Frank Sturgis person

also: Fioroni, Francesco Farini, Frank Angelo Florini, Frank Anthony Sturgis, Frank Fiorini, Frank Florini, Frank Flororini, Frank Sturgis, Friends Swend, Maheu, McCord, Sturges, Sturgis, Swend

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Claims (30)

Frank Sturgis recruited John Roselli documented document

“Maheu told him that 'high government officials needed his cooperation in getting rid of Castro and that he asked him to help recruit Cubans to do the job'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.90

Frank Sturgis did_business_with Howard Hughes documented document

“At first Maheu was reluctant to become involved in the operation because it might interfere with his relationship with his new client Howard Hughes.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.89

Frank Sturgis met_with Sam Giancana reported document

“Maheu recalls that he first met 'Sam Gold (Giancana)' after November 1960 when he was staying at the Fountainebleu Hotel…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.89

CIA recruited Frank Sturgis documented document

“The Operational Support Chief had served as Maheu's case officer since the Agency first began using Maheu's services…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.89

David Atlee Phillips met_with Frank Sturgis documented document

“Sometime in late August or early September 1960 the Support Chief approached Maheu about the proposed operation…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.89

Frank Sturgis met_with John Roselli documented document

“According to Rosselli he and Maheu met at the Brown Derby Restaurant in Beverly Hills in early September 1960…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.89

Frank Sturgis member_of White House Plumbers documented

“On the way back home, Hunt told Saint that he had been doing some special work for the White House and things had gone south. It was the beginning of the Watergate drama in which Howard Hunt played a starring role as the leader of the White…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 34:57

Frank Sturgis carried_out_attack Daniel Ellsberg book_quoted

“on Auguste Record and Grupo Francis, the Corsican Mafia. Sturgis was everywhere in this hectic spring 1972 timeframe. In May, he was among the men who had assaulted Daniel Ellsberg on the steps of the Capitol. Later that month, he and his C…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 23:07

Frank Sturgis member_of Watergate break-in book_quoted

“in support of Nixon's decision to mine Hai Phong Harbor in Vietnam. Sturgis himself was at the wheel of a truck leading the procession. He helped recruit agitators to disrupt many Democratic gatherings to include the Democratic National Con…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 23:38

Frank Sturgis carried_out_attack Watergate scandal documented

“On 1 July 1973, when it, the BNDD, and the narcotics intelligence branches of the Justice Department and Customs Bureau was merged into one, the DEA. In July of 72, James McCord, Frank Sturgis, Bernard Barker, Eugenio Rolando Martinez, and …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 7 @ 42:27

Frank Sturgis did_business_with Robert Vesco book_quoted

“on providing the DEA with assassination devices. See how easy, how convenient that is to have a death squad co-located with a company that sells all that shit. Among Warbill's other associates were Frank Sturgis and Robert Vesco. The same R…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 34:19

Frank Sturgis member_of CIA documented

“Sometime in 63, Hunt said he was invited to a meeting at one of the CIA safe houses in Miami by Frank Sturgis, a soldier of fortune who had worked under Hunt in the anti-Castro underground. A man with whom Hunt would forever be linked when …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 47:00

Frank Sturgis member_of Operation 40 book_quoted

“with all of those same people. Rafael Quintero, the Posada guy, Felix Rodriguez again, Frank Sturgis, all of those show up. And this is the Operation 40 team that we mentioned a little bit earlier, E. Howard Hunt, blah, blah, blah.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 34:46

CIA recruited Frank Sturgis documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 47:00

Frank Sturgis carried_out_attack Cuba book_quoted

“by saying that the Cuban exiles had capabilities that they did not, and basically implying that they were preparing for a surgical strike. The two PSYOPs efforts described a drop in the bucket compared to what they actually, but that's just…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 1:26:42

Frank Sturgis member_of Operation Zapata book_quoted

“En route from their main base in Miami, there were six players riding in two cars in a convoy, according to a deposition given to a Washington lawyer and assassination researcher, Mark Lane, by Marita Lorenz. They were Mongoose Zapata veter…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5 @ 13:57

Frank Sturgis operated_in West Berlin host_asserted

“He was our money man. Another detail from Sturges' past is especially interesting in light of Frank Bender's alleged ties to the Galen organization, meaning Operation Gladio. For a period in the early 50s, Sturges was involved in espionage …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 4:29

Frank Sturgis did_business_with Parabellum Corporation host_asserted

“Warbell founded the Parabellum Corporation in 1971 in Miami. Parabellum was licensed to sell arms to Latin America. It was also the firm from which Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis planned to obtain weapons for Cuban exiles who were going to…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 45:21

Frank Sturgis moved_to Dallas book_quoted

“traveled to Dallas from Miami in two cars, one of which contained several weapons in the trunk. When asked if she was told what the purpose of the trip was, she answered that Sturgis told her it was confidential. During the course of the te…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5 @ 14:55

Frank Sturgis member_of Communist International host_asserted

“International Anti-Communist Brigade, IACB. It was financed through a combination of Traficani and CIA funds. According to Richard Whatley, a brigade member hired for the invasion, Traficani would order Sturgis to move his men and he'd do i…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 3:55

Frank Sturgis member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 4:29

E. Howard Hunt paid Frank Sturgis book_quoted

“Her answer was Jack Ruby. The question, tell me the circumstances regarding your seeing E. Howard Hunt in Dallas in November of 1963. The answer, there was a prearranged meeting that E. Howard Hunt delivered us sums of money for the so-call…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5 @ 15:59

Frank Sturgis member_of Interpen Group host_asserted

“The memo continued with references to agency training should not be confused with the infamous training which took place at the Lake Pontchartrain area in 1962. The Lake Pontchartrain training was ran by Jerry Patrick Hemming as part of Int…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 1:05:29

William Harvey recruited Frank Sturgis guest_asserted

“it soon became clear, was to assassinate JFK. Morales and Sturgis referred to the president's planned demise as, quote, the big event, unquote. In his account of the meeting, Hunt presented Harvey and Morales as the key operational figures …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 50:05

Frank Sturgis member_of CIA host_asserted

“before Castro kicked them all out. Then he turned around and helped the CIA with all of their plotting against Castro. After Charles left Haiti, he went to Miami, because of course he did. He became the president of a company called CIC Ent…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 48:39

Gary Droller relationship_with Frank Sturgis speculative

“the former security chief for Dominican Republic dictator Trujillo, claims that Bender was in fact Friends Swend, S-W-E-N-D, a Galen collaborator Nazi that was hanging out in Peru. Prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion, Swend was allegedly the …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 57:40

Frank Sturgis member_of Gehlen Organization speculative

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 57:40

Frank Sturgis planned Bay of Pigs Invasion speculative

“There he purportedly planned the invasion, along with mobster Frank Costello and the ex-Cuban dictator Batista. So you see here the critical blending of Operation Gladio people in Europe, operations not just in Cuba, but all throughout Lati…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 58:09

Frank Sturgis implicated_in JFK assassination guest_asserted

“His two sons revealed that their father had recorded several claims about the assassination. In 2007, once again, the Rolling Stone, St. John Hunt, son of E. Howard Hunt, detailed the individuals who were implicated by his father in the JFK…”

▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:08:33

Frank Sturgis attempted_assassination_of John F. Kennedy speculative

“and at least two, Frank Sturgis and Virgilio Gonzalez, were rumored to have played roles in Kennedy's assassination. As the Watergate scandal unfolded, Hunt drew Saint and the rest of his family deeper into his disintegrating lie. Saint's b…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 35:27

Mentions (20)

Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson

▶ 25:42 They appoint the guys that are running the thing to be on the commission to make sure the commission comes up with the right answers, i.e. keeping us in the blind. So the Rockefeller Commission was set up to investigate E. Howard Hunt and F…

The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11

▶ 1:14:30 The interesting story with Hughes has been known for a long time. He had some connections to Watergate because I think McCord had a bunch of links to Intertel, Howard Hughes' own private investigative agency. And they would rotate people th…

The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5

▶ 13:57 En route from their main base in Miami, there were six players riding in two cars in a convoy, according to a deposition given to a Washington lawyer and assassination researcher, Mark Lane, by Marita Lorenz. They were Mongoose Zapata veter…

The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5

▶ 14:30 Lorenz. Lorenz was Fidel Castro's former girlfriend who had been recruited by the CIA in another assassination attempt, this time to poison him, but she had failed and subsequently fled and was working full-time for the CIA. In the depositi…

The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5

▶ 14:55 traveled to Dallas from Miami in two cars, one of which contained several weapons in the trunk. When asked if she was told what the purpose of the trip was, she answered that Sturgis told her it was confidential. During the course of the te…

The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5

▶ 16:31 just a decoy at the time. But instead of being a decoy, she became frightened at what was transpiring and made Sturgis take her to the airport to catch a plane back to Miami. When asked when this meeting took place in relation to the assass…

The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 3

▶ 24:26 E. Howard Hunt, who worked closely with the Cubans during the preparation of Operation Zapata, was known as Eduardo. His colleague, Francesco Farini, went by Frank Sturgis. At the bottom of the chain are the actual operational personnel. Th…

The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 6

▶ 6:25 Because the whole brain thing is a big deal. Lots of controversy about the brain. According to Marita Lorenz, the CIA people involved in the operation left Dallas and traveled clandestinely to a ranch in Mexico to hide out until after Chris…

The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13

▶ 48:08 which means you know it has zero to do with peace. It was a non-profit company which filed to do business in 1988. One of the officers in that organization was Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis, who has a long-standing tie to both the mafia a…

The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 2

▶ 5:23 and served widely as mercenaries under various leaders and banners. In other words, they're functioning as part of Operation Gladio, both inside and outside of Britain, which I thought was very notable. He goes on to talk about war bells be…