Cold War event
also: shadow war, cultural Cold War, new war just beginning, cold warrior, ending the cold
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So it changes after World War II, and we get the Cold War era, and the CIA is very active in regime change using covert operations. The Church Committee comes around in 1975, exposes a lot of what the CIA has been doing, all under the comma…
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the Cold War in kind of generic way and how they set it up. But the second chapter of this first section is the secret war against Russia. And I find that extremely timely for what is going on. And they talk about things in the early 1900s …
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This guy, and let me just tell you the name, the name of the book again is President's Secret Wars, CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II. And the guy's name is John Prados, P-R-A-D-O-S. And so I don't want to spend a whole …
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Now, again, we're in the immediate aftermath of the war with a country that had been our ally that suddenly at the flip of a switch has become an enemy. The Ukrainian movement offered the opening for an offensive move in the Cold War, a cla…
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and defeat U.S. imperialism. While the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union were widely interpreted as the death of communism, these events did not weaken any of the resolve and in many cases was argued had nothing to do w…
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The United States intelligence community knew exactly where Hitler was. They knew. Oh, I believe it. So they had already decided. And there were several double double crosses that we did to the Soviets and allowed Hitler to do to the Soviet…
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Stalin by 1949. And no, I was not over there during that time. So Albania's Iron Curtain, quote unquote Iron Curtain, was isolated from the rest of the Soviet bloc. The destabilization of Albania was to be a spoiling action in the Cold War,…
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talk out about there being a regime change operation going on in America. And he's talking about this again at the beginning of Trump's first administration. And he makes a good point. You know, if we were back in the Cold War, the Soviet U…
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to convey to you so you know this guy knows, because it's going to matter when we get to the rest of the book. Operation Gladio was commonly used to describe a series of secret armies the military and intelligence services of the U.S. and U…
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In the final days of the war, Galen astutely concluded that the U.S.-Soviet alliance would inevitably break apart, providing an opportunity for at least some elements of the Nazi hierarchy to survive. He knew that his own fate depended on h…
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He went on to say that he had Christian beliefs that were evident and reinforced by his wife and family. Obviously, Critchfield was an easy mark for Galen. Reinhard Galen was a man with rat-like cunning. Instead of a hangman's noose at Nure…
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He pleased me by his air of wisdom, born of years of experience. He was both fatherly and boisterous, and he became a close personal friend of mine. That was in his memoirs. Galen felt free to air his complaints about the U.S. government po…
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Some critics in Western security circles attacked the bias of the Galen organization's intelligence reports, which exaggerated Soviet's military strength and nuclear capability. Because we have to make sure we have a boogeyman. They accused…
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A link that would be darkly satirized in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove with its fervor saluting doomsday scientist. No other cultural artifact of the period captures so perfectly the absurd morbidity of the Cold War. We live in an age i…
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pledging his nation's allegiance to the United States, especially during World War II and the Cold War, and showering money on Washington politicians and lobbying firms. His courtship with Washington paid off, which was why he was allowed t…
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Iron-fisted regimes like Trujillo dominated Latin America with dictators ruling 13 of the 20 nations, thanks in some part to the CIA. The Eisenhower administration found these despots to be useful Cold War allies. They allowed U.S. corporat…
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His own people doomed crusade for self-determination made the problems of Puerto Ricans in New York or the drumbeat of black Caribbeans reverberate inside of him. Galenza's life in New York as a politically active refugee at the height of t…
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became so obsessed with a doctrinal dissertation written by an obscure academic. They knew that ideas mattered. They floated like seeds in the wind over mountains and sea and took root in unexpected places. The Cold War was, in fact, a war …
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But the recipients of CIA sponsorship paid a price, their intellectual independence. It was noted by a historian, the individuals and institutions subsidized by the CIA were expected to perform as part of a propaganda war. Those who took ag…
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Mills was fortunate in other ways too. His intellectual gifts and personal fortitude allowed him to carve out a public position for himself even at the height of the Cold War. But most of those who challenged the mandatory spirit of America…
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Those CIA-approved intellectuals who dared to assert their independence soon found that once welcoming doors were closed permanently. In 1958, Dwight McDonald, a frequent intellectual sparring partner of his friend Mills, broke out of the C…
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and ruining the careers of dozens of CIA agents. But under Dulles, Angleton enjoyed free reign to pursue his demons. He dreamed up Cold War phantoms and boogeymen everywhere. He operated a kind of virtual CIA within the CIA, reporting only …
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with the key foreign intelligence services, including the frontline Cold War nations like France, West Germany, Turkey, Taiwan, and Yugoslavia, as well as Mossad. What they leave out in this book is he also was the Vatican's desk officer. A…
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a revisionist historian who suggested that the spymaster had helped kick off the Cold War by going around Stalin's back to cut a deal with Nazi commanders in Italy, which of course he did. Quote, I was so irritated by the wild review that I…
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Poor old Alan Dulles. Nothing the US could have done in 1945 would have dispelled Stalin's mistrust, short of the conversion of the US into a Soviet-like country. When it came to fighting the cultural Cold War, Schlesinger and Dulles were s…
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It did succeed, however, in creating a new set of international tensions that some historians would identify as the beginning of the Cold War. Dulles and Wolf's maneuvers aggravated Stalin's paranoid disposition. While he was still alive, R…
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Even Roosevelt's successor, Harry Truman, who would become a dedicated cold warrior, took a dim view of Operation Sunrise and tried unsuccessfully to shut it down. Truman later wrote in his memoirs that Dallas unauthorized diplomacy stirred…
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The general knew that he continued to have great leverage over Dulles, and if he revealed the immunity deal that the two men had worked out, his career would be over. Wolfe also was privy to another Sunrise dirty secret, the extent to which…
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was outlawed in America to help deliver babies in places like Kentucky. Joan escorted midwives on horseback through hills and hollers in the Bluegrass State, sometimes riding for as long as five hours at a time. In the following years, as t…
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I just found something because I had been researching this a while back, and I'm a painter myself, that it was interestingly enough that the Guggenheim and Bilbao, and if you'll allow me here, discussing the CIA and abstract expressionism. …
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to make the necessary changes in our government to never allow it to happen again. So I just feel it's my job to do that. All along, go ahead. Yes, Colonel. Once we're doing chronology, I mean, you mentioned, you know, spilling the beans, a…
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The war against Germany and Japan was over, but there was a new war just beginning, the Cold War. And of course, we know all about that. As the war crimes tribunals began their investigations, or the very limited war crimes tribunal, they h…
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in the immediate transition post-World War II to hating the Soviet Union and begins the Cold War. These self-perceived realists believe that the Soviet Union was the most dangerous long-term rival to the U.S. and that Germany and Central Eu…
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psychological warfare during the Cold War. There were two factors that gave Po-Liberté organization a transnational dynamic. Its anti-communist purpose and its determination to act in ways that went beyond national framework. It therefore p…
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because he was basically one of his lieutenants. Both organizations were direct products of the Cold War. Their roots traced back to the anti-communism of the interwar period and throughout the Second World War. Peace and Freedom certainly …
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And so Saudi Arabia and Rockefellers could keep all the oil money. And that's Dallas, right? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Are you saying Dulles or Dallas? Well, both. I was saying Dallas as in the assassination of JFK in Dallas. Sorry. Yeah. …
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JFK had reversed the NATO plans for Nukes in West Germany. He had made the June 10th speech, you know, basically ending the cold, calling for the Cold War to be ended. He was, you know, making detente with the Soviet Union. U.S. News and Wo…
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He goes on to explain that this was in the context of the quote-unquote Cold War. It's pretty clear that Quangard tells his granddaughter the best universities in the 1950s were talent scouts for the CIA, and they are still today. Once recr…