East West Center was proposed by LBJ . Mutual Security Act of 1959 called on the State Department to investigate.
Eisenhower signed it into existence in 1960...under the Mutual Security Act.
You might think about that for a minute.
The Mutual Security Act. It got rid of the entity that had managed The Marshall Plan.
Of course, Dean Acheson was involved.
One GOP person said military aid to those on our side was a good idea. Someone else said this was suppose to prevent war not fight a war. A Democrat.
The Act blocked giving assistance to Cuba.
It is possible that there were classes under East-West but not in the buildings yet because those came later.
The State Department had a legislative mandate to oversee East West.
East-West had problems
http://archive.gao.gov/f1002a/105060.pdf
But really , that is to be expected when it is a CIA training ground
Lucien Conein recruited Frank Scotten into the CIA.
Scotten was involved with Operation Phoenix. He attended East West. Scotten admitted that East-West was a training ground for creating agent nets.
Eventual CIA director Colby was in charge of Indonesia and put the same type of Operation into effect.
By the way, the CIA had a defector program.It was put under USAID.
As an interesting sidenotee- Daniel Ellsberg (of Pentagon Papers fame) worked with Scotton’s teams.
Just happened to notice in the book excerpt that Conein was like a consigliore for the Legendary Lansdale (of possible Three Tramps JFK assassination photo.)
Love the story about Lansdale punching Maysaysay in the face
and the quote of operating alone with as little interference as possible.
Lone Wolf and operator
flamboyant
not bound to higher authority
Why do these tangential people always seem to wrap around into the JFK assassination plot in some way or another...
Lansdale would have violated tradecraft if he allowed himself to be photographed with the Three Tramps...
Ahhh,..the good ole CIA....
Speaker's Biography:
Arnold Nachmanoff Oxford analytica
Arnold Nachmanoff is senior adviser to Oxford Analytica, Inc. in Washington, D.C. Oxford is an international consulting and analysis firm for business and government. Nachmanoff is also a managing director of Capital Advisors, Ltd., an international financial advisory firm. Before joining Oxford in 1988, he was senior director of S.G. Warburg & Co., Ltd., a merchant bank, where he headed the Overseas Advisory Division. Beginning in 1962, Nachmanoff held a variety of positions in the U.S. government. Most recently (1977-81), he was deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury, with responsibility for economic relations with the developing nations.
Currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Nachmanoff holds an M.A. in international studies from the University of Denver. SOURCE LINK