Operation Splinter Factor operation
also: Splinter Factor, field conspiracy, field plot
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Allen Dullesperson · 4Soviet Unioncountry · 3Joseph Stalinperson · 3West Berlinplace · 1Brandenburgplace · 1Noel Fieldperson · 1Erika Wallachperson · 1Frank Wisnerperson · 1Czechoslovakiacountry · 1
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Allen Dulles founded
Operation Splinter Factor book_quoted
“into launching witch hunts that would fracture the communist government throughout Eastern Europe. As with all bold counterintelligence gambits he undertook during his career, Dulles threw himself into the field affair with excitement, even…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 25:20
Operation Splinter Factor carried_out_attack
Noel Field documented
“He kept on badgering Herman hour after hour. I felt like I was in an insane asylum, Field later recalled. In fact, the mysterious Alan Dulles was at the center of Herman Field's ordeal. He just didn't know it. Operation Splinter Factor succ…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 36:20
Operation Splinter Factor carried_out_attack
Herta Field documented
“into leadership positions throughout the Eastern Bloc. The Dulles-Whisner plot aggravated the Soviet premier's already rampant paranoia. It resulted in an epic reign of terror before it finally ran its course that would destroy the lives of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 36:47
Operation Splinter Factor carried_out_attack
Erika Wallach documented
“into leadership positions throughout the Eastern Bloc. The Dulles-Whisner plot aggravated the Soviet premier's already rampant paranoia. It resulted in an epic reign of terror before it finally ran its course that would destroy the lives of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 36:47
Frank Wisner exposed
Operation Splinter Factor documented
“where the accused were made to publicly condemn themselves before they were executed. The comrades are merely sticking knives into each other's back, Wisner wrote gleefully. The Office of Public Coordination men knew that many of the Splint…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 38:10
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▶ 25:20
into launching witch hunts that would fracture the communist government throughout Eastern Europe. As with all bold counterintelligence gambits he undertook during his career, Dulles threw himself into the field affair with excitement, even…
▶ 36:20
He kept on badgering Herman hour after hour. I felt like I was in an insane asylum, Field later recalled. In fact, the mysterious Alan Dulles was at the center of Herman Field's ordeal. He just didn't know it. Operation Splinter Factor succ…
▶ 36:47
into leadership positions throughout the Eastern Bloc. The Dulles-Whisner plot aggravated the Soviet premier's already rampant paranoia. It resulted in an epic reign of terror before it finally ran its course that would destroy the lives of…
▶ 37:13
In Czechoslovakia, where nearly 170,000 Communist Party members were seized as suspects in the make-believe field plot, the political crisis grew so severe that the economy nearly collapsed. Anyone whose life had been remotely touched by No…
▶ 38:10
where the accused were made to publicly condemn themselves before they were executed. The comrades are merely sticking knives into each other's back, Wisner wrote gleefully. The Office of Public Coordination men knew that many of the Splint…
▶ 39:36
Operation Splinter Factor brought only more misery on the people of the Soviet bloc. Dulles would not live long enough to see the day of their liberation. Erika Wallach was freed from her Arctic gulag in 1954 after Stalin died and the field…