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Jedburgh units carried_out_attack
Germany book_quoted
“At a moment's notice, the resistance operations are credited with slowing down the German response to many different situations. And it also says that the army's counterintelligence operated a parallel program to the Jedburgh units in north…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 33:58
Henry Heckscher headed
Germany documented
“But army leaders continued to balk at the organization of an Eastern European unit modified special forces program in order basically to do overt stay-behind capability. A guy by the name of Harry Heckscher, H-E-C-K-S-H-E-R, he was the CIA'…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 50:49
Forest Brotherhood recruited
Germany host_asserted
“All of this began dwindling the numbers of the Forest Brotherhood. The Baltic resistance groups could have benefited from outside help. Before the end of 1945, the Lithuanian partisans had contacted many people in Sweden, Germany, France, a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 38:41
Andre Strossmeyer member_of
Germany book_quoted
“Elohim. So that's where Strassmayr was hanging out with McVeigh. Interesting. Aliases were Andy the German, Mr. Red, Andy the Kraut, Andrew Strassmayr, and then different versions of Andy. Yeah. Formerly West Germany infantry officer. So hi…”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 54 - _JFK - OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING - 9_11 - STRATEGY OF TENSION_ - EP.414 @ 1:20:02
Detachment A operated_in
Germany book_quoted
“verifies all of this information and then again um you come across passages in here where it's talking about detachment a being part of special forces and being over in the eastern um germany part which again just goes to verify all of the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 1:16:45
Colonel J.R. Newman member_of
Germany guest_asserted
“This was before we had satellites and everything else. He had a produce truck coming out of Germany, going up to Russia, and they put cameras on the truck, kind of a James Bond operation, to get the tank and placements for where the Soviet …”
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Germany exposed
Karim Kari documented
“This would allow for a stop in London and then resume travel. It would also explain why the bomb didn't detonate over the Atlantic. The plane was delayed for two hours at Heathrow. All did not go well for the terrorists. They were detected …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 29:18
Germany pardoned
Karim Kari book_quoted
“to Damascus, Syria, in which he stated, I have made some changes to the medicine. It's better and stronger. But Karit evidently had connections in high places. He demanded to place one phone call and then refused to answer any questions. Wi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 30:21
Dwight D. Eisenhower covered_up
Germany host_asserted
“That was when they had the Battle of the Bulge, which cost another 60,000 American lives. And Eisenhower deliberately slowed down Eisenhower's patent by preventing him from having enough fuel to go in. The purpose was there that FDR had ess…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 1:18:52
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I have to go back to this Andre. I don't know how you say it. A-N-D-R-E. Strassmeyer. You can look him up. S-T-R-A-S-S-M-E-I-R. Do you know where that guy's from? Where? Germany. With that kind of name? Strassmeyer. Oh, okay. I guess. He's …
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Elohim. So that's where Strassmayr was hanging out with McVeigh. Interesting. Aliases were Andy the German, Mr. Red, Andy the Kraut, Andrew Strassmayr, and then different versions of Andy. Yeah. Formerly West Germany infantry officer. So hi…
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In addition, the police officers supposed to guard the mission were often late. The Pentagon's regional headquarters, AFRICOM, based in Stuttgart, Germany, not even in Africa, offered to send soldiers to fill the gap, but Stevens declined, …
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an interpretation primarily of prisoners of war. They were trained in secret at Camp Ritchie in Maryland. The total is thought to be somewhere around 22,000, most of them German-speaking immigrants. Most of them ethnically were Jewish in th…
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But it's founded on the principle that there were 1,400 Jewish children that were quote unquote rescued from Nazi Germany and brought here without their parents. And that's, if you guys remember the Vietnam baby lift, there seems to be a re…
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It goes on to say during the Battle of the Bulge, two Ritchie boys were recognized due to their accents, after which the German officer ordered them to both be summarily executed, saying that the Jews have no right to live in Germany. He wa…
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in that facility that made it look more like one of the stay-behind units that they would have used in Operation Gladio than anything that resembles a religion. And they did the same thing in Germany. They had a religious orphanage there th…
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which the Americans had provided to Russia since 1941, basically kind of became an issue for these people. And it says the Soviets were interested in extending it, but Truman halted it. And that Stalin and the British leaders at Potsdam, Ge…
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Russia laid shattered. Despite appearances, Soviet prisoners and forced laborers repatriated at the end of the war faced death and long years of detention and often merely exchanged German work for Russian work. Unlike the U.S., Russia's ec…
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they could all collectively do and keep on par at a much faster pace than what they knew the Soviet Union could do. And so the Soviet Union was looked at constantly as not participating when in fact they couldn't because they didn't have th…
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in May of 1946. The U.S. must also take some of the blame for this Cold War stalemate. From the beginning of his administration, Harry Truman proved more eager to use muscle in relations with Soviet Union than his predecessor had, FDR. Hist…
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Only a few months later, the president dispatched major American naval force to the Mediterranean for the first time in response to the Soviet pressure on Turkey for a joint defense agreement. The suspension of reparations from Germany also…
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As part of the Big Four, the Americans had already intended to administer each of the occupied countries as a single economic unit, but the French were concerned that the Soviet policies might come to dominate. The French representatives ac…
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As a result, in July 1946, the Americans offered to join their occupation zone in Germany with those of other powers willing to participate. The Russians suspected that they were being entrapped by both the French and the British, but then …
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A prominent politician and government official died under very mysterious circumstances. These events in Czechoslovakia, plus a rising tide of war scare from the American side, created a volatile situation. The American High Commissioner, G…
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One of the things that he was saying was that the intelligence people for the Nazis were all Jewish. In other words, they were using Jewish people were running the intel intelligence agencies for the Nazis in World War Two. And I find that …
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some of the eventual Jewish people that went down to Israel that basically set up the Haagen-Dazs, their intelligence slash terrorist organization down there that preceded the establishment of Israel. Now, there were German intelligence off…
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Zionist, World Zionist Organization officials to basically convince as many Jewish people as they could to leave Germany voluntarily. And there was an agreement with the intelligence people, and I know the guy, I see his face because I did …
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On the German side and the name of the guy on the Jewish side who becomes an Israeli citizen, they the two of them under the Zion, the World Zionist Organization and one was in the Nazi intelligence. They collectively worked in agreement th…
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All of this began dwindling the numbers of the Forest Brotherhood. The Baltic resistance groups could have benefited from outside help. Before the end of 1945, the Lithuanian partisans had contacted many people in Sweden, Germany, France, a…
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So President Truman, in a dramatic gesture near the end of 1946, congratulated a group of Estonian refugees who had crossed the Atlantic in old wooden sailing boats and ordered the Immigration Service to ignore the fact that they didn't hav…
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the British Secret Intelligence Service, SIS, and Frank Wisner's OPC, who's working directly with Reinhard Galen, who set all this up for Germany anyway. And they basically all get together. The role of the Galen organization was vital from…
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The OPC at the CIA and his organization was referred to as the org, which was what it was nicknamed. It's basically the BND and began scanning all of the immigrants that were in Germany at the time as recruits and preliminary training to be…
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and did not have any good results with it at all. British intelligence had its own methods of recruiting and training people for the Baltic area. They played a key role in the occupation zone in Germany and around the Baltic coast. The SIS,…
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Millions of dollars and also ended up with an estimated 75,000 more people dead as a result of that. American intelligence had followed these developments from the operational base inside of Germany. They had a monitoring station in Stockho…
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focus on bin Laden. No newspaper, to my knowledge, quoted from his 1999 biography by Yosef Bodansky, director of the U.S. Congressional Task Force on Terrorism. This is a quote. An up-and-coming venue for Islamist fun is a combination of th…
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Why is that significant? Germany and East Europe and Central Asia. That's where a whole bunch of the Nazis lived after World War II. Access to this seemingly unrelated group of states was made possible through bin Laden's building a relatio…
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So I still have to scratch my head. I don't know how those kind of things happen with other human beings. And not just that. I mean, we saw it in Germany where they imprisoned their own German citizens and tortured them. This is not a one-o…
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you had the Russians not only governing Eastern Europe, but also setting their sights on Western Europe, particularly places like Italy, even in Germany, where they, you know, where they were launching, you know, clandestine invasions. But …
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A gladiator unit in Germany was established, became known as the werewolves. There were Vatican, yeah, I mean, in Holland and in Spain, there were all these gladiator units. But the main focus remained Italy and the plate of Italy. Can I st…
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But army leaders continued to balk at the organization of an Eastern European unit modified special forces program in order basically to do overt stay-behind capability. A guy by the name of Harry Heckscher, H-E-C-K-S-H-E-R, he was the CIA'…
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They produced no new ideas. Mac Carger brought in a former senior Hungarian politician and sent him to Vienna to contact people at home. But that resulted in little information. Wisner proceeded to Germany. Tracy Barnes found the DO staff s…
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of the people could not fail to give Radio Free Europe listeners the hope that the U.S. would come to their aid, unquote. Wisner, too, in a way, broke on the Hungarian anvil. After one night at the border watching these activities happen, W…
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as it was set up by the CIA, and to throw the Soviets out of Hungary. Okay, in Germany in 1958 would be a high point for this mysterious organization called the Battle Group Against Inhumanity. That one was also a stay-behind initiative tha…
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It kept a watch on everyone arriving from Cuba. It was headed by Justin Glickhoff, G-L-E-I-C-H-A-U-F, the sole agency officer involved. Miami presently became the largest station in the CIA's global network, on a par with Bonn in Germany.…
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despite endless efforts to master a foreign language. Barnes, in Helm's view, had turned in totally unremarkable performances as the station chief in Germany and London. He was promoted by Dulles, remained blissfully unaware of his inadequa…
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psychological warfare units were increased in early 65 to three battalions and two companies plus associated detachments. By November 30th, 1964, the strength of army special warfare units stood at more than 11,000. In Germany, the 10th gro…
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to the 1961 summer study. His successor, Richard Helms, had his doubts. Helms had been poised for this job for over a decade. He had been the go-to guy for spies, heading the division that covered Germany during the creation of the CIA Gale…
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verifies all of this information and then again um you come across passages in here where it's talking about detachment a being part of special forces and being over in the eastern um germany part which again just goes to verify all of the …
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The DRA army assumed a larger share of offensive operations with the Russian elite forces as a spearhead. The bulk of the Soviet troops would revert to a defensive role. The new leader for this was General Mikhail Zaytsev, previously comman…
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Thus began a dilemma for the local police. The time was September 1947 in a Germany under occupation by the Allied powers. This particular area laid in the American sector. Police there reported to U.S. military officers. The news of the ar…
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took over the SSU in 1946, it had been reduced to fewer than 200 people. In addition to the SSU, the Army's Counterintelligence Corps remained as a clandestine operation entity. Military intelligence, or G2, controlled the CIC. The G2 was w…
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The shift in early 1947 when it recorded a change in emphasis from denazification to positive intelligence. So gone were the days where we were going to actually get rid of the Nazis and in rushed where we're going to use all of them. In Au…
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waiting for the CIA to be set up. Once a new intelligence service emerged, the Central Intelligence Group, its first Vienna station chief, John Richardson, would be a former CIC man. The same functions were carried out by the 970th CIC deta…
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As agents, this unit used certain notorious former Nazis in Germany, such as Kloss Barbie. The shift in American priorities could be encapsulated in the life of Net Master Gordon Stewart, who headed the CIA station in 1948. A former OSS man…
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One of the OPC's men at the conference was in fact on detached service from the Army. It was Colonel Richard Stilwell, who had served in Europe. As a military officer, Stilwell played a major role in the CIA-Army relationship. There are cer…
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I find that very interesting. Okay, we're going to go just a little bit further. Probably the most important resource for Frank Wisner, pride from the army, was an entire intelligence agency, a German one. Of course, this story stretches ba…
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Or in Eastern Europe. It makes it so much more understandable when you understand all of these connections. Galen began an alliance with the U.S. that ultimately took him back to Germany to create the Galen Organization and eventually the B…
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The Galen organization was installed at Pollock near Munich in December of 1947. At the time, still working for the U.S. Army, Galen hired his specialist on the Soviet Union without any regard to their Nazi past. Others were from Nazi secur…
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Central intelligence initially rejected the course of the army doing it. And Admiral Hill and Cotter even recommended that the Galen unit be abolished. We know that didn't happen. Yet in 1948, the Galen organization was fully functional and…
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Critchfield continued into Austria, where he returned later as a young colonel with the counterintelligence group. He joined the CIA in the summer of 1948. Richard Helms approved personnel assignments for Germany at the time, and Critchfiel…
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And who is pissed as hell at what Netflix did to it and had written a book about it. And it was up on Amazon for three weeks, but apparently it came out, but no one has ever seen it. And I think I mentioned just a short version is they cut …
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In June of 1938, Joe Louis celebrated his heavyweight championship victory over Max Slimling, Nazi Germany's great white hope at the Teresa, as thousands of fans cheered on in the streets outside. When word spread that the Cuban delegation …
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Dulles and Clay were unusual company for a man not long before had been working as a judo instructor in Miami while studying to take his law exams. Like Dulles, General Clay occupied positions on top ranks of American establishment. After s…
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under the guise of Crusade for Freedom, which was a CIA front. Returning to Germany in 61 as an advisor to JFK during the Berlin Wall crisis, Clay dangerously escalated the crisis without the president's authorization by threatening to knoc…
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He got a seat on the General Motors board among other companies. What I find interesting about this is if you guys, I don't know if I even mentioned it, but those stay-behind units of U.S. military in Germany talk about Checkpoint Charlie a…
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men who talked about war and high-stake diplomacy, men who got things done. Like Allen, Foster felt little empathy for those around him, especially ones that were weak or vulnerable. He understood that there was misfortune in the world, but…
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In 1932, as Hitler began his takeover of the German government, Foster visited three Jewish friends, all prominent bankers in the Berlin office of his company, Cromwell and Sullivan, Sullivan and Cromwell. The men were extremely anxious and…
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And they basically erased that episode from their family. In early June 1939, the German transatlantic ocean liner, St. Louis, cruised along the coastline of Florida. Now, this is a ship that has hundreds of Jewish people that were leaving …
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A few got out in Cuba, but the rest were not allowed to go. It was referred to as a ghost ship. So as it's cruising along the United States, Harry Morgenthau Jr., who is FDR's Treasury Secretary and Jewish himself, was pleading with the gov…
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In 1940, he circulated a memo among his department officials proposing that they delay for an indefinite period of time the number of immigrants allowed into the United States. We can do this by simply advising our consuls to put every obst…
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That's actually in a memo. He was not interested in helping anybody leave Germany. As a result of Breckenridge Long's delaying tactic, 90% of the quotas placed for refugees from Hitler and Mussolini's reigns, which would amount to 190,000 p…
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Due to research, 250 of the passengers would later die. As the war began, the struggle to save Europe's Jewish population was far from over. President Roosevelt continued to be pushed and pulled by different sides in the refugee debate. Ini…
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This was one that was set up for IG Farben. There were also, in addition to Farben, labor camps set up for Volkswagen, Siemens, and Krupp. Himmler's SS empire moved aggressively to cut in on, basically they were taxing these, making them pa…
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And he was basically yelled at and told to shut up. Edward Schultz was not one of the men that could hide or deny the truth. So on July 29, 1942, he was on a trip to Zurich. He was determined to put information in the hands of the Allies. T…
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History would give Dulles one more chance to alert the world of the ongoing genocide. In Switzerland, he would hear directly from the men like Schultz and others who had risked their lives to save people in Germany. In Bern, the evil was no…
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But Dulles expressed little interest in Schultz's information, more intrigued by the politics and psychological mood of the German people and how they could be won over by the Allies. Dulles asked Schultz to write up a memo on the state of …
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Fritz Kolbe, an efficient Foreign Service official who kept rising to higher posts in the German government despite his stubborn refusal to join the Nazi party, was another mole who risked his life to give the U.S. insights into German oper…
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During another meeting with Dulles in April of 44, Colby handed over a thick file of Nazi cables revealing the Hungarian Jews who had remained were about to be rounded up and deported to the labor camp, death camps in Germany. Dulles' repor…
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that he had discussed with Colby. Underground communist organizing seemed to be gaining strength in Germany as the Nazi war effort faltered. Colby had informed the U.S. agent. This was the emergency that Dulles thought FDR needed to hear ab…
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One German cable reported that 120 Jews in Budapest, including children considered unfit for work, would soon be taken to a quote-unquote labor service. The Nazis were always very careful to use labor service in their communication, meaning…
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that he had abandoned two decades ago to work for Hitler, landing a job in a weekly magazine, courtesy of Alan Dulles, who had helped pave the return to civilian life because during this time, there was an employment ban on hiring former Na…
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He quickly proved to be the man on his way up with a circle of friends he had made as Himmler's banker. Wolf found it easy to establish contacts within advertising departments of leading German companies because they were not denazified. As…
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And who better to help him than his American patron? Wolf had stayed in touch with Dulles through the U.S. Occupation Authority stationed in Germany, passing him notes and books related to Operation Sunrise that he thought Alan Dulles might…
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The apartment, which was located on a thoroughfare, was a horse-shaped street in the city's exclusive Heroli district. It contained few distractions for the bored dolmen. But he did discover an extensive literary collection of sadomasochist…
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as the Red Challenge. This included recruiting agents without concern for their fascist past. Dolman was high on their list as recruitment target. His continental sophistication and network of contacts, Dolman might prove a valuable espiona…
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Dolman decides he's going to an old jewelry store. They were not impressed with him at all because during the war, they had not only imprisoned Italians, but had exported all of the Italian Jewish people to Germany. And the store owner who …
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He was also embraced by German diplomatic set in Rome who appreciated his nuanced grasp of the local language and his entree into the aristocratic circles of Rome. His bilingual skills were increasingly in demand as the two countries' fates…
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to prepare Dolman for the life he began when he joined the SS, where he would rise to become the link between Hitler and Mussolini. Dolman had tried to make sense of why he had enlisted in Hitler's Nazi core. It wasn't a political ambition …
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USS uniform possibly. Vanity was always a factor for Dolman. Dolman was always up to date in the latest Rome gossip. He was at the Hitler side whenever Hitler descended on Italy. And he was there whenever Mussolini and his top ministers lef…
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that his sojourn into the adopted land would not be interrupted by the coming war. Dolman would point to this as the primary reason that he had made that bargain and joined the Nazis. The man who kept the Axis partners smoothly aligned with…
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the gossip about personalities who ruled Germany and Italy. Dolman was, in short, precisely the type of person Nazis sent to the gas chamber. But instead, Hitler's interpreter was free to attend gay and lesbian orgies in Venice. And he had …
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According to one historian, Dolman knew that he was at high risk of prosecution. The Nuremberg trials where Foreign Minister Joachim van Ribbentrop and Ambassador Franz von Papen were both convicted firmly established that diplomats like Do…
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eloquent man and you have to understand what happens to these people when they go after you like it's literally to bankrupt you destroy you try to destroy your marriages um there's a couple of films out there um i did put an article below b…
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followed by his first tour in Iraq. His career thus far had been extraordinary, but even in ways beyond his resume, he was serving in Germany on the day the wall fell. He was working in the Pentagon during the 9-11 attack. He was the deputy…
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And not only was he like an amazing F-15, like top gun level F-15 guy, but he was one of the mission commanders in Desert Storm. As a matter of fact, for those of you who are on Rumble, this picture right here, this is him. This is him comi…
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which represented an invoice from the German Federal Military of Defense for aviation fuel issued to Global during an Air Force exercise. The letter didn't identify the nature of the exercise, but it took place in the summer of 1984. Severa…
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They know exactly which suitcase is going through Germany with their drugs on it that has an already preset method of pulling it out and substituting it and then placing it back on an aircraft. If they want to bomb any aircraft, they do it …
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at the summit in Tehran in November of 1943. Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin had agreed in principle on several key aspects of military strategy in Europe, a plan for the post-war UN organization, and general outlines of policies on war cr…
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Prussia from Germany, that there would be some form of isolation or international control of the German military-industrial complex, and that Nazis would be permanently barred from any position of responsibility in post-war Germany. That's …
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European Advisory Commission for study. All of the U.S. representatives to the new commission, George Kennan, Philip Mosley, and E.F. Penrose, were openly hostile to any accommodations with the Soviet on post-war policy towards Germany. Ins…
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personnel organized at the State Department and headquartered in Washington. This group and the U.S. delegation to the EAC each pushed for a stern peace with reconciliation, as the slogan went. They favored rapid elimination of Allied contr…
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The third center for post-war planning consisted of civil affairs specialists on the staffs of the War Department and SHAPE, which was the Supreme Headquarter Allied Expeditionary Forces, who was under the command of Dwight D. Eisenhower. S…
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of war crimes prosecution, and even aspects of the U.S. economic policy towards Europe. By the summer of 1944, the Schaeff staff drafted a handbook for directives to be used in the military administration of Germany that recommended the occ…
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Overall, Schaef ordered that the occupation forces should ensure that the machine of German society works and works efficiently. This strategy had considerable impact on the day-to-day conduct of the war itself, because obviously you're not…
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in 1944, for example, as a means of striking at Germany's most important energy supply. But outside specialists, notably Frank Colbon of Douglas Aircraft, who was later to be found at the CIA-dominated RAND Corporation, successfully argued …
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the bombing was canceled. So you see, they're shaping the outcome of the war during the war for the oligarchs. Morgenthau got hold of a copy of Schaef's occupation policy handbook and a collection of State Department planning papers on Germ…
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and Bernard Bernstein provided him with detailed reports and copies of State Department and War Department's most recent policy documents. Morgenthau emerged as by far the most informed senior US official about all of this. He didn't like w…
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would be used to obstruct U.S. responses to post-war Germany. In the case of war crimes policy and post-war treatment of German industrial elites, Schaef's proposed handbook was the most immediate problem. If adopted, it would institutional…
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arguably responsible for the past two world wars. He had seen German complicity in the brutal crimes during the Armenian genocide and Germany's direct responsibility during World War II. The Nazis had ruled Germany with wide popular support…
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everything on Rumble. I don't know what that is going on, but I'm going to continue. They had an effective system, effective system, sorry, of indoctrination to foster division and hatred. More than that, Germany remained an industrial powe…
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Virtually the entire German power structure had publicly supported Hitler and participated in the regime crimes. He saw German militarism and the country's industrial banking cartel as the root causes of European wars. He believed that the …
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Morgenthau thought, inherently flawed, perhaps criminally liable, and would remain the most important threat to world peace post-World War II. This, in turn, required U.S. acceptance of the Soviet Union as an equal among nations, stripping …
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policies for Germany. This so-called handbook is pretty bad, Roosevelt wrote in a long memorandum to the Secretary of War. I should like to know how it came to be written and who approved it, down to the line items. It gives me the impressi…
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is precisely the intention of the Department of State's planners. Roosevelt went on in his memorandum, quote, it is the utmost importance that every person in Germany should realize that this time Germany is a defeated nation. I do not want…
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That will keep them perfectly healthy and they will remember that experience all their lives. The fact that they are a defeated nation collectively and individually must be so impressed upon them that they will hesitate to start any new war…
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wrong. As Roosevelt saw it, quote, there exists a school of thought born in London and here, which would in effect do for Germany what this government did for its own citizens in 1933 when they were flat on their backs. I see no reason for …
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England hold the view that the German people as a whole are not responsible for what had taken place, that only a few German leaders are responsible. That, unfortunately, is not based on fact. The German people as a whole must have it drive…
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By September 4th, Morgenthau's team at Treasury Department had drawn upon a detailed counterproposal. Its suggested post-surrender program for Germany, that's what it was called, suggested post-surrender program for Germany, began by laying…
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It included bans on parades and marching bands. FDR was convinced that this was an important psychological measure and provided an outline of permissible structures for local governments once the Nazis had been driven out. The heart of the …
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It was to be stripped of all presently existing industries so weakened that it can never be an industrial area. All plants and factories were to be dismantled and moved or destroyed. The mines were to be sabotaged so as to make it difficult…
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Under this new revised plan, the UN would draw up a list of arch criminals, that's a quotation, whose obvious guilt had been generally recognized. They were to be summarily shot shortly after capture. A simple system of allied military cour…
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who had killed persons because of their race, religion, or political conviction, or who had committed certain other crimes. All members of the Gestapo, SS, and Nazi party were to be arrested and detained, quote, until the extent of guilt of…
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the anti-Bolshevik nations, undertook a consistent and high-profile lobbying campaign in West Germany, i.e. Reinhard Galen, Canada, and we just found some Nazis in Canada recently, and the U.S., which is where Stetsco met Ronald Reagan in t…
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Like they did supporting the Contras in Nicaragua. I've read a little bit about that. So I know that to be true. And also he said before they were bombed, U.S. and Chilean intelligence operative Townley first came into the U.S. with sarin t…
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And in the first half of the 1950s, the Switzerland-based operative managed to recruit an impressive roster of contacts. Also important were the army chaplains placed throughout Germany and Austria as part of this network. They collaborated…
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of an intricate international network of banks, investment firms, and industrial conglomerates that rebuilt Germany after World War I. Foster, the law firm's top executive, grew skilled at structuring the complex merry-go-round of transacti…