“It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!”
William F. Buckley, Jr.
“There have been only two kinds of CIA secret operations: the ones that are widely known to have failed—usually because of almost unbelievably crude errors—and the ones that are not yet widely known to have failed.”
Edward Luttwak
“Intelligence shortcomings, as we see, have a thousand fathers; secret intelligence triumphs are orphans.”
William Saffire — New York Time
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The CIA has traditionally been divided into four Directorates. A fifth Directorate was recently added. (October 2015?)
Directorate of Operations (DO)
Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T)
Directorate of Intelligence (DI)
Directorate of Support (DS)
Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI)
The first two Directorates collect intelligence. The third analyzes the intelligence and writes finished papers about it. The fourth team provides support to ensure the whole process operates smoothly.
The Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI) is the Agency’s newest Directorate focused on accelerating innovation across the Agency’s mission activities with cutting-edge digital and cyber tradecraft and IT infrastructure. [CIA Website]
Before May 6 2015, Directorate of Operations (DO) was known as the National Clandestine Service (NCS).
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The list of the persons who served as DDO and/or D/NCS includes:
Allen Dulles – January 4, 1951 – August 23, 1951
Richard Bissell – January 1, 1959 – February 17, 1962
Richard Helms – February 17, 1962 – April 28, 1965
William Colby – March 2, 1973 – August 24, 1973
Stephen Kappes – August 2004 – November 2004
Jose Rodriguez – November 16, 2004 – September 30, 2007
Michael Sulick – September 30, 2007 – July 30, 2010
Gina Haspel (Acting) – February 28, 2013 – May 7, 2013
Frank Archibald – May 7, 2013 – January 29, 2015
Greg Vogle – January 29, 2015 – August 2017
Here are ten quotes from/or about these people who served as DDO or D/CNS. Can you identify them? [HINT: Each person is only quoted once!] Click on the right answer and it will appear in GREEN. If your choice pops up in RED, try again… Good luck!
1. “We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.”
Jose Rodriguez
Gina Haspel
Frank Archibald
Greg Vogle
2. “Under dictatorship, people are enslaved but they know it. Here, the politicians constantly lie to people and they become immune to these lies because they have the privilege of voting. But voting is rigged and democracy here is a gigantic profusion of lies and clever brainwashing.”
Michael Sulick
William Colby
Richard Bissell
Allen Dulles
3. On the banning of waterboarding, this D/NCS said: “I don’t think we’ve suffered at all from an intelligence standpoint.”
Jose Rodriguez
Michael Sulick
Stephen Kappes
Gina Haspel
4. “His name will always be linked to the Bay of Pigs fiasco, in which a few hundred Cuban exiles who had been trained and armed by the C.I.A. were landed on the Cuban coast without air cover and left to be crushed by Mr. Castro’s far superior forces.”
Richard Bissell
Jose Rodriguez
William Colby
Allen Dulles
5. “The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It’s possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.”
William Colby
Michael Sulick
Jose Rodriguez
Greg Vogle
6. “This person ‘s fingerprints are all over the torture program, not to mention destruction of evidence.” HumanRights
Gina Haspel
Michael Sulick
Stephen Kappes
Frank Archibald
7. “The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.”
Richard Helms
Gina Haspel
William Colby
Richard Bissell
8. “WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration accidentally revealed the name of the CIA’s top official in Afghanistan in an email to thousands of journalists during the president’s surprise weekend trip to Bagram Air Field.” This CIA’s top official was:
Greg Vogle
Gina Haspel
Frank Archibald
Stephen Kappes
9. “Prior to becoming the Director of the National Clandestine Service, this D/NCS was the CIA’s Latin America division chief who earlier in his/her career served tours in Pakistan and in parts of Africa. He/She also reportedly ran a covert operation that contributed to Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic’s removal from power in 2000.”
Frank Archibald
Gina Haspel
Greg Vogle
Stephen Kappes
10. “On April 14, 2010, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta reported that this person would be retiring in May. The odd timing of the retirement, and lack of Presidential thanks for his years of service, led many to comment that this was a departure in disgrace.” This person is:
Stephen Kappes
Gina Haspel
Frank Archibald
Greg Vogle
The end…
REFERENCES
Directorate of Operations (Formerly known as the Clandestine Service) — CIA Website
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“It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!”
William F. Buckley, Jr.
LOL!
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General enquiry to Intel Today –
Any thoughts on ‘ex’-MI6 officer Christopher David Steele, Christopher Parker Burrows, Sir Andrew Wood [associate] as representatives of Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd, and their memoranda with reference to US elections and the Ruskies.
https://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/06848574
ORBIS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE LIMITED
Company Number: 06848574
Status: Active
Incorporation Date: 16 March 2009
Directors: Christopher David Steele / Christopher Parker Burrows
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/may/13/richardnortontaylor1
Thursday 13 May 1999
‘MI6: The nightmare scenario as a rogue agent goes public’
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.activism.progressive/-Ujg7vK4zyM
MI6 list 1999
https://cryptome.org/mi6-list.htm
MI6 list from 1999
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Ref: Christopher David Steele, Christopher Parker Burrows, Sir Andrew Wood
These three amigos have got to be the most high profile, blindingly obvious ‘intelligence’ officers that have ever been. Publicly known about from at least 1999 if not earlier.
Also, Steele was formally registered at British Embassy, Moscow 1990. The laddie wasn’t operating undercover but as a nod and a wink MI6 representative.
All from open-source information.
The whole thing is bordering on the ridiculous.
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