About
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