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Claims (123)
George H.W. Bush succeeded
William Colby book_quoted
“Unquote. Colby's public confessions and tough bargaining behind the scenes succeeded. The CIA was spared and Greg's career went upwards. When George H.W. Bush succeeded Colby as the director of the CIA in 1976, Greg moved on to Bush's staff…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 21:17
William Colby member_of
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“had to admit that Roman Catholic Colby was CIA royalty, bathed in the blood of the Lamb. As an OSS officer, Colby had parachuted into occupied France and fought Germany behind the scenes in France. He had also helped out in Italy. And Colby…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 23:43
William Colby appointed
Donald Gregg book_quoted
“Greg had worked under William Colby in the CIA Far East Division from 1961 to 64 as chief of the Vietnam desk at the CIA headquarters. When Colby became director of the CIA in 73, he promoted Greg to the CIA's executive management staff. Gr…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 20:25
William Colby headed
CIA documented
“that he had witnessed acts of torture, including the prodding of a person's brain with a six-inch dowel through his ear, and that in a year and a half with Phoenix, not a single suspect survived interrogation. After being called before Cong…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 31:29
William Colby ordered_assassination_of
Southern Air Transport book_quoted
“As acting director, Colby ordered final liquidation on July 31st, 1973, but the former owner made a further counteroffer. The sale closed on the last day of 1973. There were later repercussions when the owner himself then liquidated Souther…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 13:34
William Colby headed
CIA host_asserted
“It does not seem that any of the people care about any of that. Let's see. And of course, I have to remind everybody, because I looked this up, who was the CIA director when all of this was going on in Angola? William Colby. The CIA interve…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 1:10:40
William Colby succeeded
James Schlesinger book_quoted
“William Colby was swiftly moved on to be the DCI or the director of CIA. Another change began by Helms continued under Schlesinger to be completed by Colby. This was the reorganization of air proprietories, meaning Air America and those typ…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 4:43
William Colby headed
CIA documented
“then by labeling them and associating communism with them, they are able to indiscriminately kill them at will. So hold on a second. I'm going to resend those because I don't think they sent from my iPad. Okay. So director of CIA, William C…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 24:32
William Colby succeeded
James Schlesinger documented
“This document gathered together allegations of illegal questionable activities observed by employees throughout the agency. It happened that Kissinger had never been briefed on the family jewels. Completed as Colby replaced Lessinger at Lan…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 37:36
Richard Helms succeeded
William Colby documented
“When the NSC aide, Rostow, who replaced Bundy, told Johnson that Fulbright was unhappy and didn't understand why the foreign relations should be denied access, the president scrolled at the bottom of his copy of the report. Because they lea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 20:07
William Colby headed
CIA documented
“by the revulsion at CIA domestic involvement, but by growing fears concerning the general quality of intelligence oversight and concern over the disingenuous handling by the administration of explanations for the U.S. involvement in Laos an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 1:55
William Colby headed
CIA documented
“He remembers the events as ruining not only the Christmas season for me, but nearly all of the next year as well. Aw, too bad. Colby arrived on the seventh floor of Langley just in time to face the explosion. The ground had been well prepar…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 32:52
William Colby founded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“representation in Stockholm in the form of a field station, which we all know who manned that, William Colby, who eventually ends up as the CIA director, who had worked in Scandinavia for the USS during World War II. He dropped a private la…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 49:36
William Colby funded
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“in the entire Scandinavian region. The OPC station chief met many Eastern Europeans and Baltic immigrants and talked for hours about the conditions of their homeland. Colby recalls to boost their morale and encourage them that they, here's …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 50:04
William Colby succeeded
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“Because Felt is FBI. The others are military. That would have been Helms at least at the beginning of it, but I think they went through a couple of CIA directors. Helms until 73. Was it Schlesinger? No. It was Colby who replaced Helms in 73…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 1:13:19
William Colby succeeded
Vernon Walters host_asserted
“Yeah, he's a mess. He was only there for a few months, though. And then he was followed by Vernon Walters. So we went from one bad one to another bad one to another bad one. And Vernon Walters, because he was the deputy, was only in there a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 1:16:29
William Colby member_of
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“That got a lot of people killed because they knew stuff about the JFK assassination, such as Jimmy Hoffa, for example, Sam Giancana, people who were going to testify on the subject of assassination. Would you agree? Yes, absolutely. I agree…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 45:21
William Colby headed
CIA guest_asserted
“And this same thing, as a matter of fact, William Colby, a future CIA director, set them up in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 18:45
William Colby appointed
Italy book_quoted
“I believe it was right after our good friend Claire Booth Luce, a.k.a. Mrs. Paint Chips. And he was, Protos writes that Colby was suspicious that, you know, sort of one faction of the CIA connected to Claire Booth Luce and Angleton were kin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 1:18:17
William Colby succeeded
Clare Boothe Luce book_quoted
“I believe it was right after our good friend Claire Booth Luce, a.k.a. Mrs. Paint Chips. And he was, Protos writes that Colby was suspicious that, you know, sort of one faction of the CIA connected to Claire Booth Luce and Angleton were kin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 1:18:17
William Colby spied_on
Lucian Nedzey documented
“the Intelligence Subcommittee. NEDC's leadership of the House investigation began to disintegrate. In fact, when it became known that the Michigan congressman had been briefed by William Colby on the portion of the Family Jewels report conc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 34:01
James Schlesinger succeeded
William Colby book_quoted
“who had returned to the Pentagon as well from being the CIA director, he was replaced at the CIA by William Colby, who was fresh out of Vietnam. He sent Von Marburg back to Saigon as his top logistics aide to prepare for the abandonment of …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 39:11
William Colby appointed
E. Howard Hunt book_quoted
“who had returned to the Pentagon as well from being the CIA director, he was replaced at the CIA by William Colby, who was fresh out of Vietnam. He sent Von Marburg back to Saigon as his top logistics aide to prepare for the abandonment of …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 39:11
Robert Komer recruited
William Colby host_asserted
“nexus of the phoenix program he he hires william colby basically as his deputy and we all know that william colby goes on to be the cia director um he it was william colby that also acknowledges that over 20 000 people died as a direct resu…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 9:52
William Colby succeeded
Robert Komer host_asserted
“He's a CIA asset. He's a Rand employee. He's a vicious murderer of Vietnamese. And we just appoint him in 1968 to be the ambassador to Turkey. And it says that he was succeeded in the cords Vietnam operation by William Colby, which I had al…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 19:41
William Colby exposed
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“the wires to genital areas, water treatment, which was waterboarding, the use of dogs to attack the prisoners, and inserting rods into people's ear canals, like literally until they died. Phoenix was every bit as brutal as it sounds. In 197…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 24:46
William Colby exposed
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“the wires to genital areas, water treatment, which was waterboarding, the use of dogs to attack the prisoners, and inserting rods into people's ear canals, like literally until they died. Phoenix was every bit as brutal as it sounds. In 197…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 24:46
CIA recruited
William Colby host_asserted
“representation in Stockholm in the form of a field station, which we all know who manned that, William Colby, who eventually ends up as the CIA director, who had worked in Scandinavia for the USS during World War II. He dropped a private la…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 49:36
George H.W. Bush succeeded
William Colby book_quoted
“Along the same lines, he came out to the agency and was sworn in. Quote, Ford came out to the alcove. Colby presided and then got into his old battered up jalopy and drove off into the sunset with a standing ovation. And Potter Stewart, the…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 34:18
William Colby member_of
CIA host_asserted
“How the overlap with Gladio and USS Intel officer William Colby, beginning in the 1950s, was stationed in Stockholm. And he actually was part of the origination of training and equipping the Stay Behind organization in Sweden, which is very…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Sweden @ 1:13:47
William Colby headed
CIA host_asserted
“a one world government with a one world religion. And that one world religion was going to encapsulate both a intelligence capability. And remember, because this all comes back to, this is why I found this article so fascinating. You rememb…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Anti Communist League and Unification Church @ 9:42
William Colby headed
CIA book_quoted
“Because that's what they have done with the Phoenix program. They have brought that back with an intelligence function of local big city police departments. And they have basically created a Phoenix program inside the United States. At the …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 23:12
William Colby headed
CIA book_quoted
“This starts out with President Nixon's appointment of William Colby in September of 1973 as the new CIA director. And about him, let's see, and his relationship with Ted Shackley and all of the associates from Vietnam and Laos, which includ…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 3:34
William Colby covered_up
CIA book_quoted
“Corey's letter was far greater threat to the CIA management than any of the headline-grabbing news coming out of the Church Commission. Colby was unwilling to cover up for the director of operations on Chile, despite his sponsorship of Shac…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 17:47
William Colby recruited
Baltic states book_quoted
“William Colby. There you go. I can always get those two confused, Casey and Colby. I should remember Colby Cheese. Maybe that's how I'll remember it. He had worked in Scandinavia for the OSS and he went back where his primary mission was, s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 28:01
William Colby member_of
Wackenhut book_quoted
“had long maintained close ties with the U.S. intelligence community. Its board of directors has at one time or another included former FBI Director Clarence Kelly, former CIA Director William Rayburn, former Secretary of Defense and CIA Dep…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 33:38
William Colby recruited
Averell Harriman documented
“Ambassador Sullivan could command the CIA station and would be responsible for implementing the second of the two basic decisions made in Washington. The first had come in the wake of the Geneva Agreement when William Colby had convinced Av…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 1:03:30
William Colby spied_on
Sandinistas book_quoted
“75,000 Southerners, meaning in South Vietnam, who in 1954, quote, the communists took North for training in organizing propaganda and subversion, unquote. According to Colby, these cadres returned to the South, revived the networks that the…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 25:07
William Colby covered_up
U.S. Congress book_quoted
“and George H.W. Bush, Reagan's two-term vice president, U.S. president, and father of U.S. President George W. Bush, persuaded the committee to restrict its inquiry into the matter and to deliberately misrepresent the scope of the activitie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 47:54
William Colby headed
CIA host_asserted
“The Church Committee was informed that the liquidation would be complete by 1976 and was supposed to generate $20 million. These changes progressed under William Colby. Later, Colby was appointed and then confirmed as the director. During h…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:14:45
William Colby headed
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“There were basically wanted posters that sprung up overnight on the walls all over Washington with an adaptation of the Phoenix program, which, of course, William Colby had ran. And they featured an ace of spades used by Americans in Vietna…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:15:04
Gerald Ford removed_from_power
William Colby host_asserted
“Deputy Director of Operations William Nelson went up first and admitted the truth about the U.S. involvement. Bill Nelson was a William Colby protege. As the Director of Central Intelligence had suddenly been called in by President Ford abo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 45:26
George H.W. Bush succeeded
William Colby host_asserted
“CIA subcommittees with permanent select intelligence committees. And then they just compromised them. So it wasn't like we got a whole lot out of that. But they tried. Oversight did not mean the end of covert actions. On February 15th, 1976…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 52:40
William Colby covered_up
Armenian Genocide book_quoted
“was not a disinterested party. The Turkish government had granted him an oil concession in Iraq that was potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Writing in an influential journal, Current History, Chester contended that the Armen…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 27:15
Turkey paid
William Colby book_quoted
“was not a disinterested party. The Turkish government had granted him an oil concession in Iraq that was potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Writing in an influential journal, Current History, Chester contended that the Armen…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 27:15
William Colby member_of
CIA host_asserted
“amendment, Congress was informed about Operation Feature. In particular, Senator Dick Clark, a Democrat from Iowa, was briefed by William Colby on the Angola program shortly before a fact-finding trip to Africa in August of 1975. The senato…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 43:35
William Colby covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“A dozen more CIA briefings on Chile took place between March 73 and December of the next year. Bill Colby, now DCI in his own right, sat in the hot seat on October 11, 1973 to deny the House committee that the CIA had any role in the strike…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 10:51
William Colby covered_up
CIA documented
“Colby nonetheless held the line for two more months amidst threats of resignation. The last offense was a 1954 CIA justice agreement governing what could be withheld from the Justice Department. Colby sought to discover whether that exempte…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 26:19
William Colby covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“Colby felt Hearst had blown his information out of proportion. Hearst did not see it that way. His article was splashed across three columns on the front page of the Sunday New York Times on December 22nd. The headline read, huge CIA operat…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 32:24
William Colby covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“Colby saw Hearst and tried to explain that his data reflected distorted fragments of a different project, all within the agency's charter. Sure. He insisted that such activities had ceased under the 1973 directives that made plain the CIA w…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 31:50
William Colby headed
CIA documented
“James Risen published a long overdue biography on Senator Frank Church called The Last Honest Man, The CIA, The FBI, and The Kennedys, and won senators fight to save democracy. It was a New York Times bestseller. The book opens with what mi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 47:53
William Colby headed
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“thought very highly of Jensen. Now, let me just remind you, who else is up there during this time? William Colby setting up Operation Gladio. He was the guy that was tasked to set up all of their stay-behind units. This is not a coincidence…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 46:09
William Colby founded
Operation Gladio documented
“And in the 1970s, part of the O budget marked for psychological warfare was redirected to interdoc operations, meaning basically it's a fluid organization. It is noteworthy that William Colby became CIA director in 73, considering Colby's i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 53:05
William Colby member_of
Jedburghs book_quoted
“went to the continent in this campaign, including two future directors. Bill Colby led one of the 90 Jedburgh teams in France. And later, the operational group in Norway, William Casey masterminded the overall OSS effort to infiltrate Germa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 14:47
Richard Helms reassigned
William Colby documented
“Helms, who had known nothing about the court's chief request, apologetically told Colby that he had been overridden and he was going to Vietnam. The court's error led to one of the most controversial pacification programs in the Vietnam War…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 44:31
William Colby directed
Raymond Babineau host_asserted
“the Can Lao, claiming it denied advancement to the majority of Vietnamese and nullified democratic reforms. Unwilling to divest himself of his power base, Dem refused to do it and instead sought to appease the Americans by authorizing a sta…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 24:51
William Colby introduced
Doug Valentine book_quoted
“Scotton was a very outgoing, charismatic person, and he had basically traveled all over Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, all those things. And let's see, when Doug Valentine got to meet this guy, Scotton, he was introduced to him by William Colby.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:08:57
William Colby headed
Colonel J.R. Newman guest_asserted
“He's the only reason I got my commission. Well, same here. The detachment commander tried to keep me out because he didn't like prior service people. Yeah, well, yeah, I got a long story there. But anyway, so I was talking to my dad because…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:12:51
William Colby informed
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs host_asserted
“The rest of this kind of just goes on and tells us all of the stuff that we already know. But it goes on and talks about like in 72, Helms told BNDD director Inglesol that the CIA had prepared files on supposed drug traffickers and that the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 34:05
William Colby member_of
Knights of Malta host_asserted
“Let's see, the Vatican offering the cartels money laundering with diplomatic immunity and CIA coordination. And it's funny because it's either William Casey or Colby. And I want to say it was Colby who was because Colby also was a Catholic …”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 56:15
William Colby appointed
Pierre DeSalvo documented
“He had Richardson to dinner the evening before he left Washington. The top priority was to replace the station chief, and Colby called in Pierre DeSalvo, D-E space S-I-L-V-A, recently sent to Hong Kong after a long tour as CIA chief in Kore…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 33:07
William Colby member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“He's probably in the top 10 of crazy stories. Obviously, Lyman Lemonsker and William Pauly, given any day or one and two, as far as people I had never heard of that was like everywhere. They're the Forrest Gump of Operation Gladio. Warbell …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 1:09:28
William Colby created
Project Tiger documented
“quote-unquote politicians they're propping up got pissed off. Another task on the CIA's list was to infiltrate North Vietnam using Vietnamese special forces, people that the CIA had trained as early as 1958. Also, paramilitary teams that we…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 54:58
William Colby succeeded
Desmond Fitzgerald documented
“known as Operation Switchback. By the time Colonel Layton transferred to Thailand in 65, the program was well-established. They had up to 80 camps. And he goes to Thailand, where they're going to run all of the drugs out of. And then Colby …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 1:00:45
John Richardson followed
William Colby documented
“John Richardson followed Colby in Saigon. From the Army's Counterintelligence Corps, Richardson had an authentic espionage. He had been a espionage hero during World War II. He had been instrumental in capturing a notorious German spy in It…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 1:01:17
William Colby introduced
John Richardson documented
“He had worked in Vienna and Therese and moved to Saigon from Manila, Philippines. You know, another terrorist training place. Colby introduced Richardson to Nguyen Dinh Ngu, now head of Diem's intelligence services. Richardson had been a cl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 1:02:19
William Colby headed
Civil Operations and Rural Development Support documented
“Fresh organization called CORDS, Civil Operations and Rural Development Support. Rural development. They were not developing the rural area. They were creating a tracking system to control it. That was the initial part of the pacification p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 14:56
William Colby headed
Phoenix Program documented
“Colby succeeded to the top job when his boss, Robert Comer, became the U.S. ambassador to Turkey. Turkey, the one with the largest stay-behind unit. As a result, it would be Colby who presided over cords in the Phoenix program. Although muc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 15:30
William Colby succeeded
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“In June, Ted Shackley moved up to the deputy director of operations, replacing Bill Colby. His successor was David Phillips. Only 10 months into a tour in Venezuela, it seemed Phillips was always being called back from places where he was s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 24:18
Allen Dulles recruited
William Colby book_quoted
“President Truman authorized Dulles to supervise the organization of the new agency. In keeping the OSS protocol, Dulles recruited almost exclusively from the elite millionaire businessmen, Wall Street bankers, lawyers, members of the nation…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 24:51
Allen Dulles influenced
William Colby host_asserted
“future watchmen, including Helms and Angleton, as well as others like William Casey, President Reagan's defiant law-breaking CIA director, and Donald Rumsfeld, President George Bush's smugly, confident conqueror of desert sands. And though …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 51:17
Richard Helms appointed
William Colby documented
“Because Langley is in on it. Whatever it had or had not done, the inquiries and the drawn-out investigation were certainly damaging. Richard Helms designated Executive Director William Colby as point man for Watergate. Helms, during his fin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 37:01
William Colby removed_from_power
CIA documented
“Schlesinger had left and William Colby was the boss. He argued against any increase in the aides to the Kurds. Kissinger viewed Colby as an isolated voice among the multitudes who agreed the Kurds would be unable to defeat the Iraqis at the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 48:46
Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of
William Colby host_asserted
“Kissinger ploy with a quarry in Chile, Kissinger kept Davis on the reservation and out of the media hands by convincing him to become an ambassador to Switzerland. The CIA, which had advised against track two in Chile, and the Kurdish opera…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 39:36
William Colby headed
Colby Working Group documented
“went off to the FNLA via Zaire before Langley even formed a task force and before the Portuguese withdrew from the airfields to receive them. By August 9th, two more loads had been sent on C-141s, while the CIA assembled shiploads of suppli…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 42:34
Henry Kissinger objected_to
William Colby documented
“went off to the FNLA via Zaire before Langley even formed a task force and before the Portuguese withdrew from the airfields to receive them. By August 9th, two more loads had been sent on C-141s, while the CIA assembled shiploads of suppli…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 42:34
William Colby spied_on
Dick Clark documented
“beginning a week after Ford's presidential finding, though not the full eight committees as required. In particular, on August 4th, Director Colby briefed Democrat Senator Dick Clark from Iowa shortly before Clark left on a fact-finding mis…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:13:30
Gerald Ford removed_from_power
William Colby documented
“Senator Clark's subcommittee. The CIA witness, William Nelson, went first. Nelson, a Colby protege, probably feared his own days were numbers, as Ford had suddenly fired Colby a month earlier. Having spent most of his career in the Far East…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:15:56
William Colby proposed
CIA documented
“The Tibetans countered with a proposal to split their strength in both places. A couple of months later, William Colby, now the chief of the DO for Far East Division, carried a fresh proposal to the special group. Colby argued for a switch …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 24:24
Desmond Fitzgerald member_of
William Colby host_asserted
“William Colby, very close. He conducted operations in the Philippines. He was also involved in the Korean operations. He was part of the approval process of the decision to arm the Hmong guerrillas in Laos.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 1:19:27
William Colby covered_up
Vietnam War host_asserted
“Colby saw Hearst and tried to explain that his data reflected distorted fragments of a different project, all within the agency's charter. Sure. He insisted that such activities had ceased under the 1973 directives that made plain the CIA w…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 31:50
William Colby covered_up
Richard Helms documented
“Warner added an analysis refuting that conclusion. Again, we've now got like 10 people saying that he committed perjury, but we're going to stick an addendum to their opinions. According to Colby's note for the record on September 25th, War…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 25:19
William Colby book_quoted
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“ambushes by police and regional forces and also their special forces elements. The going in and kind of hunting and pecking around to try to find somebody on their list that they had gotten from their informants that they paid. Even though …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 1:11:45
William Colby covered_up
Henry Kissinger documented
“On September 16th, the Times front page carried a Hirsch article portraying Kissinger as the chief strategist on Chile and the economic blockade. Four days later, the paper carried a second lead, which was written by Hirsch, linking the CIA…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 17:35
William Colby covered_up
Seymour Hersh documented
“later warning him of Hearst's next article. On September 21st, Hearst's theme would be Kissinger in the present tense, that he had omitted CIA involvement in the Chilean labor and trade unions in briefings to Congress and to colleagues in t…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 18:05
William Colby covered_up
Michael Harrington documented
“William Colby followed with a letter to the Times two days later referring specifically to Harrington. Colby denied ever using the term destabilization, which the congressman had used. Scott Breckinridge, Nathaniel Davis, and others seized …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 20:01
William Colby covered_up
Henry Kissinger documented
“who want a series of hearings on the issue, unquote. Bill Colby volunteered to issue such a denial when talking to the Deputy National Security Advisor, Brent Scolcroft, on September 23rd. Langley ultimately did not issue that denial. Davis…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 22:03
William Colby covered_up
Richard Helms documented
“Colby nonetheless held the line for two more months amidst threats of resignation. The last offense was a 1954 CIA justice agreement governing what could be withheld from the Justice Department. Colby sought to discover whether that exempte…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 26:19
William Colby covered_up
Seymour Hersh documented
“Colby saw Hearst and tried to explain that his data reflected distorted fragments of a different project, all within the agency's charter. Sure. He insisted that such activities had ceased under the 1973 directives that made plain the CIA w…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 31:50
William Colby covered_up
Rockefeller Commission documented
“He wanted to sanitize documents given to the Rockefeller Commission only to be overruled by the White House. He assigned Scott Breckinridge of the IG office, an original author of the 1967 report on assassination plots, to dissuade the Rock…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 52:56
William Colby spied_on
National Student Association documented
“But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57
William Colby spied_on
Committee of 40 documented
“But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57
Richard Nixon appointed
William Colby book_quoted
“This starts out with President Nixon's appointment of William Colby in September of 1973 as the new CIA director. And about him, let's see, and his relationship with Ted Shackley and all of the associates from Vietnam and Laos, which includ…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 3:34
William Colby member_of
Nugan Hand Bank book_quoted
“when he was suicided in his Mercedes down in Australia. Colby was the attorney, the staff attorney for Nugent Hand Bank. So Colby clearly looked at Shackley as a future director at some point in the future and basically had been mentoring h…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 4:56
William Colby mentored
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“when he was suicided in his Mercedes down in Australia. Colby was the attorney, the staff attorney for Nugent Hand Bank. So Colby clearly looked at Shackley as a future director at some point in the future and basically had been mentoring h…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 4:56
William Colby removed_from_power
James Jesus Angleton book_quoted
“be bore out with the exposure of several moles. But Colby and other CIA officials began to attack Angleton, which resulted in his dismissal by Colby in December of 1974. This, combined with Watergate, is what prompted the Safari Club to sta…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 11:02
James Jesus Angleton asserted
William Colby book_quoted
“James Angleton said before his death that Colby destroyed counterintelligence, but because Colby was seen by Shackley and Helms as having betrayed the CIA to Congress, they simply began working with outsiders like Adam and Saudi Arabia. The…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 11:29
William Colby removed_from_power
James Jesus Angleton book_quoted
“B-R-A-D-E-N. Braden remembered Helms saying, quote, if I am going to be charged, then I will reveal Henry Kissinger's role in these operations, unquote, which, of course, he was guilty as hell in the whole Allende assassination. There were …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 19:11
Gerald Ford removed_from_power
William Colby book_quoted
“Angleton's final departure from the CIA came at about the same time Gerald Ford decided that Colby's open approach to the investigation had to end. Ford fired Colby. But Colby's sudden job loss did not cause him any severe worries. He began…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 21:03
William Colby member_of
Reed and Priest book_quoted
“Angleton's final departure from the CIA came at about the same time Gerald Ford decided that Colby's open approach to the investigation had to end. Ford fired Colby. But Colby's sudden job loss did not cause him any severe worries. He began…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 21:03
Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_with
William Colby host_asserted
“point of contact. And according to Shirley Brill, the girlfriend of Klein, you have Carlucci and Shackley being very, very good friends. Shackley and Klein and Carlucci all worked together on the Chilean operation to overthrow Allende, whic…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 4:27
William Colby carried_out_attack
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Obviously. And the whole Angleton thing, he was implicated in all of the commissions. He was an integral player in the whole Cuban fiasco. He was an integral player in all of the Gladio style coups that were going on that was exposed. And h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 1:26:47
William Colby spied_on
James Jesus Angleton host_asserted
“But then Harvey goes over to Italy and he gets himself in a kind of a very similar situation there in an Italian context that should we work with the left or not, that we know had deeper divisions in CIA. For example, what Colby said that h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:28:30
William Colby spied_on
Clare Boothe Luce host_asserted
“But then Harvey goes over to Italy and he gets himself in a kind of a very similar situation there in an Italian context that should we work with the left or not, that we know had deeper divisions in CIA. For example, what Colby said that h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:28:30
George H.W. Bush succeeded
William Colby host_asserted
“Because it's always the same people, always the same organizations, always the same schools. So these people are groomed from the time that they are in elementary school through high school and then in the colleges that they go to, blah, bl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 1:18:00
Roberta Barnes paid
William Colby host_asserted
“But before long, despite what Wilson had done for him, Lowers was actually working for Klein. It was Lowers who had originally hired Barnes as a bookkeeper. Barnes was essentially Wilson's paymaster. She passed cash to Klein's and Paul Stee…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 13:44
William Colby member_of
Nugan Hand Bank host_asserted
“to forward those drugs to other locations. And that was the sole purpose of the Nugent Hand Bank. The creation of all of the different branches coincide with the ports of drug shipment. And so as you begin looking into the history of Nugent…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 23:14
William Colby succeeded
Robert Gates book_quoted
“Gates later said that that was like the lowest point in his life. He had the CIA directorship at his fingertips and it was like just outside of his grasp. So Prado says that Gates realized that it had been a generation since William Colby h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 3:45
William Colby targeted_for_regime_change
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“to Egypt and Israel, while Helms, the Cord, and von Marbog had huge personal investments in the Shah's regime. As for Wilson, he was basically dedicated to making money. He wasn't loyal to anybody. His attitude was to carry out whatever he …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 38:44
William Colby spied_on
Catholic Church host_asserted
“And I think it was William Colby, himself a Catholic, that made the comment that the Catholic Church has the largest intelligence gathering capability of anything in the entire world, and there's not even a close second. So it's crazy. All …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 1:29:15
William Colby recruited
Doug Valentine caller_asserted
“had helped him arrange initially. He was originally sort of this guy whose dad was in World War II. He had written a book on World War II. Colby thought that he was a terrific guy to kind of talk about the CIA. And he basically got all thes…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 1:14:31
William Colby spied_on
Catholic Church host_asserted
“that the Vatican had the most extensive spy network of any organization that has ever been created on the face of the earth. I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically what he said. And his reason for saying that, obviously, is kind of ironic. …”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 56:44
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
William Colby book_quoted
“inside or outside the agency who still possessed the ability to penetrate Shackley and Klein's activities and find out what they were doing. While the Israelis and Saudis now relied on Shackley, who was doing liaison work with Friendly Inte…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 37:58
William Colby founded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Yeah, so for those of you who've joined us and haven't been here from the beginning, Colby was the guy after World War II that went into the Scandinavian countries and set up all of their stay-behind units. That's where we first came across…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 1:19:44
William Colby member_of
Knights of Malta host_asserted
“You notice that there's some commonality with Operation Gladio and the Catholic Church, of which, you know, Georgetown seems, it seems to me that most of the people like, I'm trying to think, William Colby and a lot of those types of people…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale @ 1:30:39
James Schlesinger succeeded
William Colby host_asserted
“Another change initiated by Helms was continued under Schlesinger and consummated by his successor, William Colby. This concerned the major air proprietories like Air America and Southern Air Transport. A former owner of this freight line n…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:11:51
William Colby spied_on
Sweden host_asserted
“gain favor with Sweden in various ways. For example, we had many, many CIA agents, to include William Colby, in Sweden at different times in the past. So Sweden didn't necessarily think that fascists and Nazis were their enemy.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Sweden @ 7:19
William Colby trained
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“How the overlap with Gladio and USS Intel officer William Colby, beginning in the 1950s, was stationed in Stockholm. And he actually was part of the origination of training and equipping the Stay Behind organization in Sweden, which is very…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Sweden @ 1:13:47
William Colby covered_up
Family Jewels host_asserted
“with the National Student Association case, Laos and Indonesia. President Ford agreed at the time. A key index of Bill Colby's basic approach is that he tried and failed to keep the family jewels out of play. The measure his detractors pref…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 55:28
James Schlesinger succeeded
William Colby host_asserted
“Yeah, he's a mess. He was only there for a few months, though. And then he was followed by Vernon Walters. So we went from one bad one to another bad one to another bad one. And Vernon Walters, because he was the deputy, was only in there a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 1:16:29
William Colby covered_up
James Jesus Angleton host_asserted
“It's perhaps significant there. You know, a lot of people have sort of suggested that there was a conflict with Angleton. Angleton is, you know, retires in 74. Finally, you know, he's with some resistance as the way I've heard it. And Colby…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 1:19:33
William Colby member_of
George Mason University host_asserted
“that were intimately involved in setting up Gladio in its earlier stages were either not necessarily went to that school, but they did go to the foreign policy as like maybe a master's degree or something like that. So you're absolutely rig…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale @ 1:31:07
William Colby founded
Operation Gladio guest_asserted
“And this same thing, as a matter of fact, William Colby, a future CIA director, set them up in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 18:45
Mentions (120)
▶ 1:03:18
Let's see who we got here. Colonel, while you're waiting for other people to put their hand up, I wanted to point out a fun little connection. Okay. So part of this had to do with the DEA. And a fun little factoid, you know, we've talked a …
▶ 1:06:43
BNDD. What was the thing before the DEA? Customs Ambrose. Yeah. I mean, they had infiltration from the CIA way before that. Yeah. Yeah. I just wanted to point out the coincidence of everything was going on in 1973. You know, you've got Shac…
▶ 1:07:35
So they could move the processing of the number four heroin down to Sicily was done in 72. So I'm sure that them coming back from Southeast Asia was basically job done because they had transitioned the entire network over to the CIA. I thin…
▶ 1:30:39
You notice that there's some commonality with Operation Gladio and the Catholic Church, of which, you know, Georgetown seems, it seems to me that most of the people like, I'm trying to think, William Colby and a lot of those types of people…
▶ 1:46:57
The Catholic Church, William Colby made the comment that no one will ever on earth have a better intelligence apparatus than the Catholic Church because of confessions. They have every secret of everybody that's a Catholic around the world,…
▶ 56:15
Let's see, the Vatican offering the cartels money laundering with diplomatic immunity and CIA coordination. And it's funny because it's either William Casey or Colby. And I want to say it was Colby who was because Colby also was a Catholic …
▶ 56:44
that the Vatican had the most extensive spy network of any organization that has ever been created on the face of the earth. I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically what he said. And his reason for saying that, obviously, is kind of ironic. …
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We moved many of them down to the Delta and we did not provide for them. We began carpet bombing with B-52s, essentially destroying very ancient cultures. Unquote. By 1967, Mike Hand was the back man between the opium warlords and the banki…
▶ 26:59
Although the war was lost, Ted Shackley's boss, William Colby, considered his performance in Laos excellent. And it was because their entire purpose of being there and slaughtering tens of thousands of Americans and almost a million Vietnam…
▶ 29:33
And if I'm not mistaken, he died in a plane crash as well. Former director of the CIA, William Colby, he died right around that same time. And if you've ever read about his death, he supposedly went out on a canoe without a life jacket in t…
▶ 1:10:40
It does not seem that any of the people care about any of that. Let's see. And of course, I have to remind everybody, because I looked this up, who was the CIA director when all of this was going on in Angola? William Colby. The CIA interve…
▶ 1:49:04
Singlib, you have all of these people that share commonalities in many of the different countries. So we are building the narrative or the story of how they all interrelate. So we will have a segment that talks about some of the main charac…
▶ 1:41:25
And Nugent was found executed in his Mercedes car with William Colby's card on the, I think it was Colby. It may have been Casey. I get the two of them mixed up because they did all the same shit. Anyway, he had the CIA director's card layi…
▶ 1:14:07
He was like shot on the opposite side of his head from whatever hand he actually used. Everything about it was garbage. He had William Colby's business card on him at the time he was murdered, which was the CIA director. And the entire bank…
▶ 18:45
And this same thing, as a matter of fact, William Colby, a future CIA director, set them up in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. You know, Sweden, the neutral country. They were everywhere. So they were given money. So I guess I'm trying to under…
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Out of the Nugent Hand Bank, because that bank in Australia is exactly the same thing as the banks I was just describing to you. And the policeman finds the business card of William Colby, who was the CIA director, on the seat of the car ne…
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uh commission committee investigating the cia we have the 1975 church commission investigating the cia and we also have the peck committee commission so there's three different major commissions and if you recall the church commission is wh…
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who had returned to the Pentagon as well from being the CIA director, he was replaced at the CIA by William Colby, who was fresh out of Vietnam. He sent Von Marburg back to Saigon as his top logistics aide to prepare for the abandonment of …
▶ 1:25:52
That there is a mechanism. You're right, Leon, from the perspective that there has never been a will to hold people accountable because the people that were holding people accountable were guilty of the same damn thing. The only time anybod…
▶ 54:23
that was looking into the, um, activities of the CIA at the end of the day. Um, the, I mean, we've, I've, I've posted about the Rockefeller commission that was basically limited hangout. Um, they didn't, you know, you have the, um, Colby co…
▶ 23:48
that the days of the CIA old boys network would soon be over. The influence of Richard Pearl and others of similar political persuasion were able to exert over intelligence operations would dramatically increase in the coming years and deca…
▶ 24:17
understandably was not happy with this idea at all. He intuitively knew that to allow outside critics to gain access to estimates would politicize the process that was supposed to be apolitical, which just as a caveat here, it was never apo…
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in the COVID-19 intelligence estimate, right? So we know exactly what's going on behind the scenes because it has occasionally leaked out or been exposed, and that's what they're afraid of. Admiral Anderson, let's see, after President Ford …
▶ 40:38
Near East officials in the CIA were convinced that Israel withheld huge amounts of intelligence information from the U.S. Bush's longstanding family and business relationships with the Gulf states changed things. While the switch had begun …
▶ 46:14
was cultivated by various CIA operatives, including Shackley, Climes, and Turpel, T-E-R-P-I-L, in the early 1970s when Turpel and Wilson, Edwin Wilson, first started their operations in Libya. Turpel set Wilson up with a Geneva lawyer by th…
▶ 1:04:03
This made Adem, in effect, Sadat's case officer. This relationship gave Adem leverage when the time came to persuade Sadat to sign the Camp David Accord. Adem and Abedi believed the U.S. needed monitoring after Adem left the Intelligence Di…
▶ 1:04:29
Because Atom, through his relationships with Shackley and Bush, had intimate knowledge on just how desperate the U.S. intelligence was for services, a convenient Washington, D.C.-based bank acquiring one became one of his main goals. Meanwh…
▶ 1:05:25
They would also need muscle. They tapped into the CIA's stockpile of malcontents and created a 1,500-strong group of assassins and enforcers. Huh, that sounds like a Gladio network. They referred to it as the Black Network. It combined inte…
▶ 38:17
Wilson had no hint that he was a suspect in the Orlando Latier bombing or that he was under any investigation beyond a minor CIA internal issue. Complicating all of this was the divided loyalties inside the CIA with the old boys versus the …
▶ 0:57
They try to manipulate, they being Shackley and Klein, who's going to serve as Stanfield Turner's deputy. And they first push off a guy by the name of Admiral Daniel Murphy, who we've come across in the past. And Turner knows too much about…
▶ 1:26
He ends up firing the current deputy, Hank Nolte, and he wants to fire Shackley and Klein, but he's kind of waved off on doing that and takes all of his venom out on Nolke, which you spell his name K-N-O-C-H-E. Then Wisenberger and Loomis g…
▶ 2:57
That's where some of the arms got caught up in customs in the Iran-Contra affair. So, and by the way, it was for the very long time a fascist organization because the Genter Press, part of Operation Gladio, was staged out of Portugal. So, w…
▶ 3:29
deputy thanks to the manipulation of Shackley and Bush. And as it turns out, Carlucci is very close friends with Donald Rumsfeld. And it was Donald Rumsfeld who worked with President Ford to get Bush appointed to the directorship of the CIA…
▶ 4:27
point of contact. And according to Shirley Brill, the girlfriend of Klein, you have Carlucci and Shackley being very, very good friends. Shackley and Klein and Carlucci all worked together on the Chilean operation to overthrow Allende, whic…
▶ 12:47
I'm Pierre and it's okay. We are checking for bugs. With Klein's was Chi-Chi Cuatero. And rather than checking for bugs, they were actually placing bugs inside Wilson's offices. Klein suggested that Barnes call Don Lowers, L-O-W-E-R-S, who …
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But before long, despite what Wilson had done for him, Lowers was actually working for Klein. It was Lowers who had originally hired Barnes as a bookkeeper. Barnes was essentially Wilson's paymaster. She passed cash to Klein's and Paul Stee…
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to Wilson's townhouse, to parking lots. After a few months, Wilson decided that he could trust Barnes and made her his office manager. By 1978, she was his mistress as well. As Wilson's girlfriend, Barnes found herself socializing with Clim…
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aircraft that Wilson had bought for his youth. Secord's code name, assigned by Kline, was the Little General. Like Shirley Brill, Barnes witnessed Wilson preparing intelligence reports for Shackley and Kline on activities in Libya, and she …
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Although Clines had put in for his retirement and Shackley was no longer in the Directorate of Operations, they continued to task Wilson as if everything was still normal. They also sent taskings to Slatter and Quintero for information abou…
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Soviet weapons that were inside of Libya. Barnes would later testify that she flew with Schachter to Geneva and waited with him when Swiss customs delayed him to examine the shopping list for Soviet weapons. She then saw him give Wilson the…
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had been given a different job. The secret documents from which Shirley Brill had seen Klein and Quintero removing the markings of were not just CIA, but they were also from Mossad and Saudi. Klein's meeting with Secord and the CIA official…
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that BCCI was used all the way up until the early 90s for these transactions. Wilson's first solo, that is after Turple, and with the contract with Libya, was for a small $200,000 deal to furnish clothing and parachutes from the United Stat…
▶ 23:09
So the CIA was creating another terrorist state? Within the few weeks George Weiss's arrival at the Department of Energy, Ed Wilson got a request from Klein's for information about Libyan's nuclear program. Wilson soon had something to repo…
▶ 24:38
Toward the end of 1977, Wilson and Climes were converting the long-running Mexican intelligence operation featuring George Bush's old buddy, Jorge Diaz de Reno, and the CIA's Ricardo Chavez into a profit-making venture called API. Wilson's …
▶ 25:06
to transfer $100,000 to Klein to back the venture. Curiously, API was being set up in Wilson's Around the World shipping office in Houston, Texas. So George Bush is still in the intelligence business long after he left the director's job.…
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Wilson claims his only expectation was that around-the-world shipping would get any of the new venture shipping business. Officially, according to Klein's, API made pipe hangers for the oil industry when not providing Army intelligence or b…
▶ 26:03
the intelligence operation that had paid off so handsomely for the CIA and Army intelligence over the years. Diaz Serrano had now risen to the head of PEMEX, P-E-M-E-X operation, which was doing business with George Bush. So Diaz Serrano wa…
▶ 26:34
P-O-R-T-I-L-L-O. Wilson, Klein, Quintero, and Chavez were preparing to continue to bribe Serrano and other Permex officials who had worked for U.S. intelligence. This time, however, instead of getting information, they would get petroleum s…
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Turner put out a notice that if he found out who it was, he would fire them. Brill said, I know that Tom did it. The immediate reason for Klein's bitterness came after he was removed from his old DO post. And he was actually the liaison at …
▶ 33:53
Shackley felt that this would get Klein's out of harm's way, but Turner ordered it canceled. Despite the circumstances of Shackley and Klein's departure from the CIA, Shackley still talked about wanting to be the DCI. Brill said both men ta…
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often spoke favorably of George Bush, with whom they continued to meet long after he left the CIA, because he's part of the enterprise. And through his subsequent vice president and president's campaign, they continued to meet. Brill said t…
▶ 34:51
H-A-K-I-M, whom she did not like. That is how she learned that Hakeem, Shackley, and Clines were doing business together long before the Iran-Contra affair. Brill described Clines' relationship with Secord and Quintero as being like blood b…
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Wilson had no idea that his lawyer in Geneva, Ed Coughlin, who also represented Albert Hakim from time to time, had many dealings with Nugent Hand. Hakim had used Nugent Hand to finance many of his own deals in Iran, while the intelligence …
▶ 37:04
Wilson's business dealings, especially his arms deals, was now making to the PLO, made him suspect to the Israelis. Other business ventures of Shackley's people with Iran and Libya also raised serious questions in Tel Aviv. Some officials b…
▶ 37:34
The Israelis had one American they trusted absolutely, although James Angleton had been forced out of his job at the CIA. He was not about to allow his relationship with the Israeli intelligent hierarchy to be taken over by Shackley. Anglet…
▶ 37:58
inside or outside the agency who still possessed the ability to penetrate Shackley and Klein's activities and find out what they were doing. While the Israelis and Saudis now relied on Shackley, who was doing liaison work with Friendly Inte…
▶ 39:22
Angleton offered Wilson some advice. He suggested that Shackley was playing him for a fool, but Wilson ignored most of the warning. In retrospect, Wilson admits that when I first had this trouble, Angleton was really trying to help me. Angl…
▶ 3:34
This starts out with President Nixon's appointment of William Colby in September of 1973 as the new CIA director. And about him, let's see, and his relationship with Ted Shackley and all of the associates from Vietnam and Laos, which includ…
▶ 4:28
contamination of all of our service men as they went on R&R break in Australia. And also Mike Hand, who was a CIA asset, who also ends up as the hand part of Nugent Hand Bank. So all of these people are basically very close to William Colby…
▶ 4:56
when he was suicided in his Mercedes down in Australia. Colby was the attorney, the staff attorney for Nugent Hand Bank. So Colby clearly looked at Shackley as a future director at some point in the future and basically had been mentoring h…
▶ 6:18
So by the early 1970s, the CIA needed another bank. And we know that that ended up being Nugent Hand and BCCI. Shackley and Colby turned to two of their Laos colleagues, Houghton and Hand. Nugent Hand Bank was established in 1973 in Austral…
▶ 10:32
William Colby, who had his share of covert secrets to protect, tried to appease Congress. But what the public and Congress did not know was that James Angleton's massive mole hunt was underway. The hunt for Soviet agents inside the director…
▶ 11:02
be bore out with the exposure of several moles. But Colby and other CIA officials began to attack Angleton, which resulted in his dismissal by Colby in December of 1974. This, combined with Watergate, is what prompted the Safari Club to sta…
▶ 12:56
with actual CIA agents. And the book goes on and says, Colby's reliance on Shackley to cover up leftover embarrassments from Chile to the Vietnam War was in direct conflict with the spirit of openness. He was displaying for a growing number…
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to act as liaison among the various investigations. Hill recalled that Colby seemed cooperative, but many of his subordinates, especially those in the clandestine service, were not. Hell, a reporter friend of mine from San Francisco was int…
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Corey's letter was far greater threat to the CIA management than any of the headline-grabbing news coming out of the Church Commission. Colby was unwilling to cover up for the director of operations on Chile, despite his sponsorship of Shac…
▶ 18:15
Morale at the CIA was at an all-time low. The Directorate of Operations veteran leaked stories to journalists that Colby was probably a Soviet mole. I'm sorry. I just have to laugh that every single freaking time that the CIA gets implicate…
▶ 18:42
President Ford realized that Colby intended to comply with all requests for information, with the exception of the names of American agents. The establishment, both Republicans and Democrats, now was facing lots of revelations. From Iran, H…
▶ 19:11
B-R-A-D-E-N. Braden remembered Helms saying, quote, if I am going to be charged, then I will reveal Henry Kissinger's role in these operations, unquote, which, of course, he was guilty as hell in the whole Allende assassination. There were …
▶ 20:08
because they're money laundering this entire time through the Vatican. And Angleton is the one that handled both of those accounts. Over the years, he had built up a very productive and close relationship with the Israeli intelligence, Moss…
▶ 20:37
more trustworthy than Angleton and that he could feel the shoes of Angleton. Angleton says, as far as I know, these overtures were never authorized. After Colby fired Angleton in 1974, it took Angleton nine months to clean out his desk. Nin…
▶ 21:03
Angleton's final departure from the CIA came at about the same time Gerald Ford decided that Colby's open approach to the investigation had to end. Ford fired Colby. But Colby's sudden job loss did not cause him any severe worries. He began…
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Among those clients were Nugent Hand. So again, all Colby did was go to the enterprise, which is what I call the covert side of the CIA in all of their fake entities. Ford had thought about replacing Colby with Elliot Richardson, the forthr…
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But Donald Rumsfeld and others convinced Ford that the CIA under siege by Ford's attorney general, the last thing they needed was a reformer to head the CIA. Henry Kissinger, who needed someone at the CIA to stave off Richard Helms' very re…
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George Bush made no secret that he would not follow his predecessor, William Colby, in the policy of openness and cooperation with Congress. Bush said the scrutiny of the agency had undergone, quote, frankly, many of our friends around the …
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After they arrived, neither senator wanted to examine the files. In the end, they didn't even look at the material. As a result of incidents like this, the much-vaulted church committee investigation essentially accomplished not much. But w…
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Along the same lines, he came out to the agency and was sworn in. Quote, Ford came out to the alcove. Colby presided and then got into his old battered up jalopy and drove off into the sunset with a standing ovation. And Potter Stewart, the…
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nexus of the phoenix program he he hires william colby basically as his deputy and we all know that william colby goes on to be the cia director um he it was william colby that also acknowledges that over 20 000 people died as a direct resu…
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He's a CIA asset. He's a Rand employee. He's a vicious murderer of Vietnamese. And we just appoint him in 1968 to be the ambassador to Turkey. And it says that he was succeeded in the cords Vietnam operation by William Colby, which I had al…
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gain favor with Sweden in various ways. For example, we had many, many CIA agents, to include William Colby, in Sweden at different times in the past. So Sweden didn't necessarily think that fascists and Nazis were their enemy.…
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How the overlap with Gladio and USS Intel officer William Colby, beginning in the 1950s, was stationed in Stockholm. And he actually was part of the origination of training and equipping the Stay Behind organization in Sweden, which is very…
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He's the only reason I got my commission. Well, same here. The detachment commander tried to keep me out because he didn't like prior service people. Yeah, well, yeah, I got a long story there. But anyway, so I was talking to my dad because…
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to forward those drugs to other locations. And that was the sole purpose of the Nugent Hand Bank. The creation of all of the different branches coincide with the ports of drug shipment. And so as you begin looking into the history of Nugent…
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What we did in either one of those conflicts remotely honors the intent, not the letter of the law, but not even the intent of the Geneva Convention. We know that Colby eventually, we talked about it, was called before Congress. He denied t…
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William Colby, the future CIA director, and Edward Lansdale, who posed as a military general many times, and other prominent figures in American quote-unquote counter-surgency circles. They're all CIA. These Americans liked Mr. Child's insi…
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Again, he learns the language as he begins suggesting things. No one wants to hear about it. He personally talked to William Colby and William Colby basically told him to pound sand that, yeah, what you're talking about may work, but it wou…
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Because that's what they have done with the Phoenix program. They have brought that back with an intelligence function of local big city police departments. And they have basically created a Phoenix program inside the United States. At the …
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Felix Rodriguez, he actually said he was in Vietnam and that he had worked for Colby there and several other people. And he was there. And if you've not read that thread that I wrote about this, the deal with the Cuban exiles were after the…
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ambushes by police and regional forces and also their special forces elements. The going in and kind of hunting and pecking around to try to find somebody on their list that they had gotten from their informants that they paid. Even though …
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Arriving in Saigon in the spring of 1959 as the CIA's deputy chief of station was William Colby. And obviously we know William Colby from his role in setting up Operation Gladio in Europe and in the Scandinavian countries when he was an OSS…
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Catholic Church aspect of Vietnam, the mass migration down, the use of the Catholic Church as a front in some of the CIA operations, Colby seemed to be the perfect person to run much of the paramilitary operations that basically look like O…
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He also managed the political operations for deep cover case officers like the pilots for Air America. And one of the executives during this time for Air America was a guy by the name of Clyde Bauer. He brought into South Vietnam a...…
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is on record as saying he did that to set up a strong civil base, maybe a base of operations. CIA officers under Colby's directions fundled money to all of the political parties that were on record in the South, basically in the typical fea…
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options open during destabilization efforts like this because you never know when you're going to have to drop one guy and assassinate him and go with another. So this is a normal development. Under Colby's direction, the CIA increased its …
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An entire army of people that you stole their shit from. So in response, when William Colby became the station chief in 1960, there was he accelerated the pace at which CIA operated into the northern area. So they've just totally effed up t…
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Greg had worked under William Colby in the CIA Far East Division from 1961 to 64 as chief of the Vietnam desk at the CIA headquarters. When Colby became director of the CIA in 73, he promoted Greg to the CIA's executive management staff. Gr…
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Company man. Colby asked him to be the liaison to the congressional committees investigating the CIA's illegal activities called the Family Jewels and its role in assassinations. Congressman Otis Pike wanted to abolish the CIA. So on Colby'…
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Unquote. Colby's public confessions and tough bargaining behind the scenes succeeded. The CIA was spared and Greg's career went upwards. When George H.W. Bush succeeded Colby as the director of the CIA in 1976, Greg moved on to Bush's staff…
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And the author goes on to say, I had written to Greg in 1987 at Colby's suggestion, then serving on Bush's staff as his national security advisor. Greg called him at home one day and caught me entirely by surprise. He said, I got your lette…
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Well, never mind about that part. So he says, it all started, I explained, when Colby agreed to help me write the book that is dedicated to the Phoenix program. That and him having met with Richard Helms. Richard Helms hated Colby for givin…
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had to admit that Roman Catholic Colby was CIA royalty, bathed in the blood of the Lamb. As an OSS officer, Colby had parachuted into occupied France and fought Germany behind the scenes in France. He had also helped out in Italy. And Colby…
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had basically shouldered the yoke of the cross. That's how they view him inside the CIA. Well, not everybody, because he ends up dead. But anyway, another quote, our people in the Philippine Congress are handling that, which was something C…
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Special Operations Division, and it became an elite special operations group and cross-trained paramilitary officers that was known as low-intensity warfare. Enders and Gregg looked up to Parker with great respect. Having served in the OSS …
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then by labeling them and associating communism with them, they are able to indiscriminately kill them at will. So hold on a second. I'm going to resend those because I don't think they sent from my iPad. Okay. So director of CIA, William C…
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75,000 Southerners, meaning in South Vietnam, who in 1954, quote, the communists took North for training in organizing propaganda and subversion, unquote. According to Colby, these cadres returned to the South, revived the networks that the…
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entity called the National Liberation Front, the People's Revolutionary Party liberation committees, which were, quote-unquote, pretended local governments rather than simply political bodies, and pretended provisional revolutionary governm…
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Vietnamese people to support the insurgency led by the U.S., which is absolutely a bold-faced lie. As William Colby testified before Congress, the implication or latent threat of force alone was sufficient to ensure that the people would co…
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began to be perceived as liabilities. Convinced that William Colby had organized the November 1960 coup attempt, New prohibited his followers from talking to any CIA agent. This edict threw a wrench in the CIA's attempt to organize everythi…
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the Can Lao, claiming it denied advancement to the majority of Vietnamese and nullified democratic reforms. Unwilling to divest himself of his power base, Dem refused to do it and instead sought to appease the Americans by authorizing a sta…
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The Viet Cong was fighting for the unity of their country where basically the CIA had a bunch of paid actors. You're never going to get the same result with those two populations. According to William Colby, quote, the armed propaganda team…
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That was one of the tactics that they used. And then they would take these people to refugee centers and basically start propagandizing them, trying to turn them into snitches and all of that type of stuff. So he said, Colby said that commu…
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Scotton was a very outgoing, charismatic person, and he had basically traveled all over Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, all those things. And let's see, when Doug Valentine got to meet this guy, Scotton, he was introduced to him by William Colby.…
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a famous CIA operative who specializes in other things among black propaganda, which to him involved murder, forgery, and outright deception of the American press in order to discredit the NLF in particular and the opposition to American in…
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a one world government with a one world religion. And that one world religion was going to encapsulate both a intelligence capability. And remember, because this all comes back to, this is why I found this article so fascinating. You rememb…
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that the Vatican, the Catholic Church, had the most extensive intel network in the world, and there was no one close as a second. So they idolized the fact that you could use a religion to hide an intelligence apparatus inside of it. And so…
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representation in Stockholm in the form of a field station, which we all know who manned that, William Colby, who eventually ends up as the CIA director, who had worked in Scandinavia for the USS during World War II. He dropped a private la…
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in the entire Scandinavian region. The OPC station chief met many Eastern Europeans and Baltic immigrants and talked for hours about the conditions of their homeland. Colby recalls to boost their morale and encourage them that they, here's …
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i.e. Operation Gladio. Bill Colby was particularly upset when the Baltic partisan adventure failed and there was no ability or enthusiasm afterwards to recreate any resistance groups. That ends chapter two. So again, I find it fascinating t…
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gladio units inside of the soviet union and then you obviously see now that we know about operation gladio um that william colby creating stay behind units in the scandinavian area he was kind of that entire geography area geographical area…
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In addition to being a liaison, the CIA wished to have its own source among South Vietnamese politicians and interest groups. By 1960, the agency was supplying the best information outside of the presidential palace, save perhaps a few of t…