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Yugoslavia supplied_arms_to
MPLA documented
“This is not the MPLA of the Soviet Union. It's gone. The breakaway communist nation, Yugoslavia, with which Washington had fairly good relations, became the sole socialist country to help MPLA during this period. Moving into the post-Portug…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 21:30
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Yugoslavia host_asserted
“under an Operation Gladio auspices because they actually imported Muslims that they had trained during the conflict with the Mujahideen and Russia. They actually imported them into Yugoslavia and pretended like they were native.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13 @ 1:39:59
Josip Broz Tito overthrew
Yugoslavia book_quoted
“In addition, there was socialist Yugoslavia, which after Tito's break with Stalin in 1947, represented an important Balkan partner for American and particularly British diplomacy. For this reason, representatives of separatist Croats, Serbs…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6 @ 44:39
Yugoslavia targeted_for_regime_change
Miklós Horthy documented
“by the Yugoslav War Crimes Commission, and he even cited the page and paragraph number. The Yugoslav government requested the American authorities at Wiesbaden for extradition of the Admiral and repeated this request again in 1946. The Yugo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 48:37
Wesley Clark headed
Yugoslavia caller_asserted
“whatever, seven countries that, what's his name, General Wesley Clark spoke about, like 10 days after 9-11. And that guy was a Democrat. Much respect to him, though, for blowing the whistle on that. Well, but he's also the guy that was in c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13 @ 1:39:04
Philip Morris ordered_assassination_of
Yugoslavia host_asserted
“And Wesley Clark was the commander of that installation at the time. So we're very familiar with Wesley Clark. That's fascinating. On the NATO side, something that always stuck with me was the fact that they actually bombed a tobacco manufa…”
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NATO targeted_for_regime_change
Yugoslavia host_asserted
“And they tried to mobilize the entire American people to be anti-Trump. That's exactly what they did in Yugoslavia. And another thing, if you are newer, the way that they get people into NATO, they knew they would never get Yugoslavia into …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 1:22:38
Alfred Ulmer carried_out_attack
Yugoslavia host_asserted
“And Italy and Austria during the time that he would have been there in the late 40s and early 50s were all part of Operation Gladio. And then, of course, we just mentioned his excursion over into Greece as well. So very, very interesting. I…”
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the reception of forces for the special operators and the PJs, the pararescue guys coming for the air operations going on when the CIA set up the dissolving of Yugoslavia and the air war, Bosnia, all of that crap. So I was involved in all o…
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despite the fact that we all stood up and said, hell no. Okay, thank you for clarifying because I thought that we had, I don't know, done something to basically get Russia to chill out. And even though we were doing lots of regime change in…
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Muslim terrorists that the CIA trained in the Afghanistan, Pakistan area and basically brought them in, not just to Chechnya. We were behind the entire Chechnya in order to reroute an oil pipeline. We were behind the breakup of the Yugoslav…
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The second largest one we've found so far is Colombia. They have about 20,000. But knowing and understanding this program makes everything going on right now completely different. Matthew, go ahead. Yeah. Hi. How are you all doing? I've bee…
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Sure. So who was it that mentioned, was it Matthew you were talking about, who was it that was talking about that they looked into the Yugoslavia? Unmute and let me know which one of you it was. Was it you, Matthew? Yes, it was. I looked in…
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Leads them, obviously, to the Soviet Union. It always does. But they also approached countries like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, which we know what happened to them, too. Here, the Bolivians eventually yielded to the U.S. pressure. Fox an…
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Oh, okay. Yeah, I mean, we had the Dayton Accords to resolve the breakup of Yugoslavia. I mean, they do that a lot. Right. I guess nowadays, it's like once those flags start going up, it's hard not to see them with their hand in everything,…
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assistant to Ambassador Holbrooke, who, for those of you who don't remember, he was intricately involved in the Yugoslavia-Bosnia false flag to break up Yugoslavia. And let's see, from 98 to 2000, he served as executive assistant deputy sec…
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Just as a personal note. So I remember all of this very clearly. Also, Wesley Clark, General Wesley Clark's famous comment about the seven countries and five years is worthy of attention as well. TJ, I don't know if you have been with us lo…
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And Wesley Clark was the commander of that installation at the time. So we're very familiar with Wesley Clark. That's fascinating. On the NATO side, something that always stuck with me was the fact that they actually bombed a tobacco manufa…
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When they would have these meetings and they would decide, okay, we're going to basically screw up Yugoslavia or we're going to screw up and overthrow Hungary or we're going to screw up and overthrow XYZ country. He was the guy that went in…
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of the American rationale over the next two and a half years that Russians were trying to get into Greece, that they were paying the guerrillas, and that had it not been for the U.S. and the divisive tactics being used, Greece would go comm…
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with all of the new territory that they had picked up, did not want to piss off the U.S. or Great Britain. He was actually, when you read back in real history, he was very timid when it came to, in any way, shape or form, coming head to hea…
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when in fact it really wasn't. Greece would have been much more independent of the U.S. if the U.S. obviously had stayed out of its business. Greece would likely have been independent and had nothing to do with the Soviet Union. Like Yugosl…
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He's an academic, and they send him over as the chief of the Austro-Hungarian Division of American Commission to negotiate the peace. He's also a delegate on the Romanian, Yugoslavian, Czechoslovakian territorial commissions. And we know wh…
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And again, I was less than 10 books into this whole research project like two years ago. Then they talk about Yugoslavia and that pretty much does this book. So that was crazy. And those are kind of like my all-time must-read books if you'r…
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He was the NATO commander. Keep in mind, NATO runs Operation Gladio. He was the NATO commander when we did the air war in Bosnia and tore that entire place apart using the Mujahideen, Tajikistan, the Kazakhstan Muslims imported in there to …
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the um the original coup where they tried to get Sukarno out of office um in Indonesia after they were granted their independence from the Dutch in order to steal their oil and gold so then he shows up in Yugoslavia then he shows up in Pola…
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they all have pickup of ambassadors. Sometimes there's no ambassadors to country, but like in, since the seventies until like 2016, 17, they have a surge in ambassadors to Yugoslavia and Serbia. And there's a surge in ambassadors to China, …
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who fought with us during World War II the next day. And actually, it wasn't even the next day. It was even before the war was over. We brought Reinhard Galen over to the United States and copied all of his stay-behind unit stuff that he'd …
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Albania in the 1990s. What happened in Albania, you had the problem in what was then Yugoslavia. Yes. And you had the problem of Milosevic and you had the problem of Serbs who were Christians and who controlled these regions. Christians. Yo…
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What happened was, this is part of Gladio, we began to fund the so-called ethnic Albanians so that they would go to war against Serbia and destroy Yugoslavia. And so that these regions would become really, and they are now, Islamic strongho…
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as between a territorial united Indonesia, which is leaning towards communism, and a breakup of that country into geographical units. I prefer the latter, because that's what they did everywhere. That's why they broke up Yugoslavia and all …
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And Italy and Austria during the time that he would have been there in the late 40s and early 50s were all part of Operation Gladio. And then, of course, we just mentioned his excursion over into Greece as well. So very, very interesting. I…
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There had been a plan to unseat the government of Albania under the typical designation of it being communist. The geography was a key element in making the campaign possible. Bases were available just a short distance away, to include our …
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Fillers were put out in all directions in Yugoslavia, which had halted its aid to Greek quote-unquote guerrillas, but those are actually the freedom fighters that the British and later us were trying to overthrow, the nationalists. And Yugo…
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had approached the U.S. through the CIA channels for military aid and were depending on this assistance to forestall any interaction with the Soviets, they did not want to piss off the Soviets. And that's what they felt would happen if they…
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In the speech, the speech became an important lever of Cold War. Here, the leader of Russia, the Soviet Union, admitted flaws in Stalin's leadership. The speech even discussed Stalin's personal intervention in the affair in Hungary and Yugo…
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With these came the return of the communist faction that was responsible for earlier purges. Soviet troops deployed momentarily, but were recalled. Jan Nowak, heading Radio Free Europe's Polish broadcasters, kept the reporting low-key, avoi…
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This is not the MPLA of the Soviet Union. It's gone. The breakaway communist nation, Yugoslavia, with which Washington had fairly good relations, became the sole socialist country to help MPLA during this period. Moving into the post-Portug…
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while Bill Donovan used the OSS globally with major commands in the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, Burma, and China. OSS teams parachuted into France, Norway, former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere. They blew up bridges in the Balkans, worked wi…
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But he had also served in Yugoslavia under quote unquote diplomatic cover, as well as Germany and Bulgaria, which is interesting because those are all of the hotspots. Remember, Bulgaria is like the Soviet covert weapons. That's where they …
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Lindsay was another OSS veteran and one of the real paramilitary, well-experienced agents. During the war, he had worked in what was then Yugoslavia, arranging secret arms shipments. It was Lindsay, together with a former State Department o…
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that witnessed the first big CIA paramilitary operation. This plan, in conjunction with the British, aimed to unseat the communist government of Albania, a small state on the eastern Adriatic Sea. It's literally right across the Adriatic fr…
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Lindsay's, whose wartime OSS service was in Yugoslavia, was well known there too. The hopes in Washington were high. Frank Wisner exclaimed to Joyce, quote, a clinical experiment to see whether larger rollback operations would be feasible e…
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Smiley supervised the training. Feelers were put out in other directions as well. Yugoslavia had halted its aid to Greek guerrillas and broken with Stalin in 1948. They might participate.…
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unfortunately, and had been sent to Italy with a team in connection with the surrender of the Axis nation. Toward the end of the war, Burke had gone into Yugoslavia and worked with Lindsay with partisan activities. Another member of the tea…
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I will sum up what's in that last chapter at the end of probably tomorrow's show. This chapter that we're going to start on today is the last substantive chapter. It's called Struggle for Control. And the reason why this one is important is…
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these things kind of go over the change of administrations. So where to begin? Yugoslavia has a very interesting past for those of you who don't know it. It was kind of the borders post-World War II were created and it actually World War I,…
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And it had to do with the portions of what was previously the Habsburg and the Ottoman Empire and the Serbian monarchy. Yugoslavia had become another one of those entities that had a lot of different ethnic.…
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backgrounds, not culturally cohesive. And we've noticed that this is a pattern because these people that create these nation states at these conferences or quote unquote peace treaties have a history of creating these entities so that they …
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Yugoslavia had been held together by a combination of monarch power and opposition to Italian encroachment. In the Cold War, Yugoslavia had Joseph Tito and his national communism as basically the guy in charge. Bosnian Muslims.…
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long the disadvantaged population began to gain status during the Tito period. Fear and envy of Muslims certainly figured into the Serbian attitudes. And again, this is just the author's perspective on this. The forces in play by the end of…
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There was an urgent phone call put through from the station in the former Yugoslavia to the State Department that after Holbrooke had left, got on his airplane, took off, that they had finally got a consensus and were willing to sign the pe…
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when he was confronted. It's a hilarious video. Amid all the angst, the CIA operations had to go on, the most important remaining in Bosnia. Agency planners discovered that they had just four officers who spoke Croatian. H.K. Roy was one of…
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The people that lived in this area, the original people, they did have a Muslim enclave in Yugoslavia. They had Christians there. There were Catholics there. They didn't kill each other. They didn't hate each other. There has been accounts …
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in the former Yugoslavia that says they were flooded with Muslim people that they had never seen before. They were not indigenous Muslim populations to that area. And they are the ones that basically provoked, and they were, Iran, whoever i…
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We weren't going to expand NATO. There wasn't going to be any military bases in any of the non-Soviet countries like Romania and Poland. And we've put military bases in all of them. And then he talks about the operations in Yugoslavia, Chec…
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whatever, seven countries that, what's his name, General Wesley Clark spoke about, like 10 days after 9-11. And that guy was a Democrat. Much respect to him, though, for blowing the whistle on that. Well, but he's also the guy that was in c…
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Yeah, you're right. You're right. I totally forgot that he was correlated to that. And that's where the rest of my family, I come from a messed up, messed up areas in the world. You know, my other three quarters is Yugoslavian, like Bosnian…
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under an Operation Gladio auspices because they actually imported Muslims that they had trained during the conflict with the Mujahideen and Russia. They actually imported them into Yugoslavia and pretended like they were native.…
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with the key foreign intelligence services, including the frontline Cold War nations like France, West Germany, Turkey, Taiwan, and Yugoslavia, as well as Mossad. What they leave out in this book is he also was the Vatican's desk officer. A…
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in colorado and started spending more time overseas you know like he would if he was working for the cia he became a consultant on petroleum projects in latin america gosh who was working on them nelson rockefeller europe and africa huh all…
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And they tried to mobilize the entire American people to be anti-Trump. That's exactly what they did in Yugoslavia. And another thing, if you are newer, the way that they get people into NATO, they knew they would never get Yugoslavia into …
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If they control the new leadership of the broken up countries, you have only to look at Korea. They knew they could not knock out the North. So they just separate it. They break it up. And they have completely controlled South Korea ever si…
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I was part of it. I'm the one that deployed to Iraq. Know how painful it is. It's gut-wrenching. The amount of people that have been lost, I'm sorry, I'm going to have to drop down. Okay. All along, go ahead. Hi, Colonel. I just wanted to p…
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It was impossible for the U.S. to coerce the organization to build NATO or CO2 or what have you. Then they just crumbled the cookie and worked with the pieces. And I also want to point out that, you know, it's critical we look at the time o…
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and serious attempts at revolution exploded in Berlin and Budapest. Nations such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia that had long been subordinate territories of old regimes could see independence. Existing countries wanted their borders redr…
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The Vatican proposal would give U.S. and British forces control of a strategically important port in Trieste on the border of Italy and Yugoslavia. This position would permit them to rapidly enter Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Austria so that th…
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But Joseph Tito's well-organized Yugoslav partisans regarded the city and its environment as part of a liberated Yugoslavia, and they opposed the U.S.-British initiative. The inter-allied clash over what might otherwise be an obscure seapor…
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Tito's government made repeated details requests of the Western allies to turn over scores of Yugoslavian Nazis and collaborators who had fallen into the U.S. and British hands. Most of those requests were straightforward and not controvers…
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fascist Ustasi organization, which, by the way, later goes on to become part of the World Anti-Communist League, a fascist organization, and were skinning little kids alive while they were in charge, all that Yugoslavia wanted was those peo…
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but the defeated anti-Tito faction in Yugoslavia had powerful friends abroad, not the least of whom was Pope Pius XII. For the Pope, the militantly Catholic Ustasis seemed to be a viable alternative to Tito, and the Pope and leading Croatia…
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repeatedly intervened to block any cooperation. The U.S. commitments in the Moscow Declaration at Yalta was thrown out the window. Conservative nationalist and monarchist Yugoslavians lobbied on behalf of the Yugoslav leader Draža Mihailovi…
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vacillated during the war between an alliance with the West against Hitler and an alliance with Hitler, Yugoslav minority leaders, notably the Slovenes, pressured U.S. congressmen on behalf of the old comrades, who records during the war ha…
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Pressures combined with a geopolitical confrontation over the port, the State Department suspended authorization for the transfer of prisoners to the Yugoslav government on the bureaucratic pretext of the port conflict. Though State continu…
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They saw the Yugoslav transfer request as so essential political that it should continue to be dealt with through diplomatic channels rather than anything that applied to the Yalta agreement. The prisoners sought by Yugoslav, the British sa…
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be properly considered as political opponents to the present day Yugoslavian government. So it really didn't matter how heinous the crimes were. If they could be seen as an opponent to the current Yugoslav government, we're going to go ahea…
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The obstruction to transfers to the Yugoslav grew so blatant that even the U.S. ambassador in Belgrade, John Cabot, formally protested to Washington. Quote, it is crystal clear, even on the basis of material available in the embassy spiles,…
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We are protecting not only the war criminals, but also those who are guilty of terrible crimes committed in Yugoslavia, Cabot wrote in a top secret telegram. Quote, I presume we must protect our agents, even though it disgusts me to think t…
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The record now is despite our commitment and more obligations, we have failed to take effective action against accused Yugoslav war criminals. We have prevented the British from taking effective action, and we have not insisted that Italy t…
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Didn't have a clue what was happening, and we in Washington know better. In a related development, the Yugoslavs formally requested the transfer of Nikola Rusnovic, a leading Ustasi ideologue, whom the wartime Croatian regime had appointed …
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may be considered closed, unquote. So again, this is a heinous war criminal brought to the United States. By the spring of 1945, refugees from the Eastern Front found themselves mired in deepening political rivalries between the Soviet Unio…
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repeatedly reached secret verdicts that they believed necessary to construct the post-war Germany. As early as the summer of 1945, Murphy was willing to defy U.S. treaty obligations concerning high-ranking Nazis and Axis collaborators when …
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who had been a royal regent of Hungary and supreme commander of Hungarian armed forces during the years of alliance with the Nazi Germany. Horthy also shared personal responsibility for establishing the Hungarian race laws and the persecuti…
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during Horthy's regime, and they felt justified in bringing formal charges against him at the War Crimes Tribunal. According to their agreements with the U.S., they seemed to have legal authority to prosecute him even in a Yugoslav court. T…
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So according to the U.S. Embassy reports of the day, because many felt a trial would undermine the state's future. The chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, Robert Jackson, promised Horthy that if he cooperated with the U.S. political agenda,…
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Jackson then met with the Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavia war crimes officials, telling them that it would sit rather badly with the world if these countries tried the regent owing to Horthy's advanced age because he was over 70. In fact, Ja…
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offered the Yugoslavs a confidential deal under which Horthy would be formally charged with war crimes but not actually turned over to Yugoslavia for trial. The Yugoslavs rejected the overture, insisting that Horthy had to be transferred to…
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He sought to derail the Horthy prosecution when consideration of the case came up a few weeks later at the committee. They deadlocked over the case, split between Yugoslav and Czechoslovakia on one side and the U.S. and Brits on the other. …
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on any charges, including crimes against humanity, even though the U.S. had itself supported such charges, they decided to renege on that. Imagine that. Some senior U.S. officials even made sure that Horthy was invited to U.S. diplomatic re…
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After noticing a news dispatch from Munich describing the wedding of U.S. Consul Sam Woods, the published invitation included a dozen senior officials, including Horthy. The Yugoslav ambassador has the honor to draw the attention of the Hon…
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by the Yugoslav War Crimes Commission, and he even cited the page and paragraph number. The Yugoslav government requested the American authorities at Wiesbaden for extradition of the Admiral and repeated this request again in 1946. The Yugo…
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of the State Department saw things, the smaller allied states were relatively strong in the War Crimes Commission and included aggressive anti-Nazi deregulations from the Czech, Yugoslavia, French, and the immigrant community of the Polish …
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worked informally within the State Department, for it received prompt support from the department's leading European and legal affairs specialist, not the least of which was Hackworth. In view of the troublesome Yugoslav activity, is inclin…
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In addition, there was socialist Yugoslavia, which after Tito's break with Stalin in 1947, represented an important Balkan partner for American and particularly British diplomacy. For this reason, representatives of separatist Croats, Serbs…
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This is a quote from the book. To get its message out to book reading audiences, the CIA has inspired the writing of some books to assist in the distribution and to assist in the distribution of others. I would also say that they prohibit t…
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I don't know how you say his last name, DJILAS, broke with the party and subsequently wrote a book in which he denounced the corruption and privilege of Yugoslavia's new rulers. The CIA saw to it that his effort reached the widest possible …
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NGO destabilizations in the same year, 1989. The three were Russia, China, in Tiananmen Square, and Yugoslavia. The book documents this in great detail. The journalists then ask him, after Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin as Russia's …
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We need to look closely behind Trump's words, and very soon we hope not to find the oligarchs behind him. The journalist then says, the dismantling of Yugoslavia was a catastrophe. The Germans under the chancellorship of Schroeder and his i…
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In this coup-like operation, were there NGOs involved? And what was their strategy? The author says, yes. Follow the subsequent career of Mr. Fisher. A street thug from the 1968 Frankfurt protest becomes crowned by the USA and its mainstrea…
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Russian speaking Islamic people. That's what the entire. Oh, shoot. My brain just went blank in the southern part of Russia where they destabilized. It's what happened in Serbia. That's how Yugoslavia got broken up. They actually brought in…