Tom Karamessines person
also: Tom Karamashin, Clines, Kleins, Tom Klein, Klein, Tom Karamesans, Karamasins, Karamasin, Tom's Klein, Thomas Karamenson, Thomas Klein, Klein's, Thomas Karaminenz, Thomas Kara Messinens, Karamessines, Tom Karamasin, Tom Karamasins
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Claims (9)
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 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 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 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 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
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 (33)
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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-…
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while playing tennis on his home court. The director of plans was awarded a post-humus national security medal, but his replacement was Thomas Karaminenz, a Helms protege from the espionage crowd. The secret warriors could no longer count o…
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in order to starve the people, hopefully they'll get out on the street and overthrow their own president if they're hungry enough. Helms would later say President Nixon came down very hard in favor of attacking Allende. Okay, on September 1…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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, …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…