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CIA funded National Student Association documented document
“Then in early 1967 the disclosure was made that the CIA had for fifteen years subsidized the nation's largest student organization the National Student Association.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.269
CIA recruited National Student Association documented document
“A United States student for example was recruited in 1957 to serve as a CIA 'asset at the Sixth 'World Youth Festival in Moscow…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.192
John C. Stennis member_of National Student Association reported document
“I believe that this has not in any way jeopardized or compromised the security of our country or the activity of the NSA or other intelligence gathering agencies of our Nation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.66
CIA linked_to National Student Association documented document
“Public disclosure of CIA links with the National Student Association and the subsequent issuance of the Katzenbach Report have contributed to a climate adverse to intelligence-type activity on college campuses and with student-related group…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.185
CIA funded National Student Association reported document
“in response to the chairman's question about the CIA inquiry about the tax status of the Ramparts magazine reporter who might be about to disclose CIA funding of the National Student Association…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.34
National Student Association worked_for General Allen documented document
“General ALLEN Sir I honestly don't know about that prior to my coming on in the summer of 1973…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.29
General Allen headed National Student Association documented document
“General ALLEN Sir I honestly don't know about that prior to my coming on in the summer of 1973…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.29
National Student Association did_business_with Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document
“Until I am able morecarefully to assess the effectof Keith and other Supreme Court decisionsconcerningelectronic surveillance upon your current practice of disseminating to the FBI and Secret Service information acquired by you through elec…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.28
National Student Association did_business_with United States Secret Service documented document
“Until I am able morecarefully to assess the effectof Keith and other Supreme Court decisionsconcerningelectronic surveillance upon your current practice of disseminating to the FBI and Secret Service information acquired by you through elec…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.28
National Secular Society proposed National Student Association documented document
“General ALLEN MIy understanding Mr Schwarz is that at least the NSC intelligence directive defines our activities as foreign communications…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.29
Lucien Nedzi worked_for National Student Association documented document
“Mr Nedzi was briefed on the at a previous time on the gen eral subject of how these kinds of communications are handled…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.30
Noel Gayler headed National Student Association documented document
“your predecessor Admiral Gayler and the former Deputy Direc tor Dr Tordella were completely aware of the watch list program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.30
Dr Tordella headed National Student Association documented document
“your predecessor Admiral Gayler and the former Deputy Direc tor Dr Tordella were completely aware of the watch list program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.30
David D Lowman worked_for National Student Association documented document
“In a Nov 6 1975 letter fromDavidD LowmanSpecialAssistantto the Director NSAtheselectcommitteewasinformedthat the dateofthe briefingreferredto abovewas Jan 10 1975…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.30
Mr. Huston worked_for National Student Association documented document
“he also recognized that the NSA would not respond to that kind of a request for expansion or broadening of this activity without v i v clear and specific Presidential direction to do so…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.33
General Allen worked_for National Student Association documented document
“There were also no activities undertaken by NSA with the one exception we noted to obtain these communications only to select them…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.36
Tom Charles Huston worked_for National Student Association documented document
“The Huston memo according to my recollection sir said that the NSA was providing some intelligence pertinent to this problem at the present time in accordance with very restrictive and in a minimal way…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.36
National Student Association did_business_with CIA documented document
“In the old days of the watch list as I understand our earlier testimony when a name was presented to you from the FBI from the CIA or from other sources your agency really could not determine whether the purpose of including that name was f…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.40
Federal Bureau of Investigation did_business_with National Student Association documented document
“My understanding sir as we have looked back at the history of that is that there were substantial numbers of names which were suggested a large number from the FBI and from another agency as well which were rejected in the sense that a disc…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.44
U.S. Department of Justice did_business_with National Student Association documented document
“I am reminded it was actually not the FBI but the Department of Justice…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.45
Mr. Buffham worked_for National Student Association documented document
“you were I understand representing the NSA or at least representing General Gayler in the preparation of the Huston plan…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.47
Dr Tordella worked_for National Student Association documented document
“Pr Tordella the former Deputy Director told us that he would have known if additional assurances had ever been sought…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.64
National Student Association spied_on Frank Church alleged document
“If somebody says I want to read Frank Church's international cables there is a warrant requirement protecting it…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.143
National Student Association terminated Project Shamrock documented document
“For that reason the Agency itself finally terminated the program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.67
Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division targeted_for_regime_change National Student Association documented document
“The IRS responded to Congressional and Administration pressure by targeting political organizations and dissidents for audit…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.231
CIA funded National Student Association documented document
“The CIA improperly obtained the tax returns of Ramparts magazine after it learned that the magazine intended to publish an article revealing Agency support of the National Student Association…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.231
United States Department of State directed National Student Association documented document
“Against this background NSA officials after being refused by the State Department and rebuffed by the Congress were finally directed by the State Department in 1952 to the CIA.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.192
U.S. Congress proposed National Student Association reported document
“I am aware that members of the Committee pressed General Allen on whether this would not also be desirable for the NSA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.135
CIA involved_with National Student Association documented document
“Starting with the disclosures of CIA involvement with the National Student Association of 1967…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.35
CIA linked_to National Student Association documented document
“In 1967 as a result of the Katzenbach Report on CIA involvement with student groups FBI Director Hoover cut back sharply on the use of campus informants…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.262
National Student Association operated_in United States documented document
“The CIA and NSA have similarly used electronic surveillance techniques for intelligence purposes…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.279
CIA did_business_with National Student Association reported document
“However in 1967 there was concern that FBI intelligence activity on college campuses might be exposed by the controversy over CIA links with the National Student Association…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.491
CIA funded National Student Association documented document
“These agencies are unlike our domestic investigative agencies in a number of relevant ways They are funded in the billions of dollars…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.135
CIA spied_on National Student Association documented document
“Among the tax returns which the CIA obtained informally from IRS in an informal and illegal manner were those of ... Ramparts magazine which had exposed the CIA's covert use of the National Student Association.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.110
CIA funded National Student Association documented document
“President Lyndon Johnson moved by public and congressional uproar over the 1967 disclosure of the CIA's covert funding of the National Student Association (NSA) and other domestic private institutions established the Katzenbach Committee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.188
CIA funded National Student Association documented
“obliged Gene Groves to make declarations he would have preferred to avoid while others positioned themselves around the debate. As soon as reporters began to delve into the relationship between the CIA and the National Student Association, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 1:06
CIA funded National Student Association documented
“and he's you can look him up he's in a whole bunch of other stuff but so it got blown up that the CIA was funding the student rabble rousing um and you know basically which turned into the weather underground which we know was Gladio um and…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner JFK FIle 157-10014-10144 Part 1 @ 14:04
David Boren member_of National Student Association documented
“He was co-chair and whip for the Blue Dog Coalition, so he is a centrist, just like his grandfather. He was one of 40 Democrats to vote against the Affordable Care Act. In 2008, he was elected to the board of directors of the National Rifle…”
▶ The Shadow State 34 Secret Societies 18; Horace Mann School @ 51:24
David Boren member_of National Student Association documented
“So his dad, the Bonesman, we'll get there. Okay. He was co-chair and whip for the Blue Dog Coalition. So he is a centrist, just like his grandfather. He was one of 40 Democrats to vote against the Affordable Care Act. In 2008, he was electe…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #33 @ 50:57
CIA spied_on National Student Association documented
“they were still running the student program. It was literally part of the covert operations. Later investigation established that the CIA had made operational use of the students going abroad. One on a NSA scholarship was an exchange studen…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 46:24
Congress for Cultural Freedom operated_with National Student Association host_asserted
“asset team to go on that tour of Africa that we talked about. They are also the ones that operated inside the United States with the National Student Association, the Women's Lib through Gloria Steinem. They have been intimately involved in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 14:17
Carlos Lacerda founded National Student Association host_asserted
“The hardline general named by the military to succeed Branco used the rally as his reason for banning a political movement called the Front. It had been put together by Luzardo, and that was his one last attempt to basically open up the pol…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 19:23
Jean-Marc van der member_of National Student Association host_asserted
“from other states out of his jail and ordered his men to work around the clock to identify who they all were. Prior to the raid, Jean-Marc had been elected as the new president of the student union. Because he was also the only one among th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 32:13
CIA funded National Student Association book_quoted
“and the vice president were quote-unquote winning CIA assets and that each year these newly elected officials would be brought in. The CIA money supposedly supported only the NSA international efforts, which was a lie. That construction fai…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 2:54
CIA paid National Student Association book_quoted
“at influencing the leadership. So if you're influencing the leadership of the U.S. National Student Association, you're doing it in the United States. They weren't leaders from overseas. During the NSA's project, the CIA paid expenses. Some…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 3:25
Students for a Democratic Society front_for National Student Association host_asserted
“with the CIA's National Student Association, which has been openly discussed as a CIA front. And they also had ties to the Weather Underground and other Operation Gladio terror cells in Europe. So anyone that's telling you that Karen Bass i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 1:25:42
1967 policy review ordered_assassination_of National Student Association documented
“who had actually coordinated the public response, and John Gardner, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. They met in Krachenbach's office. Helms and Gardner sat on a sofa, the acting secretary behind his desk. Helms recalled sha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 55:12
William Colby spied_on National Student Association documented
“But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57
CIA funded National Student Association documented
“The agency's international organization division had been seen as a counterweight to the Soviet-sponsored youth groups of the 50s. Though the sensibilities had changed with the growing opposition to the Vietnam War, the National Student Ass…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 40:27
CIA recruited National Student Association documented
“NSA, National Student Association's International Activities. It had arranged for its officers to occupy an office. They paid for it. They contributed to the upkeep of the senior officials in this organization. They also funded summer semin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 40:56
CIA spied_on National Student Association documented
“After 1962, when the CIA's International Organizations Division merged with a covert action staff, they were still running the student program. It was literally part of the covert operations. Later investigation established that the CIA had…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 41:56
CIA funded National Student Association documented
“It's remarkable how contemporary 1964 seems in comparison to 2024. 60 years later, we're still talking about how the CIA and the national security state has too much power, but never anything is ever done. Another quote. Three years later, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 35:28
CIA spied_on National Student Association documented
“But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57
Phil Sherborn member_of National Student Association documented
“The NSA president, Phil Sherborn, told his director of development, Michael Wood, of the CIA's role. Not everyone in the organization were witting. Cord Meyer of the Covert Action staff made sure of that. Monitoring NSA elections, revealing…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 47:23
Michael Wolff member_of National Student Association documented
“The NSA president, Phil Sherborn, told his director of development, Michael Wood, of the CIA's role. Not everyone in the organization were witting. Cord Meyer of the Covert Action staff made sure of that. Monitoring NSA elections, revealing…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 47:23
CIA used National Student Association book_quoted
“Another, Bruce McMaster, masqueraded as a representative of the Ford Foundation, one of the CIA's favorites, which was a violation of CIA regulations that had been put in place when they were exposed using the National Student Association. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 35 @ 32:59
Douglas Caddy member_of National Student Association documented
“A week earlier, presidential political aide Douglas Cater had been sitting in the White House office when his phone rang. In that case, it had been the National Student Association president, W. Eugene Groves, seeking an appointment. Cater,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 56:14
Cord Meyer ordered_assassination_of National Student Association documented
“If you are working to uncover, you're a communist. Instead, Kordenmeier instructed James Kiley, his case officer for the National Student Association, to turn off the money. At least the agency would be able to deny any current relationship…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 53:33
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of National Student Association documented
“LBJ now instructed the agency to cease all subsidies to youth and student groups and ordered a policy review of CIA relationships with educational and private organizations. Helm read in the newspaper that he would be a member. Like the Tay…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 58:58
CIA trained National Student Association documented
“It had arranged for its officers to occupy an office. They paid for it. They contributed to the upkeep of the senior officials in this organization. They also funded summer seminars for student leaders and used them to recruit from. By some…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 45:21
CIA funded National Student Association documented
“as a counterweight to the Soviet-sponsored youth groups of the 50s. Though the sensibilities had changed with the growing opposition to the Vietnam War, the National Student Association had remained very active in a cultural war inside the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 44:52
National Student Association funded Brady Bill host_asserted
“But, you know, after the Soviet Union collapsed, I mean, we had a flood. I mean, 7.62x39 ammunition, it was cheaper than .22 long rifle because all the Soviet bloc countries were sending that stuff over here in mass quantities for people to…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 1:28:23
Cord Meyer ordered_assassination_of National Student Association host_asserted
“If you are working to uncover, you're a communist. Instead, Corden Meyer instructed James Kiley, his case officer for the National Student Association, to turn off the money. At least the agency would be able to deny any current relationshi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 49:12
National Student Association founded Weather Underground host_asserted
“The National Student Association is indicative of how they operate. So they had a couple of cutouts. They basically funded the entire thing. That gave birth to the Weather Underground, the other domestic terror operations. And so whether di…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 1:11:29
National Student Association funded Weather Underground host_asserted
“And he was involved in operations in Vietnam and throughout Latin America. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. And then we realized that the CIA was embedded in the National Student Association that was behind the Weather Underground. And what were …”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 54 - _JFK - OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING - 9_11 - STRATEGY OF TENSION_ - EP.414 @ 28:05
CIA funded National Student Association host_asserted
“And he was involved in operations in Vietnam and throughout Latin America. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. And then we realized that the CIA was embedded in the National Student Association that was behind the Weather Underground. And what were …”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 54 - _JFK - OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING - 9_11 - STRATEGY OF TENSION_ - EP.414 @ 28:05

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AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 54 - _JFK - OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING - 9_11 - STRATEGY OF TENSION_ - EP.414
▶ 28:05 And he was involved in operations in Vietnam and throughout Latin America. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. And then we realized that the CIA was embedded in the National Student Association that was behind the Weather Underground. And what were …
Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25
▶ 1:11:04 They purposely infiltrate them. I was amazed at the beginning of my research to know that the CIA has domestic stations all over the United States. They basically owned one of the Miami papers down there when they were doing all of the Cuba…
Operation Gladio - Libya
▶ 44:39 When asked to explain the conflict in light of its earlier announcement of Hoftar's appointment, said, quote, this is the position of the council today. The situation is fluid. The political viewpoints change frequently, unquote. Gotta love…
Operation Gladio loose ends
▶ 26:11 In 1962, the Georgia Council on Human Relations got $2,600 of CIA money from the Norman Fund, and Norman officials deny any knowledge of financial ties to the CIA. I'm sure they do. The National Student Association, which received massive c…
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2
▶ 1:25:17 throughout the course of the 1960s and early 70s to basically gather intelligence. And the organization that she was part of, that Vencermos Brigade, was part of the Students for a Democrat Society, which basically had overlapping leadershi…
The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4
▶ 18:16 And the CIA is going to be his financier. He met with a couple of CIA agents. And we'll get to that in just a second. At 18, Drummond founded an organization called Gap. And it was basically like a group of patriots. That's kind of what it …
The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4
▶ 18:53 the National Student Union, and the National Student Union had more people in their group. So Drummond was very particular about who he handed out leaflets to, and they didn't have at the time a very large budget. So he was very careful. He…
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7
▶ 28:46 films of the Jeep being set on fire showed John Mark nowhere around it. When the court adjourned to deliberate, John Mark was ordered to return for the verdict. From the tenor of the preliminaries, he was convinced there would only be one o…
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7
▶ 29:16 who was also not guilty of any crimes, demonstrated his faith in the military justice by showing up for the verdict. He was sentenced to two years in jail. In absentia, John Mark drew the same sentence. By then, it was September of 1968. A …
The Colonels Corner Operation Gladio look into RFKs Murder
▶ 1:03:33 Although Kulbaugh's description matched some eyewitness accounts of the man accompanying the girl in the polka-dotted dress, proof for Morrow's theory has not been established. Kulbaugh, whose real name is Khalid Kulbaugh, sued the Boston G…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 39:59 Probably most important, the stories challenged some Americans who were involved in certain CIA secret activities. Key here were the officers of the National Student Association, which was purported to be a non-government and non-partisan o…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 40:27 The agency's international organization division had been seen as a counterweight to the Soviet-sponsored youth groups of the 50s. Though the sensibilities had changed with the growing opposition to the Vietnam War, the National Student Ass…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 40:56 NSA, National Student Association's International Activities. It had arranged for its officers to occupy an office. They paid for it. They contributed to the upkeep of the senior officials in this organization. They also funded summer semin…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 41:56 After 1962, when the CIA's International Organizations Division merged with a covert action staff, they were still running the student program. It was literally part of the covert operations. Later investigation established that the CIA had…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 42:26 He was being accused of as being an American spy because he was. More frequently, the agency simply asked students to keep a watchful eye out and tell them what they'd seen. They were using them as intelligence operations. They would brief …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 42:57 soured everything. Shortly before the time series on the CIA, the NSA president, Phil Sherborn, told his director of development, Michael Wood, of the CIA's role. Not everyone in the organization were witting. Cord Meyer of the covert actio…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 43:28 that they approved of, that were read into the funding. When Wood learned of the connection, he was scandalized. He first tried to replace the CIA money contacting Vice President Herbert Humphreys, who did some fundraising but had little su…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 43:56 others at NSA of the CIA connection and began talking to the San Francisco-based magazine called Ramparts. That magazine had already raised eyebrows at Langley because of an expose reporting that the CIA had hired Michigan State University …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 44:49 that trained operatives at Michigan State and deployed them forward as part of the Phoenix program in the Vietnam. Rampart saw the opportunity to make a powerful statement against covert operations by revealing the CIA NSA links. Subsequent…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 47:47 In early January of 67, Langley picked up rumors in New York publishing circles that Rampart's piece on the agency and the National Student Association, written by Marcus Raskin, yes, that's Jamie Raskin's dad, had been scheduled and would …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 48:12 But the same time the agency intercepted a letter from an unknown organization, probably contrived, mailed from Vienna, still a spy haven. The letter alleged that the CIA employed someone in the coordinating secretariat of the International…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 51:49 it marked the onset of the Ramparts fiasco. A week earlier, presidential political aide Douglas Cater had been sitting in the White House office when his phone rang. In that case, it had been the National Student Association president, W. E…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 52:45 You let that feller come into your office and lay a big fat turd right in your lap. Cater knew well what was going to happen. He had been an addressee on CIA memorandum about Ramparts and Robert Scheer the previous summer and had written hi…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 53:15 Cater rushed to see the president. Johnson was impatient. Cater argued they ought to use the week left before Ramparts hit the newsstand to prepare a response. Cater made private inquiries and determined that the National Student Associatio…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 55:39 but develop a different way to support groups more openly. You know, kind of like what they did with the USAID, the guy that was running the USAID. Oh yeah, we do everything the CIA used to do covertly. We just do it overtly. The National S…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 57:41 says that he not only knew about it, that he approved the funding for the CIA to illegally operate in the United States. Okay, everything's fine. Go on about your merry way. Nothing to see here. Gene Groves dismissed the Katzenbach report a…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 58:12 Doug Cater came to his own conclusion, quote, secrecy has a self-destructive potential which cannot stay the long course, especially when pitted against this country's passion for publicity, unquote. No, not publicity, truth. The secret war…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)
▶ 0:37 continuing our saga. We start with the exposure of the CIA's role in the National Student Association, which we covered yesterday, marked not the end but the beginning of controversy. The agency had no one to blame but itself for what happe…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)
▶ 1:06 obliged Gene Groves to make declarations he would have preferred to avoid while others positioned themselves around the debate. As soon as reporters began to delve into the relationship between the CIA and the National Student Association, …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)
▶ 7:21 That mentioned CIA's idea of a golden parachute, which would have at least eliminated current funding problems. The CIA argued that the radios were not really private voluntary organizations like the National Student Association, but were a…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37)
▶ 26:48 Another, Bruce McMaster, masqueraded as a representative of the Ford Foundation, one of the CIA's favorites, which was a violation of CIA regulations that had been put in place when they were exposed using the National Student Association. …
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 41:45 and other entities. The model also served in the 2005 elections in Iraq, where charges of covert U.S. roles were made. Venezuelan government leveled the same accusations. This kind of activity harkens back to the CIA's National Student Asso…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8
▶ 1:25 And they made donuts out of the apple mash. And oh, my God. I've had them. Best thing ever. Yes. You're absolutely right. Okay. We're going to continue on. We're in the chapter Covert Legions, page 92. We start here with the National Studen…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8
▶ 1:55 Braden and Cord Meyer and basically Warhamster and I did almost an entire show on Cord Meyer. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time going over his history. You can go watch that other podcast. But the National Student Association project …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8
▶ 2:25 capability that they were deploying. The summer group held seminars each year where the CIA would go through the field for its preferences, then supported those people in the association's elections. Cord Meyer and other agency apologists a…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8
▶ 2:54 and the vice president were quote-unquote winning CIA assets and that each year these newly elected officials would be brought in. The CIA money supposedly supported only the NSA international efforts, which was a lie. That construction fai…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8
▶ 3:25 at influencing the leadership. So if you're influencing the leadership of the U.S. National Student Association, you're doing it in the United States. They weren't leaders from overseas. During the NSA's project, the CIA paid expenses. Some…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8
▶ 8:14 Right. There's like a 15 second delay. Thank you. Sure. So basically, for those over on Rumble, we're talking about the National Student Association and how it was at least the leadership was funded and they paid expenses for people to trav…
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7
▶ 1:07:39 And basically painted them all with the hippie brush and tried to discredit them. And they were infiltrating the National Student Association. They did all kinds of domestic operations. The CIA did domestic operations because they could not…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1
▶ 39:22 year before we go into the 68 election. Lots of turmoil going on. West Coast magazine Ramparts revealed that the CIA was secretly funding the ostensibly independent American student organization, the U.S. National Student Association, via a…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1
▶ 59:00 And this was being set up exactly like the National Student Association. And they had another organization called the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs, which acted as a conduit for the CIA to fund these things. The same Midtown terr…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1
▶ 59:25 by a CIA front organization called the American Committee for Cultural Freedom was used not only by that organization, but also the National Student Association. You know, basically they're all hanging out in the same building. All of the l…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1
▶ 1:09:57 of secrecy before disclosing covert associations with the society to include the National Student Association. Thereafter, she and AMSEC officers would meet with CIA case officers in hotel rooms, usually in New York, but also in Washington,…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10
▶ 14:17 asset team to go on that tour of Africa that we talked about. They are also the ones that operated inside the United States with the National Student Association, the Women's Lib through Gloria Steinem. They have been intimately involved in…
The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5
▶ 1:28:53 To remove that right was the National Rifles Association, the NRA, which to me I call negotiating rights away now. But anyway, what we have seen over the course of this really long period of time as a result of what you talk about is the De…
The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7
▶ 35:28 It's remarkable how contemporary 1964 seems in comparison to 2024. 60 years later, we're still talking about how the CIA and the national security state has too much power, but never anything is ever done. Another quote. Three years later, …
The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39)
▶ 54:57 But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…
The Shadow State 34 Secret Societies 18; Horace Mann School
▶ 51:24 He was co-chair and whip for the Blue Dog Coalition, so he is a centrist, just like his grandfather. He was one of 40 Democrats to vote against the Affordable Care Act. In 2008, he was elected to the board of directors of the National Rifle…
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