NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain
My following visit to Cheyenne Mountain and NORAD’s Headquarters wasn’t just interesting and useful. It turned out to be absolutely fascinating as well. NORAD was a joint U.S.-Canadian command that had begun in the 1950s with its backbone being the [...]
Huntsville, Alabama, and the Army Missile Command
As I thought about what it would take to do the counterintelligence study correctly, it quickly became apparent that I needed to get out of the Pentagon and talk firsthand to the people who were or would be designing, [...]
The Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile System
Though large antiwar demonstrations and racial disturbances were a common part of the American scene when I was in the Army between 1968 and 1971, they weren’t demanding all my time by any means. One project that I devoted [...]
The Blue U and CIA Training
In June 1969, just as I turned 27, I was selected to join a dozen other Army counterintelligence agents at a special school conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Training. The focus of the two-week course was [...]
The Army Operations Center (AOC)
The 1967 emergency deployment to Detroit had caught the Army by surprise, and Secretary Vance had also recommended that a new war room in the Pentagon be built to coordinate up to 25 simultaneous deployments of Regular Army troops [...]
Bernardine Dohrn-The SDS Revolutionaries Then and Now
Bernardine Dohrn Attends the Class of 1967's 55th Reunion of the University of Chicago Law School Bernardine Dohrn Takes Questions from her Law School Classmates in 2022 Family Ties Prove Bill Ayers' Point In summer 1968, I had been [...]
Directorate of Civil Disturbance Planning and Operations
One of Vance’s recommendations after Regular Army troops had been sent to quell the extreme violence in Detroit in 1967 was to create a joint service command unit to oversee the mission of controlling civil disturbances when the Army [...]
The Vance Report
Following the Detroit riot, former Secretary of the Army Cyrus Vance (then serving as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Concerning the Detroit Riots) prepared a study to reassess the Army’s preparedness for this new role. The Vance [...]
CIAD in the CD of OACSI at DA in DC
In November 1968, the Counterintelligence Analysis Detachment (CIAD) of the Counterintelligence Division (CD) of the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (OACSI) of the Department of the Army (DA) in the District of Columbia (DC) was [...]
