#CovertOperations

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Frank Wisner Frank Wisner founded and directed the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination from 1948 to 1958, organized the stay-behind networks across Europe, broke down after the Hungarian Revolution and shot himself in 1965.

AIFLD The CIA-funded American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AFL-CIO's Latin American arm, which organized anticommunist labor unions throughout the hemisphere and whose operatives played a documented role in the 1964 Brazilian coup and other Cold War regime changes.
NSC Special Group Interagency committee created by NSC 5412/2 in December 1955 to approve CIA covert operations; its predecessor, the Planning Coordination Group of 1955, was chaired by Nelson Rockefeller.
The Enterprise (Iran-Contra) Private covert network assembled by Richard Secord and Albert Hakim to conduct both sides of Iran-Contra, generating approximately $48 million in revenues between 1984 and 1986 through arms sales to Iran and Contra resupply.

Cold War The Cold War was the 1947 to 1991 rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that produced containment doctrine, the CIA covert-action charter and the psychic espionage programs.