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Claims (56)
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
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
Cord Meyer member_of
CIA host_asserted
“1949, he joins an organization called the Central Intelligence Agency at the invitation of none other than Alan Dulles. He starts out at the offices of policy coordination under a guy by the name of Frank Wisner. And when he was initially a…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 24:23
Cord Meyer married
Mary Meyer host_asserted
“woman who, I was trying to find her name, Mary. And there is a lot of very interesting connections to that because she was shot dead and it was James Angleton that broke into her house and stole her diary because she was supposedly…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #37 @ 29:35
Cord Meyer studied_at
St. Paul's School documented
“tie perfectly together with some of the stuff the colonels talked about yeah all right next name i have on here going in alphabetical order as the alumni once again of the what's this name of the school again the saint paul school in concor…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #37 @ 26:55
Cord Meyer succeeded
Ben Bradlee book_quoted
“Braden joined the CIA and took the reins of the International Organizations Division, IOD, a covert group that handled clandestine activities of global corporate entities. After Braden left the CIA, he was replaced as head of the IOD by Ben…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 @ 25:31
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 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
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
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
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
Cord Meyer member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“Cord Meyer, class of 1943. See who he's pictured with? Is that Mother Teresa? No, it's Albert Einstein. Oh, I can't see from here. Oh, I see. I don't have my glasses on. Yeah, because Albert Einstein kind of, and of course, yeah, go ahead, …”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 11:20
Cord Meyer member_of
Continental National Bank host_asserted
“was a leading figure of the Continental National Bank, and he sat on the board after that merged with Hanover National Bank. He would also be a director of merger of the Colonial Trust Company and the Trust Company of America, and we've tal…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 12:21
Cord Meyer member_of
Hartford National Bank host_asserted
“was a leading figure of the Continental National Bank, and he sat on the board after that merged with Hanover National Bank. He would also be a director of merger of the Colonial Trust Company and the Trust Company of America, and we've tal…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 12:21
Cord Meyer member_of
Trust Company of America host_asserted
“was a leading figure of the Continental National Bank, and he sat on the board after that merged with Hanover National Bank. He would also be a director of merger of the Colonial Trust Company and the Trust Company of America, and we've tal…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 12:21
Cord Meyer member_of
New York State Democratic Committee host_asserted
“He was very influential in the Democrat Party. These guys, the parties don't mean so much to these scrolling key guys. They have to influence both. He would be so influential, he would actually be the chairman of the New York State Democrat…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 15:07
Cord Meyer member_of
New York Yacht Club host_asserted
“He was always famous for his opposition to Randolph Hearst when he ran for governor. And of course, Cord II was a member of the New York Yacht Club and the New York Athletic Club. So why don't you jump in there and talk about great grandfat…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 15:39
Cord Meyer member_of
New York Athletic Club host_asserted
“He was always famous for his opposition to Randolph Hearst when he ran for governor. And of course, Cord II was a member of the New York Yacht Club and the New York Athletic Club. So why don't you jump in there and talk about great grandfat…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 15:39
Cord Meyer founded
Dick and Meyer Sugar Refineries host_asserted
“And he's the one that created the Dick and Meyer sugar refinery. They got their sugar from Cuban plantations, which is a reoccurring theme of many of our Operation Gladio folks that got rich on sugar to include William Polly. This business …”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 16:10
Allen Dulles recruited
Cord Meyer host_asserted
“1949, he joins an organization called the Central Intelligence Agency at the invitation of none other than Alan Dulles. He starts out at the offices of policy coordination under a guy by the name of Frank Wisner. And when he was initially a…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 24:23
Cord Meyer headed
International terrorist organizations host_asserted
“Of course, the CIA does an inquiry and dismisses the claims. We've investigated ourselves and found we've done nothing wrong. Okay. He becomes really good friends by another one of our heroes by the name of James Jesus Angleton. 54, Angleto…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 25:30
Cord Meyer headed
United World Federalists host_asserted
“So 1947, he becomes the president of something called the United World Federalists. Now we've talked about that before. This is basically supposed to be a grassroots level membership organization working towards, stop me if you've heard thi…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 22:15
Cord Meyer member_of
Albert Einstein Institute host_asserted
“gets created by Gene Sharp, and they're the ones behind teaching all of these grassroots people the street tactics for overthrowing their government. Exactly. And Cord Meyer's there on day one as leading this organization. It's like one of …”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 23:16
Cord Meyer member_of
United States Marine Corps host_asserted
“He's a diplomat, but I should have looked that up. His mother, Cord the Fourth's mother, was Catherine Blair Thaw, and she came from a wealthy Pennsylvania coal family. All right, so back to Coalmire himself. Think he went to a grooming sch…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 18:16
Cord Meyer headed
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
“62 to 67, he leads the covert action staff of the Directorate of Plans. What is that, Colonel? That's overthrowing other governments. Why don't they just call it that? 67 to 73, this is during the Vietnam War, of course. Cord Meyer is the A…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:02:52
Cord Meyer member_of
CIA Directorate of Plans documented
“62 to 67, he leads the covert action staff of the Directorate of Plans. What is that, Colonel? That's overthrowing other governments. Why don't they just call it that? 67 to 73, this is during the Vietnam War, of course. Cord Meyer is the A…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:02:52
Cord Meyer headed
Operation Chaos documented
“He's also part of Project Foo Belt. What's Operation Foo Belt? Going after Chile's President Allende? Yep. And, of course, Cord Meyer is involved in all that, and he leads the Operation Chaos, also known as MH Chaos, which was the covert do…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:04:28
Cord Meyer divorced
Mary Meyer documented
“Amos Pinchot went to St. Paul's School right down the road and was a member of Skull and Bones. After Cord Meyer divorces Mary in 1958, Mary had a very public and famous romantic relationship with none other than JFK. We're told that by the…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:10:09
Cord Meyer wrote
Facing Reality from World Federalism to the CIA documented
“Cord Meyer would retire from the CIA in 1977. He'd become what else but a syndicated columnist. So did he really retire? And he would write a book in 1980 called Facing Reality from World Federalism to the CIA. And of course, you've already…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:14:14
Cord Meyer member_of
CIA documented
“If I walk through why, you can jump in anywhere. I'll give you a brief background. You can fill in the detail. He joins the CIA in 1949. Worked directly under Frank Wisner. The FBI would go after this guy his whole career as a notorious lef…”
▶ The Shadow State 38Secret Societies 22; Grooming Technocrats @ 27:43
Cord Meyer headed
Operation Mockingbird documented
“If I walk through why, you can jump in anywhere. I'll give you a brief background. You can fill in the detail. He joins the CIA in 1949. Worked directly under Frank Wisner. The FBI would go after this guy his whole career as a notorious lef…”
▶ The Shadow State 38Secret Societies 22; Grooming Technocrats @ 27:43
Cord Meyer member_of
CIA documented
“He's really good friends, of course, with James Jesus Angleton, who is all over the JFK assassination. Also the guy who flew out when Alan Dulles died. He flew out across the country to Dulles' house and stashed all his, grabbed all his pap…”
▶ The Shadow State 38Secret Societies 22; Grooming Technocrats @ 28:20
Cord Meyer headed
Operation Mockingbird host_asserted
“I find it fascinating that this is the main operative for Operation Mockingbird. We talked about all these connections and how these people work for the media. Well, it was a slam dunk to set up Operation Mockingbird because you already kne…”
▶ The Shadow State 38Secret Societies 22; Grooming Technocrats @ 31:17
Cord Meyer member_of
St. Paul's School documented
“tie perfectly together with some of the stuff the colonels talked about yeah all right next name i have on here going in alphabetical order as the alumni once again of the what's this name of the school again the saint paul school in concor…”
▶ The Shadow State 38Secret Societies 22; Grooming Technocrats @ 27:13
Cord Meyer member_of
CIA host_asserted
“that supposedly had a liaison with JFK, and they stole her diary. A highly decorated World War II, so Cord Meyer was in the Marines. Then he was invited to join the CIA under Alan Dulles. Meyer was assigned to Frank Wisner's office, which o…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 9:11
Cord Meyer member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Cara Macenez and his associate Cord Meyer, Bill Breaux, Deputy Division Chief Jim Flannery, and a few subordinates. Helms told the Secret Warriors they were going to get 10 million dollars to spend and put Cara Macenez in command. There wou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 35 @ 24:57
Cord Meyer headed
Operation Mockingbird documented
“I'll walk through why. You can jump in anywhere. I'll give you a brief background. You can fill in the detail. He joins the CIA in 1949. Worked directly under Frank Wisner. The FBI would go after this guy his whole career as a notorious lef…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #37 @ 27:25
Cord Meyer member_of
Operation Mockingbird host_asserted
“I find it fascinating that this is the main operative for Operation Mockingbird. We talked about all these connections and how these people work for the media. Well, it was a slam dunk to set up Operation Mockingbird because you already kne…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #37 @ 30:59
Cord Meyer member_of
Frank Wisner host_asserted
“that supposedly had a liaison with JFK, and they stole her diary. A highly decorated World War II, so Cord Meyer was in the Marines. Then he was invited to join the CIA under Alan Dulles. Meyer was assigned to Frank Wisner's office, which o…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 9:11
Cord Meyer did_business_with
Frank Wisner documented
“I'll walk through why. You can jump in anywhere. I'll give you a brief background. You can fill in the detail. He joins the CIA in 1949. Worked directly under Frank Wisner. The FBI would go after this guy his whole career as a notorious lef…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #37 @ 27:25
Cord Meyer relationship_with
James Jesus Angleton documented
“He's really good friends, of course, with James Jesus Angleton, who is all over the JFK assassination. Also the guy who flew out when Alan Dulles died. He flew out across the country to Dulles' house and stashed all his, grabbed all his pap…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #37 @ 28:02
Cord Meyer ordered_assassination_of
National Student Association documented
“If you are working to uncover, you're a communist. Instead, Kordenmeier 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 relationship…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 53:33
Mary Meyer married
Cord Meyer host_asserted
“throughout the 50s and 60s. They're the ones that set up all the front companies. Cord Meyer's wife, Mary Panot, had met then Marine Lieutenant Meyer in 1944. Meyer had lost his left eye in a horrific battle against the Japanese in Guam. At…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 10:09
Mary Meyer married
Cord Meyer host_asserted
“the agency's counterintelligence office. Returning again to Ben Bradley, his life takes on the essence of a classic spy. Bradley's wife, Toni Pinot, P-I-N-C-H-O-T, was in the Vassar class of 1944, sister of Mary Meyer, who was married to Co…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 8:01
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
E. Howard Hunt framed
Cord Meyer book_quoted
“He becomes the station chief in London, 1973 and 76, which means our direct liaison with MI6 in the 70s. Let's see. A lot of people thought that he might have been Deep Throat, the person feeding Woodward and Bernstein the information in Wa…”
▶ The Shadow State 38Secret Societies 22; Grooming Technocrats @ 28:49
Cord Meyer founded
Operation Mockingbird host_asserted
“So that chapter should have been titled Hypocrisy and Lies. I mean, I just got a kick out of Cord Meyer, who we just covered in our series in Skull and Key, the father of Operation Mockingbird, trying to, you know, acting shocked that we wo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 35 @ 57:50
Cord Meyer headed
CIA host_asserted
“And here's our boy Cord Meyer running the whole damn show. He was. All right. The story got a little bit more sunlight thrown on it, or daylight, I guess. There's a woman named Deborah Davis who wrote the biography of Catherine Graham. Who'…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 52:00
Cord Meyer asserted
JFK assassination host_asserted
“and who had committed such a heinous crime. His exact quote was the same son of a bitches that killed JFK. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's wrap it up with his wife because this is a fun story. Okay. His wife is Mary Pinchot, P-I-N-C-H-O-T, who…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:09:36
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
Cord Meyer implicated_in
JFK assassination guest_asserted
“His two sons revealed that their father had recorded several claims about the assassination. In 2007, once again, the Rolling Stone, St. John Hunt, son of E. Howard Hunt, detailed the individuals who were implicated by his father in the JFK…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:08:33
Mentions (82)
▶ 28:44
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…
▶ 30:11
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…
▶ 52:01
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 …
▶ 1:04:11
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…
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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, …
▶ 1:05:18
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…
▶ 39:24
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…
▶ 40:05
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…
▶ 42:57
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…
▶ 49:12
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. …
▶ 4:44
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…
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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.…
▶ 1:55
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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How about Skull and Bonesman McGeorge Bundy? What? Yeah, he was an Alfredus Henry Snow Prize. I guess he was a good student, too. And a gentleman by the name of Strobe Talbot. No. Yeah. We'll get to Strobe a bit more later. All right, so Ja…
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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 shit. I skipped right over the name. Okay. Keep go…
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tie perfectly together with some of the stuff the colonels talked about yeah all right next name i have on here going in alphabetical order as the alumni once again of the what's this name of the school again the saint paul school in concor…
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If I walk through why, you can jump in anywhere. I'll give you a brief background. You can fill in the detail. He joins the CIA in 1949. Worked directly under Frank Wisner. The FBI would go after this guy his whole career as a notorious lef…
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He's really good friends, of course, with James Jesus Angleton, who is all over the JFK assassination. Also the guy who flew out when Alan Dulles died. He flew out across the country to Dulles' house and stashed all his, grabbed all his pap…
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He becomes the station chief in London, 1973 and 76, which means our direct liaison with MI6 in the 70s. Let's see. A lot of people thought that he might have been Deep Throat, the person feeding Woodward and Bernstein the information in Wa…
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yeah well i just want to clarify because the office of policy sounds so innocuous as far as you know oh well it's just policy no that's the actual um office that planned all of the covert actions so this guy was um front and center in all o…
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Cord Meyer's wife was murdered and 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. Nothin…
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Cord Meyer, class of 1943. See who he's pictured with? Is that Mother Teresa? No, it's Albert Einstein. Oh, I can't see from here. Oh, I see. I don't have my glasses on. Yeah, because Albert Einstein kind of, and of course, yeah, go ahead, …
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Yeah, we'll get to the Einstein part, but it was really hard. It was actually pretty hard to find a good picture of Cord Meyer, so I used the Einstein one. So why is he so special? Where do we start? He's born in 1920. Go ahead. With his fa…
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Yeah, we'll get to the Einstein part, but it was really hard. It was actually pretty hard to find a good picture of Cord Meyer, so I used the Einstein one. So why is he so special? Where do we start? He's born in 1920. Go ahead. With his fa…
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was a leading figure of the Continental National Bank, and he sat on the board after that merged with Hanover National Bank. He would also be a director of merger of the Colonial Trust Company and the Trust Company of America, and we've tal…
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was a leading figure of the Continental National Bank, and he sat on the board after that merged with Hanover National Bank. He would also be a director of merger of the Colonial Trust Company and the Trust Company of America, and we've tal…
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They went to J.P. Morgan's conference room where they devised what became the predecessor of the Federal Reserve Bank. What happened was a bunch of banks were failing in 1907. And the American dollar was in absolute panic. J.P. Morgan ends …
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They went to J.P. Morgan's conference room where they devised what became the predecessor of the Federal Reserve Bank. What happened was a bunch of banks were failing in 1907. And the American dollar was in absolute panic. J.P. Morgan ends …
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it's part of that this would lead into the real causes of world war one and how jp morgan was the lender for almost the entire land lease program that kept europe afloat during the early years of the war that's what's going on here at this …
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it's part of that this would lead into the real causes of world war one and how jp morgan was the lender for almost the entire land lease program that kept europe afloat during the early years of the war that's what's going on here at this …
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He was very influential in the Democrat Party. These guys, the parties don't mean so much to these scrolling key guys. They have to influence both. He would be so influential, he would actually be the chairman of the New York State Democrat…
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He was always famous for his opposition to Randolph Hearst when he ran for governor. And of course, Cord II was a member of the New York Yacht Club and the New York Athletic Club. So why don't you jump in there and talk about great grandfat…
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And he's the one that created the Dick and Meyer sugar refinery. They got their sugar from Cuban plantations, which is a reoccurring theme of many of our Operation Gladio folks that got rich on sugar to include William Polly. This business …
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It also expanded into rice milling in Louisiana. And that's why it's so interesting is the Cuba connection, because obviously when we get to Cord Meyer IV himself, he's got a vested financial interest in overthrowing Castro. Correct. A litt…
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Right. But understand that just for the researchers out there, this company still exists under the Meyer Cord Meyer development and owns a crap ton of real estate in Queens area of New York. Yes. We're definitely talking about a blue blood …
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He's a diplomat, but I should have looked that up. His mother, Cord the Fourth's mother, was Catherine Blair Thaw, and she came from a wealthy Pennsylvania coal family. All right, so back to Coalmire himself. Think he went to a grooming sch…
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Yeah, it was kind of like a sister to the Marshall Plan. Its alleged purpose was to strengthen the European allies through military assistance and economic recovery. Yeah, it basically served us like an intelligence front. Yeah, we talked a…
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So 1947, he becomes the president of something called the United World Federalists. Now we've talked about that before. This is basically supposed to be a grassroots level membership organization working towards, stop me if you've heard thi…
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gets created by Gene Sharp, and they're the ones behind teaching all of these grassroots people the street tactics for overthrowing their government. Exactly. And Cord Meyer's there on day one as leading this organization. It's like one of …
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This whole organization eventually would fade into obscurity, but it really just kind of got sucked into other agencies and other organizations. The original ambitions are still intact to this very day. Correct. If you want to look into rea…
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1949, he joins an organization called the Central Intelligence Agency at the invitation of none other than Alan Dulles. He starts out at the offices of policy coordination under a guy by the name of Frank Wisner. And when he was initially a…
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You got to think about this. He's 29 years old and he's rubbing elbows with these people that are running the world. Yes. Okay. It's interesting. Side note, 1953, the FBI went after him and tried to deny his security clearance because he'd …
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Of course, the CIA does an inquiry and dismisses the claims. We've investigated ourselves and found we've done nothing wrong. Okay. He becomes really good friends by another one of our heroes by the name of James Jesus Angleton. 54, Angleto…
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And that's where we're going now. Yeah, let's jump in Operation Mockingbird. Hang on. I'm going to pull up some notes. Everybody knows what Operation Mockingbird is. It's supposed to be Mockingbird media. People say it's fake, but it's not.…
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So this was a very wide network in the United States and not just the primary papers that you normally associate with it. And of course, you notice there's several Miami papers. And that's because the largest CIA station in the United State…
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uh the all-time cia bad guys cord meyers on that mount rushmore is an anti-hero without a doubt yes so this is a big this guy's a big deal so again one of the funny things about operation mockingbird it gets exposed a few different ways and…
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And here's our boy Cord Meyer running the whole damn show. He was. All right. The story got a little bit more sunlight thrown on it, or daylight, I guess. There's a woman named Deborah Davis who wrote the biography of Catherine Graham. Who'…
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put more daylight on this. And can we spend a minute with their influence during using Mockingbird in Hollywood? Sure. So Frank Wisner recruited via Cordmire, recruited a whole bunch of media people in Hollywood. For example, former OSS fil…
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orchestrated plan to control us through the use of information warfare for what purpose oh maybe to create their new world order one world government absolutely remember that's what this cord meyer has always been about one world government…
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actually came out and confessed that this is going on run by cord meyer from scroll and key fits all the damn patterns they're trying to pretend it doesn't exist and did you know that cd jackson negotiated marina oswald's exclusive rights t…
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62 to 67, he leads the covert action staff of the Directorate of Plans. What is that, Colonel? That's overthrowing other governments. Why don't they just call it that? 67 to 73, this is during the Vietnam War, of course. Cord Meyer is the A…
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He's also part of Project Foo Belt. What's Operation Foo Belt? Going after Chile's President Allende? Yep. And, of course, Cord Meyer is involved in all that, and he leads the Operation Chaos, also known as MH Chaos, which was the covert do…
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January 6th. Yeah, that's Cord Meyer, people. They maintain files on over 7,200 individuals. They have computer indexes on 300,000 citizens and over 1,000 organizations. This gets exposed in 1974 when Seymour Hersh, boy, I'll tell you what,…