Deadly Deceits (35 page)
Authors: Ralph W. McGehee
11. Coming Home
1 | Nina S. Adams and Alfred W. McCoy (eds.), |
12. Down and Out in Thailand
1 | The New York Times |
2 | Chawin Sarakham, |
3 | The New York Times, |
4 | Ibid |
5 | Ibid |
6 | John Stockwell, |
13. Light at the End of the Tunnel
1 | Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks, |
2 | The Wall Street Journal |
3 | Commission on CIA Activities within the United States, June 1975 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975). Beginning on page 137. |
4 | Sam Adams, “Vietnam Cover-up: Playing War with Numbers, A CIA Conspiracy Against its Own Intelligence,” |
5 | Reprinted in Facts on File, |
14. Conclusion
1 | Philip Agee, |
2 | The Washington Post |
3 | United States House of Representatives, “Iran: Evaluation of U.S. Intelligence Performance Prior to November 1978” (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979). |
4 | Saul Landau and Craig Nelson, “The CIA Rides Again,” |
5 | See Ralph W. McGehee, “Foreign Policy By Forgery: The C.I.A. and the White Paper on El Salvador,” |
6 | Newsweek |
Appendix: This Book and the Secrecy Agreement
1 | Thomas Lobe, |
2 | Dr. E. Thadeus Flood, “The United States and the Military Coup in Thailand,” Indochina Resource Center publication, undated, p. 1. |
3 | Thomas Lobe, |
GLOSSARY
Agent:
A foreign national who supplies information or performs other functions for the CIA case officer.
Border Patrol Police (BPP):
A Thai paramilitary organization.
Case officer:
An American staff officer working at any level in the Directorate for Operations and serving as intelligence gatherer, propaganda writer, or covert operator.
Census Aspiration Cadre (CA):
United States program in Northeast Thailand to provide information on the Communist Party of Thailand.
China activities:
Headquarters element in the Far East division that directed the CIA's worldwide intelligence collection and covert operations against Communist China.
Civil Air Transport (CAT):
The Agency's first airline in the Far East based initially and primarily on Taiwan.
Civil Operations and Rural Development Support (CORDS):
A united organization of American and Vietnamese governmental elements to pacify the Vietnamese.
Civilian, Police, Military (CPM):
Thai provincial structure for countering the Communist Party of Thailand. CPM-1 was a military camp in Sakorn Nakorn Province in Northeast Thailand that conducted military operations against the CPT in the Northeast.
Communist Suppression Operations Command (CSOC):
The Thai central headquarters for all reporting, planning, and operations against the Communist Party of Thailand.
Dead drop:
A device for maintaining contact between clandestine operatives â where money or messages can be left for pick-up; e.g., a hole behind a loose brick in a wall.
Directorate for Administration (DDA):
CIA element responsible for personnel, budget, security, medical services, and logistical support for overseas operations; established in 1950.
Directorate for Intelligence (DDI):
Agency element created in 1952; responsible for the production of finished intelligence (excluding scientific and technical) and for the collection of overt information. Renamed the National Foreign Assessment Center (NFAC).
Directorate for Operations:
Responsible for clandestine collection, counterintelligence, and covert operations. Formerly named Directorate for Plans; renamed Directorate for Operations in 1973. It is common practice within the CIA to refer to the head of this unit as the DDO or formerly as the DDP.
Directorate for Plans (DDP):
A CIA element created in 1952, also known as the clandestine services. Responsible for clandestine collection, counter-intelligence, and covert operations. Renamed the Directorate for Operations (DDO) in 1973. It is common practice within the Agency to refer to the head of this unit as the DDO.
Director of Central Intelligence (DCI):
Chief officer of the CIA.
East Asia division (EA):
Headquarters element of the Directorate for Operations that directs the Agency's worldwide intelligence collection and covert operations relating to Asia. Formerly called the Far East division.
Farmers' Liberation Association (FLA):
Basic Communist structure in rural villages. First stage in developing a revolutionary organization.
Intelligence assistants (IAs):
CIA employees who handle routine paperwork, run file traces, and perform tasks for case officers.
International communism branch (ICB):
A subordinate element of the counter-intelligence staff of the Directorate for Operations that provides expertise in the field of international communism.
International organizations division:
Coordinated the Directorate for Operations' clandestine activities aimed at developing an international anti-Communist ideology.
Joint Security Centers (JSCs):
Regional Thai intelligence offices that collated information on the Communist Party of Thailand.
Live drop:
A person traveling regularly who carries money, messages, and material between elements in a clandestine network.
Mail drop:
An accommodation address used to prevent a direct link between elements of a clandestine network.
Mongoose Operation:
CIA program of clandestine collection, paramilitary,
sabotage, and political activities aimed at toppling the Castro government.
Nai amphur:
Thai equivalent of an American sheriff.
National Security Council (NSC):
The senior foreign policymaking body of the executive branch established in 1947.
Office of Current Intelligence (OCI):
A component of the Directorate for Intelligence established in 1951. Responsible for the production of current intelligence in numerous areas.
Office of Strategic Services (OSS):
U.S. intelligence agency from 1942 to 1945. Responsibilities included research, analysis, espionage, and overseas operations.
Officer in charge of liaison Special Police (OICSP):
Chief CIA official working in liaison with the Vietnamese Special Police.
Paramilitary (PM):
Military activities used as an element of the CIA's covert action function. Can include demolitions to full-scale wars such as the secret war in Laos.
People's Action Teams (PAT):
Agency-sponsored program in Vietnam, consisting of small teams of armed men assigned to protect rural villagers from the Communists.
Permanent change of station (PCS):
Usually a two-year assignment of Agency personnel overseas.
Personal record questionnaires (PRQ):
Forms filled out by case officers for prospective agents. PRQ Part I provides basic biographic data while PRQ Part II describes operational use of the agent. PRQs were forwarded to Headquarters to obtain required approvals to use agents.
Phoenix program:
Agency-sponsored program in Vietnam to seek out and capture or kill members of the Communist organization in South Vietnam.
Police Aerial Reconnaissance Unit (PARU):
A Thai paramilitary organization used in Laos to fight that secret war.
Province officer in charge (POIC):
Chief Agency official assigned to work in a Vietnamese province.
Provincial Reconnaissance Units:
An Agency-sponsored organization in Vietnam designed to seek out and capture or kill members of the Vietnamese Communist infrastructure.
Records integration division (RID):
Headquarters Directorate for Operations element that maintained files and name indices.
Regional officer in charge (ROIC):
The Agency's chief official assigned to the various regions in Vietnam.
Sea Supply Company:
A large commercial firm said to have been used to cover CIA activities in Thailand.
Special assistant for counterinsurgency:
Office in the United States Embassy in Thailand responsible for coordinating all American programs designed to counter insurgency.
Temporary duty assignment (TDY):
CIA assignment to a task or area for a short, specific period.
Western Enterprises:
A commercial firm said to have been used to cover CIA activities based on Taiwan.
INDEX
“Abbott, Dave” (deputy station chief, Thailand),
63-64
,
74-75
,
80
,
86
,
88-89
,
92
,
117
Abraham Lincoln Library, Saigon,
146
Abzug, Bella,
62
Adams, Sam,
156-157
,
184-185
,
210
Adoula, Cyril,
60
Africa,
56
AFL-CIO,
59
AFSCME,
59
Agee, Philip,
35-36
,
168
,
202
,
205-206
,
210
Agency for International Development (AID),
59-60
,
95-96
,
127
,
143
,
160-161
police training mission (CIA cover),
60
agrovilles,
138
Air America: The Story of the CIA's Secret Airlines
(Robbins),
205
,
207
Air Asia,
27
Albania
CIA operations in,
24
“Allen” (McGehee's colleague),
41-44
,
147
Allende, Salvador,
59
American Civil Liberties Union, [vi],
196
American dissidents,
63
American University,
128
amphetamines,
163
Anderson, Jack,
63
Andres, Monica, [vi]
Angola
CIA operations in,
60
anti-American demonstrations,
168
anti-communist witchhunt,
3
Arbenz, Jacobo,
27
Arlington, Virginia,
18
Armee Clandestine, L',
57
Armies of Ignorance, The
(Corson),
204-205
Arosemena, Carlos Julio,
59
ARVN,
157
Asian communism
see
communism
Associated Press,
209
At War with Asia
(Chomsky),
208
atomic weapons,
132
Austin, Anthony,
209
Bangkok, Thailand,
66-67
,
69
,
87
,
90
,
93
,
98
,
100
,
102
,
109
,
163-165
,
177
Bangladesh,
174
barbiturates,
163
“Bart” (Thai desk chief),
122-123
“Barton, Al” (McGehee's boss in Taiwan),
45