In Search of Enemies

Notes on In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story by John Stockwell, W.W. Norton and Company, 1978.

1) Resigned in 1978 from CIA

2) Deputy Directorate of Information (DDI) fulfills the mission of the National Securty Act of 1947 which is to centralize all raw intelligence available to the government, analyze it and report on it

3) Deputy Directorate of Operations (DDO) is the covert arm of the CIA based in Langley VA.

4) Angola 1975-1976

A) Book details CIA’s covert operation to supply friendly Angolan fighting groups with weapons

B) Techniques:

• Send in arms while holding to official story of arms embargo
• Maintain prepackaged stocks of foreign made weapons for immediate sale/shipping anywhere in the world with deniability regarding source (WWII weapons, for example)
• Create paper trail of arms sales through highly visible channel (to Zaire, for example) and covertly deliver the same weapons to a secret recipient
• Plant reports in local papers, send news to world press, world press picks it up and broadcasts the news
• Feed disinformation to other government agencies
• Page 179 — Interesting story about how operatives would talk to one another using different cover stories, depending on who was present.  Makes for interesting conversations where participants know reality, but practice lying in conversation.