Doug Campbell Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/PDBs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/cia-presidential-intelligence-briefings-213661#ixzz3lyQkew9a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Newton Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 These are all pretty heavily redacted. I'm sure that the CIA has taken great care to remove all the juicy bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Mr. Current IntelligenceAn Interview with Richard LehmanBy Richard Kovar.Lehman played a key rolein supervising theAgency.s currentinteffigence support forthe White House,including its briefmgs ofpresidential candidates. Editor.s Note: Dick Lehman developed the President.s IntelligenceCheck List, or PICL (pronounced.~pickle.9 for President Kennedy inJune 1961. The Kennedy WhiteHouse had become overwhelmedwith publicationsfrom the intelligence community, many of whichwere duplicative in nature, andimportant pieces of informationwere beginning to fall between thecracks. The President and his advisers wanted one concise summary ofimportant issues that they could relyon, and Lehman provided that summary in theform of the PICL.Kennedy.s enthusiastic response tothe PICL ensured that it became anAgency institution. Former DeputyDirectorfor Intelligence R. JackSmith writes in his memoir, TheUnknown CIA, that the Presidentengaged in an .. . . exchange ofcomments with its producers, sometimespraising an account, sometimescriticizing a commenl~ once objecting to the word .boondocks. as notan accepted word. For current intelligencepeople~ this was heaven onearth!. (The PICL was renamed ThePresident.s Daily BriefPDB] in theJohnson administration.)For many years thereafter, Lehmanplayed a key role in supervising theAgency.s current intelligence supportfor the White House, includingits briefings ofPresidential candidates. Former Deputy DirectorforIntelligence (DDI) Ray Cline in hisbook The CIA Under Reagan, Bush,and Casey, calls him .the longtimegenius of the President.s specialdaily intelligence report..Dick Lehman joined the Agency in1949 and servedfor 33 years beforeretiring. As a jun~or analysl heworked in the Ge~.ieral Division ofthe Office ofReports and Estimates(ORE) using SIGIJVT to puzzle outthe organization and output of various Soviet industrial ministries. Hethen spent much ~fhis career in theOffice of Current Intelligence (OCI),eventually serving as its Directorfrom 1970 to 1975. Lehman alsoserved as Director of the Office ofStrategic Research from 1975 to1976, as Deputy 1~o the DCIforNational Intellige~.zcefrom 1976 to1977, and as Chairman of theNational Intelligence Council from1979 to 1981.In the interview excerpts thatfollow, Lehman recalls the challengesassociated with briefing DCI AllenDulles, recounts how the PICL wasborn, summarizes how the Agencygot to know Presidents-elect Richard Nixon, fimmy Carter, andRonald Reagan, and gives his candid assessment of thefamous ATeam/B Team exercise conducted in1976 on Soviet intentions andcapabilities.This interview was conducted 28February 1998 as apart of the CIAHistory Staffs oral history program. https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol44no3/pdf/v44i3a05p.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 (edited) Richard Lehman not totally positive TEAM B per above interview. ,yet a hard core militarist. see below ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B ===================== https://www.lewrockwell.com/2004/07/tom-barry/old-sailors-never-die-911-commissioner-john-lehman-on-the-war-path/ Edited September 17, 2015 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Campbell Posted September 18, 2015 Author Share Posted September 18, 2015 Mr. Newton VERY redacted. Maybe if nothing else, we can gain some insight re: what POTUS was *told* v. What We Now Know? ...but that'll take much more Learned Minds than mine. Peace, D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Newton Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) Interesting that Antonio Veciana stated, in essence, that his group would be "nowhere" without CIA. His group was Alpha 66. The PDB for 30 August 1962 has a couple "blurbs" on Alpha 66 in "Part 3", one of which opens with the statement: "Little is known about this group, but something may very well be cooking". Is the CIA engaged in a little dishonesty here with POTUS? They know all about Alpha 66, it's a child of their own operations. http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/1827265/DOC_0005995905.pdf edit - added link Edited September 22, 2015 by Chris Newton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Larry Hancock Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Chris, could you give me a reference for that Veciana statement? I've never seen any sign that the CIA was directly in contact with Alpha 66 as Alpha 66 was with military intelligence. I do believe that they were manipulated by Bishop/Phillips but that is a totally different story and we have no documents to verify that Phillips was not acting on his own at at most with total CIA deniability. I did find documents suggesting that some on the Special Group were interested in Alpha in the spring of 63 but after doing some checking and with CIA input concluded that they were not controllable and it never came to anything. I suspect if there was CIA deep penetration of Alpha 66 it was extremely compartmentalized; as far as I could find the only reason JMWAVE even knew of their boat missions was through exile informants like Fernandez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Newton Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 (edited) Larry, Just listen to Veciana's recent revelations. He clearly states he was not working for military intel in a way that seems to satisfy Anthony Summers. He says Bishop was Phillips and that Bishop/Phillips funded their cause. Additionally, Veciana has always stated that it was Bishop that recruited him, trained him and funded his escape from Cuba after initially wanting him to operate "in place". How would that not constitute operational control? Phillips was also at JMWAVE in an official capacity so I'm not sure how that "denial" works either. edit - note video won't play embedded - click on blue tab and watch on vimeo Edited September 22, 2015 by Chris Newton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Hancock Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Chris, I'm aware of his recent statements but of course if we accept them he has only known for certain since the HSCA that Bishop/Phillips was CIA and before that point he was always firm in stating that Bishop told him he worked for no agency at all but private interests. Now having said that its very possible he was not that naive but that is what he said and of course Veciana only represents himself, not Alpha 66 in general - and he was the finance guy, not one of the operational leaders. They were all adamant about being independent. If you trace it back Phillips first contact with him was when Phillips was a CIA contract employee in Cuba, not in the JMMATE project, under deep cover and not at all linked to the US. Beyond that, I have the documents on the mil intel relationship, which actually assigns Veciana a crypt and on numerous contacts between MI and several Alpha members. And as I said, none of the actual CIA documents pertaining to Alpha imply any sort of direct association or control. Based on that, whatever relationship that may have existed was not being reported in the HQ docs so the Presidential Daily Brief is probably accurate. Thinking that the PDB was a full reflection of all the covert and deniable activity going on within the Agency would be unrealistic anyway and the much more egregious sins in the recent release have to do with the impression they were conveying about when and how much they knew about Oswald in MC...and that was clearly either witheld from the folks doing the PDB or a conscious decision to lie in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Newton Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Larry, Phillips "retired" in 1975 per his obituary. He had to have had at least 20 years at that point to qualify for a government pension. He could not have been a Contract Agent in Cuba in 1959-1960 and certainly could not privately fund Alpha 66. Is it possible that CIA tried to keep Alpha 66 at arms length by assigning them military intel crypts? One other thing about that PDB note, it gives the erroneous information that the name "Alpha 66" came from the organization's search for $66k. I find this tidbit curious because I see no reason to include it unless CIA is adding it for deniability purposes. The PDB does not look like a document that has room for a lot of extraneous B.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Hancock Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Chris, I would suggest you read his books, in particular Night Watch, which describes his Cuban contract work in detail....I cover it in some depth in SWHT and we have a number of documents about his work there including his departure after having been exposed. As far as funding Alpha, that is not what he was doing with Veciana and other anti-Castro groups in Cuba at that point. Later on Phillips began using his commercial contacts to fund a number of projects in a deniable manner, including the purchase of the Tejuna. That appears to be where much of the Alpha money came from as well, not out of some significant CIA budget but brokered as donations. As to the crypts, the documents on the MI contacts with them are fairly extensive and some of the dialog records that while Alpha trusts the Army, it has no use at all for the CIA. Now I don't want to imply that there was not some covert, deeply buried CIA effort to support Alpha - vs. it being largely at Phillips personal discretion, what I'm saying is that if that exists it was so deeply buried we have no documents on it and it shows up nowhere in the various CIA documents that do mention Alpha 66, in fact those that do are just the opposite, describing them as highly independent. I'm putting this strictly in the context of the official HQ record that would have been consulted in preparing the PDB. As to the 66 reference, there are a lot better stories as to the origin of the name, many of them contradictory. My only other comment is that if you have read Shadow Warfare, I give several examples of CIA field operations running soft files and preparing reports that give a quite different sotry to HQ than what is actually going on - often to carry out the mission without being constrained or micromanaged....hence a lot of the higher level documents and briefings are often way off the mark....on the other hand the PDB's given GWB before 9/11 were pretty darn accurate, that being another story entirely. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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