International Telephone and Telegraph organization
also: International Telephone and Telegraph Company, ITT, telephone and telegraph company, International Telegram
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Claims (18)
Lyman Lemnitzer member_of
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
“for his partner and made him the CEO of Tamco. Hamilton was the former $700,000 a year president and CEO of ITT. Yes, ITT, the people that paid Nixon to overthrow Chile. ITT as in the World War II.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 7:25
International Telephone and Telegraph spied_on
Chile host_asserted
“on owning both the entire telephone system of Chile and their telegraph, which they used to spy on the country. ITT also coordinated its election plans with the CIA, including meetings between top company officials and Western Hemisphere Di…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 38:30
International Telephone and Telegraph funded
1960 Turkish coup d'état host_asserted
“original. So basically they kind of use IT. So you have again ITT coming up in yet another coup in helping that occur. So I wanted to add that. And they have all kinds of, so Turkey's big aha moment was they had a wreck.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Turkey @ 1:11:56
International Telephone and Telegraph funded
Chile host_asserted
“on owning both the entire telephone system of Chile and their telegraph, which they used to spy on the country. ITT also coordinated its election plans with the CIA, including meetings between top company officials and Western Hemisphere Di…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 38:30
International Telephone and Telegraph front_for
CIA host_asserted
“The telephone and telegraph company, the ITT, was a front company for the CIA. And that they, because if you had them in your country, they could spy on everything that was on the television or telephone, sorry, and the telegraph. So here w…”
▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 7:59
John McCone member_of
International Telephone and Telegraph book_quoted
“What he told me, the board member later said, was that he was prepared to put as much as a million dollars in support of any plan that was adopted by the government for the purpose of bringing about opposition to Alente. That board member w…”
▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 9:23
International Telephone and Telegraph paid
Richard Nixon host_asserted
“for his partner and made him the CEO of Tamco. Hamilton was the former $700,000 a year president and CEO of ITT. Yes, ITT, the people that paid Nixon to overthrow Chile. ITT as in the World War II.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 7:25
John McCone member_of
International Telephone and Telegraph book_quoted
“put in $350,000 of its own money into the election. John McCone, former CIA director, just so happened to be sitting on the ITT board at the time. What interesting information. John McCone sitting on the ITT board while the ITT is advocatin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 1:07:33
Jack Anderson exposed
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
“The journalist acquired copies of ITT memos and cablegrams, some of them cited earlier, demonstrating the multinational corporation had intervened with the Nixon White House and acted in concert with the CIA. On March 21, 1972, Anderson pub…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 2:55
William Fulbright covered_up
International Telephone and Telegraph host_asserted
“potential recruits. Fulbright did nothing with the ITT documents or with the Pentagon Papers, which he had received during that same period. Again, Congress is a crime scene, but Nixon and Kissinger's cavalier treatment of the Foreign Relat…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 5:24
William Casey member_of
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
“for Civil Affairs and Military Government section of the Army. Then he joined ITT in 62. In 74, the nomination of William Casey, who would later lead the CIA to head the Export-Import Bank, was temporarily blocked because of his role in an …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 9:22
International Telephone and Telegraph spied_on
Chile book_quoted
“bugged the Chilean embassy in Washington. Now don't forget, and no author ever mentions this, Chile not only was being eavesdropped on by ITT Telephone and Telegraph, but they had Crypto AG too. So all of the embassy cables to Chilean ambas…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 13:39
International Telephone and Telegraph funded
Christian Democratic Union book_quoted
“agencies on the special group approved cash. Langley ordered Hexter to sharpen his propaganda and aim it more directly at Salvador Allende. The late hour did not prevent the CIA from accomplishing a great deal in Chile, nor did the 40 commi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 1:07:04
International Telephone and Telegraph financed_via
CIA documented
“The journalist acquired copies of ITT memos and cablegrams, some of them cited earlier, demonstrating the multinational corporation had intervened with the Nixon White House and acted in concert with the CIA. On March 21, 1972, Anderson pub…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 2:55
James Fales financed_via
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
“another milking job of the American taxpayers. About $35 million of Fales' borrowed money came from ICH Corporation, which is a Kentucky insurance company that at one time tried to buy Southmark, the real estate dumping ground for the mafia…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 35:13
Franklin A. Lindsay headed
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
“He had become the head of ITEK, I-T-E-K Corporation, which was a contractor for equipment used in U.S. spy satellites. Now, I want to say this as well. ITEK, if you go back and look, this guy was in the CIA. He leaves, quote unquote, leaves…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 52:45
International Telephone and Telegraph front_for
CIA host_asserted
“telephone and telegraph infrastructure, which again, if you follow the mergers and the purchases, it ends up that all of the ITT equipment over the years ended up in networks and everything else ended up in AT&T. But ITT was 100%. That guy …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 1:07:08
International Telephone and Telegraph paid
Richard Nixon guest_asserted
“And Nixon's kind of general connection with that, if you fast forward 24 years, it's part of IT&T Corporation, International Telephone and Telegraph. It was kind of the international AT&T of the 40s through the 70s. So what Nixon should hav…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 1:20:22
Mentions (47)
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that, okay, so the National Cash Register is one of them. And National Cash Register was bought by AT&T in 1991, which is very interesting date because, of course, that's the fall of the Soviet Union and all this other stuff. And AT&T ties …
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Once we get past the role that IG Farben played in this, there's many others. There's GE, there's Siemens, and Anthony Sutton in his book goes through all of them. One that I found particularly fascinating, and you could do probably a week'…
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It basically, after World War II, becomes a CIA front company because understanding that it basically had control of all telephone and telegraph wires, it was like the biggest boon for spy capability ever. And it played an intricate role in…
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And it's interesting that the guy that was a huge role in it was a friend of Roosevelt's and a friend of all of these people that's going to benefit. So the composition of the Nazi inner circle during World War II, the financial contributio…
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Edwards flew to Washington to tell the president that he could do all three in Chile. As Edwards was packing his bag in Santiago, directors of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, ITT. Now, I have to stop right here becaus…
▶ 7:59
The telephone and telegraph company, the ITT, was a front company for the CIA. And that they, because if you had them in your country, they could spy on everything that was on the television or telephone, sorry, and the telegraph. So here w…
▶ 8:29
So the directors of the ITT Corporation held their monthly meeting in New York. ITT was one of the largest conglomerates in the world. It had large holdings in Chile and faced the same threat that hung over Edwards' business empire. Its pri…
▶ 9:00
as it should be because you want control over your communication system. During the ITT board meeting, Harold Green, Greenan, G-E-N-E-E-N, the company's chief operating officer and one of the best known businessmen in the world, took one of…
▶ 9:23
What he told me, the board member later said, was that he was prepared to put as much as a million dollars in support of any plan that was adopted by the government for the purpose of bringing about opposition to Alente. That board member w…
▶ 9:47
And now you know why the former director of the CIA is on as a board member of ITT, because ITT is a front company. It's another way of spying on the world. McCone had joined ITT less than a year after leaving the CIA, but remained a consul…
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Anacondas brought in about $30 million per year. Together, these two companies accounted for most of Chile's export earnings and a third of the tax revenue. That gave them overwhelming influence over Chilean political processes. Besides min…
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In 1930, when ITT was the cutting-edge telecommunication firm, it bought a majority share of the British-owned Chilean telephone company, and with it, control over the country's telephone and telegraph systems. That proved to be one of the …
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conversations that no one could spy on because they were encrypted. It was a government sales thing. It had basically nothing to do with... AT&T is basically the follow-on to the company called ITT, which was the original international tele…
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telephone and telegraph infrastructure, which again, if you follow the mergers and the purchases, it ends up that all of the ITT equipment over the years ended up in networks and everything else ended up in AT&T. But ITT was 100%. That guy …
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The platforms he dealt with were perfect training places for Cubans to practice raiding their homeland. Most of Robert Crowley's work in managing the CIA's connections with businesses like Bush's was using corporations like the Internationa…
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the international syndicates company ITT, which I did want to mention because specifically you remember that in Chile where ITT paid money to President Nixon to get the CIA to go kill President Allende, right? So in Turkey, you had a CIA ag…
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original. So basically they kind of use IT. So you have again ITT coming up in yet another coup in helping that occur. So I wanted to add that. And they have all kinds of, so Turkey's big aha moment was they had a wreck.…
▶ 50:19
Not only the International Syndicate and some of the people and their companies like the Corcorans and this iTech company. And I have some written up about the iTech, which I'll publish later. I didn't want to publish it before we got to th…
▶ 7:25
for his partner and made him the CEO of Tamco. Hamilton was the former $700,000 a year president and CEO of ITT. Yes, ITT, the people that paid Nixon to overthrow Chile. ITT as in the World War II.…
▶ 7:48
international telegraph and telephone company that monopolized all of the infrastructure of telephone and telegram around the world and was giving all of the information on the communications that went through them to the CIA after World Wa…
▶ 8:18
which makes him adjacent to the CIA because he's giving them all of their information. And he hires him into TAMCO. Again, you just can't make this shit up. And why reading this book with all of our former knowledge is so, so important. Ham…
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for Civil Affairs and Military Government section of the Army. Then he joined ITT in 62. In 74, the nomination of William Casey, who would later lead the CIA to head the Export-Import Bank, was temporarily blocked because of his role in an …
▶ 37:29
Looking ahead to the 70 campaign, the National Security Council special group approved another $700,000 in CIA funding from 69 to 70. John McCone, now representing private interests as the chairman of ITT, increased the secret election fund…
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And what happened to Bridget? Did we knock her out? Bridget, if you wouldn't mind putting up McCone's bio in the notes, because he is a key figure. So ITT, again, stands for International Telephone and Telegraph. They had the monopoly conce…
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on owning both the entire telephone system of Chile and their telegraph, which they used to spy on the country. ITT also coordinated its election plans with the CIA, including meetings between top company officials and Western Hemisphere Di…
▶ 39:30
They all agreed that it was to prevent Allende. Now, I find it interesting that all of the same documentation that indicates that ITT and the copper mining people, which eventually turns into Freeport mining through some acquisitions and co…
▶ 39:53
Every single document that you pick up that talks about ITT and the copper mines also talks about PepsiCo, but for some reason, this author just conveniently leaves them out. The common thread that links the action in Chile with many of the…
▶ 52:45
He had become the head of ITEK, I-T-E-K Corporation, which was a contractor for equipment used in U.S. spy satellites. Now, I want to say this as well. ITEK, if you go back and look, this guy was in the CIA. He leaves, quote unquote, leaves…
▶ 53:19
There's a lot of people's opinion that's done research that iTech was a CIA proprietary, and he didn't actually leave the CIA, kind of like QNTEL. Lindsey took up the reins again briefly in 67 and 68 to lead a study group on covert operatio…
▶ 40:55
but supposedly the 303 committee rejected those offers. And it's weird that the author doesn't put those in because they're well-established by the time this book was written. That's PepsiCo, Anaconda slash Freeport Mining, and ITT. We know…
▶ 1:07:04
agencies on the special group approved cash. Langley ordered Hexter to sharpen his propaganda and aim it more directly at Salvador Allende. The late hour did not prevent the CIA from accomplishing a great deal in Chile, nor did the 40 commi…
▶ 1:07:33
put in $350,000 of its own money into the election. John McCone, former CIA director, just so happened to be sitting on the ITT board at the time. What interesting information. John McCone sitting on the ITT board while the ITT is advocatin…
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Similarly, ITT executives discussed their follow-up with John McCone. They would take it to Kissinger in the State Department. Kissinger himself proceeded with the Chilean policy review that he had ordered in August. And that led to a Nixon…
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the investments for Rockefellers and ITT and all of these other people to go use cheap labor somewhere else instead of doing it here in our country? Or is it potentially going to cost those corporations that money? Helms recited a clandesti…
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bugged the Chilean embassy in Washington. Now don't forget, and no author ever mentions this, Chile not only was being eavesdropped on by ITT Telephone and Telegraph, but they had Crypto AG too. So all of the embassy cables to Chilean ambas…
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The next day, the CIA officer told the ambassador who it was. President Allende inevitably was making mistakes because, of course, he doesn't know there's an actual coup being plotted against him. He proceeded with plans to nationalize seve…
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The division that's handling all of this in May of 1972 was embroiled in the Chilean from the start. Shackley opened a direct channel to the publisher of El Mercurio, the New York Times, through Austin Edwards' lawyer, meeting him several t…
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And Nixon's kind of general connection with that, if you fast forward 24 years, it's part of IT&T Corporation, International Telephone and Telegraph. It was kind of the international AT&T of the 40s through the 70s. So what Nixon should hav…
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by IT&T Corporation to basically get the DOJ to let go of their monopoly charges against them, number one. And number two, to get involved with the Chilean coup. They're trying to lobby the CIA to overthrow Allende. Through Nixon. You know,…
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Maybe he's referring to the Houston plan. Maybe he's referring to the IT&T scandal. Maybe he's referring to Yeoman Radford or the Columbia Plaza thing. But he might just be referring back to Dulles. It's kind of funny how all these differen…
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another milking job of the American taxpayers. About $35 million of Fales' borrowed money came from ICH Corporation, which is a Kentucky insurance company that at one time tried to buy Southmark, the real estate dumping ground for the mafia…
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The journalist acquired copies of ITT memos and cablegrams, some of them cited earlier, demonstrating the multinational corporation had intervened with the Nixon White House and acted in concert with the CIA. On March 21, 1972, Anderson pub…
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The reality is that leaks come from the inside, usually from the top, and are fueled first by officials seeking to push policy in a certain direction or by persons embarrassed by government actions and unwilling to be a party. The ITT Chile…
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Foreign Relations Committee, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and to many journalists, not just Jack Anderson. He used the documents for articles attacking Salvador Allende originally. What changed between 70 and 72 was the public pe…
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Richard Helms quotes Bill Fulbright as warning him about that same time of track one and two, that if he learned of that kind of thing, he would blow it wide open. Yet Fulbright did nothing. We've already discovered, by the way, that Fulbri…
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released for Chilean covert operations. Congress already had data contrary to Helms' assertion of innocence. The church subcommittee got more from ITT representatives. They swiftly asked Langley to respond to five specific questions. The ag…
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and that the agency was aware of that fact. Some of the statements in Mr. Helms' confirmation testimony seem not to be in full accord with the facts. Mr. Helms' testimony is significant here because it was subsequently cited by the agency a…