Confederate States of America country
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Claims (22)
Erlanger financed_via
Confederate States of America documented
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“A converted Jew, Erlanger, has taken the rebel loan of £3,000,000…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. THREE Nationalism and the Multinational (1859-1863)
J. Henry Schröder & Co. financed_via
Confederate States of America documented
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“the only London bank which would consent to become involved was not N. M. Rothschild but J. Henry Schröder & Co.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. THREE Nationalism and the Multinational (1859-1863)
Secret Service Bureau spied_on
Confederate States of America documented
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“kept a close watch on Confederate activities in Canada…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.45
Judah P. Benjamin proposed
Confederate States of America documented
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“In Richmond Judah P Benjamin Secretary of State for the rebel government a holder of three cabinet posts in the Confederacy and a man of imagination conceived a desperate plan of havoc utilizing secret societies reminiscent of the later Ku …”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.48
Confederate States of America targeted_for_regime_change
New York City documented
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“guerrilla warriors behind Union lines would burn down New York City free rebel troops imprisoned in the North to loot and pillage throughout the industrial Northeast and seize Chicago Buffalo and Indianapolis…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.48
Confederate States of America targeted_for_regime_change
Chicago documented
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“guerrilla warriors behind Union lines would burn down New York City free rebel troops imprisoned in the North to loot and pillage throughout the industrial Northeast and seize Chicago Buffalo and Indianapolis…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.48
Confederate States of America targeted_for_regime_change
Buffalo documented
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“guerrilla warriors behind Union lines would burn down New York City free rebel troops imprisoned in the North to loot and pillage throughout the industrial Northeast and seize Chicago Buffalo and Indianapolis…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.48
Confederate States of America targeted_for_regime_change
Indianapolis documented
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“guerrilla warriors behind Union lines would burn down New York City free rebel troops imprisoned in the North to loot and pillage throughout the industrial Northeast and seize Chicago Buffalo and Indianapolis…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.48
Confederate States of America recruited
Clement Vallandigham documented
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“The Copperhead firebrand Clement Vallandigham was recruited to obtain support for a new nation composed of states adjacent to the Canadian border…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.48
Confederate States of America operated_in
Toronto documented
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“Assembled in Toronto the band of insurgents made their plans all of which were carefully recorded by a Baker informer…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.48
Bobby Baker spied_on
Confederate States of America documented
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“Baker advanced a squadron of agents to Toronto to maintain surveillance of the conspirators who were followed and observed as they straggled into Chicago in the midst of the Democratic National Convention…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.48
Confederate States of America targeted_for_regime_change
Camp Douglas documented
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“While police and firemen fought the flames an attack would be made on Camp Douglas and its prisoners freed…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.48
Confederate States of America targeted_for_regime_change
Cincinnati documented
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“After reassembling in Toronto burnings and attacks on local authorities were scheduled for simultaneous occurrence in Chicago New York Cincinnati and Boston…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.48
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Boston documented
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“After reassembling in Toronto burnings and attacks on local authorities were scheduled for simultaneous occurrence in Chicago New York Cincinnati and Boston…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.48
Confederate States of America moved_to
Canada documented
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“Confederate arsonists abandoned their grandiose plan of havoc set a few fires in some hotels (which were quickly extinguished) and fled to Canada…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.49
Union Army recruited
Confederate States of America documented
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“While these elements were being rounded up and jailed Union authorities took an imprisoned Confederate officer into their intelligence corps swore him to loyalty to the Union cause and released him to make contact with some of the remaining…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.49
Confederate States of America targeted_for_regime_change
Johnson's Island documented
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“Followed by Baker's agents the man soon met with a group seeking to liberate 3,000 rebel officers incarcerated on Johnson's Island in Lake Michigan…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.49
Rothschild family did_business_with
Confederate States of America documented
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“Imports of Southern cotton and tobacco were as much a part of their transatlantic business as investment in the Northern states and railways.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. THREE Nationalism and the Multinational (1859-1863)
John Tyler operated_in
Confederate States of America documented
“U.S. presidents in history that ever lived in the Confederacy. The other one would have been John Tyler, who we call the most constitutional president of all time because he vetoed everything Congress tried to do to the point that his own p…”
▶ The Shadow State 81 Sykes-Picot & The Balfour Declaration @ 2:45
Woodrow Wilson operated_in
Confederate States of America documented
“U.S. presidents in history that ever lived in the Confederacy. The other one would have been John Tyler, who we call the most constitutional president of all time because he vetoed everything Congress tried to do to the point that his own p…”
▶ The Shadow State 81 Sykes-Picot & The Balfour Declaration @ 2:45
Samuel Curtis Upham trafficked
Confederate States of America host_asserted
“They were trying to do that even back then. There's a fun one. A guy by the name of Samuel Curtis Upham, who called himself Honest Sam. He's a Philadelphia merchant. Started counterfeiting Confederate notes in 1862. Issued millions of dolla…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 28:09
Allan Pinkerton spied_on
Confederate States of America host_asserted
“And that's where they got the motto, We Never Sleep. It was because of Kate Worney. Cool story, huh? Yeah. That's where you get your private eye. All right. So during the Civil War, the Pinkerton agents, they'd work undercover, dress up as …”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:08:34
Mentions (14)
▶ 11:45
put up a naval blockade. Since the South had almost no manufacturing of its own, and they relied on imports and exports from Europe, the blockade was pretty darn effective. So it gets interesting. And admiralty law, when you capture ships d…
▶ 12:15
They've kind of twisted the law to a great degree. That's Mr. Everett's very storied career. There's a little bit more about this. He's one of the lawyers that tried to prosecute Jefferson Davis for treason after the war. This is why they w…
▶ 12:44
And there would have come out in court that Lincoln had no legal basis to invade. At least that was the fear. So nobody was ever tried for treason. Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was not. But this is one of the lawyers. …
▶ 14:41
the British and the French helping the South, where Russia kind of cut them off on both coasts from interfering in the Civil War because they definitely wanted the South to win. Yeah. The tariffs that the North, the tariff of abominations, …
▶ 15:10
They're going to slap one on Southern goods. So the tariff of abominations was the South fought against, but Europe didn't like it either. Funny you bring up cotton because the next family we talk about, the whole cotton industry has a huge…
▶ 22:13
most prestigious family in American history. And nobody talks about them. I have no idea how they've been able to stay under the radar. One of the most famous Whitney's, of course, is Eli Whitney, who invented the cotton gin, which is what …
▶ 58:20
They have to make secession illegal to justify the North's invasion of the South. Paramount. Chase actually, quote, says, the Constitution allows divisibility, and this is a direct quote, only through revolution or through the consent of th…
▶ 58:53
And the big reason is they didn't want to put secession, basically the legality of the North's actions on trial. Remember, the North suspended the Constitution, suspended habeas corpus. Lincoln arrested anybody who wrote a newspaper that wa…
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And he explained a bizarre theory of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which he just passed in 1868, that basically prohibited further punishment of Confederates. And that's a loose interpretation. This lawyer then comes to the court and rep…
▶ 1:08:34
And that's where they got the motto, We Never Sleep. It was because of Kate Worney. Cool story, huh? Yeah. That's where you get your private eye. All right. So during the Civil War, the Pinkerton agents, they'd work undercover, dress up as …
▶ 1:09:09
looking back, have been very critical of the intelligence that Pinkerton provided to the Union Army. He said he would exaggerate troop movements. And if you tell a Union general that the South has twice as many troops as they actually have,…
▶ 2:11
because he was certainly in contact with them when he became president of Princeton. But let's jump into his story. Woodrow Wilson. Oops, be nice if I have the right part of my nose. Give me one second. All right, born in 1856, died in 1924…
▶ 2:45
U.S. presidents in history that ever lived in the Confederacy. The other one would have been John Tyler, who we call the most constitutional president of all time because he vetoed everything Congress tried to do to the point that his own p…
▶ 17:30
Born 1870 to 1965. He was born in Camden, South Carolina to a Jewish family. He would later marry into an Episcopalian family. So I do not think that he was a, his career does not make it seem like he's a pro-Zionist or his Jewishness had a…