Augustin Edwards person
also: Augustin Edwards, Augustine Edwards, Colonel Edwards, ColonelEdwards, Edwards, Mr Augustin Edwards, Mr Edwards, the Chilean publisher, the editor of El Mercurio
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Claims (21)
Augustin Edwards operated_in
Chile documented
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“What positions of influence did Mr Edwards hold in Chile while you were there…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.45
Augustin Edwards met_with
Robert F. Kennedy documented
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“On May 7 1962 Edwards and the CIA's General Counsel Lawrence Houston briefed Attorney General Robert Kennedy on the operation involving underworld figures describing it as terminated.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.118
Allen Dulles spied_on
Augustin Edwards reported
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“Allen Dulles was completely unaware of Edwards contact with Meheux in connection with Cuban operation…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.137
Herbert Miller met_with
Augustin Edwards documented
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“Assistant Attorney General Herbert Miller then asked the FBI to again speak with Edwards about the prosecution of Maheu…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.143
Federal Bureau of Investigation met_with
Augustin Edwards documented
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“A reply memorandum from the FBI to Miller on February 7 1962 stated that Edwards had been contacted and that he objected to the prosecution…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.143
J. Edgar Hoover met_with
Augustin Edwards documented
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“On March 23 1962 the day immediately following his luncheon with the President at which Rosselli and Giancana were presumably discussed Hoover sent a memorandum to Edwards stating At the request of the Criminal Division of the Department of…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.144
Richard Nixon met_with
Augustin Edwards documented
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“a man I had met during my years in private life…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.169
Richard Helms met_with
Augustin Edwards reported
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“Richard Helms has testified that he was ordered to meet with Augustin Edwards and that he did so on the morning of September 14 1970 or September 15 1970…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.169
Augustin Edwards did_business_with
Lever Brothers documented
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“He and Lever Brothers were partners…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.45
Augustin Edwards did_business_with
PepsiCo documented
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“He and Pepsi-Cola were partners…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.45
Augustin Edwards worked_for
CIA documented
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“On May 7 1962 Edwards and the CIA's General Counsel Lawrence Houston briefed Attorney General Robert Kennedy on the operation involving underworld figures describing it as terminated.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.118
Henry Kissinger met_with
Augustin Edwards documented
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“That morning at the request of Donald Kendall President of PepsiCola Henry Kissinger and John Mitchell had met for breakfast with Kendall and Edwards…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.242
John Mitchell met_with
Augustin Edwards documented
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“That morning at the request of Donald Kendall President of PepsiCola Henry Kissinger and John Mitchell had met for breakfast with Kendall and Edwards…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.242
Augustin Edwards worked_for
El Mercurio documented
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“Augustin Edwards the publisher of the Santiago daily El Mercurio…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.242
Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with
Augustin Edwards documented
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“Bissell and Edwards have discussion concerning use of underworld figures to aid in assassination of Castro…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.305
Augustin Edwards worked_for
El Mercurio documented
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“Augustin Edwards publisher of the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.169
Augustin Edwards secretly_owned
El Mercurio documented
“for other operations because they were so visible. Among the most vital resources was the Chilean paper, El Mercurio, the country's biggest daily. It's basically their version of the New York Times, published by Augustine Edwards, who owned…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 4:29
Richard Nixon funded
Augustin Edwards host_asserted
“PepsiCo in this that I remember is right here. It says, Augustine Edwards, who was the publisher of the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, an associate of Richard Nixon's friend Donald Kendall, who ran PepsiCo, Edwards foreboding were such that…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 45:07
Augustin Edwards relationship_with
Donald F. Kendall documented
“that I remember is right here. It says, Augustine Edwards, who is the publisher of the Chilean newspaper, El Mercurio, an associate of Richard Nixon's friend, Donald Kendall, who ran PepsiCo, Edwards foreboding.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 41:04
Augustin Edwards member_of
El Mercurio documented
“that I remember is right here. It says, Augustine Edwards, who is the publisher of the Chilean newspaper, El Mercurio, an associate of Richard Nixon's friend, Donald Kendall, who ran PepsiCo, Edwards foreboding.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 41:04
Augustin Edwards secretly_owned
El Mercurio book_quoted
“for other operations because they were so visible. Among the most vital resources was the Chilean paper, El Mercurio, the country's biggest daily. It's basically their version of the New York Times, published by Augustine Edwards, who owned…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 35 @ 10:40
Mentions (16)
▶ 5:31
It was whoever finished first was going to get confirmed by the Congress. And there's a guy down there by the name of Augustin Edwards. He was Chile's richest man and owner of the largest newspaper. And I think you pronounce the newspaper E…
▶ 6:02
Because he had made all kinds of side deals with the imperialist Americans and was basically in bed with all of them. So he went to the American embassy in Santiago, which is the Chilean capital. And there was an ambassador, Edward Corey, t…
▶ 6:32
Question mark. Corey told him, no, we would not. That was not the answer that Edwards was wanting to hear. So he decided he was going to go above Corey's head and he was going to approach people in Washington and ask for a few favors. Edwar…
▶ 6:57
close to most of the leading American executives that did business in Chile. So he had access to all of the inner circles. And the timing is 1970. So this is the Nixon administration. President Nixon had repeatedly declared his determinatio…
▶ 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…
▶ 10:46
Richard Helms, who was the current CIA director. A covert campaign in Chile could not be launched without an order from the president. Edwards undertook to secure that order. He chose his old friend and business partner, Donald Kendall, K-E…
▶ 11:47
his many other business ventures was the principal Pepsi distributor in Chile. All three thrived on international business overlaps with geopolitical contacts. September 14th, Kendall brought his father to the White House to meet President …
▶ 12:15
He never wavered in his determination to bring Alente down from that moment on. He had been triggered into action, Kissinger said. Immediately after hearing from Kendall, Nixon sent him to meet with Kissinger and Attorney General John Mitch…
▶ 12:36
and they agreed to meet with him the next morning during a breakfast conversation that would prove to be among the most far-reaching in the history of U.S. and Latin America relations. Edwards painted a dark picture of what was happening in…
▶ 13:06
That's the accusation. Kissinger, and let me just say this. They all know this is horseshit. This is the crap that they fed to the American public. But every single one of them understands what this anti-communist, the World League, the Wor…
▶ 32:20
ensure the international syndicate is happy, not what's best for America. The Chilean election approached. Rockefeller recalled in his memoirs, he made a telephone call that helped push the Nixon administration onto an anti-Alente track. He…
▶ 44:06
Some years later, in a celebrated television interview with David Frost, Nixon rationalized that the addition of Chile to a Cuba profile would have made Latin America a red sandwich of sorts, like the domino theory happening even though he …
▶ 45:07
PepsiCo in this that I remember is right here. It says, Augustine Edwards, who was the publisher of the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, an associate of Richard Nixon's friend Donald Kendall, who ran PepsiCo, Edwards foreboding were such that…
▶ 4:29
for other operations because they were so visible. Among the most vital resources was the Chilean paper, El Mercurio, the country's biggest daily. It's basically their version of the New York Times, published by Augustine Edwards, who owned…
▶ 13:06
would become known as Track One. Richard Nixon, a friend of Pepsi Corporation, President Donald Kendall, took a phone call from him. Kendall told Nixon that a friend, Augustin Edwards, the publisher of the New York Times variation in Chile,…
▶ 13:58
Nixon told Edwards and Kendall to see Kissinger. Nixon does not recall specifically, but concedes it's quite possible that he told his people to see the Chilean publisher. The next morning, September 15th, Edwards and Kendall breakfast with…