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Soviet Union carried_out_attack
West Berlin documented
“that they would impose travel restrictions on three of the land corridors connecting the western sector of Berlin once the West decided not to talk to Russia at all. And the restrictions went into effect at midnight on April 1st. The Britis…”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower carried_out_attack
West Berlin book_quoted
“could have been in Berlin in a few hours. However, Eisenhower halted their forward progress. He let them sit outside of Berlin for several days while the Russians were coming in from the east. To the south, Patton's forces were plowing into…”
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Henry Hexer headed
West Berlin documented
“where they were setting up Gladio units on the northern side in Korea. Also on the team was former Berlin station chief Henry Hechter, H-E-C-K-S-H-E-R, whose professionalism and skill was already legendary in the CIA. He would operate under…”
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Jacob Beam spied_on
West Berlin host_asserted
“in a way that is hard to describe. And if you go to Jacob Beam, because I have come across him a couple of times, if you go and look at his, even just his wiki page, you see that he's at the very beginning of the creation of the League of N…”
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Gordon Donald Jr. He was assigned to the embassy's economic section. Donald was responsible for USAID microfinancing for Indonesian farmers, which basically made him Dunham's boss. So in a 1968 book of the who's who in the CIA that was publ…
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Twelve years earlier, they had worked together when Dulles was the chief of the OSS in Berlin and Kissinger was the editor of Harvard University's Confluence. In November 1952, Kissinger visited Alan Dulles in D.C. This was at the old OSS b…
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Well, regions that haven't come out in a court yet, obviously. But you might want to check that out. Thanks, Colonel, for doing this. I appreciate it. No problem. All right. Martin Bott, what you got? You can see them training in Germany. I…
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on 1st of May and didn't look what they were doing there and wanted to reform them. And I figured out they were all working for the deep state. Right? That's really interesting what we can see. Also, half a year before they stormed the parl…
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I think it's secret team, but I think he only wrote two, secret team and JFK, but anyway. Yeah, it would be secret team then. Martin Bott, go ahead. Yeah, hello. I think with the opium wars, we're seeing the same now in Western societies. S…
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It's real hard to hear you because there's like a tone in the background. Yeah, that's my car. Okay. Yeah, it's hard to hear you. Say what you just said again. Yeah, okay. I've seen in Berlin, all the states, the police collaborates with th…
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Klein, when she met Shackley and his wife, Hazel, she found the tall, blonde CIA officer very laid back and almost shy. Klein told her Shackley was paranoid and would not work with anyone but Klein. Shackley had a particular fondness for Ge…
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That led rival immigrant groups to denounce the ABN's ethnic nationalism as basically Nazism reborn, which it is. Unable to return home, the ABN leaders worked instead among exile communities spread across four continents. They formed chapt…
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that they would impose travel restrictions on three of the land corridors connecting the western sector of Berlin once the West decided not to talk to Russia at all. And the restrictions went into effect at midnight on April 1st. The Britis…
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The Allies shifted to aircraft for transport. And then, of course, you have the famous Berlin Airlift. And in July 1948, travel restrictions had developed into a full-scale blockade of Berlin. And that lasted until May 12, 1949. During that…
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in a way that is hard to describe. And if you go to Jacob Beam, because I have come across him a couple of times, if you go and look at his, even just his wiki page, you see that he's at the very beginning of the creation of the League of N…
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If you go read Antony Sutton's book, he would have been an integral part of that because he was in Berlin as the number three guy, which means he was fairly high up. Then during World War II, they move him to London.…
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That was when they had the Battle of the Bulge, which cost another 60,000 American lives. And Eisenhower deliberately slowed down Eisenhower's patent by preventing him from having enough fuel to go in. The purpose was there that FDR had ess…
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Police advisors in Okinawa and Japan were under army control, along with those in Korea and the Philippines. So Eisenhower had set up the same type of capability in Korea, the Philippines, Okinawa, and Japan. Berlin's police advisors report…
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According to Berlin-based veteran John Sherwood, Shackley and Kaiser met at the Berlin operating base, that was the Bob, where Kaiser played a role in running the rat line, secretly exporting Nazis both to the U.S. and South America. Over t…
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which retained its location in a colonial-style building on the south campus of the University of Miami and its cover as an electronics firm. From Berlin, the agency brought in a new station chief, Theodore Shackley, who was soon running on…
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where they were setting up Gladio units on the northern side in Korea. Also on the team was former Berlin station chief Henry Hechter, H-E-C-K-S-H-E-R, whose professionalism and skill was already legendary in the CIA. He would operate under…
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I will say that, you know, looking at this book particular, looking at some of the stuff about the Soviet Union and things that I really was unaware of, it makes it, this illuminates why Stalin and Roosevelt and Churchill allowed, or Roosev…
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Russian spy chief Beria briefly held power in Moscow, loosening the reins of Soviet control over Eastern Europe. And East Germany recently clobbered with production quotas that further increased hopelessness. The liberalization was one of t…
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That blossomed into demonstrations. Protests reached peak intensity and workers had made plans for a public march on June 17th. The news spread throughout East Germany by word of mouth, but also courtesy of Radio in the American Sector, ano…
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on its Berlin staff. East Germans made the demonstration a spectacle never before seen behind the Iron Curtain. Documents in Russia and former East Germany's archives released after the Cold War showed that East German authorities and Sovie…
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The CIA had recently issued a national intelligence estimate specifically to predict the impact of a Berea peace offensive on Germany. But looking at Berlin, the analysts concentrated on the possibility of something like the Berlin blockade…
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And they had no clue. Beria was an opportunity to seek peace. At the CIA's Berlin base, led by William Harvey, surprise intelligence officers scrambled for any information they could get and obtained information generally from word of mouth…
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as did many in both East and West Berlin. The CIA lost track of Soviet forces in East Germany. Only Harvey's deputy, Henry Hexer, himself German-born, understood the demonstration's threat to communist power in the East. Hexer argued that t…
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David Murphy, a subordinate at the Berlin base, denies that the field submitted any request to approve CIA intervention, citing the recollection of Tom Polger and Gordon Seward, both senior officers in the overall German program. Murphy not…
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not Hexer, sent a cable recommending a U.S. show of force, not arms to East Berliners. Alerting American forces in Germany might have put the Russians on warning. The cable reached CIA headquarters after Allen Dulles had left for the day. D…
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An indication of the disintegration of the Soviet empire, but the president's view prevailed. Ike saw supplying arms as an invitation to slaughter the protesters. The U.S. could not risk a major war with the Russians, one that might go nucl…
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William Harvey's task force boss learned that a colleague from Berlin was back in town. Harvey summoned Theodore Shackley and sent him to Miami to report on the base and what it needed to become a full CIA station. Shackley spent a few week…
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In May of 1962, Harvey's man took up the position. He had local knowledge. Ted Shackley came from Palm Beach and became known as the blonde ghost while playing football in high school. The star of Lansdale's operation had made his mark in t…
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as a Soviet mole, even though he had bamboozled Jim Angleton. He had then run the agency's Berlin base for seven years. Shackley had been his protege doing Polish operations out of Berlin. And in case you guys don't get the correlation, the…
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While not directly located in Berlin, it was like the hotbed of the operation. So Shackley's presence there with the stay-behind units is very interesting. During this time, Harvey had witnessed the East Berlin riots, supervised the Berlin …
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by an Air America pilot firing a rifle from his helicopter. This battle punctuated Ted Shackley's final months as the station chief in Laos. The blonde ghost from Cuba and Berlin rode close herd over Project Momentum, installing his own man…
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His later assignment to Berlin led to an unforgettable lunch with Adolf Hitler and other Nazi Illuminaries. Helms also saw the pitfalls of journalism being scooped by rival Associated Press on reporting the Nazi Party rallies at Nuremberg. …
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Shortly after Corey's arrival, the agency's Jim Nolan gave way to Henry Hexter, moving over from Tokyo as station chief. Hexter, something of a CIA legend, had done it all. Soviet operations in Berlin, covert action in Guatemala, nation bui…
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but it refused to protect anything within further than 60 days. So it's just not going to happen in the next 60 days. But in Germany, matters were also coming to a head. On the last day of March, 1948, the Russians suddenly informed the Wes…
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The restrictions went into effect at midnight on April 1st. British and American trains en route to Berlin were halted. The Allies shifted to aircraft for transport. On April 5th, a British C-47 making its approach to Berlin was destroyed w…
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By July, a full-scale blockade of Berlin had developed, lasting until May 12, 1949. During that time, everything that arrived in West Berlin came in by air. From the years 1945 to 1948, we witnessed an accelerating cycle of misperception, p…
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as a main source of recruits. They inserted spies into all of these Western operations. Among the most valuable was Captain Nikita Koronsky, who defected in Berlin in 1948, telling the army counterintelligence his reason was for the love of…
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which had growing concerns about the type of agents Galen was recruiting and the quality of their intelligence work. Galen had promised army officials that he would not hire former SS or Gestapo officials. But as his organization grew, it a…
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The Congress for Cultural Freedom grew to become one of the biggest art patrons in world history, sponsoring an impressive array of books, publishing, startups, and literary magazines, including The Encounter and Paris Review. They also had…
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President Kennedy met only once with de Gaulle on a state visit in May of 1961, a month after the failed coup. The president and first lady were at a banquet at the palace. The general was dazzled by Jackie. During the three-day visit, the …
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the campaign to keep the United States out of the gathering war in Europe. We went over America First in one of our very first shows on the Alpha Warrior Show. He also helped sponsor a rally honoring Charles Lindbergh, the aviation hero who…
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whose attorneys were forced to sign their correspondence, Heil Hitler, until his partners, including Alan Dulles, fearful of the PR disaster, insisted he do so. When John Foster finally gave in at an extremely tense 1935 partners meeting at…
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And by 1939, Justus Singlemann, a junior Jewish partner at Sullivan and Cromwell, had become so fed up with John Foster's position on Nazi Germany that he confronted his boss, telling Foster that he was hurting the firm's reputation by publ…
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which basically is what they were planning for all along. But out of deference to John Foster, Alan Dulles was reluctant to make his opinions public. He also continued to do business with Nazi financial and industrial networks, joining the …
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Stevenson's operatives also undertook black bag operations such as breaking into the Spanish embassy in Washington where they stole the secret codes for diplomatic messages flowing between General Franco's fascist government in Berlin. Stev…
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Dulles was eager to pump McKittrick for inside information about Germany, since the banker had good connections in Berlin. But the two men also wanted to discuss another issue that was paramount concern to both of them, how to protect the a…
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Only one of the emissaries of Himmler dispatched across Europe to seek a separate peace deal with the U.S. and England. Himmler even recruited fashion designer Coco Chanel, bringing her to Berlin to discuss the strategy. Himmler knew he was…
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under the guise of Crusade for Freedom, which was a CIA front. Returning to Germany in 61 as an advisor to JFK during the Berlin Wall crisis, Clay dangerously escalated the crisis without the president's authorization by threatening to knoc…
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It took all of Kennedy's brothers' back-channel diplomatic skills to defuse the confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie. A disgusted Clay later accused Kennedy of losing his nerve. He had never authorized it. By 1963, Clay had given up military…
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was the finale to a triumphant European tour that was highlighted by the sentimental stopover in Ireland and his resounding challenge to Soviet tyranny at the Berlin Wall. The crowds in Rome that greeted Kennedy's motorcade were comparative…
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In 1932, as Hitler began his takeover of the German government, Foster visited three Jewish friends, all prominent bankers in the Berlin office of his company, Cromwell and Sullivan, Sullivan and Cromwell. The men were extremely anxious and…
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There's nothing that a person like me can do in dealing with these men except probably to keep away from them. That's what John Foster said to Eleanor. They're safer if I keep away from them, John Foster told her. Actually, there was plenty…
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could have been one of the sources for the U.S. press. While still stationed in New York, he began sending out veteran reports under diplomatic cover to gather intelligence in various forward posts in Europe. One of the reporters, a 37-year…
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Roosevelt finally came around to the idea of an international war crimes tribunal, but once again, he had to face stiff opposition in his own State Department. Foreign service legend George Kennan, who was a junior diplomat in the U.S. Emba…
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grappled disturbingly with the Nazi ghost that still haunted Germany. Produced in 1946, the Soviet-run studio in East Berlin, Murders Among Us, was directed by a once promising young filmmaker who had made his own moral compromises in order…
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A German surgeon who had served with the German army returns to Berlin after the war. The city is a monument to rubble. It seems to have been deconstructed stone by stone. The filmmaker needed no studio backlot or special effects. Demolishe…
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wanders drunk and obliviated through the city's ruins, but his past won't release him. He comes across his former commander, a happily shallow man who, despite the atrocities he ordered during the war, he has returned to a prosperous life a…
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offers its chance if you find them. Helmets from saucepans are saucepans from helmets. It's the same game you must manage. The doctor's bitterness deepens as he observes Berlin being profitably revived by the very men that destroyed it. One…
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Success emboldened him. He began talking more openly about his past to friends and journalists. He revealed that 10 days before Hitler's suicide in Berlin, he had promised him to the rank of senior general in the SS, the military wing of Hi…
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This chapter is called Little Mice. It takes place in August of 1950, and it begins talking about a 28-year-old woman named Erica Glasser Wallach. She was in a West Berlin hotel room, and she locks her papers and most of her money in a cupb…
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please come around the corner. She didn't even bother to turn around. For the next five years, Wallach would suffer harsh imprisonment, first in Berlin's prison, which she christened the House of Horrors, and then for a longer stretch in Vo…
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Operation Splinter Factor brought only more misery on the people of the Soviet bloc. Dulles would not live long enough to see the day of their liberation. Erika Wallach was freed from her Arctic gulag in 1954 after Stalin died and the field…
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hello good evening from berlin can you hear me all right yes um hello everyone on the panel as well good evening um thank you so much for bringing that up with jeffrey sterling i had the privilege of working with him advocating for him i wa…
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Roosevelt had a conference with his Joint Chiefs of Staff. They discussed this post-war division and occupation. Roosevelt predicted that Germany would collapse suddenly and that there would definitely be a race to Berlin. The president sai…
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Quote, we'd be ready to put an airborne division into Berlin two hours after the collapse of Germany, unquote. Roosevelt wanted the U.S. to occupy Berlin and northwestern Germany, the British to occupy France, Belgium, and southern Germany,…
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We know that Roosevelt and his military advisors in November of 43 agreed that America should take and occupy Berlin. Yet, a little over a year later, we did exactly the opposite. In the closing days of World War II, the American 9th Army w…
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could have been in Berlin in a few hours. However, Eisenhower halted their forward progress. He let them sit outside of Berlin for several days while the Russians were coming in from the east. To the south, Patton's forces were plowing into…
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armies from Eastern Europe, those decisions seem to have been from the conference that Roosevelt had with Stalin in Tehran. But who made the decision to isolate Berlin 110 miles deep inside the Soviet-held territory without any agreements c…
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According to author Kroc of the New York Times, George Kennan, who was a member of the CFR at the time, persuaded Roosevelt to accept the Berlin zoning arrangement. Kennan at the time was the political advisor to Ambassador John Winant, who…
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in 1961, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill agreed to enclose Berlin 110 miles within the Soviet occupation zone. Wynette submitted a recommendation embracing this agreement. Wynette felt that it would offend the Soviets if we…
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When submitting his recommendation to Washington, however, Winant attached a map on which a specific allied quarter of access into the city was drawn. Winant's proposal was never acted on in Washington. Therefore, the British submitted a re…
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George Kennan broke the deadlock by going directly to Roosevelt and persuading him to accept the Berlin Zoning Agreement, which Mr. Knox called war-breeding monstrosity and a witless travesty in statescraft. Mr. Kroc says most of his inform…
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He succeeded George Kennan as a political advisor to John Winnett of the European Advisory Commission shortly after Kennan had persuaded Roosevelt to accept the Berlin zoning agreement. So basically, the whole thing's CFR. It's easy to see …
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To see the British viewpoint squeezed against two giants who were his allies, Churchill tried to play the Soviets against the Americans in the interest of getting the most he could in future trade and commerce for England. But why would Ame…
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were ignorant. Number two, they wanted to make Berlin a powder keg, which the Soviets could use at will, and so could they, which goes back to the strategy of tension. They have a hotspot. Number three, they wanted a permanent ready source …
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Further searching produced people responsible, like SS Brigadier General Walter Schreber, who had been in charge of chemical industry under Albert Speer. He was located in a detention camp. General Walter Hearst, head of the Weimar Chemical…
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Most of the aerospace medicine experiments came under the auspices of Colonel Hubris Stronghold, head of the Luftwaffe Institute for Aviation Medicine in Berlin. The investigators later determined that most of the information gleaned from t…
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Luftwaffe Colonel Hubris Stronghold, who was the wartime head of their Institute of Aviation Medicine in Berlin that conducted all of those freezing experiments, killing people, was to head the new Air Force School of Aviation Medicine at R…
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their Air Force Technical Research Institute at Berlin and the IG Farben factory. And he talked about those two gases, the Tobon and the sarin gas. And he talks about how at the time it was reported those were the two most dangerous nerve g…
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Secretary of State Uncle Burt Lansing commented the following. Terrible, possibly of a proletarian despotism over Central Europe, unquote, directly argued that reparations must be kept low in order to avoid revolution. The Berlin and Budape…
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Daniel Yergin has dubbed the Riga Axiom, a collection of strongly anti-Soviet political people that formed the U.S. Foreign Service during the 1920s at consulates in Riga, which is in Latvia, Berlin, and Warsaw. The Riga Group is spelled R-…
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Collaboration during the Nazi occupation in Europe had been most pronounced in the political and business elite and in the police forces of countries under Berlin's control. In Vichy France, for example, there were in fact new genuinely men…
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Its implementation is quite another. Robert Murphy took personal charge of the political oversight of this plan immediately, and he made little secret of his inclinations. Meanwhile, the sensitive task of overseeing U.S. intelligence evalua…
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collusion over the port city in Italy demonstrated the political factors that favored fugitive war criminals, Allen Dulles' new assignment in Berlin was to exemplify some economic characteristics of the same problem. Dulles became one of Ro…
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provided clearances for senior German bankers and industrialists seeking permission to remain active in Germany post-war economy. Now, keep in mind, these are the same bankers and industrialists that him and his brother did deals with. As a…
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who remained diehard Nazi enthusiasts. Well, of course, none of these guys did because the Nazis lost. In a striking memo to Washington in late 1944, Dulles erroneously reported that, with a few notable exceptions, Berlin banking circles se…
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L-O-E, excuse me, R-O-E-S-S-L-R, of the Deutsche Bank, Karl Goetz of the Dresdner Bank, and the corrupt, bored, and other key Nazi industrialists like Herbert Goering, Hermann Goering's brother, had been arrested as anti-Nazi resistance lea…
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It was true that by late 1944, many Berlin bankers were disillusioned with Hitler, but they were never violently anti-Nazi. Rosler, Goethe, and Goring were never in any sense an anti-Nazi resistance leader. Each had made their careers with …
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Dulles's recently declassified OSS telegram shows that his principal sources of information on the German financial and industrial elites were officials at none other than the Bank of International Settlements in Switzerland, which had work…
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Germany had instituted basic monetary clearing procedures during the 1930s as a means of controlling the flow of foreign currency in and out of the Reich. In the simplest form, a German company interested in trade with, say, Belgium, would …
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of the bank. He engineered Carl Blessing's appointment to several private banking posts and a directorate at Margerin Union AG, the German branch of Unilever. Blessing served as the financial director in Berlin between 1939 and 1941, a post…
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Carl Blessing exercised special responsibility for the company's financial affairs and its relation with the German banks. He could hardly have been ignorant to the character of the company that he was leading. He could not be ignorant to t…
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on any charges, including crimes against humanity, even though the U.S. had itself supported such charges, they decided to renege on that. Imagine that. Some senior U.S. officials even made sure that Horthy was invited to U.S. diplomatic re…
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that was actually out of documentation that was later found. The extermination campaign gathered momentum by integrating itself with the day-to-day activities of Hitler's government and German society. In January 1942, 14 senior German gove…
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occupying labor recruitment grew so severe that even the Nazis' own quizlings complained to Berlin. One protest in 1943 from a German-sponsored local administration lists 16 instances of violence during a supposedly voluntary labor enlistme…
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Meanwhile, the Allies' carpet bombing of Berlin and other cities accelerated Germans' exploitation of these people. The Allied bombing itself was a war crime because they were not military targets. They tended to reinforce Nazis' effort to …
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Concentration camps supplied labor to GM's giant Russellheim plant, which the Germans converted to aircraft engine making, and to the Ford truck plant at Cologne. International Red Cross records suggest that these two locations provided pri…
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wrote George Kennan in April 1941, even though he knew that was a lie, when he was the chief administrative officer of the U.S. consulate in Berlin. He wrote this after almost two years of well-publicized programs in Poland and mass deporta…
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with domestic terrorism that the counterparts in the paramilitary apparatus was focusing on. Okay, the second Mount Palarin meeting happened in Switzerland in 1949 and had papers on quote-unquote Soviet science and Soviet genetic controvers…
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So it wasn't just to the university to do this because it was a good thing to do. It was directly to this guy to create the propaganda. The objective of the Rockefeller Foundation was considered to be threefold. To build an international ne…
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having played an important role in the French delegation to the inaugural conference of the Congress for Cultural Freedom that was held in West Berlin in 1950. She also had ambitions to take over the editorship for the Congress of Cultural …
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that were on the public record, so they didn't waste any time dispelling those rumors. Quote, he served in the hot spots of West Berlin, Saigon, and Paris, or excuse me, Laos, and other places in a career that lasted from 51 to 79. It actua…
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In 1951, he was recruited into the CIA from the army. His first foreign assignment was West Berlin, when the espionage capital of the world at the time. In 1962, he was named CIA station chief in Miami with responsibility for assisting Cuba…
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That makes a lot of sense, actually. Carrie, go ahead. Yeah, I know about the rainbow gathering from being in Berlin and Occupy Wall Street in Berlin. And there was this one guy who was like, we're anarchists, right? And there was this one …