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Claims (33)
Dwight D. Eisenhower funded
Operation 40 documented
“The president did this even while Indochina and Guatemala ventures were in progress. President Eisenhower began his quest for a new system for covert operations in 1954 when Ajax shone as the CIA's crowning achievement. You know, the overth…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 4:44
CIA funded
Operation 40 documented
“of broadcast through Radio Free Europe, it had moved ahead to special targeted initiatives. Operation Veto, inaugurated in early 54, encouraged long-term resistance in the Soviet areas, especially Hungary. Operation Focus succeeded Veto. Bo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 46:49
CIA carried_out_attack
Operation 40 documented
“of uh of hungary from the cia and the uh and the russia and and the betrayal and what what what what did they hope to what what what what did they achieve with this so they didn't achieve anything except for a bunch more dead bodies um they…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:33:10
Dwight D. Eisenhower approved
Operation 40 host_asserted
“project the CIA man had never heard of. In Washington, he discovered that a planning task force called Omega had already formed at the State Department. In fact, Eisenhower had approved this project in March of 1956. Allen Dulles called the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 18:18
Allen Dulles member_of
Operation 40 host_asserted
“hosted a group at his home to hash out the Middle East. Those present, Alan Dulles, Kermit Roosevelt, and James Angleton. Unfamiliar with the chain of command, the CIA officer Wilbur C. Evelyn thought, quote, the plans to undertake a coup i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 18:49
Kermit Roosevelt member_of
Operation 40 host_asserted
“hosted a group at his home to hash out the Middle East. Those present, Alan Dulles, Kermit Roosevelt, and James Angleton. Unfamiliar with the chain of command, the CIA officer Wilbur C. Evelyn thought, quote, the plans to undertake a coup i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 18:49
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Operation 40 host_asserted
“hosted a group at his home to hash out the Middle East. Those present, Alan Dulles, Kermit Roosevelt, and James Angleton. Unfamiliar with the chain of command, the CIA officer Wilbur C. Evelyn thought, quote, the plans to undertake a coup i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 18:49
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Operation 40 book_quoted
“Marbog, who had served as Nixon's Operation 40 covert operation advisor, meaning the one against Cuba, was sent to the Department of Defense to monitor all U.S. contracts inside the country of Iran. The old crew from Castro to Vietnam is no…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 18:45
Rafael Quintero member_of
Operation 40 book_quoted
“with all of those same people. Rafael Quintero, the Posada guy, Felix Rodriguez again, Frank Sturgis, all of those show up. And this is the Operation 40 team that we mentioned a little bit earlier, E. Howard Hunt, blah, blah, blah.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 34:46
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Operation 40 book_quoted
“with all of those same people. Rafael Quintero, the Posada guy, Felix Rodriguez again, Frank Sturgis, all of those show up. And this is the Operation 40 team that we mentioned a little bit earlier, E. Howard Hunt, blah, blah, blah.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 34:46
Frank Sturgis member_of
Operation 40 book_quoted
“with all of those same people. Rafael Quintero, the Posada guy, Felix Rodriguez again, Frank Sturgis, all of those show up. And this is the Operation 40 team that we mentioned a little bit earlier, E. Howard Hunt, blah, blah, blah.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 34:46
E. Howard Hunt member_of
Operation 40 book_quoted
“And that basically the entire plan had been set up and given the go-ahead before Kennedy took office. And so then he was presented with a fait accompli when he came into office. And of course, that was the intent. If he chose not to exercis…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 35:11
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
Operation 40 host_asserted
“He launched phase two, which happened to be successful, and then they heralded him as a hero. So they 100% disobey orders, to your point. All along? Yeah, Colonel. There's an excellent book by the Australian historian Greg Somebody, who I p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 1:00:56
CIA paid
Operation 40 book_quoted
“So not only did we pay to overthrow the duly elected prime minister of Iran, we paid for the dictator that we installed with our tax dollars. The flow neared a billion dollars by the end of Ike's term in 1960. The losers, of course, were th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 32:25
CIA recruited
Operation 40 book_quoted
“of their own against Mossadegh. Basically, it was just transporting all their pre-trained stay-behind units into the city. Street protest by Mossadegh supporters persisted. Up to 6,000 pro-Shah rioters recruited by the CIA then took to the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 26:48
CIA funded
Operation 40 host_asserted
“So they were seeing a window closing and were trying to expedite the approval, but they got approval. And that's not to say they haven't done that, SR, to your point. They most certainly have done things they're not authorized to do. As a m…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 1:00:24
Inter-Services Intelligence member_of
Operation 40 book_quoted
“In Washington, the first moves came from the DAF, a unit of the Director of Operations paramilitary psychological staff, which concocted a variety of anti-Mosaddegh leaflets to be distributed throughout Iran. Planners traveled to Cyprus, wh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 2:06
Allen Dulles funded
Operation 40 book_quoted
“Talk about timing. This is like God's hand every time we do one of these books. All right. We started off, let's see, I'm trying to get the, I think we're in 1953. Yeah. Okay. So April 4th, Alan Dulles approved a $1 million fund that the Te…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 1:35
Kermit Roosevelt headed
Operation 40 book_quoted
“of the oil revenue after the coup. Pay very close attention to that because it's very telling. The British government and senior SIS officials approved after the meeting. Compared, let's see, Kermit Roosevelt took charge of the CIA task for…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 8:10
Lyndon B. Johnson approved
Operation 40 book_quoted
“On December 19, 1963, the Pentagon's planning branch in the Pacific, CINCPAC, presented a plan to a special group. Two weeks later, LBJ approved O-Plan 34A, and Major General Victor Krulik, and I have actually met him, handed the operationa…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 22:09
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
Operation 40 host_asserted
“He's going to send some people over there. He just happens to send Kermit Roosevelt to Iran in order to overthrow the government. That operation, if you want to do any research on your own, is called Operation Ajax, A-J-A-X. So he's put in …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 17:46
Operation 40 targeted_for_regime_change
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“So Operation Ajak focused on getting the Iranian army to back the Shah, who basically had just been deposed when they decided they were going to have a democratic election. You know, that thing that everybody says they want that they don't …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 18:45
Kermit Roosevelt exposed
Operation 40 host_asserted
“Kermit Roosevelt returned to Washington as the assistant director of the Directorate of Plans, working directly for Wisner. And, you know, Wisner is the guy that runs all the covert operations. And it says Roosevelt directed the political a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 25:46
CIA funded
Operation 40 book_quoted
“He was involved in a thing called O-Plan 34. This was basically what they referred to as a Leaping Lena, L-E-N-A, infiltration program for long-range reconnaissance patrol that had been happening in Laos as well. And it was basically a well…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 13:38
Operation 40 assassinated
Vietnam book_quoted
“before Phoenix. It was like the precursor to Phoenix. And it says their primary function was intelligence gathering, but we also carried out undermining of the infrastructure types of things with kidnapping, assassination, and sabotage. And…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 14:07
Allen Dulles funded
Operation 40 host_asserted
“but whether the British government would agree to oil rights with the successor regime and whether Washington would offer foreign aid in the aftermath. Ajax was approved. So again, John Foster Dulles is not interested in overthrowing a gove…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 7:41
Standard Oil financed_via
Operation 40 host_asserted
“but whether the British government would agree to oil rights with the successor regime and whether Washington would offer foreign aid in the aftermath. Ajax was approved. So again, John Foster Dulles is not interested in overthrowing a gove…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 7:41
Monty Woodhouse founded
Operation 40 host_asserted
“Norman Darbyshire took charge of the Cyprus SIS detachment. Monty Woodhouse returned to London where he prepared a new plan called Operation Boot that would finally be implemented. In November 52, the SIS delegation showed the proposal to t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 46:38
Kermit Roosevelt founded
Operation 40 host_asserted
“Roosevelt estimated the price to be no more than a couple hundred thousand dollars. The flap potential, he said, was ambiguous. If the spooks seriously miscalculated, the result would be disastrous in the entire Middle East. The project got…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 52:49
Operation 40 carried_out_attack
Angola host_asserted
“That basically did exactly what I just described to you, launching terrorist attacks into it. And the purpose was to destabilize the countries in the southern part of Africa that had just newly been given their freedom and had elected presi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Wildlife Fund - Africa- Erik Prince (Redo) @ 29:35
Operation 40 carried_out_attack
Namibia host_asserted
“That basically did exactly what I just described to you, launching terrorist attacks into it. And the purpose was to destabilize the countries in the southern part of Africa that had just newly been given their freedom and had elected presi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Wildlife Fund - Africa- Erik Prince (Redo) @ 29:35
Operation 40 carried_out_attack
Tanzania host_asserted
“That basically did exactly what I just described to you, launching terrorist attacks into it. And the purpose was to destabilize the countries in the southern part of Africa that had just newly been given their freedom and had elected presi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Wildlife Fund - Africa- Erik Prince (Redo) @ 29:35
BBC funded
Operation 40 host_asserted
“A classic open code communication. The Shah did so and the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, duly radioed the message because they're actually controlled by the intelligence in Britain too. The Rashidunian in turn informed the Shah tha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 11:31
Mentions (64)
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Jose Rayol Verona Gonzalez, a Cuban exile and intelligence officer for Brigade 2506. You know, Felix Rodriguez's hangout. He was part of the ultra-secretive Operation 40, a CIA counterintelligence unit of exiles tasked with assassinations.…
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Our advantage with technology, like you couldn't fire at an enemy. An aircraft in Vietnam couldn't fire at an enemy unless they were able to visually identify them. Well, an F-4 was not designed for air-to-air combat. It was designed to see…
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On December 19, 1963, the Pentagon's planning branch in the Pacific, CINCPAC, presented a plan to a special group. Two weeks later, LBJ approved O-Plan 34A, and Major General Victor Krulik, and I have actually met him, handed the operationa…
▶ 22:41
was formed in Saigon to implement O-Plan 34, and attacks against the North Vietnamese began in February from Phoenix Island off the coast of Da Nang. So, July 1964, the SOG, which is the Special Operations Group, achieved its goal of creati…
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He was involved in a thing called O-Plan 34. This was basically what they referred to as a Leaping Lena, L-E-N-A, infiltration program for long-range reconnaissance patrol that had been happening in Laos as well. And it was basically a well…
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The one that I did today was about a thing, and I ended up with it yesterday too, called Operation Lock. Well, anytime you've got a NGO that has a military operational name as part of an event like Operation Lock, you know you're in paramil…
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the church down the street or the feed the SPCA kind of nonprofit, they don't have operational names. They don't have like Operation Lock as the name of some event that they're kicking off, right? They name it like, you know, feed the dogs …
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That basically did exactly what I just described to you, launching terrorist attacks into it. And the purpose was to destabilize the countries in the southern part of Africa that had just newly been given their freedom and had elected presi…
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BNDD agents immediately felt the impact of the CIA's involvement in drug law enforcement operations within the United States. Operation Eagle was a flashpoint. Launched in 1970, Eagle targeted anti-Castro Cubans smuggling cocaine from Latin…
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19 CIA officers infiltrated into the BNDD, ostensibly to spy on corrupt BNDD officials. According to BNDD's chief inspector, Patrick Fuller, a corporation engaged in law enforcement hired three CIA officers posing as private businessmen to …
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Just like NATO. It was not a European NATO only. It was NATO overall. So that kind of gets us to the end of the chapter. It does talk a little bit about the setting up of Radio Free Europe in 1953 as a part of this. Operation Veto, which wa…
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To carry out this bombing campaign, known eventually as Operation Menu, in a nation with which the U.S. was at peace, Nixon ordered unprecedented levels of secrecy. The regular Pentagon records themselves classified and supposedly secured w…
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Far from wiping out North Vietnamese-based areas, the Operation Menu bombing had little apparent effect. Salem House teams found the enemy infuriated but not dazed. One bombing assessment patrol under Special Forces Captain Bill Orthman, O-…
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which was the day before the coup. Nixon, of course, was amenable to helping the coup. In his own memoirs, he expressed surprise at the coup, but basically said, what the hell do those clowns do there in Langley? That was a quote. But on Ki…
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who quietly threatened to resign in protest if POTS went ahead with certain measures with the South Africans. On the grounds in Angola, the South Africans were good fighters. Their operation under code name Zulu provided strong backing for …
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Captivating speaker and inspiring leader, Sevembi led a competent political organization that had grassroots. Much of Roberto's support, in contrast, resided in the refugee camps in the Congo slash Zaire. With the South Africans of the Zulu…
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He's going to send some people over there. He just happens to send Kermit Roosevelt to Iran in order to overthrow the government. That operation, if you want to do any research on your own, is called Operation Ajax, A-J-A-X. So he's put in …
▶ 18:45
So Operation Ajak focused on getting the Iranian army to back the Shah, who basically had just been deposed when they decided they were going to have a democratic election. You know, that thing that everybody says they want that they don't …
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Kermit Roosevelt returned to Washington as the assistant director of the Directorate of Plans, working directly for Wisner. And, you know, Wisner is the guy that runs all the covert operations. And it says Roosevelt directed the political a…
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He met with the Undersecretary of State at the time, which was Walter Bedell Smith. Yes, he was also CIA. And although one account of the Guatemala operation alleges that it was approved by the National Security Council Special Group Review…
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By the fall, however, definite action was in the wind and the CIA was getting ready. The timing of the decision to undertake the Guatemala operation reveals a link between Guatemala and Iran. At the time the Guatemala situation was under co…
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gleam in John Foster Dulles' eyes at the White House briefing and surmise that something similar was going on elsewhere. Even the code word people seem to allude to Iran when they designated the Guatemala effort was Operation Success. So th…
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Iran and Guatemala as models of successful covert operations. The inner stories reveal that both Project Ajax and PB's success was filled with failures. At some point in each case, the CIA came close to canceling their operation. The projec…
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The president did this even while Indochina and Guatemala ventures were in progress. President Eisenhower began his quest for a new system for covert operations in 1954 when Ajax shone as the CIA's crowning achievement. You know, the overth…
▶ 46:49
of broadcast through Radio Free Europe, it had moved ahead to special targeted initiatives. Operation Veto, inaugurated in early 54, encouraged long-term resistance in the Soviet areas, especially Hungary. Operation Focus succeeded Veto. Bo…
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of uh of hungary from the cia and the uh and the russia and and the betrayal and what what what what did they hope to what what what what did they achieve with this so they didn't achieve anything except for a bunch more dead bodies um they…
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project the CIA man had never heard of. In Washington, he discovered that a planning task force called Omega had already formed at the State Department. In fact, Eisenhower had approved this project in March of 1956. Allen Dulles called the…
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Kermit Roosevelt completed the scheme with George Young in London in April. Foster Dulles considered the final Omega paper on May 23rd. So again, from March to May, lots of planning, just not interagency planning. Shortly thereafter, Evelyn…
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Thus arose Plan Alpha, an Anglo-American design. By late 1955, John Foster Dulles had set in his mind on new leadership in Damascus, but wanted it to appear like it was coming from within. That meant covert action. President Eisenhower and …
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So they were seeing a window closing and were trying to expedite the approval, but they got approval. And that's not to say they haven't done that, SR, to your point. They most certainly have done things they're not authorized to do. As a m…
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which of course we know to be Operation Northwood. In mid-December 1961, John McCone had to explain to JFK when the press reported a new covert, Operation Snafu. The eight-man team intended to carry out Operation Well had suffered an engine…
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turned over the agency's CIDGSs to the military command in Vietnam, but the prohibition lasted less than a year. A directive already in draft by LBJ provided for the unilateral U.S. pressure against North Vietnam, a program of covert milita…
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President Johnson approved O-Plan 34A. The CIA was going to be based in Da Nang and handed over pieces of switchback to the military in 1964. It would be expanded. Quite soon, the military's study and observation group, SOG,…
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With orders for commando attacks along the North Vietnamese coast as part of 34A, added its own version to an infiltration program. The CIA supplied intelligence and specialized support to these activities. The 34A operation led to the next…
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The destroyer Maddox was on a DeSoto patrol when swift boats passed her, the 34A Raiders returning to base. That evening, the Maddox steamed past the recently shelled islands. The North Vietnamese sent out torpedo boats, which attacked the …
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the legislature approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Johnson then relied on that for a declaration of war. McGeorge Bundy immediately got involved with DeSoto. As a reconnaissance project, DeSoto patrols were approved by the special grou…
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favored waiting to see if Vietnam's political situation stabilized. Johnson selected less than the maximum option, a resuming of DeSoto patrols and 34A. Reinforce farm gate with heavier jet bombers. Thus operations like DeSoto and 34A, whic…
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The appointment itself was just 10 minutes before a session of the National Security Council. It made it convenient for Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles and the ambassador to Iran, Lloyd Henderson, to present, to be present for the medal …
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Solving a problem Eisenhower inherited from the Truman administration. Yeah, the problem was that they wanted to be nationalistic. Iran's problem was oil. They had lots of it and they were losing control of it. The CIA covert action represe…
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Norman Darbyshire took charge of the Cyprus SIS detachment. Monty Woodhouse returned to London where he prepared a new plan called Operation Boot that would finally be implemented. In November 52, the SIS delegation showed the proposal to t…
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Ike replaced him at the agency with Alan Dulles, the same guy that was just representing Sullivan and Cromwell in Iran. John Foster Dulles became Secretary of State. The Iran covert project moved ahead. Although Gordon Gray may have been di…
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February 23, 1953, another SIS delegation from Britain headed by Sir John Sinclair, their intelligence chief, was in Washington at the time. Its mission was to plan the Iran mission. Alan Dulles had headed the Near East Division during his …
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Roosevelt estimated the price to be no more than a couple hundred thousand dollars. The flap potential, he said, was ambiguous. If the spooks seriously miscalculated, the result would be disastrous in the entire Middle East. The project got…
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And I'm not writing a book. Okay, moving on. Project AJAC envisioned a quasi-legal overthrow. There's literally no such thing. In which the CIA would manipulate public opinion into opposition and suborn members of the armed forces and basic…
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but whether the British government would agree to oil rights with the successor regime and whether Washington would offer foreign aid in the aftermath. Ajax was approved. So again, John Foster Dulles is not interested in overthrowing a gove…
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period of planning approval, Ajak's execution was quick. It was the struggle for control of the armed forces and police together amounting to some 250,000 Iranians that triggered the actual Iranian coup. In the spring of 1953, Mossadegh ass…
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The print story may be the weavings of a courier or perhaps only part of a larger tapestry. In any case, the advanced schedules prepared by Ajax planners supported that August 14th would be the critical day. Alan Dulles and his wife, Clover…
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Full-scale rioting broke out in Tehran on August 18th and 19th. Several hundred people died because the trained Gladio people are in town. A friendly newspaper published the text of the Shah's announcement appointing Zahidi, probably the sa…
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and affected to the CIA, and how many of the stay-behind units were wearing Army uniforms but weren't Army at all. So ended Project AJAC, the first apparent U.S. covert victory. Kim Roosevelt received personal thanks from both Churchill and…
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It shone so bright that Barnes sought out the CIA official soon to be its boss. Tracy could see that the strategy board led nowhere in terms of power and influence. The nation's premier Cold War agency was calling his name. Barnes moved ove…
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were considered out of bounds for scholarly and journalistic exploration, including the bloody regime changes in Iran and Guatemala and the bloody, the boiling cauldron of injustice at home. The grants, literary prizes, journalism awards, a…
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And one of the men left dead was the father of a brutal Colombian killer and drug dealer named Papo Mejia. According to Mike Levin, who worked on some of the biggest undercover DEA investigations in the 70s and 80s, both in the U.S. and Sou…
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Mejia himself was the target of a Blanco-ordered assassination attempt. They were bitter rivals in the Miami cocaine street wars. Blanco hired a hitman, Miguel Perez. He stabbed Mejia some 10 times with a bayonet blade in broad daylight at …
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from a flight from Colombia. Unfortunately, he didn't hit any vital organs, so Mejia survived. But the attack allowed DEA, who to that point had lost track of him, to arrest him on charges related to Operation Hunt. The key cooperating sour…
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Then in his mid-20s, she had no place to run. Mejia was out to kill her, and Atala's Bolivian allies had turned against her. So she ran to her only friends, the DEA, with the CIA still always in the background. That resulted in Operation Hu…
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by one of Blanco's assassins. He was arrested by DEA due to the case built against him and Operation Hun and ultimately sent to jail because of Levin's casework and testimony. Levin told the author that Mejia is a very vengeful and skilled …
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Levin then describes this in an email. The cocaine cowboy wars in Miami was raging when he began Operation Hun that targeted Papo Mejia, among others, using Sonia Atala as bait. What we learned was that Griselda Blanco had already killed Pa…
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Marbog, who had served as Nixon's Operation 40 covert operation advisor, meaning the one against Cuba, was sent to the Department of Defense to monitor all U.S. contracts inside the country of Iran. The old crew from Castro to Vietnam is no…
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with all of those same people. Rafael Quintero, the Posada guy, Felix Rodriguez again, Frank Sturgis, all of those show up. And this is the Operation 40 team that we mentioned a little bit earlier, E. Howard Hunt, blah, blah, blah.…
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early warning planes. That was going to be a trade. You help us with this, we'll make sure you get this equipment. Theodore Shackley was the former head of the anti-Castro operation, JM Wave. And he, of course, was the director of Operation…
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Because he's one of the most evil people that we've come across in our Operation Gladio journey. He was a quote unquote retired CIA officer who had served under Klein's in Operation 40. He also had been involved in the ZR rifle assassinatio…
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They were intimate players in JM Wave, CIA operations against Cuba, where Shackley was the Miami station chief. All weirdly enough, at the same time, JFK was assassinated as well. It goes on to say that it was Shackley and Clines that set u…
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That included Felix Rodriguez, Raul Veliverde, Rafael Quintero, and one of our favorite villains, Edwin Wilson. They all worked on that. And then we would see most of them all later in the Iran-Contra drug operations. When the attention of …
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were transferred to that country. Shackley became chief of station in Laos. Klein's function is Shackley's deputy. Air support was arranged by none other than Richard Secord, who shows up on all of these drug operations too, as supposedly t…