International Telephone and Telegraph organization
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Claims (53)
International Telephone and Telegraph secretly_owned
CHITELCO documented
document
“ITT had owned70 percent interest in the companysince1930…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.211
Dita Beard worked_for
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
document
“Colson said that the only discussions that he recalls initiating 'involving Howard Hunt regarding Jack Anderson would be during the ITT flap when he sent Hunt to interview ITT lobbyist Dita Beard.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.141
International Telephone and Telegraph proposed
White House documented
document
“ITT submitsto White Housean 18-pointplan designed to assure that Allende 'does not get through the crucial next six months.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.211
Dita Beard worked_for
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
document
“disclosure of a memorandum written by ITT lobbyist Dita Beard…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.288
Salvador Allende proposed
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
document
“President Allendesubmits a constitutionalamendment to the ChileanCongressfor the expropriationof ITT's holdingsin theChileantelephonecompany…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.211
Henry Kissinger did_business_with
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
document
“Hadyounot beenbriefed onmypersistent maneuveringsin 1971to prevent ITTfromexploiting its Chileandifficulties at the UStaxpayers expense…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.110
International Telephone and Telegraph did_business_with
CIA documented
document
“This summary is based on new information provided to this Committee and on material previously made public by the Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ... a great deal of information has been …”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.162
International Telephone and Telegraph operated_in
Chile documented
document
“A number of multinational corporations were apprehensive about the possibility that Allende would be elected President of Chile…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.163
John McCone member_of
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
document
“John McCone a former CIA Director and a member of ITT's Board of Directors in 1970 knew of the significant American government involvement in 1964…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.163
Harold Geneen headed
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
document
“Agency documents indicate that McCone informed Harold Geneen ITT's Board Chairman of these facts…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.163
International Telephone and Telegraph funded
Christian Democratic Party documented
document
“Eventually at least $350,000 was passed by ITT to this campaign…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.164
International Telephone and Telegraph funded
National Party documented
document
“A second channel of funds from ITT to a political party opposing Allende the National Party was developed following CIA advice…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.164
International Telephone and Telegraph funded
El Mercurio documented
document
“Both the United States government and ITT were funneling money into the hands of individuals associated with the paper…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.164
CIA met_with
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
document
“CIA officials met several times with officials from ITT during July…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.172
International Telephone and Telegraph funded
Jorge Alessandri documented
document
“Some $350,000of ITT money was passed to Alessandri during the campaign-$250,000 to his campaign…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.172
CIA did_business_with
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
document
“the CIA was advising ITT in funding the Alessandri campaign…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.172
CIA did_business_with
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
document
“At the same time the CIA provided advice to an American-based multinational corporation on how to furnish just such direct support…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.206
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 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
James Forrestal proposed
International Telephone and Telegraph book_quoted
“importance to the national interest in security that all communication facilities in the Western Hemisphere be owned by a hemispheric interest, if possible, by a citizen of the U.S. Forrestal had wanted the U.S. government to provide ITT wi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 23:53
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
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 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
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
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
William Breaux did_business_with
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
“but refused to recruit for Langley's economic war, except for they all talked. As Breaux met with ITT executives, E.J. Geraghty, Tom Karamacenas phoned Chairman Harold Grennan and ranged over the same ground. McComb got updates from the ITT…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 35 @ 36:55
International Telephone and Telegraph funded
June 29, 1973 Chilean coup attempt host_asserted
“Crazy people. All right. So we left off yesterday with the Chilean coup and we learned that John McCone, former CIA director, is sitting on the board of ITT, which is paying to overthrow the government because Salvador Allende does not want…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 35 @ 7:43
International Telephone and Telegraph funded
Track One book_quoted
“climate, including political, psychological, and economic warfare. ITT had already raised this aspect with Kissinger, and corporate documents mentioned a possible multi-million dollar fund for bribes and other purposes. But Phillips believe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 35 @ 33:58
International Telephone and Telegraph did_business_with
Francisco Franco book_quoted
“and pretended to support communist countries. Again, he was in all of the countries. So there was no contradiction in his enthusiasm, either for Franco's Spain, Peron's Argentina, Hitler, the Queen of England. He serviced them all. He was A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 12:58
International Telephone and Telegraph did_business_with
Adolf Hitler book_quoted
“As early as 1933, Ben had met with Hitler in Berlin. In deference to advice given, at least two top Nazi officials were placed on the directorate of ITT's European company, Dr. Gerhard Westrich, the envoy of General von Rippentrop, and Kurt…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 15:29
International Telephone and Telegraph funded
Chile book_quoted
“and was a frequent guest of B.B. Roboso, with whom he banked. Crosby's private intelligence agency, Intertel, was even then working with the White House aides and ITT executives, ITT executives being the ones that were offering $300,000 to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 22:38
International Telephone and Telegraph did_business_with
Elizabeth II book_quoted
“and pretended to support communist countries. Again, he was in all of the countries. So there was no contradiction in his enthusiasm, either for Franco's Spain, Peron's Argentina, Hitler, the Queen of England. He serviced them all. He was A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 12:58
Sosthenes Behn founded
International Telephone and Telegraph book_quoted
“And I'm going to spell his name. S-O-S-T-H-E-N-E-S. And his last name is B-E-H-N. I'm just going to refer to him as Ben. Ben is described as a flamboyant wheeler dealer. Expert at playing each side against the other. He is the founder and c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 7:46
Allen Dulles recruited
International Telephone and Telegraph book_quoted
“adult life studying ITT and OSS materials, the multinational post-war activities were enabled by none other than Alan Dulles. Besides his gratitude for the intelligence provided by Ben during the war, Dulles is said to have recognized the s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 22:55
International Telephone and Telegraph did_business_with
Juan Perón book_quoted
“and pretended to support communist countries. Again, he was in all of the countries. So there was no contradiction in his enthusiasm, either for Franco's Spain, Peron's Argentina, Hitler, the Queen of England. He serviced them all. He was A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 12:58
International Telephone and Telegraph financed_via
United States book_quoted
“But if you go back and you start looking, it looks like that did happen. It just didn't show up on a ledger in the U.S. government. Their buddies helped him out. More than 20 years later in 1967, the firm was awarded a $27 million compensat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 24:25
International Telephone and Telegraph provided_bridge_financing_for
Focke-Wulf book_quoted
“Lorenz subsidiary to purchase 28% of the Frock Wolf firm, manufacturer of bombers that would be used to sink U.S. allied ships. ITT, in other words, by expanding into armaments and ingratiating itself into the Nazi infrastructure, became vi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 16:32
International Telephone and Telegraph spied_on
United States book_quoted
“And throughout this period, ITT facilities were used to communicate intelligence to both the Allies and the Axis. While Ben himself reported directly to the U.S. Secretary of War, and then kind of with a dotted line to Goring, finally, whil…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 18:06
International Telephone and Telegraph covered_up
Nazi Party book_quoted
“It's not because he's being some benevolent guy and trying to reestablish his and get his companies back up and running. They never stopped running. It's so they could secure the facilities. So no one found out this guy was working on both …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 21:15
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
Inertel did_business_with
International Telephone and Telegraph book_quoted
“Chile, which they did. That ITT, International Telephone and Telegraph. Those executives were working with Intertel to discredit Jack Anderson's revelations about ITT's role in Chile. So just thought I'd add that in there. Robert Mayhew is …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 23:11
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
International Telephone and Telegraph spied_on
United States book_quoted
“with the international syndicate to help them get ahead of the news. They also controlled a preponderance of the telephone networks in many different countries. And they did exactly the same thing back during the operator to spy on people. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 9:25
International Telephone and Telegraph paid
Richard Nixon host_asserted
“in managing the CIA's connections with businesses like Bush's was using corporations like the International Telephone and Telegraph and Ford. So we know the ITT, the International Telephone and Telegram Company, because they paid President …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 2 @ 19:35
Mentions (69)
▶ 10:32
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 …
▶ 1:00:17
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'…
▶ 1:00:45
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…
▶ 1:03:58
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…
▶ 7:29
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…
▶ 19:02
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…
▶ 19:32
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 …
▶ 1:06:39
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…
▶ 1:07:08
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 …
▶ 19:56
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…
▶ 1:10:14
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…
▶ 1:11:56
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…
▶ 9:22
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…
▶ 38:01
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…
▶ 38:30
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…
▶ 39:34
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…
▶ 45:45
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…
▶ 13:39
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…
▶ 16:06
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…
▶ 20:48
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…
▶ 22:38
and was a frequent guest of B.B. Roboso, with whom he banked. Crosby's private intelligence agency, Intertel, was even then working with the White House aides and ITT executives, ITT executives being the ones that were offering $300,000 to …
▶ 7:46
And I'm going to spell his name. S-O-S-T-H-E-N-E-S. And his last name is B-E-H-N. I'm just going to refer to him as Ben. Ben is described as a flamboyant wheeler dealer. Expert at playing each side against the other. He is the founder and c…
▶ 8:22
ITT, a company that I've spoke of for the last four years because they seem to be everywhere in these stories. And keep in mind, for those of you that are new, ITT is a company that has Telephone and Telegraph, a very, very old company. The…
▶ 8:53
connected to these oligarchs and were a source of intelligence. Anything that was telegraphed anywhere in the world over their lines, and they were in a lot of different countries. And in many of the countries, they were the only telegraph …
▶ 9:25
with the international syndicate to help them get ahead of the news. They also controlled a preponderance of the telephone networks in many different countries. And they did exactly the same thing back during the operator to spy on people. …
▶ 11:59
From the beginning, he recognized that all nations demand control of their own telecommunication systems. To accommodate that demand, yet obtain monopolies over those systems, he established a series of quasi-national phone companies, each …
▶ 12:27
but every single one of them was owned by the ITT. Because each monopoly was responsible to the government of the country, and because all were threatened by the possibility of ex-appropriation, Ben's politics were those of conservative boo…
▶ 14:54
He would receive America's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Merit. There were considerable evidence that ITT and some of its subsidiaries provided services to both sides. In South America, ITT facilities served as cover for FBI and Nazi…
▶ 16:03
By the time hostilities broke out between the U.S. and Germany, Ben was well regarded in the council of both countries. Clearly vital to the U.S. military and economic interests, ITT facilities had also been carefully and deliberately integ…
▶ 16:32
Lorenz subsidiary to purchase 28% of the Frock Wolf firm, manufacturer of bombers that would be used to sink U.S. allied ships. ITT, in other words, by expanding into armaments and ingratiating itself into the Nazi infrastructure, became vi…
▶ 17:02
That was the advantage and the strategy that he used over and over again. In Germany, the Frock Wolf manufactured bombers he funded, while in the U.S., another ITT subsidiary produced high-frequency detection binders designed to help those …
▶ 17:35
Getting rich on both sides of the war. Interestingly, in Spain, ITT executives from the U.S., Germany, Latin America, and England were able to meet on an estate of Spanish aristocrats to discuss the fortunes of war over a glass of sherry.…
▶ 18:06
And throughout this period, ITT facilities were used to communicate intelligence to both the Allies and the Axis. While Ben himself reported directly to the U.S. Secretary of War, and then kind of with a dotted line to Goring, finally, whil…
▶ 19:14
He established a prototype that was later called the Milo Minderbender in Catch-22, a show. In fact, even the most straightforward newspaper accounts detailing his repossession of ITT's facilities in France and Belgium and Holland had an in…
▶ 19:44
line was being rolled back, Bien and his envoys were seen very close to the front lines, basically re-establishing his companies along the way. He was designated as a communication advisor to the American army. He arrived in Paris the exact…
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He toured ITT factories and labs to ensure the reestablishment of his ownership of these facilities. Other ITT executives were provided uniforms of American Army generals so that they could intermix with the military as they proceeded forwa…
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facilities because what you did not want to have happen and the reason this is all going on is because the american officials who knew what he was doing and knew that he was on both sides because they met in madrid you could not have normal…
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It's not because he's being some benevolent guy and trying to reestablish his and get his companies back up and running. They never stopped running. It's so they could secure the facilities. So no one found out this guy was working on both …
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So ITT execs, some of whom until recently had been functionaries in the Nazi regime, they moved quickly. In one case, two Frock Wolf aircraft plants disappeared overnight. And why was that? Now, this guy is a major investor in it. They knew…
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So ahead of that occupation, they had an entire crew go in and literally disassemble those plants and move them into U.S. and U.K. occupied areas. Because again, he knows how it's going to end. He knows where all the lines are going to get …
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adult life studying ITT and OSS materials, the multinational post-war activities were enabled by none other than Alan Dulles. Besides his gratitude for the intelligence provided by Ben during the war, Dulles is said to have recognized the s…
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A year after the war, James Forrestal articulated the theory that ITT represented an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. In a message to Secretary of State George Marshall, himself in charge of U.S. reconstruction efforts in Europe, Forresta…
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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…