#CovertOperations
5 entries tagged CovertOperations.
People (1)
- Frank Wisner Frank Wisner was the CIA officer who founded and directed the Office of Policy Coordination - the agency's political warfare arm - from 1948 to 1958, organized the stay-behind networks across Europe (Operation Gladio), and suffered a mental breakdown after the Hungarian Revolution's failure, eventually committing suicide with a shotgun at his Maryland farm on October 29, 1965.
Organizations (3)
- AIFLD The CIA-funded American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AFL-CIO's Latin American arm, which organized anticommunist labor unions throughout the hemisphere and whose operatives played a documented role in the 1964 Brazilian coup and other Cold War regime changes.
- NSC Special Group The NSC Special Group was the Eisenhower administration's supersecret interagency committee that provided formal oversight and approval for all CIA covert operations, chaired by Nelson Rockefeller from 1953 to 1956, making him the institutional apex of the US covert action apparatus.
- The Enterprise (Iran-Contra) Private covert network assembled by Richard Secord and Albert Hakim to conduct both sides of Iran-Contra, generating approximately $48 million in revenues between 1984 and 1986 through arms sales to Iran and Contra resupply.
Concepts (1)
- Cold War The Cold War (1947-1991) was the period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union that is the overarching context for most of the intelligence operations, covert programs, and clandestine financial networks documented throughout this vault.