George Washington person
also: Washington, President George Washington
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George Washington headed
U.S. Navy host_asserted
“peacetime intel officially until the CIA is created. Again, intelligence is fine. It's when you combine it with covert operations where it becomes problematic. Wartime intelligence is incredibly important. The first U.S. intelligence spy ch…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 1:52
George Washington appointed
Benjamin Talmadge host_asserted
“General George Washington makes him the director of military intelligence, and he recruits a bunch of other people to become part of what's known as the Culper Ring. I'll get to why they call them Culpers in a second. Real quick, just a lit…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 12:26
Benedict Arnold attempted_coup_against
George Washington host_asserted
“flirting with John Andre previously. Long story short, Arnold gets command of West Point and he's going to betray it, the Americans. He ends up getting caught or the plot doesn't happen. He was basically deliberately dwindling the supplies …”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 22:58
Alexander Hamilton proposed
George Washington guest_asserted
“Yeah, and he proposed on the floor of Philadelphia that we needed a kid. And he proposed to Washington to do that. And as Washington's right-hand man, that would have put him in a very nice position.…”
▶ Constitution Class-Is Pres Kamala constitutional_ W Douglas&Brady @ 10:54
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▶ 10:54
He loved his country. He fought in the Revolution. He was Washington's scribe. He just believed that in a world of empires, we needed to be an empire, too, to compete. Yeah, and he proposed on the floor of Philadelphia that we needed a kid.…
▶ 13:45
one in French, one in English, and the one that was brought by Washington, the one in English. The two copies by Franklin, he mentions that in his autobiography. And then in other writings, they mention that Washington had borrowed a copy a…
▶ 17:33
and the state legislature voted for the electors, and then the electors voted for the president. A couple points on that. If you look at the list of presidents of the United States, there's only one listed that did not have a political part…
▶ 3:54
So we're going to consider that a pretty good source, right? He says, and how they measure the way someone's related to somebody is that, you know, 1,000 and 24th, like Elizabeth Warren. Yeah, I bet there's some of that too, but these blood…
▶ 1:52
peacetime intel officially until the CIA is created. Again, intelligence is fine. It's when you combine it with covert operations where it becomes problematic. Wartime intelligence is incredibly important. The first U.S. intelligence spy ch…
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Washington is desperate to learn the location of imminent British invasion of Manhattan and ask for a spy to stay behind enemy lines. Nathan Hale is the only volunteer to do so. So he goes behind enemy lines, gets ferried across Long Island…
▶ 12:26
General George Washington makes him the director of military intelligence, and he recruits a bunch of other people to become part of what's known as the Culper Ring. I'll get to why they call them Culpers in a second. Real quick, just a lit…
▶ 15:24
All right, next person part of the Culper Ring is a guy by the name of Abraham Woodhull. That's W-O-D-H-U-L-L. He's an interesting story. Look him up. His code name was Samuel Culper Sr., and that's why it's the Culper Ring, because they we…
▶ 16:21
This is not a good time to be alive. He got really motivated to get involved because his cousin, his brigadier general by the name of Nathaniel Woodhull, got captured, tortured, and pretty much brutalized. So in August of 1778, Talmadge, wh…
▶ 18:26
Every bad stereotype about the British pompous asshole, that's this guy. And he's like British intel, and he's dirty. He's with the Queens Rangers. He took the Townsend home as his headquarters, and he forced them all to swear allegiance to…
▶ 19:56
Or probably did. So what kind of methods did they use? They used stuff like invisible ink, where you'd write invisible ink in between the letters, a real letter. Coded messages that were published in newspapers. Absolute secrecy. Everything…
▶ 21:00
the continental currency through counterfeiting. That's going to be a big part of our story today is counterfeiting. So what's going on in the colonies at this point in time is obviously they haven't really had a sovereign government, but t…
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Benedict Arnold was recruited by British spymaster John Andre to betray Washington. Arnold was a military hero. He was the commander at several big early victories. He had a giant ego, and he was furious that he was not getting compensated …
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Yeah, it's strategy of tension. You're absolutely right. And thank you for bringing that up, Illini. Carrie, go ahead. Yeah, so I want to push back a little bit. They don't see him as a god. It's like, because God is God. I said godlike. I …
▶ 1:01:51
You guys think is, you know, a great American hero. That's where they sit. Yeah, I disagree. So I do not have. Well, I have George Washington's face on every building, every government building on the side of the road. I could not tell you …
▶ 1:02:49
in the Purple Pill. So, I mean, that's the thing. Washington was a wartime hero. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But he is not treated in America the way Ataturk is treated in Turkey. There's not even a comparison. You cannot find George Wash…
▶ 1:04:41
That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. But here, like George Washington or Lincoln, one of the president, whoever, a military giant, it's the same kind of energy. That's what I'm trying to say. And I disagree. Okay. Anybody else? L…
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The richest man in Pennsylvania, Robert Morris, who funded a lot of the Revolutionary War, writes a letter to Washington and says, you need to get this Hamilton guy to be the secretary of treasury. And he's the only cabinet secretary until …