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Covert Operations

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"Covert action" is not, properly speaking, intelligence...Yet covert action actually constitutes "operations" in the same sense that the aims of foreign policy are implemented by diplomatic operations, and that military objectives are achieved by military operations. Covert action involves undertaking actions that cannot be directly attributed to the U.S. government. Covert action is meant to influence events without the objects of influence without the objects of the influence being aware of the actual source of the influence.
William Odom, Fixing Intelligence, p. 15

Covert action includes the use of secret agents who carry out political or economic action to help friends abroad, including the distribution of false or misleading information--called disinformation--or the use of deception to confuse or distract adversaries. Another form of covert action is what professionals term black propaganda, a form of enhanced or manipulated information, usually based on true material but presented in such a way that the hand of the manipulator or the real source of the information is hidden.
Arthur Hulnick - Harvard International Review, Fall 2002

Former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh advanced the doctrine, approved by the U.S. Supreme Court, that the US could violate national sovereignty through kidnaping foreign nationals living abroad, in pursuit of U.S. "law enforcement."

Bay of Pigs
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Bramble Bush
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Congress for Cultural Freedom
  • Administration: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson
  • Director: Allen Dulles
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Operation Alsos
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Operation Condor
  • Administration: Nixon, Ford, Carter
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  • Target: South America
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Arming the Mujahideen in Afghanistan 
Operation Cyclone
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Operation Lock
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Operation Midnight Climax
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  • Director: George Hunter
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Operation Mockingbird
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  • Director: 1948 - 1975???
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Operation Mongoose
  • Administration: Kennedy
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  • Target: Cuba
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Operation Northwoods
  • Administration: Kennedy
  • Director: Lyman Louis Lemnitzer
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Operation Paperclip
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Operation PBSUCCESS
  • Administration: Golda Meir
  • Director: Allen Dulles
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  • Target: Guatemala
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Operation Wrath of God (Operation Bayonet)
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Phoenix Program
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Project Artichoke
  • Administration: Truman, Eisenhower
  • Director: Allen Dulles
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  • Project Artichoke became project MKULTRA

Project Bluebird
  • Administration: Truman, Eisenhower
  • Director: Allen Dulles
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Project CHATTER
  • Administration: Truman, Eisenhower
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Project Jennifer
  • Administration: Ford
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Project MKNAOMI
  • Administration: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon
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Project MKULTRA
  • Administration: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon
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  • Started life as Project Artichoke

Project Monarch
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Rescue of Mussolini
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School of the Americas
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Zimmerman Telegraph Affair
  • Administration: Germany
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