another repeat from earlier bread.
The Central Intelligence Agency received 5% of the Marshall Plan funds (cca 685 million USD), which it used to finance secret operations abroad. Through the Office of Policy Coordination, headed by Frank Wisner, the money was directed towards covert operations that entailed the creation of false front organizations to manipulate the affairs of foreign countries, including by initiating propaganda campaigns against governments, creating illegal underground opposition groups, and infiltrating local organizations, such as labor unions.
Is it? Prolly how he re-paid his debt to get the job.
Frank Wisner headed the C_A the Office of Policy Coordination:
Wisner was recruited in 1947 by Dean Acheson to join the State Department to become the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas. On June 18, 1948, the United States National Security Council approved NSC 10/2 which created the Office of Special Projects.[8] On September 1, 1948, the office was formally established, although it was renamed to the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) for obfuscation purposes.[9] Wisner was chosen to lead the OPC in the capacity of Assistant Director for Policy Coordination (ADPC).[10] The OPC initially received services from the CIA but was accountable to the State Department.[11] Wisner was put in charge of the operation and recruited many of his old friends from the Carter Ledyard law firm. According to its secret charter, the OPC's responsibilities include "propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world."[12]
Wisner oversaw the creation of all the stay-behind networks in East and West Europe.[13]
The FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, described the OPC as "Wisner's gang of weirdos". The FBI carried out investigations into their past and discovered that many of them had been active in left-wing politics in the 1930s. This information was passed to Republican Party Wisconsin U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy who started making attacks on members of the OPC. The FBI provided details of Wisner affair with Princess Caradja in Romania during the war; the FBI counterintelligence claimed that Princess Caradja was a Soviet agent.[14]
On August 23, 1951, Wisner succeeded Allen W. Dulles and became the second Deputy Director of Plans, heading the Directorate of Plans, with Richard Helms as his chief of operations. This office had control of about 75% of the CIA budget and used about 60% of all CIA personnel. In this position, he was instrumental in supporting pro-American forces that toppled Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 and Jacobo Arbenz Guzmรกn in Guatemala in 1954.[15]
J. Edgar Hoover and U.S. Senator McCarthy succeeded in forcing CIA director Allen W. Dulles to dismiss one of his key staff members, Carmel Offie, in 1953 over Wisner's objections.[16]
Wisner worked closely with Kim Philby, the British agent who was also Soviet spy.
Wisner was also deeply involved in establishing the Lockheed U-2 spy plane program run by Richard M. Bissell Jr.[1]
Wisner was diagnosed as a manic depressive and received electroshock therapy.[citation needed] Wisner suffered a serious breakdown in September 1958, and was replaced by Bissell as Deputy Director of Plans.[17] After a lengthy recovery, Wisner became chief of the CIA's London Station.[17]
In 1961, Wisner was ordered to organize CIA activities in British Guiana.[18]
In 1962, Wisner retired from the CIA.
source: wiki
sauce is wiki
much moar in these breads re: Marshall Planโฆ all sauced and open source.
This is gonna be a bottomless pit. Ties so much together.
>NOTHINGS HAPPENING!!!!I come to the board, review the notables, hoping to see someone arrested.
You're not doing it right.
Go read them ALL again.
>How does the UK survive? Its economy is for shitโฆ
Not a secret that the Queen gets her cut. Some of the Marshall Plan loans have been paid. EU's current sit. a but different.
Yep- been said a few times now. No response from Baker, so no reason to put it up.
Any Anon able to blow this up moar bigger?
ThanQ. pic related
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BAKER
This would help explain the absolute bat-shit crazy.