Assassination of Anwar Sadat event
also: Killing Sadat, Sadat's assassination, Sadat's death
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Claims (3)
CIA covered_up
Assassination of Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“Sadat was killed by Americans to stop his investigation into Itzko, which would have exposed our man, meaning the Israeli man, Shackley, as well as the Americans involved in Itzko. According to the Israeli agent, the instructions the Israel…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 33:28
Federal Maritime Commission funded
Assassination of Anwar Sadat book_quoted
“It was, let's see, it was that notification that caused the Sadat regime to launch its own investigation, which was canceled after Sadat's death. And Mubarak, his assassination actually, Mubarak's subsequent elevation to presidency because …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 10:55
CIA covered_up
Assassination of Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“received a flash report from the Cairo station mid-morning on why Sadat has been shot and wounded while reviewing a military parade. But the Cairo station report was hopelessly behind the television network who were reporting that he was de…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 17:51
Mentions (15)
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Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, Colonel Tanner and Bridget. Hi, everybody. I was hoping before we get started, if we could go ahead and repost the space as we're opening up. Thanks, everyone. Yes, Deller, you need to remind us. I …
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That was his bread and butter. The CIA had more political considerations than they did. Well, the CIA is going to take over the contract whenever the CIA wants to get rid of somebody. On October 6, 1981, National and Victory Day in Egypt, t…
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At the moment of the assassination, it was immediately obvious that the assassins had the cooperation of Sadat's CIA-trained security force. No one attempted to protect the president. Members of his own army lifted their rifles and shot him…
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but Soviet relics out of the trash pile in Egypt. So if that word got out, the American taxpayers and Congress would have known they're getting scammed because these guys are taking the money off the top by buying pennies on the dollar this…
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The KGB, Mossad, Saudi, and others all knew about the business arrangements. The fact that Shackley was working with the Israelis and had detailed knowledge of ETSCO gave the Israelis a stranglehold on Egypt. And the ultimate irony is that …
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Mubarak's government orchestrated the most severe crackdown on Muslim fundamentalism since the expulsion of the Muslim Brotherhood. General Capuzzi himself had all but disappeared from Washington's scene as he fought the toughest battle of …
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Next is luring Wilson home because we've got to get him home. Now that we've got everybody over there kind of out that knows and has dealt with him, we've got to get him home. Speaking for the CIA, of course. In the aftermath of the assassi…
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Unless Wilson could be quickly discredited by arrest in a trial, he was a big threat to the new government in Egypt. Wilson was isolated from his family. He was drinking more and more. Despite it all, the reality that the rogue had abandone…
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was part of his group. The effort to get Wilson discredited was well underway before the Sadat murder. The cleansing of his CIA files had began the day before Sadat was murdered. Army intelligence filed a report with headquarters quoting a …
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personal business dealings with Itzko. The memorandum written by a guy by the name of Keith Leinauer, L-E-I-N-A-U-E-R, went on to state that his sources believed that a conspiracy was being formed against Sadat to eliminate him from power. …
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So on October 27th, 1981, 21 days after Sadat was assassinated, the FBI opened an investigation into Yitzko. For Israelis' intelligence, the aftermath of Sadat's death left some problems. The first was that Wilson, now a very angry fugitive…
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Sadat was killed by Americans to stop his investigation into Itzko, which would have exposed our man, meaning the Israeli man, Shackley, as well as the Americans involved in Itzko. According to the Israeli agent, the instructions the Israel…
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It was, let's see, it was that notification that caused the Sadat regime to launch its own investigation, which was canceled after Sadat's death. And Mubarak, his assassination actually, Mubarak's subsequent elevation to presidency because …
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News of how Isco had corrupted the Egyptian top military officials had reached the Pentagon. Von Marbog always seemed invincible. From 1978 to 1981, he managed the Defense Security Assistance Administration as its deputy director. Three mon…
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wrote a major story in the Wall Street Journal about a federal grand jury that was looking at Itzko. Pound had no idea Itzko might have been connected to the Sadat assassination. But he reported, quote, the case is so sensitive because of p…