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Counterintelligence Corps spied_on
Eastern Soviet Union book_quoted
“from the Soviet Union. The 66th CIC also carried out positive intelligence missions in the Soviet zones. 2,211 of them in 1949 providing information useful to OPC secret missions. Among them were the highly classified Detachment A people. B…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 38:55
Office of Policy Coordination carried_out_attack
Eastern Soviet Union host_asserted
“400 tons of leaflets over the Soviet Union. I guess we didn't care about littering back then. C.D. Jackson becomes Radio Free Europe's president. Politician Harold Stassen, journalist Drew Pearson, all were part of this program. Creation of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 34:36
Radio Free Europe carried_out_attack
Eastern Soviet Union documented
“Former OSS radio experts Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, and Robert Lang helped select transmission sites near Frankfurt. The first Radio Free Europe broadcast was a half-hour program beamed into Czechoslovakia July of 1950. From that December, Radio …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 30:38
NATO carried_out_attack
Eastern Soviet Union host_asserted
“I've already done that and we will go through it step by step. The whole agitation, the influx of Chechnya was done to Russia. Chechnya, they imported Mujahideen and al-Qaeda operatives there and basically did the same thing to Russia. And …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 1:44:47
Ukraine carried_out_attack
Eastern Soviet Union host_asserted
“They just came out and said it. And that was two weeks prior to their attack on the theater in Moscow. So by admitting that they basically have Gladio operations ongoing in the border area, which we already knew because from 2014 forward, t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 2 @ 2:49:22
Reinhard Gehlen spied_on
Eastern Soviet Union host_asserted
“then to Turkey, where in 1944 he opened an OSS station. As Nazi Germany retreated, Wisner did too. He moved to Bucharest and from September 1944 ran a small CIA station there. The Soviets' takeover of this country in January 1945 greatly af…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 15:28
Lee Harvey Oswald spied_on
Eastern Soviet Union host_asserted
“All about big business. Okay. He does mention about the U-2 and he got the piece of Oswald being in Russia during the U-2 shoot down and the fact that he used to work on the U-2 radar capability. So good on him for doing it.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 40:33
Mentions (119)
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Ukraine? Hmm. Well, that's what my ears perked up. These guys were there in the Ukraine. Bangkok and Nairobi. It's headed by Jean Bourgault. I think that's how I'm going to pronounce her name. And we're going to dive into her because she's …
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It's freaking unbelievable to me. The fact that they were so audacious, and it says here that they worked with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, which are both arms of the CIA, and they actually set them up in Russia. Well, the first 10 …
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third party that got the contract, you know, like Khashoggi's, the weapons dealers, they get these contracts and the contracts, let's just say is a hundred million dollars. Well, they took a million dollars and went to some place in Eastern…
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as vice president for programs after six years with the U.S. Agency for International Development. Yeah, that was her follow-on assignment. Yep, she worked for USAID, and now she's getting money from the U.S. Which is CIA, and then she work…
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I've already done that and we will go through it step by step. The whole agitation, the influx of Chechnya was done to Russia. Chechnya, they imported Mujahideen and al-Qaeda operatives there and basically did the same thing to Russia. And …
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So, Benjamin, that's a very interesting observation. And I do want, I think you could read what happened in North Carolina one of two ways. You could read it the way you just read it. And I hope that is what actually happened. Those two ind…
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for Russia. And when you look into that, you realize the reason why we were distracting Russia at the time is we were building an alternative pipeline to cut Russia out of a transcontinental oil pipeline. And that's how I found out about th…
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I'm talking about technicalities and not what we know to be true. So we have several months ago an article that came out in the New York Times that the CIA had planted in the New York Times that admitted they have 20 plus sites along the Ru…
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is looking to expand internationally and they need the help of the U.S. government. That's why they put their people in place to determine what our foreign policy would be. They had to have their people in the State Department. They had the…
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And kind of bring you up to, I don't know if he wants to dedicate two shows to it, but it's a lot. Once I got all of my notes consolidated, there's a shit ton of stuff about Syria. And of course, Syria is ongoing. And we all know about the …
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We know that they were in a stay behind unit in Turkey. They were trained in Ukraine. They went back to Turkey, flew into Moscow, et cetera, et cetera. We also know they weren't ISIS because usually those guys want to meet their virgins. Ri…
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And hear what you guys have got to say, because I'm very interested in your feedback as well. All along. Go ahead. Hi, Colonel. Extremely provocative show today. Extremely provocative. What initially caught my attention was you were pointin…
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you know, elections lost sovereignty over the deep state. And we can see it in a way, but where all of the things that you're pointing out here are deliberately, in my opinion, under-emphasized. So we can't see, you know, the early developm…
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And when they went on the recon and came back to put the finishing touches on their training, that was also done in Turkey. And they launched from Turkey into Ukraine and then into Moscow for their assassination domestic terror event in Rus…
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I guess you'd say pan-African spaces. And a lot of those are done in English because since it's people from a bunch of the different African countries, they tend to run those in English. So they can communicate with each other. And I starte…
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the French that taught the Vietnamese what nationalism was because they saw it and lived it in France. So during World War I and the Russian Revolution, they watched what they believed to be nationalist movements occur throughout the world.…
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Ho Chi Minh had traveled both to Russia, or the Soviet Union at the time, and to China to basically see from the inside what exactly communism was, because he had heard all about it from the French. And he actually even attended a school in…
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He's worth $13 billion. So this paid off really well for him. He's involved in all of the turmoil all over Africa. He's also involved in Tajikistan, which, of course, is a huge supplier of militant Islamics for al-Qaeda, Mujahideen into Che…
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So especially the white Russians that had participated in the Civil War and were anti-Soviet. So they basically had formed units with the Germans under a guy by the name of General Andrei Vlasov, a Soviet military hero taken prisoner in the…
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Secretary of State Dean Atkinson also discussed the topic informally in the late 1948, early 1949, with several American diplomats, among them Joseph Grew, G-R-E-W, who in turn talked about it with DeWitt Poole, P-O-O-L-E. Both were OSS ass…
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General Garner divided it up into five sectors, and each of the sectors was oversaw by a particular country, like the British, the French, the Italians, and eventually the Australians came in. I distinctly remember that because of their uni…
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shortly before the end of the war, was given control over the northern part of Korea. And that's where Kim was, who, again, had his own OSS support and was part of the Allied forces in kicking the Japanese out of Korea because Korea had bee…
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And they were happy for the help of both the Soviet Union and the U.S. had control of the southern sector, whose only job, according to the treaty, was to get the Japanese out, host an election and get their ass out. That was the original c…
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They found enough people to set up some stay-behind units, smuggled them into the northern sector just over the area that, and into the area that was being oversaw by the Soviet Union. Then they pretended like they were part of a Soviet Uni…
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Sure. We're over six o'clock. I just brought Angela up. I saw you had a request. Angela, if you want to ask your question and then we're going to call it a night. Angela. Can you can you hear me, guys? I can hear you now. Oh, thank you. Sor…
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And interesting enough, a lot of those pages, I recognized them, seeing them, reviewed them, and KGB had access to them. And they had their own JFK files, which they did offer to Jack Matlock, American ambassador in Moscow, was offered that…
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When I came to America in 1991, in 1992, the first time I spoke about it, and I said, I've seen the documents, everybody disregarded it. It's like, oh, no, no, no, we're not going to talk about it. It's a closed case. But I'm surprised that…
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It's a much more complicated issue of assassination of the president, but it has directly to do with the foreign policy agenda. Even in Moscow then, they tried so hard. And I was fighting KGB. I was fighting Soviet Union. I was liberal. I w…
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This is the exact same dates that Operation Peter Pan was working, where the CIA went into Cuba through the Catholic Church and scared all of the people, saying that Castro any minute was going to take all of their children, especially youn…
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The bank had suffered major losses in the Russian financial crisis. Well, what was the Russian financial crisis? The Russian financial crisis had to do with where you remember that story about Edmund Jaffe going over to Russia. The Soviet U…
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The bank had suffered major losses in the Russian financial crisis. Well, what was the Russian financial crisis? The Russian financial crisis had to do with where you remember that story about Edmund Jaffe going over to Russia. The Soviet U…
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necessarily a Russian financial crisis. It became a financial crisis for all of the Americans that jumped the shark and went over there and started trying to steal all of the resources by making all of these fantastical deals with these oli…
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He gets killed and Bill Broward has to run for his life and they create the Magnitsky Act that's allowed them to beat up Russia every since because they all hate him because Putin thwarted their monopolization of the resources in Russia and…
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in the lead up to the plan that Baker's Trust and all of the people that it's doing business with are preparing to do what I just described in Russia. Okay, then he moves over to this investment company, Shaw, D.E. Shaw and Company. And thi…
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It goes on to talk about their strategic alliance with Bank of America. And Bank of America is one of the ones that comes up in money laundering all the time. They were very involved in the Russia embezzlement scheme, whatever you want to c…
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That's Jeff Bezos being there just as the lead up into the fall of the Soviet Union. And then he moves over during the hustle period to this Shah who's creating a newly created hedge fund based on these mathematical models. And he wasn't ju…
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They routinely did that. Although Nathan's partner, Herbert Lackshin, represented Corson's mother, BJ Garman, in her 1985 divorce from William Garman, between the time that Nathan was representing Corson and Erin in the disputed land deal a…
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So it makes you wonder when you go back, and I don't know that we'll ever know this, but it does make you wonder what part of the famines, both in the Soviet Union and in China, was a result of this. I don't know the answer to that. And wha…
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terrorist training camps. And they're still using those people. Those are the people that are being shuttled through Turkey that carried out the attack against Moscow, that theater. They came from Tajikistan. So this model has been used all…
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that he would consider the offer only if the U.S. guaranteed that the Shah would not be allowed to suddenly cut them off. Tehran passed the Kurdish request on to the U.S. Nixon and Kissinger made an official visit to Iran in May of 1972, im…
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So in many cases, we've seen their names pop up in future events because they're a contract agent. While they were struggling, Russia started making all kinds of accommodations. And the change first became evidence with the nuclear arms con…
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Bulgaria is a big hotspot as well. So he was considered so well-liked inside the CIA, he was made station chief of Moscow in 1964, which is a big deal. Stoltz closed out his Italian political action as chief of station in Rome from 1966 to …
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At the Directorate of Operations, an attitude prevailed. Richard Stoltz feared being taken in. Burton Gerber, a legendary case officer and street man in Eastern Europe and station chief in Moscow, was now heading the Soviet and Eastern Euro…
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Truman already had Hill and Cotter's successor lined up. He was going to ask Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith. The 54-year-old officer had been a wartime chief to Dwight D. Eisenhower. From 46 to 49, Smith had served as a U.S. ambassa…
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where it should be noted he had good friends. Bob Joyce represented state, while General John Magruder, once head of the pre-CIA Strategic Services Unit, stood in for the Secretary of Defense. Admiral Leslie Stevens, a member of the Joint C…
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wrestled more feathers. He wanted his own man as his deputy. At the time, Jack Devine, serving as the deputy director, had a past association with Woolsey. The DO's favorite, Jack Downing, basically the classic covert operator, was the only…
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Wisner's toolbox. Paramilitary efforts offered the most direct avenue to challenge Soviet power in the occupied territories. The paramilitary option had a defensive function as well. The United States wanted to have stay-behind networks sim…
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If there was no invasion, the United States still wanted to use them to conduct paramilitary operations on Russians' own ground. The fledgling CIA could not carry out these missions by itself and went to the Pentagon for assistance.…
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with its 66th CIC detachment at Stuttgart. The 66th CIC had the responsibility for screening all displaced persons who would be the main source of OPC's agents. Some 42,000 people were screened by the 66th in 1949 alone. As late as 1951, 50…
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from the Soviet Union. The 66th CIC also carried out positive intelligence missions in the Soviet zones. 2,211 of them in 1949 providing information useful to OPC secret missions. Among them were the highly classified Detachment A people. B…
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I find that very interesting. Okay, we're going to go just a little bit further. Probably the most important resource for Frank Wisner, pride from the army, was an entire intelligence agency, a German one. Of course, this story stretches ba…
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The general then contrived to have himself taken by Americans. Galen offered to tell them everything he knew about Russia and bring together a cadre of his former top people to add to that intelligence capability. And he peddled the wartime…
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first by the Counterintelligence Corps in what was called Operation Rusty, became a case for the Army's European Intelligence Chief, Brigadier General Edwin Seibert. He didn't have a lot of experience with Russians, so Seibert's G2 interrog…
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The Galen organization was installed at Pollock near Munich in December of 1947. At the time, still working for the U.S. Army, Galen hired his specialist on the Soviet Union without any regard to their Nazi past. Others were from Nazi secur…
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Critchfield continued into Austria, where he returned later as a young colonel with the counterintelligence group. He joined the CIA in the summer of 1948. Richard Helms approved personnel assignments for Germany at the time, and Critchfiel…
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had been salvaged from the debris of war. The organization, as it began being called, the Galen organization, actually. And this would be crucial for the CIA secret war, provided training bases, which would accommodate a variety of Eastern …
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Continuing Colonel Towner, JFK's moves threatened the whole Gladio ecosystem. He sought detente with the USSR, parentheses, Gladio's raison d'etre, parentheses, crackdown on CIA's rogue ops in Cuba, Vietnam, and alienated French nationalist…
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They formed the core of the U.S. delegation at the meeting held in Vienna, Helsinki, and Moscow in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. An American attending the Sixth World Youth Festival in Moscow in 1957 was specifically directed by …
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He was born in Russia and he was born in 1942. So obviously it's still the Soviet Union. And because there's the war on and everything, his family decides to relocate into what at the time was the Soviet sector of Northern Iran. And now...…
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He was born in Russia and he was born in 1942. So obviously it's still the Soviet Union. And because there's the war on and everything, his family decides to relocate into what at the time was the Soviet sector of Northern Iran. And now...…
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After the war, there's obviously an American zone around Tehran. And so his parents goes to that area, which then allows them to move to the United States because they're now outside of the Soviet Union. And he's about 15 when this happens.…
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Nixon vowed to make the communist conspiracy the theme of every speech from now until election. McCarthy, in turn, performed loyally for the party, putting his gutter techniques to use at the service of the campaign. Democratic presidential…
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Alan expressed his opposition to his brothers in more vehement terms. He once told Foster that a speech he planned to deliver on the Soviet Union was rotten and he should scrap it. I'm the Secretary of State and it's my speech, Foster said,…
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I mean, he realized the subtleties of communist penetration and all that, but he didn't go along with a sort of blanket condemnation of people. The truth, however, is that Alan Dulles' groveling efforts to placate McCarthy not only encourag…
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I mean, he realized the subtleties of communist penetration and all that, but he didn't go along with a sort of blanket condemnation of people. The truth, however, is that Alan Dulles' groveling efforts to placate McCarthy not only encourag…
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To be his ambassador to the Soviet Union, McCarthy inevitably detected something amiss, a hint of homosexuality somewhere in his family. It turned out that the allegations involved his brother-in-law. Bolin was an upstanding member of the F…
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When Foster and Bolin were being driven to the nominee's Senate confirmation hearing, Foster awkwardly asked Bolin not to be photographed with him. Later, after Bolin was finally confirmed, Foster asked the new ambassador, who planned to fl…
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He ended his speech with a declaration that became a ringing slogan of the Cuban Revolution. Motherland or death, we shall win. Determined that Cuba would not become another Guatemala, Castro turned to the Soviet Union for economic and mili…
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He said he was addicted to the habit of conversation. He rests by talking. Those were the early honeymoon days of the revolution before Castro's tendencies had hardened and before the Soviet quote unquote partnership with Cuba had begun. Th…
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As Castro prepared to return home at the end of his week in New York, he gave a press conference at the airport. Why was the Cuban delegation departing on a Soviet jet, a reporter asked. Because the U.S. had impounded all of Cuba's airliner…
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You cut our sugar. They actually bombed it. Khrushchev buys our sugar. You take away our planes. Khrushchev gives us planes. The CIA knew what it wanted Castro to do. Shortly after the Cuban leader arrived home in Havana, he was addressing …
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As the world held its breath, the president painstakingly worked out a face-saving deal with Khrushchev that convinced the Soviet premier to withdraw the nuclear missiles from the island. It's almost hard to believe it wasn't a setup. Kenne…
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Quote, we all inhibit a small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's future, and we are all mortal, unquote. JFK reinforced his path-breaking speech by dispatching Avril Harriman to Moscow the following month to …
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which the hawks in America did not want controlled. They wanted people living in fear. When the triumphant Harriman returned home, his Georgetown neighbors poured into the streets outside of his brick townhouse to celebrate his achievement.…
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The crusty old millionaire was touched by the neighborhood welcome. Harriman told Schlesinger that by picking him for the mission instead of one of the Cold War envoys, Kennedy had persuaded Khrushchev that we really wanted an agreement and…
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They were busily engaged in saving face for the Soviets and making concessions, giving up junipers deployed overseas when all we had to do was write our own ticket. In other words, kill a whole bunch of people. That's their ticket. By sprin…
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The president began to crack down on the anti-Castro raids operating off the shores of Florida and to withdraw funding from the militant exile groups. In April, the leader of the Miami-based Cuban Revolutionary Council, the umbrella organiz…
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to do that so the question becomes did he actually take a hop if he did he was still on active duty you don't get to do that in the inactive reserves which is where he would be you are not eligible to take hops there was a magical element t…
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His performance at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, where he arrived on a Saturday morning in October, to theatrically announce his defection seemed particularly awkward. There was a scripted quality to the way he renounced his citizenship and d…
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Oswald maintained his allegiance to his native country throughout his time in Russia. His loyalty was evident in the small gestures he made and the arguments. He was proud of his military service as a Marine. By 1961, when Oswald notified t…
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recesses of the cia fbi state department and the office of naval intelligence years later richard skyker the republican senator from pennsylvania who was one of the first legislators to try to unravel the mystery of lee harvey oswald while …
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repository. But on closer examination, there was a method to his movement. While in Texas, Oswald and his family came under the watchful care of people who in turn were being carefully watched. He met quietly with a prominent CIA officer in…
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It was she who most closely observed the intimate details of Lee's life. Oswald would plant clues for Ruth, like the draft of a puzzling letter to the Soviet embassy in Washington that he left on her typing desk. That made her suspect he wa…
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reported that Oswald seemed to have staged the whole thing to create an incident. But when the incident occurred, he remained absolutely peaceful and gentle. The New Orleans dust-up recalled Oswald's theatrics in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.…
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for the murder of a president. A coup, that's his quote. In late September, Oswald took a bus trip to Mexico City and again made a spectacle out of himself while trying to, in vain, to obtain travel visas for Cuba. While Oswald visited Mexi…
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FBI officials took this surprising step despite Oswald's suspicious behavior in Mexico. The day after the FBI took Oswald off its watch list, the CIA also downgraded him as a security risk. On October 10th, four senior counterintelligence o…
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Khrushchev, who had broken down crying in the Kremlin when he heard the news, and Castro was deeply distressed at the death. Both men had been greatly encouraged by Kennedy's peace initiatives in the final year of his presidency. They feare…
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lecturing his Western allies on the merits of due process. Uncle Joe took an unexpected, ultra-respectable line, Churchill wrote Roosevelt after the meeting with Stalin in Moscow in October of 1944. The Soviet premier told Churchill that th…
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please come around the corner. She didn't even bother to turn around. For the next five years, Wallach would suffer harsh imprisonment, first in Berlin's prison, which she christened the House of Horrors, and then for a longer stretch in Vo…
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please come around the corner. She didn't even bother to turn around. For the next five years, Wallach would suffer harsh imprisonment, first in Berlin's prison, which she christened the House of Horrors, and then for a longer stretch in Vo…
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Wisner had acquired a high-place double agent inside the Polish security service, a man named Joseph Switzlow. He would be told to spread the word all the way from Warsaw to Moscow that Field is actually coming to Prague on a secret mission…
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All about big business. Okay. He does mention about the U-2 and he got the piece of Oswald being in Russia during the U-2 shoot down and the fact that he used to work on the U-2 radar capability. So good on him for doing it.…
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The number of prisoners reported held by the Russians now numbered less than 3,000. The problem with the message unforeseen by the senders when it was written and transmitted was another message that had just entered the system from the oth…
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forces in Moscow by a major General John Dean, US Army Commander General of US military mission in Moscow. Dean said this, I have had a cable from General Marshall in which he states he had received information that indicates 15,597 US libe…
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That bomb had been transported to Siberia where he'd been put to work in a Russian tank factory with 200 other Americans. Then in December, there was a message sent to the American embassy in Moscow from U.S. forces Europe who evidently did…
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by the NKVD after he had got beyond Moscow and placed in a POW and internment camp. The prisoners numbered in their informant's estimation well over 20,000. They were both military and civilian, but likely overrun by the Russians during the…
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A trial was held in Moscow for the world to see. Powers was accused of being a spy. His survival kit, which contained poison suicide devices, and he was sentenced to a lengthy prison sentence. But fate intervened, and almost two years later…
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The specialists, dubbed back-seaters, right-seaters, or back-enders by pilots, spent only a brief time in North Vietnam. For beside each name on this roster, Mooney wrote Moscow-bound. In the camps, the pilots and other prisoners were not d…
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European Advisory Commission for study. All of the U.S. representatives to the new commission, George Kennan, Philip Mosley, and E.F. Penrose, were openly hostile to any accommodations with the Soviet on post-war policy towards Germany. Ins…
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He met with Churchill, General Eisenhower and his staff and the U.S. staff at the European Advisory Commission. Anthony Eden provided Morgenthau with confidential notes taken at Tehran concerning the Soviets and the British and what the gra…
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and Bernard Bernstein provided him with detailed reports and copies of State Department and War Department's most recent policy documents. Morgenthau emerged as by far the most informed senior US official about all of this. He didn't like w…
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Morgenthau thought, inherently flawed, perhaps criminally liable, and would remain the most important threat to world peace post-World War II. This, in turn, required U.S. acceptance of the Soviet Union as an equal among nations, stripping …
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who had killed persons because of their race, religion, or political conviction, or who had committed certain other crimes. All members of the Gestapo, SS, and Nazi party were to be arrested and detained, quote, until the extent of guilt of…
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the first U.S. ambassador to Moscow since the 1917 revolution. He increasingly viewed the German-Japanese axis as the world's most dangerous imperial force. Pell agreed, strongly backing the president in his controversies with the Foreign S…
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The British War Cabinet again confronted the question of whether to go ahead with tough campaigns aimed at deterring Nazi atrocities in the fall of 1943. When British forces discovered a new mass grave on the Greek island of Kos, German for…
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against the Italians, their one-time friends. Churchill's firm response to the atrocity also sent a message to the Allies that might be willing to treat former Axis soldiers with some leniency if they too abandon Germany. Churchill was sens…
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The central question for each of the allies at the upcoming 1943 conference in Moscow was how the struggle with Germany was likely to affect European allies once the conflict was over. The answer to that turned to a surprisingly large exten…
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The three allied foreign ministers reached new agreements on the terms of U.S.-British and Soviet alliance against Germany and on joint allied policy for post-war Europe. The foreign ministers announced their joint resolution in Moscow's de…
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to open a second front in Western Europe, and all three powers formally agreed to demand unconditional surrender of Germany. The treatment of Nazi war criminals again became a very important topic. The Moscow Declaration began by agreeing t…
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British Foreign Office staff in Moscow referred to the wholesale shooting of Polish officers in the declaration's list of victims of Nazi atrocities rather than to the Italian officers, as had been agreed by the three foreign ministers. The…
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pronouncement in Moscow. During early November 1943, US psychological warfare specialists began a major campaign to use Moscow declaration statements about trials for Nazi criminals as a centerpiece for messages aimed at German and other pe…
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In 1929, he fell from grace after the Comintern's Sixth World Congress in Moscow. During the subsequent decade, Lovestone gradually moved into a committed anti-communist. So in other words, he was not well received while he was going to all…
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to be able to control certain aspects. Immediately upon returning home in July of 1946 from a meeting of the World Federation Trade Union that had happened in Moscow, Eiler Jensen reported to the labor movement's Nordic Cooperation Committe…
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When Vice President Richard Nixon went on a state visit to Moscow in 59, ASIN leaders sent him a message to sharply disagree with any policy of rapprochement. Again, these people are lobbying on behalf of the CIA. ASIN leaders did undermine…
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If one is keeping track of the darker narrative of American history, it might look something like this. Kennedy wants to find a way to coexist with the Soviet Union in Cuba, and after some significant mistakes, finds his footing. He is also…
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Nixon gets into the presidency, appearing to be a hardliner, but he is also interested in detente with the communist world. Close to his goal, after meeting with Chairman Mao of China and the Soviet leader Brezhnev, Nixon was forced to resi…
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Alfonso, of course, was a United States Attorney General, also the Secretary of War, which we now call the Secretary of Defense, and the ambassador to Austria, Hungary, and Russia in the late 19th century. Oh, gosh, isn't that where they ha…
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That September, Gloss appeared in Russia's Unified Medical Information and Analytical System of Moscow, where his address was listed as a medical examination room at an army contract recruitment point on some street. The same address given …
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in the Ukrainian conflict, according to reports. Now, I'm not doubting that he did any of this stuff. What I'm doubting is the motive behind it. A selfie snapped by a Nepalese volunteer in the Avangard training center in Moscow appears to s…