Office of Special Plans - Wolfowitz, Feith
Office of special plans was created by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith. It was created as a Pentagon Unit and headed by Feith. Office of special Plans (OSP) existed from September 2002 to June 2003 and its role was to supply senior officials from the Bush administration with the raw intelligence pertaining to Iraq. Raw intelligence implied intelligence that was not yet analyzed by intelligence analysts.
Many former and current officers in the intelligence collecting agency such as CIA and the government have criticized the OSP. Former CIA officer Larry C Johnson in his interview described OSP as dangerous and a threat to world peace. He blamed OSP for manipulating the collected intelligence on Iraq, before the invasion in order, to justify the preformed notions about Saddam held by certain high ranking officials in the administration. He claimed that the OSP selectively presented intelligence to support their agenda and ignored anything that was contrary to their predetermined notions.
OSP, as according to an unnamed pentagon advisor, was created in order to find means to support what Wolfowitz and Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield believed to be true. Its purpose was to find close ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq and present evidence in such a way that would portray Iraq as a threat to world peace with possessions of enormous arsenal of WMD`s. OSP and its Iraqi Intelligence Cell headed by Feith
Sought to create doubt on CIA analysis and discredited it in order to establish a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
The Senate Intelligence Committee report of prewar intelligence on Iraq, which was published in July 2004, further supported these allegations on OSP. The committee, though highly critical of CIA’s intelligence on Iraq, found its judgment on the link between Iraq and al Qaeda to be correct.
Pentagon’s inspector general issued a report in February 2007 stating that Feith`s office was responsible for presenting alternative intelligence assessments on Iraq and Al Qaeda relations to the senior Officials which was inconsistent with the general consensus of the intelligence community. However his report concluded that these actions were highly inappropriate but not illegal
In 2006 an allegedly similar unit on Iran, called the Iranian Directorate was created.
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