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	Office of Special Plans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Office of Special Plans, which existed from September, 2002, to June, 2003, was a Pentagon unit created by Donald Rumsfeld and led by Douglas Feith, dealing with intelligence on Iraq.
		Journalist Larisa Alexandrovna of The Raw Story reported in 2006 that the OSP "deployed several extra-legal and unapproved task force missions" in Iraq both before and after the beginning of combat.
		Larry Franklin, an analyst and Iran expert in the Feith office, has been charged with espionage, as part of a larger FBI investigation (see AIPAC espionage scandal).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans (721 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Office of Special Plans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		until February 2003, I observed firsthand the formation of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and watched the latter stages of the neoconservative capture of the policy...
		It was extensive." Chief among these agencies was the so-called Office of Special Plans, set up after Sept. 11, 2001, reporting to Douglas Feith in the Pentagon....
		The Office of Special Plans is a Pentagon unit created by Donald Rumsfeld dealing with intelligence on Iraq.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/organizations/Office_of_Special_Plans (430 words)

	Right Web \| Government Connections \| Office of Special Plans
		By late 2003 the OSP was closed down, having accomplished its mission of providing the strategic intelligence cited by the administration in the build-up to the invasion.
		OSP’s staff and operations were folded back into the normal operations of the NESA and into its Office of Northern Gulf Affairs.
		OSP was the embodiment of the right’s notion of “strategic intelligence”--intelligence analysis that was policy-driven, flexible, and decentralized rather than being overly constrained by verifiable data.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /govt/osp.php (1249 words)

	Tenet Tells Senators, Wolfowitz Committee Gave White House Dubious Intelligence
		But the Office of Special Plans, using Iraqi defectors from the Iraqi National Congress as their main source, rewrote some of the CIA’s intelligence to say, undeniably, that Iraq was hiding some of the world’s most lethal weapons.
		Still, the OSP or “The Cabal,” as the group calls itself, according to the New Yorker story, played a significant role in convincing the White House that Iraq was a threat to its neighbors in the Middle East and to the United States.
		OSP came in with an agenda that they were predisposed to believe,” he said.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4157.htm (1171 words)

	CIA Probe Finds Secret Pentagon Group Manipulated Intelligence on Iraqi Threat, by Jason Leopold
		In cases where the CIA's intelligence wasn't rewritten the Office of Special Plans provided the White House with questionable intelligence it gathered from Iraqi exiles from the Iraqi National Congress, a group headed by Ahmad Chalabi, a person whom the CIA has publicly said is unreliable, the CIA agents said.
		The Office of Special Plans is responsible for advising the White House to allow Bush to use the uranium claims in his speech, according to Democratic Senators and a CIA agent who are privy to classified information surrounding the issue.
		The Office of Special Plans should be examined to determine whether it "complemented, competed with, or detracted from the role of other United States intelligence agencies respecting the collection and use of intelligence relating to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and war planning.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/leopold11.html (1500 words)

	Salon Directory
		The evil was recognized by the leadership to be resident mainly in the Middle East and articulated by Islamic clerics and radicals.
		From May 2002 until February 2003, I observed firsthand the formation of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and watched the latter stages of the neoconservative capture of the policy-intelligence nexus in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
		I witnessed neoconservative agenda bearers within OSP usurp measured and carefully considered assessments, and through suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods to both Congress and the executive office of the president.
	dir.salon.com /story/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/index.html (1058 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact
		The director of the Special Plans operation is Abram Shulsky, a scholarly expert in the works of the political philosopher Leo Strauss.
		The Office of Special Plans is overseen by Under-Secretary of Defense William Luti, a retired Navy captain.
		The Special Plans Office developed a close working relationship with the I.N.C., and this strengthened its position in disputes with the C.I.A. and gave the Pentagon’s pro-war leadership added leverage in its constant disputes with the State Department.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?030512fa_fact (4583 words)

	FORWARD : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Several intelligence sources and Iran policy watchers told the Forward that the Office of Special Plans was a key factor in the push for a policy of Iranian regime change.
		The latter was renamed "special plans" in October 2002 and had its personnel expanded because it had to deal with an upcoming war against Iraq as well as other issues like terrorism, the official said.
		The three policy planning divisions are supervised by the deputy undersecretary of defense for special plans and Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, William Luti.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.06.06/news6.html (1095 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Special investigation: The spies who pushed for war on Iraq
		The agency, called the Office of Special Plans (OSP), was set up by the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to second-guess CIA information and operated under the patronage of hardline conservatives in the top rungs of the administration, the Pentagon and at the White House, including Vice-President Dick Cheney.
		The OSP also sucked in countless tips from the Iraqi National Congress and other opposition groups, which were viewed with far more scepticism by the CIA and the state department.
		The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the White House not only for the Iraqi opposition.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html (1688 words)

	The New Pentagon Papers
		So eager was the office to have Schenker at the Israel desk, he served for many months as a defense contractor of sorts and only received his "Schedule C" political appointee status months after I arrived.
		After August 2002, the Office of Special Plans established its own rhythm and cadence separate from the non-politically minded professionals covering the rest of the region.
		Instead of developing defense policy alternatives and advice, OSP was used to manufacture propaganda for internal and external use, and pseudo war planning.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0310-09.htm (4641 words)

	Rumsfeld's personal spy ring
		Pike describes the Office of Special Plans as "Rummy's war room." Other critics are convinced the operation was manipulating information, and worse, disturbing the peer-review method within the intelligence community.
		The premise behind the office seemed to be that career analysts inside the intelligence community, and specifically the CIA, were not grasping the hard realities about Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction, and that a fresh set of eyes examining much of the same information could make critical links.
		Meanwhile, Rumsfeld's spy office is also coming under new scrutiny for it's questionable job of planning for a postwar Iraq, a country that nearly three months after the toppling of Saddam remains mired in all sorts of political, legal and humanitarian chaos.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4124.htm (1957 words)

	Office of Special Plans - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Office of Special Plans (OSP) was created by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld to help create a case to invade Iraq.
		OSP evolved from the Northern Gulf Affairs Office, which fell under the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia policy office.
		It was renamed and expanded to the Office of Special Plans in October 2002 to to handle prewar and postwar planning.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Office_of_Special_Plans (1588 words)

	AlterNet: Soldier for the Truth
		Abe was the director of the Office of Special Plans.
		He was the final proving authority on all the talking points that were generated from the Office of Special Plans and that were distributed throughout the Pentagon, certainly to staff officers.
		We were instructed by Bill Luti, on behalf of the Office of Special Plans, on behalf of Abe Shulsky, that we would not write anything about Iraq, WMD or terrorism in any papers that we prepared for our superiors except as instructed by the Office of Special Plans.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=17952 (3066 words)

	FBI probes DOD office - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The FBI has intensified its investigation of senior members of what was formerly known as the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans on suspicion that one of them passed highly classified U.S. military information to the government of Israel, according to federal law enforcement officials.
		The NESA/OSP office was located on the fourth floor of the Pentagon, D ring, 7th corridor, according to Kwiatkowski, the former staffer.
		In 2001, Ledeen was hired by Feith to work on contract for the Office of Special Plans, which involved the handling of sensitive materials, Green said, a fact confirmed last week to UPI by congressional investigators.
	www.washingtontimes.com /upi-breaking/20040824-102938-1916r.htm (860 words)

	Last Day of My Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Office of Special Plans and Ahmed Chalabi
		The reason contrators were going into the Office of Special Plans, a division in the Pentigon, is because Cheney was the one who was actually in charge of it.
		The Office of Special Plans and Ahmed Chalabi were used to make bogus evidence.
	sullivan40.diaryland.com /osp_chalabi.html (1041 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Jason Leopold: How Pre-War Iraq Intel Was Cooked
		What's interesting about the Office of Special Plans is that, two years ago, Levin had called on his Republican colleagues to investigate the operation after a number of CIA agents came forward and complained that the unit had been cherry-picking intelligence information that was questionable at best.
		But under Feith's direction, the Office of Special Plans came up with information of an Iraq/al-Qaeda relationship by looking at existing intelligence reports that they felt might have been "overlooked or undervalued," according to a 2002 Defense Department briefing headed by Rumsfeld, who added that he had "bulletproof" evidence that Iraq was harboring al-Qaeda terrorists.
		In a rare Pentagon briefing recently, Office of Special Plans co-director Douglas Feith said the committee was not an "intelligence project," but rather a group of 18 people who looked at intelligence information from a different point of view.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/112305Z.shtml (1987 words)

	Asia Times - How neo-cons influence the Pentagon ...
		The Office of Special Plans (OSP), which worked alongside the Near East and South Asia (NESA) bureau in Feith's domain, was originally created by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to review raw information collected by the official US intelligence agencies for connections between Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.
		In some cases, NESA and OSP even prepared memos specifically for Cheney and Libby, something unheard of in previous administrations because the lines of authority in the vice president's office and the Pentagon are entirely separate.
		Pentagon officials, particularly Feith's office, have reportedly opposed the deal, which had been favored by the State Department, because of the possibility that the group, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, might be useful in putting pressure on Tehran.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EH08Ak01.html (1083 words)

	WMD's Denials, Defense, and Controversy
		The now dis-banded Pentagon office, the Office of Special Plans, is said to have played a role in the George W. Bush administration's presentation of evidence on Iraq.
		Special Plans interpreted data gathered by other intelligence agencies but also concentrated on information provided by the Iraqi National Congress, or I.N.C., the exile group headed by Ahmad Chalabi.
		And they stopped doing their work before the Special Plans Office, if I have it straight, was actually created within Dr. Luti's (William J. Luti, deputy under secretary of defense for special plans and Near East and South Asian affairs) organization".
	www.voiceoffreedom.com /archives/deptofdefense/deniesiraqintelligence.html (945 words)

	Asia Times -Insider fires a broadside at Rumsfeld's office
		Kwiatkowski went on to charge that the operations she witnessed during her tenure in Feith's office, and particularly those of an ad hoc group known as the Office of Special Plans (OSP), constituted "a subversion of constitutional limits on executive power and a co-option through deceit of a large segment of the Congress".
		Kwiatkowski's charges, which tend to confirm reports and impressions offered to the press by retired officers from other intelligence agencies and their still-active but anonymous former colleagues, are likely to make her a prime witness when Congress reconvenes in September for hearings on the manipulation of intelligence to justify war against Iraq.
		While only a dozen people officially worked in the office at its largest, scores of "consultants" were brought in on contract, many of them closely identified with the neo-conservative and pro-Likud views held by the Pentagon leadership.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EH07Ak01.html (996 words)

	Global Exchange : The Lie Factory
		The unofficial, off-site recruitment office for Feith and Rhode was the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank whose 12th-floor conference room in Washington is named for the dean of neoconservative defense strategists, the late Albert Wohlstetter, an influential RAND analyst and University of Chicago mathematician.
		The offices of NESA were located on the Pentagon's fourth floor, seventh corridor of D Ring, and the Policy Board's offices were directly below, on the third floor.
		As OSP got rolling, Luti brought in Colonel Bruner, a former military aide to Gingrich, and, together, Luti and Bruner opened the door to a vast flow of bogus intelligence fed to the Pentagon by Iraqi defectors associated with Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress group of exiles.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/iraq/1448.html (3740 words)

	Pentagon Office Home to Neo-Con Network, by Jim Lobe
		The Office of Special Plans (OSP), which worked alongside the Near East and South Asia (NESA) bureau in Feith's domain, was originally created by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to review raw information collected by the official US intelligence agencies for connections between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.
		But key personnel who worked in both NESA and OSP were part of a broader network of neo-conservative ideologues and activists who worked with other Bush political appointees scattered around the national-security bureaucracy to move the country to war, according to retired Lt. Col.
		Pentagon officials, particularly Feith's office, have reportedly opposed the deal, which had been favored by the State Department, because of the possibility that the group, the Mujahadeen Khalq, might be useful in putting pressure on Tehran.
	www.antiwar.com /ips/lobe080703.html (1220 words)

	New Office of Special Plans Logo - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
		The OSP Logo's old gold framework is designed to be reminiscent of the Nazi service medallions of the 1930's, which is historically notable as the decade preceding Hitler's Nazi Aggression.
		The dark blue is representative of the shadowy nature of this quasi-governmental organization [LINK], while the gilded letters which comprise the name itself are intended to be reminiscent of the U.S. taxpayer's gold (which the PNAC is so generously spending on their Iraqi boondoggle).
		And finally, the vampire bat which hangs inverted, yet ominously prepared to attack, was chosen as the O.S.P.'s mascot partially because it aptly represents a wretched and soul-less entity which endlessly lurks in the shadows, stealthily seeking warm-blooded innocents to victimize.
	www.buzzflash.com /contributors/03/10/con03006.html (930 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Plame, Niger Documents, and the Office of Special Plans
		It was the Office of Special Plans that was responsible for getting this information used, and in fact Dick Cheney used the basis of these forged documents on three occasions as evidence of Iraq seeking nuclear material for weapons.
		It was Dick Cheney's staff at the OSP that overruled the CIA and State officials that the famous 16 words remained in the State of the Union address.
		Karen Kwiatkowski, who at the time worked in the Office of Special Plans and stated that they made up the facts and then reported them as "intelligence.", seems to be validated.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/10/28/221627.php (1241 words)

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