligence, 155

an ad hoc creation, 130

as NATO "exercises", 136

carried out by small group of specialists, 153-155

employing the system of reimbursement, 80, 132, 133-135

how they are managed/run, 44-45

involving the Contras or Iran, 97

Iran-Contra

biggest abberation on covert opeartions Prouty ever saw, 82

must be deniable -- an impossible contradiction, 188-190

not just CIA -- almost any government branch gets involved, 110

NSC approving reactive covert ops, 104

NSC directed CIA into Tibet, 106

require bilateral foreign alliances, 142

the two Dulles' working together to develop covert ops, 105

totally overlooked in the 1947 law, 95

where to keep this new capability in a peacetime infrastructure, 95

Office of (OSO), 143

became Office of the Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities (SACSA; JCS), 164-168

effect of abolishing in 1961, 85-88

explanation of, 76-79

Team B, 43

"Chief of", euphemism for being in charge of special operations, 42

the support of clandestine activities, 76, 165

SR-71, 107, 153, 165

Stalin, Joseph, 220

at Teheran Conference, 15-17

Stanford University, 228

Stanford, Leland, 228

Stevenson, Adlai

as UN Ambassador during Bay of Pigs, 64-66

Stilwell, Richard G., 17

an author of Military Assistance Program (MAP) paper, 183

an author of Military Assistance Program (MAP) report, 186

The Little Red Book influence upon, 182

Strategic Defense Initiative, 121

Sukarno, Achmed, 53, 139



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T-28 (trainer craft), 54

T-33 (trainer craft), 61, 62

Tab-6 organization

See Central Intelligence Agency (CIA):Focal Point

Tague, James, 198

Taylor, Maxwell

as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 172, 173

Bay of Pigs post-mortem involvment in, 63, 64, 169, 174-175, 176, 178

"Letter To The President" was his Mein Kampf while JCS Chairman, 171

NSAM 55-57 moved Taylor into Chairman of JCS, 178

difference between a Taylor and a Lemnitzer JCS meeting, 172

not the conventional military man at that time, 172-173

Taylor-McNamara Report (NSAM 263), 72

The Uncertain Trumpet, 168

TFX Fighter Program, 58, 201-202

The Origin of Species (Darwin), 226

Time, 68

Tippett, J.D., 198, 215

Treasury Department, 134, 156

working with Office of Special Operations, 79, 110, 123

Trujillo, Rafael, 183

Truman, Harry S., 28, 98, 102

abolishes OSS, 91



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U.S. Customs Service

working with Office of Special Operations, 79, 110, 123

U-2, 48, 51, 59, 61, 107, 127, 133, 153, 165, 188, 192

Uncertain Trumpet, The (Taylor), 168



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Viet Cong

origination of the word, 121

Vietnam era, 166

Declaration of Independence of Vietnam declared 9/2/45, 30

Vietnam war, 40, 97, 116, 120, 173, 179, 188, 225

Anloa Valley, 117

CIA was operating command for military forces from 1945 to 1965, 53, 68-70

cost of, 235

counterinsurgency: move by military to get into area of CIA activity, 167

half of Okinawa "500,000 Manpack" sent to Vietnam in 1945, 29-30

helicopters in, 68-69

moving aircraft into from other theaters, 68

no objective in, 113-114

not a big issue in 1962-63, 202

search and destroy goal, 113



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Walsh, Lawrence, 81

Warren Commission, 198, 215

Washington, George, 224, 229

Watergate

altering White House files regarding murder of President Diem, 74

Weinberger, Caspar

involvment in Iran-Contra, 109, 142

used the Economy Act, 43, 45

Westminster College, 28

Westmoreland, William, 113, 114, 173

Wheeler, Earle, 166, 173

asked Prouty to take his portion of OSO from Sec. of Defense to JCS office, 86

White, L. K. "Red", 154

White, Thomas D., 42, 78, 122

Wisner, Frank, 103, 131

Chief of OPC in 1950, 96

directed Indonesia campaign in 1958, 54, 96

dominant WWII OSS leader in Eastern Europe, 20, 96

World War II, 103

Allied shuttle bombing runs landing in the Soviet Union, 23

Army CIC breaking Nazi gold-smuggling ring, 21-22

Cairo Conference, 13

German surrender

and original Iron Curtain speech, 28

in Africa, 9

half of Okinawa "500,000 Manpack" sent to Vietnam in 1945, 29-30

Navaronne guns destroyed by British commandos, 18-19

Teheran Conference, 14-17

U.S. exfiltration of Nazis out of Europe, 20-21

Wriston, Walter

Risk and Other Four-Letter Words, 190



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Yale Daily News, 31

Yale University, 31, 229

Yale, Elihu, 229

 

Zapruder, Abraham, 207, 209


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