For Harvard and Kissinger, serving the Cold War machine, whether through the Department of Defense or the CIA, was a patriotic duty.
At the same time, Kissinger maintained direct ties to the CIA, including contact with its chief, Alan Dulles.
A declassified CIA document reveals the Psychological Strategy Board's core mission, winning hearts and minds through strategic influence.
He served as liaison between the CIA and the Pentagon.
This is best shown in a series of declassified CIA documents from 1952.
One memo involving CIA director Walter B. Smith highlights the National Security Risk posed by flying saucers, not just as unknown aerial threats, but as tools that could be exploited by the Soviets to spread hysteria or disrupt air defense systems.
He was corresponding with CIA director Alan Dulles, consulting with Gordon Gray at the Psychological Strategy Board, and networking with the power brokers shaping Cold War intelligence.
Eisenhower before his presidency was involved, along with future CIA director Alan Dulles, and future CIA deputy director Richard M. Bissill.
And Harry Turner definitely led all nuclear efforts for the Australian Joint Intelligence Organization, which is basically Australia's CIA.
It details a top secret request from President John F. Kennedy to CIA director Alan Dulles on June 28, 1961.
Yep, that's correct. And that's the date of a meeting between the CIA director Alan Dulles and President John F. Kennedy.
The Bay of Pigs disaster in 1961 led to the outsting of CIA director Alan Delas and deputy director Richard Bissell.
In Bissell's case, the rumor was he left work at the CIA on Friday and on Monday he returned because he was too indispensable to certain activities he was involved in.
It was just two months after the Bay of Pigs in June of 1961 that Kennedy requested a full briefing on MJ-12 activities from the head of the CIA,
Did JFK's decision to clean house at the CIA overlap with an inquisition into the activities of the MJ-12?
The secret of body overseeing CIA missions.
Officially, these groups members typically included the National Security Advisor, senior officials from the CIA, and representatives from the State and Defense Departments.
Alternatively, could programs like MJ-12 have evolved into operations more akin to the CIA's notorious chaos or MK-Ultra?
Figures like Richard Bissell, who moved from the CIA into private defense, suggest that real secrecy does not end when someone's ties to an administration does.