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Claims (41)
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Greece member_of
North Atlantic Treaty Organization 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
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
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace funded
Greece documented
“starts describing how they're going to parse all of the landmass after World War I. And it talks about defining the borders of France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, the Serb-Croatians, Slovenia state, Turkey.…”
▶ Shadow State 47_ Secret Societies 30; The Carnegie Legacy @ 1:08:06
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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…”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 1:47:25
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
Mentions (120)
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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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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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...…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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-…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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, …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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'…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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.…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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.…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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...…
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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.…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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...…
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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…
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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.…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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starts describing how they're going to parse all of the landmass after World War I. And it talks about defining the borders of France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, the Serb-Croatians, Slovenia state, Turkey.…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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that witnessed the first big CIA paramilitary operation. This plan, in conjunction with the British, aimed to unseat the communist government of Albania, a small state on the eastern Adriatic Sea. It's literally right across the Adriatic fr…