Formosa place
also: Taiwan, Formosus
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Claims (4)
Sam Giancana trafficked
Formosa host_asserted
“He also says Roselli introduced Mayhew to Sam Giacomo and Santo Trapacani Jr. And of course, we know what they were involved in. They were involved in all of the opium coming in from Taiwan.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:19:43
Santo Trafficante Jr. trafficked
Formosa host_asserted
“He also says Roselli introduced Mayhew to Sam Giacomo and Santo Trapacani Jr. And of course, we know what they were involved in. They were involved in all of the opium coming in from Taiwan.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:19:43
Chiang Kai-shek carried_out_attack
Formosa host_asserted
“historical non-truth like Taiwan was a democracy in the 1950s. And you just, again, you have to, yeah, that's not true. They were under martial law for 40 years. So any discussion of Taiwan's history that does not admit Chiang Kai-shek imme…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:21:02
CIA trained
Formosa host_asserted
“Skyboat for airplane and SkyClock for parachutes. Some recruits transcended their lack of experience with Western technology to become radio specialists. Others became weapons experts for the drop zones. On Taiwan, the recruits were eventua…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 41:03
Mentions (40)
▶ 1:39:59
Oof. So, I was listening to some history channel on the YouTubes, and they were saying there was a pope named Formosa. And I was like, what? I always wondered why Taiwan was named Formosa before. It's like, that's not a Chinese word.…
▶ 1:40:28
Anyway, I thought you would be interested in it. Well, Formosa was obviously the name of the island. And it was the the the indigenous people to Formosa trace their heritage back to Chinese. But that island was called Formosa, obviously, we…
▶ 1:47:27
It's all, yeah, you blow my mind, love. Thank you very much. Sure. Yeah, well, obviously you're in good company because the CIA has couped over 80 of them. You guys are definitely on the list. Okay, so let's see. Cousin It said that it is P…
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When I got back to the department, I found news from G2 that a Japanese expedition had started. Five divisions had come down from Shantung and Shanxi to Shanghai, and there they had embarked on ships, 30, 40, or 50 ships, and have been sigh…
▶ 4:57
weapons and human trafficking cash into real estate. And they set up a whole bunch of like 20 some front companies in order to do the money laundering. And it grew so fast and so big that they ended up having to create BCCI and Nugent Hand …
▶ 46:13
grandchild of the political warfare cadre academy that we first talked about years ago in Taiwan. You set up these grassroots fake efforts to overthrow a government and then you slap on a political party name to a foreign-backed opposition …
▶ 1:19:43
He also says Roselli introduced Mayhew to Sam Giacomo and Santo Trapacani Jr. And of course, we know what they were involved in. They were involved in all of the opium coming in from Taiwan.…
▶ 9:56
Terrorism 102 was hosted in Taiwan at the Taiwanese Political Warfare Cadre, and Terrorism 103 was hosted in Israel, and that was reserved for the people that they wanted to actually run the network, like the leadership of it. And that was …
▶ 31:14
And so that allows the government a part in protecting this whole drug operation. And then you just keep shifting it around from country to country like they've been doing since 1948 when they went into business with Chiang Kai-shek out of …
▶ 1:46:53
This is the basically what we would call like an AVSOC, which is, you know, basically what they are now at Hurlburt Field. This is the precursor. And they were flying out of the Philippines and out of where? Formosa. And they were basically…
▶ 1:48:27
Yeah, this is the recon planes that flew out of the Philippines and Taiwan into Vietnam, Laos. And yeah, I knew I recognized the name. I just had to look in my notes. Thank you. Thank you. Miles, go ahead. Yeah, I rarely take a microphone i…
▶ 26:49
Chiang Kai-shek has taken not just Formosa and turned it into Taiwan, but they occupy almost all of the islands off the coast of China. They had forces in Burma at this time, and they would eventually insert forces through this covert opera…
▶ 37:10
indelicate to draw attention to the explicit paramilitary effort to stir up trouble for that very nation. Refusal to open the records on Tibet is ironic. Given the many failures that pepper the CIA's paramilitary, you would think that that …
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using those same trails during World War II to smuggle arms to Chiang Kai-shek. They had a very well-established support network, including a warehouse that was now reopened. Recruits traveled in groups to Calcutta by train when the next li…
▶ 41:03
Skyboat for airplane and SkyClock for parachutes. Some recruits transcended their lack of experience with Western technology to become radio specialists. Others became weapons experts for the drop zones. On Taiwan, the recruits were eventua…
▶ 41:30
one to remain in the training camp as instructors and translators, and the last group selected for special missions given further training. The special mission training during the early years were given on another island, very probably Saip…
▶ 41:58
Cadre Academy on Taiwan also went on to further training on other Pacific islands. The initial training on Taiwan squarely places the Tibetan operation within the larger framework of an attack on the People's Republic of China. Taiwan was a…
▶ 42:27
After the Taiwan Straits crisis in 1954 and was reemphasized after the, let's see, in 1958, Chiang Kai-shek still nursed his dream of a return to the mainland to attack Mao. During the 1958 crisis, Rear Admiral Roland Smoot, S-M-O-O-T, comm…
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training of special forces, some 5,000 of them. Shang Kai-ku, which is Shang's son and deputy for intelligence matters, described an ambitious plan to land special forces all along the coast of China. While the Americans refused assistance …
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The CIA station from early 1958 to June 62 was under Ray Klein, who became a close personal friend of Shanghai coups through his CIA presence there and also with the Nationalist Special Forces and became a joint agent in propaganda activiti…
▶ 43:54
The use of agents was largely replaced in about 1960 with overhead reconnaissance. Nationalist pilots were trained to fly U-2s given to Taiwan under a military assistance program. Think about that for just a second. The U.S. gave a dictator…
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within the 21st Troop Carrier Squadron equipped with C-130s. Highly qualified air crew were vital to the Tibet flights. These were made at night at low altitude and within the Himalayan mountains. To find remote drop zones, you needed navig…
▶ 1:05:02
They used them to get rid of an elected president in Nicaragua in order to continue to use slave labor in Nicaragua. And in Tibet, you have their overall agenda was basically death by a thousand cuts to China because they want Chiang Kai-sh…
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and the resistance commanders made an increasingly desperate plea for supplies. When JFK took the oath of office on January 20th, 1961, the CIA had already prepared proposals for what to do in Tibet. Not like they were setting them up or an…
▶ 1:04:59
And that's literally what you start off with with Paul Williams' book and the role model of Chiang Kai-shek. Well, then every piece of that had to be looked at. The entire drug thing had to be looked at. The entire Chiang Kai-shek apparatus…
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with the first air mission on October 20, 1957, required a modified B-17 aircraft flown from Taiwan. Agency officers, meaning the CIA, Roger McCarthy, went along to mine them. Thor's rug, as he would also be involved in Project Hague, used …
▶ 1:20:34
History as it relates to Operation Gladio, like the fact that the CIA overthrew Congo, overthrew Chile, overthrew and what we did in Taiwan and all and the fact that we have attacked China repeatedly through Tibet, the Uyghurs and all that …
▶ 1:21:02
historical non-truth like Taiwan was a democracy in the 1950s. And you just, again, you have to, yeah, that's not true. They were under martial law for 40 years. So any discussion of Taiwan's history that does not admit Chiang Kai-shek imme…
▶ 1:21:02
historical non-truth like Taiwan was a democracy in the 1950s. And you just, again, you have to, yeah, that's not true. They were under martial law for 40 years. So any discussion of Taiwan's history that does not admit Chiang Kai-shek imme…
▶ 1:21:28
martial law and lived under martial law and murdered tens of thousands of Formosans is to me bullshit. And the latest article that he had sent me, I don't even know what the publication date of it was because I'd had a long conversation wit…
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Also in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. And basically what we're talking about is the rat lines that took the within the Catholic Church that took the Nazis down. These are the exact hotspots of Gladio. Southeast Asia wit…
▶ 19:57
McIntyre concluded that the future imbalance of world power is to be determined not in Europe, but in Asia. He invested much more energy and resources in that area than he did in Europe. ICCC Southeast Asian Network included high-ranking fi…
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It lines up perfectly with the World Anti-Communist League and the Unification Church and the drug lord, Chiang Kai-shek. The South Korean president in 1950s was Syngman Rhee, was a longstanding personal friend of one key ICCC official. Oth…
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close cooperative contact with the son of the president of Taiwan, General Shengkai Ku, who directed the country's secret police. Nothing like missionaries and church officials getting in bed with secret police. Nothing to see here. In the …
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were begun about allowing the ICCC to start radio broadcasts on the island. Occasionally, the ICCC received intelligence products from their Asian counterparts, including from intelligence officers in the U.S. occupation forces in Japan. Th…
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called the World Anti-Communist League. The Asian network benefited from McIntyre's closeness to several key people in the China lobby. Holy crap! The collection of anti-communist politicians, newspaper editors, and businessmen who advocate…
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How's that for a religious organization? Let's go nuke them. From that year through the 1960s, the ACCC kept proposing that the contested islands of Queen Mimoy and Matsu be used as launching pads for an invasion of communist mainland China…
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for Taiwan. So those of you who haven't heard me talk about that, Taiwan is not just Taiwan. Taiwan actually consists of six or seven other islands that the CIA took from China, one of which is like two miles off their coast. And they launc…
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veteran sets out what Shackley hoped to achieve in his story. Now, again, B. Hugh Tover was one of the guys that helped set Chiang Kai-shek up in Formosa and was there when Paul Helliwell was arranging the entire drug trade and how it was g…
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industry down there with the casinos, the hotels and all of that stuff. So we owned a lot. And plus the CIA was using it, which doesn't come up often enough. They were using it as the hub for the heroin trafficking coming out of Southeast A…