Robert Depew person
also: founding father of the Minutemen, national coordinator, DePue, Depew, Dupo, Robert, Robert Bolivar Depew, Robert Dupu
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Claims (23)
Robert Depew founded
Minutemen book_quoted
“Depew began to advertise for recruits to fill the ranks of his new anti-communist militia. His first public event, a training session, was held in October 1961 in Shiloh, Illinois. This town was a semi-rural suburb of St. Louis. The event r…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 25:24
Robert Depew founded
Minutemen book_quoted
“Depew apparently possesses some special staying power as a man obsessed, in his case, with the omnipresence of communism and socialism. He's a national coordinator and founding father of the Minutemen, paramilitary organization of the ultra…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 34:48
Robert Depew founded
BioLabs book_quoted
“founding a company called BioLabs that sold pharmaceutical products. By the late 50s, he became increasingly concerned by communist gains in the Cold War. From a vantage point of 2022, it's easy to sneer at the concerns of Americans in the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 23:28
Robert Depew member_of
U.S. Army book_quoted
“pendergast machine was launching Harry Truman on the path to presidency, so it was not a little thing. There is no doubt that growing up in this environment gave Depew a cynical look at the political process. When the Second World War broke…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 22:28
Robert Depew founded
Minutemen book_quoted
“how history ended up going. Robert Depew is, at best, a historical footnote and was a man who spent a great deal of time either in prison or running from the law. Depew created a guerrilla militia in the U.S. during the early 60s to fight i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 21:10
Robert Depew member_of
Minutemen book_quoted
“Depew apparently possesses some special staying power as a man obsessed, in his case, with the omnipresence of communism and socialism. He's a national coordinator and founding father of the Minutemen, paramilitary organization of the ultra…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 34:48
Robert Depew member_of
Minutemen book_quoted
“It says Robert Depew, 72, came to prominence in the early 60s as founder of the Minutemen, a secretive extreme right wing group that perceived an impending communist takeover of the U.S. and organized violent counteraction to prevent the al…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 51:06
Robert Depew removed_from_power
Minutemen book_quoted
“Depew did step down from his leadership position for a short period of time in 1967. An article in the New York Times read, Robert Bolivar Depew announced today that he was resigning as the national coordinator of a right-wing Minutemen. He…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 14:29
Robert Depew member_of
John Birch Society book_quoted
“Are you kidding me? Because I find it very interesting, again, because these people don't know anything about what Gladio is. It also says that Depew, the guy that set this whole thing up, was a member of the John Birch Society, Ron.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 1:32:40
Robert Depew member_of
John Birch Society book_quoted
“pharmaceutical products primarily for pets, which again, I find very interesting because remember, when you go back to the Fabian Society and all of those people, they weren't doctors that talked about medical stuff. They were all veterinar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 8:25
Robert Depew member_of
Liberty Lobby book_quoted
“Depew's incarceration signaled the end of the Minutemen as a significant presence. Following his release from prison in 73, Depew attempted to revive his stature in the hate movement, first by affiliating himself with the Liberty Lobby. Now…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 52:31
Robert Depew member_of
Committee of One Million book_quoted
“fascist movement. So I found that fascinating. It was labeled the leading anti-Semitic propaganda organization in the country at the time. He also collaborated with the Klansman, Robert Shelton, in a project called the Committee of 10 Milli…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 53:01
Robert Depew spied_on
FBI book_quoted
“It was hoped that I could testify to the brief telephone conversation discussion on the assassination in 1967, as well as enumerate the strange deaths. In addition, DePue was a bit paranoid on the subject of FBI harassment and surveillance …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 42:56
Robert Depew spied_on
FBI book_quoted
“Could I attest on the basis of my own experience that such tactics were in fact regularly employed by the Bureau? During the discussions, one of the attorneys was summoned outside to answer a phone call. I ran into an FBI agent in the corri…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 43:20
Robert Depew spied_on
FBI book_quoted
“And other literature is being printed. Who are the couriers that will pick up and carry them to regional headquarters? Who are the area coordinators who will remail the bulletins? DePue says in the bulletin that for many months now, the FBI…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 48:12
Robert Depew founded
Minutemen host_asserted
“And how they were set up in America to look exactly like Gladio. And at first brush, you would think that they were Gladio. But there were some strong indications, like the fact that they never committed domestic terrorism like other Gladio…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 1:48:24
Robert Depew founded
Minutemen book_quoted
“Are you kidding me? Because I find it very interesting, again, because these people don't know anything about what Gladio is. It also says that Depew, the guy that set this whole thing up, was a member of the John Birch Society, Ron.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 1:32:40
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Robert Depew book_quoted
“of several far-right groups in the 60s. In keeping with the Reuther memorandum strategy, Kennedy ordered the Justice Department to politicalize law enforcement agency to go after Depew and the Minutemen. Initially, they didn't find anything…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 28:17
Robert Depew founded
BioLabs book_quoted
“If anything, they have become stronger. But an internal power struggle, the opposition consisting of those who consider him too tame, eventually has robbed Depew of much of his authority. I met with Depew in 1966 while researching an articl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 35:18
Robert Depew member_of
Nazi Party book_quoted
“that privately calls itself Real Minutemen. Some of Depew's former members are literally Nazis, having gone over to the American Nazi Party. Wasn't the American Nazi Party a gross burlesque, I asked him? Not at all, he replied, naming a pro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 44:18
Robert Depew member_of
Executive Council book_quoted
“at between 10,000, but some people put it as low as 500. Depew was always the organizational leader, with the exception of those five months. He had an executive council, which seems to have numbered. The group was organized into small unit…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 28:46
Robert Depew attempted_assassination_of
Robert Kennedy assassination book_quoted
“The full statement seemed not only to confirm Depew's known antithony towards the American Nazi Party of George Lincoln Rockwell, but to bolster suspicions of a deep rift between Depew and factions of his own organization. On the urging of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 41:35
Robert Depew spied_on
Guy Banister host_asserted
“His organization never vetted its members, so all sorts of drifters and misfits were part of the organization. And in this organization, we eventually find Guy Bannister, the guy that was involved in JFK's assassination and was investigated…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 32:14
Mentions (30)
▶ 2:14
I have to keep my computer down here, which makes it a little more cumbersome, for me anyway, on Rumble, so I can actually type and move things around. Okay, so first of all, Maker Sarge sent me this book, Traders Beware. And it was a histo…
▶ 2:46
however you say his last name, it's D-E-P-U-G-H, who created the Minutemen. And it was done, and he also sent me a Gladio shield, just so that you can see that, and a nice note. So I want to get this guy's name, Eric Beckmeyer. He did this …
▶ 5:24
This gentleman that wrote this book also talks about the ideals that went on behind the scenes. Now, he describes Depew's growing up, and it says that Ralph, his dad, was a sheriff's deputy in Jackson County, Missouri, during his growing up…
▶ 6:24
And a member of the radio club being like basically a ham operator. And it goes on to say that he basically bought into the communist propaganda that the CIA wanted all of us to buy into, which we all did. It certainly wasn't just this guy.…
▶ 6:57
who has since passed away. And I find it fascinating, some of the information that he provided. But I want to get to one particular, and he goes on to say, oh, and he, Depew actually had a bio lab that was kind of his mainstay as far as…
▶ 7:27
How he made his money. He actually became a very wealthy man after a fall. He had some problems with the company and then restarted it later and made a lot of money, like a lot of money. So this isn't your run of the mill kind of rabble rou…
▶ 7:57
about the Minutemen. A guy by the name of Finch tells us that Depew first became interested in worldly affairs in the late 50s after succeeding in his pharmaceutical business. That's that biolab. And I don't mean biolab as in engineering ba…
▶ 8:25
pharmaceutical products primarily for pets, which again, I find very interesting because remember, when you go back to the Fabian Society and all of those people, they weren't doctors that talked about medical stuff. They were all veterinar…
▶ 8:55
to right-wing causes. And again, the guy was brought up as a Democrat. DePue traveled the country and visited many leaders to make sure that he was making contributions to worthy causes. So again, he has a lot of money and he was targeting …
▶ 9:22
And he had entree on into some of the biggest named organizations in the United States because he had money to give away. So he said that he was very disappointed in the conservative leadership that he met while he was on these trips. He wa…
▶ 9:56
communist invasion. He adopted the symbol of a crosshair of a telescope site as the logo for the Minutemen. It says that the concept was originally thought about while he was on a duck hunting trip, and there's some controversy over whether…
▶ 10:30
But another author, Jones, goes on to tell a second version of the formation, which Depew told him during an interview in 1966. According to that version, Depew and some of his friends became admirers of Fidel Castro, which again is really …
▶ 10:59
And supposedly prior to Castro becoming a designated communist in which was necessary in order for the CIA to target him. So whichever version of that may be true. But one of the things that you notice, and it will be a reoccurring theme, i…
▶ 11:28
That's also very interesting because that makes it sound like he's. It's funny that we're doing this book, Twilight of the Shadow Government, at the same time, because you see a lot of the parallels where they they change their story up. No…
▶ 11:57
called the Executive Council that supposedly was in charge of the Minutemen. But what you also, when you read a whole bunch of other articles about the Minutemen, realize that the council really didn't have any authority, that Depew basical…
▶ 12:29
which again is kind of a reoccurring pattern with these domestic things in America. And they oftentimes took their weapons to different locations, one of which was in Indiana, and did like field training exercises to make sure that everybod…
▶ 12:59
Depew also was quoted as saying that in a speech that President Kennedy gave on the Roosevelt Day commemoration, he basically said in his speech, today we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but c…
▶ 14:00
Again, there was a couple of different variations of that as well. But the structure is what I want to talk about from this book, because you guys are going to recognize it immediately. So I'm going to quote from the book where it says that…
▶ 14:29
Depew did step down from his leadership position for a short period of time in 1967. An article in the New York Times read, Robert Bolivar Depew announced today that he was resigning as the national coordinator of a right-wing Minutemen. He…
▶ 14:59
However, he rejoined the Minutemen shortly thereafter because of what he described as internal problems within the organization. As he was absent from leadership less than five months, it can be assumed that he was the only important nation…
▶ 15:26
Ten regional directors of the Minutemen operated below the national structure. However, this does not seem that these were the same ten men that were a part of the executive council, which DePue also claimed had ten members at one point. Mr…
▶ 15:55
DePue noted that there were state-level coordinators, but there was no military rank within the organization. Another author, Jones, also suggested that there were state-level leaders of the Minutemen. These state leaders may have operated …
▶ 16:24
However, the absence of an actual chain of command suggests that the regional and state coordinators were not directly responsible to Depew and may not have had authority to give orders. Depew indicated that there were unit leaders below th…
▶ 16:51
required only the name and address of the unit leaders. The unit leaders did not give their real name. They used code names. In effect, anyone below the state level was encouraged to remain anonymous for security reasons. DePue also indicat…
▶ 17:19
Also, the Minutemen used numbers instead of names for identification purposes. Each state had some one person who was the sort of leader for the state. According to Hill, the Minutemen were loosely organized into small cells and that the or…
▶ 1:48:24
And how they were set up in America to look exactly like Gladio. And at first brush, you would think that they were Gladio. But there were some strong indications, like the fact that they never committed domestic terrorism like other Gladio…
▶ 1:29:00
It changes the entire dynamic of reading books now. Speaking of which, I'm going to give a shout out to Mager Sarge. I saw him over on Rumble. I don't know if he's here. He sent me a book called Traders Beware. It's a very short book and it…
▶ 1:32:40
Are you kidding me? Because I find it very interesting, again, because these people don't know anything about what Gladio is. It also says that Depew, the guy that set this whole thing up, was a member of the John Birch Society, Ron.…
▶ 1:33:53
I would have asked completely different questions because I know Gladio, but he got a lot of his information from sitting down because this guy's from his hometown. The Depew guy, he grew up in that town and was always fascinated by all of …
▶ 1:34:19
provided the role of the national coordinator. So God bless you, Maker Sarge, for sending this to me. I really, really appreciate it. It just blew my mind. Ron, go ahead. I wanted to touch upon, you just said a couple things that were just …