Jesús de Galíndez person
also: Galen, Galendez, Galinza, Galindez, Galendaz, Galindo, Jesus D. Galenza
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Claims (12)
Jesús de Galíndez fought_against
Francisco Franco documented
“Galendez was a 40-year-old bachelor, popular with his students, born to a prominent family in Spain and educated as a lawyer. During the Spanish Civil War, he had fought against Franco's fascists. After Franco triumphed, he fled for his lif…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 1:06
Jesús de Galíndez wrote
The Heir of Trujillo documented
“Not long before he vanished, he had completed a damning 750-page dissertation on the dictator called the Heir of Trujillo and had submitted it as part of his PhD at Columbia. Scholarly theses do not normally incite violent passions, but Tru…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 11:15
Rafael Trujillo ordered_assassination_of
Jesús de Galíndez documented
“By 1956, there was one man, Jesus D. Galenza, who in the dictator's mind threatened his regime. Galenza, who lived in a book-stuffed apartment on Fifth Avenue and enjoyed going to Latin dance clubs at night, did not strike his academic coll…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 10:45
Jesús de Galíndez spied_on
Francisco Franco documented
“maintained an ambitious relationship with U.S. security officials. His escape to the U.S. in 1946 was no doubt made smoother by the fact that he had been secretly working as an informant for the FBI during the war, passing along information…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 13:46
FBI paid
Jesús de Galíndez documented
“which made their way to his FBI files, the Bureau continued to have confidence in him, paying the lecturer up to $125 a month plus expenses for his information. The FBI also helped him gain permanent residence in the U.S. The activist intel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 15:33
Robert Maheu kidnapped
Jesús de Galíndez documented
“That the intelligence agency used as a cutout to do dirty jobs on U.S. soil, where the CIA was, quote unquote, forbidden to operate, but did so anyway. Grabbed by Mayhew's agents who were waiting for him at his apartment, he was drugged and…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 17:55
Robert Maheu transported
Jesús de Galíndez documented
“that was especially equipped to fly long distances, stopping for refueling after midnight in West Palm Beach before continuing on to the Dominican Republic. After landing, Galendez, still half-conscious, was transported to the dictator's fa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 18:22
Rafael Trujillo tortured
Jesús de Galíndez documented
“He demanded that he eat it. The dazed Galendaz took the pile of papers, but could not keep hold of them, letting them fall to the floor as his head slumped to his chest. The dictator screamed at him and started beating him with a riding cro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 18:51
Grayston Kirk failed_to_investigate
Jesús de Galíndez documented
“A friend of Dulles' and a trustee of several foundations, I saw Warhamster, that served as pipelines for CIA funding did nothing to keep the missing lecturer's case alive, prompting charges of university indifference. Meanwhile, the Trujill…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 29:19
CIA covered_up
Jesús de Galíndez documented
“are assassinating persons under the protection of the U.S. Eisenhower replied that he didn't know anything about it, but he would definitely look into it. But in truth, the CIA had already moved swiftly to shut down the case. New York Polic…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 20:50
CIA disseminated_disinformation_about
Jesús de Galíndez documented
“And he had likely disappeared for personal reasons. Phony Galendez sightings were reported throughout Latin America as far away as the Philippines. At the same time, the CIA disseminated other disinformation about Galendez to friendly press…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 29:50
Jesús de Galíndez fled_to
Dominican Republic documented
“Galendez was a 40-year-old bachelor, popular with his students, born to a prominent family in Spain and educated as a lawyer. During the Spanish Civil War, he had fought against Franco's fascists. After Franco triumphed, he fled for his lif…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 1:06
Mentions (25)
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Galendez, a lecturer in Spanish and government at Columbia University, finished leading a graduate seminar at Hamilton Hall and headed home. One of his students offered to drive him to the Columbus Circle subway so he could take a downtown …
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Galendez was a 40-year-old bachelor, popular with his students, born to a prominent family in Spain and educated as a lawyer. During the Spanish Civil War, he had fought against Franco's fascists. After Franco triumphed, he fled for his lif…
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where strongman Rafael Trujillo had promised sanctuary to Spanish exiles. Arriving in late 1939 in Santo Domingo, the capital city, which the dictator had renamed after himself, Galindez found work as a professor of history and languages, a…
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By 1956, there was one man, Jesus D. Galenza, who in the dictator's mind threatened his regime. Galenza, who lived in a book-stuffed apartment on Fifth Avenue and enjoyed going to Latin dance clubs at night, did not strike his academic coll…
▶ 11:15
Not long before he vanished, he had completed a damning 750-page dissertation on the dictator called the Heir of Trujillo and had submitted it as part of his PhD at Columbia. Scholarly theses do not normally incite violent passions, but Tru…
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about his regime was a threat. He viewed it as a betrayal. Trujillo's agents tried to convince Galinza to sell the manuscript to them, offering as much as $25,000, but he refused. The dictator decided that left him only one course of action…
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But Galenza's scholarly activism, which included numerous magazine articles and pamphlets that he published in Mexico and the U.S., attacking the Trujillo regime and championing human rights in Latin America, was challenging this order. It …
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His own people doomed crusade for self-determination made the problems of Puerto Ricans in New York or the drumbeat of black Caribbeans reverberate inside of him. Galenza's life in New York as a politically active refugee at the height of t…
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maintained an ambitious relationship with U.S. security officials. His escape to the U.S. in 1946 was no doubt made smoother by the fact that he had been secretly working as an informant for the FBI during the war, passing along information…
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of the anti-Franco resistance in the U.S. In May of 1951, the special agent in charge of the Bureau's New York FBI office told Hoover that Galenza was an invaluable informant whose reports were extremely detailed, accurate, and thorough. Th…
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in the eisenhower dallas air he had heard denouncing he had been heard denouncing the administration for supporting the admission of franco spain into the un and for backing latin dictators like samosa in april of 55 galindez…
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told his FBI informant in Miami that since John Foster Dulles entered the picture, the U.S. had started to write the blackest pages of international relations. Never before in the history of the world has one single government more effectiv…
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which made their way to his FBI files, the Bureau continued to have confidence in him, paying the lecturer up to $125 a month plus expenses for his information. The FBI also helped him gain permanent residence in the U.S. The activist intel…
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He refused, for example, to publicly testify against suspected communists in the anti-Franco movement, arguing that it would blow his cover. He was clearly playing a deeply intricate game of exile politics, perhaps believing that his relati…
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An FBI official noted in a memo that his dissertation on Trujillo may involve informant and personal difficulties. This matter will be watched closely and the Bureau kept advised. Not closely enough. Galendez was well aware of his perilous …
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And they had already killed at least one opponent of his regime in New York. Strange notes were slipped into his books on campus and disturbing phone calls were made to his home. One day, two rough-looking Dominicans in bright tropical shir…
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Kidnapping was a sophisticated operation ran by Robert Mayhew, M-A-H-E-W, the guy we've come across repeatedly, the CIA. He was a private detective firm staffed with former, quote, and I'm going to use air quotes, former CIA and FBI.…
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That the intelligence agency used as a cutout to do dirty jobs on U.S. soil, where the CIA was, quote unquote, forbidden to operate, but did so anyway. Grabbed by Mayhew's agents who were waiting for him at his apartment, he was drugged and…
▶ 18:22
that was especially equipped to fly long distances, stopping for refueling after midnight in West Palm Beach before continuing on to the Dominican Republic. After landing, Galendez, still half-conscious, was transported to the dictator's fa…
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He demanded that he eat it. The dazed Galendaz took the pile of papers, but could not keep hold of them, letting them fall to the floor as his head slumped to his chest. The dictator screamed at him and started beating him with a riding cro…
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What remained of him was thrown to the sharks. The abduction of the Columbian University academic from the streets of Manhattan is the first flagrant example of what would become known as the War on Terror. With bureaucratic banditry as ext…
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in undisclosed foreign locations. During his final semester, Galendez mentioned several times that he was being threatened by Trujillo's people. Marie Joy, one of his students, thought that he was showing off, but later after she read about…
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public concern over his disappearance. On April 24th, a group of Colombian university professors asked the Justice Department to investigate charges that the Trujillo regime had assassinated their colleague. The following day, the case work…
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are assassinating persons under the protection of the U.S. Eisenhower replied that he didn't know anything about it, but he would definitely look into it. But in truth, the CIA had already moved swiftly to shut down the case. New York Polic…
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488th Military Intelligence Unit. The same thing happened in LA. This is a pattern. Dulles himself communicated the importance of the Galindas case to the NYPD, asking police officials to send a detective to the Scholar's Greenwich Village …