Tom Karamessines person
also: C-A-R-A-M-E-S-S-I-N-E-S, Clines, DDO, DDP, Deputy Director for Operations, Deputy Director for Plans, Kara Macias, Karamanez, Karamasin, Karamasinas, Karamasins, Kara Menes, Karamessines, Karaminis, Klein, Klein's, Kleins, Mr Kara messines, Mr Karamessines, Mr Karamessmes, the Pep-Ay Director of Plans, Thomas Karamenson, Thomas Karamesinas, Thomas Kara Messinens, Thomas Karamessines, Thomas Karaminenz, Thomas Karamines, Thomas Klein, Tom Karamashin, Tom Karamasin, Tom Karamasins, Tom Karamesans, Tom Klein, Tom's Klein
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
CIAintelligence service · 13Ted Shackleyperson · 12Edwin Wilsonperson · 8Richard Helmsperson · 5Nugan Hand Bankorganization · 4Operation Gladiooperation · 4Vietnamcountry · 4George H.W. Bushperson · 3Cubacountry · 3Operation Piano Solooperation · 3Felix Rodriguezperson · 3Operation 40operation · 3Afghanistancountry · 2William Colbyperson · 2Italycountry · 2Richard Nixonperson · 2Australiacountry · 2James Jesus Angletonperson · 2Salvador Allendeperson · 2United Statescountry · 2John F. Kennedyperson · 2Nelson Rockefellerperson · 2Laoscountry · 2Chilecountry · 2
Claims (34)
Tom Karamessines met_with
Henry Kissinger documented
document
“Karamessines testified that he met with Kissinger some six to ten times during the five weeks of Track II…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.261
Jordan Goudreau proposed
Tom Karamessines reported
document
“the reading of the proposed Karamessines memo clearly reflects and I believe that was prepared by you was it not…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.75
Tom Karamessines met_with
Alexander Haig documented
document
“The Committee has records of two meetings between Karamessines and Kissinger and of one telephone conversation between Karamessines and Kissinger's deputy General Alexander Haig…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.261
Tom Karamessines worked_for
CIA documented
document
“Discussions with Mr Helms Director of Central Intelligence and Mr Karamessines the Deputy Director for Plans in 1970 have established that both were aware of the requirement that such material be disposed of…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.12
Richard Helms appointed
Tom Karamessines documented
document
“The Director Mr Helms had instructed Mr Karamessines the Pep-Ay Director of Plans and Dr Gottlieb the Chief of Technical Services Division to relinquish control to the Army…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.415
Tom Karamessines met_with
Henry Kissinger documented
document
“October15.Karamessines meets with Kissinger and Haig at the White House…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.309
Tom Karamessines worked_for
CIA documented
document
“after Dr Gottlieb received the memos now prepared for Mr Karamessmes signature to the Director of the CIA then Mr Helms…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.64
Tom Karamessines met_with
Richard Helms documented
document
“I was told that Mr Karamessines had got Mr Helms approval…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.36
Tom Karamessines worked_for
CIA documented
document
“someone in the Department either Mr Karamessines or his deputy or someone was suggesting this as an option…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.30
John A. Stevens met_with
Tom Karamessines documented
document
“Mr STEVENS No sir…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.46
Nathan Gordon worked_for
Tom Karamessines documented
document
“I was a CIA employee specifically a chemist and with the function of supporting and servicing operational elements of the DDP Deputy Director for Plans…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.57
Osborn met_with
Tom Karamessines documented
document
“In a meeting with Mr Karamessines Mr Angleton and someone else who I can't remember at the time I made the recommendation to the Director…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.34
Tom Karamessines met_with
Alexander Haig documented
document
“October15.Karamessines meets with Kissinger and Haig at the White House…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.309
Howard J. Osborn met_with
Tom Karamessines documented
document
“I communicated this to Mr Karamessines and in turn we met on various occasions with the Director…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.30
Tom Karamessines headed
CIA documented
document
“The recommendation was addressed to the Chief of the Clandestine Service Mr Karamessines…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.12
Tom Karamessines relationship_with
Sidney Gottlieb documented
document
“Mr Helms I and Dr Gottlieb jointly agreed that this program had to come to an end…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.108
Tom Karamessines founded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Kara Menes was used to set up stay-behind units. He was also a member of the OSS during World War II, and he was moved into the U.S. Embassy in Greece in 1946 as a military attache. He set up the CIA office when the CIA became a thing in 19…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 26:16
Tom Karamessines funded
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“that his AFL-CIO boss, Paul Hall, would become angry if he discovered that his political assistant was, in fact, a CIA agent. Yeah, I doubt that since they're in bed with him anyway, but let's go ahead with the pretense. So Wilson decided t…”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 30:36
Tom Karamessines ran
U.S. Embassy in Rome host_asserted
“You know, that U.S. Embassy to Rome, that's the same building that the CIA's Rome Station is in. That's the same building that James Angleton was running the Rome Station from, that Vernon Walters was running the Rome Station from, that Tom…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 1:02:01
Tom Karamessines succeeded
Desmond Fitzgerald book_quoted
“while playing tennis on his home court. The director of plans was awarded a post-humus national security medal, but his replacement was Thomas Karaminenz, a Helms protege from the espionage crowd. The secret warriors could no longer count o…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 40:24
Tom Karamessines member_of
CIA guest_asserted
“Was he on it or was he the chair? I forget if you remember what Prado said about that. Well, he's definitely on it. Okay. Let me go back and I'll say that. Go ahead. That's probably going to bring him into contact with Tom Karamasins. Oh, y…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 56:55
Tom Karamessines responsible_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“You know, that U.S. Embassy to Rome, that's the same building that the CIA's Rome Station is in. That's the same building that James Angleton was running the Rome Station from, that Vernon Walters was running the Rome Station from, that Tom…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 1:02:01
Tom Karamessines carried_out_attack
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“That the CIA's Rome Station is in, that's the same building that James Angleton was running the Rome Station from, that Vernon Walters was running the Rome Station from, that Tom Karamasins, who was responsible for Operation Condor, or at l…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 1:01:12
Tom Karamessines headed
CIA Rome Station host_asserted
“That the CIA's Rome Station is in, that's the same building that James Angleton was running the Rome Station from, that Vernon Walters was running the Rome Station from, that Tom Karamasins, who was responsible for Operation Condor, or at l…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 1:01:12
Tom Karamessines did_business_with
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“LA, as well as Mubarak. Through Gazala, Von Marbog suggested to Salam that Tom Klein's would be an acceptable American partner in his company. Salam proposed that Klein control 49% of the shipping contract through Eatsco with Tursam control…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 26 Cont @ 20:34
Charles E. Wilson did_business_with
Tom Karamessines host_asserted
“Through Israeli intelligence sources in Libya, the CIA had the memo Ed Wilson had written to Qaddafi's military security on May 12, 1981, detailing his activities in Egypt through ETSCO. In that memo, Wilson was very direct about how high u…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 26 Cont @ 25:18
Abu Ghazala did_business_with
Tom Karamessines host_asserted
“When Salam, S-A-L-E-M, went to see von Marbog at the Pentagon to get his company accredited as a shipping agent, von Marbog refused to certify it unless there was an American participating in the company. Von Marbog was close to Egyptian's …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 26 Cont @ 20:04
Tom Karamessines member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“That was right after the lucky Luciano got prosecuted by Dewey. So that's Karamasinas' background. During World War II, he's in the OSS, of all things, in World War II because he spoke Greek. Helps have another language. Gets the CIA's in c…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:03:52
Tom Karamessines carried_out_attack
Operation Piano Solo host_asserted
“The KCIA in Korea, they got them to do a whole lot of this stuff. Colonel, wasn't Piano Solo in Italy, wasn't that unauthorized? Kennedy wanted to include the socialists in Italian politics, but Tom Karamashin, the chief of station, jumps i…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale @ 1:34:21
Tom Karamessines member_of
Operation Foo Belt host_asserted
“He's also part of Project Foo Belt. What's Operation Foo Belt? Going after Chile's President Allende? Yep. And, of course, Cord Meyer is involved in all that, and he leads the Operation Chaos, also known as MH Chaos, which was the covert do…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:04:28
Tom Karamessines member_of
Operation Gladio caller_asserted
“particularly James Angleton. I think Tom Karamasins was either there during Piano Solo or there slightly after. He's another player, particularly in Latin America. He was there either during or during the aftermath of it.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:03:41
Tom Karamessines member_of
Operation Gladio guest_asserted
“And while all this is going on, of course, you know, Karamasins is just one of these interesting figures that doesn't get talked about a lot. But he's kind of, you know, he's kind of the Forrest Gump of a lot of these different intelligence…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 57:21
Tom Karamessines involved_in
Mattei Plane Crash host_asserted
“where he was intimately involved in the Italian Gladio program. He was forced to leave Rome amid rumors that he had actually arranged the bombing of an airplane that had Enrico Mattei in it. Mattei had made the mistake of working directly w…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece @ 27:13
Tom Karamessines member_of
White House Plumbers guest_asserted
“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,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 59:32
Mentions (36)
▶ 1:34:21
The KCIA in Korea, they got them to do a whole lot of this stuff. Colonel, wasn't Piano Solo in Italy, wasn't that unauthorized? Kennedy wanted to include the socialists in Italian politics, but Tom Karamashin, the chief of station, jumps i…
▶ 12:59
what Shackley and Clines and Edwin Wilson was doing as it relates to setting up the network. We left it off in Laos and that they were setting up that whole network. We also talked briefly about Eric von Marbog, M-A-R-B-O-D.…
▶ 16:14
kind of run the tables when it came to filling all of those roles. In addition to these, like the Kleins and Marbog and Wilson, there was a supporting cast of characters from the CIA, the military, and CIA-trained Cuban exiles, which we hav…
▶ 29:38
execution arm of the CIA. They are 100% controlled by the international syndicate. Wilson and Tom Klein first met in Virginia suburbs in 1960 when Klein's was moonlighting as a real estate salesman and Wilson wanted to sell his house before…
▶ 30:07
When they discovered the relationship, they realized that they were both working on the same project. After Wilson's stint in Europe, he returned to the U.S., still undercover for the AFCIO. Wilson's manner and the fact that he handed out m…
▶ 31:04
helped to get Wilson CIA approval and funds to start a covert operation. With $11,000 in CIA money, Wilson set up shop at the foot of Capitol Hill. He called his company Maritime Consultants. That was a CIA front company. And within months,…
▶ 32:06
surveys of the ports in Africa and the Pacific. By the end of the second month, Wilson's overt operations were paying all of his overhead, including his government salary. Wilson was a natural businessman who possessed an uncanny ability to…
▶ 4:03
Vice President Bush's office running the Iran-Contra as his national security advisor. Also is Tom Klein, Bernie Houghton. If you guys remember Bernie Houghton, he's the guy that was a CIA asset agent that set up the restaurant down in Aust…
▶ 32:53
But if Bush thought his political experience would give him an edge over the characters like Ted Shackley and Tom Klein, he was mistaken. Bush began his tenure not by digging in with the slow methodical approach, but Bush came in from China…
▶ 35:13
And that seemed to make people feel pretty good. So he was beginning to earn trust. He knew that it was the kind of an organization doing the kind of things that very often times backfired and caused embarrassment, not only to him, but to t…
▶ 42:15
the China OSS veteran and CIA master operative who practiced law in Miami and set up Castle Bank to money launder for the CIA. While Beasley was the CEO of Nugent Hand, he took part in the attempted acquisition of a London bank. One of his …
▶ 15:44
And remember, BCCI was funding that. There was nothing more important than propping up a free Afghanistan, which was not free at all. One of the things I did was to try to get the Afghan king, then living in exile in Italy, to come back to …
▶ 16:18
They were already in your column. You are not kidding anybody. Shackley was working with the royal families in the Gulf, and they were all contributing financial support to everybody in Afghanistan fighting. Klein conceded that the off-the-…
▶ 40:24
while playing tennis on his home court. The director of plans was awarded a post-humus national security medal, but his replacement was Thomas Karaminenz, a Helms protege from the espionage crowd. The secret warriors could no longer count o…
▶ 46:41
in order to starve the people, hopefully they'll get out on the street and overthrow their own president if they're hungry enough. Helms would later say President Nixon came down very hard in favor of attacking Allende. Okay, on September 1…
▶ 56:51
Meanwhile, feelings favored regulatory action on intelligence peaked in Congress during the middle of the years of the Carter administration. When charters were considered at hearings, the vast majority of the CIA officials testified agains…
▶ 39:00
The move would be delayed until the end of March 1973 when Helms reached his mandatory retirement age at the CIA. Bob Halderman records in his diary for November 20, 1972, the fateful day at Camp David that Helms recommended William Colby o…
▶ 56:55
Was he on it or was he the chair? I forget if you remember what Prado said about that. Well, he's definitely on it. Okay. Let me go back and I'll say that. Go ahead. That's probably going to bring him into contact with Tom Karamasins. Oh, y…
▶ 57:21
And while all this is going on, of course, you know, Karamasins is just one of these interesting figures that doesn't get talked about a lot. But he's kind of, you know, he's kind of the Forrest Gump of a lot of these different intelligence…
▶ 57:47
He was also, of course, involved in the Chilean coup. But the most fascinating part, I think, in all of this, and I think there might be some insight here, is I think he meets with Hunt a couple of times, including perhaps even in relation …
▶ 59:05
But then if you couple that with some potential links to the director of operations, I think it gets interesting. So it says, Governor Rockefeller headed the subcommittee of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board on covert operations.…
▶ 55:11
Abrams was mistaken to suppose the CIA account more tainted than that of Lake Resources. General Secord had all he could do to stay in touch with the players and movements of funds, arms, ships, and planes. For detailed management, Secord r…
▶ 1:02:01
You know, that U.S. Embassy to Rome, that's the same building that the CIA's Rome Station is in. That's the same building that James Angleton was running the Rome Station from, that Vernon Walters was running the Rome Station from, that Tom…
▶ 1:03:41
particularly James Angleton. I think Tom Karamasins was either there during Piano Solo or there slightly after. He's another player, particularly in Latin America. He was there either during or during the aftermath of it.…
▶ 32:43
Still thick in the clandestine affairs, meeting with key officials from the CIA's covert side, like Desmond Fitzgerald, who, along with David Phillips, oversaw the violent intrigue swirling around Cuba. Angleton and his deputy, Cord Meyer, …
▶ 20:34
Let's see, Bridget got kicked out. Let me get her back up here. They must be messing with us again. Yeah, that's really crazy. Another meeting occurred in which other players came together in Southeast Asia. According to sources that have o…
▶ 22:15
Thailand, which we've already bought the police force there, where it would be divided into three lots, blah, blah, blah, Corsican, American, CIA. And the money that was made was basically shared among the criminals. The participants of the…
▶ 22:49
They were intimate players in JM Wave, CIA operations against Cuba, where Shackley was the Miami station chief. All weirdly enough, at the same time, JFK was assassinated as well. It goes on to say that it was Shackley and Clines that set u…
▶ 23:18
That included Felix Rodriguez, Raul Veliverde, Rafael Quintero, and one of our favorite villains, Edwin Wilson. They all worked on that. And then we would see most of them all later in the Iran-Contra drug operations. When the attention of …
▶ 23:50
were transferred to that country. Shackley became chief of station in Laos. Klein's function is Shackley's deputy. Air support was arranged by none other than Richard Secord, who shows up on all of these drug operations too, as supposedly t…
▶ 26:46
they of course needed a bank. And for Vietnam, we know from our other studies, that was Nugent Hand Bank in Australia. And of course, that was Francis John Nugent, an Australian attorney, and Michael John Hand, a special forces guy who had …
▶ 32:48
that the operation continued long after the Americans pulled out, which of course we know it did. He also goes on to say the convenient business arrangement with the Miami mafia, Traficani, continued after the fall of Vietnam. The significa…
▶ 33:17
that I hired to terminate other people from the agency are there. They get involved in the biggest drugs going on. Who is the guy behind the scandal? Climes. Who is the boss of Climes? Shackley. Turple then addressed the flow of money. Wher…
▶ 1:02:52
62 to 67, he leads the covert action staff of the Directorate of Plans. What is that, Colonel? That's overthrowing other governments. Why don't they just call it that? 67 to 73, this is during the Vietnam War, of course. Cord Meyer is the A…
▶ 1:03:24
You familiar with Kara Macias, I would believe? Yes. Well, Kara Macias is a really interesting guy. He went to Columbia University and grad school. Remember, CIA loves to recruit from Columbia, too. But his background gets fun because he wa…
▶ 1:03:52
That was right after the lucky Luciano got prosecuted by Dewey. So that's Karamasinas' background. During World War II, he's in the OSS, of all things, in World War II because he spoke Greek. Helps have another language. Gets the CIA's in c…