Roscoe Hillenkoetter
| Roscoe Hillenkoetter link (Mariner, spook, deep state operative?) | |
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| Born | May 8, 1897 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Died | June 18, 1982 New York City |
| Relatives | Jane C. Hillenkoetter |
Rear-Admiral Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter headed the Central Intelligence Group, which became the CIA | |
Rear-Admiral Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter was the head of the Central Intelligence Group (later the CIA).[1]
Operation Gladio
- Full article: Operation Gladio
- Full article: Operation Gladio
With top secret document NSC 4-A, Hillenkoetter allowed the CIA to take a range of covert actions to prevent a communist victory in 1947 the Italian elections. A year later another directive, the notorious NSC 10/2 was passed which authorised the CIA to carry out covert actions anywhere in the world. Covert action was defined as activities "which are conducted or sponsored by this government against hostile foreign states or groups or in support of friendly foreign states or groups but which are so planned and conducted that any US Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorised persons and that if uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them", and specifically included "propaganda; economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition, and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world."[2] Hillenkoetter’s successor, Walter Bedell Smith, claimed that by 1951 the CIA covert ops had already "far exceeded" even this broad definition.Template:Cn
Operation Celeste
- Full article: Operation Celeste
- Full article: Operation Celeste
The documents handed to Archbishop Tutu at the TRC hearings mentioned a secret 'Operation Celeste' and were headed with SAIMR's Johannesburg address. Keith Maxwell explained that SAIMR was revived after World War II. We saw how 'Lieutenant' Bob Wagner was sent to the USA to be trained by Rear-Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the head of an organisation that would become the CIA. Anglo-American plc provided him with the required metallurgy accreditation and training.[3]
References
- ↑ "The Creation of the Central Intelligence Group"
- ↑ Paperback: ISBN 0-7146-8500-3, Hardback: ISBN 0-7146-5607-0, Daniele Ganser, p.54
- ↑ Who Really Killed Chris Hani? Paperback: ISBN 978-0-7961-0093-1 Chris Nicholson