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Claims (99)
Richard Helms headed
CIA book_quoted
“I don't know if there's any relation here, but I'll just read it. Investigative journalist Edward J. Epstein agrees with the high regard in which Angleton was held by his colleagues in the intelligence business and adds that Angleton earned…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 1:01:16
Richard Helms headed
CIA documented
“On a certain level, it is not surprising that Richard Helms had felt confident in deliberately misleading Congress on Chile. But the pressure built with each time the White House avoided reforms until 1974. The pot boiled over. The CIA's Co…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 33:44
Richard Helms headed
CIA documented
“who was then the CIA director, by warning him that if the spy agency did not help shut down the growing Watergate scandal, the president's belief is that this is going to open up the whole quote-unquote Bay of Pigs thing, and it's going to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 37:50
Richard Helms approved
Southern Air Transport book_quoted
“All of that in the Department of Defense. So I'm going to go back to the book now. A former owner of Southern Air Transport bid for the corporation and offered $5.6 million. Helms approved the sale during his last month as DCI. And the Sout…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 13:01
Richard Helms member_of
Alibi Club book_quoted
“telephone on a stand with a list of excuses next to it and the price for each. The alibi prided itself on decorating with odd things donated by its members. Besides Dulles, future CIA directors Richard Helms, William Casey, and William Webs…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 13:16
Richard Nixon removed_from_power
Richard Helms documented
“By September 72, the president was telling his chief of staff, H.R. Holderman, that Helms had to go. Nixon also spoke of cutting the CIA back by as much as 40%. A couple of weeks after Nixon's victory in November election, he summoned Helms…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 38:02
Richard Helms headed
CIA documented
“The president opposed broadening the CIA's reporting to Senate. Significantly, LBJ assigned his political aide, Harry McPherson Jr., to handle the matter, not NSC advisor Roth Doe or the NSC staff. On intelligence, Peter Jessup. A few weeks…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 15:35
James Schlesinger replaced
Richard Helms book_quoted
“He did the management study for Nixon in 70 and 71. First, he replaced Richard Helms. Schlesinger then moved over to the Secretary of Defense after only five months. And that's going to make sense in a minute. Within the agency itself, the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 2:29
Richard Helms appointed
CIA documented
“A few weeks later, when Richard Helms succeeded to the top of the CIA job, advice continued to flow from the White House political assistant, Bill Moyer. You know, the guy that pretends to be a reporter? That Bill Moyer was LBJ's White Hous…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 20:37
Richard Helms headed
CIA documented
“By early 62, the Directorate of Operations had a new boss, as did the CIA itself, the Deputy Director for Operations of Professional Intelligence Officer Richard Helms. He had stayed out of the limelight of the Bay of Pigs and managed to su…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 46:42
Richard Helms succeeded
William Colby documented
“When the NSC aide, Rostow, who replaced Bundy, told Johnson that Fulbright was unhappy and didn't understand why the foreign relations should be denied access, the president scrolled at the bottom of his copy of the report. Because they lea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 20:07
Richard Helms headed
MKUltra documented
“and enlisting dozens of leading universities and hospitals as well as hundreds of prominent researchers in study that often violated every ethical standard and treated the human subjects as expendable. Richard Helms, who oversaw MKUltra, ad…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 4:32
Richard Helms succeeded
Jean Kirkpatrick host_asserted
“and continue the trip, alerting others to the orders. Kirkpatrick would become the chief of operations of the D.O. shop, which meant functioning as a deputy to Wisner. But Kirkpatrick never assumed that post. Before leaving Thailand, he sud…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:13:21
Richard Helms reassigned
William Colby documented
“Helms, who had known nothing about the court's chief request, apologetically told Colby that he had been overridden and he was going to Vietnam. The court's error led to one of the most controversial pacification programs in the Vietnam War…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 44:31
Richard Helms succeeded
Frank Wisner book_quoted
“at least for the CIA. An era passed unheralded when a deeply depressed Frank Wisner put a shotgun to his head and killed himself in 1965. Lots of questions about that. It was Richard Helms, the professional espionage specialist, that then b…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 39:57
Everett Bumgartner deputy_to
Richard Helms book_quoted
“Everett Baumgardner was Colby's deputy in the theater and used to oversee pacification efforts in the central provinces of Vietnam. And if you guys recall the map we originally used, there was the north and central and south areas. Obviousl…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 7:01
Richard Helms member_of
CFR host_asserted
“So, I mean, there's obviously a lot of people who run, you know, high level stuff in the federal government who, you know, didn't go to Yale. You know, if they're a member of the CF, like Richard Helms, for instance, I think that Colby was …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 1:37:24
Richard Helms succeeded
Desmond Fitzgerald documented
“liked his options, qualified, and analyzed. A veteran of this time of half a dozen inspection visits and command conferences at Honolulu, McNamara also periodically was briefed by the CIA. At about this time, Richard Helms was promoted to d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 59:37
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Richard Helms book_quoted
“John McComb over disputes with the president, William Rayburn, perhaps for lack of them. But in 1965, when President Johnson appointed Admiral Rayburn, he simultaneously made Richard Helms deputy director of the CIA. His departure for the s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 9:13
Richard Helms appointed
Desmond Fitzgerald book_quoted
“choose who was going to be that new person. For the DO boss, the selection was between Helms' longtime associate, Thomas Karaminis, and Desmond Fitzgerald. When Desmond Fitzgerald saw what had happened, he marched into Helms' office to bid …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 9:42
Richard Helms member_of
Strategic Services Unit documented
“Ralph Kingsley, and Robert Joyce, all of them intelligence officers and diplomats that would play a big role in the future CIA covert operations. Like many of them, Richard Helms stayed on when the OSS became the strategic service unit and …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 33:33
Richard Helms headed
West Germany documented
“Already in a senior position, Richard Helms rose to become the CIA staff chief, then a division chief for Germany, responsible for the major theater of the Secret War, and that would be Operation Gladio. By the 1950s, Helms had a reasonable…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 34:00
Richard Helms involved_in
Operation Gladio documented
“Already in a senior position, Richard Helms rose to become the CIA staff chief, then a division chief for Germany, responsible for the major theater of the Secret War, and that would be Operation Gladio. By the 1950s, Helms had a reasonable…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 34:00
Allen Dulles appointed
Richard Helms host_asserted
“Near the end of his life, Dulles told Helms that not making him the DDO was his worst mistake. Dulles' choice reflected Eisenhower's preference for covert action. But after the Bay of Pigs, the man who kept the secrets could not be denied. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 35:01
Richard Helms succeeded
John McCone documented
“Near the end of his life, Dulles told Helms that not making him the DDO was his worst mistake. Dulles' choice reflected Eisenhower's preference for covert action. But after the Bay of Pigs, the man who kept the secrets could not be denied. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 35:01
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Richard Helms documented
“The startled spook that John McComb had resigned. LBJ appointed Vice Admiral Rayburn as the successor. But Rayburn, a Navy rocket specialist, knew nothing about the intelligence agency. Johnson wanted someone to back him up. Richard Helms w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 37:06
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Richard Helms documented
“The CIA director was not helped by a low-level campaign of gutter sniping from the agency people who didn't want him there. Then LBJ gives Richard Helms another admiral as a deputy, Rufus Taylor. Johnson appointed Helms on June 18, 1966. Te…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 38:03
United States Navy appointed
Richard Helms documented
“The CIA director was not helped by a low-level campaign of gutter sniping from the agency people who didn't want him there. Then LBJ gives Richard Helms another admiral as a deputy, Rufus Taylor. Johnson appointed Helms on June 18, 1966. Te…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 38:03
Richard Helms member_of
1967 policy review documented
“who had actually coordinated the public response, and John Gardner, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. They met in Krachenbach's office. Helms and Gardner sat on a sofa, the acting secretary behind his desk. Helms recalled sha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 55:12
Richard Helms appointed
Cord Meyer documented
“They'll audit you and me, but not CIA proprietaries. The Ramparts flap marked a sea change for the agency, ending Frank Wisner's fabled Wurlitzer. Two years later, Cord Meyer went to London as the station chief, his service rewarded by Rich…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 12:39
Richard Nixon reappointed
Richard Helms documented
“and seconded the recommendation. Although Nixon did not announce his selection until December 18th, Helms knew that he was going to remain at the CIA. Nixon reappointed Helms, but the president and Chief Spook were never comfortable togethe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 59:58
Lyndon B. Johnson recommended
Richard Helms documented
“Richard Nixon pulled Helms aside and told him that Nixon had asked and that he, Johnson, had recommended Helms as an effective spy boss. Later, Nixon summoned Helms to New York's Hotel Pierre for a lookover. Henry Kissinger, already with th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 59:30
Henry Kissinger seconded_recommendation
Richard Helms documented
“Richard Nixon pulled Helms aside and told him that Nixon had asked and that he, Johnson, had recommended Helms as an effective spy boss. Later, Nixon summoned Helms to New York's Hotel Pierre for a lookover. Henry Kissinger, already with th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 59:30
Richard Nixon excluded
Richard Helms documented
“that Nixon suspected Helms of being close to the circles that included some of his worst critics. That was true. But in fact, there were few people with whom Nixon was comfortable. The president intended to keep the CIA at arm's length, ini…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 1:00:52
Melvin Laird issued_ultimatum
Richard Helms documented
“never knowing whether the president had merely forgotten his previous announcement. Later, Helms learned that Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, whom Nixon needed and dared not cross, had issued an ultimatum that Helms had to be included. What…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 1:01:51
Richard Helms appointed
David Atlee Phillips documented
“He had been a nose gunner in World War II, not an OSS gentleman. After the war, he rambled around Latin America, trying his hand at acting and publishing before being recruited in the CIA. His covert work won the admiration of Richard Helms…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:00:14
Victor Marchetti appointed
Richard Helms book_quoted
“While the spotlight was a sketchy publication at the time, Marchetti himself had credibility. A former Soviet military specialist for the CIA, he had risen to become a special assistant to Richard Helms before resigning in 69 over disagreem…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:04:06
Richard Helms member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Richard Helms dealt straightforwardly with the board. Typically, the intelligence advisory board staff would tell Helms before a board session about the nature of the meeting, and the CIA director would come prepared to talk about the subje…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 26:15
Richard Helms appointed
William Colby documented
“Because Langley is in on it. Whatever it had or had not done, the inquiries and the drawn-out investigation were certainly damaging. Richard Helms designated Executive Director William Colby as point man for Watergate. Helms, during his fin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 37:01
Richard Helms spied_on
Chile documented
“But Senator Church knew where to look. The Idaho Democrat had been a member of the Foreign Relations Committee when the CIA basically withheld information back in 1966. He participated in the Laos hearings of 1967 and 69. Church had also be…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 5:26
Clark Clifford covered_up
Richard Helms book_quoted
“Clifford, though he was not Helms' lawyer, actively lobbied the Justice Department to drop their investigation because he's afraid that it's going to show up his role in BCCI and the money laundering. Richard Bennett Williams, excuse me, Ed…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 32:42
Richard Helms ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Asked by Senator Charles McMatthias from Maryland whether an explicit presidential order to assassinate Castro was necessary. Helms was quoted as responding, I think any of us would have found it very difficult to discuss assassinations wit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:23:51
Richard Helms covered_up
Operation Mongoose book_quoted
“Richard Bissell supplied details. Tracy Barnes, Bissell's assistant, supervised. Richard Helms sat quietly, which was rather out of character for him. Soon Helms stopped coming to project meetings altogether. Beyond his help in drafting the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 21:33
Richard Helms covered_up
Chile documented
“Helms and a faction of stalwarts never forgave Bill Colby this betrayal. He didn't have a choice. He did everything he could. But even the internal mechanisms of the CIA wasn't going to allow him to sit on perjury. Indicted in 1977 for perj…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 26:50
Richard Nixon appointed
Richard Helms documented
“After his 72 re-election, Nixon's appointment of Helms as ambassador to Iran effectively got the CIA spymaster out of the way. Nevertheless, Helms and William Breaux were obliged to testify in early 73 to the church subcommittee. Breaux by …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 6:52
Lawrence Silberman exposed
Richard Helms documented
“Colby nonetheless held the line for two more months amidst threats of resignation. The last offense was a 1954 CIA justice agreement governing what could be withheld from the Justice Department. Colby sought to discover whether that exempte…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 26:19
Thomas Lawler exposed
Richard Helms documented
“had been sandbagged when senators went beyond agreed upon guidelines. But Lawler did a straight review. After consulting with the general counsel's office on the legal definition of perjury, he decided the testimony before the multinational…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 23:56
John Warner covered_up
Richard Helms documented
“Warner added an analysis refuting that conclusion. Again, we've now got like 10 people saying that he committed perjury, but we're going to stick an addendum to their opinions. According to Colby's note for the record on September 25th, War…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 25:19
William Colby covered_up
Richard Helms documented
“Warner added an analysis refuting that conclusion. Again, we've now got like 10 people saying that he committed perjury, but we're going to stick an addendum to their opinions. According to Colby's note for the record on September 25th, War…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 25:19
Seymour Hersh exposed
Richard Helms documented
“By then, Director Colby had his hands full. For the matter of the Helms Chile testimony came to a head. One of Hearst's articles on September 17th noted that staff on Fulbright's committee were pressing for Richard Helms, William Breaux, an…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 22:33
William Colby covered_up
Richard Helms documented
“Colby nonetheless held the line for two more months amidst threats of resignation. The last offense was a 1954 CIA justice agreement governing what could be withheld from the Justice Department. Colby sought to discover whether that exempte…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 26:19
Richard Helms spied_on
Chile documented
“On a certain level, it is not surprising that Richard Helms had felt confident in deliberately misleading Congress on Chile. But the pressure built with each time the White House avoided reforms until 1974. The pot boiled over. The CIA's Co…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 33:44
Richard Helms spied_on
Committee of 40 documented
“But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57
Richard Helms criticized
Jean Kirkpatrick documented
“under JFK like they had been under Eisenhower. That was stuffy. Stuffy discussions and negotiations when you're talking about killing people. Imagine that. Richard Helms, who had a better opinion of Lyman Kirkpatrick's critique, also sided …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 13:49
John McCone appointed
Richard Helms book_quoted
“During the key mongoose briefing were CIA officers Richard Helms and William Harvey. Lansdell had asked John McCone to let them in, but the CIA director nixed the idea. McCone had made Richard Helms his lieutenant for Cuba, and the new depu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 23:21
Richard Helms covered_up
Chile documented
“who was exploring the U.S. actions in Chile. Always loyal to the chain of command, Helms prided himself on learning to get along with presidents and denied in sworn testimony that the CIA had tried to overthrow the government of Chile. Four…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:00:41
Richard Helms covered_up
AMLAsh host_asserted
“He says Richard Helms, the CIA director with a reputation for keeping the darkest secrets, insisted in his memoir and on Capitol Hill that AMLASH operation was playing at tilting the domestic politics in Cuba by fomenting political oppositi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 43:50
Richard Helms covered_up
Chile documented
“Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, to which Richard Helms lied about the CIA's involvement in Chile. Ambition or not, Church was determined to follow up on several of these subjects. Like the others, the Church investigation went i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 35:30
Richard Helms headed
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
“Um, let's see. He also had presided over the peak of the secret war, the years that the Kennedy administration, um, and then on into the Nixon. Helms was one of the few senior officers untouched by the Bay of Pigs through chief of operation…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 50:27
Richard Helms promoted
William Harvey book_quoted
“Just not for our team. In 1962, Helms, who along with Angleton, had replaced the retired Dulles as Harvey's main patrons at the agency, promoted agency tough guy, naming him to the head of the CIA's entire Cuban operation, Task Force W.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 25:42
Richard Helms reassigned
William Harvey book_quoted
“He was quoted as saying, you're dealing with people's lives, the younger Kennedy brother said. And then you're going to go off on a half-assed operation such as this. Harvey's protectors acted quickly before Bobby Kennedy could axe him. Hel…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 28:15
Richard Helms covered_up
Robert Kennedy assassination book_quoted
“He was aware of how the agency had monitored the defector during his exploits in Dallas, New Orleans, and Mexico. David Phillips, a man whose career had been nurtured by Helms, had been meeting with Oswald in Dallas. But when Helms was swor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 16:27
Richard Helms covered_up
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“Richard Helms, on the other hand, insists that the Gladio networks were dismantled before he became head of the CIA. Here's his quote. I had to sign off on all these projects, he told Jonathan Kitney. Quote, what would have been the sense o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 25:07
Thomas Sullivan succeeded
Richard Helms book_quoted
“Kamal Adem saw. A colleague of Shackley's from Laos by the name of Ambassador Thomas Sullivan had replaced Richard Helms in Tehran in 1977. He, again, let me just say this, you've got CIA people serving as ambassadors. He was one of the few…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 27:35
Richard Helms appointed
Thomas Sullivan book_quoted
“Kamal Adem saw. A colleague of Shackley's from Laos by the name of Ambassador Thomas Sullivan had replaced Richard Helms in Tehran in 1977. He, again, let me just say this, you've got CIA people serving as ambassadors. He was one of the few…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 27:35
Richard Helms member_of
CIA host_asserted
“would chair the OSS committee that recommended the United States arrange to exploit Galen. In this assignment, Wisner came under the command of Alan Dulles in Bern. The Washington desk officer responsible for that area was none other than R…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 16:32
Richard Helms approved
James Critchfield book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 47:34
Richard Nixon spied_on
Richard Helms host_asserted
“on the Nixon-Helms October 8th, 1971 conversation where – and I posted the purple pill. I can post it up to the nest too. But Nixon calls CIA Director Helms into his office and basically says, look, the Pentagon Papers just got released by …”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale @ 2:28:16
Richard Helms member_of
CIA host_asserted
“You can't make this shit up. This is, you know, the most disputed and pivotal CIA figure in history, and his son is literally making a documentary at the Sunsplash. And, you know, it's a convergence of media, music history, and literal CIA …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 1:05:59
Richard Helms member_of
CIA book_quoted
“When McComb appeared before the Warren Commission, he brought along Helms, his chief of clandestine operations. As McComb was well aware, Helms was the man who knew where all the bodies were buried, and he deferred to his number two man mor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 15:29
Richard Helms covered_up
CIA book_quoted
“Had the agency provided the commission with all the information it had on Oswald, he was asked. We have all of it, Helms replied, though he knew the files that he had handed over had already been purged. Helms was the man who kept the secre…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 16:58
Richard Helms member_of
CIA documented
“Laos, South Vietnam, and South America. Helms showed that he could play the covert operations game as good as anyone. And he became John McComb's deputy along the way. The CIA director sometimes took Helms to meetings at the White House. Wi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 35:32
Richard Helms covered_up
CIA documented
“That November, Helms pleaded no contest to two counts of perjury. Declared guilty, he received a suspended sentence and a fine collected from former comrades in cash donations one afternoon at a country club lunch. In other words, they used…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 52:05
Richard Helms covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“Richard Helms came under additional questioning in both public and closed hearings as the Fulbright Committee considered this nomination for ambassador. Always loyal to the chain of command, Helms, in view of Nixon's instructions about secr…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 7:22
Richard Helms covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“Helms and a faction of stalwarts never forgave Bill Colby this betrayal. He didn't have a choice. He did everything he could. But even the internal mechanisms of the CIA wasn't going to allow him to sit on perjury. Indicted in 1977 for perj…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 26:50
Richard Helms appointed
Desmond Fitzgerald documented
“Richard Helms had already decided on Harvey's replacement. He needed someone with stature with the field officers to show them their project was a priority. Someone who knew the inner workings at Langley. Helms selected Desmond Fitzgerald, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 30:04
Richard Helms spied_on
John Stennis documented
“On one occasion, Helms told Senator John Stennis, chairman of the Armed Services Committee of the CIA, reporting, Stennis paused, shook his head, then said, I'm not sure you people ought to be getting involved in things like that. I don't k…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (32) @ 42:02
Safari Club traded_network_to
Richard Helms book_quoted
“be bore out with the exposure of several moles. But Colby and other CIA officials began to attack Angleton, which resulted in his dismissal by Colby in December of 1974. This, combined with Watergate, is what prompted the Safari Club to sta…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 11:02
Richard Helms threatened
Henry Kissinger book_quoted
“President Ford realized that Colby intended to comply with all requests for information, with the exception of the names of American agents. The establishment, both Republicans and Democrats, now was facing lots of revelations. From Iran, H…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 18:42
Richard Nixon appointed
Richard Helms book_quoted
“It soon became clear that Wilson's perceptions of the situation in Iran directly contradicted those of Ambassador Helms. In other words, they're lying. Although Nixon had fired Helms from the CIA, he had appointed him ambassador of Iran bec…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 29:28
Richard Helms appointed
Tom Clines book_quoted
“Turner put out a notice that if he found out who it was, he would fire them. Brill said, I know that Tom did it. The immediate reason for Klein's bitterness came after he was removed from his old DO post. And he was actually the liaison at …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 33:20
Richard Helms member_of
CIA documented
“Alan Dulles had barely begun his introductory remarks when he had to take a call from the president. The group waited, Bissell silent, worked through a stack of cables. General Cabell slouched in his chair. Gossip over a Georgetown party wa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 27:48
Richard Helms member_of
CIA book_quoted
“During the key mongoose briefing were CIA officers Richard Helms and William Harvey. Lansdell had asked John McCone to let them in, but the CIA director nixed the idea. McCone had made Richard Helms his lieutenant for Cuba, and the new depu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 23:21
Richard Helms headed
CIA documented
“He encouraged the CIA to tell its story and listen to the Armed Services Committee on October 5th, 1967, when Ted Shackley talked for two hours about where fighting took place and how much it cost. The CIA put soldiers on Laotian battlefiel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (32) @ 36:16
Richard Helms headed
CIA book_quoted
“Richard Helms was so feared in Watergate was because he believed that the involvement of the CIA in Nixon's activities could cause a major congressional investigation into the CIA that would lead to the examination of everything that had go…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 8:43
Richard Helms covered_up
CIA book_quoted
“and resulted in his assassination. Helms, as DCI, lied about the CIA's role. Helms' testimony laid the foundation for an all-out assault on the spy agency he claimed to admire, because he not only lied saying that they had nothing to do wit…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 14:28
Richard Helms member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Shackley felt that this would get Klein's out of harm's way, but Turner ordered it canceled. Despite the circumstances of Shackley and Klein's departure from the CIA, Shackley still talked about wanting to be the DCI. Brill said both men ta…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 33:53
Richard Nixon removed_from_power
Richard Helms host_asserted
“In Washington, Nixon was overhauling his Chilean team. He had already replaced Ambassador Corey with another career diplomat, Nathaniel Davis, who had been serving in Guatemala. After Alente's United Nations speech, he decided to replace Ri…”
▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 1:15:36
Richard Nixon appointed
Richard Helms host_asserted
“In Washington, Nixon was overhauling his Chilean team. He had already replaced Ambassador Corey with another career diplomat, Nathaniel Davis, who had been serving in Guatemala. After Alente's United Nations speech, he decided to replace Ri…”
▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 1:15:36
Richard Helms spied_on
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“Or so he thought. But it soon became clear that the Dulles dynasty was not entirely dismantled. In truth, the Kennedy purge had left the ranks of Dulles loyalists at the CIA largely untouched, like Angleton and Helms. They continued to call…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 23:53
Edward Koch exposed
Richard Helms book_quoted
“asking him to investigate high U.S. officials for crimes concerning Chile. Levi, a highly moral man, at once sent the Corey letter to the criminal division of the Justice Department. The result, the CIA was turned upside down. Corey's lette…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 17:19
Richard Helms covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“Unquote. It is not surprising that Richard Helms felt confidently, deliberately misleading Congress on Chile in 1973. The attitude between the attitude began to change in the late period of the Nixon administration because, of course, they'…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 19:05
Richard Helms recruited
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“The Dulles camp itself made no bones about the fact that the old man aggressively lobbied to get appointed to the commission. Dick Helms later told historian Michael Kurtz that he quote personally persuaded unquote Johnson to appoint Dulles…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 46:16
Richard Helms removed_from_power
Tony Verona book_quoted
“And Harvey alone went to Miami a couple of weeks later to hand over the poison. Cuban exile leader Tony Verona, the actor in the plot, asked for high-powered rifles and money and would be given those as well. But Harvey didn't think much ab…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 38:43
Richard Helms ordered_assassination_of
Ramparts host_asserted
“By May of 66, within a month of the Times revelation, Director Helms sent the White House information about Ramparts to its editor, Robert Scheer. The White House wanted more, and Helms initiated an investigation of the magazine's alleged c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 45:22
Richard Helms spied_on
Balkans book_quoted
“Alan Dulles, Richard Helms spearheaded the work in the Balkans. They would both go on to be CIA directors. The European operations proved highly successful. Casey's campaign got as many as 200 agents directly from into Germany. In addition …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 15:17
Richard Helms laundered_money_for
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“The lack of warning could be blamed in part on the unwillingness of the Shaw's closest friend, Richard Helms, who in and of himself is DIA, to face reality. In addition, Helms and his associates had made money off the Shaw in the weapons de…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 14:50
Richard Helms headed
The Enterprise (covert network) book_quoted
“Crowley, in his role as the CIA liaison to the corporate world, was privy to the plan in which worldwide covert operations for the agency were funded through a host of Saudi banking and charity enterprises, of course, one of which is BCCI. …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 48:41
Richard Helms covered_up
Robert C. Ames host_asserted
“This back-channel work known to CIA Director Richard Helms and Henry Kissinger was kept discreet to avoid antagonizing Israel. Ames' biography highlights open hostility between the CIA and Mossad during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 37:05
Mentions (120)
▶ 37:39
When Bakhtar was arrested in the heroin scheme, a pen register trap on his phone revealed calls to and from Richard Helms in Iran. Who's part of the CIA? Bakhtar's lawyer happened to be Ramsey Clark. He never called Helms as a witness to de…
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On his visit to Washington, Syed Ramadan began using Dawad as his personal assistant and secretary. Dawad kept up communications with him as Ramadan traveled the world. Dawad began to see Ramadan as his mentor. One day in early 1979, a call…
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arms in return for the release of the hostages. According to Dawood Salahuddin, Fardas became the go-between for the arms negotiations. On the American side, Helms was selected by Carter to be the liaison. Two months after the contact with …
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did not tell Helms that he had been the reason for his trip beyond an attempt to make good, to improve relationships with Washington. He was on a mission to prove his loyalty to the new Iranian revolution, according to a revolution Iranian …
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to allow him entry had started a massive investigation into possible U.S. agents among high-level members of the revolution because they were there. Fardas and others came under suspicion of being on the CIA payroll. The edge that Richard H…
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on the Nixon-Helms October 8th, 1971 conversation where – and I posted the purple pill. I can post it up to the nest too. But Nixon calls CIA Director Helms into his office and basically says, look, the Pentagon Papers just got released by …
▶ 2:28:46
So, Helms, you know, who, like, we know that we had the whole Warren Commission and everything. Okay, who really shot John? I think his question was, I think the exact quote was, you know, who shot John? Is Johnson to blame? Is Nixon to bla…
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about misinformation that was coming even out of his own CIA. So he was viewed as a big threat. In 1977, he wrote a letter to his wife, Ames did, expressing his frustration with U.S. policy, stating, and this is a quote, I know I can get th…
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I don't know if there's any relation here, but I'll just read it. Investigative journalist Edward J. Epstein agrees with the high regard in which Angleton was held by his colleagues in the intelligence business and adds that Angleton earned…
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He says Richard Helms, the CIA director with a reputation for keeping the darkest secrets, insisted in his memoir and on Capitol Hill that AMLASH operation was playing at tilting the domestic politics in Cuba by fomenting political oppositi…
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telling a bold-faced lie. Because this guy, as crazy as he is, is actually saying, yes, we tried to kill him. And we tried multiple times to try to kill him. So the reporter says, was Amlash an assassination operation? Jenkins immediately s…
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Graphic Interpretation Center supported Jenkins on the plan to assassinate Castro at the DuPont Beach estate east of Havana. Castro was known to go there, and they had pre-positioned a high-powered rifle that was going to be used in the att…
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first-person account of supplying murder weapons, corroboration of CIA files, and basically just saying Helms lied to Congress, that they absolutely amlashed, was an assassination conspiracy of many different facets to kill Castro, despite …
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for him to be the link between ITT and the government. McCone was able to see Kissinger, the president's national security advisor, immediately to convey Guinan's million-dollar offer. Although Kissinger did not accept it, he was impressed …
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That's the accusation. Kissinger, and let me just say this. They all know this is horseshit. This is the crap that they fed to the American public. But every single one of them understands what this anti-communist, the World League, the Wor…
▶ 13:36
on ways of stopping Alente. Later in the morning, Kissinger met with another powerful figure, eager to protect large interests in Chile, David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan Bank. Ooh, bringing in the big leagues now. At three o'clock in th…
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If there was a transcript, you would see that this entire thing is garbage. However, one of the officials in the meeting later told the New York Times that Nixon gave the impression of being extremely anxious for quick results. Another desc…
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become a classic documentation in the history of diplomacy and covert action. And I'm going to, it has bullets. I'm going to read to you the bullets. One in 10 chance, perhaps, but save Chile. Worth spending. Not concerned, risk involved. N…
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The president came down very hard that he wanted something done, and he didn't much care how, and he didn't care how much it cost. It was a pretty all-exclusive order, all-inclusive order, sorry. If I ever carried a marshal's baton in my kn…
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Helms and his operatives were working to design a covert operation. Kissinger told a group of newspapers if Alente was allowed to take power, he would establish some sort of communist government, and that would be a massive problem for the …
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both before and after the coup, unquote. A centerpiece of the operation was the CIA FUBELT, F-U-B-E-L-T. That's kind of like their code name, like MJ Wave and all of those types of things. Apparently, a reference to the tightening of a belt…
▶ 1:15:36
In Washington, Nixon was overhauling his Chilean team. He had already replaced Ambassador Corey with another career diplomat, Nathaniel Davis, who had been serving in Guatemala. After Alente's United Nations speech, he decided to replace Ri…
▶ 1:16:05
That's sweet. Put the CIA director over in Iran because it's already so screwed up. Thanks to the CIA. At his confirmation hearing, he said, he replied, no, sir, when asked if the CIA had tried to block the election of Alente in 1970. The t…
▶ 1:47:49
peaceful resistance in this entire operation, because we are going to get so good at this that we are going to be able to have conversations with our congressional members. We're going to be able to forewarn them. And then at some point the…
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He doesn't mention anything about a syndicate, at least not directly. So I guess my question for you is maybe the character of this is OK, yet Chile was clearly a CIA op. He's clearly talking about it with Richard Helms. It clearly has that…
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According to these CIA agents, they distrusted Kissinger because of that. So it says, unlike many of his colleagues, CIA Director Richard Helms had never been comfortable with the kind of covert operations Kissinger liked to run out of the …
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He was assigned to dispatch a small spy ship to the waters off of Iran to spy on the Soviet Navy. At that time, von Marbach was head of the Defense Department Purchasing Office in Iran, with a rank equal to that of Ambassador Richard Helms.…
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It soon became clear that Wilson's perceptions of the situation in Iran directly contradicted those of Ambassador Helms. In other words, they're lying. Although Nixon had fired Helms from the CIA, he had appointed him ambassador of Iran bec…
▶ 29:58
who, to be politically correct, during the Cold War were loosely labeled communists. No kidding. See, they use that label to all of these people that they want to handle a certain way. Because Helms had run the CIA, it was assumed that his …
▶ 1:31
inexplicable than his relationship with the Pandemanian strongman Manuel Noriega. The records show that Bush Sr. put Noriega on the CIA's payroll. Even after Bush had left the CIA, he kept in touch with Noriega through Admiral Daniel Murphy…
▶ 48:41
Crowley, in his role as the CIA liaison to the corporate world, was privy to the plan in which worldwide covert operations for the agency were funded through a host of Saudi banking and charity enterprises, of course, one of which is BCCI. …
▶ 1:04:29
Because Atom, through his relationships with Shackley and Bush, had intimate knowledge on just how desperate the U.S. intelligence was for services, a convenient Washington, D.C.-based bank acquiring one became one of his main goals. Meanwh…
▶ 1:05:00
been investigating Helms' line to the Senate about the CIA's involvement in the coup in Chile. It was threatening the future of both Shackley and Helms and would have also exposed the Safari Club. Adam did not rely simply on money to carry …
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one of British intelligence's most important and classified units. Further, he never returned to England after World War II. One of the worries some of the counterintelligence people had was that Jennifer might be spying on Bush for the Bri…
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Turner put out a notice that if he found out who it was, he would fire them. Brill said, I know that Tom did it. The immediate reason for Klein's bitterness came after he was removed from his old DO post. And he was actually the liaison at …
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Shackley felt that this would get Klein's out of harm's way, but Turner ordered it canceled. Despite the circumstances of Shackley and Klein's departure from the CIA, Shackley still talked about wanting to be the DCI. Brill said both men ta…
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H-A-K-I-M, whom she did not like. That is how she learned that Hakeem, Shackley, and Clines were doing business together long before the Iran-Contra affair. Brill described Clines' relationship with Secord and Quintero as being like blood b…
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Klein and Shackley were still just hanging on, but a lot of people within the CIA wanted to help because they knew that the Sandinistas were the bad guys. In fact, Wilson's notable description of the motive for helping Somoza was only a fra…
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be the liaison for the contract. Wilson says that he and Klein's were trying to set up for Nicaragua was a for-profit version of the Vietnam Phoenix program assassination program. Wilson offered Somoza a small initial contract for $700,000.…
▶ 42:44
So he wanted to get like a level one retirement. So he made himself a defense attache. And Ambassador Richard Helms, who of course is CIA, was really upset because Von Marbog was on the same level as the ambassador. I mean, Helms was furiou…
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The lack of warning could be blamed in part on the unwillingness of the Shaw's closest friend, Richard Helms, who in and of himself is DIA, to face reality. In addition, Helms and his associates had made money off the Shaw in the weapons de…
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What does the Secretary of Defense have to do with overthrowing a government? Other influential old-line Democrats like Clark Clifford, a BCCI CIA money laundering fame, had loyalties that came nowhere near Jimmy Carter. When Carter refused…
▶ 32:42
Clifford, though he was not Helms' lawyer, actively lobbied the Justice Department to drop their investigation because he's afraid that it's going to show up his role in BCCI and the money laundering. Richard Bennett Williams, excuse me, Ed…
▶ 8:43
Richard Helms was so feared in Watergate was because he believed that the involvement of the CIA in Nixon's activities could cause a major congressional investigation into the CIA that would lead to the examination of everything that had go…
▶ 11:02
be bore out with the exposure of several moles. But Colby and other CIA officials began to attack Angleton, which resulted in his dismissal by Colby in December of 1974. This, combined with Watergate, is what prompted the Safari Club to sta…
▶ 11:29
James Angleton said before his death that Colby destroyed counterintelligence, but because Colby was seen by Shackley and Helms as having betrayed the CIA to Congress, they simply began working with outsiders like Adam and Saudi Arabia. The…
▶ 13:58
The scrutiny began when the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, chaired by Frank Church, questioned Richard Helms about ITT's complicity in the CIA Chilean assassination. And remember, ITT paid Nixon in orde…
▶ 14:28
and resulted in his assassination. Helms, as DCI, lied about the CIA's role. Helms' testimony laid the foundation for an all-out assault on the spy agency he claimed to admire, because he not only lied saying that they had nothing to do wit…
▶ 17:19
asking him to investigate high U.S. officials for crimes concerning Chile. Levi, a highly moral man, at once sent the Corey letter to the criminal division of the Justice Department. The result, the CIA was turned upside down. Corey's lette…
▶ 18:42
President Ford realized that Colby intended to comply with all requests for information, with the exception of the names of American agents. The establishment, both Republicans and Democrats, now was facing lots of revelations. From Iran, H…
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B-R-A-D-E-N. Braden remembered Helms saying, quote, if I am going to be charged, then I will reveal Henry Kissinger's role in these operations, unquote, which, of course, he was guilty as hell in the whole Allende assassination. There were …
▶ 22:02
But Donald Rumsfeld and others convinced Ford that the CIA under siege by Ford's attorney general, the last thing they needed was a reformer to head the CIA. Henry Kissinger, who needed someone at the CIA to stave off Richard Helms' very re…
▶ 39:05
The Lettier murder could not have happened at a worse time for Shackley, Clines, and the operations directorate at the CIA. Attorney General Levi's bloodhounds set on the trail of Ambassador Corey were already pressing the CIA to produce do…
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Clifford was one of the two lawyers that helped BCCI buy three banks inside the United States illegally. Washington insider Clark Clifford visited Deputy Attorney General Harold Tyler. He warned him that the indictment of Richard Helms woul…
▶ 54:14
who ran basically the Vietnam desk, had sent a memorandum to Richard Helms, who was the CIA director at the time, after Comer's second visit, and he accused Comer of fundamental misconceptions about the nature of the war in Vietnam. He felt…
▶ 7:01
Everett Baumgardner was Colby's deputy in the theater and used to oversee pacification efforts in the central provinces of Vietnam. And if you guys recall the map we originally used, there was the north and central and south areas. Obviousl…
▶ 23:13
Well, never mind about that part. So he says, it all started, I explained, when Colby agreed to help me write the book that is dedicated to the Phoenix program. That and him having met with Richard Helms. Richard Helms hated Colby for givin…
▶ 23:43
had to admit that Roman Catholic Colby was CIA royalty, bathed in the blood of the Lamb. As an OSS officer, Colby had parachuted into occupied France and fought Germany behind the scenes in France. He had also helped out in Italy. And Colby…
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You want to go ahead and give, oh, I guess I have to do that. I'll give her the co-host. And there's a couple of things that I want to talk about, one of which, Bridget, if you'll remind me, is the True the Vote post. I definitely want to t…
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And he was governor of California at that time. Yep. Yep. I'll go ahead. Yeah, I think also a key kind of good old boy figure in Governor Reagan's, you know, camp was Eval Younger, you know, who was like one of the Burma boys with Richard H…
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LBJ's search for Vietnam options. You have John McCone, who at that time is now the CIA director, presenting a 12-point program for political action developed under Richard Helms, who is his chief of plan. Breaking with the image of the CIA…
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liked his options, qualified, and analyzed. A veteran of this time of half a dozen inspection visits and command conferences at Honolulu, McNamara also periodically was briefed by the CIA. At about this time, Richard Helms was promoted to d…
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formed a committee on narcotics called the Heroin Committee to coordinate drug policies. The Heroin Committee was composed of cabinet members represented by their deputies. James Ludlam represented CIA Director Richard Helms, a member of th…
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Given the addiction among U.S. troops in Vietnam was soaring, the massive amounts of Southeast Asian heroin being smuggled into the U.S. for use by middle class was on the verge of a revolution. Nixon's response was to make drug law enforce…
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Ingersoll's inspection staff had gathered enough evidence to warrant the investigation of dozens of corrupt FBN agents who had risen to management positions in the BNDD. But Ingersoll could not investigate his top managers while simultaneou…
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The Nixon White House blamed the BNDD's failure to stop international drug trafficking on its underdeveloped intelligence capability, a situation that opened the door for even more CIA infiltration. That's so convenient. In late 1970, CIA D…
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Because of the assassination attempt on Bob Marley, because the other major ingredient that the novel lifts straight out of CIA history and U.S. history is, yeah, Colby's son is there doing a documentary at the actual time of the Bob Marley…
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You can't make this shit up. This is, you know, the most disputed and pivotal CIA figure in history, and his son is literally making a documentary at the Sunsplash. And, you know, it's a convergence of media, music history, and literal CIA …
▶ 48:08
that he should be revealed as one of the Washington's most ardent hawks in 64 and 65 provides plenty of motivation for why we were there doing what we were doing. Richard Helms, who was the director in 70, was a career intel officer who did…
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You must believe that we are honorable men, CIA Director Richard Helms said. When the Office of Public Safety was abolished, its funds cut off in the car barn, which is where the International Police Academy doors were locked. Some advisors…
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Basically, this total BS propaganda straight out of CIA's, particularly Richard Helms' right-hand man known as, oh, Jesus. Oh, I can't remember the name, but it's almost uniformly that the catechism is quoting this top aide to Richard Helms…
▶ 1:18:52
The most important liar on one of the most important liars on the JFK stuff, you know, spouting pure CIA propaganda from Sam Halpern, Richard Helms, right hand man. And again, so it's again, it's so accident that right now, you know, the le…
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in Iran. Mr. Ball spoke with the American ambassador to Iran, who just so happened to be at that time, the former CIA director, Richard Helms, and several banking interests, about a 35% interest in the Iranian bank. The final stop was at an…
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Kamal Adem saw. A colleague of Shackley's from Laos by the name of Ambassador Thomas Sullivan had replaced Richard Helms in Tehran in 1977. He, again, let me just say this, you've got CIA people serving as ambassadors. He was one of the few…
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with Reagan. So that should not be a surprise to anyone. They can say that they told him and that he ignored it. And who knows, maybe he did because maybe they knew that they were the CIA. Who knows? Helms, along with Henry Kissinger and ot…
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by Major General Schwarzkopf, Arnold's dad. The people that ran it were hand-selected by the CIA. So this is the CIA being involved in a crisis in Tehran. For Helms and Shackley, a chance to influence the Ayatollah Khomeini had come many ye…
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in 1964 when the CIA arranged a safe haven for him in Iraq after he had briefly been imprisoned by the Sabah and exiled to Turkey. Now, this is very interesting again. For Helms and Shackley, the CIA agents, one of which posing as the ambas…
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that was located in Iraq was proof that the Iraqis were planning to match Israel's nuclear weapon capability, something had to be done. The Israelis had the information because back in 1977, when Shackley was still inside the CIA, he had pl…
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would haunt Bush years later when he was up for re-election as president and he crossed the Israelis on a $10 billion loan guarantee. Casey was not kept informed on all of these secret operations that Bush was running. The highest value of …
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Hogle had to go, and he had to go soon if Shackley was not going to be shown up as basically worthless. If Hogle had ever felt welcome at the CIA, he had no idea how unfriendly it was about to get. Bill Casey wanted to shake up the Director…
▶ 54:12
He went on to get involved in other deals with the Israelis, and then Shackley was free to be the sole conduit of Israeli information back into the United States intelligence community once again. So I just think, and obviously you guys can…
▶ 34:57
Shackley counted on Varsala to nail Wilson. Now, Varsala would get a little help from his old colleague. One of the most bizarre events of the entire Wilson case is a meeting at the White House on the evening of July 8, 1981, three months b…
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is a, quote, imaginative piece of fiction. The purpose would appear to be to bail himself out of legal problems. The agency files were all no record except in the DO area, unquote. Several lines of the memo have now been deleted, but what i…
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and a Shackley subordinate who asked not to be identified, Kaiser had been used by Shackley as a contract agent in Europe. The fact that Kaiser had conned the National Security Advisor, Richard Allen, and the Deputy Director of the CIA, Bob…
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He had first come in contact with Shackley and Klein in the 1950s, helping the U.S. government in their post-war Nazi recruitment. In fact, Kaiser was in New York born, but had been raised in Germany and in Brazil. As a young man, he had re…
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According to Berlin-based veteran John Sherwood, Shackley and Kaiser met at the Berlin operating base, that was the Bob, where Kaiser played a role in running the rat line, secretly exporting Nazis both to the U.S. and South America. Over t…
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Half a billion dollars. Under Florida law, none of that money was required to be put in escrow during construction. For Kaiser, who had already been on the Interpol's wanted list, that was a real opportunity. Just when Shackley contacted Ka…
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Kaiser had used the Pulitzer-winning Hearst to get him into contact with top-level American power. According to Wilson's lawyers in Hearst, Kaiser said he wanted to know one thing before he agreed to lure Wilson back. He asked if Wilson was…
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Richard Peterson, the Treasury agent assigned to Wilson's case, said that Barthola, whom he greatly admired, tended to fall in love with the intelligence types. At about the same time, Bill Casey was given a report confirming that the men a…
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For Casey, none of it mattered. Klein, Shackley, Secord, and von Marburg were all playing a major role in the Iranian initiative that had begun with the October surprise in the 1980 campaign. And you couldn't piss any of them off because th…
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that they were now setting him up. The scheme that Kaiser used to convince Wilson that the U.S. wanted to make a deal with him was similar to the Shackley-Kleinz Accord and von Marbog had done with Wilson and Itzko. Wilson was to be allowed…
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the CIA and somebody else. Without Klein, and I don't know whether it's true or not, I just think it's hilarious because in some cases, on this particular one, in some cases, it's absolutely not true. And I've found other coordinating where…
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Laos, right? So, and then if you remember that a CIA had set up all of these agricultural programs like fish ponds and pig breeding centers, you know, almost like they're doing a planned smart city or something like that. And then we had Ri…
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at least for the CIA. An era passed unheralded when a deeply depressed Frank Wisner put a shotgun to his head and killed himself in 1965. Lots of questions about that. It was Richard Helms, the professional espionage specialist, that then b…
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while playing tennis on his home court. The director of plans was awarded a post-humus national security medal, but his replacement was Thomas Karaminenz, a Helms protege from the espionage crowd. The secret warriors could no longer count o…
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In October 1969 hearing, Senator Symington succeeded in drawing William Sullivan into admitting that there were no formal obligations by the U.S. to the Mao, the Meng, sorry. In his own testimony, the CIA chief Helms refused to be drawn out…
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basically saying such other functions on that directive in 1947 that we talk about all the time, the 5412-2. In October 30, 1969, the memorandum to Helms and the general counsel, Lawrence Houston, argued that the CIA had no combatants as su…
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Clearly, Symington had some reason to be exasperated with the agency's disingenuousness because, of course, he had been one of their biggest supporters. He was over there. He knew exactly what they were doing. Here's another quote from Symi…
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on Symington's change of heart as dishonesty. And in a 1981 interview, Helms said that when Senator Symington got up and started talking about a secret war, he knew far better than that. One element that may have helped sour key people in W…
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because the drug people that they were passing the information on to protected them. Helms told Senator John Dennis, chairman of the Armed Services Committee of the CIA reporting, basically making it sound like the CIA was actually reportin…
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The chief of the CIA said to the Senate committee, well, Mr. Chairman, how could we possibly not help the U.S. government when we've got such a hideous drug problem in this country? Again, that just lies. They created the drug problem. Helm…
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CIA Chief Helms had admitted to testimony that the CIA used USAID as cover in Laos. Fulbright added that recruiting and training of soldiers and native agents was handled by the embassy, while the mysterious Special Requirements Office hand…
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which is when they were doing the Brazil overthrow. Dick Bissell was an enthusiastic champion of the counterinsurgency as well. He led the 1961 summer study that included Walt Rostow, but his sins were too many and he passed on. His replace…
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Um, let's see. He also had presided over the peak of the secret war, the years that the Kennedy administration, um, and then on into the Nixon. Helms was one of the few senior officers untouched by the Bay of Pigs through chief of operation…
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attended few of the VEA PIGS sessions, so it basically didn't, like, blow back on him. Starting out as a Naval Reserve Lieutenant, Holmes successfully served in the OSF and then in the CIA. His specialty was Central European espionage, whic…
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There was an internal audit later found in 1961 to 62, the special group considered only about 16% of the covert operations actually initiated by the United States, which means the rest of them were part of NATO. Helms had another difficult…
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DCI at the time, was a California businessman. He made no pretense at micromanagement of the CIA. Such experts as Houston and Richard Helms knew their jobs. The general counsel and the plans department and other component chiefs were given …
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Though he had endeavored to emphasize espionage, Helms recognized the increased interest in counterinsurgency and encouraged plans efforts in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, where all the coups happened. By the mid-1960s, Helms h…
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Often the retired intelligence officers tend to get into international finance. Gosh, I wonder why that is, because there's a lot of money to launder. Such as Richard Helms, who set up his own company as a joint venture in Iran. After the d…
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who was director of the Joint Staff, presented a detailed status to Kissinger at the White House recommending that Operation Ivory Coast be carried out at the end of the month. The Joint Chiefs, the SECDEF, and the CIA Director, Richard Hel…
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was the presenter on November 18th when Ivory Coast's plan was again briefed at the White House, this time directly to Nixon, SACDEP, Kissinger, CIA Director Helms, and Secretary of State William Rogers. The president was told that he had a…
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was working with Comer in Vietnam. Langley soon learned just how much of an influence Comer had in the White House. In late 1967, Richard Helms, the CIA director, felt that the time had came for a change in the plans area of the Far East Di…
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in the Soviet-Russian division. William Colby naturally accepted and was already getting his first briefings when Comer asked instead for Colby's assignment to Saigon as deputy chief of his cords program. At one of the president's regular T…
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S-N-E-P-P, could find no better title for the book, giving his account of the debacle other than decent interval. After the March 7th, 1969, Richard Nixon helicoptered out of Langley with Richard Helms to address senior officials of the CIA…
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Richard Nixon helicoptered out of Langley with Richard Helms to address senior people at the CIA in a large auditorium. As in common previous ceremonial pep talks, the president painted the role of the CIA in glowing terms. Quote, I look up…
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As in too many other instances, Kissinger blamed the bureaucracy for allegedly opposing intervention, while Ambassador Corey was consistently warning of Allende's candidacy and the CIA for being too complacent, though Dick Helms, Richard He…
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So supposedly Nixon's justification for orchestrating a coup that ended up killing tens of thousands of people was because a Chilean newspaper man who basically was funded with U.S. dollars had a problem with the Linde. That's the story the…
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Kissinger were called in to discuss the possibilities of how to play hardball with Chile. The CIA could have $10 million if needed in order to ensure that the Senate in Chile did not confirm Allende as the president. And Nixon also ordered …
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in order to starve the people, hopefully they'll get out on the street and overthrow their own president if they're hungry enough. Helms would later say President Nixon came down very hard in favor of attacking Allende. Okay, on September 1…
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Charles Carlos Prats and his wife were gunned down in Buenos Aires in 1974, the guy who resigned after being intimidated that allowed Pinochet to run the army and affect the coup, because he was a witness. Nevertheless, Richard Helms was ob…