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“was outlawed in America to help deliver babies in places like Kentucky. Joan escorted midwives on horseback through hills and hollers in the Bluegrass State, sometimes riding for as long as five hours at a time. In the following years, as t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 6 @ 33:16
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“Basically fits the paradigm of those going in the OSS. He joined the Navy, but ends up in the OSS. He also, after the OSS is disbanded, he joins the CIA and he goes to Turkey, Egypt, Italy and Austria. And of course, we know Turkey.…”
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Bernie Houghton's cover was to operate the R&R tours, it says right here, R&R tours for GIs in Australia. Houghton expanded military rest stops to include Sydney, where he had opened the Bourbon and Beef Steak, that's the name of his restau…
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By an agreement signed by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, much like Austria had done. But Washington, nor British officials, was interested in doing that. Huh. Well, that would have certainly brought peace to have a neutral country. So …
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Already organized such operations in Germany and Austria, because keep in mind, they came from the German concept of the stay behind unit and all of the former German occupied territory had these units. So the anti-communist stay behind uni…
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that were trained at a secret camp called Camp Ritchie, which was located in Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. The majority of the people came to the United States from Germany and Austria and basically went through this training. …
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It was because of budget cuts, not incompetency or your association with shady figures. One of the telegrams that went to Vienna, firing station chief George Weiss, W-E-I-S-Z. Weiss had been Shackley's colleague in Berlin in the early days.…
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The South African force made up just half of the proposed invasion force. The other members of that force came from Great Britain, Rhodesia, the U.S., Germany, and Austria. So in other words, it was a NATO force used, as we have seen so man…
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He starts off the very first chapter of the first section of the book. The men in the yard carried submarine guns. They did not threaten, but only asked for food. The German farmer gave them some and they left. The sooner they were gone, th…
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Excuse me, Austrian border. So they go on to talk about how all of these people are in the woods in Austria and that they all seem very well equipped with guns and ammunition because they were part of the stay behind crew. They were also me…
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They talked about peace treaties for Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria that had participated in World War II. At the end of 1947, a conference ended with no accords at all. Even negotiations for a peace treaty with Austria was broken off by Ma…
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Russia laid shattered. Despite appearances, Soviet prisoners and forced laborers repatriated at the end of the war faced death and long years of detention and often merely exchanged German work for Russian work. Unlike the U.S., Russia's ec…
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Only a few months later, the president dispatched major American naval force to the Mediterranean for the first time in response to the Soviet pressure on Turkey for a joint defense agreement. The suspension of reparations from Germany also…
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You echoed just what I was going to say to Stella. Her mom is not alone. I have a friend, as some of you may know, who grew up in... Actually, her husband grew up in Germany and she grew up in Austria. And her parents went through during th…
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In 1946, he was arrested by the Allied forces in Austria for fraud. And keep in mind, Austria is where Otto Skorzeny went to hang out after the war. And a whole bunch of the other CIA-recruited Nazis were all found in Austria. That's weird.…
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capabilities and their desire to be able to replicate those types of things in the future on behalf of themselves, you know, basically he was given a false identity. He was literally put into Austria to hang out after he got out of the quot…
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begun in the Navy and had been transferred to the OSS, and he stayed all the way through the different iterations until it finally got to be the CIA. He had served in Vienna and Madrid and had been a station chief in Athens. Now, what do we…
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Basically fits the paradigm of those going in the OSS. He joined the Navy, but ends up in the OSS. He also, after the OSS is disbanded, he joins the CIA and he goes to Turkey, Egypt, Italy and Austria. And of course, we know Turkey.…
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And Italy and Austria during the time that he would have been there in the late 40s and early 50s were all part of Operation Gladio. And then, of course, we just mentioned his excursion over into Greece as well. So very, very interesting. I…
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There's all kinds of money passing back and forth. They actually paid for the secretary that wrote Mein Kampf. That was on them. They paid for that secretary to sit in that jail in Austria and basically help. I mean, he didn't like make shi…
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Far East Division. He had then headed stations in Athens and Vienna and had an idea of the enormity of the situation. The two men could only scratch their heads in frustration. Some sources maintain Wisner maintained possible arms shipments…
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Accounts by former CIA officers suggest the agency people in Hungary were caught up in the events of the rebellion and barely escaped across the Austrian border. Vice President Richard Nixon and former OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan, like Wisn…
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Budapest students weather Radio Free Europe in the Voice of America had encouraged the rebellion. They all said yes, but we didn't hear about that here. Almost 200,000 refugees made it to Austria. Casualty estimates range up to 30,000 dead …
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a Far East specialist by trade, had been drafted after a tour as station chief in Tokyo. Jack Esterling had now risen to deputy chief of division at the headquarters. Still on board after all these years was Jerry Droller, D-R-O-L-L-E-R, ch…
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Um, you don't know, Burnham, Jagen said. He'll cut my throat, Jagen reported. Prime Minister Jagen again suggested a coalition. He offered to sign an international treaty to neutralize Guyana in much the same way that Austria had from 1945 …
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Helms had met Nixon as far back as the Hungarian uprising when he briefed the vice president before Nixon's trip to Austria. They did not cross paths again until now. Helms had no illusion. Reappointment, he writes, quote, did not shake any…
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and discovering men in his yard with submachine guns. No sooner were they gone than the farmer reported the incident to local authorities. The police also received other reports of armed men in the woods along the Austrian border. Investiga…
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took over the SSU in 1946, it had been reduced to fewer than 200 people. In addition to the SSU, the Army's Counterintelligence Corps remained as a clandestine operation entity. Military intelligence, or G2, controlled the CIC. The G2 was w…
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as part of the military occupation. The first American links with anti-Soviet immigrants were forged by the G2. The 430th CIC detachment was stationed in Austria. And Austria, by the way, is home to the genesis of the Nazi movement, or at l…
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The shift in early 1947 when it recorded a change in emphasis from denazification to positive intelligence. So gone were the days where we were going to actually get rid of the Nazis and in rushed where we're going to use all of them. In Au…
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They funneled over $300,000 a month to Rendon. The propagandists in the CIA encouraged a range of exile groups to attend a Congress in Vienna where the Iraqi National Congress was created, which basically is just a fake CIA front. That's wh…
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asset, wanted no part in the covert operation either, but agreed to give the agency a free hand to do whatever he wanted in his country. After that, the former Baghdad station worked out of Amman. Jordan, obstacles remained formidable. In t…
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and basically began pulling at support from the Galen organization. Colonel Charles Bromley would be the chief army representative. The man from the CIA, also from the army actually, but in the reserve, having just joined the agency, was Ja…
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who were to be activated if the Soviet Union ran over the Volga Gap, known today by the name Gladio, after the title of the Italian counterpart of the CIA network, among the few to be acknowledged in the 1990s. There were perhaps, get this,…
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This was spy work. To intensify tensions, the U.S. began deliberately avoiding meetings between its representatives and the Iranian government officials. Strategy of tension. Ambassador Lloyd Henderson stayed away in Salzburg, Austria. Gene…
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The documentary was made by a Hollywood director, Billy Wilder, who was an Austrian born Jew who had fled Hitler, who compiled it from scraps of film from the U.S. Army Signal Corps. In his opening statement, Robert Jackson, the chief U.S. …
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They were reading my telephone conversations on the Austrian annexation and everybody was laughing with me. And then they showed that awful film. It spoiled everything, unquote. The Nuremberg trial was a moral milestone. The first time that…
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that he might have to spend some time behind bars to deflect any criticism of preferential treatment. But Wolf enjoyed VIP treatment, receiving better food than the rest of the prisoners, and even allowed to wear his full uniform and a gun.…
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Realizing that the general was still not safe from prosecution, Dulles arranged for him to be diagnosed with a nervous disorder and in the spring of 1946 was transferred to a psychiatric institution in Austria. Wolf knew that Dulles had eng…
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Dulles never made Bancroft an official OSS agent, but he quickly found a role for her, phoning her at her Zurich apartment every morning at 9.30 and giving her the day's marching orders. She pumped information out of a variety of sources, f…
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was outlawed in America to help deliver babies in places like Kentucky. Joan escorted midwives on horseback through hills and hollers in the Bluegrass State, sometimes riding for as long as five hours at a time. In the following years, as t…
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The Vatican proposal would give U.S. and British forces control of a strategically important port in Trieste on the border of Italy and Yugoslavia. This position would permit them to rapidly enter Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Austria so that th…
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and should be permitted to keep Austria and several other territories that Hitler had already claimed. Dulles did not seem too attached to the Czechoslovakian question. The notes continued. He favored enlargement of Poland eastward into the…
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Higman stepped forward with a blistering expose of Abbe's institutional role during the Third Reich. For those more critical observers, Hermann Abbe was not only the director at Germany's most powerful war industries, he was also the financ…
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of the complex role played by the German financial elite in the Holocaust. Hitler's government, the Deutsche Bank, and most of Germany's large corporations regarded the absorption of Austria into the Reich as a test case for going east. The…
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The persecution measures used in this new Reich proved to be faster and more sophisticated than they thought possible. Hitler's Ministry of Economics tipped off the Deutsche Bank to Germans' plan to march into Austria in 1938, well before t…
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Jewish-owned businesses and real estate for acquisition. At the top of his list was the Rothschild-owned bank, Kredenstahl Bank AG, which the Deutsche Bank had been attempting to take over for over 10 years. Deutsche Bank had a small intere…
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to take control of the Rothschild Bank. The Deutsche Bank's chief rival in this effort was the German state-owned BIAG, which owned a major Berlin bank, which was called RKG. About a week before Germans marched into Austria, Abs met with th…
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then appointed him onto the board the following morning. The bank's directors did not reveal their knowledge of the coming Nazi invasion to the rest of the Austrian public. So it makes you think, especially during, when you look at the reve…
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notify the Austrian government. So Rothschild's Bank knows the country is going to get attacked. They make a deal and they allow the country to be attacked with no warning. Two weeks after the Nazi invasion, Credit & Stall formally became a…
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Kredenstahl and other Vienna banks soon became a focal point for this struggle. SS officer Hans Kroll, K-E-H-R-L, confronted Abt shortly after taking over Austria and told him that the Reich could not consent to the acquisition by Deutsche …
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His bank alone, he concluded, should be given authority to select staff and set policy in the Austrian institution. Abs won undisputed control of their attacking Bridget. Let me put Stellar up here. Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank carried out the …
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Abs helped Aryanize scores of properties in Austria, depriving hundreds of Jewish families their livelihood and setting their stage for their deportation to concentration camps. Credenstahl eventually became the single most active bank in t…
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at a fraction of their value was supported. Credenstahl bought up Jewish assets for the bank's own portfolio as well. Herman Abbs was at the time vice chairman of Credenstahl's board with direct responsibility for the approval of all large …
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Jewish businesses taken over as their owners sought to flee the country included Delka, D-E-L-K-A Shoe Factory, purchased by Kredenstahl at 40% of the value, the Brunner Brothers, Lamp and Metalware Factory, Samuel Schallinger's Hotel Brist…
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at 64% of their value. The Toppler family, tiller brand textile and uniform company, at 25% of its value. The Arianization of Brunner factory was jointly handled by Credenstahl and Deutsche Bank Berlin office. Captured records indicate. Mea…
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the banks specifically, it looks like, and in the case with the one in Austria, we know for a fact, they made deals. And they not only made deals, but they made deals ahead of time in Austria and didn't tell their government they were about…
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Definitely a part of it. So you've got the enabling of the war machine and then the financing kind of locked up. But they talked about how, you know, like Warburg lost his bank and but he ended up getting it back and he ended up not getting…
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But again, it was ahead of time. They made a deal before Austria was ever even invaded. The bank went down there and said the Dresdner Deutsche Bank went down there and made a deal with them like a week before the invasion. And they didn't …
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The Secretary of the Jewish Aid Committee for Immigrations in Zurich, Leon Rosengarten, wrote to the Foreign Office seeking clarification from Lord Simon. Is it to be understood, he said, that cruelties and massacres of stateless persons wh…
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states virtually unlimited authority over their own population. Jewish people and so-called stateless refugees in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Romania enjoyed no real protection under existing international law from persecution by …
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was at the behest of Hayek. He was an Austrian economist. Now, I have to preface everything that we're going to talk about today with the fact that so many of the cast of characters came from Austria. That is where we found Otto Skorzeny, a…
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owners of DuPont Chemical and Jasper Crane, who had retired after a long service as executive vice president of that company. These men were convinced that the creation of a new intellectual counter-establishment could help recreate faith i…
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at the University of Chicago, thus beginning his ensconcement into the very fabric of America. The conservative funds had secured Ludwig von Mises a position as visiting professor at New York University as well. Other Austrian economists wh…
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reinforcing the views that they want everybody to have. European and American schools of liberalism were present at the meeting, such as the Austrian school, which was originally centered on Vienna, but largely transplanted to the United St…
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K-N-I-G-H-T, and people like Aaron Director and George Stigler, S-T-I-G-L-E-R. Among the people who joined Mount Pelerin Society after its incorporation in November of 1947 were Austrian sociologist Alfred Schutze and Luigi…
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through his virulent anti-communism. He also said that if you didn't have nuclear arsenals, small nations such as Austria and Finland would somehow succumb to the communist allure. Röpke contributed to the spiritual national defense, which …
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in the form of an anti-communist agenda. And he also establishes links with prominent Jesuits, both in Austria and Poland and Switzerland. So his relationship with, let's see, who is that guy? I can't find his first name. His last name is W…
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And see if these countries ring a bell. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, El Salvador, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay. Huh. Those are all the countries we cooed. That's really weird. Mexico, Canada, Lebanon, Japan, Turkey, the Phil…
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And in the first half of the 1950s, the Switzerland-based operative managed to recruit an impressive roster of contacts. Also important were the army chaplains placed throughout Germany and Austria as part of this network. They collaborated…
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After 1957, the Committee International actively brought these ideas into the international debate over psychological operations and thereby put itself forward as a partner to NATO. Again, not even making this up. So it goes on to talk abou…