Office of Special Plans

The Office of Special Plans (OSP), which existed from September 2002 to June 2003, was a Pentagon unit created by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, and headed by Feith, as charged by then–United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to supply senior George W. Bush administration officials with raw intelligence (unvetted by intelligence analysts, see Stovepiping) pertaining to Iraq.[1] A similar unit, called the Iranian Directorate, was created several years later, in 2006, to deal with intelligence on Iran.[2]

  1. ^ Alexandrovna, Larisa. "Senate Intelligence Committee Stalling Prewar Intelligence Archived 2019-09-02 at the Wayback Machine," The Raw Story, December 2, 2005. Retrieved May 22, 2007.
  2. ^ Alexandrovna, Larisa (June 15, 2006). "Pentagon confirms Iranian directorate as officials raise new concerns about war". The Raw Story. Archived from the original on 2006-06-19. Retrieved 2006-06-17.