Richard Allen person
also: Allen, Richard B. Allen
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Richard Allen met_with
Hossein Lavi book_quoted
“had taken the national security aid. He was the national security aid to Texas Senator John Tower. And y'all can post, if you wouldn't mind, SR-71, what ends up happening to John Tower. If you just grab his Wikipedia page, not good. He had …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:21:08
Richard Allen assigned
Oliver North book_quoted
“In late 1981, North was plucked from the Naval War College to serve on the National Security Council. I had no business being assigned to the National Security Council, North later wrote. I was in over my head. As North pointed out, he held…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 19:07
Oliver North discovered_items_in_safe_of
Richard Allen book_quoted
“final dagger in his back. North opened a safe in an office that had been assigned to Allen during the presidential transition period. In the safe, North discovered an envelope containing $1,000 in cash, several bottles of liquor, and two ex…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 20:29
Richard Allen ordered_assassination_of
Soviet Union documented
“was not aggressive enough. When Richard Allen, Reagan's first national security advisor, ordered a covert operation to disable floating dry docks the Soviet had put on the Somali port of Berbera, McMahon objected to this as an act of war. A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 54:51
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connected to the CIA. In the mid-1970s, King did a year in jail for income tax fraud and quietly retired to a Colorado ranch. Before that happened, King had gotten close to Richard Nixon and claimed to have been an advisor to President John…
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And some of his advisors included former astronaut Wally Sharira and Frank Borman, as well as Richard Allen. Allen later served as Ronald Reagan's first national security advisor and resigned under a cloud of scandal fueled by stories in th…
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had taken the national security aid. He was the national security aid to Texas Senator John Tower. And y'all can post, if you wouldn't mind, SR-71, what ends up happening to John Tower. If you just grab his Wikipedia page, not good. He had …
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who had claimed that he had helped the Republicans get the hostages relieved. Allen said that he was the first reluctant but finally acquiesced to the meeting because Tower was a close friend of George Bush. Allen also liked McFarlane, who …
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through James Baker. But Lobby was also one of the arms brokers that Edwin Wilson used, along with Richard Secord and von Marbach. Lobby said that what was discussed at the meeting was F4 parts in exchange for the hostages. Lobby agreed tha…
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Lobby said it was because that they were already in touch with the Iranians themselves. Soberman, Allen, and McFarlane insisted that Lobby was not the Middle Easterner who approached them. But after Lobby died, reporter Robert Perry obtaine…
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became startlingly clear when one realizes that they used no less than the CIA, the Justice Department, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, Richard Allen, the president's national security advisor, and America's premier investigator, Seymour Hersh, al…
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who was an alcoholic, unstable CIA man who had worked for Wilson in Libya. Investigative reporter Seymour Hirsch, who had written about McCauley's exploits, and a mysterious guest they brought in with them by the name of Ernest Kaiser. Gree…
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and a Shackley subordinate who asked not to be identified, Kaiser had been used by Shackley as a contract agent in Europe. The fact that Kaiser had conned the National Security Advisor, Richard Allen, and the Deputy Director of the CIA, Bob…
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What is known is that in the spring of 1981, Kaiser contacted Seymour Hearst and Kevin Mulcahy about bringing Wilson back. This was about the same time that the New York Times Magazine published two major Hearst articles about Wilson. Hears…
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Wilson was so impressed with Kaiser that he lent him $425,000 for the Florida condo scheme. Through many phone calls, all directed by Barthola and recorded by the government, Kaiser and another sometimes CIA agent, Daniel Drake, convinced W…
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Corson said that North went to great lengths to keep details of his illness out of his medical records. That would be interesting to know what those links were. After distinguished service in Europe, North received a coveted assignment to t…
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In late 1981, North was plucked from the Naval War College to serve on the National Security Council. I had no business being assigned to the National Security Council, North later wrote. I was in over my head. As North pointed out, he held…
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So North began to read everything he could about foreign policy. He wanted to make a good impression. North got ahead by working excruciatingly long hours and brown nosing his boss. North's first job for Richard Allen was to set up charts a…
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He was close to Bill Casey, but not particularly popular with George Bush or with Shackley's private enterprise network. Allen did not like cowboys and was even less comfortable with Bush off the books operations. It was not long before All…
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final dagger in his back. North opened a safe in an office that had been assigned to Allen during the presidential transition period. In the safe, North discovered an envelope containing $1,000 in cash, several bottles of liquor, and two ex…
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North took the items over to Jerry Jennings, who ran security for the NSC. And in short order, the incident was leaked to the press. Allen was crucified in the press and he was gone. And let me explain something to you guys, which speaks to…
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And they go into like a museum or a library or something like that because they are technically government property. So without knowing anything more about this, this was them trying to get rid of him because he started asking questions, th…
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if they're part of, as this was a very new administration, and they probably had not been inventoried yet. Casey wanted Reagan to appoint a Democrat, Jean Kirkpatrick, as Allen's replacement. But instead, James Baker and Michael Deaver pers…
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was not aggressive enough. When Richard Allen, Reagan's first national security advisor, ordered a covert operation to disable floating dry docks the Soviet had put on the Somali port of Berbera, McMahon objected to this as an act of war. A…