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The Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) was a United States covert psychological operations and paramilitary action organization. Created as an independent office in 1948, it was merged with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1951. OPC was created in 1948 under the United States National Security Council document NSC 10/2. The OPC's directors included representatives of the State and Defense departments and the CIA. Though a unit of the CIA, the OPC Director reported to the State Department.〔 State Department official George F. Kennan was the key figure behind OPC's creation.〔Miscamble, 199〕 The OPC's executive director was Frank Wisner,〔Will Brownell and Richard N. Billings, ''So Close to Greatness: A Biography of William C. Bullitt'' (NY: Macmillan Publishing, 1987), 299〕 a former OSS figure in Romania and later an assistant secretary of state for refugee affairs. The OPC was originally known as the Office of Special Projects.〔https://books.google.com/books?id=HohPaIyc5G0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA245#v=onepage&q&f=false〕 == Operational Scope == Point 5 of the NSC 10/2〔Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945–1950 Retrospective Volume, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, Document 292; 292. National Security Council Directive on Office of Special Projects (June 18 1948)〕 defines the scope of covert operations as to be overseen by the OPC: The OPC grew rapidly during the Korean War. In April 1951, US President Harry Truman established the Psychological Strategy Board in order to coordinate all US psychological warfare strategy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Foreign Relations 1964-1968, Volume XXVI, Indonesia; Malaysia-Singapore; Philippines: Note on U.S. Covert Action Programs )〕 In 1952, the office came under the direct control of the CIA and was merged with its Office of Special Operations to form the Directorate of Plans.〔Marchetti & Marks p.45〕 Amongst the propaganda mission the psywar staff carried out was the funding of the 1954 Hollywood production of George Orwell's "Animal Farm", which should portray communist domination in an allegorical way.〔Thomas p.33〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Office of Policy Coordination」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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