Cryptonym: ENDOMORPH
10/23/63 memo from Lyman Kirkpatrick to CIA Director John McCone: "...this report indicates the action which has been taken on the findings of the Working Group...(page 54:) Police Programs - We are convinced that United States Government support in friendly nations can provide great benefits to the United States and that some of these benefits will assist CIA in its work. The President has recently indicated to AID that he wishes this program to receive strong support. We believe that CIA should give it greater support than it has previously received. We recommend that the police group in CI Staff receive such augmentation as is necessary, and that Project Endomorph (police training school) be transferred from the NE Division to the CI Staff.
157-10014-10144: 157-10014-10144
1976: ENDOMORPH/ENGAGE is listed within a group of former CIA proprietaries providing "personal services". Others included MKCRUSH/MKPENNY, MKCRUSH/MKCOTTON, BEUSEFUL, and BGJAGUAR.
Village Voice, THE REPORT ON THE CIA THAT PRESIDENT FORD DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP03-01541R000200420001-1.pdf
2/16/76: "From the early 1950s until 1973, CIA operated a proprietary, International Police Services, in the Washington DC area. It had the dual purpose of improving allies' internal security and evaluating foreign cadets for pro-US orientation, which might later enable CIA to recruit them as intelligence assets. In the early 1960s the Agency for International Development's Office for Public Safety became actively involved in foreign police training. OPS' 14 week course was augmented by an additional four weeks of training at IPS, pursuant to a contractual relationship with AID. Students were not made aware that they were being trained at a CIA facility, and only a handful of AID officials, including the Director of OPS, knew of IPS' CIA status. Instructors were asked to provide the names of students who exhibited a pro-American attitude. It does not appear, however, that the CIA attempted to recruit students while in the United States, although CIA documents indicate that with the cooperation of OPS, lists of OPS and IPS students were made available, along with biographical information, to CIA components for operational use..."
1/22/77 assessment by R. B. Holmes of material possibly compromised by being furnished to Congressional members: "General Statement/Summary of Damage: The only set of files pertaining to a CI operation is ENDOMORPH/ENGAGE. The Village Voice of 2/16/76 gives a general description of this operation at page 89. (Note to reader: This article can be viewed above in the previous post.) Details of Damage: Although this operation has been terminated, details of CIA's involvement in the training of foreign police services under the auspices of Public Safety, AID, could, even now, be damaging to the Agency's present and future relations with police services of friendly countries to the point that the US government might lose their support in maintaining a united front against a common enemy. According to the Village Voice (citing "the Pike Report") 'as many as 5000 police officers from over 100 countries, many of whom have become high officials, unwittingly received training from the CIA. The position of these foreign police officers may have been damaged when, in 1973, IPS (International Police Services) was revealed as a CIA front. Presumably the files on Project ENDOMORPH would contain the identities of those police officers trained under IPS auspices.'"
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81M00980R001200110060-1.pdf
Circa July 1978, Jack Anderson: "CIA Trained Amin's Henchmen in Georgetown: "...the CIA trained at least 10 of (Idi Amin's) handpicked henchmen for special police training in a strange 'prep school' that the American taxpayers established in the exclusive confines of Georgetown. These Ugandan police and intelligence agents attended the International Police Academy, ostensibly operated by the Agency for International Development, but secretly supported by the CIA. They returned to Uganda to torture and execute Amin's victims. The academy was located in an old streetcar repair center in Georgetown, not far from the gardened dwellings where such Washington eminences as Dean Acheson, Henry Kissinger and John F. Kennedy have resided. More than 5000 police agents from 77 governments received training in 'the Carbarn' before the operation was closed down under Congressional criticism in 1975. Three of the Ugandans went on to take a post-graduate course at the International Police Services, Inc., another school hidden away in a Washington brownstone mansion. The school operated as a commercial cover for the CIA for more than a quarter century and exported police equipment to foreign governments paid for covertly with CIA money..."