Bay of Pigs operation
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Claims (31)
Brigade 2506 member_of
Bay of Pigs documented
“respective countries, as well as their deployment forward to do joint operations with other Gladio elements. So with this particular guy, I actually found a CIA document that indicates that kind of cross utilization. And he played a key rol…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shell Game Part 4 @ 1:01:57
CIA funded
Bay of Pigs book_quoted
“I know what happened in Iran, which was a CIA-sponsored coup in 1953. I also know what happened in Guatemala, which was a CIA-sponsored coup in 1954. And I totally approve both because they both happened while he was the vice president and …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 20:03
CIA funded
Bay of Pigs documented
“Guillermo before. His father's name was Marcelo Hernandez. Hernandez Cardia is a Cuban exile who was in the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. He was captured and then ransomed back to the U.S. government. He went to work for Citizens and Sou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 2:49
Guillermo Hernandez-Cartier member_of
Bay of Pigs documented
“Guillermo before. His father's name was Marcelo Hernandez. Hernandez Cardia is a Cuban exile who was in the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. He was captured and then ransomed back to the U.S. government. He went to work for Citizens and Sou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 2:49
Jean Kirkpatrick exposed
Bay of Pigs documented
“Inspector General Lyman Kirkpatrick. In the months immediately following the disaster, the Kirkpatrick report was one of the most surprising, honest self-evaluations ever produced within the CIA. It found that despite Dulles' insistence on …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 12:24
CIA funded
Bay of Pigs documented
“Over 1,400 CIA-trained anti-Castro exiles waited ashore at Cuba's Bay of Pigs, an operation that would quickly become the biggest debacle of Alan Dulles' career. The CIA director was setting himself 1,000 miles away in Puerto Rico. Dulles h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:40
Richard Billings member_of
Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“Okay, that again is late 1963, and it's technically a private mission, right? It's funded by Pauly, but look who is on board of that Pauly Baio mission is none other than a Time Incorporated photographer who actually plays a very key role i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 1:02:23
Joseph Smith member_of
Bay of Pigs book_quoted
“I'm trying to remember what that story is, but wasn't that the prince of, what, Indonesia or something? I think so. If only I had a machine on my desk that could look that guy up real quick. Okay, so the other mention of Joseph B. Smith is …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 1:11:37
Cortland Dixon Barnes carried_out_attack
Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“And he gets assigned as the assistant deputy director of plans under Bissell. He's involved in leading the Bay of Pigs invasion. He goes on to, oh, and they make him head of CIE's domestic operations division, which means he's in charge of,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 1:16:42
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Bay of Pigs book_quoted
“Taylor himself had just signed a five-year contract at the Lincoln Center. He remained for the moment in New York, where he read confused reports about the Bay of Pigs. Two days after the fall of Garonne, President Kennedy called and person…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 22:20
Green Board concluded
Bay of Pigs documented
“to the belief that this large operation could be conducted with plausible deniability within the guidelines of NSD 5412-2. It was also attributed to lack of coordination among the different agencies to the attempt to command the operation f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 9:39
CIA carried_out_attack
Bay of Pigs documented
“dated December 2014 in the New York Times. This is a quote from it. In the aftermath of the failed CIA-led invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, JFK angrily told his top aides that he would splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 8:11
CIA carried_out_attack
Bay of Pigs book_quoted
“The CIA and the Pentagon rigged it so the Bay of Pigs landing would be intentionally a failure and have the military waiting off the coast for an invasion. And that was all planned to kind of force JFK's hand into a U.S. Marine invasion of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 1:49:56
Felix Rodriguez carried_out_attack
Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“Felix Rodriguez. Oh, yes, he was in El Salvador, too. And he was also involved with the overthrow of Nicaragua, setting that same thing up. And he had been a PRU advisor in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And that guy, as you guys know, he …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 41:02
E. Howard Hunt member_of
Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“Right. E. Howard Hunt is another one. He shows up all over, and he was 100% CIA, and he was involved in so many areas of drug operations. Okay, so it's Barry Seale, and then you said William McCauley? No, McCloy. McCloy, okay. Yes, it's M-C…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2 @ 2:12:32
Jean Kirkpatrick exposed
Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“and had an impressive espionage resume dating back to the war. But as a career CIA, he also had a well-tuned sense of proper conduct. Years later, Kirkpatrick would be called upon to direct the internal investigation of the Bay of Pigs deba…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 52:34
Allen Dulles removed_from_power
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“Alan Dulles didn't want to provide CIA funds. No, he didn't. But they had all of the covert funding from drug sales, and they very much did help this entire network. Interdoc could have been regarded as a European responsibility, which Euro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 38:59
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“had this kind of sneaking suspicion that, although I don't have an actual document that, and nor will we ever find one, that the Cuban exiles were our Gladio. They were our Gladio. And I don't need a smoking gun piece of paper to say that. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shell Game Part 4 @ 1:01:28
Mafia member_of
Bay of Pigs book_quoted
“He goes in and talks about how the CIA was involved in all of that. We know all of that. The next chapter is Cuba, assassins and the Bay of Pigs. And of course, we know all about that. We're not going to go through that as well. But there a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 33:20
Richard Nixon member_of
Bay of Pigs book_quoted
“and that Colonel J.C. King, who we know was sheep-dipped CIA guy pretending to be a military person and worked primarily for the CIA his whole career, and the involvement of Vice President Richard Nixon in that whole setup leading up to the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 33:51
U.S. State Department carried_out_attack
Bay of Pigs book_quoted
“The CIA and the Pentagon rigged it so the Bay of Pigs landing would be intentionally a failure and have the military waiting off the coast for an invasion. And that was all planned to kind of force JFK's hand into a U.S. Marine invasion of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 1:49:56
CIA covered_up
Bay of Pigs documented
“unachievable, except as the joint CIA DOD action. So they always needed the Department of Defense. The entire thing was a setup. The CIA realized at that meeting that its Bay of Pigs expedition was doomed to fail unless the Exile Brigade wa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 17:02
Allen Dulles covered_up
Bay of Pigs documented
“Behind the scenes, Dulles waged a vigorous battle with Kennedy to control the media spin on the Bayon Pigs and to hold his command of the CIA. The intelligent chief took immediate steps to rally his corporate base of support. On May 1st, Du…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 32:02
Robert F. Kennedy covered_up
Bay of Pigs documented
“The attorney general proved to be a tougher advocate for White House than Dulles and Arleigh Burke were for their institutions. RFK deftly blocked the two Kennedy antagonists from focusing blame on the president. As the committee completed …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 42:33
Guatemala carried_out_attack
Bay of Pigs caller_asserted
“was the use of the CIA in the destabilization of that. And of course, they used Guatemala covertly afterwards for decades to launch operations throughout Latin America to include the Bay of Pigs, to include Iran-Contra in nearby Nicaragua. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 57:33
Frank Church exposed
Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“uh senator church was um how he basically exposed everything from watergate to um guatemala yep uh to number of issues surrounding the bay of pigs the assassination attempts on castro to um i i i think he he helped expose um the chilean cou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 1:10:09
Bay of Pigs front_for
Robert Kennedy assassination book_quoted
“He's known as sometimes being willing to throw a bomb or two, but he comes off as relatively level-headed. So, I mean, he's quoting H.R. Haldeman's book in H.R. Haldeman claiming that the Bay of Pigs was code for the JFK assassination.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:21:48
Allen Dulles covered_up
Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“The CIA chief later swore that he never sold the president on the Bay of Pigs scheme. Quote, one ought never to sell anybody a bill of goods, he told an interviewer at the JFK Presidential Library. But Kennedy knew the truth. Dulles had lie…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 27:50
Alabama National Guard trained
Bay of Pigs book_quoted
“had basically had several from Birmingham's Air National Guard that was flying drug missions, training missions for the Cuban exiles to do the invasion, Bay of Pigs, into Cuba. And this author did a really good job of covering the fake drop…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 1:48:53
CIA recruited
Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“into not being quote-unquote exiles, but make them American citizens. And so the CIA worked with the, as if it's a separate entity, the State Department, and created a caveat that because these people had served the country as assassins, th…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 30:21
CIA carried_out_attack
Bay of Pigs guest_asserted
“The Eyes Wide Open guy on YouTube who does a pretty good job of stuff, and he put forth the concept that the Bay of Pigs was a deliberate failure on the CIA's part to put pressure onto the new president, whether it was going to be Nixon or …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:51:59
Mentions (120)
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Bird Oil. Lawrence Bell, Bell Helicopters. Oh my God. I missed him when I looked at this before. William Pauly. William Pauly. Are you fucking kidding me? Oh my gosh. Okay, so William Pauly is the guy that owned the sugar plantations and al…
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But isn't the Liberties Address on Pauley Island? Yeah, but that had really nothing to do with that. That had to do with the guy that was one of the survivors just happened to live there. That's the guy I talked to. I was going to visit Pau…
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William Polly is the guy, he's the multi, like hundreds of millions of dollars, who has this massive yacht, lives in Miami, and the CIA used him and his yacht to bring a whole bunch of quote-unquote Cuban exiles, Operation Gladio people, to…
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Well, let me just make this comment here. The recognized spokesperson for the government in exile. Are you still there? It looks like your screen. OK, so the government in exile for Cuba was in New York. So during the Bay of Pigs invasion, …
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body in New York, they had actually been picked up by the CIA and transported to Miami and held hostage. It was the CIA during the Bay of Pigs that was actually releasing these messages and not this supposed New York, of which a couple were…
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Like these guys being the Cuban exiles, CIA, mafia, they all had – they were so mad after Bay of Pigs that they did it on their own. John Newman, he's pretty certain that the generals are behind it and that basically the generals had a – yo…
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Kennedy, having had fired Alan Dulles for not doing what he was supposed to do in the Bay of Pigs and disobeying Kennedy, is looking at Lyman Lemonsker when he comes to him with a plan called Operation Northwood. Operation Northwood is an O…
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JFK said, are you out of your effing mind? We're not going to do that. So Lyman Lemonsker was coming up on his second year as the chairman and they normally get or the end of his chairmanship and they normally get two tenures there. JFK sai…
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declassified documents, and he's an expert in the field. And he uncovered that Kennedy was told in 1961, after the Bay of Pigs, that just looking at nuclear preparedness and the nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union, th…
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Let people know we're talking Operation Gladio, and this is interesting stuff. And the colonel has a chance to speak, and I'm letting her do that. All right. Operation Northwood. Okay. So the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who happen to be four-sta…
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not good on the military side because of the Bay of Pigs and that whole screw up. So he tells Lyman he has to be reassigned. So JFK reassigns him to NATO because JFK didn't know anything about Operation Gladio. Now, NATO was originally stoo…
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Because they had just went through the Bay of Pigs, he didn't want to outright fire him. So he moved him to NATO. Unbeknownst to him, NATO was in charge of Operation Gladio, which basically is the king of all false flags. So Lyman Lemonsker…
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added with sugar, and then transported into the United States. And they wanted their island back. So Castro had come to power, and they wanted the island back. And they were willing to sacrifice American lives using false flag techniques in…
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the Warren Commission. He frames the JFK assassination in terms of that whole Bay of Pigs thing. And then, of course, most recently what we find out at the hearings, and I'm curious about Destiny's opinion on this, is Jefferson morally come…
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They even had turf wars. Let me just tell you this. Between Mossad and in one of the books I was reading, there was a particular drug route that was being ran in Panama where they actually got into a shootout between Mossad agents and the C…
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His first assignment was maritime infiltration in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, which, of course, all of those places we screwed with. Then he served as chief of a CIA base in Guatemala. Oh, yeah, that's right. We coo…
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So this guy goes on, just like you saw Felix Rodriguez on the Tucker interview say, here's a quote from him. Eisenhower did not want the Bay of Pigs and neither did I. I was chief of base on that effing operation, this guy is saying. Then h…
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at his disposal, he basically pursued those, which is what is, it's that really, we all talk about the Bay of Pigs, but at the same time, most people don't know anything about Indonesia. And it really was the Indonesia thing that kind of fi…
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Within the first three months of his presidency, there's no doubt Kennedy realized that the appointment of Dulles was a mistake. Dulles had snared Kennedy into the Bay of Pigs. He wanted to, and he actually said, we all know, he wanted to s…
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continually overruling the Dutch and effectively dictating the terms by which Indonesia took control of the territory from the Netherlands. Compared to the media coverage and political noise surrounding the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy's interventi…
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that had been set up. He had just survived the Bay of Pigs and didn't want any more military pissed off at him. So he didn't firefight him and make him retire. He reassigned him out of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And do you know where they p…
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Khrushchev about the Bay of Pigs, the missiles, that he was a reasonable guy, that he said, hey, take your missiles out of Turkey. I'll take my missiles out of Cuba. The only reason I put my missiles in Cuba is because you put your missiles…
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who are basically in control of the intelligence agency. Yet we know it's crystal clear that the intelligence agencies are the ones who caused Watergate. There was Mockingbird Media and insiders that deposed them, Deep Throat and the Washin…
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Now, JFK had just finished the Bay of Pigs. He had a little egg on his face with the military, so he didn't want to firefight him, like make him retire. So he just said, you need to move. I'm backfilling you with Maxwell Taylor, and I want …
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in their favor on a particular issue, it has been known repeatedly that they just keep that information from them. And then, of course, it kind of paints them into a corner like it did with JFK and the Bay of Pigs.…
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Felix Rodriguez. Oh, yes, he was in El Salvador, too. And he was also involved with the overthrow of Nicaragua, setting that same thing up. And he had been a PRU advisor in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And that guy, as you guys know, he …
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The people that were over there doing the paramilitary at the time, because remember, we've already talked about the guys coming in from the Philippines with Lansdale. They had a sort of checkered past within the agency because most of them…
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Felix Rodriguez, he actually said he was in Vietnam and that he had worked for Colby there and several other people. And he was there. And if you've not read that thread that I wrote about this, the deal with the Cuban exiles were after the…
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into not being quote-unquote exiles, but make them American citizens. And so the CIA worked with the, as if it's a separate entity, the State Department, and created a caveat that because these people had served the country as assassins, th…
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had basically had several from Birmingham's Air National Guard that was flying drug missions, training missions for the Cuban exiles to do the invasion, Bay of Pigs, into Cuba. And this author did a really good job of covering the fake drop…
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JFK abolished that OCB in February 1961, and at the time of the Bay of Pigs failure, there was a little bit of commentary in the print press about how maybe JFK's abolishing of the OCB resulted in the Bay of Pigs, quote, confusion. I think …
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Often dubbed the Bay of Piglets in reference to a bungled CIA invasion, attempted invasion of Cuba, Operation Gideon reminded ordinary Venezuelans of the threat they faced as the U.S. actively sought their government's overthrow. It also ra…
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Venezuelans and their government have been thrust into a war, not just one portrayed in the Western global media apparatus. Quote, today we proudly proclaim for all to hear the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well, unquote. That was said by no…
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who used his time on air to conjure a cast of foreign evildoers exploiting Venezuela as a base from which to threaten and even attack U.S. homeland. It's a well-worn script that Cuban expat communities deploy ever since they failed at the B…
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was the use of the CIA in the destabilization of that. And of course, they used Guatemala covertly afterwards for decades to launch operations throughout Latin America to include the Bay of Pigs, to include Iran-Contra in nearby Nicaragua. …
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Just like the shrimp company, this company was ran by a Cuban drug dealer who had been part of the CIA's Bay of Pigs. His name was Alfredo Caballero. Carlton testified that Caballero was involved in drug trafficking, and to a certain extent…
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The Eyes Wide Open guy on YouTube who does a pretty good job of stuff, and he put forth the concept that the Bay of Pigs was a deliberate failure on the CIA's part to put pressure onto the new president, whether it was going to be Nixon or …
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I tend to think that the whole the whole Cuba operation, that Cuba is essentially working in concert with the CIA. And I'm probably I know I'm probably you're probably going to say, well, where have you been to the party? So anyway, I but I…
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Traffickers working for North and the CIA, Bay of Pigs veteran Dagoberto Nunez, obtained a contract with the Heroes and Martyrs Corporation in order to cover an intelligence operation aimed at the Nicaraguan president, Noriega. So basically…
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Troilo Sanchez had been a partner of Menendez in one of the Norwood's nightclub in Managua. So they'd known each other for a very long time and was good friends with Somoza. A pilot, Sanchez, said he flew for the CIA in the early 60s for th…
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was plugged tightly into the Cuban exile community in Miami. He assisted the Cuban Legion in their radio propaganda shows coming from Miami, Terrell said, adding that Menendez was an associate of several members of the 2506 Brigade that mad…
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When he got to the part where he was talking about the Bay of Pigs and JFK, you could still reach out and feel the hostility, hatred that had been conjectured inside of him about JFK. And then also the opposite of that is the people that...…
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$1.8 million, and as they considered me to be his heir, they held me responsible for the payment. In 1960, while Willauer, a United Fruit official, and Civil Air Transport pilots were participating in the CIA's preparation for the Bay of Pi…
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He said that he should have commented along with the role of Richard Nixon in all of those same events, notably with Polly and Willauer in preparation for the Bay of Pigs. Nixon was a man of political skill and complexity not reduced to wis…
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Mal will be blighted by spontaneous peasant uprisings and sabotage. This is something that is another pattern that actually never comes to pass because that's exactly what they were hoping with the Bay of Pigs. Also, this whole time that th…
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where his former partner, Whiting Willauer, now U.S. ambassador to Honduras, was playing a key role in the CIA-organized disposition of the Guatemalan president, Arbenz, in other words, overthrowing that government. Willauer and Polly were …
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had money siphoned off of it for Operation Gladio. And there are lots of ties of the Inter-American Development Bank to Operation Condor in Latin America. So he's behind that as well. During the Kennedy administration, man, weirdly enough, …
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Dotto, according to SEAL, who through records I have obtained from a private investigative agency in Denver, Colorado, has been proved to have been an ex-CIA agent, there's no such thing, who worked in the Bay of Pigs invasion and had been …
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which is where we train all of the Cuban exiles to attack Cuba for the Bay of Pigs. This company, Helicopter Guatemala, was ran by Wheaton's buddy, Carl Jenkins, the old CIA agent from Louisiana who was living in Guatemala and training the …
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Helicopters Guatemala instructed him to transport a helicopter owned by the company from New Orleans to commercial helicopters facility in Lafayette and then ship it to Guatemala along with an engine belonging to them. Jenkins had other con…
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after which Tom Clines became Quintero's case officer. Shackley and Clines boss and headed up the CIA's Miami station after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He was also involved in the CIA's use of mafia to try to assassinate Castro. Jenkins also …
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Guillermo before. His father's name was Marcelo Hernandez. Hernandez Cardia is a Cuban exile who was in the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. He was captured and then ransomed back to the U.S. government. He went to work for Citizens and Sou…
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When Corson lives in Houston and Weiland's in Dallas is very suspect. It tells you everything you need to know that Corson was a CIA asset and he's assigned an attorney to work. That's how it works. We've established that over and over. And…
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He's a CIA agent whose previous claim to fame was his role in Rafael Chichi Quintero's case officer during the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Quintero, an infamous CIA operative who worked with Thomas Klein and Edwin Wilson, among others, was brought …
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And oh, by the way, when I get to be vice president, we're going to use it to kill foreign leaders. And then when I become president, I'm going to use it some more, like in Chile, and then it's going to get used on me. Well, it contextualiz…
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Kennedy was in many ways a strange liberal icon because he grew up idolizing Herbert Hoover, was closest in his family to his father Joseph, the millionaire business tycoon, began his career supporting Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch…
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the Cuban government. Now, obviously, what's interesting about all of that is this anti-communist is kind of the nickname for Operation Gladio operatives. And of course, we know that the terrorist campaign designed to overthrow Cuban govern…
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covert gladio operation using Cuban exiles who were also used in domestic terror events in the United States. Nevertheless, by the latter part of the 1960s, Kennedy had evolved into a crusader for the poor and a dove on Vietnam who was tryi…
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furnish air cover if required. The destroyers Eaton and Murray, with their superior navigational equipment, could convey the invasion fleet from a rendezvous point into the Bay of Pigs, while the amphibious ship San Marcos carried landing c…
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They're too stupid to plan a covert operation and then blame JFK for being a novice. At this point, Richard Bissell was called, oh, let's see. All right, so moving on. Now it was all up to Brigade 2506. The fleet of four ships and two landi…
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still containing many of the supplies and 130 men of the 5th Battalion. The survivors had to swim ashore without equipment into the salt marshes of Zapata Peninsula. Across the bay from the brigade's position, Rio Escondido went down with t…
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was in good position to move north and reinforce the paratroopers that landed near a place called Central Australia, but they got no orders to do so. By the time Stan Roman had established radio contact, yet another CIA error had become ver…
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from Playa Larga. But the nine sorties carried out that day and night, each of which could spend only about 20 minutes over the Bay of Pigs, was severely limited. In addition, two American air crew were shot down by Castro's jet, and we los…
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He's just getting attacked all the time. Six weeks later, Ike was given a detailed account of the Bay of Pigs by his business partner. Let me say this again, because this is incredible. Six weeks later, Dwight D. Eisenhower was given a deta…
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There were also changes in the Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Office of Special Operations. The Office of Special Operations got abolished after the Bay of Pigs, although some of its representatives, like Ed Lansdale, had cons…
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and everything else. McNamara had advised that he did not really need a special assistant for these matters. In a sudden move the day after the defeat at the Bay of Pigs, the Office of Special Operations were reassigned other military tasks…
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Um, let's see. He also had presided over the peak of the secret war, the years that the Kennedy administration, um, and then on into the Nixon. Helms was one of the few senior officers untouched by the Bay of Pigs through chief of operation…
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who basically didn't know what the hell was going on, and the Laotian government, at least the side that was friendly to the United States. He even met routinely with the French military mission, which was still involved in Laos. The early …
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Cuban exiles dressed up as actual Castro soldiers killing Americans in all of our major cities in order to justify a ground war with Cuba. And he got fired. He was humiliated inside of the military. But instead of actually asking him to ret…
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to follow these two guys, if possible, to timeline, parallel timelines of William Pauly and C.D. Jackson. Their jobs are different, but they're parallel and joined together at key moments. In particular, the Pauly-Bayo mission, or the Bayo-…
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Okay, that again is late 1963, and it's technically a private mission, right? It's funded by Pauly, but look who is on board of that Pauly Baio mission is none other than a Time Incorporated photographer who actually plays a very key role i…
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on that weekend of the assassination. And none other than this guy, Richard Billings, his son-in-law, working for Time Incorporated, is on the Bayo Polly mission that is, again, is trying to push the envelope and set up and provoke JFK into…
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There's a lot of leeway there that JFK ended. And again, these two characters are coming together again in the Bay of Polly mission. And also Richard Billings, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe he's actually the son-in-law of C.D. Jack…
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had like General Chenault had actually been on active duty during World War II, but basically were set up in front companies. And just like the guys we read about that went down and was employed in that front company in Miami, remember the …
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bombing missions. So they were not on active duty. They were not participating as National Guard members, but they were members of a guard unit that had been contracted through a front company in Miami to go down and fly for the CIA all of …
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The rest of the program is commercial free. All right. I put the link up in the pill in the mega board. Thank you. Megatron or whatever you call it. Whatever that thing is. Yeah. All right. Thank you very much. And SR71's already got it ove…
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And we met William Polly again and his interactions with the 2506 fiasco. So one thing Kennedy had also told Eisenhower when they discussed the massive failure of the Bay of Pigs was that there was going to be an investigation to the extent…
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So you have General Taylor, Robert Kennedy, and Alan Dulles, who was there representing the CIA. Admiral Arleigh Burke was there to speak on behalf of the Navy and their role in it. The board held 20 hearings with witnesses that included th…
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quote-unquote politicians that were going to make up the fake government. The declassified transcripts of the testimony reveal an oddly circumspect investigation. It could hardly have been otherwise. The details of the airstrike, the plans …
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to the belief that this large operation could be conducted with plausible deniability within the guidelines of NSD 5412-2. It was also attributed to lack of coordination among the different agencies to the attempt to command the operation f…
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basically Operation Gladio style shit. So they end up with a whole bunch of recommendations. And though the CIA might not have looked so bad in the Taylor report, there is no question that the debacle stripped away the veneer that Dallas ha…
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Alan Dulles never sat foot in the new building, the current CIA headquarters, as director of the CIA. It's like the ultimate slap in his face, actually, because he was largely in charge of building it and never allowed to go in it as the di…
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Only a few officers retired and almost no one was fired. While there was plenty of complaints about the handling of the covert operation of the Bay of Pigs, it did not bring an end to the secret war against Castro. If anything, the administ…
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terrorist training camps. And they're still using those people. Those are the people that are being shuttled through Turkey that carried out the attack against Moscow, that theater. They came from Tajikistan. So this model has been used all…
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Because they have nowhere else to go. So it's there or nowhere. The COVR program helped exacerbate tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union as well. The Bay of Pigs invasion was followed by an expansion of the Soviet military aid to C…
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When Langley cut back on the Cuban operations for a time, the situation changed again early in 1963. During these events, the exiled prisoners from the Bay of Pigs languished in Cuban prisons. Hurt by the trade embargo in place since Januar…
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And we know that because we followed all of the operations that they flew all over the world to conduct. So he mentions Watergate with Bernard Barker, E. Howard Hunt, and another guy, Rolando Martinez, who all participated in many of the CI…
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So. And on that part, they did a really good job. They stopped at the Bay of Pigs, but they did a really good job on the psychological part of it. But, you know, they use Bernays and all of the experts in order for them to develop those kin…
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The CIA and the Pentagon rigged it so the Bay of Pigs landing would be intentionally a failure and have the military waiting off the coast for an invasion. And that was all planned to kind of force JFK's hand into a U.S. Marine invasion of …
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The CIA Air Force would indeed have been familiar to any veteran of the Bay of Pigs, or for that matter, to any American airman from Jungle Jim. There were 10 C-47 transports, 8 or 9 B-26 bombers, and 8 T-28 fighter bombers. Belgian pilots …
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I think the American people need to understand the need for this foreign policy option, unquote, meaning covert options. There was little hope in 1969 that the public attitude toward covert operations would ever be as permissive as when Nix…
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Armed Services Intelligence Subcommittee with none at all in 1957. The average for the decade from 55 to 64 worked out to be less than two a year. During the months of planning for the Bay of Pigs in 1960, neither the Senate Appropriations …
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you know, totally non-needed new information that's come out. I mean, we, for example, we, you know, we, we know about the, obviously the Cabell mayor in Dallas, his brother was one of the top three dudes that JFK fired after Bay of Pace. A…
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would be in a matter of 72 hours of hell, as opposed to strung out over multiple years. And so that's the clue that chapter 10 is going to take us through Joseph Prado's research into the Bay of Pigs disaster. And his version of it,…
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He's not a communist and it's not likely they're going to be a communist, but we want to overthrow him anyway. President Kennedy's National Security Council assessed Guyana's situation a few weeks after the disastrous CIA failure in April 1…
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It starts off and we were in the middle of the preparation for the Bay of Pigs. So it's, and again, what's on the conversation table today, Cuba. So there's divine intervention here when we go through this material. It just seems that when …
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So anyway, we start today where we left off with kind of the transition between Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency in JFK and the lead up to the Bay of Pigs. So the third force in the Cuban context meant moderate July 26th movement adherents…
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It so happened, however, that the CIA's WH-4 unit that was overseeing the preparation for the Bay of Pigs, political action chiefs, held opposing views. For Project AET and Pluto, both simultaneously going on, Howard Hunt wanted no M-26 peo…
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Where we left off, Bay of Pigs, failure at Playa Garan. And we're on page 242 of Safe for Democracy in this series. Okay, where we left off, the Robert Amory stunned colleagues when he attended one of Kennedy's inaugural celebrations, a Cam…
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Brigade 2506 would have been landing against a superior force in prepared positions. But Trinidad, a big town, violated President Kennedy's edict to reduce visibility. On March 12th, Esserling got orders to redraft. In a frantic all-night w…
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having an airfield capable of accommodating B-26s and C-54 aircraft, one that could be captured on the first day, and suitable beaches. Only a few places matched those criteria, and just one met all of them, the Bay of Pigs, about 80 miles …
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On March 15th, both options were outlined at the White House. JFK, to Schlesinger's mind, listened carefully, again rejecting Trinidad as a World War II assault operation. He ordered the Bay of Pigs plan to be reoriented for a night as oppo…
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Stevenson doubted JFK had thought through the issues. Within days of the effort of Tracy Barnes' inadequate briefing, it became painfully apparent. Meanwhile, Project ATE accelerated. Two final postponements resulted in an invasion set for …
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They would accompany the invasion fleet to the Bay of Pigs while amphibious ship San Marcos carried the exile landing craft to their vehicles with some supplies. A submarine would carry out a diversion at a point off of Pinar del Rio at the…
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They would accompany the invasion fleet to the Bay of Pigs while amphibious ship San Marcos carried the exile landing craft to their vehicles with some supplies. A submarine would carry out a diversion at a point off of Pinar del Rio at the…
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on April 1st, viewed the aerial photos of the new landing site at the Bay of Pigs and the nearby village of Playa Garon, he saw coral reefs. Photo interpreters told Lynch he was wrong. Cubans on his ship actually knew the reefs and confirme…
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to an agency hangout, Napoleon's. It was a restaurant down the street. Jim Flannery, one of Bissell's secret special assistants, went with them. They began with martinis and went on to brandy before Task Force Operations Chief Richard Drain…
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to E. Howard Hunt. Hunt finally had to be relieved and relegated to work with Dave Phillips in the propaganda unit. President Kennedy still reserved his final decision with an option to cancel the invasion up to 24 hours before landing. Alt…
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Castro's inventory included six B-26 bombers, four T-33 jet trainers, modified to be fighters, and two to four British Sea Fury fighters. Principal bases were at Havana and Santiago. A surprised air attack scheduled two days before the inva…
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And that's the first day of bombing, which is why JFK called off the second round of bombing because the cat was already out of the bag. Okay, when Kennedy continued insisting on reduced visibility, Richard Bissell on his own halved the ini…
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to be hit by eight bombers. This reduction in the planned air mission was a major reason for doubts among Esterling's staff. The mission proved successful as far as it went. The exiled planes achieved surprise. Shortly after dawn on April 1…
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President Kennedy tamped down the next round of CIA bombings to avoid a UN debacle. Then he directed McBundy to issue fresh orders to Dulles, Rusk, and McNamara, prohibiting any employment of U.S. forces. In addition, the specific plan for …
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There will be quiet disengagement from associations developed in connection with Nestor. But Kennedy was too late to cancel the next part of the CIA plan, a diversionary landing at the Orient province that night. So the CIA, after Kennedy h…
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on current intelligence. He considered himself on top of it. Returning from an April 16th golf date, General Cabell heard that they had gotten the final go for the invasion by telephone. At 1 p.m., Cabell reviewed the plans. He learned of B…
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Aware of the UN embarrassment, Cabell wanted to check with Dean Rusk, even though Barrow insisted everything was fine. About 9.30 p.m., McGeorge Bundy, alerted by Rusk, called with JFK's decision that no further strikes be launched until Br…
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that it's the United States airplanes flying these missions. It's literally all over the wire. Revealed at the UN and embarrassed our ambassador to the UN. A veteran of bombing campaigns, General Cabell, knew their weaknesses and well steep…
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After a brief exchange, Russ got on the phone, then conveyed Kennedy's refusal. Missions would be restricted to direct support over the beaches on the first day. There would be 13 Exile B-26 sorties, none of them against FAR bases. Castro's…
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And he had two relatives who just happened to be family relatives. I mean, one is very close. The other is not as close, but extremely interesting, if not more so, to the two of the three CIA personnel fired by John F. Kennedy as a direct r…
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And he had two relatives who just happened to be family relatives. I mean, one is very close. The other is not as close, but extremely interesting, if not more so, to the two of the three CIA personnel fired by John F. Kennedy as a direct r…
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That is – that line right there tells you everything that you need to know that Kennedy realized he was not in control. And I believe that the Bay of Pigs was designed to put Kennedy on his heels and to allow the – because the CIA had never…