There are TWO Frank Wisners, Jr and Sr, father and son.

(Be careful, avoid confusion: Wis Jr and Sr. look nearly identical)

Wis Sr. noted C_A funster; Wis Jr close resemblance

"…young Frank in middle age (circa 1992) can spook acquaintances with uncanny likeness tp his father a long generation earlier: also husky/chunky, an identical smooth baldness, the need to chain smoke to relieve certain pressure, a weakness for formal, graven speech which skirts the sanctimonious."

Wis Sr. tight with Alsop Bros (C_A)

Within the Agency the implacable security director Colonel Sheffield Edwards . "Frank Wisner spent a great deal of time with people like Joe Alsop ," according to [TIME MAG] journalist Charles J.V. Murphy, "there was agroup they used to go from one house to the other - people from the State department, various people, mostly social people and they would play games. A great deal of drinking. "

"Early in 1957, the KGB photographed him in a hotel room in Moscow while he was having sex with another man, an agent of the Soviet Union. He rebuffed Soviet attempts at blackmail, instead writing "a detailed account of the incident and a relevant narrative history of his sex life." It has been described as "brimming with revelations about Alsop's sex life on several continents," including a report that one of his lovers was Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr., who had resigned as Dwight Eisenhower's appointments secretary in 1953.[13] His accounts, delivered to a friend in the CIA, quickly reached the FBI, allowing J. Edgar Hoover to spread the information through the Eisenhower administration, many of whose members had fought sharp battles with Alsop.[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alsop

"Frank loved to sing, two or three of then would get together around the piano …George Kennan, Kay and Phil (WAPO) Graham the Alsop brothers and sometime Jock Whitney and Betsy Whitney. "

"…old personal friends, Bohlen, the Alsops, Dick Bissel. You couldn't help feeling the institutional dynamic at work at those times - they knew best, they decided who was to know what. There wasn't really any sense of accountability. I thought the whole thing was modeled on the British system."

There's a lot interesting about both Wisners, Jr. and Sr. Frank sr, daughter, Frank jrs sister Wendy "I must have been 12 at the time, he [Frank sr] said 'yiu know the story about George Washington and the cherry tree? In my book George doesn't score for telling the truth. The truth is ground 0, the truth is what you do AFTER telling the truth, that's what gives you the plus points."

Wisner was involved in the Psychology Strategy Board whose purpose was to coordinate psyops programs being built at State dept, through the Military and at the OPC - where Wisner's 'mighty Wurlitzer' (pre-mockingbird ) was chugging and blasting from Central Europe to Asia"

when Beedle Smith became DCI he found Wisner had interposed himself, screening comms from OPC field stations to HQ to hold back items that might disturb the DCI. "Operators are not going to decide what secret information I see or not!"

General Beedle Smith had been Ike's COS, and he wasn't heppy with some of the staff he inherited in the post war nat sec landscape. When a recent hire demonstrated a weakness for farm animals and was shipped off to the Agencies private nuthouse, St Elizabeth's Beedle Smith erupted. " Jesus Christ, can't I get people who don't hire people who bugger cows."

Shills, Beedle Smith, those are what we call shills.

NOTE Both Frank Jr and Sr shared the middle name Gardiner.

GARDINER is important in US history because Gardiners Island was the first (1639) English settlement on NY and was a pirate hangout until last week, if it isn't any more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardiners_Island

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/17/nyregion/closely-guarded-secrets-some-islands-you-can-t-get-to-visit.html