Project FF operation
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Claims (2)
Kim Philby spied_on
Project FF documented
“that the SIS had Kim Philby and he was telling the Soviets everything that was going on. The immediate problem for the secret warriors was to replace Fersheri as head of the Albanian political organization. It's really not a political organ…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 46:24
John Richardson liquidated
Project FF documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 56:47
Mentions (6)
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They were technically employed by the CIA on a quote unquote sensitive project. The most valuable quality possessed by these defectors, and some of them were actually criminals out of the jail, serving on a sensitive CIA project was they we…
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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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as SIS had called the Albanians during training on Malta. This first foray met with total disaster. Four of the paramilitary men were killed, the other escaped into Greece. Albanian government security forces had evidently known the exact t…
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Project Fiend at the highest levels. Ernest Bevin visited Washington in September 1949. A CIA report concluded that a purely internal Albanian uprising at this time is not indicated, and if undertaken, it would have little chance of success…
▶ 56:47
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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encompassed Farouk's overthrow. You know, another regime change that no one ever talks about. Chief among the officers was one Nasser. It was referred to as Project FF for Fat Epper. In March of 1952, Miles Copeland, acting for Kim, told se…