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Results for EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

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“13-00000 TOP SECRET And, finally, to retain the credibility and viability of the operation despite numerous wild haired proposals that were being put forward at vari ous times during the months under study — proposals which never should have been offered let alone given ”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 90·source: semanticDerived signal66%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“essentiality. * 129/ * Much of the staffing problem, of course, traces back to the failure of the DDP to insure early on that only the best people be assigned to the WH/4 project. As early as August of 1960, it had been indicated that the DDP might be leaning toward the us”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·

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EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“consequently became the 23 Cuban Operations Group. As the Cuban Operations Group it went 24 back into the Western Hemisphere Division. 25 j Q And what was the date of that reorganization? photocopy from NW 50955 DocId:32204971 Page 7 SECRET Gerald Ford Library”

DEPOSITION OF WILLIAM C. STURBITTS·p. 7·source: semanticDerived signal65%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“M*3 pu. " 23 - Cuban Operations Group. As the Cuban Operations Group it went 24 back into the Western Hemisphere Division. 25 i Q And what was the date of that reorganization? Photocopy from NW 50955 DocId: 32275518 Page 7 SECRET Gerald Ford Library”

Untitled DEPOSITION·p. 7·source: semanticDerived signal64%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET the project and the office of the DDP In point of fact, such restrictive measures were somewhat meaningless inso far as keeping awareness of the project's activities away from PP/PMG. The A/DDP/P granted permission to PP/C/PMG to read the daily proj”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 55·source: semanticDerived signal64%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“0 f I Street, Cuban Operations Group. As the Cuban Operations Group it went 24 back into the Western Hemisphere Division. %i; Q And what was the date of that reorganization? photocopy from NW 50955 DocId: 32275454 Page 7 SECRET Gerald Ford Library”

DEPOSITION OF WILLIAM STURBITTS·p. 7·source: semanticDerived signal64%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“€ Cu. t- 9. AFRICAN DIVISION Principal liaison officer with CI/SOG (1967-1973) 10. DOMESTIC OPERATIONS DIVISION (now FOREIGN RESOURCES DIVISION) Gordon Jorgenson, John, Shaffer, Seymour Russell, Walter O’Brien, Stanley Gaines, Robert T. Cassidy, Joseph Bulik, Maurice Sov”

LETTER from CHURCH, FRANK to COLBY, WILLIAM E.·p. 23·source: semanticDerived signal64%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“consequently became the! 23 Cuban Operations Group. As the Cuban Operations Group it went 24 i back into the Western Hemisphere Division. 25 Q And what was the date of that reorganization? HW 50955 DocId:32203851 Page 8 SECRET”

TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM C. STURBITTS·p. 8·source: semanticDerived signal64%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“4 Experimental Deception and Harassment Opera tions in Vietnam, February and March 1966 (112) 5, Logistics Support for Operations in Vietnam, July 1962 - December 1966 (OL-8) NW 50955 DocId: 32112994 Page 4”

CIA 'HISTORIES': BREAKDOWN OF CERTAIN ITEMS REQUESTED...·p. 4·source: semanticDerived signal64%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“14-00000 SECRET were for all practical purposes conducted indepen dently of WH Division and therefore are not covered in this history. There was an informal but under stood shortcut in the chain of command; basic deci sions were made at the DDP, DCI, or Presidential l”

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965·p. 6·source: semanticDerived signal63%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“planning. In fact, any disposition to undertake violent action should be promptly and emphatically discouraged pending a change in policy at the policy-making level. 44/ Even as the RMD was being dispatched to the field, another and more significant program was being evo”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 37·source: semanticDerived signal63%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“1960 when: Colonel White announced that DDS per sonnel on full time detail to JMARC - 136 TOP SECRET”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 145·source: semanticDerived signal62%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“WH/D or WH/4, ORR/F&P was constantly having to correct errors, to make apologies, or mend fences with the major US petroleum companies as a result of the lack of coordination be tween DDP and DDI components. - 236 - TOP SECRET”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 248·source: semanticDerived signal62%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“12 May 60. 14. Memo for Chief, WHD from William E. Eisemann, 27 Jun 60, sub: Administrative Plan for the JMARC/4 Phase of Project JMARC. - 376 - TOP SECRET”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 396·source: semanticDerived signal62%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“recreation facilities. 133/' Bill Eisemann, who was Chief of Support for WH/4, was particularly critical of the 90-day TDY assignments, saying: - 141 - TOP SECRET”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 150·source: semanticDerived signal62%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“best people avail able. 118/ Although Drain levelled his broadside at all of the Divisions in the DDP, he was most critical of the Western Hemisphere Division: More of this staffing would have come from WH if there had been more competent people within WH. WH suffered, in”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 138·source: semanticDerived signal62%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET By early November I960, as the concept of the operation was shifting from one of guerrilla warfare and infiltration to invasion, the staffing pattern for WH/4 was again increased. Mr. Bissell authorizing a total of 308 positions. Even as he signed the ”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 148·source: semanticDerived signal61%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“include the acquisition and dissemination of information, consultation, coordination, and operational interchanges. I believe you will be interested in the attached extracts of testimony given before the Warren islet Commission by U.S. intelligence and security officials. Pert”

WARREN COMMISSION TESTIMONY--SELECTED EXCERPTS·p. 1·source: semanticDerived signal61%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“the second history includes the last year of the Eisenhower Administration) 15. A Project for the Procurement of Intelligence Material Through Commercial Channels, 1960-1967 (207) (note that the time period NW 50955 DocId: 32112994 Page 5”

CIA 'HISTORIES': BREAKDOWN OF CERTAIN ITEMS REQUESTED...·p. 5·source: semanticDerived signal61%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“was run and to Teraoli account . I believed that it required a to higher degree of coordination of the other elements of the to w Directorate and of the Agency. We had debated this on various 04 to occasions in the past. I did reorganize that staff in 1973 and. to ”

SSCI TRANSCRIPT, TESTIMONY OF DCI WILLIAM COLBY·p. 6·source: semanticDerived signal61%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“e 1978 PCS/LOC Memorandum to PC/HSCA, 26 June 1978 B. PCS/LOC Memorandum to PC/HSCA, 29 June 1978 C. 1. In discussing the paragraph 3 requirement in reference A for names of the Chiefs and Deputy Chiefs of the 6 Research Section in 1960-62 with one of the former Deputy Branch Chi”

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS' REQUEST.·p. 3·source: semanticDerived signal61%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET 124. Memo for DDP from J. C. King, 17 Mar 60, sub: Personnel Assignments to Branch 4, WH Division. S. 125. WH Field Memo. No. 12-60 to Chief: All WH Field Stations and Bases, from Oliver G. Galbond (P) 19 Feb 60, sub: Agent Candidates for Possible U”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 384·source: semanticDerived signal61%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“1 4-00000 1 ! f 1 Mont SECURITY INFORMATION 12 June 1952 MEMORANDUM FOR: DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE SUBJECTS NCFE-CFA 1. I am attaching two memoranda having to do with NCFE on which it is unnecessary for you to take action. They point never- theless”

NCFE·p. 199·source: semanticDerived signal61%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET 12. Richard D. Drain, Personal Notes. 13. Drain-Pfeiffer OH Interview, op. cit., Tape 3, p. 60. 14. Job 63-605/58, Folders 1, 2, 3: AMHINT-Operations, 19-132-16/1-3. Cable to BELL from JMWAVE, 24 Feb 61, WAVE 3931 (IN 0915) . 15. WH/4 Prop Notes f”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 407·source: semanticDerived signal61%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“952 Opened approximately February 1953 Opened approximately July 1953. Opened approximately May 1955 3. HTLINGUAL was a Directorate of Operations project involving the opening incoming and outgoing mail destined to and from the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, and South America. In”

MEMO: 1. PURSUANT TO ARRB "REQUEST NO. CIA-16", THE OFFICE OF·p. 3·source: semanticDerived signal61%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET D. Personnel and Training 113. Memo for DDP from Jacob D. Esterline, 14 Apr 60, sub: JMARC Daily Progress Report. S. 114. Esterline—Pfeiffer OH Interview, op. cit., Tape 1, PP- 3-4. 115. MR from Jack B. Pfeiffer, 26 Oct 73, sub: Brief conversation ”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 383·source: semanticDerived signal61%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“first aid and medical training for the project activities in the Miami area. Post-Invasion. A Medical Technician from OMS was assigned PCS to JMWAVE in Miami from September 1963 to June 1966. During this same period the A&ES (by then part of the OMS) would, on request, o”

THE MIAMI STATION·p. 7·source: semanticDerived signal61%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET . 19. MR from David R. McLean, 27 Jul 72, op. cit. 20. WH/4 Prop Notes for 9 Aug 60. 21. Memo for DCI from J. C. King, 1 Sep 60, sub: Radio Swan. 22 . Memo for DCI from J. C. King, 2 Aug 60, sub: Radio Swan. (DD/P 0-4013). Memo for DDP from Jacob ”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 398·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 DEURE I ***28 May 1964 McCone goes to Honolulu for meeting on Vietnam until 3 June. 4,5,6,7 June McCone attends meetings with President Johnson on Laos with the President asking, "What comes next?" 6 June 1964 McGeorge Bundy and Michael Forrestal raise with”

EXCERPTS: DRAFT HISTORY: JOHN A. MCCONE, THE SIXTH DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE·p. 53·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET In mid-April of 1960 WH/4 made the first presen tation for the DCI since the basic program had been approved by President Eisenhower in mid-March. In attendance in addition to the DCI were: Gen. Cabell, Mr. Helms (C/OPS), Herman Horton (CI Staff),”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 97·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET file would be complete as to the purpose of the expend iture, the date, those who were involved as payees, and any other details; and finally that access to this financial file would be "limited to persons specifically authorized by the Deputy Directo”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 92·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-06060 SECRET Appendix C Source References* 1. • Survey of CE in SR Division, Volume II, by Robert H. Hicks, CI Staff. Aug 55. TS 110604. 2. FY 1955 USSR Operational Plan. TS 91403. 3. SR Division’s Operational Program and Budget for the USSR, FY 1956-57. TS 107830.”

EXCERPTS: HISTORY: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS, SOVIET RUSSIA DIVISION, 1946-1965·p. 10·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 SECREI 2.7 December 1961 General Cabell announces retirement effective 31 January 1962. 5 January 1962 Schuyler , Coyne added to Kirkpatrick study group. 6 January 1962 McCone attends NSC meeting on Laos. 8 January 1962 McCone meets with Joint Chiefs of Staff. ”

EXCERPTS: DRAFT HISTORY: JOHN A. MCCONE, THE SIXTH DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE·p. 31·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“only 158 staff personnel by the end of June 1960; and in August of 1960, Chief, WH Division forwarded a revised staffing guide, calling for a total of 274 positions and requesting that "as soon after 15 August as is possible, a total of 40 additional staff personnel" - 137 ”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 146·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET By way of illustrating some of the problems encountered in acquiring adequate personnel for the JMATE operation, on the very day that President Eisenhower was approving the anti-Castro program, a memorandum was being sent to the Deputy Director for”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 144·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“o PC/HSCA, 26 June 1978 B. PCS/LOC Memorandum to PC/HSCA, 29 June 1978 C. SECRET chromo 11 July 1978 1. In discussing the paragraph 3 requirement in reference A for names of the Chiefs and Deputy Chiefs of the 6 Research Section in 1960-62 with one of the former Deputy Branch Chi”

HSCA REQUEST: CIA/SR-6 NAMES .·p. 2·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“to tell her how to run the show. But it never was on a DDP-DDI basis, you see, the two got together and said, "Here's the operation." No way. The second time we were breaking it even more was after the Cuban Missile Crisis. After the Cuban Missile Crisis. 1963 now — we have mo”

INTERVIEW WITH SAM HALPERN BY RALPH E. WEBER·p. 19·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“INTERVIEW AND MEETING SUMMARY Page 2 of 21 FILE: SEGRETU To understand decisions in 1966 or 1970 it is necessary to go back to World War II, according to Papich. President Roosevelt got the FBI into the foreign intelligence field in World War II. Overnight the FBI had to g”

INTERVIEW WITH SAM PAPICH·p. 4·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET Part II Castro Must Go A. Organizing for Covert Action (January-March 1960) The first mention of a formal Agency structure to deal with the matter of Fidel Castro was noted by Colonel L. K. White, then Deputy Director for Support, in reporting on t”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 41·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET released until suitable replacements could be found to take over their tasks in the Office of Training. King, therefore, appealed to the Deputy Director for Plans for their immediate release. 124/ Not only did the Clandestine Service encounter dif”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 145·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“andum 26 June 1978 to PC/HSCA, B. PCS/LOC Memorandum to PC/HSCA, 29 June 1978 C. SECRET 11 July 1978 1. In discussing the paragraph 3 requirement in reference A for names of the Chiefs and Deputy Chiefs of the 6 Research Section in 1960-62 with one of the former Deputy Branch Chi”

HSCA REQUEST RE SR-6 (CIA PERSONNEL).·p. 2·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET By August of 1960, WH/D had approved a program of "subtle sabotage paying off, without resorting to the more risky and sensational type of sabotage." Unfortunately, however, there was a communications gap between the operations people and the intelli ”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 248·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“Technical Services Division (TSD) that approximately $90,000 in that current fiscal year was spent at Fort Detrick "for the maintenance of a BW capability". This statement appeared so important that a quick check was made to determine its significance. In response to question”

[RESTRICTED]·p. 4·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET figure out, because nobody ever made it clear, where the hell the project stood vis-a-vis WH ... J. C. King never was told, I think for understandable reasons, to what extent he was in it, and to what extent he was not in it. 119/ As with other of th”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 139·source: semanticDerived signal60%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“978 : PCS/LOC Memorandum to PC/HSCA, 26 June 1978 PCS/LOC Memorandum to PC/HSCA 29 June 1978 B. C. , 1. In discussing the paragraph 3 requirement in reference A for names of the Chiefs and Deputy Chiefs of the 6 Research Section in 1960-62 with one of the former Deputy Branch Chi”

HSCA INTEREST IN THE RESEARCH SECTION OF SR-6·p. 1·source: semanticDerived signal59%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 TOP SECRET approximate number of troops, tanks, and vehicles for which sea transport would be required." In that same period Lt. Col. Frank Egan and Commander Norman Imler of the WH/4 staff reported they asked the Mari time Branch to draft a memo to the DDP givi”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 153·source: semanticDerived signal59%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“13-00000 OLUREI 1 2’6 June 1963 McCone notes Roy Tod's paper on an inventory of intelligence community assets. 1 July 1963 DCI's Scientific Advisory Board established under Dr. Kinzel. 9 July 1963 President Kennedy briefed on mosaic of Israel gas bomb in Yemen, and f”

EXCERPTS: DRAFT HISTORY: JOHN A. MCCONE, THE SIXTH DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE·p. 43·source: semanticDerived signal59%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“year--this was about $50,000,000 less than what had been asked for by the various departments. He said he thought the Agency had worked hard to keep the budget down, and noted that there had to be additional funds for operations against Cuba. There was an increase in NPIC, an”

DCI PRESENTATION TO THE PFIAB, 7 DECEMBER 1962·p. 3·source: semanticDerived signal59%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“NA TOP SECRET 1S Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 group in constant contact with Mr. Harvey. The second chain 02 of command, paralleling that, was Mr. Harvey reporting to the IO DDP and the DDP subsequently reporting through his chain of command to the Director, and that wou”

TRANSCRIPT from HALLEY·p. 18·source: semanticDerived signal59%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965

“14. Official Routing Slip to C/WHD from Gerard Droller [4 Jun 60]. 15. Memo to DDP from Jacob D. Esterline, 7 Jun 60, sub: Rubio-Pawley Group. 16. MR from Jacob D. Esterline, 11 Jul 60, sub: Lunch [on 20 Jun 60] with General Cushman, Vice-Presidential Aide. 383 - TOP SE”

INTERNAL DRAFT HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS PREPARED BY JACK PFEIFFER , VOL III. EVOLUTION OF CIA'S ANTI-CASTRO POLICIES, 1959 - JANUARY 1961·p. 403·source: semanticDerived signal59%

EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION, 1946-1965