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	Frank Wisner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Wisner (1910 – October 29, 1965) was the head of the Directorate of Plans of the Central Intelligence Agency.
		Frank Wisner was put in charge of the operation and recruited many of his old friends from Carter Ledyard.
		In 1956, Wisner suffered a breakdown and was diagnosed as a manic depressive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Wisner (423 words)

	Operation Mockingbird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wisner was told to create an organization that concentrated on "propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world."
		Frank Wisner was constantly looking for ways to help convince the public of the dangers of communism.
		Frank Wisner became head of this new organization and Richard Helms became his chief of operations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Mockingbird (2486 words)

	Wharton India Economic Forum
		Wisner was Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs from April 1982 to April 1986, a period of intense diplomatic engagement in Southern Africa at a time of conflict in Angola, Mozambique and Namibia and in the history of the end of Apartheid in South Africa.
		Frank Wisner is a member of the Boards of Directors of EOG Resources and Ethan Allen in addition to his duties on the Boards of ALICO and the AIG Investment Bank in Russia.
		Frank Wisner was born in New York in 1938.
	www.whartonglobal.com /wgbf2003/india/wisner.asp (534 words)

	Frank Gardiner Wisner, Lieutenant, United States Navy
		Frank Gardner Wisner was born in Laurel, Mississippi, in 1910.
		Wisner was disappointed by the US government's reaction to this news and he was forced to advise the Romanian royal family to go into exile.
		Wisner grew very fond of Philby and was unaware that he was a Soviet spy betraying all his operations to his masters in Moscow.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /fgwisner.htm (3197 words)

	Frank Wisner - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wisner served as U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines from August 1991 until June 1992; served as Ambassador to Egypt from August 1986 until June 1991; and served as Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs from April 1982 to April 1986.
		Frank Wisner, as we know in India, was the US Ambassador from 1994 until this year and his entry into Enron must be seen in light of the scandal of Dabhol.
		Wisner Junior was well-known in the CIA and he worked as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs; his current boss, Kenneth L. Lay, Chief Executive Officer of Enron Corporation, also worked for the Pentagon during the US war in Vietnam.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Frank_Wisner (1076 words)

	TBRNews.org
		Frank Gardiner Wisner was born in Laurel, Mississippi, in 1910.
		Wisner was a firm believer in the tremendous espionage potential to be found in the membership of former German allies in the fight against the Soviet partisan movement in Eastern Europe during the war.
		Wisner’s activities led directly to the abortive Hungarian rising in November of 1956—a rising that was not supported by President Eisenhower’s administration.
	www.tbrnews.org /Archives/a1547.htm (3751 words)

	Booknotes Transcript
		Frank Wisner killed himself in 1965, and I thought, "Boy, there's got to be a story in there." The man who started the CIA's clandestine service, who started the department of dirty tricks, as reporters later called it, shot himself.
		Wisner was the OSS man. The OSS was the Office of Strategic Services, America's spy agency in World War II.
		And Wisner was sent to Bucharest -- excuse me, to Romania, to Budapest, in 1944, and he, early on, saw that the Russians were coming, and that was an important moment because everybody else was paying attention to the Germans.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript/index_print.asp?ProgramID=1282 (8494 words)

	PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for "India Ascendent"
		WISNER: It was a command economy and you were looking at three- percent rates of growth.
		WISNER: Well the original state of Kashmir at the time of partition was in the fighting between India and Pakistan in 1947-48.
		WISNER: But the pace with which she advances will be - is still a bit of a question.
	www.pbs.org /thinktank/transcript1137.html (3193 words)

	Frank Wisner
		Wisner moved to Washington where he associated with a group of journalists, politicians and government officials that became known as the Georgetown Set.
		Wisner managed to get a copy of the speech that Nikita Khrushchev made at the 20th Party Congress in February, 1956, where Khrushchev launched an attack on the rule of Joseph Stalin.
		Frank G. Wisner, an ex-OSS man, was brought in from the State Department to head it, with a cover title of his own invention.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKwisner.htm (4080 words)

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		Frank Wisner, like Phil Graham, had been born a southerner and had made his own way in the Northeastern legal establishment.
		At OPC, Wisner developed a vision that the war against Communism would be fought not as another large war, but as a series of "guerrilla-like skirmishes," a situation that he sought to control.
		In Washington, he became friendly with Frank Wisner, father of [Operation] Mockingbird, and with Allen Dulles, an OSS man who became the second Director of the new CIA in 1953.
	www.textfiles.com /conspiracy/CN/cn09-35.txt (1153 words)

	Power Scam by Uri Dowbenko
		Wisner is also credited with helping Enron win a $2.8 billion deal in India, building a power plant near Bombay.
		Wisner Sr., who worked at CIA from 1947 until just before his "suicide" in 1965, was involved in 1) the 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala, toppling the goverment of Jacobo Arbenz for United Fruit Company, 2) the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq, and 3) the secret operations against Indonesian President Sukarno.
		Unlike his spooky father, Frank Wisner Jr., however, was a former Pentagon official before his job at Enron.
	www.conspiracydigest.com /powerscam4.html (188 words)

	White House Press Releases Database: PRESIDENT NAMES FRANK G. WISNER AS AMBASSADOR TO INDIA
		Wisner is presently the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
		Wisner was born on July 2, 1938 in New York.
		Wisner is married to the former Christine de Ganay and they have four children.
	members.tripod.com /~AlgeriaWatch/whitehouse15.html (163 words)

	The Power Elite: Enron and Frank Wisner
		His lineage is impeccable, since his father, Frank Wisner Sr., was a senior CIA official (from 1947 until his suicide in 1965) who was involved in the overthrow of Arbenz of Guatemala (1954) and Mossadeq of Iran (1953).
		Wisner Junior was well-known in the CIA and he worked as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs; his current boss, Kenneth Lay, Chief Executive Officer of Enron Corporation, also worked for the Pentagon during the US war in Vietnam.
		When Wisner was US Ambassador to the Philippines (1991-92), Enron was in the midst of negotiations to manage the two Subic Bay power plants.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/606858/posts (932 words)

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		Frank Gardiner Wisner had grown up in a world that was, like the one the CIA would help create, secretive, insular, elitist, and secure in the rectitude of its purpose.
		Wisner's family built nearly all of the town of Laurel, Mississippi-the schools, the churches, the museum, the bank, the parks, the golf course, the cemetery.
		In bankruptcy class one day Wisner handed his seatmate, Arthur Jacobs, a drawing of "the courts squeezing debtors, with the creditors lined up with their tongues sticking out to get the droppings." Still, Wisner was regarded as more serious and mature than the hell-raisers in the DKE house.
	karws.gso.uri.edu /Marsh/Jfk-conspiracy/Very_Best_Men.htm (5437 words)

	ERPKIM Archive \| Frank Wisner visits Visoki Decani Monastery, April 17, 2006
		Ambassador Wisner stated that the purpose of his visit to Kosovo was to learn more about the situation under which various communities were living in order to better determine needs that need to be taken into consideration while resolving the future status of Kosovo.
		Ambassador Wisner also emphasized that the protection of monuments is not just the responsibility of the international community but also the local ones, which should be more active in their efforts to establish mutual confidence.
		Wisner said that he was deeply impressed by the beauty of the church and the artistic treasures guarded in Visoki Decani Monastery, which are the treasures of the entire civilized world.
	www.kosovo.net /news/archive/2006/April_17/1.html (869 words)

	CIA and the Press: The Mighty Wurlitzer
		When the CIA was launched in 1947 at the beginning of the Cold War, these pioneers felt that they had both the right and the duty to secretly manipulate the masses for the greater good.
		OSS veteran Frank Wisner ran most of the early peacetime covert operations as head of the Office of Policy Coordination.
		Wisner and Dulles were at the keyboard, directing history.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/8425/CIAPRESS.HTM (5339 words)

	Sister City Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ambassador Wisner has served in a number of positions in the U.S. government, including Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (1993-94), Undersecretary of State for International Security Affairs (1992-93), Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (1982-86), and Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State (1977).
		During the course of his career, Frank Wisner served in the Middle East and South and East Asia.
		A native of New York, Ambassador Wisner was educated at Princeton University.
	www.nyc.gov /html/unccp/scp/html/about/bio_wisner.shtml (155 words)

	U.S. Special Representative Frank G. Wisner to Visit Belgrade on February 3, February 2, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is Ambassador Wisner's first trip to Belgrade, and he will focus on developing relationships with Serbia's political and religious leaders and discussing issues of interest to the Serbian people in advance of the negotiations on the future status of Kosovo.
		Ambassador Wisner was appointed by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as her Special Representative to the Kosovo Status Talks in December 2005.
		Ambassador Wisner was born in New York in 1938.
	belgrade.usembassy.gov /embassy/press/2006/b060202.html (503 words)

	Spring 1998 CSAS Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Frank G. Wisner, Ambassador to India from 1994-1997, spoke on "South Asia and the United States: In the Wake of the May Nuclear Tests" at 3:00 p.m.
		No one is more familiar than Wisner with the issues involved in the May 1998 nuclear tests by India and Pakistan and their subsequent political fallout and, in particular, pressure exerted by the U.N. to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty as well as economic sanctions.
		Previously, Wisner served as Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
	www.virginia.edu /soasia/new/newsletter/Fall98/Wisner.html (240 words)

	Replies
		He tracked the progress of Clinton's ambassador to India, Frank Wisner, who was helping speed the deal along.
		According to this Dyncorp thread, Frank Wisner, Jr.
		Wisner, it would be recalled, was ally of Enron and had promptly joined the company as a director when he left India.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/610764/replies?c=72 (326 words)

	Frank Wisner: Presidential Elections Marked 'an Historic Day' in Egypt - Council on Foreign Relations
		Frank G. Wisner, a veteran U.S. diplomat and ambassador to Egypt from 1986-91, says the first-ever multi-candidate presidential election in Egypt marked “an historic day” for that country.
		Though President Hosni Mubarak will be reelected to another term in office, “it is nonetheless a major development first and foremost for Egyptians and the emerging political class, which will draw many lessons from this day,” he says.
		Wisner was interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, consulting editor for cfr.org, on September 8, 2005.
	www.cfr.org /publication/8840/frank_wisner.html (2660 words)

	Wisner: 'Pivotal Moment' in Afghanistan - Council on Foreign Relations
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		Frank G. Wisner II, co-chairman of a new independent task force report on Afghanistan cosponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society, says the United States is at “a pivotal moment” in its efforts to keep the government of President Hamid Karzai afloat.
		Wisner, a leading expert on South Asia and vice chairman of external affairs at American International Group, says he believes that “we are going to make some of the belated commitments that should have been made earlier” to save Afghanistan.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=6069 (1561 words)

	The Power Elite: Enron and Frank Wisner
		Frank Wisner, as we know in India, was the
		impeccable, since his father, Frank Wisner Sr., was a senior CIA official
		When Wisner was US Ambassador to the Philippines (1991-92), Enron was in the
	www.apfn.org /enron/wisner.htm (690 words)

	Press Briefing
		We have with us Ambassador Frank Wisner, who held and holds the career rank of ambassador.
		AMBASSADOR WISNER: I feel very comfortable -- I've spent a life in diplomacy, and I have no, obviously, personally, and I would hope the President and I know the President feels very strongly about the importance of restoring democracy, the rule of law, strengthening governance in Pakistan.
		But I'm also struck by the fact that the promise of the economic miracle that could be India is held back by this fear on the part of those who would otherwise be investing more freely, regarding the possibility of a nuclear exchange.
	www.fas.org /news/india/2000/000314-indopak-wh1.htm (3996 words)

	Appointment of Ambassador Frank G. Wisner As The Special Representative of the Secretary of State to the Kosovo Status ...
		Ambassador Wisner is a seasoned diplomat with more than 30 years of international experience.
		He served his country with distinction as Ambassador to India, the Philippines, Egypt and Zambia and as the Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs and as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
		Ambassador Wisner will provide American support to the lead international negotiator, UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari, in his efforts to bring together Serbian and Kosovar leaders for discussions on Kosovo’s future status.
	www.state.gov /secretary/rm/2005/58288.htm (299 words)

	Rediff On The Net Business Interview / Frank Wisner
		rank Wisner, former US ambassador to India (1994-1997), remains one of the best-known diplomats in India, two years after he ended his stint.
		He and his wife Christine travelled the length and breadth of the country, and organised some very successful charities (like the Umang group for children).
		Wisner represents the American Insurance Group and the US-India Business Council and is currently looking forward to the India Investment Council meet to be held in Bombay in mid-November.
	www.rediff.com /business/1999/nov/04wisner.htm (893 words)

	U.S. Special Representative Frank G. Wisner Visits Belgrade on April 17, April 17, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ambassador Frank G. Wisner, U.S. Special Representative to the Kosovo Status Talks, visits Belgrade on Monday, April 17.
		During the short visit, Ambassador Wisner will meet Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica, Serbian President Tadic, Serbia and Montenegro Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic, and leaders of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
		Ambassador Wisner will focus on strengthening relationships with Serbia's leaders and will urge them to play a constructive role in the ongoing negotiations to ensure a peaceful, democratic Kosovo that protects the rights of all its residents.
	belgrade.usembassy.gov /embassy/press/2006/b060417.html (121 words)

	Samantha Powers, "Bystanders to Genocide," Atlantic Monthly, September 2001
		In an April 11 memo prepared for Frank Wisner, the undersecretary of defense for policy, in advance of a dinner with Henry Kissinger, a key talking point was "Unless both sides can be convinced to return to the peace process, a massive (hundreds of thousands of deaths) bloodbath will ensue."
		On May 5 Frank Wisner, the undersecretary of defense for policy, prepared a memo for Sandy Berger, then the deputy national-security adviser.
		Wisner's memo testifies to the unwillingness of the U.S. government to make even financial sacrifices to diminish the killing.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/power.htm (15705 words)

	Operation Mockingbird - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets." (23).
		Wisner was told to create an organization that concentrated on "propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world." (1)
		Joseph McCarthy did not realise what he was taking on.
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Operation_Mockingbird (3191 words)

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