The Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) was the covert operation wing of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
OPC existed until 1 August 1952, when it was merged with the Office of Special Operations (OSO) to form the Directorate of Plans (DDP).
OPC was preceded by the Special Procedures Group (SPG), whose creation in March 1948[1] had been authorized in December 1947 with President Harry Truman's approval of the top-secret policy paper NSC 4-A.
[13] Smith attempted to ameliorate the situation by appointing Allen Dulles on 4 January 1951 to the new position of Deputy Director for Plans (DDP) where he would supervise the two entities.
According to Anne Karalekas, a staffer of the Church Committee who wrote a history of the CIA, that was merely a cosmetic change, and it was only on 1 August 1952 that OPC and OSO was properly merged into the Directorate of Plans (DDP).
[6] Amongst the propaganda mission the psywar staff carried out was the funding of the 1954 Hollywood production of George Orwell's "Animal Farm", which should portray communist domination in an allegorical way.