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Charles Taylor person

also: President Charles Taylor, Taylor

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Liberiacountry · 4United Statescountry · 3Burkina Fasocountry · 3Momo Jibaperson · 2Cecil Allenperson · 2Prince Yormie Johnsonperson · 2CIAintelligence service · 2Francecountry · 2Samuel Doeperson · 2George H.W. Bushperson · 2Pat Robertsonperson · 2Operation Gladiooperation · 2Liberian International Ship and Corporate Registriesorganization · 1Congocountry · 1Secret Serviceintelligence service · 1Virginia Pilotorganization · 1Ghanacountry · 1Jacques Focartperson · 1La FrancAfriqueorganization · 1National Patriotic Front of Liberiaorganization · 1Chadcountry · 1Assassination of Thomas Sankaraevent · 1

Claims (3)

Charles Taylor funded Liberian International Ship and Corporate Registries host_asserted
“That's the one. Yeah, that's the modern evolution of what that became. Yeah. And that Charles Taylor, who was the warlord we were just talking about that overruns the rubber plantation, he signed a new contract with Liberian International S…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:11:22
Charles Taylor recruited Blaise Compaoré guest_asserted
“had told him to approach Sankara for help in taking power in Liberia in exchange for a lucrative business opportunity. When Sankara rejected the idea, because they basically were trying to frame him, set him up, Taylor met with a general th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 54:13
Charles Taylor assassinated Samuel Doe host_asserted
“opportunities to bring them to our universities. That program needs to stop. It needs to go away immediately because they groom them while they're here to go back and do their missions. And so this Taylor guy basically incrementally takes o…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 49:05

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Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 30:43 According to the Virginia Pilot newspaper, Robinson had dealings in Liberia with President Charles Taylor, which is another one of those suspect people, and he negotiated a multi-million dollar contract for gold mining in Liberia. Robinson …
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 31:13 business dealings. And Taylor later testified at the Hague during his war crimes trial that he did in fact have business dealings with Robertson. And I also think it's really weird that Robertson was very big into horse racing, which we all…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 53:49 to Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, who had been recruited by the CIA to overthrow Liberian dictator Samuel K. Doe in the 1980s. And we're probably going to go there tomorrow because that is a very interesting story, too. One of these aides…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 54:13 had told him to approach Sankara for help in taking power in Liberia in exchange for a lucrative business opportunity. When Sankara rejected the idea, because they basically were trying to frame him, set him up, Taylor met with a general th…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 54:39 and the country of Chad's president, along with a white Frenchman who was probably part of the Foucart network, which is basically Gladio for France. At the meeting, it was decided that Taylor would be able to use Burkina Faso as a launchin…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 56:04 So, according to Cecil Allen, another of Taylor's top aides, the Americans and French sanctioned the plan to remove Sankara. Allen stated that, quote, there was a CIA operative in the U.S. embassy in Burkina Faso, worked closely with the Se…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 56:33 Now, keep in mind, when they say Secret Service, they're not talking Secret Service like our. They're talking actually like their Operation Gladio forces. Prince Yormy Johnson, another one-time Taylor associate, stated that the CIA had infi…
Operation Gladio - Liberia
▶ 45:33 now lives in the United States. America's ties to Liberian conflict are numerous. Prince Johnson, a sitting Liberian senator who presided over Doe's videotape execution in 1990, so they murdered him, attempted to reach the U.S. embassy to o…
Operation Gladio - Liberia
▶ 46:59 The historical record in Liberia and elsewhere leads African to believe otherwise. It has been widely alleged that the CIA supported regime change in nations like Ghana and the Congo. And other people have written about U.S. covert and over…
Operation Gladio - Liberia
▶ 47:59 But this one is incredibly important because this one actually tells the story of what Goodyear did because it's hideous. When the whole coup happened, let me get back to it, with Taylor.…
Operation Gladio - Liberia
▶ 48:34 And let's see. Yeah, Charles Taylor is a guy who basically comes to power in another coup. He was also educated in the United States, weirdly enough. Like, again, I have come to the conclusion that most of these international exchanges is C…
Operation Gladio - Liberia
▶ 49:05 opportunities to bring them to our universities. That program needs to stop. It needs to go away immediately because they groom them while they're here to go back and do their missions. And so this Taylor guy basically incrementally takes o…
Operation Gladio - Liberia
▶ 1:11:22 That's the one. Yeah, that's the modern evolution of what that became. Yeah. And that Charles Taylor, who was the warlord we were just talking about that overruns the rubber plantation, he signed a new contract with Liberian International S…