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Claims (27)
William E. Colby operated_in
Rome documented
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“His overseas assignments included positions in Rome Stockholm and Saigon where he was Chief of Station…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.130
Louis Napoleon carried_out_attack
Rome documented
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“As Nat remarked when the expedition to Rome was first bruited...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. SIXTEEN 1848
August Belmont visited
Rome documented
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“By 1834 he was acting as secretary to one of the partners, visiting Paris, Naples and Rome…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Letitia Bonaparte lived_in
Rome documented
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“Napoleon’s mother, the aged Letitia, who was then seventy-five years old, lived at Rome, and dearly wished to see again her eldest son Joseph, the former King of Spain, who was living in North America under the pseudonym of Count de Survill…”
source: book — The Rise of the House of Rothschild, 1770-1830 · p.347
Office of Naval Intelligence operated_in
Rome documented
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“Naval Attache posts were set up ... and in Rome in 1888…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.68
U.S. Embassy in Santiago did_business_with
Rome documented
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“AMEMBASSY RIME…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.132
Giuseppe Garibaldi carried_out_attack
Rome documented
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“Rattazzi encouraged Garibaldi to make a second attack on Rome, then had him arrested...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FIVE Bonds and Iron (1867-1870)
James A. de Rothschild operated_in
Rome documented
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“Yet James had been intrigued by the election of Pius IX in 1846... and he ordered a halt to sales of Roman bonds…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. SIXTEEN 1848
Adolph de Rothschild moved_to
Rome documented
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“When Adolph visited the Holy City in January 1848…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. SIXTEEN 1848
Michele Sindona died_in
Rome host_asserted
“He had vomited all over himself. His faces convulsed in horror, and he said, they poisoned me. Those were his last words. He's rushed to the hospital. He's found in an irreversible coma from a lethal dose of potassium cyanide. So 48 hours l…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:18:55
Michele Sindona located_in
Rome host_asserted
“So Sedona is transported to a prison in Rome. Y'all know he's going to die, right? He's definitely going to die. They place him in a maximum security cell that had been the exact same cell that the Turkey guy that shot John Paul II was in. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:11:20
Rome overthrew
Carthage host_asserted
“famously was a pretty much dominant for 500 years, and they had what's called the Punic Wars against a small little nation called Rome. Rome really was a backwater republic before the Punic Wars with Carthage, and Rome would emerge from tha…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Cecil RhodesMaritime Empires @ 14:37
Pope Leo XIII studied_at
Rome documented
“Well, Robert Villanova got a degree in mathematics before we studied theology and went to Rome, spent most of his life preaching in Peru. But he has been voting in American elections since the 90s. So interesting guy. We're not going to spe…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #38 @ 15:06
Dewey Claridge reassigned
Rome host_asserted
“The customer was believed to be Israel. Dwayne Claridge served as a CIA station chief in Ankara at the time of these meetings. He allegedly worked with the Gray Wolves and Kintex and became a key figure in arms for drugs business. He ends u…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 1:21:48
Wall Street English located_in
Rome host_asserted
“And then, of course, what do you have right across the street, right below it, next to that Leonardo facility? So you've got a bank on the other side. You've got the recondite Leonardo facility, which is right across from the Guardia di Fin…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9B @ 2:04:15
Paladin Group carried_out_attack
Rome book_quoted
“paladin all together were in europe africa latin america and southeast asia conducting operations many of which we've covered along with italian fascist paladin is responsible for the 17 december 1973 bombing of rome's airport that claimed …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 1:14:06
Carthage carried_out_attack
Rome host_asserted
“famously was a pretty much dominant for 500 years, and they had what's called the Punic Wars against a small little nation called Rome. Rome really was a backwater republic before the Punic Wars with Carthage, and Rome would emerge from tha…”
▶ The Shadow State 65 Cecil Rhodes & Maritime Empires @ 14:54
Rome carried_out_attack
Egypt host_asserted
“They're doing it through trade. And this entire trading system is very, very important to the growth of the Roman Empire. Rome would come there and conquer someplace like Egypt, and Egyptians would immediately become part of the... They'd b…”
▶ The Shadow State 65 Cecil Rhodes & Maritime Empires @ 17:04
William Harvey operated_in
Rome host_asserted
“and involved greater manpower than even the Bay of Pigs invasion. Now, it's interesting to note as well, where does William Harvey end up in 1963? In charge of the Rome Station. He made a trip in early November to Dallas, Texas from the Rom…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 6:05
Felix Morlion moved_to
Rome host_asserted
“What the heck does a Catholic church need an intelligence agency for? When the Nazis seized control of Western Europe, Donovan, well, we know because they used it. Donovan relocated, that was a rhetorical question. Donovan relocated Morleon…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 7 and 8 @ 45:57
Julio Valerio Borghese moved_to
Rome host_asserted
“It was Angleton who secured his release into U.S. Army custody. The Black Prince was dressed in an American uniform and transported from Milan to Rome. Angleton needed Gorgese and over 10,000 fascists who had fought under his command for th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 1:48:37
Carthage carried_out_attack
Rome host_asserted
“famously was a pretty much dominant for 500 years, and they had what's called the Punic Wars against a small little nation called Rome. Rome really was a backwater republic before the Punic Wars with Carthage, and Rome would emerge from tha…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Cecil RhodesMaritime Empires @ 14:37
Hyperion Language School operated_in
Rome host_asserted
“Italian military intelligence officials at the time of the kidnapping. So the guy that's in charge of the Catholic intel apparatus is in pictures with the Italian military intelligence guys at the time that the prime minister is kidnapped a…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 7 and 8 @ 47:52
Benito Mussolini operated_in
Rome host_asserted
“Basically, they just wanted a new world order and they were going to do whatever they could to get it. Because everything they said they were eliminating, it didn't eliminate. When Mussolini was initially approached on this idea, other than…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 2 @ 52:46
William Sullivan operated_in
Rome documented
“um to bangkok thailand when paul heliwell is there setting up this entire um drug thing then he goes on to india um tokyo oh and does a few stints in rome both at naples uh in italy both at naples and rome um and goes to the um netherlands …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 7 @ 58:29
William Colby operated_in
Rome host_asserted
“William Colby served as the legal, he was a lawyer, we'll just put it that way. After organizing the Gladio unit in Scandinavia, which was his first job, he was dispatched by the CIA to Rome, where he worked with the Vatican, basically on t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 1:10:50
Operation Gladio overthrew
Rome host_asserted
“But let me just put an explanation point on that, because what you're describing is what I found in Operation Gladio. When we went in and overthrew governments, there's this elite that are corrupt that recognize the quote-unquote higher pow…”
▶ The Shadow State 65 Cecil Rhodes & Maritime Empires @ 17:34
Mentions (120)
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Joseph Mifsud. And, you know, someone had alluded to Khashoggi earlier. Well, Adnan Khashoggi actually cut all the deals for Iran-Contra going all the way up until the Sandinistas in Rome, between Malta and Rome, through the P2 Masonic Lodg…
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you should probably understand what's being done in your name in these countries to understand the risk of you traveling to those countries. Because if we're actively in the middle of an operation, I don't know, let's just say in Italy for …
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I've been showing you guys the patterns. Patterns, patterns, patterns. Let's just look at this which came from July 26th. The CIA Director William Burns met in Rome with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts and Qatar's Prime Minister.…
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In some cases, people said at the time, worthless because of the inflation. When U.S., European and Japanese officials gathered in Rome for a summit of the IMF Group of 10 that November, Treasury Secretary Conley famously informed the colle…
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S.R.? We'll come back to him. Sorry about that, Colonel. Oh, okay. Would help if I hit the mic. Yeah, it does. From what I gathered, P2 was in Turin. That's what was in Turin. It operated out of Rome under the Grand Orient of Italy. P3, a s…
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Risotto traveled regularly back and forth between Italy and Venezuela. Quintero went to see Meyer Lansky in Rome. The two men were already had met in Toronto. This time he solicited Lansky's counsel on laundering the profits from the drug c…
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Altitude was too high, Corson said, and Oliver North would not give up and would not ask for reassignment. I told him it could all end only one way, but he just wouldn't give up. William Casey liked North a great deal. He quickly introduced…
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Claridge, who was a Rome station chief, had had a special interest in Libya along with Ed Wilson. One of the few remaining traditional secret operatives the agency still employed, Inman watched as Carey created a secret service within a sec…
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like the San Vito area, which is where I was at. And then Brindisi is a port city where it's real easy to get transportation up to Rome and Milan and some of the bigger cities, Bari, Venice. And so we were warned on base to never, ever, eve…
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had collaborated with the Germans and Italians in the war, and they were very well-established fascists in their views. Gee, they're going to work great for Operation Gladio because we love those fascist people. One leader had been the inte…
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A number of Albanian exile leaders held a press conference to announce the formation of an Albanian National Committee. This group of leaders then secretly toured Britain and made open visits to the United States, where it was sponsored by …
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in Germany and set up bases there in Greece. Seven, because by that time we had overthrown Greece too. Seven Poles with wartime experience in Royal Air Force partisan support units were hired to fly transport and parachute people into Alban…
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were the former pixies that kept getting killed. One of them says, we were used as an experiment. We were a small part of a big game, ponds that could be sacrificed. That's what they feel about all of us. There was never enough chance of su…
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where he ran agent drops directly into the Soviet Union using stay-behind units. It fell to the Southeast European Division Chief John H. Richardson to liquidate Operation Valuable, a wartime veteran of the Counterintelligence Corps in Ital…
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Flying to Rome after the Mejade disaster, Richardson had the most delicate mission. Joseph Lieb, L-E-I-B, the Rome station chief, still believed that the Albanian adventure could be done. Richardson sat down over drinks with his station chi…
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of the people could not fail to give Radio Free Europe listeners the hope that the U.S. would come to their aid, unquote. Wisner, too, in a way, broke on the Hungarian anvil. After one night at the border watching these activities happen, W…
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The EXCOMM discussed the operation and McComb personally briefed the landings. President Kennedy and McGeorge Bundy both spoke of reorienting Mongoose. Bobby went to Langley and denounced everyone except Bill Harvey. On October 30th, the Wh…
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Within days, the CIA had identified a site and prepared to fly a small aircraft into it to take soil samples to make sure it would support the landing of the helicopters in the C-130. Turner ordered the plane pre-positioned at Rome and went…
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from retirement to lead the advance team. Much of the work focused on trying to learn about Tehran from the outside, interviewing Iranians who had left or had traveled recently. In Rome, Officer Floyd Paceman saw as many as 100 Iranians a d…
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He left Tehran repeatedly to brief CIA officials that were located both in Rome and Athens. Bob personally advised Charlie Beckwith, but Beckwith wanted all the data rechecked by someone he trusted. After the CIA rejected several Delta Forc…
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with Air Force Major John Carney and picked up the modified de Havilland DH-6 Twin Otter, modified for long range, taking it to Rome to load the CIA-designed strip lights. They went through Cairo and then on to Desert One, landing the night…
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He'd provide his own cover. Michael Burke moved to Rome and pretended to open a new film company. How convenient. In Rome, Burke began seeing Albanian exiles of different political persuasions with U.S. dollars to induce them to bury their …
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area during World War II. They wanted to sound out their old contacts in Rome, Athens, and Cairo. The exiles, Burke recalled, were more a rallying point than a valid basis for political revolution. Nonetheless, they wanted them interviewed.…
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At meetings in Rome in June and July of 49, Birkin Amory nonetheless brought Bali into the operation. You know, because we love our Nazis. The Western spies flew to Cairo and called on exiled King Zog, originally a tribal figure in central …
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We'll get it right next time because he's not the one dying. Widespread disillusionment followed the Albanian experience. Not least among them were the former pixies. Several of them complained, we were used as an experiment. We were a smal…
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It fell to the Southeast Europe Division Chief John Richardson to liquidate Project Fiend, a wartime veteran of the Counterintelligence Corps of the U.S. Army in Italy. Richardson had been renowned for his skill and tact and ease in which h…
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Rome station chief still believed in the adventure. Richardson sat him down over drinks and told him that it was over. He said, I don't know what they'll say about it in London. Richardson assured him they already knew. Fighting in Albania …
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Jones was the new station chief. His deputy, John Spinelli, his codename was Leopard. He had also been a police officer. Where? In New York City. That's crazy. Oh, and his previous assignment? Rome, of course. Spinelli knew nothing whatsoev…
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He had been born and raised in Rome until he was 12 years old, which tells you his parents were probably State Department or foreign officers as well. That language was useful in the dish because it was an Italian former colony and there we…
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And how he ultimately wound up hiring a household manager who had, I think his words were previously run, the U.S. Embassy in Rome. He just sort of offers this gratuitously. And you could see, like, you know, at the very end of it, you know…
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You know, that U.S. Embassy to Rome, that's the same building that the CIA's Rome Station is in. That's the same building that James Angleton was running the Rome Station from, that Vernon Walters was running the Rome Station from, that Tom…
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Some of these direct links to Wexner and the Italian embassy, at the very least. I just find that fascinating. Somebody right now should be trying to track down who that household manager was and what her resume looks like and her previous …
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They seem to be making some of the connections to the Rome Station there. Diligent spaces are sometimes very interesting. Obviously, he's got kind of a good nose sometimes for certainly understanding the overall intelligence network. There'…
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On the one hand, I think this information is probably knowable. We can probably get it through the various victims and witnesses in the case or the Wexner family or others as to who this woman from the embassy to Rome was. On the other hand…
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the 33-year-old Shah of Iran and his glamorous 21-year-old wife. They were swept into the lobby of the Hotel Excellier in Rome's fashionable Via Veneto. The young royal couple cut a striking image.…
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He kept his personal pilot awake late into the night fretting about the future. The Shah begged the pilot, one of only two retainers who accompanied the royal couple to Rome, to stay with him in exile. Who am I going to play tennis with, he…
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was part of the CIA. The discreet gentleman who paid visits to Galley, whose secret quote-unquote anti-communist operations, meaning Gladio, drew funding from the CIA too. They would enter room 127, conduct business in 128, and then leave t…
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was also favored by Alan Dulles on his visits to Rome. That August, he and Clover were vacationing in Switzerland when the spymaster suddenly informed his wife they had to go to Italy. And on the afternoon of August 18th, the Dulleses check…
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from fleeing the country, telling him that it was his duty to stand with the rebel forces and assured him of U.S. protection. But the Shah was a chicken shit and left. He went to Baghdad and then to Rome. As the turbulent events unfolded in…
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Despite his budget worries, the Shah mustered the nerve to buy himself four tennis rackets and a pair of black antelope shoes, as well as two crocodile handbags and a dozen summer frocks for his wife on a budget. I've shopped in Italy. Ther…
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In one of her stylish outfits, an eye-catching polka-dotted dress, as the coup reached its climax, Dulles was monitoring the operations from his bunker in the U.S. Embassy, just down the block from the hotel in Rome. The spymaster's vigil w…
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find echoes in a later generation's embrace of American exceptionalism mesh neatly with that of Dulles brothers. But while Luce could only preach about the historic imperative of American power, Alan Dulles acted on it. Dulles' main mission…
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and I still can't get pregnant. Soraya never overcame her infertility. Frustrated by the queen's inability to provide an heir, a weeping shah finally announced their divorce in 1958. Aided by a generous royal settlement, she returned to Rom…
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one of the daughters of Angleton said. Dulles and Angleton went out back together to the dark maze of post-war Rome, went back together to that time. Like Helms, Dulles admired Angleton's complex mind and his spy craft. Jim Dulles once told…
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had that Mayhew stole money from him and continued to harass him in courts for years. He couldn't stand Mayhew at the end. Yeah. Illini, did you want to add anything? Hey, Colonel. Yeah, it's another one of these really long chapters where …
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That's a lot more fundamental. But it goes to the overall narrative, though, about what circles these guys are operating in and who they're all working with and how everybody in the CIA who's running important stuff seems to at one point ha…
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had worked for the CIA in the early 50s, specializing in psychological warfare. Imagine having a secretary, a social secretary, that was a specialist in psychological warfare. That's crazy. She had also served as assistant to Dulles' close …
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Larry Devlin's aggressive campaign against Lumumba had won him the admiration of the agency's top command, including Dulles. At the end of November, when Mubato's troops were in pursuit of Lumumba, Devlin had flown to Rome to meet Richard B…
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a Nazi to report on Lumumba. The Angleton family had helped Hoffman in the Rome Bureau of the New York Times, where he continued to be of good use to his friends in the U.S. intelligence, translating reports from confidential sources inside…
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I don't believe any of that. They just hated JFK. It's highly unlikely the president would have relied on a notoriously anti-Kennedy CIA officer to do any of that. They would have completely distrusted him. Nor had Harvey even taken command…
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That's all made up bullshit. While stationed in Rome, the Harveys were quartered in a lovely villa. I've been to some of the State Department people's houses in Rome. They're amazing. They spent a lot of time and money redecorating the hous…
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were ideal representatives of the U.S. That's his deputy. The Wyatts, who had fallen in love with Rome after the war, when they were both young CIA agents, were enchanted with the city, spoke fluent Italian. Anne Wyatt took her three childr…
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By then, Kennedy was dead and could not protect Italy's fragile experiment as he intervened against the French military punch in 61. When Nenni anxiously asked Schlesinger, who visited Rome in 64, whether the new American president, LBJ, co…
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But we did come across a lot of memos that suggested he was traveling a lot in the months leading up to the assassination. More recent legal efforts by the author to obtain Harvey's travel records also proved fruitless. Decades and decades …
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who he would always suspect as playing a deeply sinister role in American history. If Rome was filled with the greatest amount of political intrigue during JFK's final tour of Europe, then his four-day stopover in Ireland in late June of 19…
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to defend the CIA from different audiences, right? Yes, yes. It's kind of their images that are kind of, we hear them all the time, and yet look at how Harvey functioned both in Florida, in the Miami context, and in the Rome context. It's f…
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under normal circumstances. He did everything for the company. His family wasn't his life. The company was his life. At a secret Miami meeting, Morales told Hunt that he had been recruited for an off-the-board operation by Bill Harvey. You …
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that day. And Harvey is in Rome and the island of Sardinia, which is right off the coast of France and Italy. Okay, as Harvey once indicated, when it came to high delicate assignments, working with Corsican gangsters was preferable because …
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Harvey had reached out to a variety of underworld professionals, including, with Dick Helms' permission, the infamous European assassin codename Q.J. Nguyen, whom the CIA had recruited to kill Patrice Lumumba. Now, if you recall, Q.J. Nguye…
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And Harvey was well positioned as Rome's station chief to once again plumb the European underworld for a Dallas killing team. And Otto Skorzeny is the one that trained the OAS in France to go down to Algeria during that civil war. He's part…
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anti-Castro operation as the nest, and Bill Harvey soon emerged as a prime suspect. We tried to get Harvey's travel vouchers and security file from the CIA, but they wouldn't allow us to have them, according to Dan Hardway. Hardway was a Co…
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He had been a nose gunner in World War II, not an OSS gentleman. After the war, he rambled around Latin America, trying his hand at acting and publishing before being recruited in the CIA. His covert work won the admiration of Richard Helms…
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on the OAS being in, there is another source of Harvey, his deputy, placing him in Sardinia and the fact that he traveled during that entire time way more than a normal Rome station chief would. I think what you have to do in all of this is…
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And that's where the Mary Meyer, Cord Meyer's wife, ex-wife, rumored affair came from, from the CIA. He told friends and family that Kennedy's rule was marked by sexual decadence as well as criminality. A particularly ironic twist since Ang…
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There was also the fact that the FBI technicians who tested the rifle could find none of Oswald's fingerprints on the weapon. And the Dallas police failed to detect any trace of gunpowder on Oswald. And what's interesting about that based o…
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He met regularly with bureau contacts like William Sullivan and Sam Papich, P-A-P-I-C-H. Angleton and his team also provided ongoing support and advice to Dulles. On a Saturday afternoon in March of 1964, Ray Rocha, Angleton's right-hand ma…
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And a mob of Italians gathered to also send the SS officers off by pelting them with rocks and rotten eggs. The two Nazi VIPs were then stuffed inside an American Jeep and whisked away. First to Bolzano's dungeon and then to another city wi…
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Carl Wolf's name still stirred too much unease in Washington. Moving to the next chapter, rat lines. Carl Wolf was not the only prominent SS officer who was greatly benefited from Dulles' sunrise. In the fall of 1945, former SS Colonel Euge…
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The apartment, which was located on a thoroughfare, was a horse-shaped street in the city's exclusive Heroli district. It contained few distractions for the bored dolmen. But he did discover an extensive literary collection of sadomasochist…
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Mistress of Mussolini's. And he whiled his time by reading it. Dahlman was not an entirely free man. He was still a guest of U.S. intelligence officers. But even though he remained under close surveillance compared to his accommodations aft…
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of the OSS counterintelligence in Italy during the war and had stayed behind to use his wiles against the quote-unquote communist threat. After tracking down Dolman in Milan's asylum, Angleton sent a big U.S. Army Buick with a chauffeur to …
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Angleton, however, was lost in his own passion. He had found strong support for his views from Alan Dulles in the months after the war. Dulles lingered in Europe, hoping that Truman would appoint him commander of the shadow war against the …
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But he had another mission as well, to organize the Italian front in the Cold War, i.e. Operation Gladio. Angleton, who was wired into the Vatican, helped arrange a secret meeting for Dulles and Pope Pius XII, who had mutually beneficial ar…
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James Hugh Angleton, who was an international businessman who had paved his son's path into the spy trade and continued to play an influential role in his life. Dulles would remain a strong paternal figure for Angleton throughout their inte…
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While Dolman was unimpressed with Angleton's political lecture, he did appreciate the fake identity card the young spy gave him. The document, which identified him as an Italian employee of an American organization, afforded Dolman the conf…
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He was also embraced by German diplomatic set in Rome who appreciated his nuanced grasp of the local language and his entree into the aristocratic circles of Rome. His bilingual skills were increasingly in demand as the two countries' fates…
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of Nazi occupation in Rome, especially in the elite circles. Italians were all too familiar with the numerous newspaper photos of him, with Mussolini, at the Vatican, with Hitler. In the fall of 1945, as he strolled around Rome with his fak…
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In fact, Pagnotta's team of Nazi hunters was headquartered in the same building with Angleton's rival intelligence operation, the Strategic Services Unit X-2 Branch. Pagnotta's counterintelligence army unit was on the first floor, Angleton …
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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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in Argentina and extradited to stand trial in Italy for his role in the massacre. Haas received a life sentence, but by then he was an old man. And because of that and his failing health, he didn't have to go to prison. Unsurprisingly, afte…
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SS Eugene Winner, W-E-N-N-E-R, who had also played a part in Operation Sunrise Maneuvers. It soon dawned on Pagnotta's team that Angleton was operating a safe house, a stream of Nazi fugitives who were connected to Sunrise and other Dulles …
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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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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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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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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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where he was safe from the wrath of the Italian political enemies and prosecutors. The clever Angleton had Dolman smuggle out of his Roman cell on a stretcher. In Germany, Dolman was soon switched to even more agreeable accommodations in 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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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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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…
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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…
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who was a prosecutor in New York City who prosecuted Lucky Luciano, or it was at least on the prosecution team, I think that was involving Thomas Dewey. That may have involved him. He winds up being chief of station in Rome in the 1960s. An…
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And they were part of, if you read Paul Williams' book, and it talks about the one guy that was in Rome and Naples that basically took over the black market because goods were hard to get to. And he was taking military stuff and selling it …
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organization in 1975 100 anti-castro cubans joined with their european fascist in the army for the liberation of portugal elp from neighboring spain the elp corps comprised a gentor press meaning escladio along with oas personnel…
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as International Fascista, Fascist International. It was chartered at an October 76 meeting in Rome, Rome, headquarters of Operation Gladio. It was attended by many KORU representatives and several CIA personnel.…
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paladin all together were in europe africa latin america and southeast asia conducting operations many of which we've covered along with italian fascist paladin is responsible for the 17 december 1973 bombing of rome's airport that claimed …
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Why don't they use that word? In which the Italian intelligence officers and fascists conspired to do bombings and blame it on the communist. A key figure in the 69 bombing and the 1970 coup attempt was none other than Stefano Delasche. As …
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Via a Getty line, the Gettys here in California, Gavin Newsom's father, William Newsom, worked for Getty and did a lot of his business in Rome, Italy. Well, apparently Getty hooked Newsom, William Newsom up with this auto guy, and they star…
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Where Colony Dignity is that had lots of other Nazis there. He goes on to say there was a Catholic priest that helped me go to Rome. Another rat line from the prison at Rimney to Rome and on to Chile. He said that he stayed overnight in lot…
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An Italian military tribunal in Rome filed charges against Dolman and three others on November 25th, alleging that they had been instrumental in mass executions of civilian hostages. The U.S. then takes Dolman from his internment center, wh…
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Labin, L-A-B-I-N, organized two important international conferences. The first, Political Warfare of the Soviets, was held in Paris in December 1960. The second, The Communist Threat to the World, was held in Rome in November 61. The list o…
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saw an influx of large number of anti-communist hawks from the U.S. military and former military personnel, such as the Belgium General Robert Close, the former deputy director of the NATO War School in Rome. Under Singlib's leadership, the…
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Oh, no. So I just wanted to kind of talk, well, I'll get to what Adam was talking about. I think, you know, you talk about like low Earth orbit satellites, like that old constellation. I think the actual Italy gate, like everything that tra…
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was actually one of the first ones who had actually said that there was a Trump-Russiagate connection. Because when you go back to 2014, 2015, 2016, Christine Poza, FBI cyber, Tom Grasso, FBI cyber. He was also Rodney Joffe's longtime frien…
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As a matter of fact, Tom Grasso was actually, the reason we know he was in Rome was because he actually gave a cybersecurity speech down there in January of 2016 in which he discusses how he's the FBI cyber detachment liaison to the embassy…
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that came out from that was actually previously published. Like it's very well known that the St. Regis hotel right there next to the ambassador, uh, next to the embassy in Rome is, is a known hotspot. Like that's just ground zero for intel…
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Yep. So some crackpot from Georgia can't just conceive that whole storyline out of nowhere, especially when it was Telecom Italia who actually built the machines for Smartmatic back in 2004. Vista did the software. Then they flew on over to…
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Gosh, like they did to Nugent down in Australia or Calvi or any of the others that they take out. Yeah, and then, you know, you fast forward a few more years, Tavaroli's other friend who is a chief security officer at Telecom Italia, a guy …
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They had characteristics of stability, but stagnation. He said they're prone to universal empires and decay from within. Yes. When we talk about Rome, Rome's a combination of the two. Corruption and decay can come from a lot of sources, but…
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They had their sea routes and all these different ports throughout the Mediterranean. And it's mostly the southern Mediterranean at the time. Northern Mediterranean, 800 BC, was still pretty much of a backwater. Rome barely shows up as it w…
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famously was a pretty much dominant for 500 years, and they had what's called the Punic Wars against a small little nation called Rome. Rome really was a backwater republic before the Punic Wars with Carthage, and Rome would emerge from tha…
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And they, these maritime empires, were right there in the artery that led to all the other wealthy city-states, etc. Alright, then we get to the Roman Empire of the 2nd century. After the Punic Wars, they dominated the entire territory of t…
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Republic first, then Empire. What it really was was an oligarchy. The Empire could come and go, but the oligarchs stayed the same. And their favorite sons would be in the Senate. They had their Praetorian Guard. They could topple an empire …
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They're doing it through trade. And this entire trading system is very, very important to the growth of the Roman Empire. Rome would come there and conquer someplace like Egypt, and Egyptians would immediately become part of the... They'd b…
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semi-oligarchical families that are in residence. So the Roman Empire oligarchs that you're referring to is kind of like the top table. They have to have a subtable in the country in order to thwart the peasants because they don't want to b…
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It is the deep state. It's basically what we have today is what we call the technocrats. Yeah. And we'll get into technocracy in a lot more detail because it's an important part of the story. All right. Roman Empire was split. It was too va…
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The corruption in the West is, you know, really creating a lot of, shall we say, uncertainty. And the Eastern Empire starts to close their doors. Constantine builds Constantinople as the gateway to the Black Sea. And everyone knows what's a…
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The Ottomans tried to invade them a couple times, got stuck in the swamps, had their boats sunk. What the Venetians had was a mastery of the Carthaginian navigation. It kind of passed down from, well, these are the oligarchical families of …