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Claims (63)
William F. Buckley member_of
Skull and Bones book_quoted
“naming him as an ambassador to South Korea from 1989 to 1993. Greg's daughter carried on the family tradition by marrying a writer by the name of Christopher Buckley, who was also a Skull and Bones guy, and the son of CIA officer William Bu…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 13:43
Paul L. Williams did_business_with
William F. Buckley guest_asserted
“And so I established a newspaper in Northeastern. No, let me go back. So I began, as soon as I graduated, writing articles for William Buckley in National Review. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. Who was really a marvelous, marvelous individua…”
▶ Interview with PAUL WILLIAMS Author OPERATION GLADIO @ 2:11
William F. Buckley member_of
Australian National Review documented
“And he also happened to be the guy who led the Watergate break-in. Yeah. Among other things, he was everywhere. He was in Operation Condor. He was over in Vietnam. He shows up. He's like the, what do you call them when they show up everywhe…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 34:41
William F. Buckley member_of
Skull and Bones documented
“Gore Vidal was a writer who was very famous for feuding with William Buckley. William Buckley, of course, was Skull and Bones. And do you know that Paul Williams used to work for William Buckley? I did not know that. Neither did I until yes…”
▶ The Shadow State 21 Secret Societies 5; Skull & Bones 1887-1908 @ 16:22
James Buckley relationship_with
William F. Buckley documented
“chokehold positions of not only the government, but also diplomacy. And we're seeing these senators leak into foreign policy. Our next senator is a James L. Buckley, New York senator from 1971 to 77. His brother was William Buckley, who we …”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Wrap Up @ 32:10
Allen Dulles recruited
William F. Buckley book_quoted
“President Truman authorized Dulles to supervise the organization of the new agency. In keeping the OSS protocol, Dulles recruited almost exclusively from the elite millionaire businessmen, Wall Street bankers, lawyers, members of the nation…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 24:51
William F. Buckley exposed
E. Howard Hunt book_quoted
“But we also have statements from the coroner's office. Was the high energy impact a bomb or was it meant to refer to the plane hitting the ground? I guess it could cover both so that one might say it's a truth and a lie. However, I read Buc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 33:51
William F. Buckley member_of
CIA book_quoted
“With his family connections and Ivy League education, a career in the U.S. clandestine services seemed likely. He worked for the CIA in Mexico City after finishing college, translating books for his handler, E. Howard Hunt. You know, and th…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4 @ 34:29
William F. Buckley founded
National Review book_quoted
“The success that followed helped Buckley generate the necessary capital to start National Review, which depended heavily on the publisher, William Rutscher, and a circle of businessmen to advertise in the publication. So I want to just take…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4 @ 35:31
William F. Buckley founded
National Review host_asserted
“And that's where he and Buckley supposedly met. So Buckley hired him to publish the National Review. And many people in other books have suggested that a lot of the money for this National Review creation was money laundered through the CIA…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4 @ 38:29
William F. Buckley financed_via
The Conscience of a Conservative host_asserted
“This is in 1954. So evidently, he was the Rush Limbaugh before Rush Limbaugh. Despite his popularity and mounting operational costs, Mannion rarely solicited advertising. Rather, his show was financed almost entirely by donations from busin…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4 @ 43:56
William F. Buckley trained
Operation Pluto book_quoted
“Agency trainers like Napoleon Valerino and William Buckley knew a lot, but lacked the up-to-date awareness of the professional military standards. Without special forces trainers, the CIA believed their Cubans would not be set until the fal…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 27:08
William F. Buckley trained
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“One of Shackley's oldest and dearest friends operating out of the Cairo station, Buckley supervised a vast array of spies within Sadat's regime. In 1980, Buckley was put in charge of the training of Sadat's personal bodyguards after the CIA…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 15:22
William F. Buckley member_of
Australian National Review host_asserted
“is that especially on the conservative side with people that we've associated before we woke up with William Buckley and the people that wrote at National Review and all of these other things, they portrayed themselves as conservative when …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:16:27
William F. Buckley member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“in the way that you and I are conservative. Does that make sense? No, I agree. No, that makes perfect sense. And I guess because I remember looking very favorably about William F. Buckley until I found out he was a graduate or he was a memb…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:16:55
William F. Buckley member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“you know, new conservative movement going on. It's being led by a bone. This is where the neocons come from. This guy is the thought leader of the neocon movement. We did a full feature on the family. He's got brothers and other relatives t…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 35:12
William F. Buckley member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“Well, yeah, that's what we talk about. You know, what you do is what we talked about with the Gellian dialectic. You get the opposites to collide and that's where they get the synthesis. This is part of their game plan over and over again. …”
▶ The Shadow State #18 Secret Societies Pt. 2; Skull & Bones @ 43:56
William F. Buckley founded
Australian National Review host_asserted
“William Buckley, that's the most shocking name on the list. And Doug couldn't believe it when I told him this one. That's funny, Stephanie. Did you freeze or were you reading? I was reading, Stephanie. You look so still. I was like, did he …”
▶ The Shadow State 33 Secret Societies 17; Freemason Preview @ 1:00:41
William F. Buckley founded
Firing Line host_asserted
“William Buckley, that's the most shocking name on the list. And Doug couldn't believe it when I told him this one. That's funny, Stephanie. Did you freeze or were you reading? I was reading, Stephanie. You look so still. I was like, did he …”
▶ The Shadow State 33 Secret Societies 17; Freemason Preview @ 1:00:41
William F. Buckley member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“William Buckley, that's the most shocking name on the list. And Doug couldn't believe it when I told him this one. That's funny, Stephanie. Did you freeze or were you reading? I was reading, Stephanie. You look so still. I was like, did he …”
▶ The Shadow State 33 Secret Societies 17; Freemason Preview @ 1:00:41
William F. Buckley member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“I've got 14 Bonesmen that are either the founders or prominent editors of major periodicals. From the Chicago Tribune, Time Life, Luce and Haddon founded Time Life, both Bonesmen. Editor of Fortune, publisher of Fortune, Gill, who founded t…”
▶ The Shadow State #18 Secret Societies Pt. 2; Skull & Bones @ 1:09:07
William F. Buckley founded
Australian National Review host_asserted
“Well, yeah, that's what we talk about. You know, what you do is what we talked about with the Gellian dialectic. You get the opposites to collide and that's where they get the synthesis. This is part of their game plan over and over again. …”
▶ The Shadow State #18 Secret Societies Pt. 2; Skull & Bones @ 43:56
William F. Buckley founded
Australian National Review host_asserted
“I've got 14 Bonesmen that are either the founders or prominent editors of major periodicals. From the Chicago Tribune, Time Life, Luce and Haddon founded Time Life, both Bonesmen. Editor of Fortune, publisher of Fortune, Gill, who founded t…”
▶ The Shadow State #18 Secret Societies Pt. 2; Skull & Bones @ 1:09:07
William F. Buckley member_of
CIA host_asserted
“under Wisner. So Buckley becomes part of the CIA. He was stationed in Mexico City with none other than E. Howard Hunt. That guy's name comes up every single time. So supposedly he didn't like the work down there, but maintained lifelong tie…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:22:00
William F. Buckley carried_out_attack
Polly Bay Mission host_asserted
“Hold on a second. What he's talking about is William Polly, our Forrest Gump. Directly to C.D. Jackson. Yeah. Let me just fill everybody in because you keep cutting out. He's talking about an expedition that William Polly put on to basicall…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 2 @ 1:01:22
Oliver North appeared_on
William F. Buckley book_quoted
“North made national news when he returned to Vietnam in 1970 as a witness for one of his men, who was on trial for taking part in the Sung Thang killings of 16 women and children. North was a guest on William Buckley's firing line, and Will…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 17:07
William F. Buckley member_of
John Birch Society host_asserted
“And it says that it is intimately connected to the Jesuit arm of the Catholic Church. It says that, let's see, was also involved. William Buckley, the Skull and Bones William Buckley, was a big part of the John Birch Society as well.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 1:09:54
William F. Buckley member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“And it says that it is intimately connected to the Jesuit arm of the Catholic Church. It says that, let's see, was also involved. William Buckley, the Skull and Bones William Buckley, was a big part of the John Birch Society as well.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 1:09:54
Paul L. Williams worked_for
William F. Buckley guest_asserted
“And so I established a newspaper in Northeastern. No, let me go back. So I began, as soon as I graduated, writing articles for William Buckley in National Review. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. It was really a marvelous, marvelous individual…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 2:15
William F. Buckley member_of
CIA host_asserted
“and von Marbach, weapons traffickers extraordinaire. Orchestrating much of what was going on in Egypt was a CIA agent by the name of William Buckley. One of Shackley's oldest and dearest friends operating out of the Cairo station, Buckley s…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 26 Cont @ 15:10
William F. Buckley trained
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“In 1980, Buckley was put in charge of the training of Sadat's personal bodyguards after the CIA took over the contract from J.J. Kapusi and Associates. The CIA had assumed the training of Sadat's security forces because it felt that the pub…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 26 Cont @ 15:38
William F. Buckley did_business_with
E. Howard Hunt book_quoted
“knew that you were CIA. That person would tell you what to do and for what duration your service was needed in that city. He would answer such questions as you wish to put to him and would concern himself with all aspects of your life. The …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 29:48
William F. Buckley member_of
CIA book_quoted
“I quote from one of Buckley's own articles published in March of 2007 in the LA Times, entitled, My Friend E. Howard Hunt. I'll let you judge whether he's telling the truth. Quote, I met E. Howard Hunt soon after arriving in Mexico City in …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 28:59
Time-Life did_business_with
William F. Buckley host_asserted
“on his private yacht and embedded in this mission was time life reporter to go and film the whole thing and he's talking about the relationships that these people had to other people that was part of this entire it and it does mirror what w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 2 @ 1:01:53
William F. Buckley supported
World Anti-Communist League book_quoted
“E. Howard Hunt was clearly the China-Cuba-Latin American lobby man. He literally jumped from one to the other to the other. He is a constant as well as many others, but he definitely was one of the front guys. He was also tied to Wackle. It…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 16:17
William F. Buckley member_of
World Anti-Communist League book_quoted
“the JFK thing from the E. Howard Hunt that they were both in Mexico and I'd read about the Godfather part. And so I'm looking through all the ones that I think it's in and he's not in any of those. For example, the World Anti-Communist Leag…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 1:12:31
William F. Buckley member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“you know, new conservative movement going on. It's being led by a bone. This is where the neocons come from. This guy is the thought leader of the neocon movement. We did a full feature on the family. He's got brothers and other relatives t…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 34:52
William F. Buckley member_of
World Anti-Communist League book_quoted
“I know that he was involved in the JFK thing from the E. Howard Hunt, that they were both in Mexico, and I'd read about the Godfather part. And so I'm looking through all the ones that I think it's in, and he's not in any of those. For exam…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 1:10:59
William F. Buckley relationship_with
Roy Cohn host_asserted
“Buckley, along with Barbara Walters, Alan Dershowitz, and Donald Trump would later serve as character witnesses for Cone during his 1986 disbarment hearing, and all but Buckley would later draw controversy for their subsequent connections t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 10 @ 53:47
William F. Buckley member_of
Knights of Malta book_quoted
“Holy Mother Church and became a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the legendary ecclesiastical society dating back to the Crusades. Other spooks were also knighted, including William Casey, William Colby, John McCone, who wer…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 41:50
William F. Buckley secretly_owned
Australian National Review book_quoted
“The relationship with William F. Buckley Jr. and his ownership of the National Review all played a part in this. The CIA's funding mechanism was in place. So what was the goal? It was to fund an effort called Operation Gladio, a stay-behind…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9B @ 12:24
William F. Buckley left
Australian National Review host_asserted
“And he also happened to be the guy who led the Watergate break-in. Yeah. Among other things, he was everywhere. He was in Operation Condor. He was over in Vietnam. He shows up. He's like the, what do you call them when they show up everywhe…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 34:21
William F. Buckley founded
Australian National Review host_asserted
“He became the godfather to Hunt's first three children. That's how close they were. So I would make the supposition that Buckley never actually left the CIA. He just went undercover. So as we know, he launched in 1955, as a very young perso…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:22:30
William F. Buckley relationship_with
E. Howard Hunt book_quoted
“Lucin Coenin, captain of the French Legionnaire that turned OSS agent. So Kruger writes, E. Howard Hunt was clearly the China-Cuba-Latin America lobby man and is suggested by the fact that William F. Buckley, Hunt's close personal friend fo…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 38:14
William F. Buckley did_business_with
E. Howard Hunt host_asserted
“He became the godfather to Hunt's first three children. That's how close they were. So I would make the supposition that Buckley never actually left the CIA. He just went undercover. So as we know, he launched in 1955, as a very young perso…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:22:30
William F. Buckley relationship_with
E. Howard Hunt book_quoted
“It's a truth and a lie. However, I read Buckley's 2007 confession of coming down in the idea as coming down in the idea it was a planned attack. That terrible event came at a high point in the Watergate affair. Then I had a phone call from …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 35:50
Allen Dulles recruited
William F. Buckley host_asserted
“Bottles my mind, too, that then now they have their own charter. They don't have the funding, though. So, of course, we still have to go sell drugs. President Truman authorized Dulles to supervise the organization. And then immediately Dull…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:13:40
Richard Whalen relationship_with
William F. Buckley host_asserted
“And let's see. I think there was one. Oh, yes, right here. He was a good buddy of William F. Buckley, who also was a known CIA agent. So he has a very interesting background. This Washington Post article goes into it as far as where he came…”
▶ Operation Gladio and the 1968 Election PART 1 @ 34:11
Allen Dulles recruited
William F. Buckley book_quoted
“President Truman authorized Dulles to supervise the organization of the new agency. In keeping the OSS protocol, Dulles recruited almost exclusively from the elite millionaire businessmen, Wall Street bankers, lawyers, members of the nation…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 26:35
Eben Galbraith relationship_with
William F. Buckley host_asserted
“He was formerly in the CIA. Oh, wait, can you be a former CIA person? No. No, you cannot. He'd go on to become the Assistant Secretary of Commerce under Eisenhower, and he's a classmate and friends with William Buckley. He was the ambassado…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Wrap Up @ 1:10:30
Will Moore Kendall recruited
William F. Buckley host_asserted
“Because we go from one to the other. Buckley, who had served in World War II, was not eager to return to the field of war. And there's also another guy by the name of Will Moore Kendall, who taught Buckley at Yale. And he recommends, the Ke…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:21:28
William F. Buckley member_of
Boys Town host_asserted
“I found one today that was just, it'll rock your socks. And yeah, so the one that I posted about William Buckley. I knew all of that crap. I just hadn't put the pieces together like the Boys Town part of it. Those guys were all pedophiles.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER - World Wildlife Fund Part 2 @ 1:32:29
William F. Buckley member_of
CIA host_asserted
“They all worked for the CIA. And if you think the rich people worked for the CIA back in the day in the early 1900s and they still don't today, you'd be wrong. I also found this family right here, Ryan. I don't know if they're related to Pa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 14:50
Islamic Jihad carried_out_attack
William F. Buckley book_quoted
“We're already doing the missile cells and all that stuff that we've talked about. It says, then in March of the following year, which would make it about 1984, CIA Station Chief William Buckley was kidnapped outside of his Bayry apartment, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 2:17
William F. Buckley covered_up
Sinamar documented
“reported later to his readers that there were radio monitors in the ministry. He said that what the prisoners had heard were, hold on a second, what the prisoners had heard was not actual U.S. intelligence officers in the room, but a radio.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 47:51
William F. Buckley member_of
CIA book_quoted
“I quote from one of Buckley's own articles published in March of 2007 in the L.A. Times entitled My Friend E. Howard Hunt. I'll let you judge whether he's telling the truth. Quote, I met E. Howard Hunt soon after arriving in Mexico City in …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 27:15
William F. Buckley worked_for
CIA host_asserted
“But again, I'm telling you, that is not an about faith. The National Review is a CIA operation. The William Buckley worked for the CIA, as will Burnham. So again, we're still down here on this. They believe in fascism. It's just who's going…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 14:37
William F. Buckley relationship_with
E. Howard Hunt host_asserted
“you know, new conservative movement going on. It's being led by a bone. This is where the neocons come from. This guy is the thought leader of the neocon movement. We did a full feature on the family. He's got brothers and other relatives t…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 34:52
William F. Buckley worked_for
E. Howard Hunt host_asserted
“And he also happened to be the guy who led the Watergate break-in. Yeah. Among other things, he was everywhere. He was in Operation Condor. He was over in Vietnam. He shows up. He's like the, what do you call them when they show up everywhe…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 34:21
William F. Buckley relationship_with
E. Howard Hunt host_asserted
“I know that he was involved in the JFK thing from the E. Howard Hunt, that they were both in Mexico, and I'd read about the Godfather part. And so I'm looking through all the ones that I think it's in, and he's not in any of those. For exam…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 1:10:59
William F. Buckley relationship_with
Kennedy murder host_asserted
“I know that he was involved in the JFK thing from the E. Howard Hunt, that they were both in Mexico, and I'd read about the Godfather part. And so I'm looking through all the ones that I think it's in, and he's not in any of those. For exam…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 1:10:59
William F. Buckley member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“he ends up on the wrong side of. And it's crazy. Zimbabwe, you read down through here, he's involved in every CIA operation along with William Buckley. It says Buckley served as Liebman's godfather and Buckley's sister Priscilla served as h…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke @ 44:55
William F. Buckley member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“I knew all of that crap. I just hadn't put the pieces together like the Boys Town part of it. Those guys were all pedophiles. So, again, you go back and you look at all that stuff a second time. Those people that were the lawyers for Nixon …”
▶ Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2 @ 1:41:37
Mentions (87)
▶ 35:10
And let's see. I think there was one. Oh, yes, right here. He was a good buddy of William F. Buckley, who also was a known CIA agent. So he has a very interesting background. This Washington Post article goes into it as far as where he came…
▶ 25:01
So I want to take just a minute and I want to go over this Young Americans for Freedom because this was the adopted organization of people like William F. Buckley, supposedly one of the conservative icons of the conservative movement. The Y…
▶ 44:55
he ends up on the wrong side of. And it's crazy. Zimbabwe, you read down through here, he's involved in every CIA operation along with William Buckley. It says Buckley served as Liebman's godfather and Buckley's sister Priscilla served as h…
▶ 30:05
There were movements that were being created like Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. And, you know, we've got McCarthyism going on during this time. So you have many of the con ink media outlets that we know about today, like Wil…
▶ 33:34
met William F. Buckley in 1955 during this time frame. They became close friends, and Liebman was enthralled by Buckley, and it was not hard to imagine why, because Liebman was a late convert to conservatism, finding his place on the right …
▶ 34:00
Buckley had been literally born into it. The son of an affluent lawyer and oil baron, Buckley grew up in his family estate in Connecticut and Mexico before attending a series of elite boarding schools in preparation to attending Yale, from …
▶ 34:29
With his family connections and Ivy League education, a career in the U.S. clandestine services seemed likely. He worked for the CIA in Mexico City after finishing college, translating books for his handler, E. Howard Hunt. You know, and th…
▶ 35:00
But he decided that his talents would be used better, not necessarily in an overt assignment in the CIA. But he doesn't go far. As a devout Catholic, Buckley became the darling of the right after publishing his first two books, one of which…
▶ 35:31
The success that followed helped Buckley generate the necessary capital to start National Review, which depended heavily on the publisher, William Rutscher, and a circle of businessmen to advertise in the publication. So I want to just take…
▶ 36:01
and see what we find, if anything, on William Rusher. So William Rusher is an American lawyer, activist, and conservative columnist. He is credited with being a modern founder of the conservative movement, which is basically Con Inc., and s…
▶ 38:29
And that's where he and Buckley supposedly met. So Buckley hired him to publish the National Review. And many people in other books have suggested that a lot of the money for this National Review creation was money laundered through the CIA…
▶ 40:31
That's the reason why when you read through these books, it's so important to, as you're reading them, look into the people because it changes the way that you not only read the material, but how you fact check the author as well. So it say…
▶ 43:56
This is in 1954. So evidently, he was the Rush Limbaugh before Rush Limbaugh. Despite his popularity and mounting operational costs, Mannion rarely solicited advertising. Rather, his show was financed almost entirely by donations from busin…
▶ 44:26
Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative, which made the Arizona senator the national standard bearer for the conservative movement. Like Buckley and Mannion, initially concerned himself with matters of domestic policy and political e…
▶ 48:56
And we read all about the Swan Island that was being used for the radio. So he basically kind of just takes the reader through a whole bunch of that, which we already know. So for Buckley and Mannion, the Bay of Pigs fiasco was instantly fa…
▶ 13:43
naming him as an ambassador to South Korea from 1989 to 1993. Greg's daughter carried on the family tradition by marrying a writer by the name of Christopher Buckley, who was also a Skull and Bones guy, and the son of CIA officer William Bu…
▶ 1:41:12
Um, even something that I learned six months ago, when I go back and look at it, I see now, cause I've learned 20 other things that it fits in a, a, a nice little, like, um, I found one today that was just, it'll rock your socks. Um, and ye…
▶ 15:03
this entire time that this timeframe that you're talking about. Yeah. He's a classmate of James Buckley, William Buckley's young older brother. And also one year after David Atchison, who we've highlighted. Yeah. Bush would be four years la…
▶ 38:40
And his son is the Bonesman of 1947, going back to Charles Sheldon Whitehouse. So what does he do in World War II? Once again, he's a Marine dive bomber pilot, which is pretty darn impressive. Seven distinguished flying crosses and 21 air m…
▶ 55:38
with a guy by the name of Charles Pete Rose, where Sloan Coffin, well, basically, William Buckley says Sloan Coffin's the guy who blew his cover with the CIA. He basically let the cat out of the bag in an interview. So the reason we know Bu…
▶ 2:57
Comes to Yale. It was a close friend and classmate, of course, of William F. Buckley, Bonesman, who we've discussed before. Yep. The father of conservatism. You want to guess where Evan Galbraith went to law school? Harvard. Oh, of course. …
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Of course he does. Not what you know, it's who you know. He becomes the U.S. ambassador to France under Reagan from 1981 to 85. In the 1990s, he's the advisory director for Morgan Stanley in New York City. He came back stateside after sprea…
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Then he goes to Yale. Of course, he's a classmate of Buckley. What he's known for mostly is he became the president of Viking Press, which is a very big publisher. It was founded by his father, and I thought it was interesting because he wa…
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Buckley went to work for DLJ Investment Bank, which was founded by the Bonesmen. William Buckley's brother, James, went to work for DLJ, which is co-founded by William Donaldson Bonesmen. These are the junk bond kings of the 90s after Drexe…
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What is it? Gore Vidal is the son. Yeah, relative, yeah. But the Gore family is really interesting. I don't know if our recent Gore is related, probably, but they were one of the 19 families who sold their property to found Washington, D.C.…
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And it says that it is intimately connected to the Jesuit arm of the Catholic Church. It says that, let's see, was also involved. William Buckley, the Skull and Bones William Buckley, was a big part of the John Birch Society as well.…
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And Greg's daughter married William Buckley's son. Yeah. And William Buckley, CIA. Right. Have you ever had any? It's all in the family. Right. It was Bush's office that deployed Rodriguez, the Central American, made arrangements for him to…
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I go into my studio where Bridget's bookcase is and I start pulling off. And I told him before we started, I start pulling off the books that I think based on because there's so many of them now that I've read that it would have talked abou…
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You have a guy like William F. Buckley at, and they had access to the rosters because that book is full of who attended what meeting and when in order to give the broad brush of who all was affiliated to have someone like William F. Buckley…
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to interest a foreign journalist in their ordeal. Once their story reached William Buckley Jr., supposedly a conservative columnist, as he toured Rio, they complained to him that they had heard English-speaking voices in the rooms where the…
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reported later to his readers that there were radio monitors in the ministry. He said that what the prisoners had heard were, hold on a second, what the prisoners had heard was not actual U.S. intelligence officers in the room, but a radio.…
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thought an excuse was so transparent that it should only confirm the accusation in a neutral mind. But who was listening, either to the charge or to Buckley's rebuttal? After being held at Cinemar, Jean-Luc was shipped across the bay to a p…
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And so I established a newspaper in Northeastern. No, let me go back. So I began, as soon as I graduated, writing articles for William Buckley in National Review. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. It was really a marvelous, marvelous individual…
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But I worked for Buckley. I penned his articles generally on Vatican II and Adjournamento and things like that for National Review. And then I went on to become the editor for the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. I was very much involved in…
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wealth and society. The members of the OSS at that time included such figures as Nelson Rockefeller, even William Buckley, who I just mentioned, the head of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the head of Morgan Stanley, the head of Goldman Sachs. Th…
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of the Mujahideen effort, getting their cut. That happens to be Richard Secord and Von Marbach, weapons traffickers extraordinaire. Orchestrating much of what was going on in Egypt was a CIA agent by the name of William Buckley.…
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One of Shackley's oldest and dearest friends operating out of the Cairo station, Buckley supervised a vast array of spies within Sadat's regime. In 1980, Buckley was put in charge of the training of Sadat's personal bodyguards after the CIA…
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would damage their relations inside of Egypt if Sadat was to discover that Wilson actually owned the J.J. Capuci company. Neil Livingstone, who by this time was involved in the J.J. Capuci operation, quote, we did the training of Sadat's Pr…
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And then the contract was taken away from us and given to the agency. And he got killed. We never would have permitted that kind of security lapse. It's evident that they wanted Sadat dead. That's a quote from Livingstone. To Livingstone, w…
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North made national news when he returned to Vietnam in 1970 as a witness for one of his men, who was on trial for taking part in the Sung Thang killings of 16 women and children. North was a guest on William Buckley's firing line, and Will…
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He then suggested that the poor hostage captured by terrorists in Lebanon could be traded through Iran in exchange for cash. Because one of these hostages was Shackley's old friend and colleague, William Buckley, the station chief at the Be…
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However, William Buckley's life was not spared. Buckley was killed after being tortured by intelligence services. There's some disparity in people's account of who actually killed him. Buckley gave up the names of hundreds of CIA agents aro…
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Agency trainers like Napoleon Valerino and William Buckley knew a lot, but lacked the up-to-date awareness of the professional military standards. Without special forces trainers, the CIA believed their Cubans would not be set until the fal…
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The Shiites also struck directly at CIA again on March 16, 1984, kidnapping William Buckley, recently arrived station chief in the tough Middle Eastern city. Despite protective measures, the station chief was seized right off the street in …
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Hold on a second. What he's talking about is William Polly, our Forrest Gump. Directly to C.D. Jackson. Yeah. Let me just fill everybody in because you keep cutting out. He's talking about an expedition that William Polly put on to basicall…
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In January of 1950, Hiss was convicted of perjury and sentenced to federal prison where he would serve three and a half years. Meanwhile, Chambers, a man who had launched his writing career by working for the Communist Party press, continue…
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E. Howard Hunt was clearly the China-Cuba-Latin American lobby man. He literally jumped from one to the other to the other. He is a constant as well as many others, but he definitely was one of the front guys. He was also tied to Wackle. It…
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And he says that it was followed. It had followed an earlier attack. OK, thank you. And he goes on to say that these terrorists also claim responsibility for a June 14th, 1985 hijacking of TWA airliner en route from Athens to Rome, kidnappi…
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We're already doing the missile cells and all that stuff that we've talked about. It says, then in March of the following year, which would make it about 1984, CIA Station Chief William Buckley was kidnapped outside of his Bayry apartment, …
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and cut Israel out. The architects of this was Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Richard Secord. By this time, Buckley had succumbed to the stress of incarceration and torture and had died. Still, there were no other hostages to be rescue…
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more than anything, illustrates that. In closing with this chapter, I just want to say this. Rob Key had very close ties to William F. Buckley and Russell Kirk. They shared a deep agreement on international issues. The National Review was t…
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is that especially on the conservative side with people that we've associated before we woke up with William Buckley and the people that wrote at National Review and all of these other things, they portrayed themselves as conservative when …
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in the way that you and I are conservative. Does that make sense? No, I agree. No, that makes perfect sense. And I guess because I remember looking very favorably about William F. Buckley until I found out he was a graduate or he was a memb…
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He was very, very good friends, very good friends with William Buckley. Now, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Paul Williams, but he was directly affiliated, hung around with, socialized, considered William Buckley a friend. And…
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There are a number of moving parts, many of which don't seem to naturally fit together. Iran and Iraq had been fighting a bloody war since 1980, losing millions on each side. An Iranian-backed militia, Hezbollah, had taken three American ho…
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an advisor to Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and Nimradi, an Israeli businessman. He proposed that the Israeli secretly sell him tow missiles for Iran. In return, he would arrange the release of William Buckley. About then, Michael Leden, L-E…
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President Truman authorized Dulles to supervise the organization of the new agency. In keeping the OSS protocol, Dulles recruited almost exclusively from the elite millionaire businessmen, Wall Street bankers, lawyers, members of the nation…
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Mellon Banking Oil and Aluminum Futures. And we see that guy in quite a few of the Operation Gladio coups. Well, all of them actually, but this Richard Mellon scape, I mean, he got involved in drugs and everything. It was just a real weird …
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who to many on the right is the epitome of a polished intellectual conservative with as many books and prominent magazine, National Review, as well as Philip Graham, who became the owner of the Washington Post, occupying a similar position …
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You'll forgive me, but I have to spend a little time on William F. Buckley. As for the decades, he was portrayed as an eminent, independent, conservative voice, the founder of National Review and the host of the longtime running firing line…
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I quote from one of Buckley's own articles published in March of 2007 in the L.A. Times entitled My Friend E. Howard Hunt. I'll let you judge whether he's telling the truth. Quote, I met E. Howard Hunt soon after arriving in Mexico City in …
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But then came the Watergate scandal, in which Howard was accused of masterminding the break-in of the Democrat Party headquarters, among other things, and was ultimately convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, and that dreadful …
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But we also have statements from the coroner's office. Was the high energy impact a bomb or was it meant to refer to the plane hitting the ground? I guess it could cover both so that one might say it's a truth and a lie. However, I read Buc…
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and his collaborators arrested in the connection of the Watergate Enterprise. He simply could not understand how this happened. Near the end of his life, Buckley would die less than a year later in February 2008. Was Buckley trying to get s…
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The fact that he was also CIA meant that he was far from being on the team. In the end, neither Hunt nor Buckley understood for whom they were truly working and what agenda was being pursued. I don't agree with that. I think they all knew. …
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The relationship with William F. Buckley Jr. and his ownership of the National Review all played a part in this. The CIA's funding mechanism was in place. So what was the goal? It was to fund an effort called Operation Gladio, a stay-behind…
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Well, yeah, that's what we talk about. You know, what you do is what we talked about with the Gellian dialectic. You get the opposites to collide and that's where they get the synthesis. This is part of their game plan over and over again. …
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Hegel kind of perspective, because he operated in one sphere publicly, but was very much in a different sphere in reality. Yeah, you know, a lot of people call Buckley the father of conservatism in the 20th century. And you go back and read…
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I've got 14 Bonesmen that are either the founders or prominent editors of major periodicals. From the Chicago Tribune, Time Life, Luce and Haddon founded Time Life, both Bonesmen. Editor of Fortune, publisher of Fortune, Gill, who founded t…
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Gore Vidal was a writer who was very famous for feuding with William Buckley. William Buckley, of course, was Skull and Bones. And do you know that Paul Williams used to work for William Buckley? I did not know that. Neither did I until yes…
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Yeah, he's a Bonesman class of 1950, which means he was a direct classmate of William F. Buckley and two years behind George H.W. Bush. So he knows these people. He is born in 1928 in White Plains, New York. He's the son of William Henry Dr…
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Yeah, he's a Bonesman class of 1950, which means he was a direct classmate of William F. Buckley and two years behind George H.W. Bush. So he knows these people. He is born in 1928 in White Plains, New York. He's the son of William Henry Dr…
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You have now a standing military for the first time ever in our history in the late 40s. So the 1950s is critical. Funny you should mention that because Mr. Galbraith has got some ties and connections there. So he's born in 1928 in Toledo, …
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Of course he does. Not what you know, it's who you know. He becomes the U.S. ambassador to France under Reagan from 1981 to 85. In the 1990s, he's the advisory director for Morgan Stanley in New York City. He came back stateside after sprea…
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Then he goes to Yale. Of course, he's a classmate of Buckley. What he's known for mostly is he became the president of Viking Press, which is a very big publisher. It was founded by his father. And I thought it was interesting because he wa…
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William Buckley, that's the most shocking name on the list. And Doug couldn't believe it when I told him this one. That's funny, Stephanie. Did you freeze or were you reading? I was reading, Stephanie. You look so still. I was like, did he …
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And we're seeing these senators leak into foreign policy. Our next senator is a James L. Buckley, New York senator from 1971 to 77. His brother was William Buckley, who we disparaged. The guy from the National, what is it, the Federalist. T…
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He'd go on to become the Assistant Secretary of Commerce under Eisenhower, and he's a classmate and friends with William Buckley. He was the ambassador to France in 1885. It's a tumultuous period in France. The de Gaulle period is ending. M…
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All right, if you want to take over the world, you think it would be a good idea to have kind of your finger on the pulse of the media. We've had 14 people, bonesmen, that were either founders of a major periodical or editor-in-chief or tha…
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belgium colonies in africa all loaded with resources so he's a resource controller yeah very much so um he's got an interesting story he's left he was in the ale uh joined the marines for world war ii he was a marine dive bomber pilot who g…
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Yeah. All right. So Bush did his job well. All of them. He had a lot of jobs. Next guy we're going to talk about is our old friend William F. Buckley, Jr., Mr. Conservative himself, right? Yeah. Romansman class of 1950 served at Fort Bannin…
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I think it's Banning. If I got the spelling wrong, I don't know. I think it's Fort Benning because Fort Benning is where the School of Americas was ran out of. Let me just double check. I'll get it later. Yeah. He gets out of college. He go…
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And he also happened to be the guy who led the Watergate break-in. Yeah. Among other things, he was everywhere. He was in Operation Condor. He was over in Vietnam. He shows up. He's like the, what do you call them when they show up everywhe…
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you know, new conservative movement going on. It's being led by a bone. This is where the neocons come from. This guy is the thought leader of the neocon movement. We did a full feature on the family. He's got brothers and other relatives t…
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All right, enough on Buckley. One of my all-time favorites, this guy by the name of William Sloan Coffin. I'll get them all on screen. Here we go. That's the best I can do. Funny looking guy, right? He looks like Bozo the Clown. He's a bone…
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Yeah, because we know that the CIA was all involved in reading all of that mail. Yeah. Okay, fast forward to 1965. He wins the mayor race of New York mayor as a Republican. And he had the support of what is called the Liberal Party of New Y…
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and this became known as the Lindsay Blizzard, a perfect example of a mayor who's indifferent to the middle class and poor. It was one of his defining moments. Kind of sound familiar? Yeah. He was running for re-election in 1969, and there'…