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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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One such is Douglas Feith, who ran the Office of Special Plans at the Pentagon, and who concocted the 'Yellow Cake' theory giving George Bush the ammo he ...
... Rumsfeld set up what was effectively an alternative government (the veep's shadow national Security Council, and Doug Feith's Office of Special Plans). ...
The film examines the activities of a small group of policy advisers and analysts in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans (OSP) as they work to shape ...
... given that Rubin himself formerly worked in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, helping Doug Feith shape dubiously-sourced intelligence into ...

À la fin de l'été 2002, la nouvelle unité secrète, baptisée Office of Special Plans (OSP), est opérationnelle. Avec une mission claire : établir des ...
Meanwhile, Michael Mukovsky, the Project Director, has a history with Rumsfeld's Office of Special Plans. Calling this thing "bipartisan" is quite silly. ...
Douglas Feith--Former under secretary of defense for policy, he established the Office of Special Plans, which produced "inappropriate" intelligence leading ...
The intelligence information produced by the Intelligence Community was massaged by a group in the Pentagon called the Office of Special Plans whose sole ...
Douglas Feith-Former under secretary of defense for policy, he established the Office of Special Plans, which produced "inappropriate" intelligence leading ...
... geäußerte und von Cheneys Office of Special Plans verbreitete Anschuldigung, Hussein habe versucht, sich waffenfähiges Uran aus dem Niger zu beschaffen, ...
... und bringt excellente SchĂĽler wie Wolfowitz, den Vize Verteidigungminister, sowie Shulsky, den Chef des Pentagon's Office of Special Plans hervor. ...
Feith's operation was called the Office of Special Plans. In 2002, Feith and gang produced a slideshow purporting to show that Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda ...
Feith's operation was called the Office of Special Plans. In 2002, Feith and gang produced a slideshow purporting to show that Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda ...
... or could not, supply the intelligence needed to justify a war on Iraq, Rumsfeld set up his own rump "intelligence" agency, the Office of Special Plans, ...
... or could not, supply the intelligence needed to justify a war on Iraq, Rumsfeld set up his own rump "intelligence" agency, the Office of Special Plans, ...
... forgery," and that because Cheney mistrusted the CIA, he "went to Doug Feith's Office of Special Plans [at the Pentagon] and asked them to do the job. ...
... when he couldn't get the intelligence he wanted from the CIA, created the Office of Special Plans to manufacture it; how in 2002 the British government ...
It has been revealed that Michael Ledeen, a representative of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's Office of Special Plans, had been in Rome at the same time ...
... is the first US president to mistakenly trust the intelligence gathered by Vice President Cheney's and Secretary Rumsfeld's "Office of Special Plans. ...
In early 2007, the Pentagon's Inspector General issued a report on pre-war intelligence that concluded Feith's Office of Special Plans "was inappropriately ...
Apparently Michael Rubin has been reminiscing about his old days at the Office of Special Plans where if A = B and B >C then Saddam Hussein must have ...
In early 2007, the Pentagon's inspector general issued a report on pre-war intelligence that concluded Feith's Office of Special Plans "was inappropriately ...
In early 2007, the Pentagon's Inspector General issued a report on pre-war intelligence that concluded Feith's Office of Special Plans "was inappropriately ...
... who operated a top-secret shop inside the Pentagon known as the Office of Special Plans that exaggerated the Iraqi threat and provided the White House ...
Hostettler claims that it was only after the "distressing news ... of the lack of WMD" that he learned members of the Office of Special Plans had played a ...
... who operated a top-secret shop inside the Pentagon known as the Office of Special Plans that exaggerated the Iraqi threat and provided the White House ...
Amy Goodman: They're saying that the order actually went to the Office of Special Plans, headed by Douglas Feith, not the CIA. ...
The Office of Special Plans (OSP) routinely rewrote the CIA's intelligence estimates on Iraq's weapons programs, removing Phrases like "probably," "likely" ...
Amy Goodman: They're saying that the order actually went to the Office of Special Plans, headed by Douglas Feith, not the CIA. ...
Amy Goodman: They're saying that the order actually went to the Office of Special Plans, headed by Douglas Feith, not the CIA. ...
Some of us even learned from investigative reporter Larissa Alexandrovna in late 2005 that the Office of Special Plans planned "off book" missions from ...
The Office of Special Plans (OSP) routinely rewrote the CIA's intelligence estimates on Iraq's weapons programs, removing Phrases like "probably," "likely" ...
... who operated a top-secret shop inside the Pentagon known as the Office of Special Plans that exaggerated the Iraqi threat and provided the White House ...
"Instead, he went to Doug Feith's Office of Special Plans and asked them to do the job. ... It was Feith's office that produced the letter and then surfaced ...
The Office of Special Plans (OSP) routinely rewrote the CIA's intelligence estimates on Iraq's weapons programs, removing Phrases like "probably," "likely" ...
Instead, he went to Doug Feith's Office of Special Plans and asked them to do the job. Now obviously there are some supporters of the administration who are ...
... generated false intelligence reports from the vice president's Office of Special Plans and disseminated bogus WMD stories to willing mainstream media ...
Instead, he went to Doug Feith's Office of Special Plans and asked them to do the job. ... It was Feith's office that produced the letter and then surfaced it ...
It was mostly nonsense culled from the neocon press and the Pentagon's "Office of Special Plans" rather than serious intelligence professionals. ...
Mr. Feith maintains his Office of Special Plans never distorted intelligence, but this is demonstrably false. the Pentagon Inspector General's report, ...

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