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Rothschild family banking business operated_in Greece documented document
“and there were also important transactions afoot with respect to Greece, Naples and Belgium, all countries in which the brothers had a financial interest…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. ELEVEN “Il est mort” (1836)
Nathan Mayer Rothschild did_business_with Greece documented document
“In 1832 he “protested vehemently” against making a loan to Greece, for example, and did so only when he received a letter from New Court saying: “Under no circumstances must you allow the deal to slip through your fingers.”…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. TEN The World’s Bankers
Solon lived_in Greece documented document
“From Solon, Cleisthenes, and Pericles in Greece to the Emperor Kangxi in Qing China, to Teddy Roosevelt in early twentieth-century America, it was the privileged few who stepped in and were accepted by peoples who seemed content to be led a…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.119
Cleisthenes lived_in Greece documented document
“From Solon, Cleisthenes, and Pericles in Greece to the Emperor Kangxi in Qing China, to Teddy Roosevelt in early twentieth-century America, it was the privileged few who stepped in and were accepted by peoples who seemed content to be led a…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.119
Pericles lived_in Greece documented document
“From Solon, Cleisthenes, and Pericles in Greece to the Emperor Kangxi in Qing China, to Teddy Roosevelt in early twentieth-century America, it was the privileged few who stepped in and were accepted by peoples who seemed content to be led a…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.119
Rothschild family operated_in Greece documented document
“The Rothschilds were less interested in Greece and Turkey, where such multi-national financial guarantees were also used.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. NINE “On the Side of Imperialism” (1874-1885)
Dorians carried_out_attack Greece documented document
“Dorians from northwest Hellas invaded southern Greece and the old ways and the Mycenaean age came to an end.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.120
England did_business_with Greece documented document
“England has already agreed that if Coburg is prepared to accept, then they will guarantee to pay the country the same every month as France and Russia...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. NINE The Chains of Peace (1830-1833)
Rothschild family financed_via Greece documented document
“And the creation of Greece and Belgium as new states was literally underwritten by Rothschild finance in the form of loans guaranteed by the great powers and floated by the Rothschilds.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. PREFACE
Russia did_business_with Greece documented document
“England has already agreed that if Coburg is prepared to accept, then they will guarantee to pay the country the same every month as France and Russia...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. NINE The Chains of Peace (1830-1833)
United States operated_in Greece documented document
“To resist Communist-backed civil war in Greece the Truman Doctrine was proclaimed…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.56
Nazi Party carried_out_attack Greece documented document
“The attack on Greece began with occupation of Albania and Bulgaria…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.143
Rothschild family financed_via Greece documented document
“Moreover, the Rothschilds were also, as Börne said, lending money to establish Greece as an independent monarchy, which had been another liberal goal of the 1820s.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. EIGHT Sudden Revolutions (1830-1833)
William J. Donovan operated_in Greece documented document
“In December he was again on a reconnaissance mission touring Gibraltar Malta Egypt Greece Bulgaria Yugoslavia Turkey Cyprus Palestine Spain Portugal and again to Great Britain.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146
France did_business_with Greece documented document
“England has already agreed that if Coburg is prepared to accept, then they will guarantee to pay the country the same every month as France and Russia...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. NINE The Chains of Peace (1830-1833)
Soviet Union targeted_for_regime_change Greece documented document
“two months later civil war involving Communist rebel forces erupted in Greece…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.113
Soviet Union operated_in Greece documented document
“There was a Russian-backed civil war in Greece…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.30
Rothschild family did_business_with Greece documented document
“The obvious precursor to their support for Belgium was their loan to Greece.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. NINE The Chains of Peace (1830-1833)
Crypto AG supplied_arms_to Greece book_quoted
“I found it very interesting that Venezuela was on that list, given that all of that crap goes on for all of those years, and we knew everything that was going on inside of Venezuela. But, of course, we have to act surprised. The U.S., NATO'…”
▶ Operation Gladio Malaysia @ 29:23
Greece joined NATO documented
“monarchist, and a fascist dictator. That became our first post-World War II operation. And immediately after we did that and basically put down the resistance of the nationalists, Greece joins NATO in 1952. You see what we're doing? We're j…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 6 @ 54:19
Greece member_of NATO host_asserted
“Crete is part of Greece. Okay. Greece is part of NATO.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt @ 40:37
United States carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“The British was in Greece trying to stir up shit there, too, and got so strung out that they weren't able to overthrow the government when they wanted to. The U.S. comes in, does what they need to have done and basically saves the day. And …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 1:08:44
CIA overthrew Greece guest_asserted
“Yeah. Let alone subsequently. Colonel, as you know, what that led to is, you know, the toppling of when we realized that we could take over, you know, support the the Italian Christian Party and defeat the Communist Party in Italy, that we …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner interview with Paul Williams (Operation Gladio) Part 2 @ 25:58
CIA supplied_arms_to Greece host_asserted
“and a convenient place to be able to threaten anybody that got out of line. So vice president, oh, I wanted to say this too. In an attempt, oh, hold on a second. So basically the United States provided the military junta with ample military…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 1:01:19
CIA spied_on Greece documented
“after 1971. Korea, but only until 1952. Russian, Greek, and Indonesian involvement apparently seemed non-threatening to the White House, and unfettered discussions of those were permissible, which is very, very interesting. Other covert ope…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 52:26
KYP spied_on Greece book_quoted
“found that KYP routinely bugged ministers' offices and overheard their conversations. Then they would turn that data over to the CIA. Many Western intelligence agencies have long provided the CIA with information about their own government …”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974 @ 17:20
People's Liberation Army attempted_coup_against Greece host_asserted
“Basically, Greece in the aftermath of World War II was living a hell. In the fall of 1946, the inevitable occurred. They took to the hills and launched a phase two of their civil war. The British were weighed down by many other projects, an…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 13:00
Andreas Papandreou member_of Greece documented
“anti-communist and had the credentials to prove it, dating back to his role as a British-installed prime minister during the Civil War against the leftists in the 1944 and 1945 time period. But he, too, showed stirrings of independence and …”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 44:17
Greece member_of NATO host_asserted
“In the early 1950s, Greece had been molded into a supremely reliable ally client of the United States and a full-fledged member of NATO, of course. It even sent troops to Korea because it didn't have a choice, just so the American propagand…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 31:22
Greece carried_out_attack Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“They failed to industrialize. They had a national awakening in the Balkans. People wanted to be nationalists. That's why they lost those. You had the Wahhabis of Arabia revolted. That would end up being the Lawrence of Arabia story. In 1818…”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:03:30
Greece became Operation Gladio host_asserted
“called for American backup. The Americans did not fight man-to-man, but waged chemical warfare on the Greek people, and we did that. That's not even up for debate. As they're defending their country against fascism, we dropped chemical weap…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 59:22
United Kingdom carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“there was additional 60,000 that had been blocked out of the main city square. Unbeknownst to them, UK troops, as well as these armed Hellenic raiding forces, had climbed to the top of the buildings around the city square and opened fire. A…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 16:28
Benito Mussolini carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“attacked Greece and basically trying to capture Greece for the Axis powers. But Greece resistance fighters was able to thwart that attack and repel Mussolini's advances. In 1941, Hitler invades Greece, but this time he's successful and he b…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 7:56
Andreas Papandreou appointed Greece host_asserted
“exile in canada and sweden he returns he becomes the prime minister in 1981 and basically they go about exposing all of the um but he immediately joins the european union which just blows my mind but um he exposes the um gladio units um he …”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 1:07:48
United Kingdom removed_from_power Greece documented
“Soviet-American relations crossed another watershed. That February, the British told American officials that they would terminate foreign aid to Greece. Europe faced a cruel winter, the worst in decades. The British government felt it could…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 35:11
Harry S. Truman funded Greece documented
“And the British didn't want to do it. They had kind of tried to do it and didn't do a very good job. So Greece is plunged into a civil war. And, of course, it was blamed on the communists in Greece. President Truman approved a suggestion th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 35:39
United Kingdom installed Greece host_asserted
“This was hardly the kind of social order designed to calm the ulcers of the British old guard like Winston Churchill, who had long regarded Greece as their private manor. The great man was determined that the Greek king should be restored t…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 7:00
United States supplied_arms_to Greece host_asserted
“reinstituted Nazi military people into the British and soon-to-be U.S.-supported Greek army. Further support for the campaign against the ELAS came from the U.S. and the Air Force and Navy, which transported two British divisions into Greec…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 9:31
United Kingdom removed_from_power Greece host_asserted
“Basically, Greece in the aftermath of World War II was living a hell. In the fall of 1946, the inevitable occurred. They took to the hills and launched a phase two of their civil war. The British were weighed down by many other projects, an…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 13:00
United States funded Greece documented
“when it was estimated that 75% of Greek children were malnourished. So difficult was it to gloss over the atrocities that President Truman, in his address to Congress in March of 1947, who was funding all of this shit, asking for aid to Gre…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 17:37
United States funded Greece host_asserted
“Significant quantities had also been shipped to the Greek government by the U.S. while the British was running the show. By the end of the year, the Greek military had been entirely supported by U.S. military aid, and that included their cl…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 22:26
United States trained Greece host_asserted
“took a tough line and insisted that all of its recommendations be carried into effect completely, unquote. More than 250 American Army officers were in the country and assigned to be advisors to the Greek Army divisions, just like they did …”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 24:21
United States spied_on Greece host_asserted
“The U.S. was monitoring every single thing they sent to all of their different ambassadors throughout the world. So just want to, I'm going to now start keeping that in the back of my mind when we look through all of this, now that I've had…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 33:43
George Papadopoulos carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“members of the security battalions became heroes of the resistance. Okay, so we're 180 degrees out. It was torture, however, that would undoubtedly mark the seven-year Greek nightmare that was oversaw by Papadopoulos. An American attorney w…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 55:57
Greece donated_to 1968 Nixon-Agnew election campaign host_asserted
“half a million dollars made by the military junta to the 1968 Nixon-Agnew election campaign. Apart from other considerations, it was suspected that this was money given to the military junta by the CIA, which was going to find its way back …”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 1:03:47
Basil Lambro member_of Greece host_asserted
“Nixon transferring the M-Fund management over to the Japanese government, which was full of gold, and then they were expected to fund Nixon's campaign when he ran for re-election. Perhaps nothing better captures the mystique of the bond fel…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 1:04:13
Andreas Papandreou appointed Greece documented
“of the American training in Subversive, basically the School of Americas. Iandidis named as prime minister a Greek-American by the name of Androsopoulos. I mean, this guy's got like 15 letters, so let me spell his name. A-N-D-R-O-U-T-S-O-P-…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 1:06:50
Operation Gladio member_of Greece host_asserted
“throughout Europe. Military units in the Netherlands, military units in Sweden, military units in France, military units in Germany, military units in Italy, military units in Greece, military units in Portugal. Some vast undertaking, right…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 45:11
United Kingdom terminated_aid_to Greece documented
“When the British told American officials that they would be forced to terminate the foreign aid to Greece at the end of March, Europe faced a cruel winter and the British government could not continue to support Greece. Now, those of you wh…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:02:29
CIA spied_on Greece book_quoted
“found that KYP routinely bugged ministers' offices and overheard their conversations. Then they would turn that data over to the CIA. Many Western intelligence agencies have long provided the CIA with information about their own government …”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974 @ 17:20
CIA overthrew Greece host_asserted
“the best of the best from that perspective. But he had also, interestingly, worked with the CIA for the Greeks. When the CIA did their coup and they installed the five colonels, they helped that military junta overthrow of the Greek governm…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 57:54
CIA funded Greece host_asserted
“for the CIA's black money. And throughout the, you know, throughout the 50s, became, you know, the reason that the CIA could topple governments throughout the world, started with Greece and Turkey and Portugal and Iran.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 59:26
Greece supplied_arms_to Bosnia book_quoted
“and also, behind the scenes, the CIA. These countries bought weapons from Malaysia, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and others. Turkey is often pictured as having organized and served as a conduit for this traffic. Bosnian Serbs received…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 11:38
United Kingdom attempted_coup_against Greece host_asserted
“The British was in Greece trying to stir up shit there, too, and got so strung out that they weren't able to overthrow the government when they wanted to. The U.S. comes in, does what they need to have done and basically saves the day. And …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 1:08:44
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace carried_out_attack Greece documented
“all of the land mass after World War I. And it talks about defining the borders of France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, the Serb-Croatians, Slovenia state, Turkey. It talks about relationships with Franco-Turkish agreements of 1921.…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady @ 1:07:48
Winston Churchill withdrew_support_from Greece host_asserted
“Churchill was fearful that this organization was going to beat the Nazis. And the greater majority of the Greek people supported the political group that opposed Nazism, which we've already established Churchill was a fascist. So he pulled …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 58:15
Walker Kistler "Jack" Ulmer operated_in Greece host_asserted
“He goes to Turkey, Egypt, Italy, and Austria. And, of course, we know Turkey and Italy and Austria during the time that he would have been there in the late 40s and early 50s were all part of Operation Gladio. And then, of course, we just m…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 1:15:36
Loughlin Campbell carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“unveiling of the computer system. Welcome to democracy. That's why the left wants democracy and not a constitutional republic. Loughlin Campbell, who was the CIA station chief in Greece from 1959 to 1962, was worried about the national elec…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 38:34
Operation Pleiades attempted_coup_against Greece book_quoted
“Italy's politics during this time period in 2011, so they could ensure that they get the right guy in there and not somebody that's against NATO. In March 2012, there was, that's when you had Greece that was popping off at the time, and the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 5 @ 42:12
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“So they can't let him, because he's a populist, they can't let him be president. So they're going to have a military coup. The plan was based on a NATO-designed scheme in case of communist insurgency. And it was used to prevent a peaceful e…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 48:14
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“followed. None of them lasted very long. So there's increased instability in Greece. And meanwhile, in order to instigate that instability or further it along, all kinds of terrorist attacks starts happening. And it was the activation of Gl…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 41:11
Alexandros Papagos appointed Greece host_asserted
“Basically, they're just at this point trying to soften their takeover of Greece. The UK selected Field Marshal Alexander Papagos. Papagos was the perfect Western stooge. He became Greece's first chief of the Hellenic National Defense in 195…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 12:54
Alexandros Papagos carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“in 1935, and then again a second time, because monarchists had been elected during those two additional times. He and his Navy and Air Force counterparts actually mounted a coup against the Greek government. He was assigned the job of Minis…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 13:55
Donald Kagan born_in Greece host_asserted
“known as a columnist in the ultimate neocon. He's been a critic of U.S. foreign policy, and he's a leading advocate in his own words, what he calls liberal internationalism. Okay, so we'll get more to him in a second here, but let's talk ab…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #41 @ 3:22
George Papadopoulos overthrew Greece documented
“And we talked about Greece a lot in their military coup by George Papadopoulos, the colonel. In 1967, the military coup in Greece established the power of the armed forces in less than 24 hours. So it was like basically walk in, boom, we're…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 9:28
George Papadopoulos overthrew Greece host_asserted
“that he had taken over power in order to secure democracy, freedom, and happiness on behalf of all Greek citizens. You know, because that's what you do. You capture 10,000 people, throw them in prison and torture them, all in the name of de…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 50:40
George Papadopoulos removed_from_power Greece host_asserted
“but not before they kill thousands of people on Cyprus, and eventually the colonels are arrested to include Papadopoulos. He was sentenced to death in 1975 for high treason. It was later changed to life imprisonment, and finally the Greeks …”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 1:07:18
Philip E. Talbot exposed Greece host_asserted
“outlaw demonstration and strikes, and anyone can be arrested without a warrant. Sounds like America. George Papadopoulos had operated as a liaison officer with the CIA since 1952. The U.S. ambassador at the time in Athens was Philip Talbot.…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 51:10
Operation Pomathias installed Greece book_quoted
“Y-T-H-I-A-S. The plan had dated back to 2008. It was designed like NATO's Operation Pomathias, which installed the military government that we just talked about in 1967 with Colonel Papadopoulos. To overthrow a civilian government judged al…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 5 @ 42:45
George Papandreou appointed Greece host_asserted
“and forced the Western-friendly Constantine Karamalas to resign. New elections were conducted in November of 1963, and Papandu George was elected the prime minister. He was the first prime minister since the end of World War II that was ele…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 40:11
George Papandreou exposed Greece host_asserted
“an investigation that there was indeed voter fraud. They're better than us. They actually confirmed there was voter fraud. And that came as a result of a man named George Papandu. I probably don't have that word, that guy's, we're going to …”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 39:37
CIA flew_agents_through Greece book_quoted
“Intelligence agents operated at grave disadvantage. It was only in 1951, apparently, that the CIA learned that the printing processes the Russians used to produce internal passports and other documents was being used. Planes to drop agents …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 6 @ 28:23
Peace and Liberty operated_in Greece book_quoted
“designed to highlight the French communists as a Soviet fifth column in France. David directed the group's international committee that synchronized the activities of branches established in other countries, including Belgium, Great Britain…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 @ 37:23
Euro-Right member_of Greece documented
“euro right as a response to an entity called euro communism. They probably created that one too, but whatever. Picky, picky, picky. Charter members included Italian fascist party members, Spain fascist party members.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 18:16
United States sent_troops_to Greece host_asserted
“subjugation of armed minorities or by outside pressures because they claim it was Soviets intervention in Greece that they were actually fighting against. And the Truman Doctrine, we may recall that immediately after, literally immediately …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 56:12
United States used_chemical_weapons_in Greece host_asserted
“called for American backup. The Americans did not fight man-to-man, but waged chemical warfare on the Greek people, and we did that. That's not even up for debate. As they're defending their country against fascism, we dropped chemical weap…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 59:22
Operation Gladio operated_in Greece book_quoted
“And he was eventually charged with that. There was a lot to do about it, but that eventually happened. Also, he talks about the Operation Gladio happening on Cyprus and Greece. We went over Greece, which is...…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 1:45:42
Adolf Hitler carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“attacked Greece and basically trying to capture Greece for the Axis powers. But Greece resistance fighters was able to thwart that attack and repel Mussolini's advances. In 1941, Hitler invades Greece, but this time he's successful and he b…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 7:56
Operation Gladio operated_in Greece host_asserted
“Let's face it, this time there's a problem. Because Gladio consisted of establishing and funding military units to ward off the communist threat throughout Europe. Military units in the Netherlands, military units in Sweden, military units …”
▶ Interview with PAUL WILLIAMS Author OPERATION GLADIO @ 44:55
United States carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“Yugoslavia at the time had been providing arms to the resistance fighters. And the U.S. government said that President Truman had convinced Congress in 1947 the U.S. had to interfere with the Greek Civil War. And Greece became the first cou…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 18:36
United States supplied_arms_to Greece host_asserted
“U.S. deployed military forces to the country in 1948. Soviets removed Yugoslavia from the Soviet bloc after they found out that Yugoslavia was supplying Greece with weapons because they wanted to avoid a superpower confrontation. Let that s…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 20:32
United States supplied_arms_to Greece host_asserted
“Because they don't want the confrontation with the UK and the US during this big Cold War we're supposed to be having. So the US in turn begins using chemical warfare like napalm on the Greek people who were resisting the puppet government …”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 20:59
CIA targeted_for_regime_change Greece guest_asserted
“you know the toppling of when we realized that we could take over you know support the the uh italian christian party and uh and defeat the the communist party in italy that we could topple governments elsewhere and of course we immediately…”
▶ Interview with PAUL WILLIAMS Author of Operation Gladio PART 2 @ 26:04
United States overthrew Greece host_asserted
“the resistant fighters, the Greek nationalists that did not want an occupation force, whether at the British or the Americans. But at the end of the day, the Americans were successful in putting down and putting in their own goon squad ther…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 58:28
Hjalmar Schacht operated_in Greece host_asserted
“He went to Greece. He went everywhere. And he just so happened to be a lot of places where there were CIA coups going on. Just saying. Oh, I thought I uncovered something maybe you didn't know. No, I've read his book. Of course, you know ev…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 1:06:17
Operation Gladio trafficked Greece host_asserted
“Yeah, a lot of these multinational corporations. Bernard Arnold, he's a very, very well-known. And in Greece, all of those ship owners, several of them have come up in Operation Gladio because they traffic the people, the weapons, and the d…”
▶ Shadow State 45 Secret Societies 28 Hedge Fund Guys @ 57:38
Alfred Ulmer operated_in Greece host_asserted
“where Otto Skorzeny is. So this guy has worked covert operations with Otto Skorzeny. And he was in Greece, and we know that we overthrew Greece government too. So he is no stranger to covert operations. Ulmer depended on his, basically his …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 25:09
Operation Gladio operated_in Greece host_asserted
“NATO so that we can control them. And there's documentation that establishes the connection to CIA and the funding of all of this. And also I'll put out there for people who want to do further research, the Gladio unit inside of Greece was …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 6 @ 54:50
United States intervened_in Greece host_asserted
“U.S. covert intervention occurred in Greece when Britain gave notice that her empty treasury compelled her to end all financial and military aid to the eastern end of the Mediterranean. She basically withdrew from her role. That's not exact…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 23:19
George H.W. Bush associated_with Greece host_asserted
“Bush's, Barbara's letter to, I think, the wife of Ulmer. You know, this James Ulmer guy is, and they speak, talk about them being in Greece in 1950. And Greece in 1950 and 49 is a kind of, it's kind of like, in some ways, a key kind of noda…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 1:16:02
CIA funded Greece speculative
“half a million dollars made by the military junta to the 1968 Nixon-Agnew election campaign. Apart from other considerations, it was suspected that this was money given to the military junta by the CIA, which was going to find its way back …”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 1:03:47
George Papadopoulos installed Greece host_asserted
“Come to find out, when we were talking about, and we're going to get to it eventually in this book, but in Turkey, one of their, we talked a little bit about it when we did our Greece podcast, where they had basically overthrown the governm…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 1 @ 27:26
Operation Gladio involved_personnel_from Greece host_asserted
“And it says all of these people converged on Vietnam from Cuba, because, you know, we've got the exile Cubans still in Miami to be used. Africa, because we've got a lot of Gladio people down there from the OAS, from the Algerian War and oth…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 31:40
United States targeted_for_regime_change Greece book_quoted
“what was going on, and the conspiracy to undermine the government and enhance the positions of the military plotters and of the raw power exercised by the CIA in Greece. We saw earlier how Greece was looked upon much as a piece of property …”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974 @ 8:15
United Kingdom installed Greece host_asserted
“seated, stay-behind capacities in Greece. And they were trying to control, basically set up a post-World War II Western NATO-friendly government in Greece. And they were running into a large-scale amount of resistance. And they wanted the U…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 57:28
United States supplied_arms_to Greece host_asserted
“to be ruled by Britain. They wanted their country back. They had just been occupied by a bunch of Nazis. And then there were the Soviets. The British wanted control of Greece. And they basically were getting their butt kicked and asked the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 27:26
United Kingdom targeted_for_regime_change Greece host_asserted
“to be ruled by Britain. They wanted their country back. They had just been occupied by a bunch of Nazis. And then there were the Soviets. The British wanted control of Greece. And they basically were getting their butt kicked and asked the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 27:26
George W. Bush operated_in Greece book_quoted
“and being in Greece in 1950, which was a very interesting place to be in 1950. But definitely that, I think, would require further corroboration from other sources. And again, it's significant that this is in the context of a possible alibi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 1:13:59
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“When his Marshall Plan tour took him to Greece, Nixon was horrified to meet a young woman whose left breast had been hacked off by the quote-unquote communist guerrillas, which we now know was Operation Gladio in Greece. He returned from th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 43:20
George H.W. Bush carried_out_attack Greece book_quoted
“as saying as her kind of like where she was on Dallas on November 22nd 1963 and she's basically she's kind of at a hairdresser's salon where she's writing a letter to Ulmer's wife I believe and talking about how what they were doing togethe…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 1:13:05
Alfred Ulmer carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“And Italy and Austria during the time that he would have been there in the late 40s and early 50s were all part of Operation Gladio. And then, of course, we just mentioned his excursion over into Greece as well. So very, very interesting. I…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 1:15:37
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted
“Operation Gladio and how they control us and how they try to psychologically manipulate us. When we start the next phase of this, which is to go through some of their operational mechanisms and their planning, pull a plan book off and I'm g…”
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Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler
▶ 1:47:25 Operation Gladio and how they control us and how they try to psychologically manipulate us. When we start the next phase of this, which is to go through some of their operational mechanisms and their planning, pull a plan book off and I'm g…
ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt
▶ 40:37 Hold on just a second. Okay, good. I'm going to learn something here. Crete is part of Greece. Okay. Greece is part of NATO. NATO attacked you guys. NATO was behind all of this. You were not allowed to go to Crete because you would have bee…
Operation Gladio - Belgium
▶ 1:30:54 But they were actually trained in Turkey and on the Ukrainian border and shuttled into Russia and kept by a group in Russia, which means they have stay-behind units hiding in Russia as well, and committed this act of terrorism. And you can …
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 41:48 The plans revealed that the essential component of the secret war of plan blue conspirators had intended to escalate the already tense political climate in France by committing acts of terror. Sounds like Operation Northwood. Blame them on …
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 49:28 create or further their narratives. So you just have to keep your head on a swivel. And that's kind of the whole reason that we're doing what we're doing. I want you to know what their tactics are so that in the future, as these things happ…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 2:53 So anyway, yeah. Okay, now that we've got the real stuff out of the way, let's start on Greece. Now, I do want to preface, this is going to limit not all of Greece. There is, like with every story, a pre-story to Greece that had to do with …
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 3:25 Greece had been occupied and there was rebel forces inside of Greece that were fighting against the occupation forces. And as they withdrew, England wanted those...…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 3:48 those rebels that were fighting against the occupation force during World War II, they didn't want them to get too carried away because they didn't want Greece to be actually independent. And so they came in, quote unquote, to help. And the…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 5:19 In Greek, life were to be removed. Among these were many skirts, long hair, and foreign newspapers. Church attendance for the young would be compulsory. So brutal and so swift was the repression that by September, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, a…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 5:48 And keep in mind, we're only like 15 years out from World War II. Before the year was over, Amnesty International had sent representatives to Greece to investigate the situation. From this came a report which asserted that torture as a deli…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 6:11 And that kind of goes in line with what we were talking about yesterday and training National Guard people in order to affect this terror campaign. The coup had taken place two days before the campaign for national elections was to begin be…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 8:15 what was going on, and the conspiracy to undermine the government and enhance the positions of the military plotters and of the raw power exercised by the CIA in Greece. We saw earlier how Greece was looked upon much as a piece of property …
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 8:39 The story related to Dean illustrates how this attitude was little changed, and thus the Paparandros position was very precarious. During one of the disputes between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, which was now spilling over into NATO, Pres…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 9:36 If these two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk. And I mean whacked good. We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greek, Mr. Ambassador. If your prime minister gives me talk about dem…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 10:34 On behalf of the palace in 1965, he helped King Constantine buy center union deputies so that the Papadros government was toppled. So you have the CIA working with the king to overthrow the elected government of Greece. For nearly two years…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 11:02 avoid having elections based on the Constitution. So they're doing everything they can to destabilize Greece and avoid having a new election. What concerned the opponents of the current president most was his son, Andrus Papandrus.…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 11:55 moderate liberals like Adelaide Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey. His economic views, wrote the Washington Post, are those of American New Deal, which is basically socialism light. But Andrus, Papa Andrus, did not disguise his wish to take Gre…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 12:26 and remaining a satellite of the United States. He leaned toward opening relations with the Soviet Union, another dead man walking strike, and other nations on Greece's border. He argued that the swollen American military and intelligence t…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 12:51 wishing to purge it of its most dictatorial, royalist-minded senior officers. Andrus was more of a centrist than he was a leftist or even on the right, as his presidency was to demonstrate because he eventually does get elected president. H…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 13:44 He was an American with all the rights and privileges, and he had sworn allegiance to the flag, and then he gave up the American citizenship. He went back to just being a Greek. You can't trust a man who breaks his oath of allegiance to the…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 15:08 more informed assessments so that they could twist the truth if they wanted to. So it doesn't surprise me that he was actually a target. As for his dad, his anti-communist credentials were impeccable, dating back to his role in the British-…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 15:35 But he, too, showed stirrings of independence from the Western superpower. He refused to buckle to Johnson's pressure to compromise with Turkey over Cyprus. He accepted an invitation to visit Moscow. And when his government said that it wou…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 16:04 reintroduce certain civil liberties and to readmit into Greece some of those who had fought against the government during the Civil War, you know, being a good leader. When Andrus assumed his minister duties in 1964, he was shocked to disco…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 16:25 every industrial state in the world, an intelligence service gone wild, a shadow government with powers beyond the control of its leaders. This, thought the younger Papandros, accounted for many of the obstacles the government was encounter…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 16:50 was created by the OSS and the CIA in the course of the Civil War, with hundreds of its officers receiving training in the United States. Notice a pattern there? One of these men, George Papadopoulos, and yes, he spells it exactly the same …
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 17:47 been such that if a private citizen were to pass it on to a foreign government they would be charged with treason but it's an everyday occurrence when you're in the intelligence office and also i checked greece was another one of crypto ag …
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 18:17 was correct because they're also overhearing it in their own right on their own encryption machines. As a result of his discovery, the younger Paprandros dismissed the two top KYP men and replaced them with reliable officers. The new direct…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 20:39 KYP's funds coming directly from the CIA without passing through a Greek ministry also failed. But he did succeed in transferring the man who had been the liaison between the two agencies for several years. This was George Papadopoulos. The…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 21:08 of James Potts, the CIA deputy chief in Athens before the coup, were often told, go see George, he's my boy. In mid-February 1967, a meeting took place in the White House and a guy by the name of Marquis Childs to discuss CIA reports that l…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 21:37 American military aid group in Athens, numbering several hundred, had worked as part of the same team. The solemn question was whether, by some subtle political intervention, the coup could be prevented and thus preserve the parliamentary g…
Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6
▶ 43:13 There are people, when they listen to these stories or these historical facts, because they're not stories, when the Church Commission was investigating the CIA in one of the only worthwhile efforts to rein in their control, you may recall …
Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6
▶ 43:42 in the line of duty in Greece, right at the height of the church commission. And the CIA used that death, turned it around, and said the only reason the guy was gunned down was because too much was being revealed by Congress's investigation…
Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6
▶ 1:11:00 The death of that of the CIA agent in Greece was very useful for the CIA turning public opinion against the congressional oversight. She starts on her book by saying that the beginning of 1975, there was very massive public support that Con…
Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6
▶ 1:12:18 There was nothing that came out of the church committee that changed a single thing. And it is not like Greece is the only example. We just had another example. They sacrificed Frank Wisner and used him to the point where he has a mental br…
Operation Gladio - Liberia
▶ 1:08:10 So that's telling. But basically, this whole started, this kind of flag of convenience in Liberia started after World War II. He stops over. Now, he was also involved in Greece and all of that sort of early time, I think, OSS and all of tha…
Operation Gladio - Liberia
▶ 1:13:46 The Cambodian Shipping Corporation was one of these flags of convenience. And it says the entire thing was shut down because it was found smuggling drugs into Europe, cigarettes into Europe, breaking the Iraq oil embargo, trafficking humans…
Operation Gladio - Liberia
▶ 1:22:46 Like we teach the kids in high school, you know, Standard Oil was broken up in 1913 in the antitrust case. Yet what do you do vis-a-vis the Subaru? They're like reunited over in Saudi Arabia. And so what happens is there's this dispute betw…
Operation Gladio - Liberia
▶ 1:23:14 You know, Greece definitely is involved in international shipping. You know, it's obviously involved in shipping before that, you know, much earlier as well. But there was a gigantic dispute between this, you know, Onassis, right? Onassis, …
Operation Gladio - Libya
▶ 27:57 in Ankara, Turkey in the 60s, and also spent quite a bit of time in the 60s in Iran. Also in Athens, Greece during the time when there was a lot of political turmoil and coups going on there. He was also the political advisor to Sink Navier…
Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2
▶ 9:32 you quickly realize that it is a port city and it is located in a very strategic area right next door to Egypt, right across the Mediterranean from Greece, Italy, right around the little bay area from Tripoli. You've got Tanzania over to th…
Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2
▶ 10:30 You've got Cyprus and you have Turkey. And all of those areas are places where you have a lot of destabilization. Now, look just north past Greece and remember everything that we talked about, about Bulgaria. Bulgaria was one of the biggest…
Operation Gladio Malaysia
▶ 29:23 I found it very interesting that Venezuela was on that list, given that all of that crap goes on for all of those years, and we knew everything that was going on inside of Venezuela. But, of course, we have to act surprised. The U.S., NATO'…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 1:54:24 determined is that many of the coups that have occurred, they're done the same way. Like, for example, the same coup prototype was done in Greece when we couped that government, as was done in the 2014 coup in Ukraine. Basically, same scena…
Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke
▶ 1:36:29 You know, it was the Rockefeller Commission that was supposedly the one that brought all of this information to light in the criminality of the CIA. But of course, they didn't do anything about it because what the Rockefeller Commission act…
Operation Gladio-Turkey
▶ 1:02:21 which was called the Third Bureau. And then they had an administrative section. And it's interesting because when all of this was being set up, you had the issues going on post-World War II in Cyprus in that you had basically an archbishop …
Operation Gladio-Turkey
▶ 1:03:21 Turkish agents from their stay-behind unit in 1955 that threw a bomb into a house in Greece that was used as a museum and was basically a monument to Mustafa Kemal, the museum was, and it was highly revered with all Turkish people.…
Operation Gladio-Turkey
▶ 1:03:51 And the Turkish stay behind basically did that as a false flag in order to create a strategy of tension because they immediately blamed the Greeks for doing it. And then there's all kinds of chaos in Istanbul and Izmir. They killed 16 Greek…
Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa
▶ 1:18:21 meeting discussing about, you know, having people from those countries coming to Moscow to learn engineering, things like that, working on infrastructure, working with the Chinese on building infrastructure, which they've already been down …
Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7
▶ 57:54 the best of the best from that perspective. But he had also, interestingly, worked with the CIA for the Greeks. When the CIA did their coup and they installed the five colonels, they helped that military junta overthrow of the Greek governm…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond
▶ 2:15:20 100%, right? So that was full-on Operation Gladiator type stuff, right? Behind the lines type stuff. Very James Bond-ish. And so after that, then you had the development of the Gehlen, Reinhard Gehlen Network. Yes, we've talked all about th…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)
▶ 31:40 And it says all of these people converged on Vietnam from Cuba, because, you know, we've got the exile Cubans still in Miami to be used. Africa, because we've got a lot of Gladio people down there from the OAS, from the Algerian War and oth…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)
▶ 32:08 forces, and you had the five colonels installed. Well, one colonel ended up being the leader, but the five colonels overthrew the Greece government. They came in from Korea, which we've already talked about. We know there's a whole bunch of…
Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One
▶ 41:44 Government officials basically are comparing what's happening in Korea to what happened in Greece. And remember what happened in Greece is the CIA overthrew the Greece country after World War II. Because you remember the British had basical…
Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One
▶ 42:07 people in Greece and then decided they didn't want them once the war was over and then sent in these other people to basically kill the people they trained to try to be a pain in the ass to the Nazis. And they created their own chaos there.…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 0:26 I got abandoned about an hour ago when all of our friends went to the beach. So I am going to go through two iterations of Operation Gladio in Greece. And we're going to try to get out of here in under two hours. Can't make any promises. Bu…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 2:26 And we just shook our heads. A trick to raise the morale of the German people. It had to be. But we soon faced up to the evidence. Some of us listened in secret to the Allied broadcast, which confirmed the news. There was no doubt about it.…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 3:27 communist anti-communist rhetoric of operation gladio um as the war was winding down in europe the brits and the americans had design on greece greece was a strategic location the u.s at the time had no bases in greece and they wanted them …
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 3:59 forces had largely been defeated by the Greek resistance to Hitler wanting their freedom. But the British did not trust the Greek citizens to govern themselves. So while they were under duress and fighting off the last vestiges of the Nazis…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 4:30 and fought against the resistance fighters that was trying to free the citizenry of Greece in order to be able to control Greece in the aftermath of World War II. Freedom for me, but not for thee, seems to be a reoccurring mantra. The Briti…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 5:00 before and in the immediate aftermath of the Germans fleeing Greece. The evacuation of the Germans fleeing was in large part attributed to ELAS, which was referred to as People's Liberation Army trying to liberate Greece. It was founded in …
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 5:30 It was made up of everybody. It was made up of Catholics. It was made up of atheists. It was made up of all political parties, a large segment of the Catholic priests. And they fought basically a guerrilla-style warfare from the fringe area…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 6:02 ELAS were basically liberating Greece from the World War. And they also had some very interesting beliefs in that they wanted to promote education. They wanted to regenerate the Greek society. And they even...…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 6:32 maintained a fighting battalion of women. They were all about women's rights. And there was approximately 2 million of the 7 million Greeks that this movement incorporated. So it was hardly a minor faction.…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 7:00 This was hardly the kind of social order designed to calm the ulcers of the British old guard like Winston Churchill, who had long regarded Greece as their private manor. The great man was determined that the Greek king should be restored t…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 7:33 Quislings and conservatives of all stripes found themselves in positions of political power, predominantly in the new Greek army and police. And then, as a result, members of the ELAS found themselves either dead or in prison. In the early …
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 8:30 However, shortly after British arrived in Greece, the fighting broke out between ELAS and the British forces, many of whom had fought against ELAS during the war and in the process of collaborating with the Germans. Others had simply served…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 8:59 Ernest Bevins acknowledged in August 1946 there were 228 members of the Nazi security battalion, full-fledged Nazis, whose main task had been to track down Greek resistance fighters and Jewish citizens living in Greece on active service in …
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 9:31 reinstituted Nazi military people into the British and soon-to-be U.S.-supported Greek army. Further support for the campaign against the ELAS came from the U.S. and the Air Force and Navy, which transported two British divisions into Greec…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 9:57 with Nazi Germany. They were invading Greece, who was trying to fight off the Nazis at the same time. That's crazy. In mid-January 1945, ELAS agreed to an armistice, one that had much the appearance and the effect of a surrender. I mean, th…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 10:30 a cynical monopoly game, Britain had landed on Greece. Churchill later wrote that Stalin had adhered strictly and faithfully to our agreement of October, and during all the long weeks of fighting the quote-unquote communist on the streets o…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 10:59 the Soviet Union, Stalin, watching what is going on in what the U.S. and the Brits are doing to the Greeks. And what you will find is in the aftermath of watching them do this, it was only then that the Romania, Bulgaria, and...…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 11:27 those Eastern European countries had the same thing done to them by the USSR. We're setting a very bad example, in other words. Okay, here's a quote from Professor D.F. Fleming, quote, that Greece was the first of the liberated states to be…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 12:00 It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example in Bulgaria and then Romania, though with much less bloodshed by Stalin, unquote. A secession of Greek governments followed, serving by the grace of the British and the U.…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 12:32 prison camps, which is a note. This is a reoccurring thing. They set up, like we've talked about, in Sardinia off the coast of Italy. They did it on the island off the coast of the southeast part of Vietnam. They did it in many other areas …
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 13:00 Basically, Greece in the aftermath of World War II was living a hell. In the fall of 1946, the inevitable occurred. They took to the hills and launched a phase two of their civil war. The British were weighed down by many other projects, an…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 13:30 they were going to withdraw and ask the U.S. to step in. Thus, it was the historic task of preserving all that is decent and good in Western civilization passed into the hands of the United States. The State Department summoned the Greek Ch…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 13:59 not a suggestion. And in doing so, the State Department had already drafted the request. The text of the letter, the charged affair, later reported, had been drafted with a view to Congress, basically, to approve the aid. It would also serv…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 14:31 It was demanded that it be done under the guise of asking for it. The note would also serve as a basis for the cultivation of public opinion, i.e. propaganda. In July, in a letter to Dwight Griswold, the head of the U.S. Mission of Aid to G…
Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE
▶ 15:01 It is possible that during your stay in Greece, you and the ambassador will come to the conclusion that the effectiveness of your mission would be enhanced if a reorganization of the Greek government could be effected. If such a conclusion …
Secret Societies meet Gladio-Society of the Elect
▶ 1:08:29 The first Balkan Wars, which was 1912 and 13, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro had defeated the Ottomans right in this area. And then they had a... The war was over. That ended pretty quickly. They actually really embarrassed the Ot…
Shadow State 45 Secret Societies 28 Hedge Fund Guys
▶ 57:38 Yeah, a lot of these multinational corporations. Bernard Arnold, he's a very, very well-known. And in Greece, all of those ship owners, several of them have come up in Operation Gladio because they traffic the people, the weapons, and the d…
The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history
▶ 1:02:29 When the British told American officials that they would be forced to terminate the foreign aid to Greece at the end of March, Europe faced a cruel winter and the British government could not continue to support Greece. Now, those of you wh…
The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history
▶ 1:02:58 stay-behind capacities in Greece. And they were trying to control, basically set up a post-World War II Western NATO-friendly government in Greece. And they were running into a large-scale amount of resistance. And they wanted the U.S. to h…
The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history
▶ 1:03:26 And the U.S. goes in and takes over for the British. And it says an added aid to Turkey for good measure because a longstanding issue with Cyprus and the fact that Greece and Turkey both had claimed control over Cyprus. And so you couldn't …
The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history
▶ 1:03:58 The resistant fighters, the Greek nationalists that did not want an occupation force, whether at the British or the Americans. But at the end of the day, the Americans were successful in putting down and putting in their own goon squad ther…
The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history
▶ 1:04:51 The aid itself was not ultimately an important as much as the change in strategy. Under a new concept, Soviet power was to be quote-unquote contained, as George Kennan articulated and coined the word containment as part of the Truman Doctri…
The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview
▶ 17:33 terrorist attack in Italy, a scandal shocks Western Europe, the silencing of NATO, CIA, the silence, sorry, of NATO, CIA, and MI6, basically describing the network, the secret war in Great Britain, the secret war in the US, the secret war i…
The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview
▶ 24:25 May the force be with you. The propaganda of the deed. God's terrorist, Yves-Garin Sarac, and the press gang. That's a gentler press. One last French kiss. The devil in the deep blue sea, talking about Cyprus and Greece and their civil war …
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3
▶ 11:35 These early U.S.-sponsored covert actions in Asia coincided with the beginning of private financing on behalf of the CIA, covert financing. The World Anti-Communist League was set up by remnants of the Nazi elements with assistance from the…
The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5
▶ 1:07:06 and he established Norman Armour as the U.S. ambassador and sought to support the new military dictatorship of Castillo Armas. So Mann is deciding who's going to be in charge of ambassadors in their newly created military dictatorships. He …
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6
▶ 42:16 and become increasingly disturbing. Around the U.S. embassy in Saigon, there were allusions to torture and the murder of political prisoners once they were captured, with the agents of the United States in the same room. Similar reports had…
The Colonel's Corner interview with Paul Williams (Operation Gladio) Part 2
▶ 21:45 We, Gladio, was the installment of armies, armies in Sweden, in Holland, throughout the Netherlands, in Germany, West Germany, in France. Italy. Yeah, Italy, of course, Greece. I mean, there were standing armies there that were set up to wa…
The Colonel's Corner interview with Paul Williams (Operation Gladio) Part 2
▶ 25:58 Yeah. Let alone subsequently. Colonel, as you know, what that led to is, you know, the toppling of when we realized that we could take over, you know, support the the Italian Christian Party and defeat the Communist Party in Italy, that we …
The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio
▶ 45:11 throughout Europe. Military units in the Netherlands, military units in Sweden, military units in France, military units in Germany, military units in Italy, military units in Greece, military units in Portugal. Some vast undertaking, right…
The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio
▶ 59:26 for the CIA's black money. And throughout the, you know, throughout the 50s, became, you know, the reason that the CIA could topple governments throughout the world, started with Greece and Turkey and Portugal and Iran.…
The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13
▶ 24:54 One other thing with the Marshall Plan is, I just got through Nixon's memoirs, or at least parts of it, and there's an interesting page where he was with the Herdner Committee that basically underwrote the Marshall Plan, and they went out a…
The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13
▶ 26:58 financially, militarily, in every way they were responsible as far as the U.S. is concerned. And then that would have been at the same time when the Brits were basically trying to set up their own person in Greece, but the not communist, th…
The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13
▶ 27:26 to be ruled by Britain. They wanted their country back. They had just been occupied by a bunch of Nazis. And then there were the Soviets. The British wanted control of Greece. And they basically were getting their butt kicked and asked the …
The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8
▶ 24:37 begun in the Navy and had been transferred to the OSS, and he stayed all the way through the different iterations until it finally got to be the CIA. He had served in Vienna and Madrid and had been a station chief in Athens. Now, what do we…
The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8
▶ 25:02 where Otto Skorzeny is. So this guy has worked covert operations with Otto Skorzeny. And he was in Greece, and we know that we overthrew Greece's government too. So he is no stranger to covert operations. Ulmer depended on basically his off…
The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8
▶ 1:06:10 He went to Greece. He went everywhere. And he just so happened to be a lot of places where there were CIA coups going on. Just saying. Oh, I thought I uncovered something maybe you didn't know. No, I've read his book. But of course, you kno…
The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8
▶ 1:13:05 as saying as her kind of like where she was on Dallas on November 22nd 1963 and she's basically she's kind of at a hairdresser's salon where she's writing a letter to Ulmer's wife I believe and talking about how what they were doing togethe…
The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8
▶ 1:13:37 Again, that suggests that, you know, again, I wouldn't totally trust this based on this one reference, but it's interesting that she says that about herself, her husband, H.W. Bush, and being in Greece in 1950, which was a very interesting …
The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8
▶ 1:14:06 This is in the context of a possible alibi written by Barbara Bush for November 22nd, 1963, right? But even if it is an alibi, it still is making some interesting statements about the Olmers and the Bush family in Greece in 1950. But anyway…
The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8
▶ 1:15:37 And Italy and Austria during the time that he would have been there in the late 40s and early 50s were all part of Operation Gladio. And then, of course, we just mentioned his excursion over into Greece as well. So very, very interesting. I…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 5:16 There had been a plan to unseat the government of Albania under the typical designation of it being communist. The geography was a key element in making the campaign possible. Bases were available just a short distance away, to include our …
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 13:29 Fillers were put out in all directions in Yugoslavia, which had halted its aid to Greek quote-unquote guerrillas, but those are actually the freedom fighters that the British and later us were trying to overthrow, the nationalists. And Yugo…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 13:57 had approached the U.S. through the CIA channels for military aid and were depending on this assistance to forestall any interaction with the Soviets, they did not want to piss off the Soviets. And that's what they felt would happen if they…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 19:57 took two parties totaling 20 Albanian partisans across the channel from Carfu, and the SIS nickname for these guys were called the Pixies. Four of the paramilitary men were killed. The other ones escaped into Greece. Albanian government sec…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 24:46 in Germany and set up bases there in Greece. Seven, because by that time we had overthrown Greece too. Seven Poles with wartime experience in Royal Air Force partisan support units were hired to fly transport and parachute people into Alban…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 51:00 Five agents dispatched to Ukraine and Moldovia. Planes to drop these agents into the denied areas were flown by the British through Cyprus and by the CIA through Greece and West Germany. And this, at the end of the day, is why we couped Gre…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 1:08:44 The British was in Greece trying to stir up shit there, too, and got so strung out that they weren't able to overthrow the government when they wanted to. The U.S. comes in, does what they need to have done and basically saves the day. And …
The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11)
▶ 29:09 They were critical to the campaign, as was Edward Hamilton, Lon, L-O-N, Redmond. They were all former 19th Division veterans. Jim Kellis had been with the OSS in both Turkey and Greece, meaning he's their expertise in the stay-behind units …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14)
▶ 51:43 with assignments in the far worse jobs. The Far East Division was the biggest in the DO. Ulmer had plenty of choices in the matter. As it happened, Alfred Ulmer Jr. knew paramilitary operations, but was not that familiar with Asia. Ulmer ha…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20)
▶ 36:05 had been a top planner for the western hemisphere division dick drain was the chief of operations fresh from the service in greece which we destabilized greece from post world war ii right up until the like 1960s coup um and the psychologic…
The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36)
▶ 35:49 but primarily the Christian Democrat. There would be no CIA task force, but an interagency group that periodically reviewed political payments would monitor the election interference operation. At the CIA, Helms began daily sessions with De…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40)
▶ 42:02 as the station chief in Athens, where Langley's headaches were from Greek colonels who had taken over the government. Another CIA collusion story. That had been his second Greek assignment. Potts had tired of political action, but Angola of…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41)
▶ 37:18 to monitor the pullout. In the middle of the night, Bush came to watch along all of the other DO officers. The move was successful. For a time, the Beirut station worked out of Athens, Greece. That fall, the Arab League placed a deterrent f…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3)
▶ 35:11 Soviet-American relations crossed another watershed. That February, the British told American officials that they would terminate foreign aid to Greece. Europe faced a cruel winter, the worst in decades. The British government felt it could…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3)
▶ 35:39 And the British didn't want to do it. They had kind of tried to do it and didn't do a very good job. So Greece is plunged into a civil war. And, of course, it was blamed on the communists in Greece. President Truman approved a suggestion th…
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