Air America organization

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Air America supported Kuomintang documented

“more notable achievements, including support of the Chinese nationalists, i.e. Chiang Kai-shek, withdrawal from mainland China, airdrop support into the French area, mainly Dien Bien Phu, complete logistical and tactical air support for the…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 20:42

Air America supported 1958 Indonesian coup attempt documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 20:42

Air America flew_missions_for CIA 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

Air America relocated_to China book_quoted

“That's when the CIA steps in and they basically buy the airline. The airline used the cash to relocate to Taiwan with a corporate headquarters in Hong Kong. And why is that important? Because Hong Kong is under the jurisdiction of the UK at…”

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 20:53

Whiting Willauer member_of Air America book_quoted

“the bulk of the time devoted to the operational covert aspects. Soon, the newly minted ambassador, his appointment encouraged by Tommy Cochran, was in Honduras. Willauer is going to be the Honduran ambassador. Arranging for a rebel air forc…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 14:08

Air America founded_by Whiting Willauer book_quoted

“Louis Johnson forwarded the proposal and the accompanying memorandum from Wisner to Truman. But the collapse of the resistance, i.e. the Nationalists, on the mainland temporarily paused the process. This became a defining moment for civil a…”

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 15:53

Air America founded_by Claire Chennault book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 15:53

Air America carried_out_attack Operation Repat documented

“Lai Me returned to Taiwan in October of 52, but his soldiers stayed in Burma. A four-power conference in Bangkok among Burma, Thailand, Nationalist China, and the U.S. agreed to remove them. This led to Operation Repat, like repatriation. A…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 1:36

Air America carried_out_attack Dien Bien Phu documented

“brought everything they needed down to their own refrigerators and beer. The first civil air transport flight in Indochina was a supply lift to a camp, not in Vietnam, in Laos. You know where all the opium is. That was on May 6th, 1953. Wit…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 27:46

Thomas Corcoran signed_agreement_for Air America book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 14:51

Air America headquartered_in Hong Kong book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 20:53

Air America supplied_arms_to Royal Laotian Army host_asserted

“meaning they were CIA. And for years, Air America's pilots flew in a combat support role as early as April 1961. When U.S. advisors are first known to have guided the Laotian army in combat, Air America's pilots flew the troops into battle …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 35:35

Claire Chennault founded Air America host_asserted

“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…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 41:18

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration funded Air America host_asserted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 41:18

Whiting Willauer member_of Air America host_asserted

“supplied Chenault not only with the contract, but also with planes at a bargain price, as well as with a loan to pay for them. One of Corcoran's connections, Whiting Willauer, promptly became Chenault's number two man. With a generous finan…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 41:48

Chiang Kai-shek funded Air America host_asserted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 41:48

Air America carried_out_attack Thailand book_quoted

“And pilots were involved since Air America officials have admitted to extensive defoliation programs having been flown, you know, in every other country but this one during this one time. They flew them in Thailand. They flew them in Taiwan…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 28:15

Air America carried_out_attack China book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 28:15

Air America carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 28:15

Air America carried_out_attack Laos book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 28:15

Air America supplied_arms_to Vietnam documented

“foreign involvement reemphasized the central coordinating role of U.S. intelligence, especially paramilitary factions of the CIA, and that they used these front companies like Civil Air Transport and Air America, that the Civil Air Transpor…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 43:19

Air America supplied_arms_to Vietnam documented

“also came first with the initiation of operations against North Vietnam in February 64 with bombing raids with Thai and Air America pilots in Laos. In both cases, these provocations, although inadequate by themselves to prove the U.S. milit…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 46:13

James Cunningham headed Air America book_quoted

“unquote. No, you are a terrorist working for the CIA. Wilson was being very modest about his role. Another of the several thousand CIA officers supporting the secret war in Laos was James Cunningham. He was Wilson's old U2 boss. Cunningham …”

▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 38:51

Air America carried_out_attack China host_asserted

“during the reorganization where they came out as Air America. Among the 200 missions over the Chinese mainland carried out in 1961, it is credited with flights to Tibet, but this very probable is in the four-engine C-54, not the C-130.…”

▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 52:31

Pacific Corporation front_for Air America documented

“with field offices in Taiwan. The CIA Airlift Force was renamed Air America, an ostensibly private charter firm, but basically was a CIA front company. Massive maintenance facilities were built on Taiwan, and they were spun off into a subsi…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 57:45

Lee Harvey Oswald member_of Air America documented

“After returning to New Orleans with his mother in 1954, the 15-year-old Oswald hooked up with the Civil Air Patrol, a group of young men interested in learning to fly. The military auxiliary group, which was founded in World War II to help …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23 @ 7:05

David Harold Byrd founded Air America documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23 @ 7:05

William Robert Tush Plumlee member_of Air America documented

“military, and CIA asset from 1956 to 1987. Do the math, folks. Three decades. With a long history of CIA activities in Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, Plumlee had worked for various CIA proprietories or front companies, including Riddle …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 9:09

Air America supplied_arms_to Hmong people documented

“The Joint Chiefs, who first, on October 3rd, officially authorized Air America flights to Fumi. Note that, as mentioned above, Air America had already been supplying Fumi since mid-September. The first Air America flights reached Vang Pao o…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 47:15

Air America supplied_arms_to Phoumi Nosavan documented

“This meant a return to the Fumi airlift suspended on December 7th. What is clear is that Air America was legalized just in time for the incoming Kennedy administration. For the purposes of this legalization, the Soviet airlift, which the CI…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 51:55

Felix Stump headed Air America documented

“All of these actions were, in fact, leading our country into a war in Southeast Asia. And it's hard to believe that Air America's directors were unconscious of this. Retired Admiral Felix Stump, you definitely want to look at him, until 195…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 56:48

Communist Party of China carried_out_attack Air America documented

“incident in the resumption of fighting was the shooting down of an Air America plane in November 1962, three days after the Pei Ocean Lao had warned that they were going to do it. What made the Pentagon, CIA, and Air America hang on in Laos…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 1:00:05

Air America supplied_arms_to Kuomintang host_asserted

“Chiang Kai-shek KMT troops who were reportedly operating in Laos in 1961, having been flown from Thailand into the bases in northern Thailand and then into Laos by Air America and Civil Air Transport assets. This announcement came to nothin…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:15:10

Robert Goulet member_of Air America host_asserted

“California to the government of Chiang Kai-shek. Sonny Fasolas, accused of passing bribes to the vice president of Commerce International, was another indictment 10 years later when he surfaced as part of a syndicate that was involved in se…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:19:53

Air America trafficked Laos host_asserted

“there's this huge interrogation center that they set up in Udorn at the base where the military operations was going on and the home base of Air America that was flying all the missions into Laos and then bringing the drugs back. So we took…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 36:13

Air America supplied_arms_to Laos book_quoted

“used for this mission than most people realize. In South Vietnam alone, by late 1965, Air America had moved 1,600 tons of cargo a month. They had over 50 planes, and dozens of them were C-45s, 46s, and 47s.…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 6:12

Air America supplied_arms_to Laos book_quoted

“And they would fly at the height of the missions in the mid-1960s approximately 2,500 tons of cargo a month. So the importance for Laos was Thailand, where, of course, all of the Air America maintenance facilities were set up. And they were…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 6:41

Air America supplied_arms_to Laos book_quoted

“Udorn, which we talked about yesterday, Bangkok, and Thale. The maintenance was available within the Laos capital as well. And there was a major base for the proprietary airlines inside of Laos. It was there that the transfer of 16 Air Forc…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 7:13

Air America supplied_arms_to Laos book_quoted

“In mid-1966, the proprietary aircraft based in Thailand included 21 helicopters, 12 Hilo U-10 light planes, and 20 medium transports. The helicopters were vital for air rescue missions. During the first two years the U.S. was bombing from L…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 7:44

United States supplied_arms_to Air America book_quoted

“Because Air America owned no C-130s, the Air Force lent it some for their special air warfare from their E-flight at Okinawa. Of four Air America crews trained on C-130s in the mid-1960s, one was left by 1970. So the hub of the Hmong War wa…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 9:09

Air America supplied_arms_to Hmong book_quoted

“These are not separate. They're not actual competitors. The attacks in support of the Hmong were also carried out from Thailand by Air Force T-28s in jungle gym type units. A few of the planes were given to the Laotian troops to lend creden…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 13:54

Claire Chennault headed Air America host_asserted

“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…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:09:23

Eugene Hassenfuss member_of Air America documented

“H-A-S-E-N-F-U-S. He was the lone survivor of the plane crash. Hasenfus, who'd worked for the CIA's Air America airline during the agency's secret war in Laos, told the press that he was again working for the CIA at a time when the agency wa…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 8:24

Paul L. Williams founded Air America host_asserted

“William Paul Lee, a CIA operative and multimillionaire, facilitated the 1954 Guatemalan coup for United Fruit, supplied aircraft to Chiang Kai-shek, and co-founded Civil Air Transport, later Air America, linking drug trafficking Cuban exile…”

▶ Gladio 101 @ 10:47

CIA secretly_owned Air America host_asserted

“By February 1975, the CIA proprietary airline Air America held meetings over 10 days in Hong Kong with officials and senior representatives of South American republics. I know you don't watch movies, but Shelley the Kiwi posted this and I f…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 58:17

David Ferrie member_of Air America host_asserted

“That's where we found that David Ferrari. They go in and they hide out in the Civil Air Patrol squadrons around the United States at small airports under the guise of teaching youth how to fly.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 1:19:23

David Howard Byrd member_of Air America book_quoted

“passionate Kennedy adversaries, including General Curtis LeMay, who relentlessly advocated for a nuclear showdown with the Soviet Union, so much so that JFK said he was crazy, like insane crazy. LeMay bestowed a glowing Air Force accommodat…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24 @ 18:49

Paul Helliwell founded Air America book_quoted

“Chinese nationalist guerrillas and opium buyers. Some of them were even former Nazis. Other parts of the band of expatriates that emerges in countries following any war. Halliwell and his compatriots had created a model for trafficking in d…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 9:25

Air America trafficked CIA book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 9:25

Pacific Corporation secretly_owned Air America book_quoted

“was a holding company, Pacific Corporation, also known as Pacific Power and Light. Did you know that? Also, Pacific Corp. and Pacific Harbor Capital. Pacific Corp. owned CIA companies such as Air America, SAT, and Intermountain Air.…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 52:56

Air America supplied_arms_to Secret War in Laos host_asserted

“He consolidated things throughout the mid-60s. A modern hospital and the first high school was built there. The Geneva Agreement had little effect on the CIA's support. Air America continued their flights. Even before fighting resumed in th…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 30 (31) @ 47:11

Air America operated_from Udorn Air Force Base host_asserted

“But they were so excited. They wanted to take us on a tour of the area. I looked at them and I'm like, I'm not getting on that helicopter. So we didn't take him up on his offer. But it was really weird at Udorn because there were the barrac…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 30 (31) @ 1:20:02

CIA trafficked Air America host_asserted

“Air America had a policy against smuggling on its aircraft, which is hilarious. They didn't have a policy against it, but security against drug running was dependent on the pilot. No, it wasn't. The only sanction provided for passengers fou…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 51:18

CIA trafficked Air America book_quoted

“but to launch an investigation, which for our practical purposes means they basically were going to cover it up. The team of officers began in Hong Kong and spent over two weeks at 11 agencies interviewing over 100 CIA, State, USAID, Pentag…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 53:44

CIA front_for Air America host_asserted

“LTV in 72. Rayburn stayed on the board. So in other words, we're dealing with more CIA fronts. In 1975, eSystems bought Asia Air. That came up many times because that's also a CIA company that did repair and maintenance in Taiwan for Air Am…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 1:11:52

Air America trafficked CIA host_asserted

“They provided the most efficient transportation for all of it. And by the mid-1960s, the CIA officers were reporting intelligence on the movement of drugs to supplement their regular activities and their paychecks. The information was passe…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 48:57

CIA front_for Air America host_asserted

“Well, yes and no. I mean, these companies are real companies. They do generate, like Air America was a real company. Evergreen. Evergreen was basically a CIA cutout. I worked for Evergreen. I was a maintainer on the ramp at UPS. They had a …”

▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 1:09:14

CIA trafficked Air America host_asserted

“5,600 up to 8,000 if support people were counted. And it owned or leased 167 aircraft. In 1970, it averaged 30,000 flights per month. 1970, 30,000 flights a month. That's 1,000 flights a day all over the world, primarily in Asia, hauling dr…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 48:10

CIA front_for Air America host_asserted

“Air America was ostensibly a private charter firm under a slogan, anything, anywhere, anytime. Assassins for hire, anywhere, anytime, and anything to do. A civil air transport remained on Taiwan as a Chinese domestic airline, while extensiv…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 47:01

CIA funded Air America book_quoted

“The CIA station appears to have taken no action against people like Tony Poe, who was in the middle of it and who suffered more than a dozen wounds in firefights because he was actively engaging in combat. In large part, Air America made it…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 5:43

CIA paid Air America book_quoted

“Air America pilots were supposed to be flying during their time off from service on regular flights. They were paid bonuses given tax advantages and could clear up to $40,000 extra a year by flying with the CIA. And if you talk to those guy…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 8:14

CIA funded Air America book_quoted

“Vang Pao imported a Cadillac and a road was built up the ridge to connect the airbase with another village. Vang Pao had his headquarters at a place called Lone Tin, together with a propaganda outlet that was basically like Radio Asia. With…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 11:03

Air America front_for CIA book_quoted

“to Meyer Lansky's bank, who arranged for Civil Air Transport, later Air America, to become a CIA proprietary airline, and the secession of later banks with the CIA, drug, and mob connections. Castle Bank of the Bahamas, which we've read abo…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 5:59

Air America supplied_arms_to France host_asserted

“flew 684 sorties to Dien Bien Phu. All for nothing, because the Vietnamese kicked the French's ass anyway. The pilot who flew the most was a man by the name of A.L. Junkin, J-U-D-K-I-N-S. He had 64 flights. Next was a guy by the name of Ste…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 31:53

Air America secretly_owned Airedale Corporation host_asserted

“bought them out and set up a cutout company that was a private Delaware corporation called Airedale Corporation. That's actually what the corporation for civil air transport was. That was kind of like the mother company of it. Let's see. Th…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 33:08

Air America supplied_arms_to Kuomintang host_asserted

“They provided air support to the KMT Army while it was temporarily located in Burma before they moved to Taiwan. And all of these airplanes were used to fly weapons one way and drugs the other. The pilots who flew these aircraft were basica…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 14:13

Air America supplied_arms_to France host_asserted

“This civil air transport action resulted in the military aid program, which had loaned France C-119 flying boxcar transports instead of the C-47s the French had requested. The first civil air transport flight into Indonesia was to supply a …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 30:21

William Pawley founded Air America host_asserted

“that Southeast Asia area to set Chiang Kai-shek up with his own air force. Claire Chennault basically just managed it and flew the airplanes around. It was William Polly that was at the heart of that whole initiative. So through that effort…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 13:42

David Ferrie member_of Air America host_asserted

“Ferrari was a member of the Civil Air Patrol in the New Orleans area. Lee Harvey Oswald was in one of his Civil Air Patrol flights.…”

▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 50:58

Joe Alsop funded Air America book_quoted

“along with the phony Laos crisis in 1959, would have gone unheeded had it not been for support from the CIA. A key role was played by the influential CIA ally Joseph Alsop, an old China hand and columnist whose inflammatory reports from Lao…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 23:25

Claire Chennault founded Air America book_quoted

“was the CIA, and by May 1950, this was in full bloom. The true author of the plan, as noted previously, was General Claire Chenault, whose airline, Civil Air Transport, became OPC-LEMI Supply Line, and it's spelled L-E-M-I, so it's OPC-LEMI…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 26:55

Air America supplied_arms_to Kuomintang book_quoted

“Civil Air Transport supplied the troops with arms from another CIA proprietary, Sea Supply, and Sea Supply was set up by Paul Helliwell. At an OPC-built airbase in, I think that was Thailand, after delivering the arms to the KMT in Burma, a…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 28:49

Frank Wisner secretly_owned Air America book_quoted

“In June of 1950, Whitting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, who supposedly was working for the Civil Air Transport Airline, flew to Washington to negotiate the final takeover of the airline by the U.S. government's Office of Policy Coordination, p…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 33:14

Allen Dulles approved Air America book_quoted

“decided to acquire the airline. So by June 28th of 1950, CIA Director Hillen Cotter formally approved the OPC CIA takeover of the airline. This was three days after the outbreak of the war that would generate 15,000 missions to be flown by …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 33:44

Paul Helliwell founded Air America host_asserted

“mainly of Green Gang drug traffickers. And like Tay Lee, he went on to become the architect of the governmental intelligence drug connection, meaning Paul Helliwell did. He basically took over that role for the CIA. As an OPC official, Hell…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 38:09

Air America supplied_arms_to Hmong people host_asserted

“short takeoff and landing aircraft, but because of the danger of enemy fire, the American and nationalist Chinese crews usually relied on parachute drops of guns, mortars, ammunition, rice, and even live chickens and pigs. Air America's pla…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 32:46

Air America supplied_arms_to U.S. Army host_asserted

“defended until its capture in 1968, the key air radar installation near the northern Vietnamese border. The station had been used in the bombing of North Vietnam. A lot of people got killed when that happened, military people. Further south…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 33:40

Air America supplied_arms_to Vietnam host_asserted

“an isolated U.S. Army camp in the southeast, as well as U.S. and South Vietnamese special force operations in that same area. Originally, the chief purpose of these activities was to harass the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but ultimately the fighting…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 34:09

Air America supplied_arms_to Hmong people book_quoted

“The agreements called for the withdrawal of foreign military advisors, experts, instructors, and foreign civilians connected with this operation. Yet Air America continued its airlift every single day. Roger Hilsman observed, quote, arming …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 56:53

Colonel D. Wayne carried_out_attack Air America book_quoted

“support of their enemies. They objected even more violently to Air America's overt airlift in October 1962 to Kong Lee. The first military incident in the breakdown of the 1962 agreement was the shoot down of an Air America C-123 plane over…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 57:24

Air America carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

“assumed a combat role in Laos in May of 1964, at a time when the North Vietnamese Army was still engaged in a support role comparable to that of the Air America. North Vietnam was not formally accused by the U.S. of violating the Geneva Agr…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 1:04:53

Guy Banister member_of Air America book_quoted

“and had his flyers that he was handing out plastered all over the wall, thanks to Guy Bannister's secretary's testimony. But we also know that Guy Bannister was best friends with Ferrari, and Ferrari was in the Civil Air Patrol squadron wit…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 1:31:11

David Ferrie member_of Air America book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 1:31:11

Air America 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 founded Air America host_asserted

“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…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 11:40

William J. Donovan founded Air America host_asserted

“and take him down to Cuba for an assault on the island. He also owned the airline, the one that they bombed and killed everybody on board, the Cuban exiles. That airline, that Cuban airline, he owned before Castro took over. He owned all of…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 10:16

Robert Hitchman member_of Air America book_quoted

“that worked with him by the name of Eugene Tafoya, T-A-F-O-Y-A. And it says that he actually attempted a murder on a Libyan's behalf and was caught and sent to prison. Robert Hitchman, a former Air America pilot, acted as Wilson's deputy in…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 34:40

CIA financed_via Air America documented

“with leftovers of the units that had been at Clark Air Base and had moved to Okinawa. It then became the 322nd Troop Carrier Squadron Medium Special, meaning Special Ops. This unit was used with a mix of aircraft, including B-29s. It's Supe…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 12:56

ARC Wings front_for Air America documented

“special warfare units called Air Resupply and Communication, or ARC wings. Five of those units were formed and stationed at bases in Great Britain, Libya, Okinawa, and the Philippines. The ARC wings operated a wide variety of transport airc…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 57:17

Air America supplied_arms_to Li Mi host_asserted

“The most questionable of Civil Air Transport's activities was its sustained supply of arms and other material to the KMT's General Lee Me and his successors in Burma and North Thailand from 1949 to 1961. Lee Me is probably the most major op…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 47:16

Air America supplied_arms_to Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted

“had crossed into the Laotian territory and were being supplied by airlifts from C-I-A-C-A-T aircraft. Their old opium routes were being threatened in the South as well, and in July of 1959, the Thai government, in response to years of U.S. …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:08:10

Air America supplied_arms_to Tibet book_quoted

“Recruits traveled to Calcutta by train, where the link was a contact address. Civil Air Transport planes flew to Taiwan for refueling. Sometimes they landed in Bangkok. Sometimes they landed in Hong Kong. They were all black CIA aircraft. I…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 45:13

Air America front_for CIA documented

“W-H-I-T-I-N-G is his first name, and Will Allert, W-I-L-A-U-E-R. So, and you'll never guess where we got him from. He was the senior manager at the Civil Air Transport, the CIA front airline. So, he had reported, he's been mentioned several…”

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 43:53

Air America supplied_arms_to Kuomintang book_quoted

“including C-47s and C-46s. The Civil Air Transport Fleet transported weapons to a contingency force of KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's paramilitary forces, in Burma. The planes were then loaded with drugs for the return trip to China. The pilots who…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 8:55

Air America trafficked Kuomintang book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 8:55

Air America front_for CIA host_asserted

“and is basically a CIA proprietary. It had initially operated inside of China. He went to Washington with a proposal for U.S. support to the nationalist Xi'an in southern China, plus covert aid to form guerrilla forces loyal to Ling Shenzhe…”

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 9:05

Air America sold_to CIA host_asserted

“inside the CIA that will go on to be an ambassador and manipulate all of these world affairs on behalf of these oligarchs is critically important to this story. Okay, Claire Chenault and Willauer in 1950, in the lead up to all of this, basi…”

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 18:23

Air America front_for CIA host_asserted

“left Burma along with a thousand of their dependents. And it says each of these people, the dependents and the military, for each of them, the Civil Air Transport, meaning the CIA front company airline, was paid $128 per head out of U.S. ta…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 24:51

Duncan Lee member_of Air America host_asserted

“Goes on and that's, you know, basically AIG and all of this other stuff. So let's see. After he's the AIG guy, I'm trying to follow my notes. Oh, immediately after his work at OSS, Lee served as the council for the formation of the Civil Ai…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 31:10

David Ferrie member_of Air America host_asserted

“and Sergio Smith, who were active in anti-Castro groups and linked to figures like David Ferrari and Guy Bannister, Grock could not find the correlation that put Rafael Cruz with those people, but obviously he is affiliated with some CIA fr…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 18:45

Paul Holden member_of Air America host_asserted

“He had 59. The original chief pilot's name was Paul Holden, H-O-L-D-E-N. He was on his fifth mission to Dien Bien Phu when he was wounded by anti-aircraft fire. Pilots recall that the flak over the entrenched camp as being heavy and said it…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 32:20

James McGovern member_of Air America host_asserted

“Cusack himself was flying a mission alongside James McGovern on May 6, 1954, when the latter was shot down in his D-119. Nicknamed Earthquake Magoon, McGovern died just hours before the final collapse of the French at Dinbinfu, one year to …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 32:49

James McGovern member_of Air America documented

“senator, but I didn't get that far with it. What I did find interesting about this guy is after the war, he joined CAT, the Civil Air Transport. Yeah. And continued with all of this stuff that was going on. Now, of course, he was shot down,…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 1:00:56

Claire Chennault sold Air America book_quoted

“Because he was an expert at using front companies to include creating front banks, like Castle Bank, to money launder. To label him just a lawyer is hilarious. Okay. General Claire Chenault, who sold civil air transport to the CIA in August…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 3:49

Kuomintang owned Air America book_quoted

“retained 60% ownership of the company owning Civil Air Transport Plant, which could then be used on drug missions. His subject being broadly defined by the interviews he conducted in 1971, he has little or nothing to say about the links bet…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 4:20

Kuomintang controlled Air America book_quoted

“Civil Air Transport, Inc., the CIA proprietary, that supplied them with, all of the airlines actually, with pilots and other personnel like ground support, 60% of the capital and control of the Civil Air Transport was KMT, Chinese Nationali…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 23:40

T. V. Soong fronted_for Air America book_quoted

“Ken Chen Bank in Shanghai, who allegedly fronted for TV Song, S-O-O-N-G, and his sister, who happened to be married to Chiang Kai-shek. Madame Chiang Kai-shek is what she was referred to as. So we're going to keep it all in the family. And …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 24:10

Claire Chennault set_up Air America book_quoted

“So that company, the Civil Air Transport Company, had been set up by General Chenault in 1946 after the U.S. State Department cited pressure from T.B. Song and Madam Shang as grounds for forcing the U.N. to reverse itself and subsidize the …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 24:41

James J. Brennan treasurer_of Air America book_quoted

“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…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 25:06

Samuel Sloan Walker member_of Air America host_asserted

“Briefly, as the CIA deputy director from 51 to 53, which is during the course of the Korean War, soon afterwards, two of Wolf's fellow directors in the small Empire City Savings Bank, a Mr. Samuel Sloan Walker and author B. Richardson, were…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 37:03

Airedale Corporation secretly_owned Air America host_asserted

“I disagree with that statement 100 percent because he is unaware of the total control of the CIA over this entire operation. Its proprietary Airedale Corporation in 1957, renamed to be Pacific Corporation, owned 100 percent of the civil air…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 40:37

United States financed_via Air America host_asserted

“Shortly after this prohibition of heroin in place of the bulkier opium, it came to be regarded as the major problem in Thailand. By September 1959, the Civil Air Transport had commenced charter airlift into Laos, paid for by us. Meanwhile, …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:08:37

United States financed_via Air America host_asserted

“signed the U.S.-Laos Emergency Aid Agreement that would pay to charter the civil air transport planes three days after their arrival. This was only a few hours after Eisenhower had left for Europe on the same day, not having had the time to…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:10:05

Seneconi headed Air America host_asserted

“which in those days serviced the opium-growing areas of the Plain of Jars with the Chinese Nationalist Plains, i.e. civil air transport, which then took over those exclusively once we moved in. Another major figure in 1959 and 64 was the La…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:10:34

William Byrd member_of Air America host_asserted

“quote-unquote, cracking down, which he was not. In Vietnam, he was getting kicked out of Vietnam. He was getting his butt kicked in Vietnam. William Byrd, the Civil Air Transport representative in Bangkok, was said to have coordinated Civil…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:12:28

William Byrd coordinated Air America host_asserted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:12:28

Seaboard World Services succeeded Air America host_asserted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:15:10

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

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

Whiting Willauer member_of Air America book_quoted

“Chanel's partner, Whiting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, went from civil air transport to be the U.S. ambassador in Honduras, which, of course, is right next door and where they launched all the operations for Guatemala from, where he helped Un…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 23:24

Harper Woodward member_of Air America book_quoted

“The author cites the fact that Harper Woodward, Harper Woodward, who served in the 1950s as a director of civil air transport, continues in 1970 to serve as a director of ITEK. This was not just because Woodward specialized in offering serv…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 32:41

Charles M. Cook headed Air America book_quoted

“but was not conspiratorial. No private individuals had plotted against the authority of the U.S. government. The legal picture was different in 1950 when Admiral Charles Cook, C-O-O-K-E, as head of a private military advisory group for Chia…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 45:42

Desmond Fitzgerald worked_with Air America 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 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

Whiting Willauer member_of Air America documented

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 43:53

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

William Bell member_of Air America host_asserted

“But the initial CIA airstrike came against Macassar in April 13th. Two B-26 bombers participated and one of them crashed, killing two Polish air crew members. The plane would be replaced, but not the pilots. The poles were not used again du…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 43:49

Alan Pope member_of Air America host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 43:49

CIA owned Air America host_asserted

“They also used the CIA-owned airline, Civil Air Transport. Oh, and look what Doug says. Activated stay-behind networks in North Korea. Sorry, Vietnam. They sabotaged power plants and spread false information of a communist bloodbath. So tha…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 57:35

Albert Cox headed Air America book_quoted

“best known for his role in acquiring and managing the Civil Air Transport Airline. Cox had been an OSS commando. Where? Oh, Italy and France. You know, the stay-behind places. He had run operations against mainland China from his perch in H…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 28:22

Dale Holgren member_of Air America book_quoted

“In Taiwan, for example, Nugent Han's bank manager was Dale Holgren, H-O-L-M-G-R-E-N, who, before going to work at Nugent Han, had been the manager of flight services for Civil Air Transport in Air America. So he was CIA going to work for CI…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 7:49

CIA funded Air America host_asserted

“The later delivered over the mainland principally by aircraft, but also by balloons, bottles, bamboo canisters, basically anything that they could drop out of an aircraft. They dropped 300 million leaflets during one year. The CIA early inv…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 29:50

CIA funded Air America host_asserted

“You can hire all the mercenaries you want, even though civil air transport is a CIA proprietary. Secretary Dulles suggested stronger intervention might be necessary. Without overt support of the rebels, they could fail. But Foster undercut …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 35:10

Air America carried_out_attack Souvanna Phouma book_quoted

“$1.8 million, and as they considered me to be his heir, they held me responsible for the payment. In 1960, while Willauer, a United Fruit official, and Civil Air Transport pilots were participating in the CIA's preparation for the Bay of Pi…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 24:23

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

eSystems bought Air America book_quoted

“bought AirAsia, the massive Taiwanese maintenance facility. Air America planes and other assets were sold off one by one. By 1975, the parent Pacific Corporation had been reduced to 1,100 employees. Final disposition of Air America was comp…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 5:42

Air America trafficked PepsiCo book_quoted

“of August 1959, had not yet shown to Alfred McCoy the ledgers that he kept as manager of the Laotian Opium Monopoly, even after the monopoly was declared illegal in 1961. Nor had McCoy yet exposed the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant near the Meko…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 26:32

CIA funded Air America book_quoted

“Peter Del Scott starts off saying this chapter was originally published in the New York Review of Books as a critical response to Nixon's statement of March 6, 1970, in support of his escalation in Laos. As I researched it, I was struck by …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 22:25

Air America supplied_arms_to Nozomen book_quoted

“of Souvana Foma's neutralist government, which we officially recognized during the Geneva Agreement, by the CIA's support of insurrectionary forces of the General Nozavan. His rebellion against Souvana had from the onset received logistical…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 42:42

Air America supplied_arms_to Royal Laotian Army book_quoted

“But by early 1961, the United States had brought in AT-6s armed with bombs and rockets, U.S. pilots to fly them, and Special Forces White Star teams to encourage guerrilla activity among the Hmong tribesmen against the Pei Ocean Lao. Furthe…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 45:38

Lee Harvey Oswald member_of Air America host_asserted

“Ferrari was a member of the Civil Air Patrol in the New Orleans area. Lee Harvey Oswald was in one of his Civil Air Patrol flights.…”

▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 50:58

Air America supplied_arms_to Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted

“the 1962 Geneva Agreements to neutralize Laos. Unfortunately, as in 54, the 61, and in 61, the price of the U.S. agreement to this apparent de-escalation was a further buildup of U.S. deployments in Vietnam and also in Thailand. So, it's al…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 59:11

Air America supplied_arms_to Hmong people book_quoted

“in October, and at this point, Air America began supplying them separately with their own materiel as well as special forces. Why did the U.S. officials deliberately foment a conflict between non-communist forces in Laos, a conflict that le…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 41:55

Graves Erskine founded Air America host_asserted

“They would have loaned them the American air crews if they were to do that. The Eisenhower administration was nonetheless so impressed with the civil air transport performance that it considered forming its own proprietary airline to operat…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 33:48

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

Air America carried_out_attack Cambodia book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 28:15

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

William J. Polk founded Air America host_asserted

“the Kurdish aircraft franchise in Southeast Asia, and he's the one responsible for building the Flying Tigers, Air America, and giving Chiang Kai-shek his air force, all using Kurdish aircraft. Small world. On September 9th, 1976, 12 days b…”

▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 27:11

Air America supplied_arms_to Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted

“to oust Suvana supporters from the capital. The proof of this was that while Sarat's forces in Thailand blockaded the capital, Air America was stepping up its military airlift, supplying warlike material to Fumi. It was plain, Doman said, t…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 39:56

Air America supplied_arms_to Hmong people book_quoted

“and did nothing. For the next 18 months, Laos would have two governments, each recognized and supplied by a major power. For a second time, as a year earlier, the CIA had turned into a coalition of drug traffickers to oust a clean civilian …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 44:54

Paul Helliwell headed Air America host_asserted

“Castle Bank, Paul Helliwell, CIA front bank, Castle Bank. Not even kidding. Oh, my gosh. And of course, Castle Bank also is where a whole bunch of the money that the Vatican was laundering ended up. So the same Paul Helliwell that basically…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 1 @ 58:22

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ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 50:58 And so they sort of used that tool of ZR rifle against Kennedy and then put Dulles in place to to clean everything up for the Warren Commission. So, yeah. All right. So let me go from there. And I just want to add a couple of things. Ferrar…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 51:26 And just so everybody knows, there is a common belief, and you can find many researchers' verifications of this, that that was a group of people that were homosexuals.…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 51:54 And that they preyed on young kids in the Civil Air Patrol in the New Orleans area. So I'm just throwing that out there. That's common knowledge. I also want to comment on the fact that in New Orleans, the last remaining interface between t…

Gladio 101

▶ 10:47 William Paul Lee, a CIA operative and multimillionaire, facilitated the 1954 Guatemalan coup for United Fruit, supplied aircraft to Chiang Kai-shek, and co-founded Civil Air Transport, later Air America, linking drug trafficking Cuban exile…

Gladio 101

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 22:44 at the Special Forces camp of Dong Yang. As a result, he received a silver star, a purple heart, and America's second highest decoration, the Distinguished Cross. But there was much more to Hand's story. In 1966, Hand had already been worki…

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 26:29 And that was the code designation for the CIA agent that hired us. Keep an eye on the plane from Ban Howe side. We're sending some goods and someone's going to take care of it. Nobody's allowed to touch anything. Nothing can be unloaded, wa…

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 38:51 unquote. No, you are a terrorist working for the CIA. Wilson was being very modest about his role. Another of the several thousand CIA officers supporting the secret war in Laos was James Cunningham. He was Wilson's old U2 boss. Cunningham …

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 39:22 airline in history, Air America. James Cunningham used Wilson through his front companies to make sure that Air America got what it needed for its friends. Wilson had nothing but admiration for Shackley and Cunningham. Wilson worked with th…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 16:15 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'

▶ 31:10 Goes on and that's, you know, basically AIG and all of this other stuff. So let's see. After he's the AIG guy, I'm trying to follow my notes. Oh, immediately after his work at OSS, Lee served as the council for the formation of the Civil Ai…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 32:11 His ties to the China lobby and anti-communist efforts basically indicate that just through his supporting legally the CIA fronts in the theater, he was directly tied to all of them. Okay. The CIA front company that Duncan Lee represented i…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 32:43 of national Chinese aircraft with civil air transport. And then I just, I've made a few notes. I think our audience knows enough about the civil air transport that we don't need to go through a bunch of those. But basically we know that it …

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 33:08 bought them out and set up a cutout company that was a private Delaware corporation called Airedale Corporation. That's actually what the corporation for civil air transport was. That was kind of like the mother company of it. Let's see. Th…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 33:35 following the nationalist retreat to Taiwan in 1949, which basically involved Duncan Lee, who had worked at OSS and had ties to CV Star and the civil air transport plate, transport aircraft industry. They got sued and.…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 61 - 'MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE- DO ALL ROADS LEAD TO OBAMA!_!' - PART 1 - EP.437

▶ 58:30 which involved CIA assassination and torture of South Vietnamese that were accused of being sympathizers with Ho Chi Minh. USAID money was also directed to the CIA proprietary airline Air America in Thailand. USAID funds for the Accelerated…

Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2

▶ 59:52 And most of these links, Bridget and Liza are putting in the pill if you guys want to look them up yourself. But it tells you a whole bunch of different websites that you can look at. But what you see here is almost inexplicably, there's a …

Operation Gladio - Italy

▶ 13:42 that Southeast Asia area to set Chiang Kai-shek up with his own air force. Claire Chennault basically just managed it and flew the airplanes around. It was William Polly that was at the heart of that whole initiative. So through that effort…

Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb

▶ 1:50:13 the harbors of all of the countries under the guise of a civilian company. And so it is basically the same thing that we call fake companies, the fake banks and the fake companies like Air America that the CIA has done. It reduces the signa…

Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion

▶ 1:14:40 They procured the communications, the explosives, all of the stuff. And so they do it through cutouts, both company-wise and what you and I would consider NGOs. And so they set up for-profit companies like Air America and banks like Castle …

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19

▶ 20:43 Two well-known quote-unquote businessmen with long ties to U.S. intelligence urged him to go see Don Lowers at Wilson's townhouse. One of those businessmen was the late James Cunningham. He had managed Air America for the CIA for years and …

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6

▶ 7:40 He had been required to gather up all of his ledgers each month and take them to a contract auditor. He dared not try to cheat the agency on his business profits because he could be given a surprise polygraph at any time. He was only permit…

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6

▶ 17:05 He was a Turkish-born Armenian arms dealer from one of the best-connected Christian families in Lebanon. Back when Wilson worked with Air America, he had sold Slohani Island, his first Boeing 707 cargo plane, to haul arms for the CIA back t…

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6

▶ 35:05 who was on a career path leading straight to the director's office, would spend so much time with Wilson. Unless you understand what's really going on and these guys are pretending like they don't know, which is, again, laughable. They were…

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6

▶ 58:46 And that you're going to be set up in a business, whether that business is the maritime business that he set up or the sea supply thing that Paul Helliwell set up or Air America. So they offload these people into this quote unquote business…

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6

▶ 1:09:14 Well, yes and no. I mean, these companies are real companies. They do generate, like Air America was a real company. Evergreen. Evergreen was basically a CIA cutout. I worked for Evergreen. I was a maintainer on the ramp at UPS. They had a …

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12

▶ 18:11 Wilson ran businesses ranging from weapon sales, security training and paramilitary training to like as in Gladio. He also had real estate and horses. He used largely ex-military and CIA and government officials as his front people for all …

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12

▶ 26:39 So you've got this company called Applied Systems, Inc., and they sell night vision goggles. The CIA agent goes to them and says they want Wilson to be an overseas representative. Now, let me just give you another analogy that we've ran acr…

Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8

▶ 7:49 In Taiwan, for example, Nugent Han's bank manager was Dale Holgren, H-O-L-M-G-R-E-N, who, before going to work at Nugent Han, had been the manager of flight services for Civil Air Transport in Air America. So he was CIA going to work for CI…

Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8

Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9

▶ 1:10:07 And it's gone on since 1945. So just to put that in perspective, when in especially not that they didn't do this before, because we have examples of this throughout Korea, Vietnam. I mean, back in the 50s, where they set up fake companies, …

Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9

▶ 1:10:31 So the Sea Supply, which was the shipping company Paul Helliwell basically gave to Taiwan to run all their drugs, and Air America, which, you know, was the whole Flying Tigers, all of that shit was just set up, handed over to Taiwan to be u…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9)

▶ 43:32 orchestrated using money, as we know now, from the drug trade. The CIA ran Front Airlines, the Civil Air, the CAT, Air America. It was the CAT, and then it's renamed to Air America, was used to take that stolen weapons.…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9)

▶ 1:13:35 I thought it was funny when you mentioned those. It's like, like you told stellar the one day you, you worked for America air, you worked for the CIA. And I'm like, well, I guess I did too. Kind of, sort of a G4S. We're going to start a clu…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior

▶ 1:09:23 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…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program

▶ 26:06 and with no oversight. It was isolated and accessible only by Air America. Vu Tu was the perfect place for a, they call it a covert action, I'm going to call it Camp Gladio. Vu Tu became the seedbed of the CIA's political cadres, where they…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7

▶ 36:13 there's this huge interrogation center that they set up in Udorn at the base where the military operations was going on and the home base of Air America that was flying all the missions into Laos and then bringing the drugs back. So we took…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7

▶ 1:03:39 And trying to make it anti-Viet Cong and not about actually policing the South Vietnamese, everything got turned on its head. There was no accountability. The CIA was furnishing weapons that were not compatible with the ones that the South …

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program

▶ 28:59 He also managed the political operations for deep cover case officers like the pilots for Air America. And one of the executives during this time for Air America was a guy by the name of Clyde Bauer. He brought into South Vietnam a...…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 57:35 They also used the CIA-owned airline, Civil Air Transport. Oh, and look what Doug says. Activated stay-behind networks in North Korea. Sorry, Vietnam. They sabotaged power plants and spread false information of a communist bloodbath. So tha…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:01:08 were contracted to use in the attack against Castro. They love that. He euphemistically called these gangsters the Caribbean Survey Group. There's that word again. They love them some surveys. Later, to ensure plausible deniability, the CIA…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:15:59 OK, so do you want to have another mind blowing thing right now? Yeah. Air America, my best friend and roommate, and I used to fly with her. She worked for Air America in the 80s. She went all over the world, Dubai, Egypt, all over the worl…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:28:04 I think he can't speak either. We can't hear you, Trumpfrog. I'm going to drop you down and bring you back up. You can't hear me? All right. Let's see if we can get him back up. There we go. Can you hear me now? Yep. Okay. I'm sorry about t…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:29:34 Now you're going to have a bunch of people in Mexico, Colonel Towner was trafficking people and yada yada. You know how silly people are. It's ridiculous. This has been a great space. And then when Stellar was talking about Air America, I'm…

Secret Societies Skull and Bones

▶ 24:48 purveyors of support for the opium trafficking at large. And because of the difficulty in bridging both a civilian and a covert aspect of a particular airline, they opted after using Pan Am for a very long time, they opted to create their o…

Secret Societies Skull and Bones

▶ 25:16 Transport, CAT, Air America, and all of the things that came after that, Evergreen, just to name a few of them. But they were all modeled exclusively off of the covert side of Pan Am. Excellent. And this is the Whitney family that founded t…

The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz

▶ 19:16 program with Lee Harvey Oswald. He is also cited as the pilot that ferried one of the OAS assassins out of Dallas on the night of the JFK assassination. And if you guys remember, we've also documented that the other confirmed OAS agent and …

The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13

▶ 50:17 Farmgate aircraft stationed with their flu supplies to the villages and camps and provided air support. The military advisory command wanted to give special forces their own air units. The Air Force opposed this. The command countered that …

The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101

▶ 12:39 Enforcement officer John Enright, quote, and that's when I got to see what the CIA was doing, Evans said. Quote, I saw a report on the KMT saying they were the biggest drug dealers in the world and that the CIA was underwriting them. Air Am…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3

▶ 10:09 The CIA's airline, Civil Air Transport, later known as Air America, flew weapons and supplies from its base in Hong Kong to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the mountain camps of Burma. 10,000 Chinese troops loyal to Chiang Kai-shek in Taiw…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3

▶ 10:35 The deployment of KMT troops was important for the transportation of opium. Civil Air Transport supplied the KMT with weapons and transportation for opium, and on return flights, they brought weapons, all arranged through the Thailand secre…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3

▶ 48:06 For instance, one operation flew drugs from Columbia to a CIA airstrip in Texas where it would be unloaded for normal distribution. Would that be Air America or is that? It's a CIA. They don't talk about the actual company, but obviously it…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3

▶ 57:51 of this money paid for the drug shipments arriving in South and Central America, which would be distributed by Bolivians and Colombians. The cocaine flights came from a network of private airstrips in Bolivia via Colombia. After January 197…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3

▶ 58:17 By February 1975, the CIA proprietary airline Air America held meetings over 10 days in Hong Kong with officials and senior representatives of South American republics. I know you don't watch movies, but Shelley the Kiwi posted this and I f…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final

▶ 7:40 Cocaine trade involves the billions of dollars in U.S. military hardware, which we pay for, used on the war on drugs and terror. This phenomenon is described as a military industrial narcotic complex. The Cold War saw the growth of this com…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final

▶ 52:56 was a holding company, Pacific Corporation, also known as Pacific Power and Light. Did you know that? Also, Pacific Corp. and Pacific Harbor Capital. Pacific Corp. owned CIA companies such as Air America, SAT, and Intermountain Air.…

The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11

▶ 39:00 So he may have been at a happy hour somewhere. The coup official's desperate devolution into accusations that Venezuelan government funded my work suggested that he had finally realized the grave error he made in engaging her. While she ope…

The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18

▶ 8:24 H-A-S-E-N-F-U-S. He was the lone survivor of the plane crash. Hasenfus, who'd worked for the CIA's Air America airline during the agency's secret war in Laos, told the press that he was again working for the CIA at a time when the agency wa…