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Claims (14)
Cord Meyer member_of
CIA documented
“Embarrassed at the time, Langley had not done enough to alter its arrangements. Why change something that's been working for you for decades? One of Cord Meyer's subordinates, the chief of the program evaluation group, had pushed for more s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 2:08
Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of
Cord Meyer documented
“basically massacre. The director assigned this task to Cord Meyer. With the help of two Hungarian-speaking analysts, Meyer made a full survey of their broadcast, you know, because they weren't in English. His conclusion, Cord Meyer, quote, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:04:46
Cord Meyer covered_up
Radio Free Europe documented
“basically massacre. The director assigned this task to Cord Meyer. With the help of two Hungarian-speaking analysts, Meyer made a full survey of their broadcast, you know, because they weren't in English. His conclusion, Cord Meyer, quote, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:04:46
Allen Dulles protected
Cord Meyer documented
“Were the backbone of the Republicans, he recognized that many of the most passionate Cold War warriors were ex-communists and liberals who not only had firsthand knowledge of the bare-knuckle Communist Party practices, but were eager to pro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 46:10
Cord Meyer member_of
St. Paul's School host_asserted
“The St. Paul School in Concord, New Hampshire. Yeah. SPS. Here's a guy by the name of, tell me if you've heard it, Cord Meyer. Oh, my gosh. Are you kidding me? CIA's own Cord Meyer. If I walk through why, you can jump in anywhere. I'll give…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508 @ 27:11
Cord Meyer headed
Operation Mockingbird host_asserted
“J. Edgar Hoover did not like commies, apparently, or people that had left-leaning notions. This guy is known as the principal operative of Operation Mockingbird. Y'all heard about the Mockingbird media? This is the guy. He's really good fri…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508 @ 27:45
Cord Meyer member_of
CIA documented
“the world of anti-Castro and anti-Kennedy from it. Meyer belonged to the agency's Georgetown set. At Yale, he had dreamed of a writing career. After returning from the war, he devoted himself to the cause of world peace. But after he was in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:00:43
Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of
Cord Meyer documented
“Agency psychological warfare expert Cord Meyer, who had supervised Radio Free Europe since 1954, awakened the morning of October 24th to a phone call from Dulles, who ordered him to the headquarters immediately. All hell has broken loose in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 52:01
Cord Meyer member_of
Operation Mockingbird host_asserted
“She had her house broken into in the immediate aftermath of her murder. So, you know, the CIA was involved with it because they were immediately called. James Angleton shows up and steals her diary. Nothing else. I wonder how Cord felt abou…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508 @ 30:40
Richard Helms appointed
Cord Meyer documented
“They'll audit you and me, but not CIA proprietaries. The Ramparts flap marked a sea change for the agency, ending Frank Wisner's fabled Wurlitzer. Two years later, Cord Meyer went to London as the station chief, his service rewarded by Rich…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 12:39
Allen Dulles recruited
Cord Meyer documented
“Dulles had recruited them and promoted them throughout the agency. Meyer was particularly beholding to Dulles, who had saved his career in 1953 when Joe McCarthy wanted him purged. Howard Hunt might have been worried about joining the JFK p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:01:42
James Jesus Angleton recruited
Cord Meyer documented
“the world of anti-Castro and anti-Kennedy from it. Meyer belonged to the agency's Georgetown set. At Yale, he had dreamed of a writing career. After returning from the war, he devoted himself to the cause of world peace. But after he was in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:00:43
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
Cord Meyer ordered_assassination_of
National Student Association host_asserted
“If you are working to uncover, you're a communist. Instead, Corden Meyer instructed James Kiley, his case officer for the National Student Association, to turn off the money. At least the agency would be able to deny any current relationshi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 49:12
Mentions (42)
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The trade unions weren't communist. They just wanted workers' rights, but they love using that title. A decade later, Edwin Wilson, who had begun his CIA career as a guard for a secret U2 base, found a home. Oh, man, who else did that? That…
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There's a few other notable winners of that prize that I thought were worth mentioning. How about Skull and Bonesman McGeorge Bundy? What? Yeah, he was an Alfreus Henry Snow Prize. I guess he was a good student, too. And a gentleman by the …
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Cord Meyer. He's CIA. I skipped right over it. Cord Meyer is the, his wife, Mary, whatever her name, Cord Meyer. She's the one that was murdered. And Angleton ran in and grabbed her diary that she supposedly had an affair with JFK. Holy shi…
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The St. Paul School in Concord, New Hampshire. Yeah. SPS. Here's a guy by the name of, tell me if you've heard it, Cord Meyer. Oh, my gosh. Are you kidding me? CIA's own Cord Meyer. If I walk through why, you can jump in anywhere. I'll give…
▶ 27:45
J. Edgar Hoover did not like commies, apparently, or people that had left-leaning notions. This guy is known as the principal operative of Operation Mockingbird. Y'all heard about the Mockingbird media? This is the guy. He's really good fri…
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But a lot of people think that that was a rumor and that it wasn't actually happening. And that was all documented in her diary. But they were using that after JFK was assassinated. They put out all of these rumors, you know, to lessen the …
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along with political warfare and covert actions like the riots. Guyana is under attack by the CIA. By April 1963, Jagen's financial distress had become so serious that he wrote to Kennedy asking about USAID. On April 15th, Cord Meyer, who w…
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Agency psychological warfare expert Cord Meyer, who had supervised Radio Free Europe since 1954, awakened the morning of October 24th to a phone call from Dulles, who ordered him to the headquarters immediately. All hell has broken loose in…
▶ 52:29
a deputy to Cord Meyer, who had handled Radio Free Europe almost from its inception. Michael Josselson, a CIA specialist on cultural operations. James MacHarger with Free Europe. And Carl Kalase, a Hungarian specialist. William Griffith, a …
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like Barnes in Germany, found him close to a breakdown. In fact, Wisner could hardly continue. Back home, he had to go on vacation. On December 16th, he was checked into a hospital. He had contacted hepatitis. At least that's what we were t…
▶ 1:04:46
basically massacre. The director assigned this task to Cord Meyer. With the help of two Hungarian-speaking analysts, Meyer made a full survey of their broadcast, you know, because they weren't in English. His conclusion, Cord Meyer, quote, …
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And Cord Meyer wrote the lie. The highlighted passage on the White House copy among the paragraphs of justification for even why we have Radio Free Europe said, quote, a few of the scripts reviewed do indicate that Radio Free Europe occasio…
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and retired diplomat Robert Murphy. In early April, they received Cord Meyer, chief of the CIA's international organizations branch, and a logistical official to inform the group on actions in Latin America other than Cuba, which involved a…
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that we're very familiar with, where they repeatedly tried to overthrow the government there. Bob Murphy, not impressed, told the full panel that Meyer's presentation consisted only of light touches. Meyer conveyed the impression that cover…
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A fresh briefing in September featured CIA big guns, not just Cord Meyer, but Richard Helms and Desmond Fitzgerald. In September and November, John McCone at the Intelligence Board defended the CIA's role in South Vietnam against publicly r…
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soured everything. Shortly before the time series on the CIA, the NSA president, Phil Sherborn, told his director of development, Michael Wood, of the CIA's role. Not everyone in the organization were witting. Cord Meyer of the covert actio…
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The agency reluctantly reported this to Walt Restow, who was the national security advisor. Cord Meyer, whose name appeared in this fiasco, writes of this almost as if he was an innocent bystander implicated by NSA's irresponsible youth rad…
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If you are working to uncover, you're a communist. Instead, Corden Meyer instructed James Kiley, his case officer for the National Student Association, to turn off the money. At least the agency would be able to deny any current relationshi…
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Embarrassed at the time, Langley had not done enough to alter its arrangements. Why change something that's been working for you for decades? One of Cord Meyer's subordinates, the chief of the program evaluation group, had pushed for more s…
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primarily overseas, but not exclusively. Cord Meyer, who had a tin ear for politics and intelligence, regarded what happened as an act of unilateral political disarmament. The truth is that Radio Free Europe link had already begun to fray. …
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Eastern Europe would be crippled, but they didn't actually do anything to set them up. And the one time when they had the chance with Hungary, they let them get killed. Presidents supported these campaigns at CIA's behest. The Soviet bloc h…
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Capitalizing on communist dissension, which could have revealed the Radio Free Europe CIA propaganda mission, had been crossed out of a speech and replaced with source of block information, meaning the Soviet bloc. In November of 1964, Cord…
▶ 12:39
They'll audit you and me, but not CIA proprietaries. The Ramparts flap marked a sea change for the agency, ending Frank Wisner's fabled Wurlitzer. Two years later, Cord Meyer went to London as the station chief, his service rewarded by Rich…
▶ 18:25
Returning to Langley after his fateful encounter with the president, Director Helms called together senior people to develop a plan to show Nixon. Early the next morning, Helms gathered the group, including his deputy, General Robert Cushma…
▶ 19:23
for a successful plan, the only apparent avenue being a military coup. Cord Myers recalls that he and Cara Menes were stunned. We were surprised what we were being ordered to do, Myers wrote. Much as we feared an Allende presidency, the ide…
▶ 46:40
actually forced only about 150 officers into retirement, Cord Myers being one of them, supposedly only actually had to fire 17, although the DO declined from its Vietnam War peak of about 7,500 to roughly 4,750. That total is rather close.…
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Braden and Cord Meyer and basically Warhamster and I did almost an entire show on Cord Meyer. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time going over his history. You can go watch that other podcast. But the National Student Association project …
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capability that they were deploying. The summer group held seminars each year where the CIA would go through the field for its preferences, then supported those people in the association's elections. Cord Meyer and other agency apologists a…
▶ 56:52
You guys have a great weekend. If you haven't watched the show we did with Warhamster earlier today, it was a bang up show about Cord Meyer. Really interesting show. And I love doing those shows with him. So I saw Illini in the chat over th…
▶ 46:10
Were the backbone of the Republicans, he recognized that many of the most passionate Cold War warriors were ex-communists and liberals who not only had firsthand knowledge of the bare-knuckle Communist Party practices, but were eager to pro…
▶ 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 …
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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 …
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the world of anti-Castro and anti-Kennedy from it. Meyer belonged to the agency's Georgetown set. At Yale, he had dreamed of a writing career. After returning from the war, he devoted himself to the cause of world peace. But after he was in…
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to literary types whose ranks he once was a member. After his beautiful wife, Mary, left him, Meyer became increasingly embittered, especially when the rumors began flowing that she was JFK's mistress. Hunt carefully refrained from naming D…
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Dulles had recruited them and promoted them throughout the agency. Meyer was particularly beholding to Dulles, who had saved his career in 1953 when Joe McCarthy wanted him purged. Howard Hunt might have been worried about joining the JFK p…
▶ 32:43
Still thick in the clandestine affairs, meeting with key officials from the CIA's covert side, like Desmond Fitzgerald, who, along with David Phillips, oversaw the violent intrigue swirling around Cuba. Angleton and his deputy, Cord Meyer, …
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And that's where the Mary Meyer, Cord Meyer's wife, ex-wife, rumored affair came from, from the CIA. He told friends and family that Kennedy's rule was marked by sexual decadence as well as criminality. A particularly ironic twist since Ang…
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Critic had tried to get the best of Dulles the previous night, and he said that Dulles made mincemeat of him. That evening when Lipton showed up at the hall, he had butterflies in his stomach. I had never met, I had never been more frighten…
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Each student can look and see for himself, he told Dulles. After the heated exchange between Lipton and Dulles, the evening began to wind down. Dulles was given the opportunity to restore some of his dignity and was asked a question that al…
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their reputation. He had written Jerry Ford in February of 65 telling him he was happy to note that attacks on the Warren report had dwindled to a whimper, but it was wishful thinking. The whimper of criticism became a roar. Sometime in the…
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over his inability to slow down. In February of 1966, she wrote Mary Bancroft, the girlfriend, asking for her advice on how to get Alan to slow down. The two women knew that Dulles would not scale back as his health failed. He was, quote un…
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Throughout the entire Warren Commission inquiry, Bancroft was a weathervane for shifting opinions in New York City. She started to consider whether the outspoken critic was right. After listening to him, she was quoted as saying, even I beg…