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Francisco Franco headed
Spain documented
“stationed in Spain that were his, that was his handlers. And I found that really interesting, mainly because Spain at the time was under the control of Franco, who himself was an admitted fascist. So that's all very interesting to me, espec…”
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Francisco Franco headed
Spain host_asserted
“And Spain is a fascist government at the time. So Franco's in charge of Spain.…”
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House of Morgan funded
Francisco Franco book_quoted
“but also the foreign left, that is the Bolshevik movement, and the Third International, which is basically the fascist movement that gave birth to Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy, and Hitler in Germany. Even further, through friends in …”
▶ Operation Gladio - The History of the International Syndicate @ 17:35
Francisco Franco founded
Institutional Act No. 1 host_asserted
“take a bad turn came when Francisco Campos, a lawyer whom Gordon regarded as an unintelligent fascist, drew up the first institutional act. Under its provisions, the government would, by decree, create a political death, a deprivation of al…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 7:26
Francisco Franco member_of
Italian Socialist Party documented
“Friedrich Engels and Friedrich Engels. From the time on, he considered himself a man of the left. As one of the few lawyers in the Northeast who would represent the poor, the young man nicknamed Francesco Giulia built a following and went t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 26:13
CIA covered_up
Francisco Franco documented
“Equally suspect was an educator named Paolo Ferreri, who, under the guise of teaching farm workers to read, was instigating them to question the conditions of being slaves on their plantations. Were these men more like Fidel Castro? Lincoln…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 28:14
CIA framed
Francisco Franco documented
“Living in a land that did not recognize divorce apparently had agreed on what came to be known as an open marriage. Stories of her affairs had never circulated until the CIA began basically tailing him. Years later, a Brazilian journalist t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 29:41
Francisco Franco covered_up
Otto Skorzeny host_asserted
“He hid Otto Skorzeny there. Otto Skorzeny originally went to Paris because that's where NATO headquarters was going to be. And he was going to work for NATO. He got recognized because he has that big scar on his face. So he had to flee to S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 1:27:24
Francisco Franco member_of
Catholic Church host_asserted
“established the first Catholic community in a place called Hoian, H-O-I-A-N, in 1615. Another Catholic official, Alexandre Rhodes, converted more than 6,000 people in Tonkin to the Catholic religion. In the 17th century, Jesuit missionaries…”
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Francisco Franco headed
Spain documented
“corporations, large, very rich elite oligarchs that all operated under the fascist totalitarian government of Mussolini. The same thing in Spain under Franco. The same thing in Portugal. They are not at all interested in communism where the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 1:10:53
Francisco Franco recruited
Yves Guérin-Sérac host_asserted
“He essentially functioned as a mercenary. And after Charles de Gaulle closed down the OAS out of France, the Gladio leadership fled to other countries. And Serac was hired by the Spanish dictator Franco. Franco employed his skills to incorp…”
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Jesús de Galíndez fought_against
Francisco Franco documented
“Galendez was a 40-year-old bachelor, popular with his students, born to a prominent family in Spain and educated as a lawyer. During the Spanish Civil War, he had fought against Franco's fascists. After Franco triumphed, he fled for his lif…”
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Jesús de Galíndez spied_on
Francisco Franco documented
“maintained an ambitious relationship with U.S. security officials. His escape to the U.S. in 1946 was no doubt made smoother by the fact that he had been secretly working as an informant for the FBI during the war, passing along information…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 13:46
Francisco Franco member_of
Operation Pluto book_quoted
“In interviews and oral history, many participants pass over this January 1961 near mutiny. In his book account of the Bay of Pigs, CIA contract officer Grayston Lynch fails to even mention the mutiny. Francisco Molino of the 2nd Brigade is …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 31:37
Stepan Bandera spied_on
Francisco Franco host_asserted
“the Asian People's Anti-Communist League began republishing all of their articles. In exile, Stetsko maintained a life on the move, traveling to meet foreign dignitaries and anti-communist activists in dozens of nations. Generally accompani…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 3 @ 39:28
Francisco Franco funded
Otto Skorzeny host_asserted
“Spain's safe. Franco takes care of him. He sets him up in Madrid. He has a fake company that he's going to run his operations out of. And most people do not realize that NATO was initially set up in Paris. Well, why isn't it there today? We…”
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Francisco Franco funded
Madrid Circular book_quoted
“NATO was in Paris, France at the time. So all of them are collaborating in Paris, France. Otto Skorzeny, because of his scars, gets identified fairly quickly. And they have to move him to a safe haven, which just so happened to be Madrid, S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 21:57
Francisco Franco covered_up
Spanish Civil War host_asserted
“He was also a fascist. In the aftermath, in order to legitimize his fascist reign, he did what everybody else did during that time. He dressed up his fascist troops as communists. He had the quote-unquote communists, which are actually fasc…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2 @ 22:03
Carter Clues member_of
Francisco Franco host_asserted
“He was part of the fascist government of Franco and definitely not a good guy. He would have been one of those guys that interacted with Otto Skorzeny, who was there in Spain along with Franco. As the operations grew around the world, the p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 19:31
Otto Skorzeny interacted_with
Francisco Franco host_asserted
“He was part of the fascist government of Franco and definitely not a good guy. He would have been one of those guys that interacted with Otto Skorzeny, who was there in Spain along with Franco. As the operations grew around the world, the p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 19:31
Mentions (66)
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And he sets up shop in Spain. And Spain is a fascist government at the time. So Franco's in charge of Spain. And the U.S., in order to pay Otto Skorzeny to be their mentor assassin, if you will, because he basically went around and set up O…
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He then relocates to Franco, Spain, because Franco has said that he will protect Otto Skorzeny. And he is basically managed by military people going as go-betweens for the CIA, which is a newly created organization, to give information to O…
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the stuff that happened during that time. And I, as politely as I could, I explained to her that Franco was a fascist. You can say that he had some nationalistic tendencies, but if you go back into the prior timeframe of Spain, you can't ar…
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50 million Americans, maybe 100 million Americans still walking around thinking Jim Jones, Jonestown was about drinking Kool-Aid. It was not. Those people were murdered. All you have to do is look. The information's out there. We were just …
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Operation Gladio efforts in Portugal. And there's some going in positions that you have to understand about Portugal. At the time, at the end of World War II, there was a dictator there by the last name of Salazar. And just like in Spain, w…
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was almost immediately allowed to enter NATO with a dictator in charge, which to any outside observer would make you scratch your head. It certainly did me. And if we're allowing dictators in because we have no quote unquote democracy requi…
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There was a plausible liability. If Spain's not in NATO, then you can say, hey, that's not part of NATO, right? And so it wasn't until after Franco's gone that Spain eventually ends up in NATO. So you have to keep all of those things in min…
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The current vice president of El Salvador, Francisco Marino, had organized death squads. The CIA referred to Roberto de Osposin as, quote, egocentric, reckless, and perhaps mentally unstable, unquote. What? I mean, come on.…
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So as long as they could label you as anti-communist, it didn't matter how many of your own citizens you killed, you were good to go. The facilities the ambassador was referring to was dozens of U.S. military installations from nuclear miss…
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Gladio training bases there. And the way we paid Otto Skorzeny for him being the worldwide Gladio trainer was we worked a deal with Franco. Now keep in mind, this guy's a dictator. He killed people. We made a deal with him that we're going …
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So eventually in 1933, the Da Costa guy, dictator, is succeeded by another dictator by the name of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Salazar supported and was actually part of the Spanish Civil War, which brought...…
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a lot of attributes that were not in common with some of the other European powers. So after World War II and Hitler and Mussolini are gone, all there is left of the fascist European overlords on the West is Salazar and Franco. And what is …
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30,000 foot look because, again, most of the Gladio support apparatus that you wouldn't want to have for plausible deniability housed in your country got housed in Spain under Franco. And he wouldn't let anybody come in and look at anything…
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He essentially functioned as a mercenary. And after Charles de Gaulle closed down the OAS out of France, the Gladio leadership fled to other countries. And Serac was hired by the Spanish dictator Franco. Franco employed his skills to incorp…
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Number four, international fascism with clandestine paramilitary funding and training. And that pretty much sums it up. Siroc fled to fascist Spain and sought Franco's protection after the raid. His headquarters was reestablished in Spain, …
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and they continued to create havoc in places like Algeria. Bombs were planted in the Algerian embassies in France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. All of these countries had robust gladio programs. The bomb at the German embassy did not explode…
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Death occurred in 1975 that coincided with Franco's death. So either way, that's not a coincidence. Siroc fled Spain at that time, but a Spanish investigation indicated that he had left behind weapons and explosives, and he coincidentally t…
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because they control these Gladio units. So they set up Otto Skorzeny, who's now going to be the NATO terrorist training command, because that's what he did for the Nazis. He was their trainer. So they set him up in Paris. Well, he has this…
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the Asian People's Anti-Communist League began republishing all of their articles. In exile, Stetsko maintained a life on the move, traveling to meet foreign dignitaries and anti-communist activists in dozens of nations. Generally accompani…
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I have mentioned repeatedly that Spain was under the dictator Franco's regime, and therefore a lot of the documentation of any quote-unquote state-sponsored terror events under his dictatorship would not have survived his tenure. It's proba…
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And that's actually saying something because the Spanish went through 50 years of violence during the fascist dictatorship. For those of you who have not studied that history, there was a civil war that went on from 1936 to 1939 with all of…
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in any of the victims. The image of a tightly bound cell of dedicated extremists looked decidedly unpromising when the indictments were handed down, portraying a group of Islamic new-agers, heroin traffickers, police informers, and ex-Franc…
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The Social Democrats carried through rapid and major improvements for the working class in the 1970s. Palm gained a certain international recognition in a way few other Swedish leaders could boast. From his criticism of some of the more con…
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but also the foreign left, that is the Bolshevik movement, and the Third International, which is basically the fascist movement that gave birth to Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy, and Hitler in Germany. Even further, through friends in …
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If you can actually find one that fits an actual definition of communism, which is the same thing as Mussolini, who was a totalitarianism, we were told. And Franco, who we were told was a fascist. So they're all the same. They're just dicta…
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civilian attire, just like Operation Gladio. He was interviewed after his retirement and said he didn't see himself as some kind of British Franco, basically. And why would anybody say that from a democracy? Because Franco was a dictator. V…
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In the first decades of the 17th century, did Christianity begin to establish its position within the local population in both Tonkin area and Cochin, China? These, which are areas, these missionaries were mainly Italian, Portuguese, and Ja…
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underground and began carrying it out covertly. And that's why all of the Nazis were dispersed, not just scientists. The Nazis were dispersed all over the world. And they were dispersed in order to carry out what is contained in the Madrid …
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NATO was in Paris, France at the time. So all of them are collaborating in Paris, France. Otto Skorzeny, because of his scars, gets identified fairly quickly. And they have to move him to a safe haven, which just so happened to be Madrid, S…
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He was part of the fascist government of Franco and definitely not a good guy. He would have been one of those guys that interacted with Otto Skorzeny, who was there in Spain along with Franco. As the operations grew around the world, the p…
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corporations, large, very rich elite oligarchs that all operated under the fascist totalitarian government of Mussolini. The same thing in Spain under Franco. The same thing in Portugal. They are not at all interested in communism where the…
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Kennedy was scheduled to meet with representatives of the Peasant League, although the best known organizer of those leagues was out of town, mysteriously. Missed the meeting. Francisco de Paula, who had been born into a family of sugar pla…
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Friedrich Engels and Friedrich Engels. From the time on, he considered himself a man of the left. As one of the few lawyers in the Northeast who would represent the poor, the young man nicknamed Francesco Giulia built a following and went t…
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when she heard wealthy Brazilians speak of a town in the Northeast. So she knew about this town, but everybody at the dinner party kept saying it doesn't even exist. They didn't even recognize those people because they were basically slaves…
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Equally suspect was an educator named Paolo Ferreri, who, under the guise of teaching farm workers to read, was instigating them to question the conditions of being slaves on their plantations. Were these men more like Fidel Castro? Lincoln…
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More propaganda. The farmers would come out in droves to see their champion, but he would not appear because it was a lie. And somehow a fight would break out. Rumors were also circulated, also circulated, painting both Julio and Goliath as…
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and readily passed along stories about Gouliard and his wife, that he had blackened her eyes, that he was having an affair. Gordon knew how such stories wounded a man's honor, especially in Brazil. As for Gouliard, although, excuse me, as f…
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Living in a land that did not recognize divorce apparently had agreed on what came to be known as an open marriage. Stories of her affairs had never circulated until the CIA began basically tailing him. Years later, a Brazilian journalist t…
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that Julio was a communist. Other events overtook that particular strategy. For the CIA, there were many enemies in his area, just besides Ferrari and Julio. By early 1962, the agencies had two full-time men working out of the local consula…
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take a bad turn came when Francisco Campos, a lawyer whom Gordon regarded as an unintelligent fascist, drew up the first institutional act. Under its provisions, the government would, by decree, create a political death, a deprivation of al…
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that he took to a bank in Madrid, Spain. And why does that matter? Because remember, Madrid, Spain, after World War II, when Otto Skorzeny, who was going to be the whole Gladio trainer, showed up in Paris because he has that big scar on his…
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stationed in Spain that were his, that was his handlers. And I found that really interesting, mainly because Spain at the time was under the control of Franco, who himself was an admitted fascist. So that's all very interesting to me, espec…
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begun in the Navy and had been transferred to the OSS, and he stayed all the way through the different iterations until it finally got to be the CIA. He had served in Vienna and Madrid and had been a station chief in Athens. Now, what do we…
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between the CIA political action officers and the Cuban exile leaders. While exile politicians argued the Cuban resistance struggled on, at least Ray and a real group in the MRR had forged a working relationship. Failure to work more closel…
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In interviews and oral history, many participants pass over this January 1961 near mutiny. In his book account of the Bay of Pigs, CIA contract officer Grayston Lynch fails to even mention the mutiny. Francisco Molino of the 2nd Brigade is …
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bases that they were building in Spain at the time, which is really weird if you think about it, because Spain was being led by a totalitarian dictator named Franco. So why would we be building bases there unless we're doing it as part of t…
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the fascist would also be inspired by Franco in Spain, who was also a fascist, and the guy in Portugal, who was also a fascist. So again, it goes to that point that we've made all along, that this was international fascism, and it was a mov…
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Off the coast of Italy, they use the Canary Islands as their scuba water espionage training camp. But they were literally littered all over. There was a ton of them in Turkey. There was some of them in, like I said, in Spain, because at the…
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under the dictatorship of Franco. So a lot of the Nazis, when they immediately left the European, you know, German occupation of France and blah, blah, blah, they escaped into Spain. That was where the rat lines kind of housed them because …
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Galendez was a 40-year-old bachelor, popular with his students, born to a prominent family in Spain and educated as a lawyer. During the Spanish Civil War, he had fought against Franco's fascists. After Franco triumphed, he fled for his lif…
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maintained an ambitious relationship with U.S. security officials. His escape to the U.S. in 1946 was no doubt made smoother by the fact that he had been secretly working as an informant for the FBI during the war, passing along information…
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of the anti-Franco resistance in the U.S. In May of 1951, the special agent in charge of the Bureau's New York FBI office told Hoover that Galenza was an invaluable informant whose reports were extremely detailed, accurate, and thorough. Th…
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in the eisenhower dallas air he had heard denouncing he had been heard denouncing the administration for supporting the admission of franco spain into the un and for backing latin dictators like samosa in april of 55 galindez…
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which the agency allegedly had given him to set up an anti-Franco underground in Spain. Other CIA documents that circulated as high as Dulles' office tried to brand Galendaz as a witting tool of communists. The agency's smear campaign succe…
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He was famous for his role in raising Mussolini's body from the grave on Easter 1946 in preparation for the day when Mussolini would be reburied with full honors on Rome's Capitol Line Hill. The Abbey had less spectacular plans for Dolman. …
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In true Dolman fashion, he was also hiring himself out to the Nazi groups and reporting back to them about U.S. intelligence activities. As if this web of competing loyalties were not complicated enough, while Dolman was living in Madrid, b…
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Doesn't matter if he was working for the UK and the CIA because they were both working on Gladio. And it doesn't matter that he was working for the Germans or Franco and he's hanging out with Otto Skorzeny. He doesn't put any of those piece…
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origins of this fascism right because nazi fascism and then we had mussolini and we had franco and in the origins of it do you have any thoughts of that because it all you know kind of connects right so if you go back to the fabian society …
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of the new order, and Mario Sanchez Covista, the leader of a Spanish terrorist group called the Guerrillas of Christ the King, GCR, which was another element of Gladio in Spain. They had assassinated a number of Spanish activists on the eve…
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with Banco Popular. Banco Popular was in Spain and the creator of Opus Dei was a Spanish guy and he and Franco were buddies and they were kind of friends. So he was another traditional, you know, Catholic guy, a very strict Catholic branch,…
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status at the Vatican. There was a lot of history there that is not covered in this book. The Vatican was very loyal to Mussolini, who we know was just like Franco over in Spain. They were fascist. The SS Vatican Initiative was joined by th…
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They convinced themselves that Horthy had been quote-unquote forced to join the Axis. Horthy had always been a militarist in the mold of a Spain's Franco or Portuguese Salazar. In other words, he's a fascist. He preferred political and econ…
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This is more recent than Otto's Boys, you know, in Franco's Spain in 1946. You know, this is, we're talking about the 1960s into the 1980s. So this is getting closer to the population's usable past. And so that means that potentially more p…
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like Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suarez. We can go into detail on them. People, you want to look up some great thinkers, look up Thomas Aquinas, A-Q-U-I-N-A-S, and another one named Francisco Suarez. He also studied the Stoics and the clas…
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of the united states and of course the spanish civil war was about franco and his fascist government and he didn't like the fact that he made franco look bad because he's about totalitarianism and as we said i talked about last week the who…
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Because, of course, it was Franco, fascist, that he loves all of this and endorsed everything that was going on. And plus, there was a bunch of Nazi Germany people there at the time on their way to South America. But they all hang out there…