The Georgetown Set
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 The Georgetown Set(Deep state faction)    | |
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| Formation | 1940s |
| Founder | Frank Wisner |
| Extinction | 29 October 1965 |
| Membership | • Dean Acheson • Joseph Alsop • Stewart Alsop • James Angleton • Richard Bissell • Tracy Barnes • Thomas W. Braden • Chip Bohlen • David Bruce • Clark Clifford • John Sherman Cooper • Allen W. Dulles • Desmond FitzGerald • Felix Frankfurter • Philip Graham • William Averill Harriman • George Kennan • Cord Meyer • John McCloy • Paul Nitze • James Reston • Eugene Rostow • Walt Rostow • Frank Wisner |
| Deep state faction which creating the CIA. | |
The Georgetown Set, or Wisner's Gang, was a US deep state faction which played a part in the development of the US deep state, principally by creating the OPC and CIA.
Membership
The group has a considerable overlap with Skull and Bones. It lead to the creation of the OPC, which J. Edgar Hoover described as "Wisner's gang of weirdos".[1]
Approach
Frances Stonor Saunders, author of Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War? (1999) observed that:
“In long exchanges, heated by intellectual passion and alcohol, their vision of a new world order began to take shape. Internationalist, abrasive, competitive, these men had an unshakeable belief in their value system, and in their duty to offer it to others. They were the patricians of the modern age, the paladins of democracy, and saw no contradiction in that. This was the elite which ran American foreign policy and shaped legislation at home. Through think-tanks to foundations, directorates to membership of gentlemen's clubs, these mandarins were interlocked by their institutional affiliations and by a shared belief in their own superiority.”
Frances Stonor Saunders [2]
Fall
Cord Meyer's wife, Mary Pinchot Meyer, was shot dead in 1964. On 29 October 1965 Frank Wisner was shot dead. Desmond FitzGerald.
Known members
23 of the 24 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Dean Acheson | US deep state operative who was the 51st Secretary of State |
| Joseph Alsop | Influential journalist very close to the CIA |
| Stewart Alsop | |
| James Jesus Angleton | "The dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world", according to Richard Helms, DCI. |
| Tracy Barnes | US Deep state actor involved in the Bay of Pigs |
| Richard M. Bissell | |
| Charles Bohlen | US diplomat member of The Georgetown Set, advisor to all US Presidents from 1943 to 1968 |
| Thomas W. Braden | OSS, Georgetown Set, CIA |
| David Bruce | spooky US diplomat |
| Clark Clifford | |
| John Sherman Cooper | |
| Allen Dulles | Dulles served the longest ever term as Director of Central Intelligence and dominated American intelligence for a generation. He personified a cadre of Ivy League pragmatic elitists in high echelons of the government who greatly admired Germany’s scientific achievements.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> Dulles was fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs and bore a grudge against him thereafter. |
| Desmond FitzGerald | A US Spook and Georgetown Set member who died of a "heart attack" |
| Felix Frankfurter | "The most controversial justice of his time." |
| Philip Graham | |
| W. Averell Harriman | |
| George Kennan | Suspected US deep politician, member of the Georgetown Set |
| John J. McCloy | US deep politician, Warren Commission, CFR Chair for 17 years, President of the World Bank ... |
| Cord Meyer | CIA spook who may have run the cover up of the JFK assassination |
| Paul Nitze | US deep politician, hawkish United States Deputy Secretary of Defense. |
| James Reston | Georgetown Set, Bilderberg 1965 |
| Walt Rostow | Suspected US deep state functionary member of The Georgetown Set |
| Frank Wisner | US deep politician, and an architect of Operation Mockingbird. Reportedly killed himself. |
