Claire Chennault person
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Claims (23)
Claire Chennault headed
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“Man, talking about coming full circle. Okay. And that's who Polly did business with too. Polly, along with Claire Chenault, who Polly puts up the money to create the Flying Tigers. And General Chenault is the one that was running the Flying…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 16:15
Air America founded_by
Claire Chennault book_quoted
“Louis Johnson forwarded the proposal and the accompanying memorandum from Wisner to Truman. But the collapse of the resistance, i.e. the Nationalists, on the mainland temporarily paused the process. This became a defining moment for civil a…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 15:53
Claire Chennault commanded
Flying Tigers book_quoted
“General Lee Sung-jen, who tried to negotiate with Mao. That spring, Claire Chenault, a retired Air Force officer who had commanded the Flying Tigers during the Sino-Japanese War, and afterward organized a private airline notoriously known a…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 8:36
Thomas Corcoran connected
Claire Chennault book_quoted
“and civil air transport because he loved working with the CIA. Corcoran put Chenault in contact with CIA, culminating in a series of meetings during the summer of 1949. Now, keep in mind, the Korean War starts in 1950. Timing is very import…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 10:08
Claire Chennault recruited
Camco host_asserted
“Because they want first dibs on the opium as far back as then. So one of those Washington squadron was lawyer Thomas Colcoran and a young columnist by the name of Joseph Alsop. Chenault would visit bases to recruit pilots for the Central Ai…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 37:30
Pan American World Airways recruited
Claire Chennault host_asserted
“Hawley nearly wrecked the whole deal by insisting on a 10% agent commission, or $450,000 at the time, during the Curtis sale. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau protested, but was persuaded by the Chinese to approve a payment of $250,000 for a c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 39:53
Claire Chennault founded
Air America host_asserted
“war corporation by government decision. It does not appear, however, that the CIA was always so fictitious about obtaining presidential approval post-World War II. After the war, Chenault saw that a fortune could be made by obtaining contra…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 41:18
Thomas Corcoran business_partner_with
Claire Chennault host_asserted
“Chenault's airline had fallen into hard times, so it was going to be a cash windfall for Chenault as well. The State Department was initially not interested in the Chenault plan, so the former general decided to go to Thomas the Cork Corcor…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 9:39
Thomas Corcoran recruited
Claire Chennault documented
“He was very well connected with the government. Corcoran put Chenault in contact with CIA officers, culminating in a series of meetings during the summer. By August, Chenault was talking to Colonel Richard Stilwell, chief of staff of the Fa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 12:14
Whiting Willauer partner_of
Claire Chennault book_quoted
“Chenault's partner in civil air transport was Whiting Willauer, which we talked about a couple of days ago, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, a U.S. economic intelligence officer who, during World War II, supplied the Flying Tigers as an officer of China De…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 25:06
Claire Chennault founded
Flying Tigers book_quoted
“Now, it's interesting that they use that comparison because Flying Tigers is the basic airline that was set up by Claire Chenault, a retired two-star general for Chiang Kai-shek that William Pauly created because it's all being used for the…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 11:54
Claire Chennault headed
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“Claire Chennault, the guy we were just talking about, they relocate that Kunming base to Burma to facilitate the move of Chiang Kai-shek into Burma so they can protect him. And then they eventually move him into Formosa and it turns into Ta…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:18:58
Claire Chennault headed
Air America host_asserted
“And even after General Chenault had passed away, she carried on his work. She is as much an operator, if not more so than he was. And in the whole Flying Tiger connection to Air America, and she ended up running the Air America after he pas…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:09:23
Claire Chennault headed
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“than Claire Chenault. Where do we know Claire Chenault from? The CIA, who commanded the Flying Tigers, which as we well know, ends up being an air component that eventually ends up in Taiwan. In April 1942, Birch helped none other than Lieu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 1:11:32
Claire Chennault founded
Flying Tigers book_quoted
“helped the CIA wipe out the entire Corsican mafia. Tommy the Cork Corcoran, a lawyer serving in the Strategic Service Unit, Lieutenant General Claire Chennault, the military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the founder of the Flying Tigers, w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 8:28
Claire Chennault met_with
CIA documented
“But the company actually was going to be ran out of Taiwan in support of Chiang Kai-shek. The first CIA officers for this company, because that's all that works there, arrived in March. Claire Chennault met with them at the airport. And the…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 39:20
Claire Chennault set_up
Air America book_quoted
“So that company, the Civil Air Transport Company, had been set up by General Chenault in 1946 after the U.S. State Department cited pressure from T.B. Song and Madam Shang as grounds for forcing the U.N. to reverse itself and subsidize the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 24:41
Claire Chennault founded
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“In calling Air America a paramilitary auxiliary arm, however, it should be stressed that its primary function was initially logistical. To understand the complex operations of Air America, one must go back to 1941 and the establishment of t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 36:30
Thomas Corcoran member_of
Claire Chennault host_asserted
“Because they want first dibs on the opium as far back as then. So one of those Washington squadron was lawyer Thomas Colcoran and a young columnist by the name of Joseph Alsop. Chenault would visit bases to recruit pilots for the Central Ai…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 37:30
Joe Alsop member_of
Claire Chennault host_asserted
“Because they want first dibs on the opium as far back as then. So one of those Washington squadron was lawyer Thomas Colcoran and a young columnist by the name of Joseph Alsop. Chenault would visit bases to recruit pilots for the Central Ai…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 37:30
Claire Chennault founded
Air America book_quoted
“was the CIA, and by May 1950, this was in full bloom. The true author of the plan, as noted previously, was General Claire Chenault, whose airline, Civil Air Transport, became OPC-LEMI Supply Line, and it's spelled L-E-M-I, so it's OPC-LEMI…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 26:55
Claire Chennault sold
Air America book_quoted
“Because he was an expert at using front companies to include creating front banks, like Castle Bank, to money launder. To label him just a lawyer is hilarious. Okay. General Claire Chenault, who sold civil air transport to the CIA in August…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 3:49
China Lobby member_of
Claire Chennault host_asserted
“i.e. Taiwan, security. Because what happened was the China lobby, which is basically the Taiwan lobby, it's a mislabel, had all of the stars in it. And we'll go into that because it's very important. They had the Flying Tigers, the Claire C…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 4 @ 32:28
Mentions (104)
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They've got Chiang Kai-shek that they just installed in Taiwan. William Polly again from Cuba is he has the Curtis aircraft franchise in Asia. He is equipping Chiang Kai-shek with an air force. He is building the fighters. He's building the…
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Man, talking about coming full circle. Okay. And that's who Polly did business with too. Polly, along with Claire Chenault, who Polly puts up the money to create the Flying Tigers. And General Chenault is the one that was running the Flying…
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This guy was the point of contact that basically outed all of the Corsican Mafia guys for assassination or arrest or whatever. He was also a member of the French Foreign Legion. And another guy, Tommy the Cork Corcoran, who is a lawyer that…
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Because they always say that Claire Chenault was the founder of the Flying Tigers. But if you look up William Pauly, he was the financial founder of the Flying Tigers. He's the one that actually bought and produced through Curtis. He had a …
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i.e. Taiwan, security. Because what happened was the China lobby, which is basically the Taiwan lobby, it's a mislabel, had all of the stars in it. And we'll go into that because it's very important. They had the Flying Tigers, the Claire C…
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used to run spies. Gray, according to Wilson, was already in possession of security clearances to work in the government. Shackley had first gotten to know Gray through Anna Chenault. And Anna Chenault is Claire Chenault, General Claire Che…
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their Air Force. And he also helped fund the creation of Sea Supply, which basically gave, it was a CIA front company for ships that was basically at the end of the day all given to Taiwan in order to orchestrate drug trafficking. So you ha…
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Ho Chi Minh and Kim. And it wasn't true in either one of those circumstances. So this isn't the first time I've come across this. It also says in June of 1943, Colbert flew back to China to make a second report where he met with U.S. Genera…
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of where it was located compared to the northern border of Vietnam. And just so that you guys know, this is, and we're going to get into this tomorrow, but this is where General Claire Chenault and what ends up being called eventually the C…
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and General Chenault. Although OSS clearly knew about GBT, it was not until Miles' dismissal from OSS and the subsequent collapse of all hopes that the minor network that they had began to seriously investigate the GBT organization and the …
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From the beginning of his work with GBT, Phin continuously considered using Vietnamese groups for intelligence. GBT members expressed their attitude against working with the Indo-Chinese, but Phin also queried Chinese General Chen, C-H-E-N,…
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at that base in China where the 14th Air Force is. He could hardly have guessed that this action would have proved a magic key to open doors otherwise impregnable. Ho accompanied Shaw and took him to the American base at Kunming. He refused…
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agreed that it would be helpful to work with this group, and we decided that one of our Chinese radio operators, Mac, Shin, and Tan, would go to Vietnam with Ho. In the second meeting, everything went exceptionally well, and they agreed on …
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whom he admired and could not be able to meet previously. Now, I want you guys to understand how smart this man is, because wait till you see what he does as a result of this. And they don't even know this is going on. Finn accepted this as…
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At the end of the meeting, Ho requested a photo of Chenault, and after attaining it, he requested that he sign it. Chenault signed it and said, yours truly, Claire Chenault. Just before the voyage to the base of Viet Minh with Tan and the C…
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when he was up in meeting Claire Chanel. When he arrived at the base, he had with him this Chinese American and these radio operators and all sorts of weapons, better than anything either the French or the Japanese had at the time. He invit…
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Ho told them that he now had secured the help of the Americans, including General Chenault. At first, no one believed him. Then he produced a photo of General Chenault with it signed, Yours Sincerely. After this, he sent for the automatic g…
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As I go through these things and it expands and it expands and expands, I understand why you need so many days just to give a broad brush of what and how this is all connected and how this is all connected to this and this and this and this…
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And even after General Chenault had passed away, she carried on his work. She is as much an operator, if not more so than he was. And in the whole Flying Tiger connection to Air America, and she ended up running the Air America after he pas…
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So Alan Dulles puts two and two together. Shit, I can get black market money, and I'm going to need black market money to do black market ops paramilitary for these Gladio units. Hey, it's a match made in heaven. So he takes Galen into the …
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Yeah, very interesting that he had that relationship. So he would have been working hand in hand with, yeah, right here it says Claire Chenault. And yeah, he was intimately involved in the heroin trade at the time.…
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intrigues in which one saw the role of not just the CIA, but also of the KMT, which is Chiang Kai-shek's army in Taiwan, the KMT troops in Laos, and their right-wing Laotian allies. I link these intrigues, as I still would today, to the fad…
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in building up the post-war opium and heroin traffic. His statement, and let me just also say, because we're going to go to Claire Chanel, as far as the Paul Helliwell, you guys probably already know because we've talked about this before, …
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Because he was an expert at using front companies to include creating front banks, like Castle Bank, to money launder. To label him just a lawyer is hilarious. Okay. General Claire Chenault, who sold civil air transport to the CIA in August…
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from New York's legal and financial circles. These men use their corporate experience and connections to set up dummy private organizations as proprietaries, wholly owned by the CIA, particularly for Far Eastern operations, on the model of …
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So that company, the Civil Air Transport Company, had been set up by General Chenault in 1946 after the U.S. State Department cited pressure from T.B. Song and Madam Shang as grounds for forcing the U.N. to reverse itself and subsidize the …
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Chenault's partner in civil air transport was Whiting Willauer, which we talked about a couple of days ago, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, a U.S. economic intelligence officer who, during World War II, supplied the Flying Tigers as an officer of China De…
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who after the war was rumored to have been handling TV songs, multi-million dollar investments inside the United States. In the late 19th, because they were money laundering their money from the drugs into the United States. In the late 194…
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While Chenault lobbied openly from a Washington office against a more cautious China policy that Truman and Atkinson State Department was trying to put in place. In November 1949, Chenault, after a similar visit by Chiang, flew to Korea and…
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is a Chinese island with a Chinese general that we're all lied to and said, he's not Chinese at all and Taiwan doesn't belong to China at all. But it did and he was. And so then they set up this thing called a China lobby. And if you go bac…
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was the CIA, and by May 1950, this was in full bloom. The true author of the plan, as noted previously, was General Claire Chenault, whose airline, Civil Air Transport, became OPC-LEMI Supply Line, and it's spelled L-E-M-I, so it's OPC-LEMI…
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Chenault and others helped lead the Korean War and the Civil Air Transport role in it. This in turn led the Civil Air Patrol airlift to the KMT troops in Burma. These events were marked by extraordinary intrigue that drew at the time multip…
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headed a private military mission for which his ally, who would that be? William Pauley, tried but failed in 1949 to secure from the Secretary of State Atchison the authority he had secured earlier for Chenault's Flying Tigers during World …
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Every apparent de-escalation of the fighting, such as Vietnam in 1954 and Laos in 61, was balanced by an escalation, often unnoticed at the time, whose long-range result increased America's war effort. In 1954, for example, America's direct…
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nor is it necessary to think that war was always the intention. On the contrary, both the personnel and the concerns of war conspiracy changed widely over the years. Until the late 1960s, this change was continuously in the direction of tot…
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And that figured largely in our covert backing of Chiang Kai-shek's guerrillas in southern China, then Burma, then Taiwan through Chennault's airline. Later, the same airline seems to have been used in Laos as part of a new U.S. occupation …
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The Flying Tigers, which become a lot of those airplanes, become part of the Civil Air Transport, then Air America. And he was also, for those of you who have not, again, been with us, CB Star, S-T-A-R-R. His insurance company eventually be…
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are companies with national interests, and he has a choice clientele in that field. It includes United Fruit, American International Underwriters Corp., which was part of CB Star's interest in Asia, General Claire Chenault's Civil Air Trans…
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$1.8 million, and as they considered me to be his heir, they held me responsible for the payment. In 1960, while Willauer, a United Fruit official, and Civil Air Transport pilots were participating in the CIA's preparation for the Bay of Pi…
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was for years a director of both United Fruit and Pan Am Airlines, another CIA favorite, which after supplying the operating cadre for civil air transport, went on to profit directly as the backup for all of the Indochina operations. And at…
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Indonesia, and Laos. In all cases, a pretext of legality was supplied by the same friction, the U.S. military officers and the CIA, along with private military companies. This legal cover was first devised by President Roosevelt for the Che…
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by an unlisted executive order that was written on April 15, 1941. It would appear that in late April 1953, when U.S. Air Force planes and pilots were loaned to Chennault Civil Air Transport for the use by the French in Indochina, this proc…
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And the relationship that he painted there between CB Star, United Fruit. And those are all names that we've heard of. One name we don't hear of a lot is the Lehman Brothers. He did a good job of tying them in with the Claire Chenault group…
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throughout the CIA to include the military. And in 1959, and again in 60, helped install their puppet in power. The key to the support from 59 on was ostensibly the Chinese Nationalist Civilian Airline Civil Air Transport, which was actuall…
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Paul Helliwell also was the chief architect of the CIA drug connection. As mentioned earlier, the author came in time to enlarge his view of a deep political force pressing for our involvement in Indochina. But as he found Chenault, his air…
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and Anna Chenault, the widower of General Claire Chenault, and now an intimate friend of his lawyer, Tommy Cochran. Her covert intervention into the highest affairs of state was by no means unprecedented for her or her associates. General C…
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both in the war efforts and for trafficking drugs. Both husband and wife had, through their involvement with the China lobby and the CIA's complex private corporations, played a profound role throughout the U.S. involvement in Southeast Asi…
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which began in Laos in 59 and 60. Moreover, it appears that Eisenhower did not really know when his office and authority was being committed to the Laotian conflict. I'm not sure I agree with that, but whatever. In its invasion of internati…
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Anyway, Claire Chenault's airline, proprietary. There you go. Civil Air Transport, later named Air America. Air America's fleet of transport airplanes were easily seen in the airports of the following cities, Laos, South Vietnam, Thailand, …
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In calling Air America a paramilitary auxiliary arm, however, it should be stressed that its primary function was initially logistical. To understand the complex operations of Air America, one must go back to 1941 and the establishment of t…
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At the time, Roosevelt wished to aid Chiang Kai-shek, and he also wanted American reserve pilots from the three services to gain combat experience. But America was not in war, and the U.S. code forbade the service of active and reserve pers…
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Because they want first dibs on the opium as far back as then. So one of those Washington squadron was lawyer Thomas Colcoran and a young columnist by the name of Joseph Alsop. Chenault would visit bases to recruit pilots for the Central Ai…
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popped up big time in Southeast Asia. Totally coincidence. Completely a coincidence. And for those of you who are new, Pauley Island, South Carolina is named after his family. According to their contracts, the pilots were merely to engage i…
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Hawley nearly wrecked the whole deal by insisting on a 10% agent commission, or $450,000 at the time, during the Curtis sale. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau protested, but was persuaded by the Chinese to approve a payment of $250,000 for a c…
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It was agreed that Polly's new Camco Corporation could not take American pilots into the private war business without presidential authorization, and there was some delay in getting that approval. But by April 15, 1941, Roosevelt signed an …
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war corporation by government decision. It does not appear, however, that the CIA was always so fictitious about obtaining presidential approval post-World War II. After the war, Chenault saw that a fortune could be made by obtaining contra…
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supplied Chenault not only with the contract, but also with planes at a bargain price, as well as with a loan to pay for them. One of Corcoran's connections, Whiting Willauer, promptly became Chenault's number two man. With a generous finan…
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was soon flying military airlift to Chiang Kai-shek's troops, often using the old Flying Tigers as pilots. Chennault himself spent a great deal of time in Washington with Corcoran and Senator William Noland, K-N-O-W-L-A-N, and members of th…
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Yeah, whatever. His footnote doesn't address that comment. It addressed the pilot recruiting. To help secure Taiwan from invasion, Chenault and his partners put up a personal note of $4.75 million to buy out China's civil air fleet, then gr…
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As a CIA proprietary, by the winter of 1950-51, civil air transport was playing a key role in the airlift and supplies to Korea. Chenault, according to his wife's memoirs, was into a heavy intelligence assignment for the U.S. government. Ye…
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And basically raiding all of the villages of people who wanted a united Korea and wanted what was guaranteed to them after World War II was an election countrywide for one government. And the U.S. was not going to allow that to happen. Chen…
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Wherever civil air transport flies, it proclaims to the world that somehow the men of Mao will be defeated and driven off the mainland and all China will return to being free. Again, Chennault is married to a KMT, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese l…
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In 1954, Chenault conducted a vigorous political campaign in support of a grandiose but detailed proposal whereby his old friends Chiang Kai-shek and Syngman Rhee of Korea would be unleashed together against the Chinese mainland with the su…
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to have the unit removed by June 12th. From the passing of 1954 Geneva Agreement until Chenault's death four years later, the civil air transport seems to have played more than a... He says that they were not as active in the paramilitary r…
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you know, and the rise of the Red Army. So the National Army taught Hallowell a very good lesson. Chiang Kai-shek, who, by the way, when I grew up, was a hero. He was on the cover of Time magazine constantly. He held as one of the great men…
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primarily were coming from the Flying Tigers, from Claire Chenault's operation in Southeast Asia Flying Drugs. And I know this personally because UPS bought a bunch of them and I worked on them for Evergreen Airline, which was a CIA proprie…
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There's more to commercial helicopters than just offshore oil work and ferrying Edwards around Louisiana. Ross, while denying that the company ever did business with his buddy Barry Seal or the CIA, did volunteer, we used to lease helicopte…
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In the 1950s, as a cargo company, you know, the one that was taking care of Chiang Kai-shek in Southeast Asia, running the opium empire, that Flying Tigers. It would become the largest private cargo company in the world. This guy says it wa…
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Now, it's interesting that they use that comparison because Flying Tigers is the basic airline that was set up by Claire Chenault, a retired two-star general for Chiang Kai-shek that William Pauly created because it's all being used for the…
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Proposals for covert action actually predated nationalist defeat in the Civil War. Chiang had gone to Formosa in early 1949, resigning the presidency in favor of his vice president, General Lee Tung Jen, who was left to try to negotiate a s…
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who had commanded the Flying Tigers during the Japanese War, the 14th Air Force in China during World War II, organized a private airline called Civil Air Transport that operated in China. This was done for the CIA for drug running. He went…
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Bastion in southern China plus covert aid to guerrilla forces loyal to Ling Songzhen. The State Department was not much interested in the Chennault plan, so the former general, who was business partner in the Civil Air Transport Company, ca…
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He was not only interested in the military assistance, but thought an airline like Civil Air Transport could provide CIA with important covert assets. This isn't actually the way it happened, but we're going to go with it. President Truman …
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Nationalist military resistance disintegrated on the mainland. They were forcing a shift in emphasis to those operations that could be mounted from outside China. Civil air transport became even more important as a potential asset, but the …
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Founded in 1946 by Chenault and a guy by the name of Whiting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, civil air transport was essentially a paramilitary operation from the beginning. Yes, it was. It made its living flying troops, supplies, and dignitarie…
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and corporate headquarters set up in none other than Hong Kong, ending the chaos of existence on mainland China. Chenault's friendship with Chiang Kai-shek and his exclusive alliance with the Nationalists meant the end of demand for domesti…
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They went up there in civilian clothes, pretended to be CIA while they were still on active duty. And then you have some that were on active duty during World War II, got off active duty and basically became contractors for the CIA flying c…
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had like General Chenault had actually been on active duty during World War II, but basically were set up in front companies. And just like the guys we read about that went down and was employed in that front company in Miami, remember the …
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about the civil air transport and talking with Claire Chenault, who we know, Flying Tigers, civil air transport, all part of that in Southeast Asia. So later participants would acknowledge that if some of the Guatemala rebel aircraft had be…
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I read his book. I don't believe that at all. Only because of this. If you look into, which we did extensively, into the career of William Pauly and him creating the Flying Tigers, basically General Chenault was kind of the face of it. But …
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So they're bringing the guy that ran the proprietary CIA airline and posting him as an ambassador to Honduras. He had reported to Claire Chenault in a letter that he worked day and night to arrange training sites and instructors plus air cr…
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activity to continue. Claire Chennault, the guy that set up Shanghai Shack and was trafficking all of the opium out of Southeast Asia. Willauer is his guy trying to keep all this straight. Later, participants acknowledge that if some of the…
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General Lee Sung-jen, who tried to negotiate with Mao. That spring, Claire Chenault, a retired Air Force officer who had commanded the Flying Tigers during the Sino-Japanese War, and afterward organized a private airline notoriously known a…
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and is basically a CIA proprietary. It had initially operated inside of China. He went to Washington with a proposal for U.S. support to the nationalist Xi'an in southern China, plus covert aid to form guerrilla forces loyal to Ling Shenzhe…
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Chenault's airline had fallen into hard times, so it was going to be a cash windfall for Chenault as well. The State Department was initially not interested in the Chenault plan, so the former general decided to go to Thomas the Cork Corcor…
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election because we already knew that the predominant figure at the time was Kim and we didn't like him. So we didn't control him. So he wasn't going to be allowed to be in control of the entire country of Korea. We are going to sabotage th…
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Louis Johnson forwarded the proposal and the accompanying memorandum from Wisner to Truman. But the collapse of the resistance, i.e. the Nationalists, on the mainland temporarily paused the process. This became a defining moment for civil a…
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by Claire Chenault to be quote-unquote co-founder of the Civil Air Transport, which was going to be a proprietary entity of the CIA. Because again, these oligarchs, part of which is the Boston Brahmins, that were in, they know how they're g…
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inside the CIA that will go on to be an ambassador and manipulate all of these world affairs on behalf of these oligarchs is critically important to this story. Okay, Claire Chenault and Willauer in 1950, in the lead up to all of this, basi…
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Civil Air Patrol lock, stock, and barrel to the CIA. So it comes, no kidding, a proprietary airline of... So I just wanted to give you guys that kind of bridge to the story we just told about the Guatemalan coup and the one we're talking. A…
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No longer were they located on mainland China. Claire Chenault's friendship with Chiang Kai-shek meant the end of Civil Air Transport's domestic air service since the communists had taken over. But CIA money did not solve all of their probl…
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In a speech in which he promised back to the mainland. That was kind of like the rallying call. And that was later picked up by the China lobby, which Claire Chennault basically led. That was kind of their motto. Back to the mainland. Admit…
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But the company actually was going to be ran out of Taiwan in support of Chiang Kai-shek. The first CIA officers for this company, because that's all that works there, arrived in March. Claire Chennault met with them at the airport. And the…
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William Polly also was part and parcel of the Flying Tigers and installing Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan, originally Formosa. He owned the Curtis Aircraft franchise over there, supplied him with all of the aircraft that he needed to create. He …
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with the Thai police aerial recovery unit. Oh, well, what would he have been doing in Thailand in the 1950s, setting up Chiang Kai-shek's airlift of drugs from that entire area, thanks to the CIA and Flying Tigers, Claire Chennault, the Chi…
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Press reports of Americans in the field with the Laotians were eroding the plausible deniability of the secret war in Laos. With the intensification of the war came a growth in the CIA proprietary that fed it, Flying Tigers. Of course, that…
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The actual guy, John Birch, I want to read you guys something now that we know how this whole operation works. And tell me if this sounds familiar. John Birch was an American Baptist who went to China as a missionary in 1940. When the Japan…
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than Claire Chenault. Where do we know Claire Chenault from? The CIA, who commanded the Flying Tigers, which as we well know, ends up being an air component that eventually ends up in Taiwan. In April 1942, Birch helped none other than Lieu…
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This is at the same time the private military corporations began to emerge as well. What exactly constitute the first private military company is debatable. There's an argument that the first American volunteer group, more commonly known as…
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source of their financing and where they make lots of money. You may be new here. I have not missed that. I go back to the mid-1940s with Colonel Paul Helliwell and General Chenault and Chiang Kai-shek and the creating of Taiwan as a major …
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ranks of the anti-communist professionals, many of which we've covered, like the China lobby, Claire Chenault, his wife, Anne Chenault, those were the front ranks of the anti-communist professionals. And she certainly had a front row seat a…
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helped the CIA wipe out the entire Corsican mafia. Tommy the Cork Corcoran, a lawyer serving in the Strategic Service Unit, Lieutenant General Claire Chennault, the military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the founder of the Flying Tigers, w…
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And then would go on to become the Ohio governor from 1999 to 2007. So until very recently, this guy, the Taft family, is still involved in a high level of politics. And keep in mind, since we're hovering around Cincinnati, this is where Le…
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So the China lobby covered all that up. And Claire Chenault, who married a Chinese slash Anne Chenault, was like the glue that held this entity together. And the craziness that went on in the brainwashing propaganda of the China lobby.…