Watergate scandal event
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Watergate scandal exposed
CIA documented
“The Watergate investigation affected Bill Colby far more than he expected. The Watergate revelations of the CIA's aid to White House domestic political operations stripped away much of the Cold War mystique around the agency. Congress was a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 1:27
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Watergate scandal host_asserted
“of what the CIA did in Miami with the Cuban exiles. Yes. So the Cuban exiles were used exactly the same way. And they were used not only in the JFK assassination, they were used in the assassination of the Chilean ambassador in Washington, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:34:05
Seymour Hersh exposed
Watergate scandal host_asserted
“that don't know about seymour hirsch he's also the one not only that reported on watergate but he also reported on the uh pipeline bombing so you might find that interesting but the other thing that was concerning me about usa i think this …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 1:42:16
Mark Felt exposed
Watergate scandal documented
“Former FBI Director William Mark Felt, age 91, broke his 30-year silence and confirmed in June 2005 that he was Deep Throat, the anonymous government source who also leaked crucial information to The Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 32:15
Ron Ziegler exposed
Watergate scandal documented
“I would apologize to the Post and I would apologize to Mr. Woodward and Bernstein. They have vigorously pursued this story and deserve the credit and are receiving the credit. Subsequently, the investigations of the Senate Watergate Committ…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 27:02
Senate Watergate Committee exposed
Watergate scandal documented
“I would apologize to the Post and I would apologize to Mr. Woodward and Bernstein. They have vigorously pursued this story and deserve the credit and are receiving the credit. Subsequently, the investigations of the Senate Watergate Committ…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 27:02
House Judiciary Committee exposed
Watergate scandal documented
“I would apologize to the Post and I would apologize to Mr. Woodward and Bernstein. They have vigorously pursued this story and deserve the credit and are receiving the credit. Subsequently, the investigations of the Senate Watergate Committ…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 27:02
Bob Woodward exposed
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“Crazy that these are all the same people. Woodward then gets inside information from the FBI, Mark Phelps, who is later convicted of violating the civil rights of Americans, and also from the man who used to brief, while in the Navy, the Wh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 23:58
E. Howard Hunt carried_out_attack
Watergate scandal book_quoted
“But then came the Watergate scandal, in which Howard was accused of masterminding the break-in of the Democrat Party headquarters, among other things, and was ultimately convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, and that dreadful …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 29:33
Dorothy Hunt carried_out_attack
Watergate scandal documented
“That was scheduled to begin the second week of January 1973. Dorothy was later identified as a pay mistress of hush money to the Watergate defendants and their family to keep the burglars from cooperating with authorities and testifying at …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 31:26
Frank Church exposed
Watergate scandal host_asserted
“uh senator church was um how he basically exposed everything from watergate to um guatemala yep uh to number of issues surrounding the bay of pigs the assassination attempts on castro to um i i i think he he helped expose um the chilean cou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 1:10:09
CIA covered_up
Watergate scandal book_quoted
“on a regular basis, General Alexander Haig. So that's just nuts. That's nuts. So, and of course, Haig is there in the middle of the Nixon fiasco, and he's in the middle of the Reagan fiasco. Both fiascos orchestrated Iran-Contra and Waterga…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 22:02
CIA funded
Watergate scandal documented
“When it was revealed that the CIA had furnished material assistance to Hunt, they had prepared certain psychological profiles on Americans at the request of the White House, and that virtually the same Watergate cast had carried out other i…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:10:27
Richard Nixon covered_up
Watergate scandal documented
“As Nixon frantically tried to cover his tracks with the scandal, sketchy money began flowing back and forth. The president was desperate to keep Hunt quiet, and during one White House meeting, Nixon was caught on his taping system, figured …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 36:22
CIA covered_up
Watergate scandal 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
CIA carried_out_attack
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“but they brought him down in a joint CIA-FBI operation called Watergate. President Carter tried to end as much of the secrecy, but of course he fell victim to the deep state himself. President Reagan, who we know brought us not only George …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 35:32
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The preponderance of the group that was involved in Watergate were trained by the CIA's Miami station as part of the quote unquote Cuban exiles, which are our Operation Gladio people. The Cuban exiles was used throughout America to do some …
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They even had turf wars. Let me just tell you this. Between Mossad and in one of the books I was reading, there was a particular drug route that was being ran in Panama where they actually got into a shootout between Mossad agents and the C…
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to be paid through Wilson's company and to operate under Wilson's control. His top agent was Rafael Chichi Cotero. Now, guys, they have placed a cell of Gladio under Edwin Wilson. That's what I just told you. The others worked in menial job…
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And, you know, he talks a lot with Richard Helms about it. But one thing I wanted to raise is that Nixon was totally careless with a lot of stuff, including, you know, the whole Watergate break-in. I mean, obviously he had the smoking gun t…
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And they're a trained assassin. They were trained to torture people. They were trained to overthrow governments. They were 100 percent trained in the United States. They were part of the Watergate. So they operated inside at the direction o…
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You know, in both CIA, your Richard Nixon's and your sundry Cubans that are between the JFK coup by the CIA and Watergate. Guess what? The whole sick crew is also involved in this 1953 case that's trying to prevent Onassis from getting the …
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of what the CIA did in Miami with the Cuban exiles. Yes. So the Cuban exiles were used exactly the same way. And they were used not only in the JFK assassination, they were used in the assassination of the Chilean ambassador in Washington, …
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happened with Watergate, that there was a prostitution ring going on in the building behind the Watergate Hotel. And there was a book in the desk of the secretary that worked outside of the DNC headquarters, like in the outer office of the …
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Well, it's just, you know, what's also really disheartening is it seems like these honeypots or, you know, whatever. I mean, you even had mentioned in one of the ones about, you know, J. Edgar Hoover, you know, the government even had or th…
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who are basically in control of the intelligence agency. Yet we know it's crystal clear that the intelligence agencies are the ones who caused Watergate. There was Mockingbird Media and insiders that deposed them, Deep Throat and the Washin…
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And, you know, there's banking, the creation of the World Bank and how everyone's on the, you know, the hegemonic dollar system. So, yeah, it makes perfect sense that if they're going to do economic warfare, then they set up the economic wa…
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The person feeding Woodward and Bernstein the information in Watergate. Apparently he was not. That came out later. And the E. Howard Hunt Confessions names him as one of the plotters of the JFK assassination. You want to add anything? Yeah…
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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…
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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…
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After Watergate deposed Richard Nixon, the news emerged that the CIA had spied domestically since at least the Johnson administration. Congressman Otis Pike of the House Intelligence Committee began to probe publicly into the CIA. Newspaper…
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Among those clients were Nugent Hand. So again, all Colby did was go to the enterprise, which is what I call the covert side of the CIA in all of their fake entities. Ford had thought about replacing Colby with Elliot Richardson, the forthr…
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Nixon was still celebrating his landslide victory over George McGovern in 72 when he offered Bush a new job, head of the Republican National Committee. Over the next two years, Bush made 118 speeches and held 87 press conferences, blindly d…
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I had saw this the other day and completely forgot about it. So thank you for bringing it back up. Because again, you look at things with Gladio glasses on, everything appears differently. So we know that the lawyers that are used to hide C…
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It was recorded. It's about half an hour on the phone between Nixon and Rockefeller. I haven't listened to it. I just have the National Archives notes on it so far. But you'll never believe what else comes up in that call about the FEC. The…
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I knew all of that crap. I just hadn't put the pieces together like the Boys Town part of it. Those guys were all pedophiles. So, again, you go back and you look at all that stuff a second time. Those people that were the lawyers for Nixon …
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Oh, that is interesting. Yeah. Skull and Bonesman. There isn't a whole lot of detail to his life, but he was, interestingly, one of the people who was falsely named by John Dean as potentially being Deep Throat and Watergate. Hold on a seco…
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1946, he's already getting money from the East Coast Republican factions, including Allen Dulles, for his congressional campaign at the very beginning. And then he is like, some people I've heard said, obviously he was aligned with CIA for …
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And it also kind of ties back, too, to the Columbia Plaza scandal, which is – it's still not totally vetted. But Jim Hoogan of Harper's lays out a pretty interesting case for it that Len Kolodny also picked up in 1994. So there are some jou…
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The interesting story with Hughes has been known for a long time. He had some connections to Watergate because I think McCord had a bunch of links to Intertel, Howard Hughes' own private investigative agency. And they would rotate people th…
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to corporations running it, but still kind of engaging in unusual behavior. But there is a connection from Adnan Khashoggi from 1972 Las Vegas, where he's making phone calls to the Watergate Hotel. Probably unrelated, but...…
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cited the quote-unquote disposal problem to JFK as one reason to go ahead with the Bay of Pigs invasion. Far from disposing of the Cuban contract agents, the operation led to an almost open-ended CIA involvement with the Cuban exiles all ov…
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These are the same people that are being training that we're talking about right now that were sent up to Washington, D.C. to blow up Ambassador Latier. These are the same people that were brought in to Watergate to frame President Nixon. S…
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like Mozambique, Angola, where they were orchestrating coups as well. Cuban enlisted in the abortive invasion of Haiti back in the late 1960s. Cubans were available to be recruited by the Republican campaign officials in the 72 intelligence…
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And we know that because we followed all of the operations that they flew all over the world to conduct. So he mentions Watergate with Bernard Barker, E. Howard Hunt, and another guy, Rolando Martinez, who all participated in many of the CI…
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Watergate is an ugly name for the Nixon years, a product of his 1972 re-election campaign. Watergate is important to the CIA because of the break-in team was comprised of Bay of Pigs veterans, the Cuban exiles like Bernard Barker, but CIA o…
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When it was revealed that the CIA had furnished material assistance to Hunt, they had prepared certain psychological profiles on Americans at the request of the White House, and that virtually the same Watergate cast had carried out other i…
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CIA director from 72 to 76, spent a great deal of his time in the intelligence community coordinating the defense of the CIA during the Watergate investigation. This period was also a time for secret warriors. The man chosen to replace Helm…
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The Watergate investigation affected Bill Colby far more than he expected. The Watergate revelations of the CIA's aid to White House domestic political operations stripped away much of the Cold War mystique around the agency. Congress was a…
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by the revulsion at CIA domestic involvement, but by growing fears concerning the general quality of intelligence oversight and concern over the disingenuous handling by the administration of explanations for the U.S. involvement in Laos an…
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had assembled a memorandum describing how the New York Times had exaggerated. But there were fire behind the smoke, as Colby was obliged to admit. In fact, Hearst had succeeded in uncovering some of the major CIA abuses exposed internally i…
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and the congressional committees who wanted to look at everything in the files. Ford is correct that the atmosphere created in the Watergate scandal contributed to the intensity, but the CIA abuses were hardly incidental. From the instance …
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um, multilateral affairs and human rights. Um, and then she was the U S ambassador to the UN. Um, yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'm just missing it, but I don't see it. All right. Who else we got? Anybody else? SR 71. Thank you, Colonel. Just, …
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uh senator church was um how he basically exposed everything from watergate to um guatemala yep uh to number of issues surrounding the bay of pigs the assassination attempts on castro to um i i i think he he helped expose um the chilean cou…
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Okay, I apologize. Yeah, it was 2006, actually. Yeah, it came out much later. But we did, there was a dearth of information after that. And there wasn't a lot of information before, you know, Watergate either. So yeah, yeah, he does. And li…
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And his theory was that the Watergate was a manufactured punishment to remove Nixon because of his movement against their drug trade in the French Connection scenario.…
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the steady external and independent oversight of the performance of the foreign intelligence community as a whole, unquote. Nelson Rockefeller, who chaired another presidential commission in the mid-1970s, also reported that the board's rol…
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a product of his 1972 re-election campaign. It is important to the CIA because of the participation of the Bay of Pigs veterans, not only the Cuban exiles like Bernard Barker, but CIA officers like E. Howard Hunt. Agency security specialist…
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Hunt's White House schemes and had prepared certain psychological profiles on Americans at the request of the White House and that virtually the same Watergate cast had carried out illegal break-ins on White House instructions, the CIA knew…
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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…
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who held the post as deputy CIA director from 72 to 76, spent a great deal of time defending the CIA from White House demands. In other words, they resisted every attempt to get involved because they were already involved on the other side.…
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And then you've got the head of the White House plumbers who know everything that's who knows everything that's going on with the Watergate Hotel and is potentially coordinating and, you know, operating everything. And then, well, you know,…
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A 32-year-old Oxford scholar and a protege of Nelson Rockefeller's. Prior to his employment, he had been Henry Kissinger, who was Nelson Rockefeller's man, according to Seymour Hersh. Henry Kissinger's employment secretary on the National S…
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To this shows in a half dozen break-ins that took place at the Chilean embassy in Washington in the spring and early summer of 1972, when the White House plumbers unit of Watergate fame ransacked the offices of Ambassador Orlando Ladier. Th…
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Alan Fiers emerged incredulous. He looked at Claire George for enlightenment. The DDO warned Fiers. George interrupted. Something in the dark of night, Bill Casey has said, I will take care of Central America, just leave it to me. And what …
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went through his FBI file and showed that the FBI suspected him of running a honeypot operation out of Las Vegas Sands in 73. And then finally, of course, you got Watergate and Len Kolodny and Jim Hoogan and their argument that there was al…
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which clearly existed that was connected to Watergate, called the Columbia Plaza Affair. And then, of course, there is a tie from Adnan Khashoggi to this Columbia Plaza Affair because Adnan Khashoggi is getting investigated for making calls…
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Dulles and Angleton shared a disdain for Washington bureaucracy and for governmental oversight of their agency. Later in post Watergate 70s, when the church committee opened a probe into the CIA law breaking, Angleton was called to account …
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On the way back home, Hunt told Saint that he had been doing some special work for the White House and things had gone south. It was the beginning of the Watergate drama in which Howard Hunt played a starring role as the leader of the White…
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and at least two, Frank Sturgis and Virgilio Gonzalez, were rumored to have played roles in Kennedy's assassination. As the Watergate scandal unfolded, Hunt drew Saint and the rest of his family deeper into his disintegrating lie. Saint's b…
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in the middle of the Watergate crisis while serving as a mysterious courier for her husband. When her United Airline flight in Washington's Dulles Airport crashed while landing at Chicago's Midway Airport in December of 1972, Dorothy Hunt w…
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As Nixon frantically tried to cover his tracks with the scandal, sketchy money began flowing back and forth. The president was desperate to keep Hunt quiet, and during one White House meeting, Nixon was caught on his taping system, figured …
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And I had a big house, stalls for six horses, kids in private school. I had needs for contributions that were greater than the average person. There's a long tradition that when a warrior is captured, the commanding officer takes care of hi…
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his devoted political deputy and White House chief of staff, Nixon was taped saying, Hunt will uncover a lot of things. You open the scab, there's a hell of a lot of things. This involves these Cubans, Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky that we…
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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 …
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in North Miami, where they all seem to go, with his second wife, Laura, who was 27 years younger. She had fallen for him while he was giving a prison interview on Watergate. I liked all of those men. That must seem strange to you, Laura Hun…
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shows with him at his miami house when the old man felt up to it dredging up the past laura did not want saint james reopening his history but he felt strongly that it needed to happen after his family fell apart saint james had gone on a r…
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understand the exact configuration of the plot. Nonetheless, what Hunt did tell St. John was stunning. Over the following months, the spy elaborated on his story as his health occasionally improved. At one point, St. brought in an expert on…
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to make communications unlikely. And it's simply not credible that a man in Johnson's position would have discussed something extraordinarily sensitive like this with Harvey. Yeah, he'll talk about the whole Watergate and all that other stu…
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with the Georgetown CIA crowd. By then, some of the skeletons in the CIA closet had already came out. When it was opened just a crack by post-Watergate congressional investigations, in 78, seated at an awards banquet next to Jimmy Carter's …
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That he was framed was given further credence years later by John Dean, the former White House attorney who became a key witness in the Watergate scandal that ended the Nixon presidency. Writing in his memoirs, Blind Ambition, Dean alleged …
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Nixon always speaks in circles, and he kind of circles around his ideas. And he doesn't really get to the real point sometimes. But he says that there's this whole other set of things that are unfolding besides Watergate that we can't let o…
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Retribution, if you've got something real quick, I got to run. Okay. I was just going to point out, Hillary was one of the attorneys at all this mess, okay, at Watergate. Yeah, until she got fired. Yeah, I'll just make it short and sweet. S…
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in Christian David's career has never before, to Peter Del Scott's knowledge, been revealed to the country. Hendrick Kruger was able to expand the story and show how it was applicable not only to the CIA, but to Watergate and, at the time i…
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but never covered in the U.S. Peter Del Scott goes on to say that if the Washington Post and New York Times, then supposedly the exposers of Watergate had picked up any of these stories, like the one in the French newspaper, then the histor…
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in the quote-unquote war on drugs. Nixon's declaration in June of 1971 of his war on heroin promptly led to the creation of the Watergate White House plumbers with their Cuban exile members and even hit squads with the avowed purpose of tac…
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the international narcotics traffic, which of course we know they didn't do. Among those White House narcotics supposedly sleuths was Liddy Hunt, Sturgis, and Bernard Barker. Those are all names made famous during the Watergate scandal. He …
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says that temporarily checked by the outcome of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, reemerged during the Reagan administration. In the 1980s, President Reagan introduced a new and supposedly tougher foreign policy. He was…
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wouldn't be a major cover-up that had been constructed by the Clinton administration. But of course, it started before that with the George H. W. Bush administration. In a letter written to a former Army chaplain, Colonel James Ammerman of …
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player involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion had been in Yale's secret skull and bone society by the time Bush became director of the CIA in 76. Phillips writes, three generations of Bush and Walker families already had some six decades of i…
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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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To investigate Oswald, everything we know about Lee Harvey Oswald, to include the interviews that were conducted of Moore and Schilt, these were all done by Albert Jenner, who was basically the guy who did the Crown family's bidding. He was…
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and some soon-to-be infamous names would be in charge of setting them all up. From Paul Williams' book, Operation Gladio, the following quote, By the close of World War II, Helliwell and a number of fellow intelligence officers, to include …
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But then came the Watergate scandal, in which Howard was accused of masterminding the break-in of the Democrat Party headquarters, among other things, and was ultimately convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, and that dreadful …
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at Midway Airport in Chicago on December 8, 1972, which also took the lives of 42 other passengers. Testifying about the activities of the CIA does seem to have a dreadful consequence, like dying in plane crashes, being shot in your home by…
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That was scheduled to begin the second week of January 1973. Dorothy was later identified as a pay mistress of hush money to the Watergate defendants and their family to keep the burglars from cooperating with authorities and testifying at …
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But we also have statements from the coroner's office. Was the high energy impact a bomb or was it meant to refer to the plane hitting the ground? I guess it could cover both so that one might say it's a truth and a lie. However, I read Buc…
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That terrible event came at a high point in the Watergate affair. Then I had a phone call from Howard with whom I hadn't been in touch for several years. He startled me by telling me that he intended to disclose to me everything he knew abo…
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was his saying that his dedication to the project had included a hypothetical agreement to contrive the assassination of syndicated muckraker Jack Anderson if the high command at the Nixon White House thought it was necessary. I also rememb…
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but they brought him down in a joint CIA-FBI operation called Watergate. President Carter tried to end as much of the secrecy, but of course he fell victim to the deep state himself. President Reagan, who we know brought us not only George …
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was to blame the church committee that they had exposed too much and put the agents in the field in danger. It was a narrative. They needed a dead body. He goes on to quote, In 1973, the Senate Watergate Committee investigation revealed tha…
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that for much of his career he has been regarded as, he's talking about Bob Woodward, one of our most respected journalists, starting with the work he and Carl Bernstein did for the Washington Post investigating the Watergate scandal with R…
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Woodward was hired at the Post in September 1971. Watergate and all the president's men. In 1972, the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein at the Post was regularly denounced by the Nixon re-election campaign, Republican leaders in the White…
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the better to understand people and their motivation. On a ROTC scholarship, what he fails to mention is how high he made it in the Navy, becoming a briefer for Alexander Haig, who would become the chief of staff in the Nixon White House. J…
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on a regular basis, General Alexander Haig. So that's just nuts. That's nuts. So, and of course, Haig is there in the middle of the Nixon fiasco, and he's in the middle of the Reagan fiasco. Both fiascos orchestrated Iran-Contra and Waterga…
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I would apologize to the Post and I would apologize to Mr. Woodward and Bernstein. They have vigorously pursued this story and deserve the credit and are receiving the credit. Subsequently, the investigations of the Senate Watergate Committ…
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Over 40 people went to jail because of Watergate investigations, including Nixon's top White House aide, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Nixon's main attorneys, former Attorney General John Mitchell, White House Counsel John Dean, He…
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Much of the reporting of Bernstein and Woodward on the Watergate break-in cover up Nixon White House in the 1972 re-election campaign espionage, sabotage, and fundraising. The question, which later researchers would ask, is whether Watergat…
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Former FBI Director William Mark Felt, age 91, broke his 30-year silence and confirmed in June 2005 that he was Deep Throat, the anonymous government source who also leaked crucial information to The Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein…
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tasked with overseeing Nixon's secret communication channels on behalf of a shadow government being frozen out of decision-making. So basically, Nixon took a playbook out of the CIA and created his own little off-the-books government, if yo…
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trying to create a more stable international order. But we already know that's not going to happen. So they begin to monitor Nixon via Bob Woodward. So he gains the internal working knowledge of the White House. Then he leaves the military …
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Crazy that these are all the same people. Woodward then gets inside information from the FBI, Mark Phelps, who is later convicted of violating the civil rights of Americans, and also from the man who used to brief, while in the Navy, the Wh…
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establishing the Phoenix assassination program in Vietnam, estimated to have killed 40,000 Vietnamese. The Kennedy assassination and the Watergate scandal, the part he played in the Iran-Contra scandal, which nearly brought down the entire …
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and some of those same members would be convicted of being involved in Watergate, all trained by Ted Shackley. Third, Shackley's role as head of CIA operations in Vietnam in association with the Phoenix program. Fourth, his retirement in 19…
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You know, I can't quite make the joke here. Okay. But he's basically locking all the doors, shutting all the windows and saying, look, the whole Warren commission thing, that's bullshit. We've got the whole thing on tape. Okay. So that happ…
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in 1972. So it seems to back up, it seems to back up Haldeman's story too, though, that to Nixon, you know, the JFK, Bay of Pigs was sort of code for the JFK assassination of Helms. Correct. Because that supposedly was the CIA story in sayi…
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Which circle is he at the bottom of the pit with everybody else? Is he in the ninth circle? I don't know. Is he just in hell or is he under hell? Is he the worst of the worst? He clearly got conned at the end of the day, and maybe that's sl…
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And he wanted his CIA director, Richard Helms, who we just talked about yesterday, to know it, as revealed by one of the most infamous Watergate tapes. Quote, we protected Helms from one hell of a lot of things, Nixon growled on the tape. Y…
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the whole Bay of Pigs thing. And the president just feels that without going into details, don't lie to them to the extent to say that there's no involvement, but just say that this is sort of a comedy of errors, bizarre, without getting in…
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are a group of Cubans and their assorted allies who had been running out of the Miami CIA station by Shackley. Shackley could count the alleged assassins of Kennedy as well as the convicted members of the Watergate burglary team as all his …
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In the early 1970s, given the nearly 30 years that had passed since the World War II, what was the path forward? Kennedy had wanted to de-escalate the East-West conflict in the 60s and may have paid the ultimate price for it. In the early 7…
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The CIA supplying the incompetent burglars, the FBI pretending to do a serious investigation, it would appear we have our answer. But the false trail kept being laid with either the Cubans working with the mafia or the mafia working on its …
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in which other political and national security developments, Watergate, Vietnam, the Phoenix program, Laos, revelations of CIA's use of private institutions had already eroded the credibility of official denials in the faith of the American…
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That would have obliged the president and the secretary of state to produce data on the economic measures or economic warfare they had taken against Allende. The Harrington letters also gave Senator Fulbright an opportunity to press again f…
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with the Supreme Court decision that required him to give up the Oval Office audiotapes, providing incontrovertible evidence that he had conspired to cover up his 1972 election issues. The House of Representatives voted on three articles of…
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Koft and the authors went to court to force release the material. Legal discovery, court arguments, and the to-ing and fro-ing surrounded the entire affair furnished many opportunities for more leaks. Seymour Hirsch, investigative journalis…
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section for more than a decade resigned after being denied the opportunity to respond to Kissinger associates. Maxwell had liked the Cornball study more than Kissinger wanted. Nasty political infighting in Washington through the fall of 74 …
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He remembers the events as ruining not only the Christmas season for me, but nearly all of the next year as well. Aw, too bad. Colby arrived on the seventh floor of Langley just in time to face the explosion. The ground had been well prepar…