John Singlaub person
also: General John Sengleb, Sengleb, Singlib, Singalib, General Singlib, John Stenglov, John Stengleb, John Senglib, Zenglib, John Singlum, Singlum, Senglib, Singlem, Singleton, Siegleb, General Singlet, Jack Singlaub, John Singlib, Jack, General Singleb, Senglim, Sengle, Seng Libin, Singlow, Major General John Singlip, Major Singlub, Singlub, General John Singleb
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Claims (13)
John Singlaub supplied_arms_to
Contras host_asserted
“was only allowed to provide humanitarian aid. Of course, no one was deceived. Singlum later used the World Anti-Communist League banner to offer combat helicopters to the Contras. And he did so by filling it with medical supplies and called…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 59:46
John Singlaub headed
MAGSOG host_asserted
“the CIA bringing Tibetans into Colorado to train them to be terrorists, to attack China inside via Gladio, and was involved in the Phoenix program as head of the MAGSOG special operations group in Vietnam. In 77, he was the chief of staff t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 1:04:41
John Singlaub founded
Western Goals host_asserted
“wanted our military to come home. That's a bad thing. He was relieved of his duty and subsequently resigned from the military. He went on to co-found Western Goals Foundation. It was a conservative lobby group in 1979, followed by the U.S. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 1:05:09
John Singlaub member_of
Iran-Contra host_asserted
“the Western goals, which was a CIA front. And he was fully involved in the Iran-Contra affair as well. So just wanted to make sure I got that part in. So let's open it up. Ron, go ahead. Sorry, I hit the wrong button. Mom, I'm sitting here …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 1:05:39
John Singlaub founded
Western Goals host_asserted
“the Heritage Foundation in 1973, the Hunt brothers helped to fund Western Goals, which was a private intelligence agency founded by Jack Singlib and Larry McDonald, which was behind the Iran-Contra affairs. So what we're describing here, an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio @ 32:56
John Singlaub headed
World Anti-Communist League guest_asserted
“So, yeah, I got into it through Iran-Contra. And the Reagan era was sort of the golden era of the World Anti-Communist League. And the World Anti-Communist League was involved in supplying arms to the Contras. And its head was, at that time…”
▶ Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background @ 28:31
John Singlaub founded
Western Goals host_asserted
“It was founded in 1979, which is at the end of Jimmy Carter after the, you know, the Halloween massacre where all of the covert operations got ousted. And it was created by none other than Major General John Singlip, who comes up in all of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 7:14
John Singlaub founded
World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“And it says that John Rees and Larry McDonald joined Major Singlub to form Western Goals in 1979. They all three also created the American version of the World Anti-Communist League. And they were also members of the John Birch Society. So …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 9:07
John Singlaub founded
World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“of Thailand and several other quote-unquote anti-communist leaders, my quotes, had founded the group that would become known as the World Anti-Communist League in 1954. Singlem was a committed anti-communist, which means fascist, and that's…”
▶ The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio @ 6:18
Jimmy Carter removed_from_power
John Singlaub host_asserted
“Fulfilling a campaign promise he had made as early as 1975, President Carter announced that he would seek the removal of troops out of Korean Peninsula. In response, Senglim told the Washington Post, the go-to rag for the CIA, that Carter's…”
▶ The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio @ 7:48
John Singlaub member_of
John Birch Society host_asserted
“did a whole show on Larry McDonald and the downing of his aircraft on the Alpha Warrior show. He was elected in 1974 and began his term in 75 in the midst of Congress's crackdown on intelligence agencies. Shortly after, Singlet and McDonald…”
▶ The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio @ 9:16
John Singlaub headed
World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“better known as CIA agent, not a general, another one in a military uniform that's really a CIA agent, emerged from the shadows of the League, meaning the Anti-Communist League, to become caught up in what? Oh, the Iran-Contra scandal. As c…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 50:54
John Singlaub member_of
John Birch Society host_asserted
“How better to create a quote unquote Western Goals Foundation than having someone from the UK and someone from the US co-managing it? And he was also tied to the John Birch Society, which we oftentimes comes up in all of these conversations…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 7:42
Mentions (45)
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The colorful special operations expert, General John Sengleb, who shows up in all of these stories, worked in Laos and Cambodia with Shackley. Under Sengleb, during this period, were Secord and a young Marine named Lieutenant Oliver North. …
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Answered to both Singlib and General Adderholt, who headed the military assistance command in Thailand. Now, for those of you who are not military inclined, General Harry Adderholt is an icon in special operations, like the granddaddy. Both…
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but liked his ramrod straight West Point train professionalism. I thought he was arrogant. He acted like a general when he was a captain, but he was the best officer I ever had. General Singalib ran covert air operations in the entire regio…
▶ 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…
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chairperson. In 1966, the League merged with another fascist organization called Anti-Bolshevik Block of Nations. And we'll get into them. There's a whole other story on those guys. The merger beget the, what? World Anti-Communist League. L…
▶ 50:54
better known as CIA agent, not a general, another one in a military uniform that's really a CIA agent, emerged from the shadows of the League, meaning the Anti-Communist League, to become caught up in what? Oh, the Iran-Contra scandal. As c…
▶ 28:31
So, yeah, I got into it through Iran-Contra. And the Reagan era was sort of the golden era of the World Anti-Communist League. And the World Anti-Communist League was involved in supplying arms to the Contras. And its head was, at that time…
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Yes, John Stenglov. Yes. Isn't that crazy? Yes. Who had been in Korea, so he was close to the Apple, and then he became close to these Ukrainians, and it was all going on at once. And I call the Cold War World War III, which is what they wo…
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with the surveillance of us. So just wanted to put that in there. At the time, Major General John Singlib, who went by Jack, was U.S. Chief of Staff in South Korea, overseeing American troops stationed there. Singlib saw his mission in Sout…
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of Thailand and several other quote-unquote anti-communist leaders, my quotes, had founded the group that would become known as the World Anti-Communist League in 1954. Singlem was a committed anti-communist, which means fascist, and that's…
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Basically, what he wanted, General Singleb, and this is me talking, not the author, is he wanted basically a blank check to work with Chiang Kai-shek, who was during this time a big proliferator of drugs to fund their covert operations unde…
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attached to NATO in the implementation of stay-behind units and these covert operations being ran out of the CIA, of which General Singlet was a big part of it. And that pains me to say that, but he absolutely was. He worked hand-in-hand wi…
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Fulfilling a campaign promise he had made as early as 1975, President Carter announced that he would seek the removal of troops out of Korean Peninsula. In response, Senglim told the Washington Post, the go-to rag for the CIA, that Carter's…
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You must do it. Your choice is to resign and then say whatever the hell you want. You don't have free speech while you're on active duty. You just don't. It was the first time a general had been fired by a president since MacArthur, who bas…
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did a whole show on Larry McDonald and the downing of his aircraft on the Alpha Warrior show. He was elected in 1974 and began his term in 75 in the midst of Congress's crackdown on intelligence agencies. Shortly after, Singlet and McDonald…
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In a strange and twisted twist of fate, Larry McDonald was killed along with 268 others on Korean flight 007 when it was shot down by the Soviet Union when it strayed into their airspace. This left Sengle substantially in control of Western…
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to fight against the legitimate Nicaraguan government after they had deposed the sitting dictator that had been in bed with the CIA for decades. At the meeting of the Council for National Policy, CNP, in 1984, and at a 1985 Dallas meeting o…
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which was the U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, which Senglib also was in charge of, he solicited funds from private donors, Joseph Core, as in Core's beer, and heiress Ellen Garwood to fund the Contras. They were happy to ob…
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This is an off-books CIA operation, both Western goals and the world anti-communist league. Singlib would eventually be called to testify before Congress to explain his role in the Iran-Contra affair, which was orchestrated by CNP bigwig an…
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of what became known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine reached without input from Congress or the public was widely ridiculed. A second and final draft released in April 1992 had softened up some of the most pertinent criticisms, but it basically s…
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Now that the Soviet Union was in the history books, their attention turned primarily to China. Falun Gong was also formed in 1992 in ostensibly opposition to Chinese opposition party. Seng Libin and his anti-communist friends felt kinship t…
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Rebecca Mercers, named Sean Thieler. The company developed apps for political candidates in Cyprus and a variety of other campaigns. The 2014 anti-communist fervor personified by Singlib had ironically fully merged the Kremlin agenda, which…
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the Heritage Foundation in 1973, the Hunt brothers helped to fund Western Goals, which was a private intelligence agency founded by Jack Singlib and Larry McDonald, which was behind the Iran-Contra affairs. So what we're describing here, an…
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The Cayman Islands account number he gave North also went to retired General John Singlum and Richard Secord. Singlum had been to Honduras in March, impressed by the FDN camps and their need for modern anti-aircraft weapons. Singlum would h…
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million. Truly, the Saudis at this moment permitted the Contras to maintain their strength. Beyond these connections, private sources helped Calero. A key operator was John Singlum, who now headed the World Anti-Communist League and the Uni…
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in Korea during the Carter administration and had publicly criticized the president for considering withdrawals of U.S. troops from Korea. The confrontation had led to Senglib's transfer, which he retired as a result of that. General Sengli…
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Where did we find him? Oh, we found him in the Philippines. We found him in China. We found him in Thailand. We find him all over the place. Vietnam. He had forged a significant relationship with Taiwan and the nationalist Chinese, Chiang K…
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Deputy Chief of Station. Might I add that he was in the military while serving as the CIA's Deputy Chief of Station? He is one of the guys that is CIA wearing a uniform. For the Army in Vietnam, Singleton had commanded the MAC SOG, Special …
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Oliver North and McFarland, sending other NSC staff members Gaston Segor. That brought UNO two donations of a million dollars each. Singlab would have gone for more, save the intervention of Elliott Abrams. The general's highly publicized p…
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Siegleb gave Oliver North a Contra weapons wish list, which the Chanel group used for fundraising. At least John Siegleb had the contacts to bring Adolfo Calero the cheapest weapons and ammunition that could be bought. Langley was aware of …
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propelled grenades, mortars, and other equipment. The company managed to get Guatemalan end-user certificates and in December of 84 began buying arms in Portugal and Poland. Secord gave Calero the impression that weapons were being sold to …
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Again, another CIA front. Singlib arranged the deal early and took a long time to put it together. But for his $5 million, Calero received another 10,000 assault rifles, munitions, and SA-7 anti-aircraft missiles. Purportedly, these weapons…
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Barbara Stoodley may have lost money on the transaction. When his shipment reached Honduras in July of 85, a local representative of the competition met the vessel. Claiming to act for the officer to whom the cargo was consigned, the compet…
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future shipments. Uh-huh. Infighting among arms dealers eventually sullied the White House. At a meeting with North, Secord, Singlib, and Calero to discuss anti-aircraft weapons, desperate to get SAMs, Bermudez had a Secord offer of $180,00…
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though he could not offer trainers. The deal went to Secord. When Singlib complained, North conceded that he had better prices, then went ahead and cut Singlib out of future Contra arms deals. Actions prohibited by the Boland Amendment beca…
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SAS Regiment, which is like their special forces, met North and proposed a commando attack. North and Calero discussed the idea. Calero also consulted General Singlib about the concept. A Walker associate entered Nicaragua to test the route…
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Among them was El Bluff plans, the transfer of intelligence, an abortive North scheme to pirate a Nicaraguan merchant vessel. NSC staff pressured to get the State Department to secure a multiple entry visa for Singlib's trips to Honduras an…
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It was founded in 1979, which is at the end of Jimmy Carter after the, you know, the Halloween massacre where all of the covert operations got ousted. And it was created by none other than Major General John Singlip, who comes up in all of …
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And it says that John Rees and Larry McDonald joined Major Singlub to form Western Goals in 1979. They all three also created the American version of the World Anti-Communist League. And they were also members of the John Birch Society. So …
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the John Birch Society, Young Americans for Freedom, the National Review, Larry McDonald, Richard Vigueri, Louis Learman, Andy Messing, and billionaires such as the Hunt brothers and the Coors family all became funders of this effort. WACL,…
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saw an influx of large number of anti-communist hawks from the U.S. military and former military personnel, such as the Belgium General Robert Close, the former deputy director of the NATO War School in Rome. Under Singlib's leadership, the…
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was only allowed to provide humanitarian aid. Of course, no one was deceived. Singlum later used the World Anti-Communist League banner to offer combat helicopters to the Contras. And he did so by filling it with medical supplies and called…
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necessarily need to coordinate with them because they had NATO filling in the gap. And there was enough group overlap for all of that to be reasonably cohesive. So one footnote I wanted to highlight, a former OSS Jedburgh during World War I…
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wanted our military to come home. That's a bad thing. He was relieved of his duty and subsequently resigned from the military. He went on to co-found Western Goals Foundation. It was a conservative lobby group in 1979, followed by the U.S. …
▶ 1:05:39
the Western goals, which was a CIA front. And he was fully involved in the Iran-Contra affair as well. So just wanted to make sure I got that part in. So let's open it up. Ron, go ahead. Sorry, I hit the wrong button. Mom, I'm sitting here …