Riga Group organization
also: Riga faction
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Claims (6)
James Forrestal member_of
Riga Group book_quoted
“analysis was to have an enduring impact in escalating hostilities between the U.S. and the Soviet Union later on. The Riga faction drew much of its most important support from the foreign policy elite outside the government. People like Joh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 32:18
Paul Nitze member_of
Riga Group book_quoted
“analysis was to have an enduring impact in escalating hostilities between the U.S. and the Soviet Union later on. The Riga faction drew much of its most important support from the foreign policy elite outside the government. People like Joh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 32:18
Riga Group member_of
U.S. State Department book_quoted
“They could not control him. And, you know, basically, it's like as this amazing book, as I think I mentioned it before, it's called A Pretty Good Club. It was published in 1978. This is a real gem. And it's like it's published in 1978. It's…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 1:02:39
Riga Group installed
Harry S. Truman book_quoted
“Which there's some degree of truth to that, but it's also, as you know, a very deceptive label because, I mean, getting back to just how closely the oligarchy had really co-opted both parties by the end of World War II. Because, as you know…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 1:02:11
Allen Dulles member_of
Riga Group book_quoted
“analysis was to have an enduring impact in escalating hostilities between the U.S. and the Soviet Union later on. The Riga faction drew much of its most important support from the foreign policy elite outside the government. People like Joh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 32:18
Riga Group funded
West Germany host_asserted
“Charles Edward Wilson, and Philip Reed of General Electric, and much of the leadership of the integrated DuPont General Motors, U.S. rubber empire of that era, were among them too. More to the point here, however, the Riga Group's impact on…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 32:49
Mentions (4)
▶ 31:53
Daniel Yergin has dubbed the Riga Axiom, a collection of strongly anti-Soviet political people that formed the U.S. Foreign Service during the 1920s at consulates in Riga, which is in Latvia, Berlin, and Warsaw. The Riga Group is spelled R-…
▶ 32:18
analysis was to have an enduring impact in escalating hostilities between the U.S. and the Soviet Union later on. The Riga faction drew much of its most important support from the foreign policy elite outside the government. People like Joh…
▶ 32:49
Charles Edward Wilson, and Philip Reed of General Electric, and much of the leadership of the integrated DuPont General Motors, U.S. rubber empire of that era, were among them too. More to the point here, however, the Riga Group's impact on…
▶ 1:02:39
They could not control him. And, you know, basically, it's like as this amazing book, as I think I mentioned it before, it's called A Pretty Good Club. It was published in 1978. This is a real gem. And it's like it's published in 1978. It's…