William Earl Nelson person
also: Bill Nelson, Nelson, William Nelson
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Claims (6)
William Earl Nelson member_of
CIA documented
“Had they done so, they might have gotten a better idea of why the FBI files had been classified 11 years before. Before becoming the lower corporation's vice president for security and administration, Bill Nelson had been the deputy CIA dir…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 20:37
William Earl Nelson overthrew
Salvador Allende documented
“Mostly where? You know, around the Taiwan Far East area where they're running opium. Yeah, there. Japanese newspapers exposed him as a CIA after they learned he was asking travelers different questions about Russian things. As head of cover…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 22:35
William Earl Nelson headed
Operation IA Feature documented
“which resulted in the overthrow and the assassination of Salvador Allende. Later, Nelson commanded Operation Feature, a covert plan to place friendly groups in power in Angola. Isn't that interesting? So he was involved in Angola as well.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 23:07
William Earl Nelson member_of
Fleur Corporation documented
“Lister said that Bill Nelson was an ASIS member, which he said stood for American Society of International Security. Lister said that Nelson was the security director for Fleur Corporation. It's F-L-E-U-R. William Earl Nelson was far more t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 20:08
William Earl Nelson member_of
CIA host_asserted
“Deputy Director of Operations William Nelson went up first and admitted the truth about the U.S. involvement. Bill Nelson was a William Colby protege. As the Director of Central Intelligence had suddenly been called in by President Ford abo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 45:26
Ron Lister supplied_arms_to
William Earl Nelson documented
“He wanted to have the names in writing before he went to the grand jury. Lister said the people listed were only business people. The last two names on the list was Roberto de Abusan, which is the El Salvador guy in charge, and a guy that t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 19:09
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the former head of the Salvadoran Christian Democrat Party, which received significant CIA financial support. The detective didn't ask Lister, didn't ask why Lister would be doing business with CIA linked Salvadoran politicians. But in the …
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Lister said that Bill Nelson was an ASIS member, which he said stood for American Society of International Security. Lister said that Nelson was the security director for Fleur Corporation. It's F-L-E-U-R. William Earl Nelson was far more t…
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Had they done so, they might have gotten a better idea of why the FBI files had been classified 11 years before. Before becoming the lower corporation's vice president for security and administration, Bill Nelson had been the deputy CIA dir…
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He was in charge of all CIA covert operations from 1973 to 1976. The Falour spokeswoman initially denied to a journalist that Nelson had been affiliated with Falour until the journalist confronted her with documented evidence of his employm…
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A former CIA officer, John Vanderwerker, confirmed to the reporter that Nelson and Lister knew each other. Well, apparently when Lister was running the floor's headquarters in 1982 to 83, it was Bill Nelson with whom he was meeting. That wa…
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described him. They didn't get much bigger than Nelson, a protege of former CIA director William Colby. A native of New York, Nelson had been a CIA officer since the beginning in 1948. He served in a variety of covers, both embedded in the …
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Mostly where? You know, around the Taiwan Far East area where they're running opium. Yeah, there. Japanese newspapers exposed him as a CIA after they learned he was asking travelers different questions about Russian things. As head of cover…
▶ 23:07
which resulted in the overthrow and the assassination of Salvador Allende. Later, Nelson commanded Operation Feature, a covert plan to place friendly groups in power in Angola. Isn't that interesting? So he was involved in Angola as well.…
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He was named as a defendant in a civil suit filed by a widow of an American mercenary the CIA recruited to fight in Angola in 1976. The widow complained the CIA misled her husband about the hopelessness of his mission and then engaged in a …
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Nelson's operation feature bore many similarities to the Contra project, particularly in terms of the CIA's proxy army receiving weapons. That could explain why Lister, who had admitted dealing with arms in Latin America, was meeting with N…
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Neither of which can get license for exported munitions. Why? Because they were both ran by a dictator. Just what the CIA former boss of covert operations, who by most accounts was an upright individual, could possibly have had to discuss w…
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is likely to never be known, which of course we now know. In April 1995, he died of respiratory failure in a convalescent home at the age of 84. But it is conceivable that their connection had something to do, meaning the CIA and Lister, wi…
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At the same time that he was reportedly meeting with Nelson, Lister was also advising Contra on security matters and selling them arms. The other documents seized from Lister in 1986 raid lend support. According to the Justice Department, L…
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Deputy Director of Operations William Nelson went up first and admitted the truth about the U.S. involvement. Bill Nelson was a William Colby protege. As the Director of Central Intelligence had suddenly been called in by President Ford abo…
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In any case, when Mulcahy arrived late and began to testify, he laid out the agreed upon version that minimized U.S. actions. Senator Clark confronted Mulcahy with Nelson's testimony, trapping the administration in a lie. The predictable re…