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Claims (18)
Robert Murphy member_of
U.S. State Department book_quoted
“Clement Dunn, wartime ambassador and political advisor Robert Murphy, under Secretary of State Joseph Grew, again, a name that comes up often, legal affairs chief Green Hackworth. Now, by the end of this book, you guys are going to have hea…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 3:04
Henry Morgenthau Jr. attempted_coup_against
Robert Murphy book_quoted
“began early and grew more and more, as did the opposition between Morgenthau and Murphy. By 1945, Morgenthau was using almost every audience he had with Roosevelt to argue Murphy's dismissal as the U.S. political advisor in Europe.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 14:21
Robert Murphy member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“attacked by the Soviets, despite the fact that they had lost 25 million people, and we had already been told by State Department's own admission that they were in no position to do anything in the immediate aftermath of the war. Robert Murp…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 39:44
Eberhard Taubert recruited
Robert Murphy host_asserted
“He repeated the initiative, this time with Robert Murphy, the political advisor to the American occupation forces. Talbert was hoping to profit from his experience and establish new networks with the Americans. By the time the BFF was forme…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 11:53
Robert Murphy member_of
President's Foreign Intelligence Oversight Board documented
“Probably not an oversight board. Two of the three members, though, former Ambassador Robert Murphy and Leo Schoen, came right out of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. Schoen, having been its most recent chairman, James Farmer ra…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 42:03
Robert Murphy member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“and formal diplomat Robert Murphy. In the six years of Nixon's presidency, the board met with the president only eight times. Nixon sometimes convened smaller groups. The senior intelligence advisory board official recalls that the board ex…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 22:22
Robert Murphy proposed
Ho Chi Minh book_quoted
“that we've come across that formally acknowledges that. There is little indication he ever saw one that he did not like because they all enriched him. Bob Murphy once suggested assassinating Ho Chi Minh. The CIA rejected it. Murphy often pl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 24:13
CIA rejected
Robert Murphy book_quoted
“that we've come across that formally acknowledges that. There is little indication he ever saw one that he did not like because they all enriched him. Bob Murphy once suggested assassinating Ho Chi Minh. The CIA rejected it. Murphy often pl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 24:13
Robert Murphy headed
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“After leaving the board, Robert Murphy chaired a presidential commission on the U.S. government and foreign relations. The commission's overview volume in its discussion of intelligence issues included remarks about the presidential advisor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 34:38
Charles E. Wilson front_for
Robert Murphy book_quoted
“had begun to front for New York Congressman Robert Murphy. Murphy was a West Point classmate and close friend of Samosa's. He was tired of being criticized for sponsoring foreign aid bills for the dictator, so he asked the Texas colleague t…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 46:54
Allen Dulles appointed
Robert Murphy book_quoted
“This was the purported, quote, vital national interest of which Dulles was speaking. General Eisenhower's political advisor from the State Department, Robert Murphy, became one of the most influential advocates of close U.S. relations with …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 12:30
Robert Murphy recruited
Admiral Darlan book_quoted
“Murphy had risen through the ranks at the State Department after World War I because of his talent for diplomacy and his ability to find common cause between U.S. interests and the old guard in the European establishment. Early in the war, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 12:53
Robert Murphy recruited
Nikola Rusnovic documented
“Rusnovic as a source of information, unquote. According to a later declassified note in the State Department's European files of James Riddleberger, it was found attached to the Rusnovic file. Quote, the U.S. political advisor, Robert Murph…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 59:01
Robert Murphy member_of
U.S. State Department host_asserted
“Colonel, related to this character, Mr. Murphy of the State Department, I think he's a very interesting figure, especially in terms of a theme that you have emphasized for some time now, namely the continuity in State Department and CIO, ri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 1:26:14
Robert Murphy member_of
President's Foreign Intelligence Oversight Board host_asserted
“And yeah, thank you. So let me just say a couple of things about you highlighting Robert Murphy. I had looked him up just to check out what his background was. Very interesting guy, as you pointed out, especially where he ends up. He ends u…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 1:29:38
Robert Murphy appointed
Japan host_asserted
“a broad-reaching position to influence global efforts. He ends up as the first post-World War II ambassador to Japan in 1952, which is critical because that's in the middle of the Korean War, which is being ran out of Japan.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 1:30:37
Robert Murphy appointed
Belgium host_asserted
“In 1949, so this is the time when they're setting up NATO and Operation Gladio. He's the ambassador in Belgium, which we know had a robust program. He was there for three years, and a lot of the mining of Belgian colonies in Africa post-Wor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 1:31:35
Robert Murphy member_of
World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“And it is also at the time where they were setting up the Asian People's Anti-Communist League, of which Japan played a critical role with their two war criminals that would be part of the original apparatus with Korea and Taiwan, Chiang Ka…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 1:31:06
Mentions (36)
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had begun to front for New York Congressman Robert Murphy. Murphy was a West Point classmate and close friend of Samosa's. He was tired of being criticized for sponsoring foreign aid bills for the dictator, so he asked the Texas colleague t…
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The Intelligence Board chairman, James Killian, created and his successor, Clark Clifford, continued a subcommittee on covert operations. This group finally received the agency's general briefings. The panel included Gordon Gray, who had re…
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that we're very familiar with, where they repeatedly tried to overthrow the government there. Bob Murphy, not impressed, told the full panel that Meyer's presentation consisted only of light touches. Meyer conveyed the impression that cover…
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because generals and admirals aren't supposed to be political. In the style of the Nixon White House, the Intelligence Advisory Board members had lawyer Franklin Lincoln, Los Angeles Times magnate Franklin Murphy, New York Governor Nelson R…
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that we've come across that formally acknowledges that. There is little indication he ever saw one that he did not like because they all enriched him. Bob Murphy once suggested assassinating Ho Chi Minh. The CIA rejected it. Murphy often pl…
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and render a report in the style of those that British consultant Sir Robert Thompson had supplied to Nixon about Vietnam. The board did just that and had a smaller group meeting with the president on July 18th. Admiral Anderson had focused…
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After leaving the board, Robert Murphy chaired a presidential commission on the U.S. government and foreign relations. The commission's overview volume in its discussion of intelligence issues included remarks about the presidential advisor…
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Probably not an oversight board. Two of the three members, though, former Ambassador Robert Murphy and Leo Schoen, came right out of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. Schoen, having been its most recent chairman, James Farmer ra…
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meaning Groton, than the men who actually went to Groton in the State Department. So in other words, if they somehow made it to the State Department and had not had this prep going into it, they actually began acting more like they did than…
▶ 12:30
This was the purported, quote, vital national interest of which Dulles was speaking. General Eisenhower's political advisor from the State Department, Robert Murphy, became one of the most influential advocates of close U.S. relations with …
▶ 12:53
Murphy had risen through the ranks at the State Department after World War I because of his talent for diplomacy and his ability to find common cause between U.S. interests and the old guard in the European establishment. Early in the war, …
▶ 13:22
Men such as Darlin were integral to the overall U.S. political strategy for the war. As Murphy and his allies saw things, communists and socialists were likely to make substantial political gains after the war because of their roles in figh…
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Murphy contended it would have to reach an understanding with the leadership in Germany. Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau and his allies regarded Murphy as an appeaser of Nazism, a man whose inaction and deceit contributed significantly to …
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began early and grew more and more, as did the opposition between Morgenthau and Murphy. By 1945, Morgenthau was using almost every audience he had with Roosevelt to argue Murphy's dismissal as the U.S. political advisor in Europe.…
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and making a foe of Russia. I shudder at the sake our children will face what will follow. And of course, he was right, because they used all of that to create the Cold War, which continued to milk us dry. Robert Murphy was central to the p…
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Quote, I told the president that General Lucius Clay had called on me and I had asked him what he was going to do about Murphy. And he said that he realized that was one of his headaches. The president said, well, what's the matter with Mur…
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Hold on. Bridget fell out. During the transition to the new president, Harry Truman, but without FDR's backing, he quickly lost influence within the government. Robert Murphy remained as Eisenhower's political advisor, and the State Departm…
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Its implementation is quite another. Robert Murphy took personal charge of the political oversight of this plan immediately, and he made little secret of his inclinations. Meanwhile, the sensitive task of overseeing U.S. intelligence evalua…
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Rusnovic as a source of information, unquote. According to a later declassified note in the State Department's European files of James Riddleberger, it was found attached to the Rusnovic file. Quote, the U.S. political advisor, Robert Murph…
▶ 1:26:14
Colonel, related to this character, Mr. Murphy of the State Department, I think he's a very interesting figure, especially in terms of a theme that you have emphasized for some time now, namely the continuity in State Department and CIO, ri…
▶ 1:29:38
And yeah, thank you. So let me just say a couple of things about you highlighting Robert Murphy. I had looked him up just to check out what his background was. Very interesting guy, as you pointed out, especially where he ends up. He ends u…
▶ 1:30:08
for a little bit, a few months in the Carter administration, which again, if you guys understand, that's kind of the international syndicate's input into the operations that the CIA conducts. So just put that in your hat. He also served in …
▶ 1:30:37
a broad-reaching position to influence global efforts. He ends up as the first post-World War II ambassador to Japan in 1952, which is critical because that's in the middle of the Korean War, which is being ran out of Japan.…
▶ 1:31:06
And it is also at the time where they were setting up the Asian People's Anti-Communist League, of which Japan played a critical role with their two war criminals that would be part of the original apparatus with Korea and Taiwan, Chiang Ka…
▶ 1:31:35
In 1949, so this is the time when they're setting up NATO and Operation Gladio. He's the ambassador in Belgium, which we know had a robust program. He was there for three years, and a lot of the mining of Belgian colonies in Africa post-Wor…
▶ 1:32:03
He also was the liaison to the Vichy government, which are the fascists in France. So he has a very interesting background overall in kind of furthering this fascist world international or whatever you want to call it. So if I could just ma…
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um i think the mentioning of grew is is really important he said the murphy on a kind of you know grew is considered definitely one of these rega group folks from the state department he's very important also in terms of trying to integrate…
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collusion over the port city in Italy demonstrated the political factors that favored fugitive war criminals, Allen Dulles' new assignment in Berlin was to exemplify some economic characteristics of the same problem. Dulles became one of Ro…
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attacked by the Soviets, despite the fact that they had lost 25 million people, and we had already been told by State Department's own admission that they were in no position to do anything in the immediate aftermath of the war. Robert Murp…
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repeatedly reached secret verdicts that they believed necessary to construct the post-war Germany. As early as the summer of 1945, Murphy was willing to defy U.S. treaty obligations concerning high-ranking Nazis and Axis collaborators when …
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After his arrival, U.S. political advisor Murphy sought Washington's approval for Horthy's release. Legal advisors Green-Hackworth agreed, provided the Soviet Union did not formally object. The Soviets said nothing. Murphy wished to offer H…
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Officially, the former regent was supposed to notify US authorities if he moved, but other than that, he was free to do as he chose. Robert Murphy and the US ambassador to Hungary worked to clear Horthy's petition for permission to immigrat…
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When subordinates complained to sympathetic congressmen in Washington, Draper's allies, Robert Murphy and Colonel Clarence Adcock, General Clay's most senior aide, issued a series of reports in October 1945 that the main work of denazifying…
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What the investigators are doing here through denazification is nothing less than a social revolution. That's what he said. Murphy's top aide, Charles Reinhard, complained, quote, if the Russians want to Bolshevikize their side of the river…
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The new measures that the Nazis had publicly initiated were regrettable, they said, but were not a matter in which the U.S. government wished to interfere. George Kennan. The leaders of this informal grouping at the State Department include…
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He repeated the initiative, this time with Robert Murphy, the political advisor to the American occupation forces. Talbert was hoping to profit from his experience and establish new networks with the Americans. By the time the BFF was forme…