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Claims (62)
Charles E. Wilson headed
United States Department of Defense documented
document
“Wilson was the first in a line of corporate chieftans to head the Defense Department.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.218
Charles E. Wilson headed
General Motors documented
document
“Charles “Engine Charlie” Wilson, who was president of General Motors when World War II broke out...…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.218
Charles E. Wilson supported
General Military Intelligence Committee documented
document
“Finally in 1956 he took the matter to Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson who supported the creation of a committee over the objections of the Joint Staff and Navy and Army intelligence.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.67
Charles E. Wilson headed
War Production Board documented
document
“...helped set priorities for the U.S. economy during the conflict as director of the War Production Board.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.218
Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed
Charles E. Wilson documented
“He filled his administration with power players from the Dewey Dulles Rockefeller Luce-dominated New York Nexus, as well as from higher rungs of industry in the Pentagon. Wall Street lawyer Herbert Brownell was named attorney general after …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 9 @ 37:48
Charles E. Wilson recruited
Howard Hart documented
“the Afghan resistance. Democrat Congressman Charles Wilson of Texas waged what amounted to his own covert campaign against officials he thought insufficiently committed to the Afghan rebels. He fastened on to his agenda Chuck Cogan and Howa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 9:20
Charles E. Wilson funded
Mujahideen documented
“trying to give them more money. CIA would ask for a couple of million and Congress would give them 25. Charlie Wilson began being a spark plug to this effort. The numbers only grew larger. In 83, 30 million in CIA money ballooned to more th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 10:59
Charles E. Wilson front_for
Robert Murphy book_quoted
“had begun to front for New York Congressman Robert Murphy. Murphy was a West Point classmate and close friend of Samosa's. He was tired of being criticized for sponsoring foreign aid bills for the dictator, so he asked the Texas colleague t…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 46:54
Charles E. Wilson funded
Pakistan book_quoted
“So it's in U.S. natural interest to have another nuclear country as an Islamic country. In 1980, Congressman Charlie Wilson, the former Ed Wilson associate, was acting in concert with the CIA, repeatedly blocking congressional efforts to ha…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 27:44
Charles E. Wilson funded
AETSCO book_quoted
“you know, part of the weapons deals for BCCI, says that that company Ed Wilson funded and Ted Shackley, who's obviously CIA, organized, which became known as EATSCO, E-A-T-S-C-O. A woman by the name of Barbara Sakati was working in this pla…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 1:14:39
Charles E. Wilson proposed
CIA documented
“In the fall of 1983, an amendment to the defense budget proposed by Charlie Wilson, a Democrat of Texas, that would have rerouted Pentagon money to purchase new foreign-made heavy anti-aircraft cannons. The guns would go to the CIA for the …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 17 @ 20:24
Charles E. Wilson supplied_arms_to
Muammar Gaddafi book_quoted
“agrees. Quote, let me put it to you this way. If Ed Wilson was indeed guilty of everything the newspaper has said about him selling arms and training Qaddafi's folks, Mossad would have killed him long ago, said Pilgrim, who is also a leadin…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 18 @ 14:52
Charles E. Wilson did_business_with
Libya book_quoted
“Wilson rationalized his dealings with two murderous regimes, Iran and Libya, through the intelligence gathering he was doing, he thought, for the CIA. For all of his expertise as an arms dealer and front man, Wilson had been inexplicably ob…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 39:46
Charles E. Wilson spied_on
Libya host_asserted
“in the South Pacific. Wilson went to great lengths to send details to Libya's nuclear program of Libya's nuclear program back to the U.S. Wilson's defense lawyers would later cite this as an example to show that he was still providing intel…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 35:13
Charles E. Wilson acquired
Richard Secord documented
“Brill said Clines promised to pay her $17,000, which was the agreed-upon difference between the option price and the current market value. To her chagrin, Clines turned around and sold the option on the home for $24,000 to Richard Secord. A…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 33:34
Charles E. Wilson funded
Richard Secord book_quoted
“Secord told Wilson that he wanted a plane to fly for visits to Washington. He said that he did not expect the airlift to be in his name or anything, but he wanted use of it. Secord had for years denied anything other than operational relati…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 31:49
Charles E. Wilson funded
J.J. Capucci and Associates host_asserted
“That is what made the training of his security force so profitable for Wilson's company, which was called J.J. Capucian Associates. Later, William Casey would arrange to use ETSCO and its freight forwarder, R.G. Hobelman's Shipping Company …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 26 Cont @ 10:36
Charles E. Wilson covered_up
A.Q. Khan book_quoted
“research and creation. Wilson went so far as to tell Zia, Mr. President, as far as I'm concerned, you can make all the bombs you want, unquote. Zia privately assured the congressman that Pakistan's nuclear weapon program was for peaceful re…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 28:15
Charles E. Wilson appointed
Business Advisory Council book_quoted
“Among the members was Sidney Weinberg and General Lucius Clay. The result was historic. I tapped three of the business advisory council leaders for his cabinet. They were Charles Wilson of General Motors as defense secretary, George Humphre…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 4 @ 12:32
Charles E. Wilson funded
Mujahideen documented
“the Afghan resistance. Democrat Congressman Charles Wilson of Texas waged what amounted to his own covert campaign against officials he thought insufficiently committed to the Afghan rebels. He fastened on to his agenda Chuck Cogan and Howa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 9:20
Charles E. Wilson recruited
Charles Koch documented
“the Afghan resistance. Democrat Congressman Charles Wilson of Texas waged what amounted to his own covert campaign against officials he thought insufficiently committed to the Afghan rebels. He fastened on to his agenda Chuck Cogan and Howa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 9:20
Charles E. Wilson met
Annel Donny host_asserted
“Oh, shoot. Hold on. There we go. In Belgium, Wilson met Annel, A-N-N-A-L, Donny, D-O-N-N-E-Y. Donny is a name that's come up before. He is a Belgian arms dealer. They discussed getting surplus equipment to Libya that the French had used oth…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 34:42
Charles E. Wilson did_business_with
Paul Sear host_asserted
“They were getting beat over the head with every kind of terrorist problem that they could think of. And I suggested that they hire a firm to represent them and tell the truth, at least a better truth than what was getting out, unquote. Beca…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 14:20
Charles E. Wilson member_of
General Electric host_asserted
“Charles Edward Wilson, and Philip Reed of General Electric, and much of the leadership of the integrated DuPont General Motors, U.S. rubber empire of that era, were among them too. More to the point here, however, the Riga Group's impact on…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 32:49
Charles E. Wilson assisted
Tom Clines documented
“He was aware that Tom Clines got a loan for a company called Arcadia Limited and that Ed Wilson assisted Clines in getting the loan. He did not know who the principals were, according to him, and he said that at the time he was not concerne…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 24:00
Charles E. Wilson funded
Tom Clines documented
“He said that if all of these companies did well, he expected to be compensated accordingly. However, there was no formula such as quote-unquote 20 percent, unquote. Shackley confirmed to the Bureau that he was aware that the seed money for …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 25:27
Charles E. Wilson appointed
Robert Keith Gray documented
“that supposedly only Republicans, and I mean, this is back in the day when that was not necessarily acceptable behavior. I just think that's kind of weird. Wilson had placed Gray on the board of directors of a company called Consultants Int…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 14:46
Charles E. Wilson paid
Chi Chi Quintero guest_asserted
“but he also knew how to find them. Wilson put Quintero on his payroll and spent over $100,000 on the search for Dianezo Suarez and Vargelio Pablo Paz Suarez, whom Barcella actually had had in custody at one time, had been allowed to be rele…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 30:37
Charles E. Wilson removed_from_power
Dennis Wilson book_quoted
“found that he was meeting with some dissidents and planning to overthrow the Gaddafi regime. I got him back to his hotel and told him that he was fired. He threatened to kill me. We disarmed the guy and the next morning I took him out of Li…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 43:55
Larry Barcella indicted
Charles E. Wilson documented
“Larry Barcella succeeded in getting a grand jury indictment on Wilson. Wilson was now a wanted man, and his need for funds was even more desperate. In April 1980, this is a quote from him, I'm under indictment so I can't come out, so I cont…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 26:52
Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated
Charles E. Wilson documented
“organizations all over the world to include the church. Throughout the 1980s presidential campaign, the FBI continued to investigate Wilson. Shackley was a cooperating source of information. I bet he was because he's the one setting him up.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 20:14
Douglas Clines covered_up
Charles E. Wilson book_quoted
“For Wilson, the realization that he had been double-crossed by Shackley and Klein would not dawn on him until he had been in prison for years. As the spring of 1977 comes and goes, he believes that there is no reason for him to worry. Klein…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 34:31
Richard Secord acquired
Charles E. Wilson book_quoted
“Brill said Clines promised to pay her $17,000, which was the agreed-upon difference between the option price and the current market value. To her chagrin, Clines turned around and sold the option on the home for $24,000 to Richard Secord. A…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 33:34
Tom Clines paid
Charles E. Wilson guest_asserted
“He goes on to say, Tom, I want that $500,000 and I'm going to start screaming. So they paid the $500,000. They paid about $450,000 and then I sort of let it go. Then I found out through my other sources that they made about $10 million from…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 27:21
George de Mohrenschildt did_business_with
Charles E. Wilson book_quoted
“When Wilson's name first surfaced in the investigations by the CIA IG and Office of Security, Angleton offered Wilson some advice. He suggested that Shackley was playing him for a fool, but Wilson ignored most of the warning. In retrospect,…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 18 @ 31:04
Libya arrested
Charles E. Wilson guest_asserted
“And I was arrested in the car and thrown into a small room with a bucket to pee in and nothing to eat except for egg sandwiches for 10 days. Eventually, they threw me out of the country. They put me on a plane to London, thinking that the B…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 33:46
James Jesus Angleton did_business_with
Charles E. Wilson book_quoted
“one of Wilson's companies supplying Libya. Angleton's courting of Wilson began in 1977 and continued right up until he was arrested in 1980. Wilson said General Richardson was a real close friend of Angleton's. About once a week, he would s…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 18 @ 30:36
Ted Shackley did_business_with
Charles E. Wilson book_quoted
“had used Nugent Hand to finance many of his own deals in Iran. While the intelligence Shackley collected through Wilson for Israel had been first rate, Wilson's business dealings, especially his arms deals, was now making to the PLO, made h…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 18 @ 28:41
Tom Clines framed
Charles E. Wilson guest_asserted
“also put out a story that he was cheating the Libyans in his business deals with them. For the first time, Wilson now realizes what's going on. Ignoring the fact that Itzko getting the shipping contract instead of around the world shipping …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 28:48
CIA laundered_money_for
Charles E. Wilson host_asserted
“In order to get the security. So that's the money laundering. You just, I just described to you a huge cycle of money laundering. So the CIA gets the guy they want in charge. That guy gets CIA threat briefings that says they're going to kil…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 26 Cont @ 11:35
Mossad did_business_with
Charles E. Wilson book_quoted
“agrees. Quote, let me put it to you this way. If Ed Wilson was indeed guilty of everything the newspaper has said about him selling arms and training Qaddafi's folks, Mossad would have killed him long ago, said Pilgrim, who is also a leadin…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 18 @ 14:52
Ted Shackley denied
Charles E. Wilson documented
“but went to work for Klein as an employee and consultant at SSI, the API Distributors Incorporated, and in international research and trade. Those are the names of all those companies. It goes on to say, Shackley denied having a 20% interes…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 24:27
Libya expelled
Charles E. Wilson guest_asserted
“And I was arrested in the car and thrown into a small room with a bucket to pee in and nothing to eat except for egg sandwiches for 10 days. Eventually, they threw me out of the country. They put me on a plane to London, thinking that the B…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 33:46
Kamal Adham funded
Charles E. Wilson book_quoted
“the guy with the weird name S-O-G-H-A-N-A-L-I-A-N. Wilson had been led into a trap through his relationship with Turple and Hakim. The financing for all of his deals were now controlled by lawyers and bankers with absolute loyalty to Kamal …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 44:52
Richard Secord did_business_with
Charles E. Wilson host_asserted
“when he returned home on leave from his position in Iran. Now remember, Helms is over in Iran as the ambassador and General Secord is stationed in Iran and they all end up in the Iran-Contra deal. Big shocker. So Secord continued to be Wils…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 30:33
Charles E. Wilson did_business_with
Saeed Khwatafatam host_asserted
“his assignment to convince the Libyans that Billy Carter should be put on their payroll as a goodwill ambassador. This would be devastating to President Carter and very useful to the Republicans. Wilson had no knowledge of the operation unt…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 13:49
Charles E. Wilson did_business_with
Ed Coughlin book_quoted
“which is the intelligence national police in Iran, had been financed through Nugent Hand Bank, which tells you the CIA was running Sivak for Iran. Wilson had no idea that his lawyer in Geneva, Ed Coughlin, who also represented Albert Hakim …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 18 @ 28:14
Charles E. Wilson brought
Bobby Barnes guest_asserted
“If I wanted to. So I went to Malta and I met with the president and VP to possibly set up business there. I rented an office and was on my way to having an operation in Malta. I took Bobby Barnes over there with me. I had a beautiful villa.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 33:21
Charles E. Wilson moved_to
Geneva book_quoted
“found that he was meeting with some dissidents and planning to overthrow the Gaddafi regime. I got him back to his hotel and told him that he was fired. He threatened to kill me. We disarmed the guy and the next morning I took him out of Li…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 43:55
Charles E. Wilson did_business_with
SAVAK host_asserted
“to cross Shackley, Secord, or Von Marbog. So Wilson said that he was supplying names of the people that the Savak was sending to those schools because they're going to use them because they were for them. They weren't for the Russians. Wils…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 10:19
Charles E. Wilson did_business_with
SAVAK host_asserted
“that the CIA is basically in charge of, to a terrorist training school ran by the Russians. Hello, that doesn't make any sense at all. Okay, Wilson traveled to Tehran routinely to meet with his associates in the Savak. And again, the Savak …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 9:17
Charles E. Wilson supplied_arms_to
SAVAK host_asserted
“General Schwarzkopf's dad. Wilson supplied them with information and the Savak had began a worldwide program of assassinations. Huh. Are we supposed to believe that that was funded by the Russians too? No. Not as long as the Shah was there.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 9:47
CIA leaked
Charles E. Wilson guest_asserted
“And they did. They literally fenced up the press, tried to get me killed down there. They really did. So he had an assassination attempt put out on him. So they really, really didn't want to pay it back. Wilson was referring to a series of …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 27:49
CIA covered_up
Charles E. Wilson host_asserted
“Burt Lance was compromised because of the CIA's BCCI bank. So Billy was compromised because of the CIA setting him up over in Libya with Wilson. So basically, you have the CIA taking down a president again. Much of the NSC staff was disloya…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 2:10
Charles E. Wilson member_of
CIA host_asserted
“Wilson was sending both Chi-Chi Quintero, Miami's post office box, and couriers the names of Iranian dissidents being trained. Because keep in mind, this is the Shah's Iran, which we're running. So these CIA agents are trying to tell us tha…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 8:49
Charles E. Wilson moved_to
Malta guest_asserted
“If I wanted to. So I went to Malta and I met with the president and VP to possibly set up business there. I rented an office and was on my way to having an operation in Malta. I took Bobby Barnes over there with me. I had a beautiful villa.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 33:21
Charles E. Wilson ordered_assassination_of
Muammar Gaddafi host_asserted
“nuclear weapons, even though it didn't go through. So, Shackley had put out the word through Israeli assets in Libya that the CIA was using Wilson in an assassination plot against Omar Gaddafi. According to Wilson, Casey wanted to assassina…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 26 Cont @ 1:43
Charles E. Wilson reported_to
Ted Shackley host_asserted
“Wilson had been reporting back to Shackley from Libya would have been enough to tell Carter what was about to happen in Iran. Wilson's main contact in the Libyan intelligence was a guy by the name of Colonel Sanusi, S-A-N-U-S-I. He was brin…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 7:56
Charles E. Wilson did_business_with
Tom Karamessines host_asserted
“Through Israeli intelligence sources in Libya, the CIA had the memo Ed Wilson had written to Qaddafi's military security on May 12, 1981, detailing his activities in Egypt through ETSCO. In that memo, Wilson was very direct about how high u…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 26 Cont @ 25:18
Charles E. Wilson funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“And isn't that what they did in Vietnam and into China and Burma? Yeah, that's what they did every single time. Congressman Charlie Wilson, Ed Wilson's old crony, was the point man in Congress building the positive image of the fierce Islam…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 35:19
Charles E. Wilson covered_up
Afghanistan host_asserted
“Later on, the subsequent testimony got declassified and then they went, oops, it's a mistake. So I just found that out. Thought I'd share it. Senators Charlie Wilson on Afghanistan operation cover-up. Yeah, they're all bought and paid for. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:46:40
Charles E. Wilson covered_up
CIA guest_asserted
“You've ever seen the movie, and it's also Vietnam related. I mean, well, Afghanistan related. Charlie Wilson's war. Feel good, Charlie. What role did he play in stifling Congress from knowing about the CIA's covert activity? So, again, my t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 @ 1:01:42
Mentions (31)
▶ 44:05
visit Libya. On Slachter's trip back to the States, he had begun a love affair with a woman by the name of Tina Simmons. That was Congressman Charlie Wilson's former mistress. According to Ed Wilson, Slachter had fallen so deeply in love wi…
▶ 45:52
that the United States actual government in charge don't want to be affiliated with. Wilson said that Klein urged him to go see Somoza and make a deal. About the same time, a lobbyist by the name of R.C. Wittner, W-H-I-T-N-E-R, whose nickna…
▶ 46:23
Simmons, S-I-M-M-O-N-S. She was the mistress to Congressman Charlie Wilson, a Democrat from Texas. According to Whitmer, Simmons' presence in the Congressman's office was causing a problem. Wilson agreed to hire her to handle decorating cho…
▶ 46:54
had begun to front for New York Congressman Robert Murphy. Murphy was a West Point classmate and close friend of Samosa's. He was tired of being criticized for sponsoring foreign aid bills for the dictator, so he asked the Texas colleague t…
▶ 47:25
legislation passed that would include intelligence aid to Samosa. This would pay for the security contract Ed Wilson and his colleagues had in mind. Ed Wilson, who was with a straight face still claiming that he never lobbied on Capitol Hil…
▶ 47:52
He went to see Charlie Wilson at the Democrat Club on Capitol Hill. He told the congressman, quote, here's what I want to do. I can make a buck or two out of it, unquote. So Tina and I and Charlie Wilson get on a plane and go meet Samosa in…
▶ 48:22
sits here and he's like describing where they're all sitting and samosa's witness or what that mistress is where is with him not his wife and i'm at the end of the table with an assistant mayor and samosa is just loving tina like crazy with…
▶ 49:24
All the bodyguards were around and they were all carrying weapons. I'm thinking, I'm not going to get out of here alive. So we get just about ready to go and the mistress picked up something and they start flying around here. He instantly t…
▶ 59:46
And Mager Sarge is over on Rumble and he looked that up. It's MPLA. Thank you, Mager Sarge, for looking that up. MPLA was the good guys in Angola that the CIA fought the war against in the War of Independence for Angola. Thank you very much…
▶ 43:30
And isn't that what they did in Vietnam and into China and Burma? Yeah, that's what they did every single time. Congressman Charlie Wilson, Ed Wilson's old crony, was the point man in Congress building the positive image of the fierce Islam…
▶ 27:44
So it's in U.S. natural interest to have another nuclear country as an Islamic country. In 1980, Congressman Charlie Wilson, the former Ed Wilson associate, was acting in concert with the CIA, repeatedly blocking congressional efforts to ha…
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research and creation. Wilson went so far as to tell Zia, Mr. President, as far as I'm concerned, you can make all the bombs you want, unquote. Zia privately assured the congressman that Pakistan's nuclear weapon program was for peaceful re…
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In the fall of 1983, an amendment to the defense budget proposed by Charlie Wilson, a Democrat of Texas, that would have rerouted Pentagon money to purchase new foreign-made heavy anti-aircraft cannons. The guns would go to the CIA for the …
▶ 1:02:29
So there really isn't any plausible deniability at this point because there's been too much unearthed and too many statements made. So he basically was the guy running the show in the White House for all of those actions in Vietnam as it re…
▶ 1:03:26
And they're going to be labeled that as Charlie Wilson was. But you just heard me say Congress doesn't want to know. They don't want to know. And even when they do know, they don't do shit about it. So they basically don't want to know. So …
▶ 9:20
the Afghan resistance. Democrat Congressman Charles Wilson of Texas waged what amounted to his own covert campaign against officials he thought insufficiently committed to the Afghan rebels. He fastened on to his agenda Chuck Cogan and Howa…
▶ 9:54
Wilson forged his own links to top Pakistani leaders, including General Zia. He used these to encourage the Pakistanis to demand more than the CIA had authorized them as far as money goes and to demand more weapons and better ones. You get …
▶ 10:59
trying to give them more money. CIA would ask for a couple of million and Congress would give them 25. Charlie Wilson began being a spark plug to this effort. The numbers only grew larger. In 83, 30 million in CIA money ballooned to more th…
▶ 16:52
to lead his Central American Task Force. COTOS then had ties to Charlie Wilson, so they got along great. During George Shultz's 1983 Pakistani visit, Zia had Akhtar of the ISI brief the visiting party on the status of operation. Akhtar repo…
▶ 27:26
anti-aircraft guns, Soviet shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile SAMs, a similar British SAM, or two different American SAMs. Charlie Wilson and congressional supporters of the Mujahideen, drawing from a secret paper John McMahon had sent t…
▶ 43:49
a measure that probably cost the Russians more than the Stingers. There were so many ideal weapons introduced at various times, the CIA officers took to calling them silver bullets. Langley again revamped its high command for the secret war…
▶ 44:19
The task force chief, an inside agitator in the victory camp, had been protected from Claire George by his connections to senior people, including Congressman Wilson. But as CIA budgets began to change, congressional backing became ever mor…
▶ 45:27
Finally, the station chief in Islamabad moved on. At Langley one day in May of 86, Milton Bearden found himself in Claire George's seventh floor office. He hardly needed the weekend to decide. Milt Bearden became the CIA's new field command…
▶ 51:43
to overthrow the government. The paper condensed the much more detailed British plan. John Foster Dulles asked a few questions, and some of the State Department officers, like Ambassador Lloyd Henson, the guy that's going to be running the …
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It was a time of American celebration of unprecedented prosperity and unparalleled military prowess, as well as hair-trigger nuclear tensions. President Eisenhower enjoyed being in the company of wealthy and powerful men. He filled his admi…
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Among the members was Sidney Weinberg and General Lucius Clay. The result was historic. I tapped three of the business advisory council leaders for his cabinet. They were Charles Wilson of General Motors as defense secretary, George Humphre…
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Charles Edward Wilson, and Philip Reed of General Electric, and much of the leadership of the integrated DuPont General Motors, U.S. rubber empire of that era, were among them too. More to the point here, however, the Riga Group's impact on…
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They will find a place for you. And the whole government isn't corrupt. It's the people in the bottleneck positions, the political appointments. And you don't get the political appointment unless you're part of the game. But I will say ther…
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to some degree i don't think he's all that dirty i just think he's in a lot of you know it's really high positions where he could have done a heck of a lot more if he hadn't turned the other cheek which basically there there's those two kin…
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And it says that a law firm by the name of Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge served as a haven for two key partners that were associated with the private intelligence network that CIA agent Tom Clines worked for, a CIA front company by t…
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portray the entire truth. As you were talking just then, I'm thinking about Charlie Wilson's war. They basically did a really good job of telling the official cover story of what was going on. That's what most of us believed. Mujahideen wer…