#CovertOperations

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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.

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 Interagency committee created by NSC 5412/2 in December 1955 to approve CIA covert operations; its predecessor, the Planning Coordination Group of 1955, was chaired by Nelson Rockefeller.
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.

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.