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Pilgrims Society member_of
Donald Rumsfeld host_asserted
“Felix Walt Warburg. You guys read my Warburg. They're all in it too. It's huge. Donald Rumsfeld. I just looked over here. I didn't write all of the names down, but a shit ton of the ambassadors that are key people in the Gladio are also Pil…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 1:18:13
Donald Rumsfeld founded
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“might actually offer an intelligence assessment that was not approved by the CIA. Rumsfeld wasn't done, though. The CIA had nearly a monopoly on covert operations and special operation forces, most notably the Green Berets, were frequently …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 9:57
Robert Gates removed_from_power
Donald Rumsfeld book_quoted
“Outside of the CIA. Yeah, we can do it. You just can't. Rumsfeld was ousted from the SecDef position in 2006 and replaced by Robert Gates in 2007. When Gates, a former director of the CIA and SAIC board member, took over the SecDef's job, h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 15:28
Donald Rumsfeld appointed
William Boykin host_asserted
“Elsewhere, the Phoenix program had been described as the grandfather of the JSOC approach to war, and Boykin just so happened to be the man Rumsfeld placed in charge of hunting down high-value targets. As such, this Phoenix program is much …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 38:41
Robert Gates removed_from_power
Donald Rumsfeld book_quoted
“Outside of the CIA. Yeah, we can do it. You just can't. Rumsfeld was ousted from the SecDef position in 2006 and replaced by Robert Gates in 2007. When Gates, a former director of the CIA and SAIC board member, took over the SecDef's job, h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 15:28
Donald Rumsfeld appointed
William Boykin host_asserted
“Elsewhere, the Phoenix program had been described as the grandfather of the JSOC approach to war, and Boykin just so happened to be the man Rumsfeld placed in charge of hunting down high-value targets. As such, this Phoenix program is much …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 38:41
Donald Rumsfeld ordered_assassination_of
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“Quote, the coalition will actively oppose Saddam Hussein's old enforcers. We will make clear that the coalition will eliminate the remnants of the Saddam's regime. Unquote. That same morning, according to Bremer, the undersecretary of defen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 21:32
Donald Rumsfeld member_of
American Academy of Diplomacy documented
“Robert O'Brien. You're going to love this next one. Your buddy, Thomas Pickering. Wow. Finishing up, we've got Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Susan Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and also in memory, Frank Wisner. And we've got John Negroponte, who…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady 250418 @ 26:30
Allen Dulles influenced
Donald Rumsfeld host_asserted
“future watchmen, including Helms and Angleton, as well as others like William Casey, President Reagan's defiant law-breaking CIA director, and Donald Rumsfeld, President George Bush's smugly, confident conqueror of desert sands. And though …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 51:17
George H.W. Bush appointed
Donald Rumsfeld host_asserted
“Oh, yeah. Remember we said earlier about how Ben Gino and Cash can't find evidence of Epstein's suicide because nobody ever investigated as a suicide. Thank you, Bill Barr. Same thing, of course. Of course, it determined the cause of the cr…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Bady 2025-05-22 @ 1:02:46
Donald Rumsfeld spied_on
Committee of 40 documented
“But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57
Donald Rumsfeld headed
Gilead Sciences host_asserted
“instruments of power. And that's where Donald Rumsfeld was hanging out prior to him being the SecDef. And Mike rightfully points out that it is a little odd to have a guy, although Rumsfeld has lots of government experience before that, tha…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Loose ends and Open Mic @ 10:16
Donald Rumsfeld appointed
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“Illinois Congressman Donald Rumsfeld, who decades later would achieve notoriety for his national security reign, Rumsfeld arranged for Dulles to speak about the CIA in Cuba at the 88th Congressional Club in March of 63. Cuba remained the so…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 12:31
Donald Rumsfeld headed
Pentagon documented
“Hosby Kelly was still operating as an inter-doc link man, though, and one more attempt was made via Kenneth Adelman, A-D-E-L-M-A-N, at the time with the Pentagon's Army Review Board Agency and its advisor to the Secretary of Defense, who ha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 48:12
Donald Rumsfeld appointed
George H.W. Bush host_asserted
“deputy thanks to the manipulation of Shackley and Bush. And as it turns out, Carlucci is very close friends with Donald Rumsfeld. And it was Donald Rumsfeld who worked with President Ford to get Bush appointed to the directorship of the CIA…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 3:29
Donald Rumsfeld founded
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“might actually offer an intelligence assessment that was not approved by the CIA. Rumsfeld wasn't done, though. The CIA had nearly a monopoly on covert operations and special operation forces, most notably the Green Berets, were frequently …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 9:57
Donald Rumsfeld appointed
George H.W. Bush host_asserted
“One other CIA agent was quoted as saying they needed a new faith. And I think, frankly, another piece of personal opinion. But I think one of the reasons they settled on George Bush was it sort of got Bush out of the way in the terms of Rep…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 32:00
Donald Rumsfeld appointed
Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted
“Sarkis successfully took a large share of credit for the visit. Rumsfeld was so taken by Saddam's anti-communist stand that he recommended that the Reagan administration make a deeper investment into Iraq. Iraq was thrilled. In January 1984…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 19:10
Carlyle Group member_of
Donald Rumsfeld caller_asserted
“conference on the morning of 9-11 at the top floor, and only one guy didn't make it because he got stuck in traffic. But, I mean, you know, the key individuals there, obviously Bush, but you had the Bin Laden family, you had the, I mean, yo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 1:22:53
Donald Rumsfeld exposed
Pentagon caller_asserted
“And that was a hard day. And fortunately, Delta wasn't. In other words, nothing happened with a Delta plane because we found the stuff that maybe could have been used. But it's it just never felt right that I don't know. I just felt like it…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 1:27:59
Mentions (53)
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And that was a hard day. And fortunately, Delta wasn't. In other words, nothing happened with a Delta plane because we found the stuff that maybe could have been used. But it's it just never felt right that I don't know. I just felt like it…
▶ 1:49:42
You know, I'm sorry. Yeah, I agree. Stellar, Jillian, and then I got to go. Thank you. No, I was going to say the 9-11, you know, you brought up the McVeigh thing. It seems like all this stuff was set up for 9-11. You know, we had the Donal…
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Apparently, this is something that we were all supposed to find. It goes on and on and on. And it talks about them basically integrating the militaries. Former Secretary of State George Shultz was at a joint meeting in Mexico and Canada wit…
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instruments of power. And that's where Donald Rumsfeld was hanging out prior to him being the SecDef. And Mike rightfully points out that it is a little odd to have a guy, although Rumsfeld has lots of government experience before that, tha…
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Oh, yeah. Remember we said earlier about how Ben Gino and Cash can't find evidence of Epstein's suicide because nobody ever investigated as a suicide. Thank you, Bill Barr. Same thing, of course. Of course, it determined the cause of the cr…
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When Bush ran against Kerry in 2004, he was kind of caught in the middle, but he endorsed Bush over Kerry. After Rumsfeld left, Bush offered him to be Secretary of Defense again, but he refused the offer because he wanted to be with his ter…
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Robert O'Brien. You're going to love this next one. Your buddy, Thomas Pickering. Wow. Finishing up, we've got Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Susan Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and also in memory, Frank Wisner. And we've got John Negroponte, who…
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deputy thanks to the manipulation of Shackley and Bush. And as it turns out, Carlucci is very close friends with Donald Rumsfeld. And it was Donald Rumsfeld who worked with President Ford to get Bush appointed to the directorship of the CIA…
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One other CIA agent was quoted as saying they needed a new faith. And I think, frankly, another piece of personal opinion. But I think one of the reasons they settled on George Bush was it sort of got Bush out of the way in the terms of Rep…
▶ 1:23:10
But I just wanted to expand on that a little bit. Chelsea Manning got triggered by the death squads that Dick Cheney and Rummy and their little friend James Steele were running. He figured it out. He was an analyst. And he just lost it. He …
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So my only question was anybody shot during the quail hunting? Apparently not that time. A little more about Dick Cheney because he's a lot of fun. And I did this research when he was endorsing, what was her name? Kamala Harris. So Dick Che…
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winds up because remember he's brigade 2506 and a member of the cuban exile community in miami and he ends up as the number three guy running iran contra under vice president bush donald greg his national security advisor and felix rodrigue…
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Hence, Kellogg was close to the special operations community, too. And it's likely that intelligence veterans such as Clapper and Brennan trace his back reform initiated by Donald Rumsfeld during Bush II's years. On the one hand, Rumsfeld p…
▶ 8:58
This proved to be an enormously powerful position because it was granted authority over all of the intelligence like the NSA, DIA, geospatial, NRO, National Reconnaissance Office, blah, blah, blah. This move angered many people within the C…
▶ 9:57
might actually offer an intelligence assessment that was not approved by the CIA. Rumsfeld wasn't done, though. The CIA had nearly a monopoly on covert operations and special operation forces, most notably the Green Berets, were frequently …
▶ 10:25
independent covert operations through JSOC. It wasn't just that the CIA that Rumsfeld wanted to bypass. He wanted to bypass much of the hierarchy within the Pentagon itself. He envisioned JSOC being a kind of global unit that sought to elim…
▶ 10:53
Remember how we were talking about the 4512-2 directive that says you could assassinate anybody as long as they were a communist and then they added terrorists to that. He wanted to use that authority, have their own little military special…
▶ 12:31
information from their own intelligence support activity known as the activity. That was like a nickname for it. What was needed was additional human intelligence and Rumsfeld described that as the Pentagon basically having a near total dep…
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He was tasked with the day-to-day running of the operation and was in charge of controversial projects initiated by Rumsfeld, including the use of enhanced interrogation methods. It was Boykin who played a key role in establishing the SSB, …
▶ 15:28
Outside of the CIA. Yeah, we can do it. You just can't. Rumsfeld was ousted from the SecDef position in 2006 and replaced by Robert Gates in 2007. When Gates, a former director of the CIA and SAIC board member, took over the SecDef's job, h…
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Eventually, the SSB was dissolved and rolled into DIA's defense clandestine service, while Clapper was serving as the director of national intelligence. It is likely that some aspect of the divide within the American national security appar…
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was linked to a turf war between JSOC and the CIA, which traces back to Rumsfeld reform of the national security apparatus. Petraeus was replaced by none other than John Brennan. Now, what you also have to understand, just because they set …
▶ 38:41
Elsewhere, the Phoenix program had been described as the grandfather of the JSOC approach to war, and Boykin just so happened to be the man Rumsfeld placed in charge of hunting down high-value targets. As such, this Phoenix program is much …
▶ 1:22:53
conference on the morning of 9-11 at the top floor, and only one guy didn't make it because he got stuck in traffic. But, I mean, you know, the key individuals there, obviously Bush, but you had the Bin Laden family, you had the, I mean, yo…
▶ 18:48
The heat got turned up. But just as Hassan was going to move against Sarkis, the American embassy sent word that President Reagan was dispatching a personal friend as an envoy to see Saddam Hussein. Two days before Christmas in 1983, Donald…
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Sarkis successfully took a large share of credit for the visit. Rumsfeld was so taken by Saddam's anti-communist stand that he recommended that the Reagan administration make a deeper investment into Iraq. Iraq was thrilled. In January 1984…
▶ 1:10:29
It's great. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I was just listening and it's funny when you were talking about Rumsfeld going out over there and meeting with Saddam and commenting that he's anti-communist and then all that story about the uni…
▶ 1:18:13
Felix Walt Warburg. You guys read my Warburg. They're all in it too. It's huge. Donald Rumsfeld. I just looked over here. I didn't write all of the names down, but a shit ton of the ambassadors that are key people in the Gladio are also Pil…
▶ 50:43
including Reagan, Bush, Casey, Schultz, Weinberger, James A. Baker, and Donald Reagan. For the NSC staff, North attended, along with the Central American Senior Director, Raymond Burghardt. Admiral Poindexter presented the situation as good…
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And of course, that's problematic because people are going to gather the intelligence they want you to act on, whether it's true or not. The degree of outsourcing in the Pentagon is not necessarily as extreme because, of course, it has DIA …
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Hence, Kellogg was close to the special operations community, too. And it's likely that intelligence veterans such as Clapper and Brennan trace his back reform initiated by Donald Rumsfeld during Bush II's years. On the one hand, Rumsfeld p…
▶ 8:58
This proved to be an enormously powerful position because it was granted authority over all of the intelligence like the NSA, DIA, geospatial, NRO, National Reconnaissance Office, blah, blah, blah. This move angered many people within the C…
▶ 9:57
might actually offer an intelligence assessment that was not approved by the CIA. Rumsfeld wasn't done, though. The CIA had nearly a monopoly on covert operations and special operation forces, most notably the Green Berets, were frequently …
▶ 10:25
independent covert operations through JSOC. It wasn't just that the CIA that Rumsfeld wanted to bypass. He wanted to bypass much of the hierarchy within the Pentagon itself. He envisioned JSOC being a kind of global unit that sought to elim…
▶ 10:53
Remember how we were talking about the 4512-2 directive that says you could assassinate anybody as long as they were a communist and then they added terrorists to that. He wanted to use that authority, have their own little military special…
▶ 12:31
information from their own intelligence support activity known as the activity. That was like a nickname for it. What was needed was additional human intelligence and Rumsfeld described that as the Pentagon basically having a near total dep…
▶ 14:25
He was tasked with the day-to-day running of the operation and was in charge of controversial projects initiated by Rumsfeld, including the use of enhanced interrogation methods. It was Boykin who played a key role in establishing the SSB, …
▶ 15:28
Outside of the CIA. Yeah, we can do it. You just can't. Rumsfeld was ousted from the SecDef position in 2006 and replaced by Robert Gates in 2007. When Gates, a former director of the CIA and SAIC board member, took over the SecDef's job, h…
▶ 34:05
was linked to a turf war between JSOC and the CIA, which traces back to Rumsfeld reform of the national security apparatus. Petraeus was replaced by none other than John Brennan. Now, what you also have to understand, just because they set …
▶ 38:41
Elsewhere, the Phoenix program had been described as the grandfather of the JSOC approach to war, and Boykin just so happened to be the man Rumsfeld placed in charge of hunting down high-value targets. As such, this Phoenix program is much …
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I obviously, after reading the Bible, realized that there was a lot of issues there. But I just I cannot believe Rostow, R-O-S-T-O-W. We came across him multiple times in CIA operations. Donald Rumsfeld. We're going to have to do a thread, …
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his grievances against the Kennedy administration. In other words, it was just another CIA mouthpiece. Burke made dark allegations about the White House's dictatorial tendencies. Again, sounds so familiar. Charging that his Georgetown offic…
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future watchmen, including Helms and Angleton, as well as others like William Casey, President Reagan's defiant law-breaking CIA director, and Donald Rumsfeld, President George Bush's smugly, confident conqueror of desert sands. And though …
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DynCorp enlisted Texas Republican Congressman Pete Sessions to speak up on his behalf. And in his letter to the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, Sessions wrote, it is inconceivable that the firm charged with the responsibility of coor…
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Responding to DynCorp's complaint, the GAO announced it would review the contract and report the results by September. Around the time of DynCorp's filing, Senators Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton, along with Chuck Schumer and Chris Dodd, a…
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Several weeks later, Senator John Kerry endorsed their letter. Here's what it said. Dear Secretary Rumsfeld, we are writing to request you to ask the Inspector General to investigate the $293 million Iraq security contract, given troubling …
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in these decisions that they made. The decisions for both orders were made over the objections of high-ranking intelligence and military officers, and I can personally attest to that. Later, there would be considerable buck passing in the q…
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though from Brimmer's account, the demobilization decision appeared to have come from Wolfowitz as well. So you have Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz is basically his number two guy at the Pentagon. All civilians, all done against military advice. T…
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Hosby Kelly was still operating as an inter-doc link man, though, and one more attempt was made via Kenneth Adelman, A-D-E-L-M-A-N, at the time with the Pentagon's Army Review Board Agency and its advisor to the Secretary of Defense, who ha…
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The only pushback came on Christmas Day from Richard Helms, a source who increasingly had zero credibility. Director Colby wished to save the agency, but without lying or doing anything illegal. That meant sitting tight for the inevitable i…
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along with Kissinger. Talk about the fox in the hen house. Yes, we're going to have advisors Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and Kissinger together on a project. Taking the route of a White House investigation enabled President Ford to show…
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The original signatories of this PNAC, oh, I don't know, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, all the neocons. By 2005 and 2006, it kind of wound down PNAC. It's no longer. Because they said their goals have already either been implemen…
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He writes a book in 2003 called Of Paradise and Power, American and Europe in the New World Order. What was the last three words I said? New World Order? New World Order. Isn't that sort of the motto of Skull and Bones? And you have the guy…