Henry Hexer person
also: Hexter, Hexer, Heckscher, Hecater
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Claims (10)
Henry Hexer carried_out_attack
1970 Chilean Presidential Election book_quoted
“the 60s and early 70s, which is where we're at in time frame, just so everybody can get reoriented. Okay, we're on page 406. Henry Hexter aimed a half dozen covert action projects towards shaping the Chilean election. Agency officers like D…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 2:02
Henry Hexer spied_on
Salvador Allende book_quoted
“the 60s and early 70s, which is where we're at in time frame, just so everybody can get reoriented. Okay, we're on page 406. Henry Hexter aimed a half dozen covert action projects towards shaping the Chilean election. Agency officers like D…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 2:02
Henry Hexer carried_out_attack
Salvador Allende book_quoted
“with ITT. Meanwhile, the agency's false flag officers had decided that Chileans they were talking to were useless. Corey learned of the contacts and again prohibited them. The same day as the 40 committee, Kissinger ordered Corey's prohibit…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 31:13
Frank Wisner removed_from_power
Henry Hexer documented
“In this fast-moving situation, Washington had little possibility of acting in time. Wisner rejected Bill Harvey's suggestion. A paper prepared for the Psychological Strategy Board on June 17th noted that John Foster Dulles at State Departme…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 51:19
CIA recruited
Henry Hexer documented
“as did many in both East and West Berlin. The CIA lost track of Soviet forces in East Germany. Only Harvey's deputy, Henry Hexer, himself German-born, understood the demonstration's threat to communist power in the East. Hexer argued that t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 49:56
Henry Hexer proposed
CIA documented
“as did many in both East and West Berlin. The CIA lost track of Soviet forces in East Germany. Only Harvey's deputy, Henry Hexer, himself German-born, understood the demonstration's threat to communist power in the East. Hexer argued that t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 49:56
Henry Hexer headed
West Berlin documented
“where they were setting up Gladio units on the northern side in Korea. Also on the team was former Berlin station chief Henry Hechter, H-E-C-K-S-H-E-R, whose professionalism and skill was already legendary in the CIA. He would operate under…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 41:26
Henry Hexer spied_on
Guatemala documented
“where they were setting up Gladio units on the northern side in Korea. Also on the team was former Berlin station chief Henry Hechter, H-E-C-K-S-H-E-R, whose professionalism and skill was already legendary in the CIA. He would operate under…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 41:26
Henry Hexer succeeded
James Nolan book_quoted
“Shortly after Corey's arrival, the agency's Jim Nolan gave way to Henry Hexter, moving over from Tokyo as station chief. Hexter, something of a CIA legend, had done it all. Soviet operations in Berlin, covert action in Guatemala, nation bui…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 48:16
Henry Hexer member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Later in 1970s, Corey contended that all CIA projects had been paired to the bone just before Richard Nixon entered office. That does not track with the 303 decisions. The largest single addition to the CIA Chilean budget happened after Fry…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 50:08
Mentions (25)
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where they were setting up Gladio units on the northern side in Korea. Also on the team was former Berlin station chief Henry Hechter, H-E-C-K-S-H-E-R, whose professionalism and skill was already legendary in the CIA. He would operate under…
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started. Dave Phillips checked material for the radio broadcast during a visit with Henry Hexer, who posed as a German businessman. American Ambassador John Purifoy set the tone, and I'll spell his name, P-U-R-P-U-E-R-I-F-O-Y.…
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as did many in both East and West Berlin. The CIA lost track of Soviet forces in East Germany. Only Harvey's deputy, Henry Hexer, himself German-born, understood the demonstration's threat to communist power in the East. Hexer argued that t…
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David Murphy, a subordinate at the Berlin base, denies that the field submitted any request to approve CIA intervention, citing the recollection of Tom Polger and Gordon Seward, both senior officers in the overall German program. Murphy not…
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exponentially, as did the U.S. Embassy. All was not well there. The ambassador favored Suvanna's neutralist solution and considered his policy to have been sabotaged by the CIA, because it was. Station Chief Henry Hexler refused to tell his…
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In 1959, demanding that Hexter be transferred out of Laos because he was doing shit he wasn't supposed to do. Dulles knew of what Hexter was doing. Dulles backed the station chief and at the end of his tour, even assigned him to Northeast T…
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Shortly after Corey's arrival, the agency's Jim Nolan gave way to Henry Hexter, moving over from Tokyo as station chief. Hexter, something of a CIA legend, had done it all. Soviet operations in Berlin, covert action in Guatemala, nation bui…
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media manipulation in Japan, he was a pro. Santiago was a prestigious post. It would be his last before retirement. Arrogant though resourceful, Hexter had a difficult time with Ed Corey, himself something of a prima donna. Hexter, who saw …
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In the wrong direction, disdained Corey's view that Fry, the Christian Democrat Party, was the best deal the U.S. could achieve. The station chief also had another more elemental problem. By the close of 1967, not a single officer remained …
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Later in 1970s, Corey contended that all CIA projects had been paired to the bone just before Richard Nixon entered office. That does not track with the 303 decisions. The largest single addition to the CIA Chilean budget happened after Fry…
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had to pay a price. Hexter's project became an interesting challenge. It considered an operational success because it targeted races when the CIA's backed guy won. The election yielded a net loss of Christian Democrats, though. Both the Nat…
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It's going to be a waste of your time because the people in Latin America had already suffered through many installed dictatorships and they were done with it. And they all knew that they were there because of the CIA's meddling. To listen …
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in many contexts, on the awkwardness of this process, under which they spent long hours in Kissinger's office waiting for approvals. Thus, Meyer's dispatches to Corey, answering the ambassador's repeated warnings about Allende, came through…
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Hexter heavily favored Alexandre, who could not get a hearing from the ambassador. He wore Corey down only in December of 1969, using the argument that unless they did something, they would have to answer to Salvador Allende's victory. The …
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agencies on the special group approved cash. Langley ordered Hexter to sharpen his propaganda and aim it more directly at Salvador Allende. The late hour did not prevent the CIA from accomplishing a great deal in Chile, nor did the 40 commi…
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the 60s and early 70s, which is where we're at in time frame, just so everybody can get reoriented. Okay, we're on page 406. Henry Hexter aimed a half dozen covert action projects towards shaping the Chilean election. Agency officers like D…
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Czechoslovakia, picturing tanks in the streets of Santiago. These themes came right out of a psyops text. Allende would end religious freedom in Chile, they said. His victory would undermine the family, they accused him. Hexter made such us…
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Not only a major distraction, the crisis suggested a need for U.S. action elsewhere. When Kissinger heard at the 40 committee confirmed the judgment of the embassy in Santiago, Latin American oligarch Bill Brone started by agreeing with Cor…
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My heart sank over this meeting because the possibility of bringing off something like this seemed to me at the time very remote. Nixon also told Helms to keep the whole project secret. Secretary Rogers and Laird, Ambassador Corey, Station …
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Okay, sure. I'm in the CIA and I pretend to be anybody I want anywhere in the world. I have multiple passports, but all of a sudden I've got a conscience about adopting a false story. Please. His staff mixed experienced people with some you…
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Devine converted the overnight cables from Santiago into reports for his superiors. Determined not to be completely idiotic, Phillips broke one rule early, bringing in Henry Hexter. The station chief went on record as early as September 23r…
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Chilean commander, General Rene Snyder, a strict constitutionalist, had firm control and would permit no interference by the military in the politics. The parameter of action was quite narrow, as Heckscher saw them, while options were limit…
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So Rene Snyder happens to be the obstacle of which they will target. Santiago's military attache, Colonel Paul Weimert, used as a go-between with Chilean officers of several factions, had to know too, and Hexter would control him. Otherwise…
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Agents whose communication with Phillips ran through the undercover officer at a safe house in Santiago. Ambassador Corey left to believe that track one amounted to everything the U.S. did in Chile would eventually be furious. As the task f…
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Desperation is evidence in this cable where the task force chief demands creating some sort of acute climate, starting a rumor until it could not be disproven to try to create a pretext. The status report of a few days later noted that Hext…