Editing Frank Wisner (section)

==History==
During WWII, he joined the OSS in 1943, serving in Cairo, Istanbul, and Bucharest, where he orchestrated the rescue of 1,350 American POWs in Romania and gathered critical German and Soviet intelligence. His work intersected with Karl Wolff during Operation Sunrise in 1945, when Wisner, under Allen Dulles in Wiesbaden, supported negotiations for the early surrender of Axis forces in Italy, leveraging his expertise in covert coordination.

After the war, Wisner briefly returned to law but was recruited to the State Department in 1947, soon heading the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), a covert unit that merged into the CIA in 1950. As Deputy Director of Plans (1951–1958), he controlled vast resources, shaping global anti-communist efforts. He masterminded [[Operation Mockingbird]], infiltrating media to promote pro-American narratives, and orchestrated coups in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954), toppling [[Mohammad Mossadegh]] and [[Jacobo Árbenz]] to counter perceived Soviet influence. These actions secured Western interests but sowed long-term instability, contributing to Iran’s 1979 revolution and Guatemala’s civil war. Wisner also funded anti-Soviet operations in Eastern Europe, often with tragic losses, and supported projects like [[MK-Ultra]] and the U-2 spy plane.

His connection to [[Karl Wolff]] extended indirectly into the post-war period through Wisner’s work with the [[Gehlen Organization]], which integrated former Nazis into anti-Soviet intelligence, aligning with the leniency Wolff received for his Sunrise cooperation.