The euphemistically named Office of Policy Coordination

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The NSC overcame these limitations with a deceitful misinformation tactic. They established a two-tiered, often contradictory, information system. “Classified,” and often intentionally doctored reports were circulated among thousands of employees, which predictably resulted in leaks to the press of “secret decisions” by the NSC. The accurate reports of actual activities were kept under a “top secret” classification limited to authorized persons with a need to know. The legally unauthorized covert ops were then designed to be deniable, with a plausible cover story created and released as the “classified” report.

Six months after the NSC was formed they created phone number list another branch whose very existence was a state secret. (OPC), “coordinated” their only “policy” of conducting covert operations around the world. By 1952, this “non-existent” agency employed about six thousand operatives in forty-seven field stations with an estimated annual black budget of at least 82 million (1950's) dollars.

Virtually all of their funding was spent on “black” psychological warfare. The OPC's charter gave them tasks including propaganda, economic warfare, preventative direct actions including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to resistance movements, and guerrilla forces. The OPC developed a special branch for managing assassinations and kidnappings of persons who were “inimical” to U. S. interests.