Ernest Kaiser person
also: Kaiser, August R. von Kaiser, Ernest Rezek, Uno Freese, Jacob Szymanski, Ernesto Robert Kaiser
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Claims (3)
Larry Barcella recruited
Ernest Kaiser documented
“The Justice Department hired Kaiser to go get Wilson. Not the CIA, the Justice Department. All of Kaiser's calls to Wilson and subsequent meetings were monitored. Between August 81 and June 82, Kaiser worked his way into Wilson's world. He …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 45:05
Ernest Kaiser funded
E. Howard Hunt documented
“Wilson was so impressed with Kaiser that he lent him $425,000 for the Florida condo scheme. Through many phone calls, all directed by Barthola and recorded by the government, Kaiser and another sometimes CIA agent, Daniel Drake, convinced W…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 45:36
Ernest Kaiser recruited
E. Howard Hunt documented
“Wilson was so impressed with Kaiser that he lent him $425,000 for the Florida condo scheme. Through many phone calls, all directed by Barthola and recorded by the government, Kaiser and another sometimes CIA agent, Daniel Drake, convinced W…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 45:36
Mentions (25)
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Shackley counted on Varsala to nail Wilson. Now, Varsala would get a little help from his old colleague. One of the most bizarre events of the entire Wilson case is a meeting at the White House on the evening of July 8, 1981, three months b…
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who was an alcoholic, unstable CIA man who had worked for Wilson in Libya. Investigative reporter Seymour Hirsch, who had written about McCauley's exploits, and a mysterious guest they brought in with them by the name of Ernest Kaiser. Gree…
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Kaiser assured those gathered that he had a way of bringing Wilson to justice. Kaiser said that his long CIA experience had brought him into contact with Wilson before, and because of that, Wilson might believe that an overture from Kaiser …
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is a, quote, imaginative piece of fiction. The purpose would appear to be to bail himself out of legal problems. The agency files were all no record except in the DO area, unquote. Several lines of the memo have now been deleted, but what i…
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and a Shackley subordinate who asked not to be identified, Kaiser had been used by Shackley as a contract agent in Europe. The fact that Kaiser had conned the National Security Advisor, Richard Allen, and the Deputy Director of the CIA, Bob…
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to his intelligent acting skills. Kaiser had operated under a number of aliases, including August R. von Kaiser, another one, Ernest Rezek, another one, Uno Freese, F-R-E-E-S-E, Jacob Szymanski, and Ernesto Robert Kaiser. Most of his work h…
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He had first come in contact with Shackley and Klein in the 1950s, helping the U.S. government in their post-war Nazi recruitment. In fact, Kaiser was in New York born, but had been raised in Germany and in Brazil. As a young man, he had re…
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According to Berlin-based veteran John Sherwood, Shackley and Kaiser met at the Berlin operating base, that was the Bob, where Kaiser played a role in running the rat line, secretly exporting Nazis both to the U.S. and South America. Over t…
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Half a billion dollars. Under Florida law, none of that money was required to be put in escrow during construction. For Kaiser, who had already been on the Interpol's wanted list, that was a real opportunity. Just when Shackley contacted Ka…
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What is known is that in the spring of 1981, Kaiser contacted Seymour Hearst and Kevin Mulcahy about bringing Wilson back. This was about the same time that the New York Times Magazine published two major Hearst articles about Wilson. Hears…
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Kaiser had used the Pulitzer-winning Hearst to get him into contact with top-level American power. According to Wilson's lawyers in Hearst, Kaiser said he wanted to know one thing before he agreed to lure Wilson back. He asked if Wilson was…
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Barcella's request to entrap Wilson and return him to the United States. Then, on July 8th, there was a meeting that resulted in Barcella's enlisting Proper, who was one of Kaiser's attorneys, to deal with Kaiser. In conversations with Kais…
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Barsala, unable to get the FBI to cooperate with him, succeeded in getting permission through the White House to use Kaiser to get Wilson back in the States. The CIA had warned Barsala that Kaiser had faked his background. The colleagues in…
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The Justice Department hired Kaiser to go get Wilson. Not the CIA, the Justice Department. All of Kaiser's calls to Wilson and subsequent meetings were monitored. Between August 81 and June 82, Kaiser worked his way into Wilson's world. He …
▶ 45:36
Wilson was so impressed with Kaiser that he lent him $425,000 for the Florida condo scheme. Through many phone calls, all directed by Barthola and recorded by the government, Kaiser and another sometimes CIA agent, Daniel Drake, convinced W…
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On one of the visits, he showed Wilson a letter from the National Security Council authorizing Kaiser to negotiate for the Justice Department who had hired him. John Keats, one of Wilson's Washington lawyers, says that throughout this proce…
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Keats suggested they all get in a cab and go over to the old executive building. But every time he did that, Kaiser made excuses. Despite these and other warnings, Wilson was certain Kaiser was real. Wilson came to the conclusion that becau…
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that they were now setting him up. The scheme that Kaiser used to convince Wilson that the U.S. wanted to make a deal with him was similar to the Shackley-Kleinz Accord and von Marbog had done with Wilson and Itzko. Wilson was to be allowed…
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the CIA and somebody else. Without Klein, and I don't know whether it's true or not, I just think it's hilarious because in some cases, on this particular one, in some cases, it's absolutely not true. And I've found other coordinating where…
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Wilson claims he would have never believed Kaiser's story. At any rate, the reality of what he faced came home to Wilson as immigration officers in the Dominican Republic refused to let him get off the plane and instead forced him onto a fl…
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International Airport. The successful end of Larry Barthola's hunt for Wilson had been celebrated by reporters and Barthola as a great victory for U.S. justice. But the story that a brilliant Barthola outsmarted a dumb Wilson did not quite …
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found himself having to explain to other angry prosecutors why Kaiser had been allowed to defraud American citizens out of millions of dollars in a Florida condominium scheme by taking investors' money and making off with it. Barsala actual…
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Barsala also talked with other investors and were trying to talk them out of prosecuting Kaiser so it didn't jeopardize their case that they were going to build against Wilson. This meant that when Kaiser filed for bankruptcy, those investo…
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in Florida for attempting to extort half a million dollars from a Tampa banker. Kaiser had assured the banker that he was operating on behalf of the Justice Department. Unfortunately for Kaiser, the FBI had persuaded the banker to wear a wi…
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and wants to use Kaiser is interfering in a Florida investigation for Kaiser. On December 2nd, the day before Kaiser was to go to trial, Kaiser arranged for Daniel Drake to give him a superficial bullet wound. He implied to reporters that W…