Sunday, December 30, 2018

OSS Operations Group Manual

These are the policies and procedures used by the CIA's JMWAVE station to train the anti-Castro Cubans, and for the Dealey Plaza Operation.


OPERATIONAL GROUP FIELD MANUAL – STRATEGIC SERVICES (Provisional)

Prepared under the direction of The Director of Strategic Services
(William Donovan)

SECRET

Strategic Services Field Manual No. 6
Office of Strategic Services
Washington D.C.
25 April 1944

This Operational Groups Field Manual – Strategic Services is made available for the information and guidance of selected personnel and will be used as the basic doctrine for Strategic Services training for the operations of these groups.

The contents of this manual should be carefully controlled and should not be allowed to come into unauthorized hands. The manual will not be taken to advance bases.

AR 380-5, 15 March 1944, pertaining to the handling of secret documents, will be complied with the handling of this manual.
Signed
William J. Donovan Director

TABLE OF CONENTS
SECTION 1 – INTRODUCTION
1.      SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF MANUAL
2.      DEFIITIONS
3.      OPERATIONAL GROUPS

SECTION II – ORGANIZATION

4.      ORGANIZATION IN WASHINGTON
5.      ORGANIZATION IN THE FIELD

SECTION III – PERSONNEL
6.      ORGANIZATION FOR RECRUITMENT
7.      QUALIFICATIONS OF OG PERSONNEL

SECTION IV – TRAINING
8.      GENERAL PROCEDURE
9.      TRAINING OBJECTIVES
10.  CURRICULUM
11.  MAINTENANCE OF MORALE

SECTION V – OPERATIONS
12.  GENERAL
13.  TYPES OF OG OPERATIONS
14.  OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS

SECTION VI – COOPERATION OF OG WITIN OSS AND WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

15.  COOOPERATION WITH THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
16.  COOPERATION WITH OTHER OSS OPERATIONS BRANCHES
17.  COOPERATION WITH SIMILAR AGENCIES OF ALLIED NATIONS

SECTION VII - PLANNING
18.  PLANNING IN WASHINGTON
19.  PLANNING IN THEATERS OF OPERATIONS
20.  CHECK LIST



OPERATIONAL GROUPS FIELD MANUAL – STRATEGIC SERVICES

SECTION I – INTRODUCTION

`1. SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF MANUAL

This manual sets forth the authorized functions, operational principles, methods, and organization of Operational Groups (OG’s) as a part of OSS operations. It’s purpose is to guide Strategic Services personnel responsible for planning, training, and operations in the proper employment of OG’s.

2. DEFINITIONS

a.       OVER-ALL PROGRAM FOR STRATEGIC SERVICES ACTIVTIES – a collection of objectives, in order of priority (importance) within a theater or area.
b.      OBJECTIVE – a main or controlling goal for accomplishment within a theater or area by Strategic Services as set forth in an Over-all Program.
c.       SPECIAL PROGRAM FOR STRATEGIC SERVICES ACTIVITIES – a statement setting forth the detailed missions assigned to one or more Strategic branches, designed to accomplish a given objective, together with a summary of the situation and the general methods of accomplishment of the assigned missions.
d.      MISSION – a statement of purpose set forth in a special program for the accomplishment of a given objective.
e.       OPERATIONAL PLAN – an amplification or elaboration of a special program, containing the details and means of carrying out the specified activities.
f.       TASK – a detailed operation, usually planned in the field, which contributes toward the accomplishment of a mission.
g.      TARGET – a place, establishment, group or individual toward which activities or operations are directed.
h.      THE FIELD – all areas outside of the United States in which Strategic Services activities take place.
i.        FIELD BASE – an OSS headquarters in the field, designated by the name of the city in which it is established, e.g., Strategic Services Field Base, Cairo.
j.        ADVANCED OR SUB-BASE – an additional base established by and responsible to an OSS field base.
k.      OPERATIVE – an individual employed by and responsible to the OSS and assigned under special programs to field activity.
l.        AGENT – an individual recruited in the field who is employed and directed by an OSS operative or by a field or sub-base.
m.    RESISTANCE GROUPS – individuals associated together in enemy-held territory to oppose the enemy by any and all means short of military operations, e.g., by sabotage, non-cooperation.
n.      GURREILLAS – an organized band of individuals in enemy-held territory, indefinite as to number, which conducts against the enemy irregular operations, including those of a military or quasi-military nature.


3. OPERATIONAL GROUPS

a.       DEFINITION
OPERATIONAL GROPUS: a small, uniformed party of specially qualified soldiers, organized, trained, and equipped to accomplish the specific missions set forth below.
b.      AUTHORITY

Among the functions assigned by the Joint Chiefs of Staff directive to the Office of Strategic Services are the following, which are applicable to Operational Groups:

(1)   The organization and conduct of guerrilla warfare;
(2)   The use of the organization and facilities of the OSS by the theater commander in his theater or area in any manner and to the maximum extend desired by him.

c.       MISSIONS OF OPERATIONAL GROUPS

The mission of OPERATIONAL GROUPS is:

(1)   To organize, train, and equip resistance groups in order to convert them into guerrillas, and to serve as the nuclei of such groups in operations against the enemy, as directed by the theater commander.
(2)   In addition, under authority granted to the theater commander by the JCS Directive, Operational Groups may be used to execute independent operations against enemy targets as directed by the theater commander.


SECTION II – ORGANIZATION

4. ORGANIZATION IN WASHINGTON
a. Operational Groups are organized in Washington along strictly military lines. There is a commanding officer, responsible to the Strategic Services Operations Officer, and a staff consisting of an executive officer, an  S-1 (personnel), and S-2 (intelligence and security), and S-3 (plans and training), an S-4 (supply), and a medical officer (chief surgeon and medical supply officer). There is also training staff of variable size consisting of semi-permanent senior instructors, and junior instructors who are assigned to field duty with OG’s after they have trained their successors.
b. OG Headquarters, Washington, has no direct command over OG’s in the field, since they are under control and direction of the theater commander through the strategic services officer. The primary function of the OG organization in Washington is to service OG’s in the field with trained personnel and supplies. OG Headquarters, Washington, also has the administrative responsibility of maintaining coordinated chronological record of OG activities.
5. ORGANIZTION IN THE FIELD
a. The Operational Group
(1) TABLE OF ORGANIZATION
The Operational Groups, consisting of 4 officers and 30 men, is the basic unit of OG organization. An OG normally consists of 2 sections of 2 squads each.
The T/O of a typical OG is as follows:
Captain (1) commanding
First Lieutenant (3) including:
Second-in-command of the OG (1)
Section leader (2)
Technical sergeant (2), including:
Second-in-command of sections (2)
Staff Sergeant (6), including:
Squad leader, (4)
Medical technician (2)
Corporal or technician fifth grade (22), including:
Scout (16)
Code clerk (1)
Courier (1)
Radio operator (4)
Aggregate (all ranks(: 34

2. TABLE OF EQUIPMENT

In addition to standard Army clothing, OG members are issued special garments appropriate to the climate and terrain in their country of operations. Each Operational Group has a special Table of Equipment (T/E), showing the arms and other articles to be carried. This T/E varies with the theater for which the OG is bound and the missions it is expected to accomplish.

3. SS EQUIPMENT
(a) SS weapons and demolition equipment are issued to OG’s through SS supply channels in the theater, as required by their mission.
(b) Communications equipment carried by OG’s consists of SS radio sets which are issued through SS supply channels in the theater.

4. MOTORIZED VEHICLES

Although motorized vehicles are no part of the organic equipment of an OG, they may be issued in the theater when required by a mission and when it is feasible to introduce and maintain such vehicles in the area of operations.

b. THE FIELD SERVICE HEADQUARTERS

(1)   TABLE OF ORGANIZATION

The Field Service Headquarters (FSHQ) is the next higher echelon of command above the Operational Group. An FSHQ is roughly comparable to the Army’s battalion headquarters, and the FSHQ commanding officer directs the operations of from two to five OG’s. An FSHQ is normally located outside of, but in proximity to, the enemy-held territory in which several OG’s are operating. However, when conditions permit, FSHQ will be established in the areas of operations. The T/O consists of the following:
Major (1), commanding
Captain (1), medical officer
First lieutenant (3), including:
Adjutant (1)
Communications officer (1)
Supply officer (1)
First sergeant (1)
Technical Sergeant (6), including:
Signal non-commissioned officer (3)
Supply non-commissioned officer (2)
Replacement (1)
Corporal or technician, fifth grade (16),
Aggregate (all ranks): 28



SECTION III – PERSONNEL
6. ORGANIZTION FOR RECRUITMENT
a. Members of OG’s procured in the United States are officers or enlisted men who have been inducted into the Army through regular channels. Under War Department approval, and within War Department allotment of grades and ratings, selection is made of such personnel by trained interviewers of the Personnel Procurement Branch (PPB), OSS, according to specifications submitted by Headquarters, Operational Groups Washington. PPB interviewers examine the civil and military records of likely candidates and hold personal interviews. Candidates who are acceptable are ordered to an SS area to begin training, pending security clearance. This procedure in no way violates security, as the training initially given is an extension of Army training. No specialized strategic services instruction is given until the security check has been completed.
b. It will sometimes be necessary to procure OG personnel directly in the theater where they will operate. This procedure is applicable when persons cannot be found in the United States who are qualified in a particular language, knowledge of a certain locality, and other essentials. When an OG must be staffed in the theater, the work of procurement will usually be done by a cadre from the U.S. consisting normally of 2 officers and 5 men,…..
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d.      SKILLS
As many men as possible in each OG should be qualified in certain specialized fields. Previous training on radio, demolitions, weapons, scouting, or field craft is a particularly desirable qualification in a candidate.,,,,
……f….POLITICAL SYMPATHIES
Persons charged with procurement of OG personnel must use great care in the case of individuals who are sympathetic to particular political movements or factions within the country of their origin. The readiness and ability of such individuals to get along harmoniously with the movement or faction in the area of operations must be carefully determined in advance. In certain areas, however, where disputes are bitter, and the areas of rivals are not delineated, it is more desirable to staff an OG with American citizens whose language ability is somewhat imperfect rather than with ex-natives of the area who have pronounced political attachments.
g. CHARACTER TRAITS
While the risks involved tend to make OG work appeal to young men, the success of OG assignments is not the result of daring and bravado alone. Accordingly, candidates will be selected whose past records, civilian and military, give evidence of stability and good judgement.
h. ARMY TRAINING
Except for certain specially qualified persons recruited in the field (see paragraph 6. b.) candidates must have completed basic training before being accepted for OG work. Candidates who have also had combat training are preferable.
SECTION IV – TRAINING
8. GENERAL PROCEDURE
OG training is an intensive course of specialized instruction in the weapons, techniques, and methods of operation appropriate for a small, self-sufficient band of men who may be required to live and fight in the manner of guerrillas….The training period in the U.S. is normally three weeks…..





Saturday, December 29, 2018

National Museum of Intelligence and Special Ops

BK NOTES: Thanks to Jefferson Morley and his new Deep State Blog for calling attention to this new National Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations. 


The opening of the Spy Museum in Washington DC near the FBI's J. E. Hoover building tour and Ford's Theater sparked the suggestion for creating our own museum on political assassination, that was to be the public front for a real assassination research center. With the late Gene Case, a New York Madison Ave. Advertising "Mad Man," we scouted out the area and looked at a few old warehouses that would have served us well. John Judge officially incorporated the Hidden History Museum, but since John's death, that is now truly hidden somewhere in the boon docks of Pennsylvania. 

The Spy Museum is run by a former CIA man Peter Earnest, a former US Marine who served at Atsugi, Japan around the same time as Oswald, and he knows the truth, but like the late Gary Mack, his job would require him to lie about Oswald's true role in such affairs. They certainly won't have an exhibit on Oswald. 

Now the OSS Society - has footed a $10 million for the construction of a brilliant new building to house the National Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations, that will, like the Spy Museum, as Morley puts it, will glamorize and sanitize the true nature of intelligence and special operations. 

It will have to be up to truly independent reporters and historians to set the record straight - as we are doing by describing the assassination of President Kennedy as a covert intelligence operation, the purpose of which is to conduct a crime and get away with it by using deception and disinformation. 

One positive aspect of all this is the promotion of their tactics and manuals, such as this OSS manual for Maritime Operations, that was undoubtedly used by Bradley Ayers and Edward Roderick to teach the JMWAVE Cubans the basics of covert maritime operations. 


Lee Harvey Oswald himself tried to infiltrate Carlos Bruinguier's DRE unit in New Orleans by giving him his US Marine Corps Manual, that described the techniques used to silently kill someone and blow up bridges. I have asked Bruinguier for a photo copy of Oswald's manual, but he has yet to respond. 

Now we have to get some foundation or rich multi-millionaire to cough up a few million for a real Assassinations Research Center based in Washington D.C. - the City of Assassins. 


The Starr Foundation Makes a $10 Million Lead Gift to the National Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations

NEWS PROVIDED BY
The OSS Society, Inc. 

FALLS CHURCH, Va., Dec. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society announced a $10 million lead gift to the National Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations from The Starr Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States.  The Foundation makes grants to education, medical research/healthcare, human needs, public policy/international relations, culture and the environment.

Rendering of the National Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations

The museum will educate the American public about the importance of strategic intelligence and special operations to the preservation of freedom, honor Americans who have served at the "tip of the spear", and inspire future generations to serve their country.  It will be built within Kincora, a 424-acre mixed use development in Loudoun County, Va., which is being co-developed by the TRITEC Real Estate Company and Norton Scott.

The museum's breathtaking design was inspired by the spearhead, a symbol used by the intelligence and special operations communities since World War II.  It was conceived by the renowned architect Curtis Fentress and will be visible from the flight path of Dulles International Airport.  Patrick Gallagher, the founder of Gallagher & Associates – one of the world's leading museum planning and design firms – is designing its groundbreaking exhibits that will enable visitors to experience the world of intelligence and special operations through an immersive and interactive experience unlike any other.  MGAC is serving as the museum's project management firm.

Charles Pinck, president of The OSS Society, said: "We are incredibly grateful to The Starr Foundation and its Chairman, Maurice Greenberg, for their extraordinary generosity.  This grant continues The Starr Foundation's commitment to educational programs that preserve and convey important aspects of American history."

The OSS Society, which is building the museum, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that honors the OSS, its successor organizations, and educates the American public about the importance of strategic intelligence and special operations to the preservation of freedom. 

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Thursday, December 27, 2018

Robert Ruark


Robert Ruark
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Chester Ruark, Jr.
Ruark main.jpg
Born
December 29, 1915
Wilmington, North Carolina
Died
July 1, 1965 (aged 49)
London, England
Occupation
Novelist
Nationality
American
Notable works
Horn of the Hunter
Something of Value
Spouse
Virginia Webb
Robert Ruark (December 29, 1915 in Wilmington, North Carolina – July 1, 1965 in London, England[1]) was an American author, syndicated columnist, and big game hunter.
Contents
·         1Early life
·         2Early career
·         3Marriage
·         4Writing career
·         5African safari
·         6Last years
·         7Bibliography
·         8Filmography
·         9References
·         10External links
Early life[edit]
Born Robert Chester Ruark, Jr., to Charlotte A. Ruark and Robert C. Ruark, a bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery, young Ruark grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. His brother, David, was adopted, and little is known about him. The Ruark family was deeply affected by the Depression, but still managed to send Robert to college. He graduated early from New Hanover High School, and enrolled in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at age 15. His studies included a few journalism classes but, contrary to popular belief, he did not earn a degree in journalism.
Early career[edit]
In the 1930s, Ruark was fired from an accounting job in the Works Progress Administration, and did a hitch in the United States Merchant Marine. He worked for two small town newspapers in North Carolina: the Hamlet News Messenger and, later, the Sanford Herald.
In 1936, Ruark moved to Washington, D.C., and was hired as a copy boy for The Washington Daily News, a Scripps-Howard newspaper. In just a few months he was the paper's top sports reporter.
During World War II, Ruark was commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy, and served ten months as a gunnery officer on Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys.
Marriage[edit]
In 1938, Ruark married Virginia Webb, an interior designer from an upper-middle-class family in the Washington, D.C. area, and a graduate of Georgetown University. They divorced in 1963, and had no children. Virginia Webb-Ruark died in 1966.
Writing career[edit]
Upon his return to Washington, Ruark joined the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance. As his obituary in The New York Times stated, Ruark was "sometimes glad, sometimes sad, and often mad — but almost always provocative." Some of his columns were eventually collected into two books, I Didn't Know It Was Loaded (1948) and One for the Road (1949).
As he became recognized, Ruark began to write fiction, first for literary magazines, and then his first novel, Grenadine Etching, in 1947. The novel parodied the popular historical romances of the time and set the stage for his many humorous novels and articles published in the Saturday Evening PostEsquire, and other popular publications.
African safari[edit]
After enjoying some success as a writer, Ruark decided that it was time to fulfill a lifelong dream to go on safari to Africa, fueled by his doctor's advice to have a year's rest.[2] Legendary Ker and Downey Safaris booked him with Harry Selby, and Ruark began a love affair with Africa. Ruark was booked with Selby because of a desire to use a tracker named Kidogo, who had once hunted with Ernest Hemingway. Ruark's pairing with Selby, though fortuitous, was pure chance. Kidogo was a member of Selby's crew.
As a result of this first safari, Ruark wrote a book called Horn of the Hunter, in which he detailed his hunt. Selby became an overnight legend and was subsequently booked for up to five years in advance by Americans wishing to duplicate Ruark's adventures. After the first safari, Selby and Ruark again went hunting, and this time they took cameras along. The result was a one-hour documentary entitled Africa Adventure, released by RKO pictures. Though extremely difficult to find, a 16mm print of this movie was discovered in 2002, and a DVD copy was created and donated to the Robert Ruark Foundation in Southport, North Carolina.
In 1953, Ruark began writing a series for Field & Stream magazine entitled The Old Man and the Boy. Considered largely autobiographical (although technically fiction), this heartwarming series ran until late 1961. The stories were characterized by the philosophical musings of the Old Man, who was modeled after both of Ruark's grandfathers, but mostly on Captain Edward "Ned" Hall Adkins, Ruark's maternal grandfather. In the stories, young Bob Ruark grows up hunting and fishing in coastal North Carolina, always guided by the Old Man. However, the pain of his parents' difficult domestic life and his relatively few childhood friends (Ruark, something of a child prodigy in school, was a loner) are tellingly absent from the narratives. Many of the stories were collected into a book of the same name, followed shortly thereafter by a companion book entitled The Old Man's Boy Grows Older. Today these two books are probably his best remembered works. Twenty stories were also published in the book Robert Ruark's Africa.[3]
Ruark's first bestselling novel was published in 1955. Entitled Something of Value, it describes the Mau Mau Uprising by Kenyan rebels against British rule. The novel drew from the author's personal knowledge and experiences on safari in Africa, and was adapted into a successful 1957 film, Something of ValueUhuru, a novel with a similar theme, but not intended to be a sequel, was published in 1962. "Uhuru" is the Swahili word for freedom. He had intended to write a final chapter in the series with the working title of A Long View From a Tall Hill, but this never materialized.
Last years[edit]
After his first half dozen books or so, Ruark continued to write, though few of his later novels matched his earlier successes. In 1960, after a bittersweet visit to his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina, Ruark left the U.S. for good. He lived in London and Barcelona, before settling in Sant Antoni de Calonge, Spain. Shortly before his death, he wrote a final article which later appeared in Playboy and was titled "Nothing Works and Nobody Cares." He died in London, England, on July 1, 1965, of cirrhosis of the liver brought on by alcoholism.[4] His last novel, The Honey Badger, exemplified the condition of the author at this time in his life. The book was published posthumously, as was Use Enough Gun, which is essentially a collection of excerpts from his earlier works. More notable are the two collections published by McIntosh and Casada, which are representative of the author's finest work.
Robert Ruark is buried in Palamos, Spain.
Bibliography[edit]
By Robert Ruark:
·         Grenadine Etching (1947)
·         I Didn't Know It Was Loaded (1949)
·         One for the Road (1949)
·         Grenadine's Spawn (1952)
·         Horn of the Hunter (1953)
·         Something of Value (1955)
·         The Old Man and the Boy (1957)
·         Poor No More (1959)
·         The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1961)
·         Uhuru (1962)
·         The Honey Badger (1965)
·         Use Enough Gun: On Hunting Big Game (1966)
·         Women (1967)
·         Robert Ruark's Africa by Michael McIntosh (1991), a collection of Ruark's magazine articles
·         The Lost Classics (1996), additional hunting adventures
About Robert Ruark:
·         A View from a Tall Hill: Robert Ruark in Africa by Terry Wieland (2004); despite the title, a biography of Ruark's whole life and writings.
·         Someone of Value: A Biography of Robert Ruark by Hugh Foster
·         Ruark Remembered: By the Man Who Knew Him Best by Alan Ritchie (October 2007)
Filmography[edit]
·         Africa Adventure (1955–56), narrator, writer, and director
References[edit]
1.     ^ "Robert Ruark". American Society of Authors and Writers. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
2.     ^ p. 268 Powell, William S. Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Volume 51994 UNC Press
4.     ^ David E. Petzal (December 2000). "Y'r Obdt. Svt". Field & Stream.
External links[edit]
·         The Robert Ruark Society