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Claims (28)
Pilgrims Society member_of
Alexander Haig host_asserted
“Yeah, so just a couple words. I just found my note page on the Pilgrim Society. You will recognize all of the names in it. Henry Kissinger, Caspar Weinberger, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Luce, you know, the Time Life guy, Alexander Hegg, Paul …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 1:16:19
Alexander Haig headed
Washington, D.C. documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 19:04
Alexander Haig member_of
Washington, D.C. documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 19:04
Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of
Alexander Haig book_quoted
“Let me just read you a little bit. The strategy of tension gained increased impetus after U.S. President Richard Nixon took office in 1969. Henry Kissinger, Nixon's national security advisor, issued orders to Lucio Gelli. Gelli is the P2 Gr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 8:47
Bob Woodward spied_on
Alexander Haig book_quoted
“gave no indication in his column that he had known Haig since his days as a young Navy lieutenant delivering messages to Haig at the National Security Council for his boss, Admiral Thomas Moorer, the Chief of Naval Operations and then the C…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 23:23
Alexander Haig supplied_arms_to
United States host_asserted
“into the American Civil War. And you had the Tsar send his fleet to LA, to California and to New York. And he parked his fleet there and he sent messages to Paris and to London saying, if you interfere in the American Civil War, we will des…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb @ 1:07:21
George H.W. Bush warned_against
Alexander Haig book_quoted
“At a meeting at Reagan's oceanfront home in Pacific Palisade during the transition, Bush had spoken to Reagan about Haig. Quote, do you do what you want to, but if you pick Al Haig, I predict you'll have serious problems, unquote, because h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 29:38
Alexander Haig talked_to
Soviet Union book_quoted
“The two men became great friends. Casey learned much about Haig during these sessions, including the fact that Haig had independently began talking to the Soviets about abandoning Castro. Haig wanted the U.S. to move directly against Cuba i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 30:04
Alexander Haig involved_in_effort_to_remove
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Casey learned that Haig had played a key role in the early 1960s in the Kennedy administration's effort to remove Castro. While many in the Reagan administration were sympathetic with Haig's view on Castro, the idea of an invasion was off t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 30:36
Alexander Haig claimed_control_during
Reagan Assassination Attempt book_quoted
“competition to Bush when in a bizarre attempt to calm American public after the attempted assassination on Reagan, Haig went on television to say that he was in control. You know, I'm sorry, but now I look at that whole thing completely dif…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 31:34
George H.W. Bush viewed_as_threat_by
Alexander Haig book_quoted
“of Inman while still making Bush happy. Bush placed Jack Lee and Inman off of each other to get what he wanted. Bush ran Inman like his own intelligent agent at the CIA, and Inman, increasingly at odds with Casey, became even more loyal to …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 29:10
Alexander Haig lunched_with
William Casey book_quoted
“At a meeting at Reagan's oceanfront home in Pacific Palisade during the transition, Bush had spoken to Reagan about Haig. Quote, do you do what you want to, but if you pick Al Haig, I predict you'll have serious problems, unquote, because h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 29:38
William Casey learned_from
Alexander Haig book_quoted
“The two men became great friends. Casey learned much about Haig during these sessions, including the fact that Haig had independently began talking to the Soviets about abandoning Castro. Haig wanted the U.S. to move directly against Cuba i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 30:04
Alexander Haig viewed_as_competitor_by
George H.W. Bush book_quoted
“that he would end up having to resign. And he does so within the next year. For Bush, Haig's fall meant that his potential competitor in the 1988 presidential nomination had destroyed himself. So now I find that statement probably one of th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 32:05
Alexander Haig member_of
United States Military Academy guest_asserted
“The other part of you just you want to weep at the sadness of the situation that we're currently in. But anyway, Carrie, go ahead. I'll go ahead. One other comment. One of our leaders at West Point was Alexander Haig, Colonel Haig. Exactly.…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 1:49:15
Alexander Haig member_of
West Point Mafia host_asserted
“They go for the tougher merit badges. They go for the tough. Touche. I think they're absolutely right. Because, of course, as you said, Haig is another one. And I don't think you could find somebody more corrupted than Haig. And he's anothe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 49:00
Richard Nixon appointed
Alexander Haig documented
“during the Nixon, so he picked up some vibes from Kissinger, and then he was Nixon's deputy assistant for national security affairs. Nixon promoted him to a four-star general and the Army's vice chief of staff. He was Nixon's personal emiss…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 43:26
Gerald Ford appointed
Alexander Haig documented
“during the Nixon, so he picked up some vibes from Kissinger, and then he was Nixon's deputy assistant for national security affairs. Nixon promoted him to a four-star general and the Army's vice chief of staff. He was Nixon's personal emiss…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 43:26
Alexander Haig removed_from_power
Richard Nixon host_asserted
“during the Nixon, so he picked up some vibes from Kissinger, and then he was Nixon's deputy assistant for national security affairs. Nixon promoted him to a four-star general and the Army's vice chief of staff. He was Nixon's personal emiss…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 43:26
Alexander Haig member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“Henry Kissinger and General Alexander Haig usually sat in on the presidential intelligence advisory board's meeting with the president. Kissinger, or sometimes the board executive secretary, prepared information papers for Nixon before the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 26:37
Alexander Haig involved_in
Operation Red Rock book_quoted
“about this Air Force controller who got started in Vietnam and may have been involved in some of the incursions into Laos and Cambodia with what he called this operation called Red Rock. But there's a David Goyette article from the 1990s wh…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6 @ 1:20:54
Joe Califano recruited
Alexander Haig documented
“On the army side, Califano employed two experienced lieutenant colonels, James Patchell for covert operations and Alexander Haig Jr. to take care of the brigade. Haig found officers who would have merited promotion in any army.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 34:30
Alexander Haig traded_network_to
Iran documented
“There was meetings that Haig and soon-to-be Vice President Bush took place in Europe that was meeting with Iranian officials to announce their release after the election so that they could ensure Carter's defeat. That's documented.…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 1:09:21
Alexander Haig member_of
NATO guest_asserted
“Haig is another one, Alexander Haig, who also was NATO commander. They're involved in all kinds of CIA operations. They just keep popping up as I discover these new operations. And so at some point, it almost appears that they're planted in…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale @ 28:15
Alexander Haig spied_on
Richard Nixon host_asserted
“But the interesting thing is, is Nixon is in meetings with Alexander Haig, with Zeigler, with Buzz Hart, with Haldeman, like the really deep, dark stuff, you know, about how to handle the Watergate defense. You know, he kind of leaves just …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 45:54
Alexander Haig funded
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps host_asserted
“And it just so happens that they string Jimmy Carter along in quote unquote negotiations for over a year. And Bush and Alexander Haig make trips to Europe that negotiate, hey, why don't you keep them a little longer until after that was cal…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 54:02
Ted Shackley introduced
Alexander Haig host_asserted
“but also in Argentina, because remember, they had a second lodge there, a second P2 lodge in Argentina, which is where Operation Condor gets launched from. So it's very interesting that if Alexander Hegg met Gelley, it would definitely be T…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 23:31
Alexander Haig succeeded
Henry Kissinger host_asserted
“during the Nixon, so he picked up some vibes from Kissinger, and then he was Nixon's deputy assistant for national security affairs. Nixon promoted him to a four-star general and the Army's vice chief of staff. He was Nixon's personal emiss…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 43:26
Mentions (93)
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Haig is another one, Alexander Haig, who also was NATO commander. They're involved in all kinds of CIA operations. They just keep popping up as I discover these new operations. And so at some point, it almost appears that they're planted in…
▶ 54:02
And it just so happens that they string Jimmy Carter along in quote unquote negotiations for over a year. And Bush and Alexander Haig make trips to Europe that negotiate, hey, why don't you keep them a little longer until after that was cal…
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To explain or justify our policies, the stone comes crushing down on top of us, unquote. You might try not lying. Two weeks earlier, Secretary of State Alexander Haig had asserted that the U.S. had, quote, overwhelming and irrefutable, unqu…
▶ 17:57
were being controlled from the outside, like by the Soviet Union. Haig, however, declined to give any details on any of where he got that information. Challenged to prove his charges two days later, the general insisted that the U.S. had un…
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who basically was a key figure in Italy in this whole Gladio network. He also worked for the NATO commander when it was Alexander Haig. And keep in mind, Gladio was ran out of NATO. He was a leading member in P2. So he was a Mason and he me…
▶ 1:07:21
into the American Civil War. And you had the Tsar send his fleet to LA, to California and to New York. And he parked his fleet there and he sent messages to Paris and to London saying, if you interfere in the American Civil War, we will des…
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You know, the deep state, which, you know, the deep state had taken over England, taken over France at this stage, and they were trying to take over America. And the Tsar saw this, and he stopped the whole thing by parking his ships there, …
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But then that's when the cabal lost control of Russia. Not completely, but it had given them an in. And Putin was somewhat co-opted to a level. But I think that when the Russian and the American generals made this kind of agreement, Putin g…
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And the Tsar was advising Lincoln. Lincoln was advising the Tsar. You know, they had the Emancipation Act. You had the similar things happening in Russia as well. So they were, you know, they were complex characters. But America and Russia …
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What I want out of it was legitimacy. I want to get a share of the profit. And pretty much what was later set up via the Iran-Contra by Secord was basically his company that they took over. Wilson admitted that the group decided to set up a…
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Clines had gone further than just telling Slachter that he was a CIA agent. Before Clines left the CIA, he had gone to the trouble of getting Slachter several security clearances, according to Wilson and Clines. Hold on, let me go find Brid…
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Climes debriefed him every time, saying he was doing it for the CIA. At about the same time, Shackley later told the FBI that he introduced Climes to an old colleague, Donald Jamison, J-A-M-E-S-O-N, for the purpose of putting together a com…
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ally in the Arab world. Hassan had clearly tied his fortunes to the Reagan administration in 1981. He was visited by the SecDef, Caspar Weinberger, the Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, the Deputy Director of the CIA, the Chairman of the …
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Treasury Secretary William Simon, the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican William Wilson, Lucio Gelli, the Grand Poobah Lodge Mason P2 Atheist Guy, Friar Felix Morleone, and General Santibito of the Military Intelligence Organization in Italy. T…
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There was meetings that Haig and soon-to-be Vice President Bush took place in Europe that was meeting with Iranian officials to announce their release after the election so that they could ensure Carter's defeat. That's documented.…
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That's okay, Travis. I appreciate what you knew about that operation, but it doesn't negate the fact that Vice President Bush and Alexander Haig did meet with Iranian officials to bribe them to hold on to the hostages. And it was unbeknowns…
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Let me just read you a little bit. The strategy of tension gained increased impetus after U.S. President Richard Nixon took office in 1969. Henry Kissinger, Nixon's national security advisor, issued orders to Lucio Gelli. Gelli is the P2 Gr…
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And you guys can just search my timeline. I did a whole thread on Alexander Haig. He's a treasonous bastard. For the implementation of terror attacks and coup attempts, Kissinger was deeply concerned about the monumental gains of the quote-…
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He was part of the fascist government of Franco and definitely not a good guy. He would have been one of those guys that interacted with Otto Skorzeny, who was there in Spain along with Franco. As the operations grew around the world, the p…
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about this Air Force controller who got started in Vietnam and may have been involved in some of the incursions into Laos and Cambodia with what he called this operation called Red Rock. But there's a David Goyette article from the 1990s wh…
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He claims that Haig actually came over to Vietnam and briefed them in January of 1971, which I've been able to confirm. It's not information the State Department is excited to share with people about, but the information is out there that H…
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You know, at the time, covert operation and briefing people in South Vietnam in 1971 about incursions outside of South Vietnam. And this guy named Gene Tatham talks about, again, Kissinger, Haig, Felix Rodriguez. He implicates.…
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I could not have, nor did I, introduce General Alexander Haig to Gailey. Last but not least, I had nothing to do with P2 or Gladio. If, in fact, that was a U.S. government codename for a statewide operation. Oh, my God. This is hilarious.…
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So obviously, let's see what he touched on. He touched on the fact that he had nothing to do with Italy, which is a lie. He also touched on the fact that he didn't have anything to do with Alexander Haig or Geli meeting, which I think is cr…
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but also in Argentina, because remember, they had a second lodge there, a second P2 lodge in Argentina, which is where Operation Condor gets launched from. So it's very interesting that if Alexander Hegg met Gelley, it would definitely be T…
▶ 42:58
Just look at General Haig was one of the officers around West Point when I was there. And I know he's one of your favorites, Colonel. He's second only to Lyman Lemonsker. Yeah, at his West Point registry, the things at West Point. He went t…
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They go for the tougher merit badges. They go for the tough. Touche. I think they're absolutely right. Because, of course, as you said, Haig is another one. And I don't think you could find somebody more corrupted than Haig. And he's anothe…
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Rather than keeping him silent, Inman wanted to have him in open court to indict Shackley. The administration quickly began to split into two intelligence factions, Bush and his crew versus Casey, Secretary of State Haig, and Secretary of D…
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of Inman while still making Bush happy. Bush placed Jack Lee and Inman off of each other to get what he wanted. Bush ran Inman like his own intelligent agent at the CIA, and Inman, increasingly at odds with Casey, became even more loyal to …
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At a meeting at Reagan's oceanfront home in Pacific Palisade during the transition, Bush had spoken to Reagan about Haig. Quote, do you do what you want to, but if you pick Al Haig, I predict you'll have serious problems, unquote, because h…
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The two men became great friends. Casey learned much about Haig during these sessions, including the fact that Haig had independently began talking to the Soviets about abandoning Castro. Haig wanted the U.S. to move directly against Cuba i…
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Casey learned that Haig had played a key role in the early 1960s in the Kennedy administration's effort to remove Castro. While many in the Reagan administration were sympathetic with Haig's view on Castro, the idea of an invasion was off t…
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You know, lead them on, play them. It was in this area that Casey turned to Bush's off-the-books intelligence apparatus. After all, Shackley had run all of the anti-Castro programs for the Kennedys, and he still maintained a close relations…
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competition to Bush when in a bizarre attempt to calm American public after the attempted assassination on Reagan, Haig went on television to say that he was in control. You know, I'm sorry, but now I look at that whole thing completely dif…
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that he would end up having to resign. And he does so within the next year. For Bush, Haig's fall meant that his potential competitor in the 1988 presidential nomination had destroyed himself. So now I find that statement probably one of th…
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Because these people actually saw Haig as a competitor to Reagan. It almost, and this is complete speculation, so I'm going to asterisk it and put big stars. But just like they did with the Pope when they shot him and they didn't really sho…
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under the table with the Soviet Union through Poland, John Paul II. So you could see a scenario where they're going to shoot Reagan and had preliminarily, again, all speculation, told Haig that he needed to go calm everybody down and he's..…
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The other part of you just you want to weep at the sadness of the situation that we're currently in. But anyway, Carrie, go ahead. I'll go ahead. One other comment. One of our leaders at West Point was Alexander Haig, Colonel Haig. Exactly.…
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Colonel Haig brought all the seniors together and said, well, we received a lawful order from our superiors. We have to follow it. Bring the sugar bowls back. Don't let anybody know about this. And he talked about being in a foxhole and sav…
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So one of my classmates, though, just walked to the back of the room and called the New York Times with the story. And it was in there the next day, just kind of in. It was nice to embarrass Al Haig and Wes Point, for that matter, about the…
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Yeah, so just a couple words. I just found my note page on the Pilgrim Society. You will recognize all of the names in it. Henry Kissinger, Caspar Weinberger, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Luce, you know, the Time Life guy, Alexander Hegg, Paul …
▶ 48:47
The CIA Air Force seemed no more effective than their Liberation Army. Allen Dulles got the bad news on June 20th from Al Haney. The Rebel Air Force could not operate more than four planes at a time. Losses made the difficulty even greater.…
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cause an explosive sound. Haney reported that Nicaragua's Somoza had offered two of his P-51 fighter bombers to make up for the rebel losses, but only if the U.S. would replace his aircraft. This sounded simple until State Department's Assi…
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The vessel carried gasoline with which the Guatemalans would need for their trucks and airplanes. Somoza turned to Rip Robertson, top CIA officer at the airfield, and demanded the ship be stopped. Robertson asked Opelika for orders, but his…
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Hardware taken from CIA stockpiles or subsidies used in the coup d'etat. The actual number was at least double. Al Haney's air of covert operations came to an end. No further major assignments came his way. Rip Robertson branded a cowboy af…
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On the army side, Califano employed two experienced lieutenant colonels, James Patchell for covert operations and Alexander Haig Jr. to take care of the brigade. Haig found officers who would have merited promotion in any army.…
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oil refinery, and a sugar refinery. Within Califano's army office, Alexander Haig processed the paperwork and passed it along. Bundy Mett held the reins there too, apparently none too successfully since it seemed that at least five direct C…
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but he certainly felt less committed to the secret war. Alexander Haig believes it a fact that LBJ understood JFK's assassination as a result of the murder plots. That was what they were alleging. That was going to be the excuse is they wer…
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Thus, an opening relation with China, for example, Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, who rears his head again, who was Kissinger's deputy, another CIA guy, made a series of 1971 secret trips to prepare Nixon's way for a ceremonial visit t…
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about the John Coleman's, the committee of 300. But he's kind of got this wild, his theory of why they outed Nixon was kind of the city of London, the MI6, because, you know, he considered Kissinger and Haig, Alexander Haig, kind of agents …
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Haig and that scenario. So I'll have to, when I get home, I will open up my vault and see if I can find it of Alexander Haig's fingers in that dark pie over there. Colonel, can I address John Coleman? Sure. I love listening to John Coleman.…
▶ 26:37
Henry Kissinger and General Alexander Haig usually sat in on the presidential intelligence advisory board's meeting with the president. Kissinger, or sometimes the board executive secretary, prepared information papers for Nixon before the …
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Licio Gelli is really connected to a lot of these guys. And recently I came across that, and I don't know if you've come across this, but apparently he was at inauguration of not only Ronald Reagan, but I believe Carter and possibly Ford as…
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Which should tell people something. All right. Yeah, so we have another Forrest Gump identified. I'm beginning to think Alexander Haig is a Forrest Gump too. He may have to get added to my Forrest Gump list. He shows up in a whole lot of th…
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Kissinger reflected that there seems to have been little left to do. Tom Karamanenis met Nixon, Kissinger, and the National Security Council Deputy Alexander Haig six to ten times on his track two. His briefings of Nixon were uniformly nega…
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While a tough position would accelerate Chile's move to other places, you know, the communist. That's only logical. And in any event, a failed coup would, from a U.S. perspective, look awful. Kissinger and Haig listened to Cara Menendez, ev…
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we are to continue to generate maximum pressure toward this end using every appropriate resource, unquote. Kissinger and Haig later testified that coup planning had been terminated on October 15th. Apparently not. In his memoirs, Kissinger …
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Henry notes that the president agreed. The security advisor adds, quote, when I ordered coup plotting turned off on October 15th, 1970, Nixon, Haig, and I considered it to be the end of both track one and track two, unquote. Orders to prese…
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towards Allende and not push him away from the U.S. Kissinger wanted Corey out right away, and he wanted the failure to prevent Allende's victory associated with the state house and blame it on Corey, not the White House. Al Haig advised Ki…
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for any blowback. In February and March of 71, the issue of Corey's replacement came up at the White House. Secretary Rogers wanted him relieved. Haig cautioned Kissinger not simply to get rid of him as an envoy. This is a quote. This is wh…
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communicated to him some extremely sensitive guidance. I can't think of nothing more embarrassing to the administration than thrusting a former columnist who has totally alienated from the president and yourself into the world without a mea…
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In April of 71, Ambassador Corey completed a report on the failed election operation, which presumably dotted I's and crossed T's. On Haig's instruction, Kissinger's NSC staff handled the report outside of normal channels, preventing it fro…
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takes pains to distance himself from his own dramatic description of the CIA aims. Claridge writes that the notion of killing Cubans in Sandinistas amounted to bravado. He didn't really mean it. He was just pandering to the Secretary of Sta…
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Nicaragua as part of the problem. Secretary of State Al Haig encouraged all of that. Unable to strike directly at Cuba, they're just going to say every place else in Latin America has Cuban, like they did with the Soviets, involvement.…
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Roland's connections to the Reagan administration are impressive. In June of 1981, his pilot was arrested in Houston for illegal possession of and importation of AK-47 rifles while flying Roland and his wife to Acapulco. Roland was quick to…
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Six men escaped on the way. A number of men in the group claimed they were not Russians. British Field Marshal Harold Alexander, commander in Austria and Italy, received a message from American 12th Army Group, signed by Omar Bradley. It st…
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Courtney Hodges, who was commander of 1st Army, and it said, quote, as to how much force an army commander should use in the control of displaced Russians, talking to Judge John McCloy today, we agree that, of course, an army commander coul…
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Tsar Nicholas said that or one of the whoever the Russian czar was at the time that he said that he was going to deploy and did deploy ships off the coast of the east and west coasts of the United States that the British and the French were…
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It was Alexander II, I believe. But the British had planted cotton in Egypt, which they were running at the time. Cotton crops came in during the Civil War, and that lessened their enthusiasm for going ahead and backing the South. So that a…
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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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Reagan White House as Secretary of State. Now think about that for five seconds. This guy, and again, I have to invoke my military experience here. So it is not unusual for a junior person to brief a general, except…
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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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He is also the guy that stands up and says, I'm in charge at the White House because of his quote unquote chief of staff duties in 1981 when Reagan was shot. Haig's relationship with Reagan was rocky and he ends up resigning in 1982. And he…
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In a 2019 book about Haig, a guy by the name of Ray Locker, twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, as well as being an editor at USA Today, detailed Woodward-Haig's relationship, and I'm quoting, he, Woodward,…
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gave no indication in his column that he had known Haig since his days as a young Navy lieutenant delivering messages to Haig at the National Security Council for his boss, Admiral Thomas Moorer, the Chief of Naval Operations and then the C…
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Seven years earlier, Woodward's articles for the Post about the spy ring also failed to include that he had worked for both Moore and Wielander. Why would Woodward be interested in concealing that as a Navy member, that he had worked at the…
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the future chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the future White House Chief of Staff. Obviously, that would have something to do with credibility when he's writing and he never mentioned it. That seems like unparalleled access to the …
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Doesn't it seem that if Haig and Woodward were being honest, they might have mentioned their relationship to the White House press secretary? Are we genuinely supposed to believe that the chief of staff of the White House, under siege by a …
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Despite what Haig's associate at State and elsewhere noted as a very close relationship with Woodward, neither Haig nor Woodward could get their story straight about when they first met. They both deny what others, like Melvin Laird and Moo…
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that he did not meet Woodward until he and Bernstein showed up at Haig's home in September 1974, while Woodward put the date somewhere around 73. Given Woodward's long service on Haig's behalf as a journalist covering up spy rings, hiding W…
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on CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, one of Liddy's Watergate co-conspirators. Gray then recommended Felt for the job, but Nixon and his chief of staff, Alexander Haig, were concerned Felt was leaking information to the press and chose William Ru…
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Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for reporting on the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, in which 25 U.S. Army officers and enlisted men killed more than 500 unarmed civilians. How is it that Woodward, a junior reporter at the Washington Post, was able to s…
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When Kissinger conducted his delicate, highly secret negotiations with China during 1971, SR1 carried Kissinger's messages back to the deputy, Al Haig, that the Peking mission had succeeded. So again, Woodward is basically there as a spy fo…
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Woodward's boss and Nixon's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 74 readily shared with the authors of his knowledge of Woodward's activities. This is another quote from the book. However, that Woodward was a briefer and some …
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has confirmed to us that other sources had told us that Woodward had been a briefer and his duties included briefing Alexander Haig. He was one of the briefers, Moore told us. Did he brief Haig? Sure, of course, Moore said. Woodward was ins…
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could in turn relay information to Kissinger and ultimately to the president. You don't have a four-star general lugging papers back and forth between the Pentagon and the White House. Moore told us, you pick up a junior grade lieutenant an…
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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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We covered a lot of subject material today. One of the subjects that we talked about was Alexander Haig's relationship with Bob Woodward. There's Nixon tapes. And then, of course, I've been kind of reading some of this material along with y…
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But the interesting thing is, is Nixon is in meetings with Alexander Haig, with Zeigler, with Buzz Hart, with Haldeman, like the really deep, dark stuff, you know, about how to handle the Watergate defense. You know, he kind of leaves just …
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But he's talking, you know, how are we going to deal with the Huston plan, you know, to basically do like domestic wiretapping on people and all kinds of, you know, constitutionally subversive stuff? You know, and Haggis is just sitting the…
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And it's kind of funny listening to that soft-spoken voice in the room without Nixon realizing that Woodward was Haig's brief. Yes. And those tapes probably deserve another look. But it's interesting that Haig is in there listening to how N…
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As far as foreign policy, he did pursue detente with the Soviet Union and China, and that was sabotaged. That was sabotaged by Haig and Woodward and a whole bunch of other people embedded in his administration that carried that information …
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He was all over exposing Nixon and all of this stuff. If this had been a natural story, he would have taken it to Jack Anderson. And, you know, he would have had, you know, Brit Hume, you know, helping him on this. And it would have just be…