William Gowan person
also: Bill Gowan, Gowan, Gowen
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William Gowan member_of
U.S. Army documented
“tradition Democrats. Roosevelt was fond of Franklin Gowan, whom he regarded as one of the few blue-blooded members of the diplomatic corps he could trust. The younger Gowan brought a special sense of mission to his army counterintelligence …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 37:55
James Jesus Angleton framed
William Gowan book_quoted
“Hungary, all of those areas. That was Frank Wisner's area of expertise. But it was Gowan that was going to take the fall for the escapade. It did not take him long to figure out who was responsible for setting him up. Pearson had been fed t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 50:52
William Gowan spied_on
Ante Pavelić documented
“There was some truth to Pearson's report. Gowan did indeed know who he was from his days in Rome when he had used the Hungarian as an informer to help track down Croatian fugitive Ante Pavelac. He was the fascist leader to the Ustasi moveme…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 48:26
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
William Gowan book_quoted
“The Gowan's family Italian background also infringed on Angleton's turf. I think between the father and son, the Angletons thought they had a lock on Italy and the Vatican, Gowan observed. Jim Angleton was very jealous of my family because …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 39:24
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Pagnotta's aide, William Gowan. Angleton seemed to work more closely with the Brits than he did the army counterparts, because of course he did. Before transferring to Rome in 1944, Angleton had been stationed in London, where his X-2 unit …
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No one would get to know the deeply clever ways of Angleton in Rome better than William Gowan, who at age 18 was one of the youngest members of Pagnotta's crew of Nazi hunters. It was only a matter of time before Jim Angleton, who made it h…
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Franklin was a career diplomat who had served under Ambassador Joseph Kennedy in London and was currently the assistant to Myron Taylor, the former U.S. Steel Chairman, whom FDR had appointed to be a special representative at the Vatican du…
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tradition Democrats. Roosevelt was fond of Franklin Gowan, whom he regarded as one of the few blue-blooded members of the diplomatic corps he could trust. The younger Gowan brought a special sense of mission to his army counterintelligence …
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Morris Gowan was denounced as a Jew and put on a train for Auschwitz. When the Germans realized he was an American, he was taken off the train in Northern Italy and put in an SS camp where the 77-year-old man died in July of 1944. Of what h…
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who suffered similar fates. When I got to Rome in 1946 as a young officer, he later said, I didn't need to read about the Nazi terror. My family lived it. All in all, young Bill Gowan had a pedigree that Angleton clearly found both appealin…
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The Gowan's family Italian background also infringed on Angleton's turf. I think between the father and son, the Angletons thought they had a lock on Italy and the Vatican, Gowan observed. Jim Angleton was very jealous of my family because …
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In early 47, Gowan and his father were invited to an Italian wedding of Angleton's sister, Carmen, when Angleton chatted up the younger Gowan, insisted they go to lunch. They went to Angleton's favorite spot, not ironically, a Jewish restau…
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He took charge of ordering when the waiter arrived. To Gowan's surprise, however, Angleton, who presented himself as an expert on all things Italian, had no master of the language, and it was Gowan that ended up having to order for them. Th…
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social register background. And despite his young age, he was already a man of the world. He had traveled all over Europe to diplomatic posts with his father. Gowan seemed bred for the top tier. Angleton was also raised in wealth, but his f…
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Gowan might have been Angleton's social superior with much better connections to Roosevelt and Truman administration, but in the end, it was Angleton who prevailed at the spy games. In May of 1947, after Dolman had spent several bleak month…
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which he observed would condone their crimes without proper examination. Nonetheless, by 1947, many of the American military hierarchy shared the Dulles-Angleton view that this anti-communist monster that they were building had to be fed, a…
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The young man knew too much about Angleton's stream polling on behalf of Dolman and other Nazi fugitives who had been harbored at his safe house. Angleton suspected that Gowan's counterintelligence unit might keep extensive files on the rat…
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In November 1947, as Dolman walked free, the U.S. military moved to shut down the Nazi hunting operation in Rome. That month, Bill Gowan hopped a train for Frankfurt, which was to be his new base of operations. By the time the slow-moving t…
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Counterintelligence insignia on his uniform was waiting for Gowan, who threw his duffel bag into the vehicle and jumped in. One of the few buildings left, miraculously untouched under the Allied bombing campaigns, was the IG Farben complex,…
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The driver said, I guess you're tired. You'll want to go back to the hotel. Gowan nodded. But instead of heading towards the hotel, the soldier drove deeper into the city ruins. Now the only lights came from the jeep's headlights. Gowan ask…
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halted the vehicle, jumped out and told Gowan to follow him. Gowan didn't like the situation. He was armed and I wasn't. I was alarmed and I'm normally not scared, he said. So he walked slowly behind him. Gowan didn't know how far they walk…
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As it turned out, there was no intelligence files in Gowen's stolen bag, but the story wasn't over. In January 1948, and keep in mind, these are our own people doing this to our own people. In January 1948, when Gowen was still stationed in…
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told Gowan that he was working on a hot scoop and that Gowan was at the center of it. Pearson was going to report that a fugitive from war crimes charges in Hungary, where he had worked as an anti-Semitic propagandist for a fascist Arrow Cr…
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Pearson claimed he had proof, documents that showed Gowan had worked closely with this guy, Farik Fata, on various covert missions. As he listened to Pearson, Gowan was so flabbergasted that he didn't know what to say. Pearson's exclusive s…
▶ 48:26
There was some truth to Pearson's report. Gowan did indeed know who he was from his days in Rome when he had used the Hungarian as an informer to help track down Croatian fugitive Ante Pavelac. He was the fascist leader to the Ustasi moveme…
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had led a genocidal campaign in the Balkans during the war that was so extreme that he had to be constrained even by the Nazis. With the help of Vasta, Gowan had traced him to a villa atop a hill. He was under the protection of Croatian off…
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Hungary, all of those areas. That was Frank Wisner's area of expertise. But it was Gowan that was going to take the fall for the escapade. It did not take him long to figure out who was responsible for setting him up. Pearson had been fed t…
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budding intelligence career, Gowan never stopped trying to clear his name. At one point, he managed to get an appointment to see Dulles after Dulles became CIA director. But when Gowan showed up at the agency's headquarters in Washington to…
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Back in Washington, where he eventually became the all-powerful CIA counterintelligence chief, Angleton invited Gowan to lunch at the Army-Navy Club and even to his home in Virginia. You know, he was a very devious character, Gowan said, bu…