William Pawley person
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Claims (34)
William Pawley financed
Flying Tigers documented
“William Polly also was part and parcel of the Flying Tigers and installing Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan, originally Formosa. He owned the Curtis Aircraft franchise over there, supplied him with all of the aircraft that he needed to create. He …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 34:06
William Pawley funded
Operation Mongoose documented
“And we're going to hire all of our lawyers and bankers that are CIA agents to be the businessmen assigned to this investment entity that is going to do all of this as cover. Money from private sources could also help disguise the agency's h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 24:41
William Pawley front_for
CIA host_asserted
“a large portion of the profits. That's what happened with Edwin Wilson and several other of these people that created these companies. It happened with Paul Helliwell. It happened with William Pauly. There's lots of examples that we went th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 13:10
William Pawley funded
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“Because they always say that Claire Chenault was the founder of the Flying Tigers. But if you look up William Pauly, he was the financial founder of the Flying Tigers. He's the one that actually bought and produced through Curtis. He had a …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 13:16
William Pawley member_of
Dwight D. Eisenhower documented
“He's just getting attacked all the time. Six weeks later, Ike was given a detailed account of the Bay of Pigs by his business partner. Let me say this again, because this is incredible. Six weeks later, Dwight D. Eisenhower was given a deta…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 1:02:06
William Pawley secretly_owned
Cuba host_asserted
“multi-multi-millionaire in America that went in and bought up the bus transportation, invested in the railroad transportation, and owned a shipping line that took people down there for vacation. He bought up sugar plantations, and there wer…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 57:12
William Pawley funded
Cuba host_asserted
“And the drug operations and the Curtis aircraft franchise just so happened to be awarded to him. And then his purchasing of all of the stuff on Cuba while it was under the control of Batista. So those can all be fronts. I can make an argume…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 51:55
William Pawley founded
Air America host_asserted
“that Southeast Asia area to set Chiang Kai-shek up with his own air force. Claire Chennault basically just managed it and flew the airplanes around. It was William Polly that was at the heart of that whole initiative. So through that effort…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 13:42
William Pawley supplied_arms_to
China host_asserted
“a large portion of the profits. That's what happened with Edwin Wilson and several other of these people that created these companies. It happened with Paul Helliwell. It happened with William Pauly. There's lots of examples that we went th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 13:10
William Pawley founded
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“I read his book. I don't believe that at all. Only because of this. If you look into, which we did extensively, into the career of William Pauly and him creating the Flying Tigers, basically General Chenault was kind of the face of it. But …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 1:56:14
William Pawley supplied_arms_to
China documented
“Chinese because the U.S. was recognizing it as being kind of the government in exile because they didn't recognize Mao so they were using extensively Taiwanese pilots and where did those come from oh William Polly who had the Curtis aircraf…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 45:26
CIA recruited
William Pawley book_quoted
“of how easily the Bank of Baltimore CEO, Ed Hale, was recruited by Buzzy Crongard, at the time the CEO of Alex Brown and Son. It's as if the alpha males of American capitalism can't wait to get added to the CIA spy list. Bernstein's article…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4 @ 21:13
William Pawley founded
World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“As we find them, like I did an article on William Pauly, who was one of those people that was in the wagon that no one ever knew. And he was critical to the entire operation. And we will cover him in Asia because he primarily operated in As…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 1:40:27
William Pawley supplied_arms_to
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“As we find them, like I did an article on William Pauly, who was one of those people that was in the wagon that no one ever knew. And he was critical to the entire operation. And we will cover him in Asia because he primarily operated in As…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 1:40:27
William Pawley secretly_owned
Cuba host_asserted
“They were trafficking the drugs out of that area in Asia through the Corsican Mafia, some, not a lot, going through Sicily and into Cuba and then into the United States. Cuba was a linchpin. We tracked all of this to include William Polly's…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 4:33
William Pawley member_of
Citizens Committee for International Development host_asserted
“Murray Lincoln, chairman of Nationwide Insurance Company. Sol Linowitz, chairman of Xerox. George Meany, president of AFL-CIO. I know that's one of all along's favorite people. William Paley, who was CBS's chairman of the board. Warren Pear…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 5 @ 12:12
William Pawley member_of
CFR book_quoted
“Saturday Review of Literature. Let me see. Philip Graham of the Washington Post and Times Herald. We come across him all the time. Walter Lippman, Ascended Columnist. Henry Luce, Publisher of Time Live, Fortune Sports Illustrated. Malcolm M…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 II @ 13:14
William Pawley funded
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“being one of the directors of the CIA doing their stuff, right? Or you can make the argument that he was one of the off-book CIA agents pretending to be a millionaire, and he just so happened to be tasked to be in all of those places, like …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 51:34
William Pawley funded
Curtiss-Wright Corporation host_asserted
“And the drug operations and the Curtis aircraft franchise just so happened to be awarded to him. And then his purchasing of all of the stuff on Cuba while it was under the control of Batista. So those can all be fronts. I can make an argume…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 51:55
William Pawley ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“Pauly began lobbying the Eisenhower administration to take aggressive action against Castro when he was still fighting Batista soldiers in the mountains. After Fidel rode into Havana on a tank in January of 1959, Pauly, who was gripped by w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 5:30
William Pawley founded
Cuban Airline documented
“began focusing on anti-Castro schemes in late 1958. That November, William Polly, who owned the Havana Bus Company and many sugar plantations and a whole bunch of other shit down there, had founded the Cuban Airline in addition to owning th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 33:05
William Pawley supplied_arms_to
Chiang Kai-shek documented
“William Polly also was part and parcel of the Flying Tigers and installing Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan, originally Formosa. He owned the Curtis Aircraft franchise over there, supplied him with all of the aircraft that he needed to create. He …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 34:06
William Pawley secretly_owned
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“This guy is everywhere doing everything. He owned all of the he owned the airline into Cuba. He owned all of the busing transportation in Cuba. He owned massive sugar plantations in Cuba. He's the ambassador at a bunch of places we overthre…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 1:56:44
William Pawley funded
Guatemala '54 coup book_quoted
“He literally went to a bank and pulled out $150,000 after meeting with President Eisenhower to buy three planes for the Guatemalan coup.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 59:44
William Pawley member_of
Suite 8F Group host_asserted
“Oh my God. I missed him when I looked at this before. William Pauly. William Pauly.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 51:05
CIA recruited
William Pawley host_asserted
“the CIA used him and his yacht to bring a whole bunch of quote-unquote Cuban exiles, Operation Gladio people, to the island of Cuba for an invasion.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 52:29
William Pawley supplied_arms_to
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“William Polly again from Cuba is he has the Curtis aircraft franchise in Asia. He is equipping Chiang Kai-shek with an air force.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:00:39
William Pawley secretly_owned
Cuba host_asserted
“He owned sugar plantations in Cuba, William Polly, that is. He owned the bus transportation for the entire island. He owned the airline flying in and out, the only airline flying in and out of Cuba. And this was during the heyday of Cuba wh…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 1:04:17
William Pawley funded
Elaine Chao host_asserted
“If you look into her history, she's actually from, not that Taiwan isn't, you know, we've already figured out that it's basically all Chinese people, but her family was a shipping magnet on Taiwan. And if you look at who set her dad up in b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 1:35:35
William Pawley member_of
CIA host_asserted
“through Nelson Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, all of these people, we would go country by country around the world. And we actually created the elite class in these countries. So William Polly was basically CIA before CIA, OSS, all of th…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 40:25
William Pawley supplied_arms_to
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“He becomes an ambassador to a couple of handful of countries down in South America, all of which get couped from the CIA. He also shows up during World War II in Asia. He owns the Curtis aircraft franchise for all of Asia. So he's over ther…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 41:23
William Pawley supplied_arms_to
Chiang Kai-shek guest_asserted
“So he's the guy that literally gave Chiang Kai-shek all of his aircraft. They set up sea supply together to give him a Navy.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 58:15
William Pawley supplied_arms_to
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“And he is also the guy that created the Air Force and Navy for Chiang Kai-shek over when we installed him in Taiwan to run the entire drug business.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 51:35
William Pawley founded
Sea Supply Corporation guest_asserted
“So he's the guy that literally gave Chiang Kai-shek all of his aircraft. They set up sea supply together to give him a Navy.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 58:15
Mentions (77)
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Earl Smith of U.S. Sugar Corporation. Fred Karth, the guy we're talking about, who was running Continental National Bank and became Navy Secretary. Ross Sterling, Humble Oil, which had both people in it. Sid Richardson, Texas oil millionair…
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Bird Oil. Lawrence Bell, Bell Helicopters. Oh my God. I missed him when I looked at this before. William Pauly. William Pauly. Are you fucking kidding me? Oh my gosh. Okay, so William Pauly is the guy that owned the sugar plantations and al…
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And he is also the guy that created the Air Force and Navy for Chiang Kai-shek over when we installed him in Taiwan to run the entire drug business. How did I miss Williams? And he's involved with the Liberty. How did I miss? No, he wasn't …
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But isn't the Liberties Address on Pauley Island? Yeah, but that had really nothing to do with that. That had to do with the guy that was one of the survivors just happened to live there. That's the guy I talked to. I was going to visit Pau…
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William Polly is the guy, he's the multi, like hundreds of millions of dollars, who has this massive yacht, lives in Miami, and the CIA used him and his yacht to bring a whole bunch of quote-unquote Cuban exiles, Operation Gladio people, to…
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Correct. Political insiders. Yeah. And we've talked about William Polly. William Polly owned the airline going to Cuba. He owned all of the transportation network inside of Cuba. And he owned multiple Cuban sugar plantations inside of Cuba.…
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Well, in Cuba, that's exactly what happened. We ran across a guy by the name of William Polly who owned not only the bus transportation, he owned the airline there. He owned a bunch of the plantations. And so then they installed these what …
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of the Sullivan and Cromwell, the, shoot, United Fruit was in Cuba. So all of those people, the people that worked for William Polly, they were brought into Miami in order to try to get the island back and basically overthrow Cuba. So they …
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They've got Chiang Kai-shek that they just installed in Taiwan. William Polly again from Cuba is he has the Curtis aircraft franchise in Asia. He is equipping Chiang Kai-shek with an air force. He is building the fighters. He's building the…
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That was what Cuba was. The mafia went down there and installed buku amounts of casinos, music venues. Frank Sinatra was flown in all the time to sing down there for his mafia dons. And there's this elaborate amount of investment that went …
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multi-multi-millionaire in America that went in and bought up the bus transportation, invested in the railroad transportation, and owned a shipping line that took people down there for vacation. He bought up sugar plantations, and there wer…
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But they're syndicate members and they're going to ensure that the operations of these secret clandestine units further their financial gain. So you have these like William Polly owned a sugar plantation in Cuba and he actually took his per…
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without kind of going across his entire history. And it's sometimes better if you take all of those pieces out and do one show on a player so that you can see, especially with Autoscores Any, the broad spectrum of all of the events. E. Howa…
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They specifically move particular ambassadors to locations that they are going to destabilize with CIA and USAID operations. You find the same ambassadors showing up all the time. One of the most intriguing guys that I ran across that I had…
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Pauley Island in South Carolina is actually named after his family, the very wealthy family. And he ends up becoming an ambassador. He was the assistant secretary of state at one point. Him and Paul Helliwell were very good friends. And he …
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And he owned the bus system and several large sugar plantations in Cuba. He used his personal yacht to take a group of Cuban exiles to Cuba for a land invasion. He's an ambassador out of the State Department. He also worked on the Guatemala…
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who is CIA. He also was an executive at Pan Am, and Pan Am was oftentimes used for cargo shipments for the CIA. So when you start researching these people, they go in and out of the oligarch class into the State Department and back in order…
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are what we're after and not the interest of the United States as a country. Right. Oh, clearly. Yeah, he's fascinated. He's mentioned in a book called The Legacy of Ashes. He literally went to a bank and pulled out $150,000 after meeting w…
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Claire Chenault, who most of you guys all recognize from the Flying Tigers fame. But here's where the history overlaps with all of our other research and why it's so important to understand how all of this fits. Since I read Paul Williams' …
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Because they always say that Claire Chenault was the founder of the Flying Tigers. But if you look up William Pauly, he was the financial founder of the Flying Tigers. He's the one that actually bought and produced through Curtis. He had a …
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for Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek, distributing drugs through Thailand. And don't forget that the CIA eventually paid a total of $35 million to Thailand's chief of police to basically buy access to their airports and their ports. Because William …
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As we find them, like I did an article on William Pauly, who was one of those people that was in the wagon that no one ever knew. And he was critical to the entire operation. And we will cover him in Asia because he primarily operated in As…
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So they could not have been bonesmen. But they had the same clientele with Brown Brothers Harriman and Sullivan Cromwell. Absolutely crossed over dozens and dozens of times. So Prescott Bush was in tight with the Dulles brothers from day on…
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through Nelson Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, all of these people, we would go country by country around the world. And we actually created the elite class in these countries. So William Polly was basically CIA before CIA, OSS, all of th…
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He owned the airline, the only airline. He owned all of the busing. He owned sugar plantations. And the people that worked for him were the elite. So he takes corrupt people, puts them in charge of all of these things, and then they manipul…
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He becomes an ambassador to a couple of handful of countries down in South America, all of which get couped from the CIA. He also shows up during World War II in Asia. He owns the Curtis aircraft franchise for all of Asia. So he's over ther…
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He basically pays for their entire shipping, which probably came through one of these other companies. So William Polly is a corporate millionaire on the surface, but he is an intelligence operative as well this entire time. And he is one o…
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that performed this role, looking like a corporate executive, while at the same time, 1000% an Intel operative. And Pauly Island is named after him in South Carolina, just FYI. Did not know that one. Yeah. Great. Well, Prescott will show up…
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They used George Soros-like people all over. If you go to Brazil, when they were couping Brazil, they used the media mogul down there as a conduit to flush all of the media out there in the 1960s, I believe, if my timing is right, when they…
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If it was owned by a local, the local was basically a figurehead because the powers to be like William Pauly and Rockefellers and various other oligarchs had moved in and struck concession deals. Plus, depending on who you talk to, it was a…
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They used this technology to go on, like, for example, when we talked about William Polly taking his private yacht and launching some of them into Cuba. William Polly was CIA. And so they took them. They didn't ever give up on trying to ass…
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Harding Jackson. He's kind of one of those guys like William Pauly that is in the background of a whole bunch of things, not necessarily in the full front of full exposure, but has had some unbelievable contributions to the international sy…
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that's a story that's worth going into as well. I'm not, I'm not sure. It's not really in the context of radio perhaps, but it's certainly in the context of British intelligence and what they were getting up to. And this was in Uzbekistan i…
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They were trafficking the drugs out of that area in Asia through the Corsican Mafia, some, not a lot, going through Sicily and into Cuba and then into the United States. Cuba was a linchpin. We tracked all of this to include William Polly's…
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a large portion of the profits. That's what happened with Edwin Wilson and several other of these people that created these companies. It happened with Paul Helliwell. It happened with William Pauly. There's lots of examples that we went th…
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an air force for Taiwan to attack China, not the other way around. The entire Caspian Basin is such an area with additional major insecure U.S. oil investments in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Especially since 9-11, we have watched Central A…
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headed a private military mission for which his ally, who would that be? William Pauley, tried but failed in 1949 to secure from the Secretary of State Atchison the authority he had secured earlier for Chenault's Flying Tigers during World …
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And it's very interesting that this guy, because remember, Paul Hellywell is a lawyer, too. And he was doing all the stuff down in Miami, the fake Castle Bank, setting up the World Commerce Corporation. He's the one that helped William Poll…
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Now, it's interesting that they use that comparison because Flying Tigers is the basic airline that was set up by Claire Chenault, a retired two-star general for Chiang Kai-shek that William Pauly created because it's all being used for the…
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If you look into her history, she's actually from, not that Taiwan isn't, you know, we've already figured out that it's basically all Chinese people, but her family was a shipping magnet on Taiwan. And if you look at who set her dad up in b…
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He's just getting attacked all the time. Six weeks later, Ike was given a detailed account of the Bay of Pigs by his business partner. Let me say this again, because this is incredible. Six weeks later, Dwight D. Eisenhower was given a deta…
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Hawley, who had received the information from one of the Brigade 2506's escapees. Hawley also recounted that he had learned of meetings at the White House during the invasion, because they talk all the time. In an allusion to JFK's 1956 boo…
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But Polly, again, makes another appearance. It's the same people, same trick, man, doing round and round and round. These are evil dudes. Yeah. I mean, he's obviously part of the CIA. And, you know, again, he's given all of those businesses…
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He owned sugar plantations in Cuba, William Polly, that is. He owned the bus transportation for the entire island. He owned the airline flying in and out, the only airline flying in and out of Cuba. And this was during the heyday of Cuba wh…
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They went up there in civilian clothes, pretended to be CIA while they were still on active duty. And then you have some that were on active duty during World War II, got off active duty and basically became contractors for the CIA flying c…
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Chinese because the U.S. was recognizing it as being kind of the government in exile because they didn't recognize Mao so they were using extensively Taiwanese pilots and where did those come from oh William Polly who had the Curtis aircraf…
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that Mao was underestimated because everybody, I mean, MacArthur, all of those people were backing William Pauly. All of the ambassadors over there were all backing Chiang Kai-shek. So they were doing it covertly because they couldn't do it…
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I read his book. I don't believe that at all. Only because of this. If you look into, which we did extensively, into the career of William Pauly and him creating the Flying Tigers, basically General Chenault was kind of the face of it. But …
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This guy is everywhere doing everything. He owned all of the he owned the airline into Cuba. He owned all of the busing transportation in Cuba. He owned massive sugar plantations in Cuba. He's the ambassador at a bunch of places we overthre…
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And his Air Force B-29s was an example. Some flights were made by civil air transport, others by nationalists, who by this time had their own Air Force, thanks to William Polly. The book doesn't talk about that, though, but we know it. Acco…
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That's what you get for your investment in intelligence. Despite the fact that we already have documented evidence that the CIA was embedded in the mountains with the Castro and Che Guevara. Eisenhower's mind influenced by Florida businessm…
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began focusing on anti-Castro schemes in late 1958. That November, William Polly, who owned the Havana Bus Company and many sugar plantations and a whole bunch of other shit down there, had founded the Cuban Airline in addition to owning th…
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As an activist, he hosted several persons, including CIA Western Hemisphere Division Chief J.C. King at his Miami home. And his Miami home was a mansion with a big-ass yacht on the dock behind his house. No stranger to the agency, Polly had…
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William Polly also was part and parcel of the Flying Tigers and installing Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan, originally Formosa. He owned the Curtis Aircraft franchise over there, supplied him with all of the aircraft that he needed to create. He …
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which morphs into civil air transport, blah, blah, blah. William Polly's all over this story. He was now advocating Batista's resignation in favor of a Cuban leadership that was not as radical as Castro. So in other words, hey, Batista, rea…
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In other words, we're going to create a front and blame them for everything. And in a reference to persons like William Polly, our Forrest Gump counterpart to Lyman Lemesger, the agency's Cuba paper further explained that it would make use …
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the same Cuban affairs that just all got nationalized, such people could act as a funding mechanism. And CIA personnel could be documented as their representatives. So here's what they're saying they're going to do. Now, Fidel Castro was ve…
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And we're going to hire all of our lawyers and bankers that are CIA agents to be the businessmen assigned to this investment entity that is going to do all of this as cover. Money from private sources could also help disguise the agency's h…
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and 72,000 acre sugarcane fields. United Fruit owned 272,000 acres of Cuban sugarcane fields. They also managed two mills. And that's not including all of the other oligarchs in the United States that had sugar plantations because William P…
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Press reports of Americans in the field with the Laotians were eroding the plausible deniability of the secret war in Laos. With the intensification of the war came a growth in the CIA proprietary that fed it, Flying Tigers. Of course, that…
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It was Allen, the master of persuasion and seduction, who also expertly handled relations with the press. He counted among his friends, not only the press barons, such as Luce and the New York Times publisher, author Hayes Sulzberger, and T…
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like none other than William Polly, the entrepreneur whose major investments in Cuba was in sugar plantations and municipal transportation systems that were wiped out. One of the vigorously anti-communist international businessmen who provi…
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Pauly began lobbying the Eisenhower administration to take aggressive action against Castro when he was still fighting Batista soldiers in the mountains. After Fidel rode into Havana on a tank in January of 1959, Pauly, who was gripped by w…
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even volunteered to pay for his assassination. As the Eisenhower administration took an increasingly belligerent posture towards the Castro regime, Polly found himself at the center of action, boasting that he and Alan Dulles chatted every …
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and the CIA would culminate the following year on the beaches of the Bay of Pigs. Now, again, other than nationalizing industry in Cuba, outside of the control of American oligarchs, Polly was a multi-multi-millionaire. Castro had done noth…
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Murray Lincoln, chairman of Nationwide Insurance Company. Sol Linowitz, chairman of Xerox. George Meany, president of AFL-CIO. I know that's one of all along's favorite people. William Paley, who was CBS's chairman of the board. Warren Pear…
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Saturday Review of Literature. Let me see. Philip Graham of the Washington Post and Times Herald. We come across him all the time. Walter Lippman, Ascended Columnist. Henry Luce, Publisher of Time Live, Fortune Sports Illustrated. Malcolm M…
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William Pauly like an OG private or one of the original contracts with the military and this kind of stuff? I was just thinking of him recently and this came to mind as a question for you. Technically, no. He was actually more along the lin…
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The infiltration of him into business fronts and into the State Department as an ambassador, his purchase. So you could either term him one of the actual oligarchs in the international syndicate. If you want to say that he was completely in…
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being one of the directors of the CIA doing their stuff, right? Or you can make the argument that he was one of the off-book CIA agents pretending to be a millionaire, and he just so happened to be tasked to be in all of those places, like …
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And the drug operations and the Curtis aircraft franchise just so happened to be awarded to him. And then his purchasing of all of the stuff on Cuba while it was under the control of Batista. So those can all be fronts. I can make an argume…
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is in bed with the cia making all this shit happen so that they can use it um but he definitely would not be in the private military business okay thank you yeah because i was thinking about the whole um flying tigers thing yeah he's got hi…
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Fingers are in many pies. So you can make the argument that they were backdooring money to him for him to do all of those things as an off-book CIA agent. Because he definitely made money off of all of it. And you could also make the argume…
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Because obviously there was a lot of U.S. interests in Cuba as well. United Fruit, again, was in Cuba. William Pauly, we know, owned sugar plantations along with United Fruit. And that he owned an airline, the airline there. And the bus tra…
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of how easily the Bank of Baltimore CEO, Ed Hale, was recruited by Buzzy Crongard, at the time the CEO of Alex Brown and Son. It's as if the alpha males of American capitalism can't wait to get added to the CIA spy list. Bernstein's article…
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Like you, you've been connecting the dots and pulling it through so that we can put it in a timeline and see the different sectors and where he was. That's the same with William Pauly. I would tell you not a single person that listens to me…
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He owns all of this shit. He owned all of that crap in Cuba. He owned the Curtis aircraft franchise for Chiang Kai-shek. He was responsible for the Flying Tigers, the finance part of it, which turns into Air America. Yeah, there's lots of t…