From dissenter.firedoglake/2012/12/10/oliver-stones-untold-history-the-birth-of-the-secret-state/ Truman approved the creation of a guerrilla army code-named “Nightingale” in Ukraine. Originally setup by the Nazis in 1941, it was made up of ultra-nationalists. They would, as Stone describes, wreak havoc on the “famine-wrecked region where Soviet control was loose, carrying out the murder of thousands of Jews, Soviets and Pols, who opposed a separate Ukrainian state.” The CIA would parachute “infiltrators” into the country as well to further “dislodge Soviet control.” In Kuznick and Stone’s companion book of the same title as the series, the creation of a “guerrilla warfare corps” is further detailed: …In late September 1947, [George] Kennan urged Forrestal to establish a “guerrilla warfare corps”—a suggestion Forrestal heartily endorsed—although the [Joing Chiefs of Staff] recommended against establishing a “separate guerrilla warfare and corps.” In December, Truman approved secret annex NSC 4-A, authorizing the CIA to conduct covert operations. He had dismantled the OSS’s covert parmilitary operations capabilities in September 1945, but now he brought them back in force. In the summer of 1948, he approved NSC 10/2, which called for “propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.” These activities were to be done in a way that would always afford the US government plausible deniability. In August 1948, Truman approved NSC 20, which authorized guerrilla operations in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe… The CIA was active in Germany working with the Gehlen Organization, an organization headed by Reinhard Gehlen, a former Nazi who ran intelligence in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union for Adolf Hitler. His organization was a network of Nazis and war criminals, some of which came from the Gestapo and the SS. The organization painted a picture of Soviet actions and fed the US government what it wanted to hear about the Soviet Union. But, as one retired official put it, the intelligence was “hyped up Russian boogeyman junk.” The episode highlights the Berlin Blockade and how the “Western media” painted the Soviet Union as a savage and cruel country trying starve a population of people into submission. But, the Soviet Union guaranteed West Berliners “access to food and coal from the Eastern zone.” US intelligence confirmed this.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 12:32:25 +0000
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