29-10-2015, 10:53 PM
What I find truly amazing about these historical rememberances is the complete omission of the FBI's SIS.
The Special Investigative Service. It was thru this service, which was disbanded at the end of WWII as the OSS was being converted to the CIA, the Hoover and the FBI had assets and intel within the Western Hemisphere which greatly influenced the intelligence and in-country situation for many years to come.
The creation of the CIA then was also instrumental in removing Hoover's official capacities and desires for the SIS in favor of a different "good-old-boys" network which were instrumental in assisting thousands of Nazis escape Europe for the southern part of the Western Hemisphere and re-establish the military as the spearhead of the USA's intelligence efforts. This should provide some insight into the thought that Hoover was most definitely not an insider to the assassination but an unwilling participant afdter the fact.
Americans remain the most vastly unaware group of citizens on the planet all in the name of baseball, apple pie and bailouts.
New Insights into J. Edgar Hoover's Role
The FBI and Foreign Intelligence
G. Gregg Webb…
One of the most interesting, but least documented, chapters in the history of the FBI
is the experience of its Special Intelligence Service (SIS) during World War
II. Established in 1940, the FBI's SIS was the first foreign-intelligence
bureaucracy in US history, created years before the Central Intelligence Agency
and even before the Agency's forerunner, William "Wild Bill"
Donovan's Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
Postwar Proposal
As SIS successes mounted,so did Hoover's confidence in the field of foreign-intelligence andcounterintelligence work. Indeed, by December 1944, Hoover was bold enough topropose a "world-wide intelligence system" for after the war thatwould be administered by the FBI and organized like the SIS. Even though there is little evidence to suggest that Hoover actually enjoyedthe SIS's sensitive foreign-intelligence work, he could recognize a promisinginstitutional model when he saw one and he clearly valued the SIS as a vehiclefor expanding both his own power and the postwar influence of the FBI. Hisproposal marked a clear departure from his early reservations over the SIS andhis responsibility for it.
Alas,Hoover's ambitions in the field of foreign intelligence were to go unfulfilled.His plan was dismissed outright by both Donovan, Hoover's rival and the authorof a separate plan for a postwar intelligence structure, and President HarryTruman. The FBI was passed over in the postwar reshuffling of the intelligencecommunity. The product of this bureaucratic free-for-all was the new andindependent Central Intelligence Group (CIG) that came into being bypresidential directive on 22 January 1946. The fledgling agency, under thedirection of Rear Adm. Sidney Souers, had global jurisdiction and replacedentirely the FBI's Secret Intelligence Service in Latin America.
The Special Investigative Service. It was thru this service, which was disbanded at the end of WWII as the OSS was being converted to the CIA, the Hoover and the FBI had assets and intel within the Western Hemisphere which greatly influenced the intelligence and in-country situation for many years to come.
The creation of the CIA then was also instrumental in removing Hoover's official capacities and desires for the SIS in favor of a different "good-old-boys" network which were instrumental in assisting thousands of Nazis escape Europe for the southern part of the Western Hemisphere and re-establish the military as the spearhead of the USA's intelligence efforts. This should provide some insight into the thought that Hoover was most definitely not an insider to the assassination but an unwilling participant afdter the fact.
Americans remain the most vastly unaware group of citizens on the planet all in the name of baseball, apple pie and bailouts.
New Insights into J. Edgar Hoover's Role
The FBI and Foreign Intelligence
G. Gregg Webb…
One of the most interesting, but least documented, chapters in the history of the FBI
is the experience of its Special Intelligence Service (SIS) during World War
II. Established in 1940, the FBI's SIS was the first foreign-intelligence
bureaucracy in US history, created years before the Central Intelligence Agency
and even before the Agency's forerunner, William "Wild Bill"
Donovan's Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
Postwar Proposal
As SIS successes mounted,so did Hoover's confidence in the field of foreign-intelligence andcounterintelligence work. Indeed, by December 1944, Hoover was bold enough topropose a "world-wide intelligence system" for after the war thatwould be administered by the FBI and organized like the SIS. Even though there is little evidence to suggest that Hoover actually enjoyedthe SIS's sensitive foreign-intelligence work, he could recognize a promisinginstitutional model when he saw one and he clearly valued the SIS as a vehiclefor expanding both his own power and the postwar influence of the FBI. Hisproposal marked a clear departure from his early reservations over the SIS andhis responsibility for it.
Alas,Hoover's ambitions in the field of foreign intelligence were to go unfulfilled.His plan was dismissed outright by both Donovan, Hoover's rival and the authorof a separate plan for a postwar intelligence structure, and President HarryTruman. The FBI was passed over in the postwar reshuffling of the intelligencecommunity. The product of this bureaucratic free-for-all was the new andindependent Central Intelligence Group (CIG) that came into being bypresidential directive on 22 January 1946. The fledgling agency, under thedirection of Rear Adm. Sidney Souers, had global jurisdiction and replacedentirely the FBI's Secret Intelligence Service in Latin America.
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter