Charles E. Wilson person
also: Congressman Charlie Wilson, Ed Wilson, Congressman Wilson, Democrat Congressman Charles Wilson, Charlie Wilson, Wilson, Charles Wilson
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Claims (9)
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 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 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
Mentions (27)
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
▶ 28:15
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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…