Vincent Astor person
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“They wanted to have one here doing what they were doing in Britain and they wanted under their thumb. So Vincent Astor, who was one of FDR's friend and a New York coordinator for intelligence, was probably says that he was probably a plant …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 40:42
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to ever receive it. It would not be the first time Roosevelt came to the White House, nor indeed his first brush with exotic adventures. The grandson of Teddy Roosevelt, he had inherited his thrill of basically overthrowing countries. In 19…
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on a Pacific Island cruise slash spy mission in which they used a yachting expedition to conduct surveys. This time, they were surveying Japanese docks, fuel depots, and airfields in the Marshall Islands. Astor had reported to FDR personall…
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using magnets and other things to help get shrapnel out of brains and stuff like that. So he's pretty darn valuable in World War I. Fun little side note on him. He marries his Cleveland childhood friend, a woman named Catherine Stone Crowel…