Flying Tigers organization
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Claims (26)
Claire Chennault headed
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“Man, talking about coming full circle. Okay. And that's who Polly did business with too. Polly, along with Claire Chenault, who Polly puts up the money to create the Flying Tigers. And General Chenault is the one that was running the Flying…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 16:15
Claire Chennault commanded
Flying Tigers book_quoted
“General Lee Sung-jen, who tried to negotiate with Mao. That spring, Claire Chenault, a retired Air Force officer who had commanded the Flying Tigers during the Sino-Japanese War, and afterward organized a private airline notoriously known a…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 8:36
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed
Flying Tigers documented
“It was agreed that Polly's new Camco Corporation could not take American pilots into the private war business without presidential authorization, and there was some delay in getting that approval. But by April 15, 1941, Roosevelt signed an …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 40:49
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
Claire Chennault founded
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“In calling Air America a paramilitary auxiliary arm, however, it should be stressed that its primary function was initially logistical. To understand the complex operations of Air America, one must go back to 1941 and the establishment of t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 36:30
William J. Polk funded
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“Man, talking about coming full circle. Okay. And that's who Polly did business with too. Polly, along with Claire Chenault, who Polly puts up the money to create the Flying Tigers. And General Chenault is the one that was running the Flying…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 16:15
Flying Tigers front_for
CIA host_asserted
“They function as being in charge of things like Air America or the World Commerce Corporation or the Flying Tigers or any of those entities that we know are CIA fronts. So those are assets, some of which has it's been revealed later. And re…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 1:03:51
William J. Donovan funded
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“William Polly is like the ultimate CIA guy that was never affiliated with the CIA and was 100% CIA his entire life. He shows up and he's the guy that basically created and funded the Flying Tigers. No matter what you read, he's at the heart…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 9:19
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 J. Polk funded
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“franchise in Southeast Asia. So he produced all of the aircraft over there to equip not only the Flying Tigers, but he produced all of the Chiang Kai-shek aircraft that ends up being the Taiwanese Air Force. He is singly responsible for the…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 45:34
Claire Chennault founded
Flying Tigers book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 11:54
Ralph Johnson member_of
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“could be traced to one guy, Ralph Johnson. He's from Chicago. He was part of the Flying Tigers that we saw during World War II that worked with Chiang Kai-shek and William Polly, because remember, William Polly was the financial backer to t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 36:01
William J. Polk funded
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“could be traced to one guy, Ralph Johnson. He's from Chicago. He was part of the Flying Tigers that we saw during World War II that worked with Chiang Kai-shek and William Polly, because remember, William Polly was the financial backer to t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 36:01
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
Franklin D. Roosevelt founded
Flying Tigers book_quoted
“Indonesia, and Laos. In all cases, a pretext of legality was supplied by the same friction, the U.S. military officers and the CIA, along with private military companies. This legal cover was first devised by President Roosevelt for the Che…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 44:48
Claire Chennault headed
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“Claire Chennault, the guy we were just talking about, they relocate that Kunming base to Burma to facilitate the move of Chiang Kai-shek into Burma so they can protect him. And then they eventually move him into Formosa and it turns into Ta…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:18:58
Claire Chennault headed
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“than Claire Chenault. Where do we know Claire Chenault from? The CIA, who commanded the Flying Tigers, which as we well know, ends up being an air component that eventually ends up in Taiwan. In April 1942, Birch helped none other than Lieu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 1:11:32
William J. Polk founded
Flying Tigers documented
“Well, he had already been, excuse me, he had already been the ambassador to Panama. You know, Panama, like where all of the money laundering and drug trafficking and all that other stuff went on under the guise of the CIA. That William Poll…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 44:36
Claire Chennault founded
Flying Tigers book_quoted
“helped the CIA wipe out the entire Corsican mafia. Tommy the Cork Corcoran, a lawyer serving in the Strategic Service Unit, Lieutenant General Claire Chennault, the military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the founder of the Flying Tigers, w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 8:28
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
Flying Tigers founded
Air America host_asserted
“In 1941 and 1942, prior to the U.S. even entering World War II, the Tigers were staffed almost entirely with U.S. military personnel and pilots, like actually on active duty pilots. In the post-war years, the assets of the Flying Tigers wou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 46:57
Flying Tigers succeeded
Air America book_quoted
“helped the CIA wipe out the entire Corsican mafia. Tommy the Cork Corcoran, a lawyer serving in the Strategic Service Unit, Lieutenant General Claire Chennault, the military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the founder of the Flying Tigers, w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 8:28
China Lobby member_of
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“i.e. Taiwan, security. Because what happened was the China lobby, which is basically the Taiwan lobby, it's a mislabel, had all of the stars in it. And we'll go into that because it's very important. They had the Flying Tigers, the Claire C…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 4 @ 32:28
International Volunteer Air Group front_for
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“E-R-S-K-I-N-E, who was assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special Operations. The concept provided an entity called the International Volunteer Air Group, which looks exactly like the Flying Tigers. That could be sponsored by France …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 34:16
Flying Tigers succeeded
Air America host_asserted
“which then turns into the Civil Air Transport, which turns into Air America, that everybody knows is a drug smuggling airline of the CIA, right? So Polly, CV Star are at the heart of that. Documents note that CV Star worked with the help of…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 16:44
Flying Tigers supplied_arms_to
China host_asserted
“Originally, the Office of Strategic Services started doing these opium ops and controlling the logistics there, or at least playing into the logistics in Asia. When was that? What year was that? Well, officially, it would have been 19 when …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 9; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (1 of 2) @ 59:53
Mentions (66)
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Man, talking about coming full circle. Okay. And that's who Polly did business with too. Polly, along with Claire Chenault, who Polly puts up the money to create the Flying Tigers. And General Chenault is the one that was running the Flying…
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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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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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i.e. Taiwan, security. Because what happened was the China lobby, which is basically the Taiwan lobby, it's a mislabel, had all of the stars in it. And we'll go into that because it's very important. They had the Flying Tigers, the Claire C…
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They end up with all the Flying Tiger aircraft, the DC-8s and stuff like that, because that's where I worked when I got off active duty and was going to school full time on my ROTC scholarship. Their history is very weird, too. And I told y…
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their Air Force. And he also helped fund the creation of Sea Supply, which basically gave, it was a CIA front company for ships that was basically at the end of the day all given to Taiwan in order to orchestrate drug trafficking. So you ha…
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The other guy was actually a Caltexico employee in Saigon, which is South Vietnam, and his name was Harry Bernard. This organization, by the end of 1943, became invaluable for Chinese Genalt's 14th Air Force in Kunming. And so this was thei…
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at that base in China where the 14th Air Force is. He could hardly have guessed that this action would have proved a magic key to open doors otherwise impregnable. Ho accompanied Shaw and took him to the American base at Kunming. He refused…
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The GBT Intelligent Network began to take shape again. Charles Finn and Harry Bernard received the reports in Kunming and passed information to the Air Ground Aid Service, an aid organization of the 14th Air Force. Training of the cadre was…
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There were only Tan and Phelan in the Viet Minh base. However, on May 16th, Major Allison Thomas received orders to commence work as Special Operations Team Number 13, codenamed DEER, D-E-E-R. His primary mission was interdict Japanese line…
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And even after General Chenault had passed away, she carried on his work. She is as much an operator, if not more so than he was. And in the whole Flying Tiger connection to Air America, and she ended up running the Air America after he pas…
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In addition to buying all of the Flying Tigers aircraft and basically giving a bunch of them to Chiang Kai-shek for Taiwan's new Air Force, William Polly's the one that bought the Navy shit for him, too, basically using black funds to set C…
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So Alan Dulles puts two and two together. Shit, I can get black market money, and I'm going to need black market money to do black market ops paramilitary for these Gladio units. Hey, it's a match made in heaven. So he takes Galen into the …
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and were preaching the gospel according to Ho to anyone interested in independence. Viet Minh held six provinces near Hanoi and was working with the forerunner to the CIA, the OSS, recovering downed pilots as a part of 14th Air Force. A stu…
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could be traced to one guy, Ralph Johnson. He's from Chicago. He was part of the Flying Tigers that we saw during World War II that worked with Chiang Kai-shek and William Polly, because remember, William Polly was the financial backer to t…
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a lot of the different, back during the Flying Tigers and the World War II era, you have the infiltration of many of the airlines because they have to use them to transport their ill-gotten goods along with shipping companies. And Pan Am wa…
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from New York's legal and financial circles. These men use their corporate experience and connections to set up dummy private organizations as proprietaries, wholly owned by the CIA, particularly for Far Eastern operations, on the model of …
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Chenault's partner in civil air transport was Whiting Willauer, which we talked about a couple of days ago, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, a U.S. economic intelligence officer who, during World War II, supplied the Flying Tigers as an officer of China De…
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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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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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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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The Flying Tigers, which become a lot of those airplanes, become part of the Civil Air Transport, then Air America. And he was also, for those of you who have not, again, been with us, CB Star, S-T-A-R-R. His insurance company eventually be…
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Indonesia, and Laos. In all cases, a pretext of legality was supplied by the same friction, the U.S. military officers and the CIA, along with private military companies. This legal cover was first devised by President Roosevelt for the Che…
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In calling Air America a paramilitary auxiliary arm, however, it should be stressed that its primary function was initially logistical. To understand the complex operations of Air America, one must go back to 1941 and the establishment of t…
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It was agreed that Polly's new Camco Corporation could not take American pilots into the private war business without presidential authorization, and there was some delay in getting that approval. But by April 15, 1941, Roosevelt signed an …
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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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In 1954, Chenault conducted a vigorous political campaign in support of a grandiose but detailed proposal whereby his old friends Chiang Kai-shek and Syngman Rhee of Korea would be unleashed together against the Chinese mainland with the su…
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you know, and the rise of the Red Army. So the National Army taught Hallowell a very good lesson. Chiang Kai-shek, who, by the way, when I grew up, was a hero. He was on the cover of Time magazine constantly. He held as one of the great men…
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The Nationalist Army, which was still in China at that time, would send planes into Indonesia, into places like Burma and Laos, where there were poppy fields. Cultivate the poppies, refine them, and send them to China. Flying tigers, okay? …
▶ 8:09
primarily were coming from the Flying Tigers, from Claire Chenault's operation in Southeast Asia Flying Drugs. And I know this personally because UPS bought a bunch of them and I worked on them for Evergreen Airline, which was a CIA proprie…
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Well, he had already been, excuse me, he had already been the ambassador to Panama. You know, Panama, like where all of the money laundering and drug trafficking and all that other stuff went on under the guise of the CIA. That William Poll…
▶ 1:06:48
There's more to commercial helicopters than just offshore oil work and ferrying Edwards around Louisiana. Ross, while denying that the company ever did business with his buddy Barry Seal or the CIA, did volunteer, we used to lease helicopte…
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In the 1950s, as a cargo company, you know, the one that was taking care of Chiang Kai-shek in Southeast Asia, running the opium empire, that Flying Tigers. It would become the largest private cargo company in the world. This guy says it wa…
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on DC-8s in order to meet the new FAA noise requirements. And I told you about that, that happened in the 80s when I was working at Evergreen at Stanaford Field. We had to send the DC-8s either to Miami or to France, Paris. There was anothe…
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Flying Tiger, by way of comparison, had been the largest private air charter airline in the world when Air America was formed. By 1968, Flying Tiger had 28 aircraft and 2,000 employees, whereas Air America had almost 200 airplanes and four …
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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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than the entire Flying Tiger fleet. The demand for air tonnage for the Laos operation led to an anomaly in secret warfare, competition from a private company. An Air America manager was hired away from Continental Air Services, which then s…
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And this is where William Polly came in. Remember, he's the guy with the Curtis aircraft franchise, and he's getting all of the quote unquote surplus, which isn't surplus. It's just giving military shit and giving it to a criminal element t…
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Proposals for covert action actually predated nationalist defeat in the Civil War. Chiang had gone to Formosa in early 1949, resigning the presidency in favor of his vice president, General Lee Tung Jen, who was left to try to negotiate a s…
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William Polly is like the ultimate CIA guy that was never affiliated with the CIA and was 100% CIA his entire life. He shows up and he's the guy that basically created and funded the Flying Tigers. No matter what you read, he's at the heart…
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initial aircraft for the Flying Tigers, which became the Civil Air Transport, which became the main drug thoroughfare. He's behind all of that. So to find out that he sits on, I just about fell out of my chair when I first got this book. An…
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E-R-S-K-I-N-E, who was assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special Operations. The concept provided an entity called the International Volunteer Air Group, which looks exactly like the Flying Tigers. That could be sponsored by France …
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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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about the civil air transport and talking with Claire Chenault, who we know, Flying Tigers, civil air transport, all part of that in Southeast Asia. So later participants would acknowledge that if some of the Guatemala rebel aircraft had be…
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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 …
▶ 8:36
General Lee Sung-jen, who tried to negotiate with Mao. That spring, Claire Chenault, a retired Air Force officer who had commanded the Flying Tigers during the Sino-Japanese War, and afterward organized a private airline notoriously known a…
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Operation Coordination Board, the staff of General Graves Erskine, Assistant to the SecDef for Special Operations, prepared a plan. The concept provided for an international volunteer air group, almost like the Flying Tigers, that could be …
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In the event of a declared war, the aviation group could be officially inducted into the Air Force as an additional wing, which is exactly what happened with Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers. So again, they're just talking about another ver…
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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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with the Thai police aerial recovery unit. Oh, well, what would he have been doing in Thailand in the 1950s, setting up Chiang Kai-shek's airlift of drugs from that entire area, thanks to the CIA and Flying Tigers, Claire Chennault, the Chi…
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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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been the largest private air charter airline in the world when Air America was formed. In 68, the Flying Tigers had 28 aircraft and was slightly more than 2,000 employees. Air America had almost 200 planes and four times as many workers. In…
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Langton had previously worked for two other cargo carriers, and you'll never guess which ones. Flying Tiger and Evergreen, the other CIA proprietaries. Isn't that crazy? In 84, Southern Air Transport won a almost $10 million contract from t…
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than Claire Chenault. Where do we know Claire Chenault from? The CIA, who commanded the Flying Tigers, which as we well know, ends up being an air component that eventually ends up in Taiwan. In April 1942, Birch helped none other than Lieu…
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This is at the same time the private military corporations began to emerge as well. What exactly constitute the first private military company is debatable. There's an argument that the first American volunteer group, more commonly known as…
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and William Polly's effort to begin flying in Southeast Asia and basically was doing all of the drug trades with Chiang Kai-shek. The Flying Tigers was essentially a private air force that flew, quote unquote, combat missions against the Ja…
▶ 46:57
In 1941 and 1942, prior to the U.S. even entering World War II, the Tigers were staffed almost entirely with U.S. military personnel and pilots, like actually on active duty pilots. In the post-war years, the assets of the Flying Tigers wou…
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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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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…
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helped the CIA wipe out the entire Corsican mafia. Tommy the Cork Corcoran, a lawyer serving in the Strategic Service Unit, Lieutenant General Claire Chennault, the military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the founder of the Flying Tigers, w…
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over two years, illustrating to everybody that follows Operation Gladio. He goes into the use of Chiang Kai-shek, the Flying Tigers, the Civil Air Transport, CAT, which turned into Air America. He makes mention of Paul Helliwell again, and …
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They function as being in charge of things like Air America or the World Commerce Corporation or the Flying Tigers or any of those entities that we know are CIA fronts. So those are assets, some of which has it's been revealed later. And re…
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That's critically important because what you're finding out is like in this whole signal gate thing, there's Chinese people involved in that. They seem to be intricately woven into the fabric of so many different things. And we don't even p…
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That's compromised. Also, for my audience, remember William Polly? Strom Thurmond is from the exact same area where William Polly was from. And William Polly is a huge guy in Operation Gladio. Flying Tiger, right? He founded the, he funded,…
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franchise in Southeast Asia. So he produced all of the aircraft over there to equip not only the Flying Tigers, but he produced all of the Chiang Kai-shek aircraft that ends up being the Taiwanese Air Force. He is singly responsible for the…
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Originally, the Office of Strategic Services started doing these opium ops and controlling the logistics there, or at least playing into the logistics in Asia. When was that? What year was that? Well, officially, it would have been 19 when …