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Claims (23)
William Corson taught_at
Blackwater book_quoted
“In the 1960s, Corson taught constitutional government at the Naval Academy. He was a linguist, an economist, and an accomplished historian. He did not appreciate shortcuts. And that is why in 1966, with thousands of Marines having died in V…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 8:56
William Corson saved_life_of
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“enough regard for fellow Marines to lunch with them in a very visible place. Corson had served three presidents on some of the most secret and sensitive missions. In 1958, he had acted as Senator Jack Kennedy's guide when he went to Japan. …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 7:03
William Corson attempted_bribery_of
Ho Chi Minh book_quoted
“He had been sent on an unsuccessful secret mission in 1950 to try to bribe Ho Chi Minh to launch a diversionary attack against China to limit China's help to North Korea. That's interesting because you know who was hanging out in, well, he …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 7:30
William Corson led
United States Marine Corps book_quoted
“In the 1960s, Corson taught constitutional government at the Naval Academy. He was a linguist, an economist, and an accomplished historian. He did not appreciate shortcuts. And that is why in 1966, with thousands of Marines having died in V…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 8:56
William Corson confronted
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“In the 1960s, Corson taught constitutional government at the Naval Academy. He was a linguist, an economist, and an accomplished historian. He did not appreciate shortcuts. And that is why in 1966, with thousands of Marines having died in V…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 8:56
William Corson wrote
The Betrayal book_quoted
“Risking a court-martial, he capped his military career by writing a damning expose on the Vietnam War called The Betrayal. Lyndon Johnson withdrew an Article 39 indictment against Corson when reminded of the embarrassing secrets Corson coul…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 9:50
Lyndon B. Johnson withdrew_indictment_against
William Corson book_quoted
“Risking a court-martial, he capped his military career by writing a damning expose on the Vietnam War called The Betrayal. Lyndon Johnson withdrew an Article 39 indictment against Corson when reminded of the embarrassing secrets Corson coul…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 9:50
William Corson advised
Trump administration book_quoted
“the FBI, NSA, CIA, White House, and the Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerry. Probably no one in Washington knew more genuine secrets than Corson. Marines who had served under his soldier spy leadership ended up in some of the most important …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 10:15
William Corson advised
Chuck Hagel book_quoted
“the FBI, NSA, CIA, White House, and the Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerry. Probably no one in Washington knew more genuine secrets than Corson. Marines who had served under his soldier spy leadership ended up in some of the most important …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 10:15
William Corson advised
Bob Kerry book_quoted
“the FBI, NSA, CIA, White House, and the Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerry. Probably no one in Washington knew more genuine secrets than Corson. Marines who had served under his soldier spy leadership ended up in some of the most important …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 10:15
Oliver North student_of
William Corson book_quoted
“the FBI, NSA, CIA, White House, and the Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerry. Probably no one in Washington knew more genuine secrets than Corson. Marines who had served under his soldier spy leadership ended up in some of the most important …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 10:15
William Corson visited
Oliver North book_quoted
“Corson first got to know Oliver North when he was recovering in the hospital. Corson would stop by to visit various students and occasionally contributed beer or other items to their recovery. North brooded over his injury, fearing that it …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 12:17
William Corson warned
Oliver North book_quoted
“He thought he'd had them figured out. He thought he was playing poker with the big boys. But Corson repeatedly warned North, people like you and I play one role, and that's to be expendable. I don't think he ever really understood what I wa…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 28:48
William Corson warned_about
George H.W. Bush book_quoted
“References to lunch with WC are a regular feature in the note-taking, and that is Corson. Also, in Oliver North's notes are Corson's warning about Bush, Shackley, Secord, Klein, Wilson, and their cohorts. North knew that Corson had been thr…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 31:43
William Corson warned_about
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“References to lunch with WC are a regular feature in the note-taking, and that is Corson. Also, in Oliver North's notes are Corson's warning about Bush, Shackley, Secord, Klein, Wilson, and their cohorts. North knew that Corson had been thr…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 31:43
William Corson warned_about
Richard Secord book_quoted
“References to lunch with WC are a regular feature in the note-taking, and that is Corson. Also, in Oliver North's notes are Corson's warning about Bush, Shackley, Secord, Klein, Wilson, and their cohorts. North knew that Corson had been thr…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 31:43
William Corson warned_about
Thomas Clines book_quoted
“References to lunch with WC are a regular feature in the note-taking, and that is Corson. Also, in Oliver North's notes are Corson's warning about Bush, Shackley, Secord, Klein, Wilson, and their cohorts. North knew that Corson had been thr…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 31:43
William Corson warned_about
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“References to lunch with WC are a regular feature in the note-taking, and that is Corson. Also, in Oliver North's notes are Corson's warning about Bush, Shackley, Secord, Klein, Wilson, and their cohorts. North knew that Corson had been thr…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 31:43
William Corson served
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“enough regard for fellow Marines to lunch with them in a very visible place. Corson had served three presidents on some of the most secret and sensitive missions. In 1958, he had acted as Senator Jack Kennedy's guide when he went to Japan. …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 7:03
Allen Dulles recruited
William Corson book_quoted
“who was close to Dulles, confirmed that the spymaster pulled strings to get on the Warren Commission. Quote, he lobbied hard for the job. Unquote, Corson said. He had commanded young Allen Jr. during the Korean War. After he took his place …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 47:12
William Corson member_of
Church Committee book_quoted
“William Corston began advising the Church Commission on how to ask for information from the CIA to avoid the ever-ending stonewalling. Corston said, quote, it was obvious that Frank Church wasn't really serious when the investigation was tu…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 9:09
William Corson advised
CIA book_quoted
“the FBI, NSA, CIA, White House, and the Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerry. Probably no one in Washington knew more genuine secrets than Corson. Marines who had served under his soldier spy leadership ended up in some of the most important …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 10:15
William Corson warned
Oliver North host_asserted
“William Corson warned Oliver North that this whole thing would blow up in his face. Of course, what I did not know was the games that were all being played in the raising of the money. The idea that they would try to link all these operatio…”
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Mentions (41)
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His insecurities made him like putty in Dulles' hands, according to Corson, who was basically part of the recruiting party for George Bush. Dulles convinced him that he could contribute to his country as well as get help from the CIA for hi…
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Bush was traveling all over Latin America selling offshore oil platforms and leasing equipment in the Gulf of Mexico. He was, according to Corston, the perfect talent scouting at looking for new recruits. So he basically was using his compa…
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According to William Corson, the CIA agent involved in it, the CIA had recruited Diaz Serrano to assist in logistics with the anti-Castro efforts. Corson and other CIA officials were convinced that Bush's partnership with Diaz Serrano was t…
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The reforms of the CIA started by the Church Committee in the 1975 hearings came to a dead halt under Bush. The goal was to hide things, not fix things, unquote. Also, William Corson said, by taking the operations and putting them in the ha…
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Because of his job, his contact with Bush was frequent and personal. Evans told colleagues inside and outside the agency that he thought Bush had taken a terrible chance by exposing himself to compromise. Others also worried about Fitzgeral…
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not inclined to take advice anyway, had few places to turn. He and his CIA director had so offended the national security establishment that virtually everyone wanted them removed from office. That sounds like Trump. They were not going to …
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Holy shit, these people are crazy. Carter had no way of knowing that Sullivan and Shackley shared a series of secrets that went back to include covering up all of their drug trafficking from Laos. According to William Corson, more than 100 …
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William Corston began advising the Church Commission on how to ask for information from the CIA to avoid the ever-ending stonewalling. Corston said, quote, it was obvious that Frank Church wasn't really serious when the investigation was tu…
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If he had not ran and just played it straight, there might have been an opportunity to reform the CIA. But when it became political, the agency people circled the wagons outside of the Castro stuff. The talk of poisons, none of real wrongdo…
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By screaming that Congress was conducting a witch hunt on the CIA and enlisting people like George Bush and Ronald Reagan in their defense, they successfully avoided having to explain what had gone wrong. It was a little like Vietnam, the a…
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Bush honest in terms of agenda on which Ronald Reagan ran. Casey wanted enough on Bush to keep Bush in line. William Corson said the following, quote, To Casey, Bush was the spoiled son of a father who had a good sense to marry well. The di…
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Ironically, this was his only real successful undercover work, said William Corson, who was one of the CIA officers that contributed to this book. By the end of 1981, Stilwell was running one of the most secret operations in the government.…
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So one of the guys that papers were used to create this book is a guy by the name of William Corson. And William Corson had, he looked like the same haircut and everything else, like a Marine. And he had been in Washington for generations. …
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He came in kind of at the beginning of the Eisenhower administration. And so Corson had spent a lot of time, knew the lay of the land in D.C. And he ends up going to a hotel in D.C. called Hay-Adams Hotel. And there's a room there.…
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called the John Jay Room. And Corson was escorted to his customary table because, again, he's been there forever. Everybody knows him. There were few places in Washington in the 1980s that attracted more powerful people than John Hay Room. …
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Corson had grown tired of an increasing show that had kind of developed around the people in there with the Reagan administration as they had come in. Because, again, this is kind of the glitzy Hollywood stuff. And so instead of it being mo…
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So in April 1984, Corson had decided that he was going to go there because he wanted to lend a hand to a former Marine student who had just undertaken an assignment at the National Security Council. Corson wanted to send a message to the as…
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enough regard for fellow Marines to lunch with them in a very visible place. Corson had served three presidents on some of the most secret and sensitive missions. In 1958, he had acted as Senator Jack Kennedy's guide when he went to Japan. …
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He had been sent on an unsuccessful secret mission in 1950 to try to bribe Ho Chi Minh to launch a diversionary attack against China to limit China's help to North Korea. That's interesting because you know who was hanging out in, well, he …
▶ 8:02
and was marched out with the French prisoners after their surrender. So the guy gets around. General von Neuengap sent him back to Eisenhower to tell the Americans that they faced the same fate as the French if they decided to replace them.…
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After the 1961 Laotian Peace Accord betrayed those same troops, a disgusted Corson returned to the U.S. There he worked on one of the most secret operations in American history, unmasking a Soviet agent at the Defense Advanced Research Proj…
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In the 1960s, Corson taught constitutional government at the Naval Academy. He was a linguist, an economist, and an accomplished historian. He did not appreciate shortcuts. And that is why in 1966, with thousands of Marines having died in V…
▶ 9:26
and their colleagues, including Klein. And as a result of their efforts, I saw things in the assassination programs and the brutality of their effort that told me that the U.S. was doomed in Vietnam. In 1968, Corson came home from Vietnam c…
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Risking a court-martial, he capped his military career by writing a damning expose on the Vietnam War called The Betrayal. Lyndon Johnson withdrew an Article 39 indictment against Corson when reminded of the embarrassing secrets Corson coul…
▶ 10:15
the FBI, NSA, CIA, White House, and the Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerry. Probably no one in Washington knew more genuine secrets than Corson. Marines who had served under his soldier spy leadership ended up in some of the most important …
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Ali North. He wanted to have some kind of political military assignment under Reagan that Corson had had under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. Corson liked to be seated and ready for his guests, so Corson got there early, and as he sippe…
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Corson first got to know Oliver North when he was recovering in the hospital. Corson would stop by to visit various students and occasionally contributed beer or other items to their recovery. North brooded over his injury, fearing that it …
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He said that I told North to knock off the Mr. Roberts Act for feeling sorry for himself. There would be enough time to go to Vietnam. North was declared medically unfit to remain at the Naval Academy. Corson said that North had such a stro…
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James Webb, who boxed with North at the Academy, and asked Webb for a favor. The fight was filmed. Webb and North fighting, they were both lefties. I told Jimmy, I know you can take him out, so just carry him for a few rounds. In effect, Ji…
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That's what happened. So basically, they staged a fight to prove that North was fine. Corson also knew that North fretted over the potential loss of his military career, and he hadn't even started it yet, and waited for word about getting r…
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Corson, not surprisingly, had received a call from the agency regarding North, who had undergone a battery of tests. He was the perfect guy for Shackley. Oliver would do anything to reach a goal. It was on that contact with the CIA that the…
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willingness to serve as a clandestine officer would not be forgotten, especially by the Bush administration. That is why North got the assignment to the National Security Council. North said in his autobiography that he won a silver star fo…
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was lost in battle, possibly because North's unit did not provide the protection that they were there to provide. Corson said Mike got killed five days before he was set to come home. The battle was up in the DMZ. Some of North's fellow Mar…
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In that darkest single moment of a very dark war, 347 women and children were murdered by U.S. servicemen. North later wrote that he had found the experience on the Buckley show satisfying. North was known as a commander devoted to his troo…
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Corson said that in 1974, North suffered an emotional problem. At one point, North was hospitalized after an incident with a handgun. North had just returned from assignment to Okinawa and was committed to the Bethesda Naval Hospital for se…
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Corson said that North went to great lengths to keep details of his illness out of his medical records. That would be interesting to know what those links were. After distinguished service in Europe, North received a coveted assignment to t…
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because you can tell because of their haircut. As he walked across Lafayette Park to meet Corson for their lunch, North was fully aware that he was meeting with a man who had been a great success at the White House. When North had called Co…
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as a result of an investigation into the assassination of the U.S. president, one might ask. Of course, if Dulles was on the commission, that would ensure the agency would be safe. Johnson felt the same way. He didn't want the investigation…
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who was close to Dulles, confirmed that the spymaster pulled strings to get on the Warren Commission. Quote, he lobbied hard for the job. Unquote, Corson said. He had commanded young Allen Jr. during the Korean War. After he took his place …
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but was turned down by Prime Minister Trudeau Sr. He stated, we just got rid of the CIA. We don't want him back. I love it. Then we have this. William Corbett, a terrorist expert who was in the CIA for 18 years and now works for ABC News in…
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Like they did supporting the Contras in Nicaragua. I've read a little bit about that. So I know that to be true. And also he said before they were bombed, U.S. and Chilean intelligence operative Townley first came into the U.S. with sarin t…