Richard Stolz person
also: Stoltz, Richard
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Claims (5)
Richard Stolz member_of
CIA documented
“Stoltz. He had been in World War II and was now an old hand at the CIA. You spell his last name, S-T-O-L-Z. He had been recruited into the CIA by another Amherst classmate. Stoltz had done his first tour in Trieste, which is in northeast It…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 23:03
Richard Stolz headed
CIA documented
“Bulgaria is a big hotspot as well. So he was considered so well-liked inside the CIA, he was made station chief of Moscow in 1964, which is a big deal. Stoltz closed out his Italian political action as chief of station in Rome from 1966 to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 24:34
Richard Stolz headed
CIA documented
“especially during this timeframe. In the 1970s, he headed the CIA in Belgrade and then was promoted to the Director of Operations, Western European Division. Stoltz had been considered by Turner to be a deputy director, but he chose instead…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 25:10
Richard Stolz headed
Soviet East European Division documented
“had already begun insisting on new propaganda efforts to reach into Russia. These White House demands were slow to garner momentum, in part because Brzezinski first tried to work through the CIA's Soviet East European Division, whose expert…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 57:51
Richard Stolz headed
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“Stoltz. He had been in World War II and was now an old hand at the CIA. You spell his last name, S-T-O-L-Z. He had been recruited into the CIA by another Amherst classmate. Stoltz had done his first tour in Trieste, which is in northeast It…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 23:03
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▶ 57:51
had already begun insisting on new propaganda efforts to reach into Russia. These White House demands were slow to garner momentum, in part because Brzezinski first tried to work through the CIA's Soviet East European Division, whose expert…
▶ 22:29
That's gonna be the next boogeyman. And even the book's author says, we had this looming terrorism problem that we created. Webster needed someone he trusted in charge of the Directorate of Operations, which runs the covert operations progr…
▶ 23:03
Stoltz. He had been in World War II and was now an old hand at the CIA. You spell his last name, S-T-O-L-Z. He had been recruited into the CIA by another Amherst classmate. Stoltz had done his first tour in Trieste, which is in northeast It…
▶ 23:34
Because that's where they had initially created the NATO version of Gladio in that area because it was along the border of the Soviet occupied Eastern European countries. And so that area was hot in 1950 as far as Operation Gladio and the s…
▶ 24:05
But he had also served in Yugoslavia under quote unquote diplomatic cover, as well as Germany and Bulgaria, which is interesting because those are all of the hotspots. Remember, Bulgaria is like the Soviet covert weapons. That's where they …
▶ 24:34
Bulgaria is a big hotspot as well. So he was considered so well-liked inside the CIA, he was made station chief of Moscow in 1964, which is a big deal. Stoltz closed out his Italian political action as chief of station in Rome from 1966 to …
▶ 25:10
especially during this timeframe. In the 1970s, he headed the CIA in Belgrade and then was promoted to the Director of Operations, Western European Division. Stoltz had been considered by Turner to be a deputy director, but he chose instead…
▶ 25:45
Big deal. And how do we know that? Because he got the CIA station chief in London. And again, that's like a stepping stone to be director. Casey did not pick Stoltz to be a deputy director a second time. And he picked Max Kugel instead.…
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When he got passed over the second time, he quote unquote retired. But the author makes clear he was on contract, just as we just talked about, because he was called in all the time by Casey as a quote unquote consultant, which means he was…
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So Webster took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 and tried to defuse opposition to his changes. He was basically going to use that as an excuse. Webster and Stoltz established a group of senior officers to brainstorm st…
▶ 33:02
At the Directorate of Operations, an attitude prevailed. Richard Stoltz feared being taken in. Burton Gerber, a legendary case officer and street man in Eastern Europe and station chief in Moscow, was now heading the Soviet and Eastern Euro…