Max Hugel person
also: Hugel, Hoogle, Hugo, Max Hoogle, H-U-G-E-L
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Claims (9)
Max Hugel headed
Brothers Industry Limited book_quoted
“His business career had roots in post-war Japan, where as a young Army intel man, he had interrogated Japanese soldiers who had been interned in the Soviet Union during the war. Hugo went on to a business career that peaked when he became t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 38:50
Max Hugel headed
Stentronics book_quoted
“His business career had roots in post-war Japan, where as a young Army intel man, he had interrogated Japanese soldiers who had been interned in the Soviet Union during the war. Hugo went on to a business career that peaked when he became t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 38:50
William Casey appointed
Max Hugel book_quoted
“When Casey surprised nearly everyone by naming Hogle to the CIA's most sensitive job, which was the director of operations on May 1981, the old boy clandestine services turned to Shackley to help get rid of Hogle. General William Odom, O-D-…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 50:39
Thomas R. McNeil exposed
Max Hugel book_quoted
“The McNeil story destroyed Hogle's government career, and he resigned from the CIA in 1981. Then the McNeils suddenly disappeared, too, compounding questions about them and the fact that a third brother, Dennis McNeil, had died under very m…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 52:35
Samuel F. McNeil exposed
Max Hugel book_quoted
“The McNeil story destroyed Hogle's government career, and he resigned from the CIA in 1981. Then the McNeils suddenly disappeared, too, compounding questions about them and the fact that a third brother, Dennis McNeil, had died under very m…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 52:35
John Stein succeeded
Max Hugel book_quoted
“John McMahon, who had preceded Hoogle as the head of the DO, said with irony, I don't know how those tapes got to the Washington Post. And he's a big fat liar. It might have been one of the agency's covert operative. Hoogle was replaced by …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 53:07
Max Hugel removed_from_power
CIA book_quoted
“The McNeil story destroyed Hogle's government career, and he resigned from the CIA in 1981. Then the McNeils suddenly disappeared, too, compounding questions about them and the fact that a third brother, Dennis McNeil, had died under very m…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 52:35
William Casey recruited
Max Hugel book_quoted
“Judgments also became an issue following Casey's confirmation in 81 when it became known that there was a thing called Hoogle Affair, H-U-G-E-L. This concerned the resignation of a man Casey had personally brought in to the agent as an assi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 37:57
William Casey promoted
Max Hugel book_quoted
“Judgments also became an issue following Casey's confirmation in 81 when it became known that there was a thing called Hoogle Affair, H-U-G-E-L. This concerned the resignation of a man Casey had personally brought in to the agent as an assi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 37:57
Mentions (28)
▶ 36:22
But John Bross, B-R-O-S-S, who symbolized the CIA establishment, was worried about a campaign member, which he was, who had come with Casey to the CIA and who seemed to have great influence on him. Max Hugel, H-U-G-E-L, who was a Brooklyn, …
▶ 36:51
He was a foul-mouthed, Brooklyn-born Jew, definitely a fish out of water in the basically anti-Semitic Ivy League CIA that was more comfortable with recruiting Nazis than Eastern European Jews. He had a major role in the presidential campai…
▶ 37:21
Like he was going to the racetrack because he actually owned a racetrack. And one of the things that we found early on is because that's a gambling kind of casino type thing. Most of those people are dirty. And who's ill-fitting to pay. Aga…
▶ 37:50
Northeast Boys Club. Brose, who had come out of retirement to advise Casey, recalled one of the first times he ever laid eyes on Hoogle. And here comes Max sweeping under my arm, dressed like a dandy, smelling like aftershave lotion, ploppi…
▶ 38:20
He just didn't fit in, unquote. Corson says when you don't fit in, it means the clandestine services people don't think you fit in. Casey's OSS history made him acceptable to the CIA, but Hoogle was another matter. Casey, like Stanford Turn…
▶ 38:50
His business career had roots in post-war Japan, where as a young Army intel man, he had interrogated Japanese soldiers who had been interned in the Soviet Union during the war. Hugo went on to a business career that peaked when he became t…
▶ 39:22
Unknown to Hugel, the CIA's counterintelligence staff was very interested in his Japanese business associations, and some of which had served in Soviet POW camps. According to James Angleton, the longtime head of counterintelligence, a numb…
▶ 39:47
After they returned home and rose to the top of Japanese corporations, they transferred important technology to the Soviet Union. In the 70s, one of the executives transferred U.S. submarine technology that did real damage, according to Ang…
▶ 40:16
was already in the hands of the CIA and FBI. Like many other Americans, Hogle was a devoted friend of Israel. To the Israelis, the good fortune of having someone who could influence the chief of the CIA was vitally important. For the covert…
▶ 41:16
Bush's goal was to ensure that we not lose our strategic oil supply by too much of a tilt towards Israel. He was already orchestrating the first opening in a tilt to Iraq in its war with Iran. Hugel was a threat. Inman reported back to Bush…
▶ 41:45
that in many ways, Hugo was very effective. The CIA was now, at Hugo's insistence, getting interest for the first time on tens of millions of dollars that were in covert black banks. Hugo had cajoled the State Department by providing better…
▶ 42:17
State had insisted that CIA officers be listed on embassy rosters as reserve foreign services officers. Yeah, like that would be a dead giveaway. And Google's point was, well, if you're doing it, then the enemy knows you're doing it. Why wo…
▶ 42:47
By the late spring of 1981, Hugel and Casey were regularly meeting directly with Israeli intelligence. During this period, Hugel was also involved in a covert operation that had not been cleared with either the Directorate of Operations or …
▶ 43:17
that was located in Iraq was proof that the Iraqis were planning to match Israel's nuclear weapon capability, something had to be done. The Israelis had the information because back in 1977, when Shackley was still inside the CIA, he had pl…
▶ 43:46
Hoogle had came to the CIA. Weiss was head of security and safeguards at the Department of Energy, and he's basically a CIA agent posing as a civilian in DOE. One of the most critical positions in DOE. Hoogle had already impressed Casey wit…
▶ 44:43
Hoffie, thanks to Weiss, knew more about what was going on in the CIA files, knew more about what was going on than the CIA files provided. Google had warned Hoffie that Casey would drive a tough bargain for covert support on attacking Iraq…
▶ 49:43
would haunt Bush years later when he was up for re-election as president and he crossed the Israelis on a $10 billion loan guarantee. Casey was not kept informed on all of these secret operations that Bush was running. The highest value of …
▶ 50:11
Hogle had to go, and he had to go soon if Shackley was not going to be shown up as basically worthless. If Hogle had ever felt welcome at the CIA, he had no idea how unfriendly it was about to get. Bill Casey wanted to shake up the Director…
▶ 50:39
When Casey surprised nearly everyone by naming Hogle to the CIA's most sensitive job, which was the director of operations on May 1981, the old boy clandestine services turned to Shackley to help get rid of Hogle. General William Odom, O-D-…
▶ 51:09
came upon evidence documenting Hogle's unauthorized discussions with the Israelis about the nuclear reactor in Iraq. That information was leaked to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and you guys are not going to even believe thi…
▶ 51:37
Still, this first effort to sidetrack Hoogle's appointment failed, and the Republican-controlled Senate, so the Director of Operations Veterans, turned to the Counterintelligence Division for help. Here they found information showing that H…
▶ 52:07
Before coming to the CIA, Robert, or excuse me, Thomas R. and Samuel F. McNeil contacted Bob Woodard and provided him a Washington Post colleague, Patrick Tyler, with 16 audio tapes featuring an angry Max Hogle threatening the brothers usin…
▶ 52:35
The McNeil story destroyed Hogle's government career, and he resigned from the CIA in 1981. Then the McNeils suddenly disappeared, too, compounding questions about them and the fact that a third brother, Dennis McNeil, had died under very m…
▶ 53:07
John McMahon, who had preceded Hoogle as the head of the DO, said with irony, I don't know how those tapes got to the Washington Post. And he's a big fat liar. It might have been one of the agency's covert operative. Hoogle was replaced by …
▶ 53:43
Google, after he was fired or resigned, whatever, set up, he sued the government for libel and won because the McNeils were nowhere to be found to say anything about where they got the information or anything else.…
▶ 37:57
Judgments also became an issue following Casey's confirmation in 81 when it became known that there was a thing called Hoogle Affair, H-U-G-E-L. This concerned the resignation of a man Casey had personally brought in to the agent as an assi…
▶ 38:24
promotion in the operations directorate by Bill Casey. It emerged that there were tape recordings of Hoogle giving out business information and Casey admitted to less than two years of a much more distant acquaintance. He made it seem like …
▶ 39:26
about getting inside information. Inside the agency, Casey assembled a top CIA leadership to assure them everything was fine. Reagan defended Casey and took the heat for whatever was said derogatory about Casey. Casey moved to reassure all …