The Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) was a U.S. covert psychological operations and paramilitary actions organization completely separate from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) until the two were merged in 1951. OPC was created in 1948 by the National Security Council under a document called NSC 10/2. The OPC's directors included representatives of the State and Defense departments and the CIA. It was largely administered and supplied by the Central Intelligence Agency. If there is one man largely credited for the OPC's creation, it was State Department official George Kennan. The OPC's executive director was Frank Wisner, a former OSS figure in Romania and later an assistant secretary of state for refugee affairs.citation needed
The OPC grew rapidly during Korean War. In April 1951, President Truman established the Psychological Strategy Board in order to coordinate all government psychological warfare strategy.1
In 1952, the office came under CIA control and was merged with the Office of Special Operations to form the Office of Special Plans.
