Czechoslovakia country
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Czechoslovakia carried_out_attack
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists documented
“The Czechs' army made strenuous efforts to seal off their borders. They were unable to prevent the infiltration of Ukrainian bands. The Czech defense minister, Savada, estimated that 100 or 200 partisans were still at large inside their cou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 40:26
Assembly of Captive European Nations member_of
Czechoslovakia documented
“ACEN, Assembly of Captive European Nations. ACEN brought together all of these organizations, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. They also provided representatives to participate in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6 @ 26:30
Guatemala supplied_arms_to
Czechoslovakia documented
“Cabell. Barnes described the status of the various PB success elements. The CIA project seemed to be moving along smoothly. One action by the Arbenz government did play into the preparation for the success. The Guatemalans turned to Czechos…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 36:03
Jacobo Árbenz trafficked
Czechoslovakia documented
“We're never going to find out that we couped the government in Guatemala. So he writes it down in his book that they were terrorists. Just absolutely crazy. All for trying to defend their democracy. One action by the Arbenz government did t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 50:56
Dwight D. Eisenhower carried_out_attack
Czechoslovakia book_quoted
“could have been in Berlin in a few hours. However, Eisenhower halted their forward progress. He let them sit outside of Berlin for several days while the Russians were coming in from the east. To the south, Patton's forces were plowing into…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 2 @ 14:18
Czechoslovakia carried_out_attack
Hungary book_quoted
“counter-revolutionary government and begin aid and propaganda measures to sure this up. As things turned out, Wilson did not send gunboats to Budapest, but the Czechs and Romanians did indeed invade Hungary, and with their help, Hungarian A…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 30:11
Czechoslovakia supplied_arms_to
Guatemala book_quoted
“as did the Soviet Union. A month before the coup, that is, long after Washington had begun to prepare for it, Czechoslovakia made a single arms sale to Guatemala for cash, something the Czechs would no doubt have done for any other country,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 11:25
Joseph Stalin consolidated_control_of
Czechoslovakia host_asserted
“served as a catalyst for Stalin's decision to consolidate control of Prague. By February 1948, a sort of constitutional coup had been carried out. Non-communist ministers in the Czech coalition government resigned to be replaced by represen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:08:32
Joseph Stalin ordered_assassination_of
Czechoslovakia host_asserted
“and do nefarious shit that the CIA had already contemplated on doing. The Czechs, whose political system the Russians had not yet subdued, saw the Marshall Plan aid as a counterweight to the Soviet influence and initially responded to the A…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 38:36
CIA covered_up
Czechoslovakia host_asserted
“And it was probably set up by CIA agents in Czechoslovakia to paint them as having done this because no one would sell anything to Guatemala because they didn't want to piss off the U.S. except one country and not at this particular time. B…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 11:53
West Germany carried_out_attack
Czechoslovakia host_asserted
“They had this huge, big, top secret lab going on in Czechoslovakia that they moved lock, stock and barrel via a submarine down to South America and set up on an island down there. So they not only were moving scientists around, they were mo…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 1:39:06
Norm Eisen headed
Czechoslovakia host_asserted
“Wasn't he the prime minister of Czechoslovakia during the, quote, Velvet Revolution, which was, you know, the anti-communist revolution in Czechoslovakia? So they give you kind of the tell by the words that they use. Why that revolution? Ri…”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 43:53
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informed by his CIA handler that he was given the assignment to fly Raul Castro back from Prague. CIA headquarters approved a plot offering Martinez money to sabotage the flight and cause a fatal accident. He later got cold feet and withdre…
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Every time he conquered a new country, whether it was Czechoslovakia or Hungary or Romania or Ukraine or whatever. Well, there wasn't Ukraine, but all of those. Poland, another example. He just picked up whatever communication device they h…
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thanking the Soviet Union, which none of that was true. They also created documents that maligned the entire thing. And Agee talks about also undermining relationships with Uruguay and other countries that the CIA didn't approve of, like Ru…
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There is no Mildred Weaver. There's no Millie Weaver anywhere in Ohio. And she is in Ohio, supposedly. The only Millie Weavers that exist have passed away. There's no Millie Weaver records that I could find. But that term velvet is really k…
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Wasn't he the prime minister of Czechoslovakia during the, quote, Velvet Revolution, which was, you know, the anti-communist revolution in Czechoslovakia? So they give you kind of the tell by the words that they use. Why that revolution? Ri…
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caught because they're in the middle of nowhere. Then we rolled on to the St. Hubris hunting club that was set up originally like, you know, 150 years ago in Czechoslovakia. And I thought that's weird because they keep attacking, you know, …
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I want to say it was Czechoslovakia. That is like kind of mystic, Gnostic, like almost a Satanist kind of environment. And then you move to the Bohemian Grove in Northern California, got the stupid owl and they're doing satanic like worship…
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Leads them, obviously, to the Soviet Union. It always does. But they also approached countries like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, which we know what happened to them, too. Here, the Bolivians eventually yielded to the U.S. pressure. Fox an…
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They had this huge, big, top secret lab going on in Czechoslovakia that they moved lock, stock and barrel via a submarine down to South America and set up on an island down there. So they not only were moving scientists around, they were mo…
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as did the Soviet Union. A month before the coup, that is, long after Washington had begun to prepare for it, Czechoslovakia made a single arms sale to Guatemala for cash, something the Czechs would no doubt have done for any other country,…
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And it was probably set up by CIA agents in Czechoslovakia to paint them as having done this because no one would sell anything to Guatemala because they didn't want to piss off the U.S. except one country and not at this particular time. B…
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had to seek arms from Czechoslovakia because the U.S. had refused to sell it any since 1948 because they had a reformist government that was articulating their independence and had already pissed off United Fruit Company by its reform and t…
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So the weapons that they used had hidden radio transmitters in them so that they could track them. An attempt was made to blow up trains carrying the Chechnyan weapons from the port to Guatemala City. However, a downpour prevented that from…
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fire on one of the trains, killing a Guatemalan soldier and wounding three others, but the boy was able to make it safely to his destination. After the Czechoslovakia ship had arrived in Guatemala, Eisenhower ordered the stopping of all ves…
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pockets of terrorists on these outer islands doing all kinds of shit. So Zuccaro, in this creation of this centralized army, has to have weapons. Well, if you're not going to get weapons from the U.S. and you're not going to get weapons fro…
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That was being done in Czechoslovakia, which people say that that is where Patton was headed when he had his quote unquote accident, which he was assassinated. And that project, there is a book that I read that basically documents its trave…
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He also says, well, let me go a little bit about who he is, because it puts him into context. So he joined the CIA in the immediate aftermath of the creation of it in 1949. He's a Yale graduate, of course, and he graduated magna cum laude w…
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And, of course, we know that we demolished the Czechoslovakia as a country. And he also was part of the Korean War and worked, quote unquote, special intelligence branch. And he also worked in an area of the CIA called current intelligence.…
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they have in Eastern Europe is very much this sort of, you know, the West is superior. And they think that the Europe, just because Ukraine is to the West of Russia, that doesn't mean it's in Western Europe. I mean, there's still like all t…
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He's an academic, and they send him over as the chief of the Austro-Hungarian Division of American Commission to negotiate the peace. He's also a delegate on the Romanian, Yugoslavian, Czechoslovakian territorial commissions. And we know wh…
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And then it says the Soviet leaders were not mistaken by believing that Truman and the Marshall Plan was designed to be used against them. Stalin forbade participation in the Marshall Plan by the occupied Western European countries. The Cze…
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served as a catalyst for Stalin's decision to consolidate control of Prague. By February 1948, a sort of constitutional coup had been carried out. Non-communist ministers in the Czech coalition government resigned to be replaced by represen…
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A prominent politician and government official died under very mysterious circumstances. These events in Czechoslovakia, plus a rising tide of war scare from the American side, created a volatile situation. The American High Commissioner, G…
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Let's see. I don't even know. Raz, I'm just going to call him Raz, talked about living in Czechoslovakia when he was younger. And he says that Ambassador Jacob Beam was not CIA and Shirley Temple was in the country when the invasion took pl…
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the um the original coup where they tried to get Sukarno out of office um in Indonesia after they were granted their independence from the Dutch in order to steal their oil and gold so then he shows up in Yugoslavia then he shows up in Pola…
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He becomes the ambassador to the Soviet Union in 69 through 73, which was a critical time to be there. So, again, I'm going to say you're technically correct, but you're not generally correct, if that makes sense. So, okay. No one else has …
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in the selection of transmitter sites near Frankfurt. The first Radio Free Europe broadcast was a half-an-hour program that was beamed over Czechoslovakia on July 4, 1950. In 1951, Wisner followed up with several similar organizations that …
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who fought with us during World War II the next day. And actually, it wasn't even the next day. It was even before the war was over. We brought Reinhard Galen over to the United States and copied all of his stay-behind unit stuff that he'd …
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Galen had spent so much time in all of the conquered areas that Hitler had taken, which included France, Czechoslovakia, Romania, all of those different countries. They had began, Otto Skorzeny was his trainer for this. They had been settin…
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the gold fund, Hitler's Black Eagle gold funds. So let me just lay this out for people. When they set up the Bank of International Settlements, which was supposed to be the central bank of central bankers, which provides them a forum after …
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whatever, their gold, he basically, his banker, Herman Slatt, or however you pronounce his last name, would call the Bank of International Settlements, which had a U.S. president at the time, and he would say, move Czechoslovakia gold to th…
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through the Azores, which is Portugal, and Portugal was a dictatorship at the time, into Czechoslovakia and then into Israel. And that Israel then used those aircraft to bomb residential neighborhoods of the people that lived in Palestine a…
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this action that activists took in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet Union left. The regime was extremely brutal and there was a lot of police violence, like incredible police violence. And so they decided to take huge photos of the violence,…
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Accounts differ on whether Allison asked for an immediate transport or was simply ordered out of the country. But John Foster sent Allison, a career diplomat, to Czechoslovakia because of his hesitation and not wanting to be involved in the…
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We're never going to find out that we couped the government in Guatemala. So he writes it down in his book that they were terrorists. Just absolutely crazy. All for trying to defend their democracy. One action by the Arbenz government did t…
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like one of the U.S. paramilitaries. But as it turned out, that was all for nothing because the Czech had basically sent them old, nasty, non-functional munitions that they couldn't work, they couldn't use at all. So despite Eisenhower call…
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that the U.S. had to do something, you know, because it was a communist after all. Alan Dulles is even more forthright in his book called The Craft of Intelligence. This is a quote. In Iran, Amosadeh and in Guatemala and Arbenz had come to …
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They were scattered all over Ukraine, Poland, and even Czechoslovakia. From the summer, when the last German troops were driven from South Russia, the OUN fought on its own. This was a partisan warfare on a grand scale, and it did not end w…
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did have information involving him in blatant war crimes. American authorities informed the Soviets that they didn't know where Bandera was. On the ground, the partisan struggle continued for the liberation of Ukraine, including those parts…
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When the Germans conquered that portion of Ukraine, they captured them and put them in basically death camps in Germany. Among the Hutzul, H-U-T-Z-U-L, who inhibited the footlands of a mountainous area, OUN's feelings ran especially strong.…
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that had basically been former Nazis. And so he's just kind of mopping everybody up. And these operations were happening in southern Poland, Czechoslovakia, Soviets. And the OUN, although still powerful, was running into a bloody chainsaw c…
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The Czechs' army made strenuous efforts to seal off their borders. They were unable to prevent the infiltration of Ukrainian bands. The Czech defense minister, Savada, estimated that 100 or 200 partisans were still at large inside their cou…
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viewed all of those stay-behinds as a meticulous rooting out. And those, by the way, those stay-behind guys, they skin people alive. The local citizens didn't like them. That's not what you're told today because we want to make the Soviets …
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Cabell. Barnes described the status of the various PB success elements. The CIA project seemed to be moving along smoothly. One action by the Arbenz government did play into the preparation for the success. The Guatemalans turned to Czechos…
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anti-Arbenz activists, giving the impression of a widespread rebellion. After all this trouble, the Czech's weapons proved to be useless. They included large caliber cannons designed to be mounted on railway carriages, which were of limited…
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On June 19th, Alan Dulles briefed the National Security Council on the riots and protests in Czechoslovakia. Then, C.D. Jackson speculated on exploiting events for propaganda purposes. President Eisenhower injected that if the U.S. interven…
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And then you write a report saying we were not involved. The last loose end was the CIA's Liberation Army. Liberation Army? Upon returning to duty, Frank Wisner again said about initiating a resistance project now in Czechoslovakia. But he …
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Secretary Dulles sent Allison to Czechoslovakia. The ambassador speculated in retrospect that Sukarno had disgusted Foster. Allison had his moment passing through Washington on his way to Prague. He stopped at the CIA for a debriefing. The …
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Another time, Robertson offered money if a raider returned with the ear of an enemy. The man brought back two. Robertson served throughout the secret war against Cuba. What a nice guy. In a way, the exile groups forced Kennedy's hand with o…
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In January of 71, the secret war managers increased the covert action budget to $1.24 million. In March, an American, Howard Edwards, accused of participating in an international scheme to lower the price of copper, was apprehended by the C…
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Meanwhile, the quote unquote communist faction had internal discontent, convinced itself that others did not know the way forward. One faction referred to as Parkham or Banner became isolated within the movement, neutralized during 1978. It…
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The CIC debriefed the men for more than three weeks. Interrogators satisfied themselves that the new arrivals were in fact Ukrainian partisans. There were against Russian forces still in progress in Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, and southern Pol…
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The shift in early 1947 when it recorded a change in emphasis from denazification to positive intelligence. So gone were the days where we were going to actually get rid of the Nazis and in rushed where we're going to use all of them. In Au…
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and do nefarious shit that the CIA had already contemplated on doing. The Czechs, whose political system the Russians had not yet subdued, saw the Marshall Plan aid as a counterweight to the Soviet influence and initially responded to the A…
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a sort of constitutional coup took place. Non-communist ministers in the Czech coalition government resigned, replaced by representatives of a minority party. Within a month, a famous Czech patriot, Jean Masaryk, a prominent politician and …
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in Czechoslovakia to a rising tide of hostility in America now created a war scare, just what the CIA loves. The American High Commissioner in Germany, General Lucius Clay, cabled a warning on March 5th, 1948, that war may come with dramati…
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knowing that Iran-Contra is hanging out there in the wind. So they're claiming credit for this sudden shift in the Soviet Union. East Germans began escaping to the West through Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Efforts were made to seal Eastern G…
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They had brought down the Soviet Union. They credited, of course, their success in Afghanistan for doing that. Over the next months, the communist government of Eastern Europe were swept away. Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Roma…
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Former OSS radio experts Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, and Robert Lang helped select transmission sites near Frankfurt. The first Radio Free Europe broadcast was a half-hour program beamed into Czechoslovakia July of 1950. From that December, Radio …
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the force behind the band of soldiers who appeared in Germany in 1947. Ukrainians claim to have 50,000 soldiers by September of 1944, scattered throughout Ukraine, southern Poland, and eastern Czechoslovakia. From that summer, when the last…
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It was a multinational, fascist, anti-democratic union that long outlasted the secret war against Russia. Partisan struggles continued in Ukraine, including those parts relocated within Poland and Czechoslovakia by Stalin's border changes. …
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whom the Soviet typically associated with Nazis, because many of them were. In the spring of 1947, the Polish army, officered by Russians, began evacuating local populations. There was also coordinated attacks in the tri-border region by Po…
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struck back when the Polish vice minister of defense was killed. While Czech security strove to seal the border, they proved unable to prevent Ukrainian infiltration. The fall of the Czech defense minister, General Ludwig Svoboda, estimated…
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You will find the Unification Churches in some of the very suspicious areas that later get broken up too. Like, for example, the Unification Church had a huge presence in Czechoslovakia. And of course, we know what happened to them. And the…
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as well as free-spirited women from local art colonies. He met his conquest for drinks and pleasure at the Bellevue Palace Hotel. It was an elegant art nouveau fortress that dominated the old city's skyline. One of his affairs during the Fi…
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why did Dulles choose not to emphasize or even report on what was going on to Washington? Whatever his reason, one historian said, his reluctance on this subject is among the most controversial and least understood aspect of his time in Ber…
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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…
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Before they changed the tail number, it was already involved, like you say, in renditions and other stuff that was going on. But this plane was photographed at the Rusni Airport in Prague on April 8, 2005. The Danish inquiry on October 3, 2…
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could have been in Berlin in a few hours. However, Eisenhower halted their forward progress. He let them sit outside of Berlin for several days while the Russians were coming in from the east. To the south, Patton's forces were plowing into…
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He also ordered him not to accept surrender of German soldiers, but to hold them at bay until the Russians showed up. Units of Czechoslovakian patriots had been fighting with the Western Army since 1943. They had promised them that they wou…
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A lot, actually. It goes on to say that on the congressional record for June 20th, 1958, an article was entered by Congressman Albert Bosch of New York. It was written by George Breda, a Czechoslovakian who fled his homeland after the commu…
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One report came from a Czechoslovakian chemical detection unit that detected mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin. Oh, like the sarin gas that they had been experimenting with at Fort Detrick from the Nazis? Yeah, that same sarin gas. Thes…
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and serious attempts at revolution exploded in Berlin and Budapest. Nations such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia that had long been subordinate territories of old regimes could see independence. Existing countries wanted their borders redr…
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which carved up the new Czech state out of Germany's Sutherland and pieces of the now defunct Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He was simultaneously in charge of the U.S. delegation's political intelligence efforts in Central Europe. He was 25 ye…
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so to speak. The clients would then turn around and sell the bonds to other U.S. banks and individual investors at retail rates, usually paying Dulles and Sullivan and Cromwell two to three percentage points of the overall value of the bond…
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or of other Axis nationalities, stateless persons, and German Jewish citizens of Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, and other Allied origin citizens. The Hague Convention defines a war crime as an offense by one belligerent against the army or…
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during Horthy's regime, and they felt justified in bringing formal charges against him at the War Crimes Tribunal. According to their agreements with the U.S., they seemed to have legal authority to prosecute him even in a Yugoslav court. T…
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September 25, 1945, declared the ex-regent Horthy a war criminal. President Masaryk took a serious view of Horthy's activities, characterizing them as aggression and invasion of Czechoslovakia, persecution, responsible for cruelties, ill tr…
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So according to the U.S. Embassy reports of the day, because many felt a trial would undermine the state's future. The chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, Robert Jackson, promised Horthy that if he cooperated with the U.S. political agenda,…
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Jackson then met with the Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavia war crimes officials, telling them that it would sit rather badly with the world if these countries tried the regent owing to Horthy's advanced age because he was over 70. In fact, Ja…
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offered the Yugoslavs a confidential deal under which Horthy would be formally charged with war crimes but not actually turned over to Yugoslavia for trial. The Yugoslavs rejected the overture, insisting that Horthy had to be transferred to…
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He sought to derail the Horthy prosecution when consideration of the case came up a few weeks later at the committee. They deadlocked over the case, split between Yugoslav and Czechoslovakia on one side and the U.S. and Brits on the other. …
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of the State Department saw things, the smaller allied states were relatively strong in the War Crimes Commission and included aggressive anti-Nazi deregulations from the Czech, Yugoslavia, French, and the immigrant community of the Polish …
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and should be permitted to keep Austria and several other territories that Hitler had already claimed. Dulles did not seem too attached to the Czechoslovakian question. The notes continued. He favored enlargement of Poland eastward into the…
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U.S. Assistant Secretary Adolf Berle, with a series of suggestions on how to respond to the massacres early that month in Czechoslovakia, where the SS had murdered 199 Czech men and boys in retaliation for the assassination of SS Chief Rein…
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Zabensky Jordan went on to work at Radio Free Europe. That's one of his graduate students. Another one from Czechoslovakia was from a rich Catholic family, became a professor at Notre Dame and then moved to Munich and taught there. A guy fr…
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Hungarians, Polish, Czechoslovakians, their ambassadors, deputies, other government officials were expelled, kicked out of those countries when most of them fled. When after World War II, those areas were basically, for all intents and purp…
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In November 1947, under the chairmanship of Monsir Bela Varga, V-A-R-G-A, the Hungarian National Committee was established, followed by a Romanian one. And then a Council of Free Czechoslovakia was organized in 49. Also, an Albanian one was…
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ACEN, Assembly of Captive European Nations. ACEN brought together all of these organizations, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. They also provided representatives to participate in …