Thomas Corcoran person
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Claims (17)
Thomas Corcoran signed_agreement_for
Air America book_quoted
“to contend that state had approved it. Civil Air Transport was enlisted in the Secret War, flying its first CIA missions on October 10, 1949. Tommy Corcoran, on behalf of the Civil Air Transport, and Emmett D. Eccles, E-C-H-O-L-S, of CIA's …”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 14:51
Thomas Corcoran connected
Claire Chennault book_quoted
“and civil air transport because he loved working with the CIA. Corcoran put Chenault in contact with CIA, culminating in a series of meetings during the summer of 1949. Now, keep in mind, the Korean War starts in 1950. Timing is very import…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 10:08
Thomas Corcoran business_partner_with
Claire Chennault host_asserted
“Chenault's airline had fallen into hard times, so it was going to be a cash windfall for Chenault as well. The State Department was initially not interested in the Chenault plan, so the former general decided to go to Thomas the Cork Corcor…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 9:39
Thomas Corcoran funded
Operation PBSUCCESS host_asserted
“United Fruit didn't want it. They just picked up the phone and called the Dulles brothers. The lawyer, Thomas Corcoran, had been a lobbyist for Civil Air Transport and also for United Fruit. Just as a reminder, Civil Air Transport is a CIA …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 44:37
Thomas Corcoran recruited
Claire Chennault documented
“He was very well connected with the government. Corcoran put Chenault in contact with CIA officers, culminating in a series of meetings during the summer. By August, Chenault was talking to Colonel Richard Stilwell, chief of staff of the Fa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 12:14
Thomas Corcoran founded
Flying Tigers book_quoted
“who organized both Chenault's Flying Tigers and the Civil Air Transport. In the early 1950s, Corcoran represented the CAT, the insurance interest of Asia's CV Star, who was also from the OSS, and United Fruit, and was said by fortune to mai…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 18:55
Thomas Corcoran funded
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“for Civil Air Transport, which means he's a lawyer for CIA front companies. And he is also the lawyer for United Fruit, because, you know, Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles is a little busy right now. They're pretending to be in the govern…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 30:36
Thomas Corcoran recruited
Walter Bedell Smith host_asserted
“He met with the Undersecretary of State at the time, which was Walter Bedell Smith. Yes, he was also CIA. And although one account of the Guatemala operation alleges that it was approved by the National Security Council Special Group Review…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 31:04
J.C. King recruited
Thomas Corcoran documented
“More familiar with the area than Haney, who had been a Far East guy, King called the task force chief into his office and suggested a meeting with Tommy Corcoran. Haney did not like the idea and was blunt about it. If you think that you can…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 37:27
Thomas Corcoran lawyer_for
Air America book_quoted
“B-R-E-N-N-A-N. He was a member of Chenault, Corcoran, Allsup's Washington Squadron, i.e. law firms that did all the lawfare that set all this up, who after the war served as TV Song's personal secretary in China. The lawyer for Civil Air Tr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 25:35
Thomas Corcoran member_of
Claire Chennault host_asserted
“Because they want first dibs on the opium as far back as then. So one of those Washington squadron was lawyer Thomas Colcoran and a young columnist by the name of Joseph Alsop. Chenault would visit bases to recruit pilots for the Central Ai…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 37:30
Thomas Corcoran member_of
Corcoran and Youngman book_quoted
“in covert CIA activities such as civil air transport, that throughout the 1950s, his Washington law firm of Corcoran and Youngman was not listed in the Martins Del Hubble law directory. In contrast, Desmond Fitzgerald, the CIA officer in In…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 56:26
Thomas Corcoran founded
Air America book_quoted
“who organized both Chenault's Flying Tigers and the Civil Air Transport. In the early 1950s, Corcoran represented the CAT, the insurance interest of Asia's CV Star, who was also from the OSS, and United Fruit, and was said by fortune to mai…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 18:55
Thomas Corcoran funded
Air America host_asserted
“for Civil Air Transport, which means he's a lawyer for CIA front companies. And he is also the lawyer for United Fruit, because, you know, Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles is a little busy right now. They're pretending to be in the govern…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 30:36
Thomas Corcoran member_of
Sullivan & Cromwell book_quoted
“And most people don't understand how close these things are associated with the CIA so that when they go bankrupt, everybody thinks, oh, it's a one-off thing. It's not. They're all connected. It's another way to money launder. And then, of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 21:29
Thomas Corcoran member_of
Air America host_asserted
“line for mainland Taiwan is a legitimate commercial airline when, in fact, it's a CIA front company flying drugs around and flying missions for the CIA. While Tommy Cochran continued to represent TV Song, Chenault, and the Civil Air Transpo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 36:01
Thomas Corcoran member_of
CIA guest_asserted
“who is CIA. He also was an executive at Pan Am, and Pan Am was oftentimes used for cargo shipments for the CIA.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 59:16
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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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This guy was the point of contact that basically outed all of the Corsican Mafia guys for assassination or arrest or whatever. He was also a member of the French Foreign Legion. And another guy, Tommy the Cork Corcoran, who is a lawyer that…
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B-R-E-N-N-A-N. He was a member of Chenault, Corcoran, Allsup's Washington Squadron, i.e. law firms that did all the lawfare that set all this up, who after the war served as TV Song's personal secretary in China. The lawyer for Civil Air Tr…
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line for mainland Taiwan is a legitimate commercial airline when, in fact, it's a CIA front company flying drugs around and flying missions for the CIA. While Tommy Cochran continued to represent TV Song, Chenault, and the Civil Air Transpo…
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allocated in concessions to the international oil companies, with the exception of a particularly promising area off the coast of Cambodia and South Vietnam, where offshore drilling had also begun. Despite the apparent diversity of groups a…
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who organized both Chenault's Flying Tigers and the Civil Air Transport. In the early 1950s, Corcoran represented the CAT, the insurance interest of Asia's CV Star, who was also from the OSS, and United Fruit, and was said by fortune to mai…
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Very early on, for those of you who've come around lately, it's probably worth going back and reiterating this part right here, because this is critical. Thomas Corcoran, C-O-R-C-O-R-A-N, was a pivotal player back then. And you guys have he…
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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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And most people don't understand how close these things are associated with the CIA so that when they go bankrupt, everybody thinks, oh, it's a one-off thing. It's not. They're all connected. It's another way to money launder. And then, of …
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are companies with national interests, and he has a choice clientele in that field. It includes United Fruit, American International Underwriters Corp., which was part of CB Star's interest in Asia, General Claire Chenault's Civil Air Trans…
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keeping up with American policy on Iran. Why would that matter in 1951? Because we go in and overthrow it in 1953. What the State Department did in this affair would be a guide to what might or might not do to one of his clients, United Fru…
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of Suvanna Bauma in Laos, and it later served as part of an infrastructure for the CIA's secret Laotian war. Previously, one of the principal U.S. financial interests in Indochina was the Camparne Franco Americano Assurance of Saigon, owned…
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whose president by 1960 was Corcoran's law firm partner, William Youngman. But after 1950, Corcoran also represented some of the oil companies that since 1963 expressed more and more interest in offshore drilling in the South China Sea. One…
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between Thailand and Cambodia. They had acquired further interest in concessions in frontier petroleum near Singapore. Thus, on a functional and operational level, diverse intelligence operations such as Guatemala and Laos and diverse overs…
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Ernst Cuneo, and you spell his last name, C-U-N-E-O, who also happened to have been in the OSS, Robert Amory, A-M-O-R-Y, ex-CIA, and James Rowe, R-O-W-E, one of Lyndon Johnson's early advisors, along with Corcoran himself, continue to keep …
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Furthermore, the apparently diverse economic interest who chose to be represented by Corcoran's firm, like United Fruit, Civil Air Transport, and CV Star, turned out on closer examination to be less differentiated than the usual pluralistic…
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Um, the, the inclusion of Rockefeller, a lot of people, um, stay away from them. Um, so again, I love the fact that he names names and that I can bring them to you guys. Um, good book. Good choice. Yeah. Yeah. I think so too. All along. Go …
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He's such a critical figure, I think, in terms of like, because as you already said, he's so connected with different types of journalism people, political background people like Rockefeller, political foreground people like Rockefeller and…
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probably have read one of these books about, there's an author who wrote two books about Corcoran. One is called Tommy the Cork and the other is called Peddling Influence. I can't, I read one of them ages ago, but whichever one I'm sure is …
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fogged over a lot because that's where you need the fog. And so that's why I think reading up on Tommy the Cork is so important because he's such a key transition figure from FDR into the Cold War. Yeah, I have that book. I think I didn't a…
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And that was revealed by Alfred McCoy, who wrote the book, The Politics of Heroin, CIA's Complicity in the Global War Trade. And I have that book. That book is referenced in quite a few of these Operation Gladio books that talks about the d…
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in covert CIA activities such as civil air transport, that throughout the 1950s, his Washington law firm of Corcoran and Youngman was not listed in the Martins Del Hubble law directory. In contrast, Desmond Fitzgerald, the CIA officer in In…
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Paul Helliwell also was the chief architect of the CIA drug connection. As mentioned earlier, the author came in time to enlarge his view of a deep political force pressing for our involvement in Indochina. But as he found Chenault, his air…
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and Anna Chenault, the widower of General Claire Chenault, and now an intimate friend of his lawyer, Tommy Cochran. Her covert intervention into the highest affairs of state was by no means unprecedented for her or her associates. General C…
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Because they want first dibs on the opium as far back as then. So one of those Washington squadron was lawyer Thomas Colcoran and a young columnist by the name of Joseph Alsop. Chenault would visit bases to recruit pilots for the Central Ai…
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war corporation by government decision. It does not appear, however, that the CIA was always so fictitious about obtaining presidential approval post-World War II. After the war, Chenault saw that a fortune could be made by obtaining contra…
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was soon flying military airlift to Chiang Kai-shek's troops, often using the old Flying Tigers as pilots. Chennault himself spent a great deal of time in Washington with Corcoran and Senator William Noland, K-N-O-W-L-A-N, and members of th…
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Bastion in southern China plus covert aid to guerrilla forces loyal to Ling Songzhen. The State Department was not much interested in the Chennault plan, so the former general, who was business partner in the Civil Air Transport Company, ca…
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which took no position on the project but was nonetheless used by Frank Wisner as if the state had already approved it. Civil Air Transport was enlisted in a secret war, flying its first mission for the CIA in October 1949. Tommy Corcoran, …
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And United Fruit said, no, we want way more than that. And the president, Arbenz, Guzman, said, no, no, we're going to give you what you've been paying taxes on. So they were pissed. So lawyer Thomas Colcoran, who was the I love this. He wa…
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for Civil Air Transport, which means he's a lawyer for CIA front companies. And he is also the lawyer for United Fruit, because, you know, Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles is a little busy right now. They're pretending to be in the govern…
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More familiar with the area than Haney, who had been a Far East guy, King called the task force chief into his office and suggested a meeting with Tommy Corcoran. Haney did not like the idea and was blunt about it. If you think that you can…
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Well, that and drug money. All right. So basically, the CIA tells them that they don't want to be involved. They don't want to be informed as to like everyday updates. Corcoran is retained as the go between between United Fruit executives a…
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by an air component of the CIA. The groundwork was prepared as quietly as possible. An unenthusiastic station chief in Guatemala was replaced early by a guy by the name of John Doherty, D-O-H-E-R-T-Y. Appointed ambassador to Honduras in lat…
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Chenault's airline had fallen into hard times, so it was going to be a cash windfall for Chenault as well. The State Department was initially not interested in the Chenault plan, so the former general decided to go to Thomas the Cork Corcor…
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to contend that state had approved it. Civil Air Transport was enlisted in the Secret War, flying its first CIA missions on October 10, 1949. Tommy Corcoran, on behalf of the Civil Air Transport, and Emmett D. Eccles, E-C-H-O-L-S, of CIA's …
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United Fruit didn't want it. They just picked up the phone and called the Dulles brothers. The lawyer, Thomas Corcoran, had been a lobbyist for Civil Air Transport and also for United Fruit. Just as a reminder, Civil Air Transport is a CIA …
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More familiar with the area than Al Haney, whose experience had been in the Far East, King called in the task force chief one day to suggest a meeting with Tommy Corcoran. You know, the guy that's the lobbyist. Yeah, they had plans and weap…
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If the operation failed, the company could be grievously damaged if there was any documentation that tied them directly to it. They're the only one that benefits from it. But, you know, we just can't put anything in writing. The agency's re…
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attack on Schlesinger, in which he had warned of the liberal historian's influence on Kennedy policy, spread to other media outlets like Time Magazine, like they're running a hit job on him. They poked fun at Schlesinger over his participat…
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FDR's legendary advisor and longtime Washington power broker didn't like the beating that Schlesinger was getting in the press. He phoned him at the White House and Corcoran said, I sense a manhunt. The play they had given that swimming poo…
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and some soon-to-be infamous names would be in charge of setting them all up. From Paul Williams' book, Operation Gladio, the following quote, By the close of World War II, Helliwell and a number of fellow intelligence officers, to include …
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President Truman authorized Dulles to supervise the organization of the new agency. In keeping the OSS protocol, Dulles recruited almost exclusively from the elite millionaire businessmen, Wall Street bankers, lawyers, members of the nation…