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(renamed in July 2003 to Northern Gulf Affairs Office)

The Office of Special Plans (OSP) was created by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld to help create a case to invade Iraq. OSP evolved from the Northern Gulf Affairs Office, which fell under the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia policy office. It was renamed and expanded to the Office of Special Plans in October 2002 to to handle prewar and postwar planning. The name change was done to 'mask' its true mission." [1].

In the days after September 11 terrorist attacks, Paul Wolfowitz

and Douglas Feith started cooking intelligence to meet the needs of the radically new foreign and military policy that included regime change in Iraq as its top priority.

To bolster the Iraq war party, they needed intelligence that would persuade the U.S. public and policymakers that Saddam Hussein’s regime should be one of the first targets of the war on terrorism. Convinced that the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the State Department would not provide them with type of alarmist threat assessments necessary to justify a preventive war, they created their own tightly controlled intelligence operation at the top levels of the Pentagon bureaucracy.

The day after the September 11 attacks Wolfowitz authorized the creation of an informal team focused on ferreting out damaging intelligence about Iraq. This loosely organized team soon became the Office of Special Plans (OSP) directed by Abram Shulsky, formerly of RAND and the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC). The objective of this closet intelligence team, according to Rumsfeld, was to “search for information on Iraq’s hostile intentions or links to terrorists.” OSP’s mission was to create intelligence that the Pentagon and vice president could use to press their case for an Iraq invasion with the president and Congress.

Once the Office of Special Plans was set up formally, now they were informally set up prior to the fall of 2002, but formally they became an office with office space and that whole bit. And the first act to follow that setup of the Office of Special Plans, we had a staff meeting, and our boss, Bill Ludy, who was the boss of Special Plans technically, not in reality but on paper. And he announced to us that from now on, action officers, staff officers such as myself and all my peers, at least in that office, and I presume this went all the way through the rest of policy, but we were told that when we needed to fill in data, putting it in papers that we would send up, doing our job, as we did our daily job, we were no longer to look at CIA and DIA intelligence, we were simply to call the Office of Special Plans and they would send down to us talking points, which we would incorporate verbatim no deletions, no additions, no modifications into every paper that we did. And of course, that was very unusual and all the action officers are looking at each other like, well that's interesting. We're not to look at the intelligence any more, we're simply to go to this group of political appointees and they will provide to us word for word what we should say about Iraq, about WMD and about terrorism. And this is exactly what our orders were. And there were people [Laughs] a couple of people, and I have to say, I was not one of these people who said, “you know, I'm not gonna do that, I'm not gonna do that because there's something I don't like about it, it's incorrect in some way.” And they experimented with sending up papers that did not follow those instructions, and those papers were 100 percent of the time returned back for correction.
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A separate intelligence-gathering apparatus -- in the "Office of Special Plans." And a separate judiciary -- in the military tribunals set up by the coup ...
Feith became head of the Office of Special Plans
Cheney is following the neocon PSYOP campaign, crafted by Rumsfeld's Office of Special Plans. Miller 123 is right. This does prove who was running the White ...
One of those people, she said, was Larry Franklin, an Air Force officer assigned to the Office of Special Plans who, in 2003, passed classified information ...

One of those people, she said, was Larry Franklin, an Air Force officer assigned to the Office of Special Plans who, in 2003, passed classified information ...
Franklin was working in the Pentagon's infamous Office of Special Plans under Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith at the time he was busted. ...
I did not confront either my boss in the Office of Special Plans, Douglas Feith, or his boss, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, about my overriding ...
the Pentagon played a major role in the campaign of politicization, creating the Office of Special Plans and the Counter Terrorist Evaluation Group to ...
the Pentagon played a major role in the campaign of politicization, creating the Office of Special Plans and the Counter Terrorist Evaluation Group to ...
We all know that he was convicted for passing classified information to Israel and that he worked for Douglas Feith in the Office of Special Plans. ...
We now know that Miller was being fed bogus or at least cherry-picked Intel from the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and Cheney aide Scooter Libby. ...
Sie entlarvte das von Douglas Feith geleitete Office of Special Plans als die für die kriegsvorbereitenden Fälschungen verantwortliche Einheit und machte ...
Makovsky is supposed to be some sort of expert on the oil industry, which is the capacity he served in for the Office of Special Plans â€Â" an odd job for ...
Makovsky is supposed to be some sort of expert on the oil industry, which is the capacity he served in for the Office of Special Plans â€Â" an odd job for ...
... and Douglas Feith, who supervised the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans in the George W. Bush administration, to set up an assassination capability. ...
Mr. Franklin said that as part of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans - a special analytical group in the office of Douglas J. Feith, ...
Also, Cheney used the Iranian Directorate (in the Department of Defense) and the Office of Special Plans, which was used against Iraq, and dealt with the ...
Dick Cheney's Iranian Directorate cooked intelligence on Iran in the same manner that his Office of Special Plans fabricated Saddam Hussein's WMD program. ...
After 9/11, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Douglas Feith established the Pentagon's neocon Office of Special Plans (OSP), which soon "rivalled both the CIA and ...
It came out of Vice President Dick Cheney's office and out of the Office of Special Plans, run by Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith, in the office of ...
Franklin was part of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, which was run by William I. Luti and Douglas J. Feith, neither of whom, presumably, ...
The operations of the JSOC-Mossad team were coordinated by the Office of Special Plans, a unit that operated as a CIA rival under the direction of Feith and ...
We know that Cheney cooked the intelligence on Iraq through Doug Feith's Office of Special Plans. Journalist and former CIA officer Philip Giraldi asserts ...
Cheney's Iranian Directorate manufactured intelligence on Iran in much the same way that his Office of Special Plans cooked the intelligence that ...
... Rumsfeld set up what was effectively an alternative government-the veep's shadow national Security Council, and Doug Feith's Office of Special Plans. ...
... a Straussian neoconservative intelligence expert who oversaw the controversial Office of Special Plans (OSP), which produced discredited intelligence ...


 


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