Office of Naval Intelligence

Office of Naval Intelligence   (Intelligence agency)
Abbreviation	ONI
Formation	March 23, 1882
Founder	William Hunt
Parent organization	US/Navy
Headquarters	National Maritime Intelligence Center,  Maryland
Leader	Director of Naval Intelligence
Interest of	National Underwater Reconnaissance Office
Member of	United States Intelligence Community
Long established US intelligence agency targeted on 9-11

Not to be confused with the Office of Naval Research

The Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) is the military intelligence agency of the United States Navy. US Naval Intelligence has also been tied to coup d'etats, assassinations - both foreign and domestic, and drug trafficking.

Founding

ONI was founded by the Secretary of the Navy, William H. Hunt in 1882 with General Order 292, which read:

An “Office of Intelligence” is hereby established in the Bureau of Navigation for the purpose of collecting and recording such naval information as may be useful to the Department in time of war, as well as in peace.

To facilitate this work, the Department Library will be combined with the “Office of Intelligence,” and placed under the direction of the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation.

Commanding and all other officers are directed to avail themselves of all opportunities which may arise to collect and to forward to the “Office of Intelligence” professional matters likely to serve the object in view.

Where the real deep control is

Lt. Cmdr. Al Martin, a former ONI operative, described the it as

• contrary to popular belief, ONI is the most powerful US intelligence agency. The ONI already had a deep existing covert illegal structure. They had a mechanism before the CIA even existed. They had contacts in foreign intelligence services and in foreign governments that the CIA never could have hoped to obtain."

• "Also ONI controlled its own assets, which the CIA had to build from scratch later on. The CIA can't control any of its own assets domestically because it's against the law for it to do so, thus the ONI is obviously in a superior position. For instance, you don't see an airfield that says 'Owned by the CIA' on it in the United States. The ONI doesnt have any such restrictions because it's part of the US Navy."

• "ONI is where the real deep control is. It's where the real deep secrets are kept. That was what ONI always did the best. Keeping secrets. Accumulating secrets. Warehousing secrets for the purposes of control...One thing I can tell you is the ONI was instrumental in dethroning former Mexican President Louis Portillo. Portillo got very friendly with George Bush and the CIA, and ONI had never alligned with the Bush faction. I know what people think, but that's not true. From what I can tell, it has never been alligned, but has always been hostile to that Eastern Country Club Bush Cabal and their friends in the CIA. The Bill Casey faction is the George Bush-Allen Dulles Faction."

• The principals of the ONI faction are "people that you wouldn't know. Admiral Anderson. Admiral Garrett. Their power comes from the fact that they're not known. Their names wouldn't really mean anything, therefore, they can act in such a behind-the-scenes fashion -- much more than the CIA. It's because of their established structure. They're very deep in old contacts. They've simply been around longer than the CIA. They are able to blend overt and covert operations in the same breath because they are essentially not a covert agency like the CIA. It allows them great cover to operate in the open."

He also described

The group of admirals I was familiar with at the time included Admiral Henderson, Admiral Pauley, and Admiral Collins in connection with Retired Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. They were all mostly retired ONI admirals, or in some cases still active but they constituted a group known as the "Goal Oversight Development," which was the name of their group — the initials GOD, which I think they did out of some humor. But their powers are virtually god-like — their ability to assassinate people, to make people disappear, to make documents and entire files disappear anywhere, anytime, and their ability to corrupt judicial proceedings. It is simply enormous.

Organized crime

During World War II, the Office of Naval Intelligence struck a secret deal with the imprisoned mafia boss Charles "Lucky" Luciano. The Navy, the State of New York and Luciano reached a deal: in exchange for a commutation of his sentence, Luciano promised the complete assistance of his organization in providing intelligence to the Navy.

9/11 Attack

Noting that the plane that hit the pentagon made a very difficult 330 degree corkscrew turn before hitting the pentagon to crash into the ONI, E. P. Heidner concludes that "the Office of Naval Intelligence in the Pentagon, which sustained a direct hit that day, was without a doubt, a target that was pinpointed for destruction".

Mark Gorton notes that the ONI was "investigating a gold price fixing/gold laundering scheme that could have implicated the Bush Syndicate. Also killed in the Pentagon on 9/11 were a large number of budget analysts and accountants who may have been looking into the $2.3 trillion of unaccounted military spending that Donald Rumsfeld announced on Sept 10th, 2001." E. P. Heidner suggests that the ONI may have been targetted as a way of keeping them quiet about Project Monarch.

National Underwater Reconnaissance Office

The highly secretive National Underwater Reconnaissance Office seems to be a division of the Office of Naval Intelligence.

Full article: National Underwater Reconnaissance Office

Surveillance

Full article: Gene Viernes

In the aftermath of the assassination of Gene Viernes and Silme Domingo, two trade unionist who were gunned down in Alaska in 1981, it was discovered that Naval Intelligence, with interests in the Philippines because of the naval base there, had amassed a thick dossier that included information about the two organizers’ movements. The dossier included photos of the insides of one of their apartments, descriptions of their travels to the Philippines and who they met with.

Drug trafficking

According to Al Martin,

There have been about 4,500 articles written about Iran-Contra in all publications from the Frankfurter Algemeine to the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun. But there have only been six articles that go into any detail in terms of ONI's involvement in Iran-Contra.

I was aware at the time (1985) of ONI's narcotics operations to the western corridor. They had a corridor and trans-shipping facilities for narcotics that were completely separate from the CIA's. They operated out of Spokane, Washington and Medford, Oregon and down into Fire Lake, Nevada, which is another big ONI operation. They also have air and transportation facilities outside of Phoenix.

They operate principally through Mexico and Evergreen Air was their principal cut-out. It had been a CIA cut-out originally, which the ONI took over. They imported a significant quantity of narcotics into this country to fund their own covert operations, the same type of deep offshore accounts arrangements that the agency has had, but the ONI did it completely themselves for what they perceived to be their own jurisdiction — their own little Admirals Club or Retirement Club, as we used to say. How many of these admirals retire in million dollar homes and own private jets on their pensions?

Task Force 157

In 1966, the US Navy established a covert unit known as Task Force 157. Much less known than the CIA, it might have been involved in the 1975 coup against Gough Whitlam, the then Labor Prime Minister of Australia

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Bob Woodward

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References

• Packard, Wyman H. (1996). Century of U.S. Naval Intelligence. Naval Historical Center

External links

• FBI files on the ONI, hosted at the Internet Archive:
  • Part 75
  • Part 76
  • Part 77
  • Part 78
  • Part 79