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“Cornell University has been selected as the place we're going to do that. So they're putting people they're going to use as spies into the university system. The agency is supporting the establishment of a Tibet house in New Delhi, Geneva, …”
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He could sneak arms into an African country by painting a large red cross on the side of cargo planes and then laugh about it. Kamal Adem's call to Sarkis' Geneva apartment came in October 1980. A guide by Abu Garo, which is an Arab term of…
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Figuring out who the man was connected to would be important. When I told Kamal this worried me, he said to relax. The man is not an Iraqi. I told Adam to send him and we'd see what we could do. Sarkis used a suite at the Geneva Hotel that …
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And Kyabalian was basically behind the whole thing. So Sarkis hit it off with Kyabalian the first night they met. Sarkis was a dazzling host. After several nights of expensive dinners and parties, Geneva's best, and exclusive club hopping, …
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whatever his last name is, Krala, became closer. On one trip to Geneva, some of Sarkis' Israeli friends quoted several Iranian generals as saying that if the war went on, Iran would lose. The U.S. had placed an embargo on spare parts that I…
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The company would be divided five ways. Wilson expected to get his $500,000 back with interest in addition to his 20% share in the company. This operation was to work much like the company that he'd had before called API. The plan agreed to…
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May also was very careful not to say where the timers were shipped, just that they were correctly manifested. On September 16th, Lou Harper got a phone call from her husband, who was at a hotel intercontinental in Geneva. He assured her tha…
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were in Geneva en route to the U.S. Klein already knew why Wilson was in Geneva. He was there to complete arrangements for an assassination for his Libyan bosses and to find a replacement for explosive experts that had gotten nervous. What …
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was that Scalopter and Harper's son, John Jr., were being held hostage by the Libyans at a summer residence in the Libyan countryside. Turple, this was later said by Wilson, Turple and I took Harper and went to Geneva and paid him off. We n…
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Ilik Ramirez Sanchez, who was better known as Carlos the Jackal. Two weeks later, Quintero was again summoned to Wilson's office from Miami. Wilson gave Quintero $30,000 in expense money and told Quintero to plan on meeting him in Europe wi…
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for the assignment. Rafael and Raul were well-known CIA contract agents with long histories of working for the CIA. Quintero and Rafael Veliverde left for Geneva on September 12, 1976. Raul, the explosive expert, was to meet them there late…
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who had been with me for now three months, was drunk and was talking to one of the local Libyans and had a couple of guns, they were planning to overthrow Gaddafi and get involved in some sort of revolution. I knew that was the only thing t…
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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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to collect intelligence were multiplying. Wilson had offices in London, Geneva, as well as his townhouse in Washington, while he himself was in Libya making contact. Now, what's interesting, as I went through this book, these companies that…
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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 …
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Cornell University has been selected as the place we're going to do that. So they're putting people they're going to use as spies into the university system. The agency is supporting the establishment of a Tibet house in New Delhi, Geneva, …
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And at the Geneva Conference, Vietnam was divided along the 17th parallel, pending a nationwide election to be held in 1956. The French were to withdraw from the North and the Viet Minh from the South, where the U.S. was set to displace the…
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dressed in black pajamas, and went into villages to dig latrines, patch roofs, dispense medicine, and deliver propaganda composed by Lansdale. The people were expected to inform on Viet Minh guerrillas and vote for them in the 1956 unificat…
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One month later, Can Lao introduced a political front called National Revolution Movement. In 1955, knowing that the Buddhist population would vote overwhelmingly for Viet Minh in the national election, still talking the unified election, D…
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were completely decimated. And he installed everybody that he wanted to have work for him throughout the entire southern area. And that sufficed for what basically was mandated in the Geneva Convention. And so basically, he just pissed off …
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Operation Lock, just your average spy and assassin for the government of South Africa. Craig Williamson befriended a guy by the name of Lars Erikson, who was the director of the International University Exchange Fund in Geneva, right down t…
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very indiscreet in several ways, unquote. Carbog did not recruit operatives only from Capitol Hill. Once when Senator Helms was going through some of his thunder and fire about unacceptable ambassador appointments that had been sent up to t…
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that I knew him but not the others. He pleaded with me to speak to Carbog about the other three or about the other two and him. I told him that he was foolish and that he should not worry about saving himself. He told me that he had to thin…
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had previously defended a military leader in a dictatorship who oversaw the torture and execution of thousands of Chilean dissidents should have disqualified him from any role in any human rights report. Situated on the chill banks of late …
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in a building that originally housed the League of Nations. It was located in a plush area of Geneva. Anya encountered the people at the UN Human Rights Council in March 19, 2019, speaking alongside a UN special representative, Alfred D. Za…
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Meanwhile, used his speaking time to deliver a scorching indictment of the entire UN Human Rights Office, accusing its functionaries as violating the most fundamental principle of methodology in its approach to Venezuela. As a renowned spec…
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but had visited Venezuela himself in 2017 in his capacity as a UN special representative. Fluent in six languages, the dual U.S.-Swiss citizen spoke in very certain terms as he addressed the room in Geneva. We are swimming in an ocean of li…
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Through academic reviews, including being published in the Cambridge Law Journal, praised his scholarship, saying that his documentation of crimes was second to none. One of D. Saez's loudest detractor was UN Watch, a Geneva-based organizat…
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The Miami National Bank was identified in 1960 as having served between, let's see, 1963 and 67 as a conduit which hot syndicate money, meaning money to be laundered, by Meyer Lansky and his couriers was laundered through the interlocking e…
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The FBI traced the $500,000 in Arcadia loans to International Research and Trade, IRT, the company Shackley and Klein set up in Bermuda. In mid-August 1981, Klein's made two $500,000 loans from ETSCO to IRT about a week apart. On August 20t…
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In the end, it works out to be an $8 million ripoff by ETSCO, funds which the Egyptians could have used for supplies. The Department of Justice memorandum stated it went on to say that von Marbog received a cash payoff in Geneva in October …
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At the hotel in Geneva, Sarkis' suite became a waiting room for everyone trying to sell something to Iraq. The bizarre-like atmosphere vanished when Sarkis received an emergency call from Krayola. The largest Iranian human wave attack of th…
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was almost white when he got off the phone. The uniform deal was the last thing on his mind as he made calls to get munitions shipped in a hurry. After a week in Geneva, Sarkis gathered his guests for a midnight takeoff for Baghdad. As the …
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But the president personally signed this one. A week later, Secretary Rusk talked with the British in Geneva. In his report, Rusk noted that the London did not exclude action, but was not willing to go down that road until every avenue was …
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The French defeat at Dinh Vinh Phu led to a negotiated settlement at Geneva, which provided for a temporary division of Vietnam into two regroupment zones, which became known respectively as North and South. Now, this again was on purpose b…
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being taken over by the CIA. In June of 1954, an agency special unit, 10 men under Colonel Lansdale arrived undercover as Saigon military mission. They worked independently of John Anderton's Saigon station. Geneva provided a two-year hiatu…
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of what had already been promised as an election. In October 55, Lansdale was awarded a National Security Medal, just like Kermit Roosevelt, for creating the fucked up mess of Vietnam in which we would end up with tens of thousands of dead …
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Thus, Laos became the front line in the struggle. Beases were plentiful both there and in neighboring Thailand, another American ally. At the same time, the American military was excluded from Laos by the 1954 Geneva Accords, which they ign…
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So I'll try. So Feng Gong Vong, he was the leader of what the CIA referred to as their communist movement. His half-brother, Sovana Foma, was a neutralist, a nationalist. The French had influence in Laos, while the American presence establi…
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turned off his hearing aid in the middle of the meeting because he knew he was being lied to by the CIA. Diplomacy led Harriman to Geneva, where an international conference reached an agreement in 62, though the end neither side observed it…
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The escalation of the CIA secret war told otherwise. William Sullivan followed Unger. While Sullivan had been a senior member of the U.S. negotiating team at Geneva, in Laos, he became an enthusiastic field marshal in the secret war. The on…
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In Geneva, Abrams used Oliver's number, but Norse's secretary had inadvertently transposed two digits when typing them. The Sultan of Brunei deposited $10 million on August 19th. When Brunei asked Washington to confirm that, the U.S. proved…
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He was never going to get a job inside the United States. So he leaves. He goes to Europe and he gets his MBA in Europe. And he joins Credit Suisse, which is another money launderer, in 1996. He then moves over to Barclays. He gets to UBS i…
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Mellon Jr., the son of the Gulf Oil founder, was also in the OSF. And then you had in-laws of the Mellon family, David Bruce and Alan Scaife, S-C-A-I-F-E. On the whole, the Mellon family members and their in-laws were very active in London,…
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administration an opportunity to redefine U.S. relationships with Moscow. The Kremlin's new leaders began the process of de-Stalinization, but Foster continued to counsel a hard line against the Soviets, interpreting any sign of the Cold Wa…
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at the Geneva summit in 1955. This proved difficult for Ike, observed Stuart Alsop, since his whole instinct was to smile and be friendly. And then he'd kind of draw back remembering what Foster had told him. Khrushchev, the canny and down-…
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Before jumping on the Eisenhower bandwagon in 1952, the Dulles brothers calculated that he would not make a strong president. But Ike's malleability offered its own advantages in their eyes. The Secretary of State, Foster, succeeded in unde…
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Foster sent out a long cable to all diplomatic mission chiefs around the world, warning that the free world must not let down its guard despite the air of goodwill coming out of the conference. Geneva has certainly created problems for the …
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In August of 55, after Eisenhower's tentative peace efforts at the Geneva summit, a CIA memo reported that utility Galen was blunt in his criticism of the U.S. position at Geneva. He expressed the opinion that in the realm of international …
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being a banker at Sullivan and Cromwell on behalf of all of the American interest. So they describe him as a 49-year-old Wall Street lawyer with a very high profile. After presenting his passport to the French border guards, he passed for h…
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as a courier. The Contessa, who was equally sophisticated, moved in art and literary circles. Tyler was another one of those refined men who glided seamlessly across the borders and didn't think twice about doing business with Nazis. During…
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in Geneva and a group of students he recruited to make 50 copies of the report. The eyewitness account of life and death inside Auschwitz finally broke into the Swiss press and was then picked up by the New York Times and the BBC. In the up…
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Representatives from 58 private military and security companies met at Geneva again to sign the International Code of Conduct. The 17-page code laid out ground rules for screening and training of personnel and reporting of incidences as wel…
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Entente International Anti-Communiste from Geneva. That's abbreviated E-I-A. It was also this Entente International Anti-Communiste was part of the Catholic Pro Deo Network, the foundations for a global anti-communist organization with nati…
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That was created in 1950. There are no coincidences. So in early 1948, Alfred Geilen, G-I-E-L-E-N, goes to Geneva. His former colleagues of the Ministry of Propaganda, who had become an agent for the Geilen organization, meaning he's Operat…