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E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA documented
“It conjured up all kinds of swampy intrigue that began leeching through the Kennedy administration after Allen Dulles and his agency suffered their humiliation in Cuba. Everything the CIA wanted to keep deeply hidden, and Howard Hunt was kn…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 39:12
E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA documented
“a product of his 1972 re-election campaign. It is important to the CIA because of the participation of the Bay of Pigs veterans, not only the Cuban exiles like Bernard Barker, but CIA officers like E. Howard Hunt. Agency security specialist…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 35:34
E. Howard Hunt member_of White House Plumbers documented
“On the way back home, Hunt told Saint that he had been doing some special work for the White House and things had gone south. It was the beginning of the Watergate drama in which Howard Hunt played a starring role as the leader of the White…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 34:57
E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA documented
“of my background were known, Hunt wrote to Dulles. Dulles told Helms, I have always thought well of Hunt and that he was disposed to help him. Agreed to get together with Hunt in September. Afterwards, Hunt decided to stay in the CIA while …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 9:41
E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA documented
“in an organization that is not allowed to operate domestically. E. Howard Hunt and Hans Tochte reported to Tracy Burns in his new organization. Jerry Drahler, another Bay of Pigs guy, was promoted to Special Assistance for Political Action …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 20:07
L. Patrick Gray covered_up E. Howard Hunt documented
“And you have to ask yourself that today because none of these people were ever held accountable. And this is the same shit that we've experienced the last 10 years. He also puts another quote in. In February 1973, Nixon appointed Gary Gray,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 34:12
Frank Wisner moved E. Howard Hunt host_asserted
“into cultural operations after his Albanian Psyops War assignment, that completely failed. Hunt managed to secure film rights to Animal Farm from Orwell's widow, Carlson Alsop. Or excuse me, from his widow, period. Carlson Alsop, one of the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 7 @ 43:03
E. Howard Hunt exposed Operation Mongoose book_quoted
“Esterling used his frequent trips to keep the Guatemalan leader humored. CIA contributed to rupturing secrecy. In his effort to recruit Cubans in Miami, Howard Hunt took photos of the forward operating base in Guatemala. Again, OPSEC. The p…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 48:57
E. Howard Hunt reassigned Japan documented
“And he went on to do duty in Japan as well as all over, as we have found out. Dave Phillips, who believed PB's success psychological war effort had been the engine of victory, went on to greater things as well. In retrospect, with more of t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 56:04
E. Howard Hunt headed CIA documented
“Haney soon had his task force and a plan to go. The chief of political action, the CIA euphemism for psychological warfare, was E. Howard Hunt. Like how he shows up in all of these? He had previously worked in Albania. Yeah, we found him th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 39:59
E. Howard Hunt spied_on Albania documented
“Haney soon had his task force and a plan to go. The chief of political action, the CIA euphemism for psychological warfare, was E. Howard Hunt. Like how he shows up in all of these? He had previously worked in Albania. Yeah, we found him th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 39:59
E. Howard Hunt carried_out_attack Jacobo Árbenz book_quoted
“as the vehicle actually transporting the Arbenz family was blown up. That was meant for Arbenz. Howard Hunt, one of the principal CIA orchestrators of the Guatemalan coup, later acknowledged that he had helped organize the hostile send-off …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 15:47
E. Howard Hunt member_of Operation PBSUCCESS documented
“Less than one year after the Iranian coup, the CIA director and his team had won a second opportunity to boast about their successful coup machine. PB's success would forge deep, lifelong bonds among Dulles and his Guatemala crew, which inc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 43:10
E. Howard Hunt member_of Operation 40 book_quoted
“And that basically the entire plan had been set up and given the go-ahead before Kennedy took office. And so then he was presented with a fait accompli when he came into office. And of course, that was the intent. If he chose not to exercis…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 35:11
Allen Dulles recruited E. Howard Hunt documented
“less than truthful statement, for Dulles always relied on others, including CIA personnel and media assets, to write magazines articles for him, speeches for him, and books. Despite Dulles' retirement status, the craft of intelligence was a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 9:43
Richard Nixon paid E. Howard Hunt documented
“As Nixon frantically tried to cover his tracks with the scandal, sketchy money began flowing back and forth. The president was desperate to keep Hunt quiet, and during one White House meeting, Nixon was caught on his taping system, figured …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 36:22
E. Howard Hunt member_of Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“Right. E. Howard Hunt is another one. He shows up all over, and he was 100% CIA, and he was involved in so many areas of drug operations. Okay, so it's Barry Seale, and then you said William McCauley? No, McCloy. McCloy, okay. Yes, it's M-C…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2 @ 2:12:32
E. Howard Hunt headed 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“The primary purpose of the bombing and the many forms of disinformation was to make it appear that the military defenses were crumbling and that any resistance would be futile. And then I already mentioned that all of this psychological war…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 48:30
William Colby appointed E. Howard Hunt book_quoted
“who had returned to the Pentagon as well from being the CIA director, he was replaced at the CIA by William Colby, who was fresh out of Vietnam. He sent Von Marburg back to Saigon as his top logistics aide to prepare for the abandonment of …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 39:11
E. Howard Hunt carried_out_attack Fall of Saigon book_quoted
“Von Marbog was in charge of getting as much military hardware out of the country as possible. And you know what? They only give them a couple of days because their real intent is to leave that shit there and then sell it on the covert, just…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 39:36
E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA book_quoted
“that if the assassination committee crept too close to the truth, the agency was prepared to scapegoat Hunt and Sturgis. Hunt's luck was run out, and the CIA had decided to sacrifice him to protect his clandestine service. The agency is fur…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:03:08
E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA book_quoted
“While the spotlight was a sketchy publication at the time, Marchetti himself had credibility. A former Soviet military specialist for the CIA, he had risen to become a special assistant to Richard Helms before resigning in 69 over disagreem…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:04:06
E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA documented
“Dio, Bissell, and John Brose all walked the plank in his staff meeting. His subordinate said that. The staffer was shunted to a job at the Pentagon, but Barnes moved over to become division chief of a newly established domestic operations d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 24:11
Rockefeller Commission exposed E. Howard Hunt documented
“disclosed information that was in the media about E. Howard Hunt writing fictions. So it's an interesting time for that interplay to be. And the other thing I just very quickly, you know, that West 60s office is very, very clearly in Three …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 1:35:59
Ernest Kaiser funded E. Howard Hunt documented
“Wilson was so impressed with Kaiser that he lent him $425,000 for the Florida condo scheme. Through many phone calls, all directed by Barthola and recorded by the government, Kaiser and another sometimes CIA agent, Daniel Drake, convinced W…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 45:36
Ernest Kaiser recruited E. Howard Hunt documented
“Wilson was so impressed with Kaiser that he lent him $425,000 for the Florida condo scheme. Through many phone calls, all directed by Barthola and recorded by the government, Kaiser and another sometimes CIA agent, Daniel Drake, convinced W…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 45:36
E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA host_asserted
“interfering in the Chilean election. Huh. He was well aware of business offers to help in 1964. He knew exactly whom to talk to at Langley, still an agency consultant. McComb met Richard Helms twice at the CIA and another time in California…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 1:08:05
E. Howard Hunt recruited Harold Green host_asserted
“interfering in the Chilean election. Huh. He was well aware of business offers to help in 1964. He knew exactly whom to talk to at Langley, still an agency consultant. McComb met Richard Helms twice at the CIA and another time in California…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 1:08:05
E. Howard Hunt reassigned Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“CIA manager Franklin Lindsey left for the Ford Foundation, which is a CIA front, while Washington subordinate E. Howard Hunt welcomed his orders to transfer to the Latin Division, where he would be embroiled in coup after coup after coup wi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 29:24
E. Howard Hunt member_of Operation Pluto documented
“But in his communication with St. John, Hunt was more emphatic about the plotters. In addition to Harvey and Morales, the name David Atlas Phillips and Cord Meyer was Hunt's speculations. Phillips was the CIA counterintelligence specialist …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 59:43
E. Howard Hunt member_of Guatemala Coup documented
“But in his communication with St. John, Hunt was more emphatic about the plotters. In addition to Harvey and Morales, the name David Atlas Phillips and Cord Meyer was Hunt's speculations. Phillips was the CIA counterintelligence specialist …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 59:43
E. Howard Hunt carried_out_attack Watergate break-in documented
“That is the takeaway. So I see someone trying to come up. Or Hamster, did you want to say anything? Yeah, real quick. I just thought it was pretty interesting in this chapter that Nixon got a little bit of mention in a chapter that's about …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:15:42
E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA book_quoted
“knew that you were CIA. That person would tell you what to do and for what duration your service was needed in that city. He would answer such questions as you wish to put to him and would concern himself with all aspects of your life. The …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 28:04
E. Howard Hunt carried_out_attack Watergate scandal book_quoted
“But then came the Watergate scandal, in which Howard was accused of masterminding the break-in of the Democrat Party headquarters, among other things, and was ultimately convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, and that dreadful …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 29:33
William F. Buckley exposed E. Howard Hunt book_quoted
“But we also have statements from the coroner's office. Was the high energy impact a bomb or was it meant to refer to the plane hitting the ground? I guess it could cover both so that one might say it's a truth and a lie. However, I read Buc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 33:51
E. Howard Hunt ordered_assassination_of Jack Anderson book_quoted
“That terrible event came at a high point in the Watergate affair. Then I had a phone call from Howard with whom I hadn't been in touch for several years. He startled me by telling me that he intended to disclose to me everything he knew abo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 34:19
E. Howard Hunt member_of Task Force 157 book_quoted
“And a large segment of them had participated in PB's success. But we all know that PB's success wasn't all that big of a challenge because our bins basically got scared and left. It's not like that was a really big deal. Okay, if you look a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 34:31
E. Howard Hunt member_of 5412 Group book_quoted
“of the Frente, which was kind of the name of this front. Polly, a presidential crony, sided with E. Howard Hunt's view of exile leadership being, quote, too far to the left. Eisenhower showed his unhappiness.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 6:30
E. Howard Hunt member_of Frente Revolucionario Democrático book_quoted
“and several other political leaders visited tracks and extorted them. The FRD people told the men the CIA were there to help, disguising the degree to which, in fact, the brigade existed as a CIA creation. In a political move, Jose San Roma…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 33:12
Tracy Barnes spied_on E. Howard Hunt host_asserted
“Allen Dulles took Kennedy into the back garden for a private conversation. Bissell stayed on the terrace. Soon after the top bosses returned, Tracy Barnes told E. Howard Hunt that JFK had given a quote-unquote qualified go-ahead. Meanwhile,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 52:30
E. Howard Hunt appointed CIA book_quoted
“and his first name is spelled E-R-I-C-H. With Von Marbad's endorsement, Shackley, fresh from Vietnam, was assigned to pick up the pieces of the coup plotting in the Directorate of Plans. Shackley worked in Operation Mongoose, made him the p…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 34:17
E. Howard Hunt appointed CIA book_quoted
“In 1973, Shackley was made head of the CIA's East Asia Division, where, working with the Pentagon, he oversaw America's defeat in Vietnam. Eric Van Marbog, by that time, was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. He was sent to Saigon with …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 37:45
E. Howard Hunt removed_from_power CIA book_quoted
“to E. Howard Hunt. Hunt finally had to be relieved and relegated to work with Dave Phillips in the propaganda unit. President Kennedy still reserved his final decision with an option to cancel the invasion up to 24 hours before landing. Alt…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 38:40
CIA recruited E. Howard Hunt book_quoted
“that if the assassination committee crept too close to the truth, the agency was prepared to scapegoat Hunt and Sturgis. Hunt's luck was run out, and the CIA had decided to sacrifice him to protect his clandestine service. The agency is fur…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:03:08
E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA documented
“Hunt and Droehler were something else. Howard Hunt had entered on duty at CIA in 1949, just a month after Reynolds. The senior of the two political officers at the Miami base, Hunt held the reins. Jerry Doehler worked out of Washington. He …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 11:20
Allen Dulles recruited E. Howard Hunt host_asserted
“of my background were known, Hunt wrote to Dulles. Dulles told Helms, I have always thought well of Hunt and that he was disposed to help him. Agreed to get together with Hunt in September. Afterwards, Hunt decided to stay in the CIA while …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 9:41
William Harvey recruited E. Howard Hunt guest_asserted
“that the media ignored, even after it was reported by one of their own, Gaten Fonzie, a Philadelphia investigative journalist who, after going to work for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, unearthed some of the most important in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 52:36
E. Howard Hunt carried_out_attack Che Guevara host_asserted
“chief justice officials. And what does it say about the management of the FBI? That during his brief tenure as FBI director, L. Boyden Gray destroyed a CIA file on one of the Watergate burglars, E. Howard Hunt, probably one of the most noto…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 35:44
CIA covered_up E. Howard Hunt host_asserted
“For Casey, none of it mattered. Klein, Shackley, Secord, and von Marburg were all playing a major role in the Iranian initiative that had begun with the October surprise in the 1980 campaign. And you couldn't piss any of them off because th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 43:39
E. Howard Hunt targeted_for_regime_change John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“but Marchetti remained a CIA loyalist at heart, and he retained strong ties to the agency. In the ensuing uproar over the Spotlight article, Hunt sued for defamation of character, insisting that he had nothing to do with the JFK assassinati…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:04:36
E. Howard Hunt framed Cord Meyer book_quoted
“The person feeding Woodward and Bernstein the information in Watergate. Apparently he was not. That came out later. And the E. Howard Hunt Confessions names him as one of the plotters of the JFK assassination. You want to add anything? Yeah…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508 @ 28:49
George H.W. Bush appointed E. Howard Hunt host_asserted
“But anyway, I found that interesting that that threat was made while Bush Sr. was the CIA director. Also making appearance in Uruguay is none other than E. Howard Hunt. You remember how I told you about patterns? These people show up repeat…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 42:20
E. Howard Hunt attempted_assassination_of John F. Kennedy guest_asserted
“Hunt suggested that St. will him back to his bedroom in case his wife returned. We don't want to get her upset. St. John said, I think she's very naive about the darker side of politics. Well, Hunt said, that's one of the reasons why I love…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 44:06
E. Howard Hunt spied_on William Harvey book_quoted
“is is saying that you know i had nothing to do with you know this this whole conspiracy theory about the cia killing um kennedy and you know he does mention bill harvey in the book he speculates that it could have been him um i want to say …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:08:47

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Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2
▶ 2:12:00 They even had turf wars. Let me just tell you this. Between Mossad and in one of the books I was reading, there was a particular drug route that was being ran in Panama where they actually got into a shootout between Mossad agents and the C…
Operation Gladio (240516)
▶ 42:20 But anyway, I found that interesting that that threat was made while Bush Sr. was the CIA director. Also making appearance in Uruguay is none other than E. Howard Hunt. You remember how I told you about patterns? These people show up repeat…
Operation Gladio (240516)
▶ 42:48 And, of course, they talk about a lot of his very controversial working methods because, of course, he spent a large amount of time in Vietnam where the death squads torture and all that other stuff was a standard practice. Also, a separate…
Operation Gladio - Belgium Part 2
▶ 1:48:35 I apologize, Colonel. I jumped ahead of the game. I apologize. No, no, I got excited. I was so excited when you brought that aspect up during the last podcast. It was so cool. Sorry about that. Yeah, no, I want everybody to be actively invo…
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 57 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' PART 2
▶ 1:13:09 How? Like how? Yeah. So another guy whose name I had not come across, George Whitman, W-I-T-T-M-A-N, also operated as a Templesman agent in the Congo from 1959 through at least 61 and was on the payroll of the CIA working for Devlin at the …
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 58 - 'L.A INSURRECTION - LINKS TO THE PAST' - EP.426
▶ 10:12 agent provocateur for the Los Angeles Police Department exposed police involvement in the Dirty Tricks. And of course, that's what we'd call the CIA, the Dirty Tricks Club. So Tackwood later identified White House plumbers Martin and White …
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 58 - 'L.A INSURRECTION - LINKS TO THE PAST' - EP.426
▶ 40:52 In the way of background, if you go through the actual Robert F. Kennedy senior assassination and its ties to the LAPD, you're going to find a lot of very interesting people. We already mentioned the two Watergate CIA agents, E. Howard Hunt…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 47:01 punitive sanctions on his government. You know, because of democracy. That was my part. Edward Hunt, a PhD in American Studies, wrote an article in the Progressive depicting the TPLF as leftists in favoring more of a status model of develop…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 47:31 as something positive. He said that it would reverse the neoliberal and pro-American political agenda of Ahmed, who Hunt blamed for starting the war, though Sondaras says that the most Ethiopians saw things very differently. One Ethiopian c…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 1:06:57 without kind of going across his entire history. And it's sometimes better if you take all of those pieces out and do one show on a player so that you can see, especially with Autoscores Any, the broad spectrum of all of the events. E. Howa…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 48:30 The primary purpose of the bombing and the many forms of disinformation was to make it appear that the military defenses were crumbling and that any resistance would be futile. And then I already mentioned that all of this psychological war…
Operation Gladio - Italy
▶ 11:18 basically Operation Gladio. They're going to be, and so they set up an organization called the World Commerce Corporation, and that's going to be a vehicle. It's basically a CIA front company that they're going to do all of this through. So…
Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady
▶ 1:02:55 who are basically in control of the intelligence agency. Yet we know it's crystal clear that the intelligence agencies are the ones who caused Watergate. There was Mockingbird Media and insiders that deposed them, Deep Throat and the Washin…
Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508
▶ 28:49 The person feeding Woodward and Bernstein the information in Watergate. Apparently he was not. That came out later. And the E. Howard Hunt Confessions names him as one of the plotters of the JFK assassination. You want to add anything? Yeah…
Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5
▶ 34:17 and his first name is spelled E-R-I-C-H. With Von Marbad's endorsement, Shackley, fresh from Vietnam, was assigned to pick up the pieces of the coup plotting in the Directorate of Plans. Shackley worked in Operation Mongoose, made him the p…
Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5
▶ 37:45 In 1973, Shackley was made head of the CIA's East Asia Division, where, working with the Pentagon, he oversaw America's defeat in Vietnam. Eric Van Marbog, by that time, was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. He was sent to Saigon with …
Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5
▶ 38:41 I mean, how many times has the deputy CIA director been a military person? Multiple, multiple, multiple times. So there's no difference in any of these entities. Von Marbog made his reputation as a trusted Pentagon bureaucrat when Congress …
Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5
▶ 39:11 who had returned to the Pentagon as well from being the CIA director, he was replaced at the CIA by William Colby, who was fresh out of Vietnam. He sent Von Marburg back to Saigon as his top logistics aide to prepare for the abandonment of …
Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5
▶ 39:36 Von Marbog was in charge of getting as much military hardware out of the country as possible. And you know what? They only give them a couple of days because their real intent is to leave that shit there and then sell it on the covert, just…
Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5
▶ 40:06 Thomas Polgar, P-O-L-G-A-R. They suffered from the illusion that a peaceful settlement could still be reached, and they feared that the U.S. would destroy the Saigon government's morale by pulling out. To von Marbog's credit, he knew that n…
Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5
▶ 40:37 At Binh Ho, he risked his own life to get equipment evacuated from the base while it was being attacked. Like Shackley, Von Marbog made his reputation despite the failure of American policy in Vietnam. Now, let me read this last thing and I…
Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5
▶ 41:04 As they return to Washington, D.C. in new and more important positions, the bonds that they had forged over these years would be a profound effect on the future of U.S. foreign policy. And that is, in fact, true. But, again, you have to tak…
Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5
▶ 43:30 According to the Department of Defense said today, about two billion worth of serviceable military equipment had fallen into the hands of the North Vietnamese. And it goes on to say, blah, blah, that Aaron Von Marbad, a deputy assistant dir…
Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4
▶ 18:20 So at the insistence of CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, there was money that underwrote the first conference that was going to be held in Mexico City in 1954 by Prito Lorenz. And it gave him a platform to begin denouncing Arbenz, basically, as …
Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4
▶ 34:29 With his family connections and Ivy League education, a career in the U.S. clandestine services seemed likely. He worked for the CIA in Mexico City after finishing college, translating books for his handler, E. Howard Hunt. You know, and th…
Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson
▶ 25:42 They appoint the guys that are running the thing to be on the commission to make sure the commission comes up with the right answers, i.e. keeping us in the blind. So the Rockefeller Commission was set up to investigate E. Howard Hunt and F…
The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3
▶ 1:12:31 the JFK thing from the E. Howard Hunt that they were both in Mexico and I'd read about the Godfather part. And so I'm looking through all the ones that I think it's in and he's not in any of those. For example, the World Anti-Communist Leag…
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10
▶ 44:43 as the world found out when a former CIA officer named E. Howard Hunt wore a red wig supplied by the agency when he called on a female ITT executive. And of course, we know a lot about ITT and their relationship with the CIA. Under the dire…
The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day
▶ 55:05 you know, the military generals who were sort of plotting a coup six weeks ahead of time. I know that we were kind of behind the DM coup. I know that, you know, Henry Cabot Lodge and, you know, E. Howard Hunt had a lot of complicity in that…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12
▶ 3:14 And where was he at? He was with Paul Helliwell over in China, setting up the opium trade. Other OSS veterans on the China front included E. Howard Hunt, who was in charge of the plumbers at the White House that ran Nixon out and shows up i…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13
▶ 46:02 Remember Mitch Warbell, the terrorist training camp outside of Atlanta in Fort Benninguy that produced silencers for automatic weapons? That guy. Warbell had been a veteran of OSS office in China during World War II and served there alongsi…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9
▶ 1:05:11 Almost connecting to our present. Yes. It's building up to our present. So two names really, of course, stick out to me. Of course, Paul Haleywell, because recently with all Venezuela being in the news and all of the guys, well, it was Paul…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 34:28 who had worked with Larry Barcella on the Wilson and LaDier case, resigned for a more profitable career in private practice. Proper was a tall, easygoing man who had made his reputation solving the LaDier case. Books about Proper, Barcella,…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 34:57 Shackley counted on Varsala to nail Wilson. Now, Varsala would get a little help from his old colleague. One of the most bizarre events of the entire Wilson case is a meeting at the White House on the evening of July 8, 1981, three months b…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 35:26 who was an alcoholic, unstable CIA man who had worked for Wilson in Libya. Investigative reporter Seymour Hirsch, who had written about McCauley's exploits, and a mysterious guest they brought in with them by the name of Ernest Kaiser. Gree…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 35:57 Kaiser assured those gathered that he had a way of bringing Wilson to justice. Kaiser said that his long CIA experience had brought him into contact with Wilson before, and because of that, Wilson might believe that an overture from Kaiser …
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 36:56 and a Shackley subordinate who asked not to be identified, Kaiser had been used by Shackley as a contract agent in Europe. The fact that Kaiser had conned the National Security Advisor, Richard Allen, and the Deputy Director of the CIA, Bob…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 40:16 What is known is that in the spring of 1981, Kaiser contacted Seymour Hearst and Kevin Mulcahy about bringing Wilson back. This was about the same time that the New York Times Magazine published two major Hearst articles about Wilson. Hears…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 40:46 Kaiser had used the Pulitzer-winning Hearst to get him into contact with top-level American power. According to Wilson's lawyers in Hearst, Kaiser said he wanted to know one thing before he agreed to lure Wilson back. He asked if Wilson was…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 41:12 was determining how good a job the rogues had done at isolating Wilson from the upper echelons of the government. Allen demonstrated just how well they had done this when he said that he would have to check with Admiral Inman, who was very …
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 41:40 Barcella's request to entrap Wilson and return him to the United States. Then, on July 8th, there was a meeting that resulted in Barcella's enlisting Proper, who was one of Kaiser's attorneys, to deal with Kaiser. In conversations with Kais…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 43:07 Richard Peterson, the Treasury agent assigned to Wilson's case, said that Barthola, whom he greatly admired, tended to fall in love with the intelligence types. At about the same time, Bill Casey was given a report confirming that the men a…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 43:39 For Casey, none of it mattered. Klein, Shackley, Secord, and von Marburg were all playing a major role in the Iranian initiative that had begun with the October surprise in the 1980 campaign. And you couldn't piss any of them off because th…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 44:08 In his view, all Wilson was capable of doing was embarrassing the rest of them. But Casey's deputy, Bobby Ray Inman, had a different perspective because they kept him out of the loop. Each day, he realized more fully that Casey was a cowboy…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 44:35 Barsala, unable to get the FBI to cooperate with him, succeeded in getting permission through the White House to use Kaiser to get Wilson back in the States. The CIA had warned Barsala that Kaiser had faked his background. The colleagues in…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 45:05 The Justice Department hired Kaiser to go get Wilson. Not the CIA, the Justice Department. All of Kaiser's calls to Wilson and subsequent meetings were monitored. Between August 81 and June 82, Kaiser worked his way into Wilson's world. He …
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 45:36 Wilson was so impressed with Kaiser that he lent him $425,000 for the Florida condo scheme. Through many phone calls, all directed by Barthola and recorded by the government, Kaiser and another sometimes CIA agent, Daniel Drake, convinced W…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 46:07 On one of the visits, he showed Wilson a letter from the National Security Council authorizing Kaiser to negotiate for the Justice Department who had hired him. John Keats, one of Wilson's Washington lawyers, says that throughout this proce…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 46:37 Keats suggested they all get in a cab and go over to the old executive building. But every time he did that, Kaiser made excuses. Despite these and other warnings, Wilson was certain Kaiser was real. Wilson came to the conclusion that becau…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 47:09 that they were now setting him up. The scheme that Kaiser used to convince Wilson that the U.S. wanted to make a deal with him was similar to the Shackley-Kleinz Accord and von Marbog had done with Wilson and Itzko. Wilson was to be allowed…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 48:32 Wilson claims he would have never believed Kaiser's story. At any rate, the reality of what he faced came home to Wilson as immigration officers in the Dominican Republic refused to let him get off the plane and instead forced him onto a fl…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 49:02 International Airport. The successful end of Larry Barthola's hunt for Wilson had been celebrated by reporters and Barthola as a great victory for U.S. justice. But the story that a brilliant Barthola outsmarted a dumb Wilson did not quite …
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 51:00 and wants to use Kaiser is interfering in a Florida investigation for Kaiser. On December 2nd, the day before Kaiser was to go to trial, Kaiser arranged for Daniel Drake to give him a superficial bullet wound. He implied to reporters that W…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 52:02 and get involved in a series of other criminal acts. Extradition was denied by West German authorities because Kaiser had once been a member of the BND, General Galen's intelligence operation that is the cousin of the CIA. Wilson's arrest d…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 52:32 bought them enough time to become deeply involved with Bush and Casey's operation. For all of his faults, Wilson knew how to move material. Klein's and Azizco partners did not. They had little understanding of how the freight business worke…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 54:47 It appears Zelensky might be waking up to a little of this. He could use a little bit of the Operation Gladio knowledge to make better informed decisions. Well, unfortunately, though, like Wilson, you know, they believe up until the last mi…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 55:17 Any single one of them can be that guy because they're working for an international syndicate that don't give a crap about any of them. Absolutely. Here's a funny thing, Colonel. I'm looking at this and Wilson spent 22 years in jail over al…
The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17
▶ 29:53 Agency people got into the security business as well. The obvious example is E. Howard Hunt, James McCord. More typical of these middle-ranking officers was Mike Ackerman, A-C-K-E-R-M-A-N, and Louis Palumbo, who worked a network out of Miam…
The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d
▶ 20:07 in an organization that is not allowed to operate domestically. E. Howard Hunt and Hans Tochte reported to Tracy Burns in his new organization. Jerry Drahler, another Bay of Pigs guy, was promoted to Special Assistance for Political Action …
The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d
▶ 49:54 And we know that because we followed all of the operations that they flew all over the world to conduct. So he mentions Watergate with Bernard Barker, E. Howard Hunt, and another guy, Rolando Martinez, who all participated in many of the CI…
The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont
▶ 1:09:58 Watergate is an ugly name for the Nixon years, a product of his 1972 re-election campaign. Watergate is important to the CIA because of the break-in team was comprised of Bay of Pigs veterans, the Cuban exiles like Bernard Barker, but CIA o…
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▶ 1:10:27 When it was revealed that the CIA had furnished material assistance to Hunt, they had prepared certain psychological profiles on Americans at the request of the White House, and that virtually the same Watergate cast had carried out other i…
The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6
▶ 39:59 Haney soon had his task force and a plan to go. The chief of political action, the CIA euphemism for psychological warfare, was E. Howard Hunt. Like how he shows up in all of these? He had previously worked in Albania. Yeah, we found him th…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 29:24 CIA manager Franklin Lindsey left for the Ford Foundation, which is a CIA front, while Washington subordinate E. Howard Hunt welcomed his orders to transfer to the Latin Division, where he would be embroiled in coup after coup after coup wi…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10
▶ 10:33 Project PB Success became the first real CIA covert operation for David Atlee Phillips, brought in after a brush with Florida police who had arrested him for trying to spend an alleged bogus check that almost broke his CIA cover and ended h…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10
▶ 11:35 PB6S political action kicked off after the Arbenz white paper. Chief political operator E. Howard Hunt masterminded this aspect. Dave Phillips was assigned to run the black radio station. Phillips began with a field trip where he contrived …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10
▶ 36:58 that the Russians were indeed penetrating Latin America. President Eisenhower initiated Operation Hard Rock Baker, a naval blockade of Guatemala. The blockade was illegal under international law, but no one had standing to oppose it. This b…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10
▶ 44:24 As a matter of fact, we were at war with the British in 1812 for the exact same reason. Project PB's success was already in its final stages. E. Howard Hunt's propaganda featured cartoons, posters, pamphlets, and more than 200 articles base…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10
▶ 55:36 In a 1966 interview with New York Times reporter Richard Bissell conceded that the action went well beyond the established limits of policy. Frank Wisner and Tracy Barnes celebrated. Barnes would be rewarded with stewardship of the station …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14)
▶ 40:47 in Japan. The CIA supplemented and extended these programs with psychological warfare experts like Howard Hunt, crafting scripts for Radio Free Asia. The agency funded the Asia Foundation, which was 100% CIA, and they had their own Japanese…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18)
▶ 1:23:20 You set an amazing example, and I really appreciate everything you're doing. Thank you. Renee, go ahead. All right. Let's try this one more time. Can you hear me? All right, great. Yeah, what I was saying is really looking forward to the un…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20)
▶ 34:31 And a large segment of them had participated in PB's success. But we all know that PB's success wasn't all that big of a challenge because our bins basically got scared and left. It's not like that was a really big deal. Okay, if you look a…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 7:13 It so happened, however, that the CIA's WH-4 unit that was overseeing the preparation for the Bay of Pigs, political action chiefs, held opposing views. For Project AET and Pluto, both simultaneously going on, Howard Hunt wanted no M-26 peo…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 8:17 be operators. They also didn't personally get along very well. You know, that's the best thing you want to do when you're putting a team together, have people that don't get along. Droehler held the title as the WH-4 political action chief,…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 8:48 in Lansdale's Philippine project as well. In other words, E. Howard Hunt had been around for a long time. He had already established his bona fides. Droehler got a leg up when Hunt visited Mexico City to meet with the FRD there and lost a b…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 9:15 That didn't really matter because he was still responsible. On the other hand, Hunt actually visited Havana that summer where the headquarters-bound droller couldn't go. The search for a surrogate Cuban political movement centered in Miami.…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 11:20 Hunt and Droehler were something else. Howard Hunt had entered on duty at CIA in 1949, just a month after Reynolds. The senior of the two political officers at the Miami base, Hunt held the reins. Jerry Doehler worked out of Washington. He …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 11:50 and posed as a steel tycoon when he visited Miami. Droehler's crude behavior in plantation master style, with his accent and specialty in European operations, gave Hunt excuses to put Droehler on a tight leash. That applied especially after…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 12:19 held a meeting in a hotel room and was so boisterous that the next door neighbor, a stenographer whose brother worked for the FBI, wrote notes down of every single thing he said. The FBI then asked the CIA about what they were plotting. Mea…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 12:55 many of the Cubans. Hunt cut off others' access to him. All this did not add up to a happy camping group. Esterling favored Droller, whom he considered much more reliable than Hunt, but Droller was his own worst enemy. Critics of the Cuban …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 14:25 leading to a very divisive situation. Howard Hunt despised Manolo Ray, that was his nickname, and tried to minimize CIA support for Ray's political group. Washington had to knock heads, both to bring the Cubans together and to get Hunt out …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 22:00 Lines of communication ran to camp tracks, Miami and Cuba. Howard Hunt had a claim to use agents as political operatives rather than spies. Yeah, they're both the same thing. At the headquarters in D.C., they had its call as well. When the …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 25:22 Are you just trying to grow your staff? No, I'm trying to do the job. On top of that, none of them like each other. None of the Cuban exiles like each other. The people in charge of this operation doesn't like each other. You just get the i…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 48:57 Esterling used his frequent trips to keep the Guatemalan leader humored. CIA contributed to rupturing secrecy. In his effort to recruit Cubans in Miami, Howard Hunt took photos of the forward operating base in Guatemala. Again, OPSEC. The p…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21)
▶ 51:43 More nefarious fuckery going on everywhere. So what I found most interesting about this part of the book, I had learned most of all of this in tidbits. Not any one of them, like the fact that Howard Hunt had lost his notebook or his briefca…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22)
▶ 6:30 of the Frente, which was kind of the name of this front. Polly, a presidential crony, sided with E. Howard Hunt's view of exile leadership being, quote, too far to the left. Eisenhower showed his unhappiness.…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22)
▶ 33:12 and several other political leaders visited tracks and extorted them. The FRD people told the men the CIA were there to help, disguising the degree to which, in fact, the brigade existed as a CIA creation. In a political move, Jose San Roma…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22)
▶ 52:30 Allen Dulles took Kennedy into the back garden for a private conversation. Bissell stayed on the terrace. Soon after the top bosses returned, Tracy Barnes told E. Howard Hunt that JFK had given a quote-unquote qualified go-ahead. Meanwhile,…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23)
▶ 38:10 Candido, slowed by propeller damage from a log when departing New Orleans, sailed on April 11th, the fastest vessel on the night of the 13th and 14th. Tracy Barnes and a senior paramilitary man went to New York on April 12th to inform the C…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23)
▶ 38:40 to E. Howard Hunt. Hunt finally had to be relieved and relegated to work with Dave Phillips in the propaganda unit. President Kennedy still reserved his final decision with an option to cancel the invasion up to 24 hours before landing. Alt…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 24:11 Dio, Bissell, and John Brose all walked the plank in his staff meeting. His subordinate said that. The staffer was shunted to a job at the Pentagon, but Barnes moved over to become division chief of a newly established domestic operations d…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26)
▶ 45:08 Fittingly, perhaps Tracy Barnes became chief of the domestic operations division and E. Howard Hunt was a senior staffer there. You know, the guy that's working with the stay behinds in the United States called Cuban exiles. Yeah, that's wh…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27)
▶ 30:25 had his heart in Mongoose, or that Cox thought this venture was ill-fated. Howard Hunt claims to have turned down an offer to lead the station, but there's no evidence of that. Hunt had been tarred by the Bay of Pigs fiasco and had no relat…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35)
▶ 35:34 a product of his 1972 re-election campaign. It is important to the CIA because of the participation of the Bay of Pigs veterans, not only the Cuban exiles like Bernard Barker, but CIA officers like E. Howard Hunt. Agency security specialist…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35)
▶ 36:04 Hunt's White House schemes and had prepared certain psychological profiles on Americans at the request of the White House and that virtually the same Watergate cast had carried out illegal break-ins on White House instructions, the CIA knew…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35)
▶ 57:47 He was also, of course, involved in the Chilean coup. But the most fascinating part, I think, in all of this, and I think there might be some insight here, is I think he meets with Hunt a couple of times, including perhaps even in relation …
The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36)
▶ 1:08:05 interfering in the Chilean election. Huh. He was well aware of business offers to help in 1964. He knew exactly whom to talk to at Langley, still an agency consultant. McComb met Richard Helms twice at the CIA and another time in California…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5
▶ 51:58 in Royal Air Force Partisan Support Units, led by Polish Colonel Roman Rukowski, were hired to fly transport aircraft. During the summer, Wisner's group used the planes to drop leaflets and propaganda material created by the CIA's psycholog…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5
▶ 56:19 and then became a soldier of fortune, doing the same shit, just getting paid more for it. The CIA E. Howard Hunt welcomed orders for transfer to the Western Hemisphere Division. Michael Burke, promoted from contract to regular CIA officer, …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 7
▶ 42:34 Project Opera. As the Directorate of Operations emerged full-blown from its fusion, the International Organizations Division under Braden held center field. These activities became more transparent when they merged. One propaganda coup was …
The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9
▶ 55:53 Haney, soon endowed with his own nickname, Brainy Haney, also raised hackles with Tracy Barnes, who tried to be decent and civilized, where Haney threw himself around like a loose cannon. Huh, must have got that in the army. Within his own …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 15:47 as the vehicle actually transporting the Arbenz family was blown up. That was meant for Arbenz. Howard Hunt, one of the principal CIA orchestrators of the Guatemalan coup, later acknowledged that he had helped organize the hostile send-off …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 22:47 who by then had taken over as the agency's chief of station in Uruguay. The same guy who overthrew the government they send to Uruguay when they find out Arbenz is going. He continued to track him. A neighbor of the Arbenz family told them …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 23:14 Making the surveillance even easier for the CIA, Arbenz and his family had been installed on the same street that Howard Hunt lived on. Some evenings, Hunt and his wife even showed up at the same restaurants where the Arbenz were dining. In…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 43:10 Less than one year after the Iranian coup, the CIA director and his team had won a second opportunity to boast about their successful coup machine. PB's success would forge deep, lifelong bonds among Dulles and his Guatemala crew, which inc…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 47:01 But in truth, Guatemala was devastating. The murderous intrigue began long before the actual coup. As early as January 1952, the CIA had started planning to eliminate top officials of the Arbenz government. Howard Hunt might have wanted to …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19
▶ 16:30 Though Dulles himself kept his fury carefully concealed, his most loyal aides and political allies freely vented their feelings against the Kennedy White House. Howard Hunt, who worked at the CIA's political liaison with the volatile Cuban …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19
▶ 17:00 was deeply moved by the way his boss comported himself during this slow fade out at the CIA. As a member of Dulles' staff, Hunt said, I lunched in the director's mess, seeing him return from each Taylor committee session where he looked wor…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20
▶ 7:37 meeting not only with retired CIA old buddies like Frank Wisner and Charles Cabell, but with a steady stream of top-ranked active-duty agency officials like Angleton Helms, Cord Meyer, and Desmond Fitzgerald. More surprisingly, Dulles also …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20
▶ 8:07 and Tom Karasaman, Helm's right-hand man. McCone, too, routinely checked in with his predecessor, dining with him and sending him notes. Though Howard Hunt did not occupy the same social strata as Dulles, the two men were bonded in bitterne…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20
▶ 8:39 He had no failure of nerves. He told them he was not going to use the military. The retired spy master sent Hunt his photograph, and Hunt gave him a copy of his angry Cuba memoirs. Quote, I wrote this book as an antidote to the despondency …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20
▶ 9:11 in an early letter was an honor that he would always cherish. Fearing that his role in the Bay of Pigs fiasco would stall his CIA career under Kennedy, Hunt sought Dulles' help in starting a new career in private security, because of course…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20
▶ 9:41 of my background were known, Hunt wrote to Dulles. Dulles told Helms, I have always thought well of Hunt and that he was disposed to help him. Agreed to get together with Hunt in September. Afterwards, Hunt decided to stay in the CIA while …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22
▶ 9:43 less than truthful statement, for Dulles always relied on others, including CIA personnel and media assets, to write magazines articles for him, speeches for him, and books. Despite Dulles' retirement status, the craft of intelligence was a…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22
▶ 33:34 In fact, many people have talked during the past half of a century, including some directly connected to the plot against Kennedy. But the media simply refused to listen. One of the most intriguing examples of someone talking occurred in 20…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22
▶ 34:00 was a loving son who had suffered through the upheavals of the spy's life along with the rest of his family. Late one night in June of 1972 at the family's home in suburban Maryland, Hunt had frantically woken up his 18-year-old son. I need…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22
▶ 34:28 gloves from the kitchen and to help him rub away fingerprints from a pile of espionage equipment, including cameras, microphones, and walkie-talkies. Later, Saint helped his father stuff the equipment into two suitcases, which they loaded i…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22
▶ 34:57 On the way back home, Hunt told Saint that he had been doing some special work for the White House and things had gone south. It was the beginning of the Watergate drama in which Howard Hunt played a starring role as the leader of the White…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22
▶ 35:27 and at least two, Frank Sturgis and Virgilio Gonzalez, were rumored to have played roles in Kennedy's assassination. As the Watergate scandal unfolded, Hunt drew Saint and the rest of his family deeper into his disintegrating lie. Saint's b…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22
▶ 36:22 As Nixon frantically tried to cover his tracks with the scandal, sketchy money began flowing back and forth. The president was desperate to keep Hunt quiet, and during one White House meeting, Nixon was caught on his taping system, figured …