1948 Italian election event
also: Italian election, Italian government in 1948, that election in 1948, election scheduled in April 1948, the Italian election, 1948 election, Italian election in 1948
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Claims (7)
CIA interfered_in
1948 Italian election guest_asserted
“We've given you the receipts for that. They started in 1948 with the Italian election. They've never not been involved. We gave you the receipts on Allende. We gave you the receipts on Lumumba, blah, blah, blah. So we've given you the recei…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Review of Assassin #2 locations and Open Mic @ 52:46
CIA carried_out_attack
1948 Italian election documented
“was indeed authorized an aggressive strategy aimed at thwarting communist advances in Western Europe, including CIA's intervention in the 1948 Italian elections. But Truman was correct in charging that under Eisenhower, Dulles had led the C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 37:37
CIA interfered_in
1948 Italian election book_quoted
“spending $5 million, as it turns out, it was even more than that, in 1948 dollars to interfere in their first election in Italy. And so as I'm reading this, I'm like, wait a minute. If they interfered in the Italian election and they're a N…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 1:19:02
CIA funded
1948 Italian election guest_asserted
“And the CIA used $10 million in 1948, $10 million to influence that election to ensure the pro-NATO guy got involved.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 23:37
CIA funded
1948 Italian election host_asserted
“or against hostile ones. That's how they interfered in the Italian election. With the stipulation that there be so planned and executed that any U.S. government responsibility in them was not evident, plausible deniability. The U.S. governm…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:18:14
Allen Dulles funded
1948 Italian election host_asserted
“I think somewhere out there there's probably a smoking gun document. I just wish I was aware of it. And $35 million is the figure that is quoted on what they spent in interfering in the 1948 Italian election. I mean, you have to – I'm prett…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 49:16
Rockefeller Foundation funded
1948 Italian election book_quoted
“And the Paul Williams quote in his book saying that the Rockefellers underwrote it. And it's a statement that I believe, but it's a statement that I've tried to run all the way to the ground. And it's tricky doing it, but the involvement of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 48:47
Mentions (24)
▶ 23:11
Maybe you could talk a little bit about some of these terrorist activities that created these false flag events. Well, originally, their first operation in Italy was in 1948, and it was the election. There were two people running that were …
▶ 23:37
again, because of Mussolini, did not want to have anything to do with NATO. They wanted their country back. And of course, that person is labeled a communist sympathizer. And the CIA used $10 million in 1948, $10 million to influence that e…
▶ 24:06
interference in elections. It wasn't their last, but it was their first. And that's the entire time that we've been talking about election interference. To me, it has been blatantly obvious, both with the 2016 election and the 2020 election…
▶ 52:46
We've given you the receipts for that. They started in 1948 with the Italian election. They've never not been involved. We gave you the receipts on Allende. We gave you the receipts on Lumumba, blah, blah, blah. So we've given you the recei…
▶ 1:11:16
We could discuss it for years, but I just was wondering, is there any good, you know, any good operations that the CIA did? Maybe the overthrowing the Italian government in 1948? That was not good. No. They got involved in that election bec…
▶ 1:11:45
version of that. And they absolutely would not tolerate someone that wasn't willing to guarantee that they were going to join NATO. And it differs on different authors, but at least $5 million was spent on interfering in that election in 19…
▶ 1:18:14
or against hostile ones. That's how they interfered in the Italian election. With the stipulation that there be so planned and executed that any U.S. government responsibility in them was not evident, plausible deniability. The U.S. governm…
▶ 13:56
about the quote-unquote communists that were going to be interfering with the Italian election, which, as we all know, turned out not to be communists, but actual Gladio pretending to be communists that created this whole thing. Forrestal f…
▶ 48:58
Going into election scheduled in April 1948, the Italian radical left, meaning labor movements, were immediately dubbed communist. War recovery had barely begun. There was massive unemployment. Truman sought to avoid any communist victory. …
▶ 49:32
There was a centrist, moderate left government. Oh my God. And it was dangerous. Truman's administration went into high gear because that's of course the intelligence they were looking for to do what they were going to do anyway. And they c…
▶ 50:04
Of the Italian election. Spooks intervene. In this electoral drive. The first initiative of the CIA. Special procedures group. Some had worked with OSS. In Italy. And were relatively. They had old ties. Like F. Mark Wyatt. Who had lived in …
▶ 1:41:36
We'll talk about the 1948 CIA intervention in the Italian elections and a couple of other 1948 operations. And we're going to just, you know, how we started this whole series was on X, was talking about it geographically in a time phase. Bu…
▶ 1:19
So, George Kennan continued to press for the special studies group under the State Department control for things like the Italian operation, which was election interference. Admiral Hillenkotter now advised the White House that the CIA coul…
▶ 2:17
in sabotaging the Italian election expanded not only the functions of the agency but those of the state and defense departments plus the National Security Council. You know the guy that said he regretted ever doing it? He just made it bigge…
▶ 26:04
of NSC 10-2. The State Department, impressed with the results of the CIA's intervention in the Italian general election, and the CIA then being criticized for failing to warn of a coup that had occurred in Colombia, were not inclined to cha…
▶ 1:17:34
Number one, yes, the CIA was created in 1947. We now know that it was basically about the 1948 Italian elections, trying to keep them in NATO. There was a partnership with the mafia that was involved in that whole process, which was documen…
▶ 25:17
They're conducting psychological operations in Europe, which of course we know they were doing because they did it, the CIA did it, but in concert with the military in 1948 Italian election. Meanwhile, the army staff acquired a special warf…
▶ 37:14
And that is true. So Dulles continued, Truman's ill-advised rant in the post amounted to a repudiation of a policy that the former president himself, quote, had the great courage and wisdom to initiate, unquote. To an extent, Dulles had a p…
▶ 48:17
But what I'm really fascinated by was Dulles' involvement in the 1948 Italian election, going to that hotel in Rome in March of 1948 and distributing cash to various quote-unquote agents. It kind of goes to your point about the Rockefellers…
▶ 49:16
I think somewhere out there there's probably a smoking gun document. I just wish I was aware of it. And $35 million is the figure that is quoted on what they spent in interfering in the 1948 Italian election. I mean, you have to – I'm prett…
▶ 1:19:02
spending $5 million, as it turns out, it was even more than that, in 1948 dollars to interfere in their first election in Italy. And so as I'm reading this, I'm like, wait a minute. If they interfered in the Italian election and they're a N…
▶ 26:01
I-E-I-N-A-U-D-I. He was the governor of the Bank of Italy and deputy prime minister. And I'm not sure how you say his last name, but he, the following year, would become the second president of the Italian Republic from 1948 to 1955. And th…
▶ 26:31
OK, that's the 1948, the famous, infamous 1948 election that was between the guy that wanted in NATO and the guy that didn't want in NATO. And the CIA spent at least five million dollars in 1948 dollars, five million dollars to interfere in…
▶ 6:00
And if you guys remember, the very first election that Operation Gladio, NATO, CIA intervened in was the Italian election in 1948. That was critical because the other contenders didn't want to be part of NATO. And so they had to interfere t…