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Committee of 40 funded Radio Liberty documented document

“The 303 Committee met frequently throughout 1967 and 1968 to deal with difficult questions such as how to provide for continued funding of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.195

Committee of 40 superseded 5412 Group documented document

“On February 17 1970 NSDM 40 was issued It created the 40 Committee The directive superseded and rescinded past NSC covert action directives…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61

Committee of 40 member_of National Security Council documented document

“Several points stand out in the history of the committees charged with overseeing covert operations…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.65

Committee of 40 member_of National Security Council documented document

“Several points stand out in the history of the committees charged with overseeing covert operations…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.65

Office of Management and Budget member_of Committee of 40 documented document

“OMB has not in the past been represented on the National Security Council or the 40 Committee…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.68

Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board met_with Committee of 40 documented document

“The Board requested 40 Committee and NSC minutes to determine the facts…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.72

Committee of 40 funded Radio Free Europe documented document

“The 303 Committee met frequently throughout 1967 and 1968 to deal with difficult questions such as how to provide for continued funding of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.195

U.S. State Department member_of Committee of 40 documented document

“This includes (a) the provision of Departmental guidance on operational intelligence questions including staff support for State participation on the 40 Committee…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.316

Committee of 40 renamed_to Operations Advisory Group documented document

“Authority for State influence over covert operations derives from NSC directives and is exercised through membership on the 40 Committee (now the Operations Advisory Group.OAG)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.317

U.S. State Department headed Committee of 40 documented document

“Until the Kennedy administration State chaired the Committee…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.317

5412 Group renamed_to Committee of 40 documented document

“During the Johnson Administration the Special Group was renamed the 303 Committee…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.77

Committee of 40 succeeded 5412 Group documented document

“That directive spelled out the duties of the newly-designated 40 Committee which replaced the Special Group as the Executive decisionmaking body on covert operations…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.77

Missions and Programs Staff worked_for Committee of 40 documented document

“These three are the Missions and Programs Staff which does much of the bureaucratic planning and budgeting for the Clandestine Services which writes up the justification for covert operations submitted for approval to the 40 Committee…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.267

5412 Group split_off_from Committee of 40 documented document

“The Special Group which was the predecessor of today's 40 Committee authorized over $3 million between 1962 and 1964 to prevent the election of a Socialist or Communist candidate…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.15

Committee of 40 funded CIA documented document

“One-fourth of this amount was authorized by the 40 Committee…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.16

Committee of 40 funded CIA documented document

“The 303 Committee approved $175,000 for this effort…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.16

Committee of 40 funded Christian Democratic Party documented document

“More than half of the 40 Committee-approved funds supported the opposition political parties in Chile the Christian Democratic Party the National Party and several splinter groups…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.19

Committee of 40 funded National Party documented document

“More than half of the 40 Committee-approved funds supported the opposition political parties in Chile the Christian Democratic Party the National Party and several splinter groups…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.19

Committee of 40 funded private sector groups documented document

“In September 1972 the 40 Committee authorized $24,000 for 'emergency support of a powerful businessmen's organization'…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.20

Committee of 40 funded El Mercurio documented document

“on three separate occasions the 40 Committee did approve funding for these private sector organizations…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.26

Committee of 40 funded United States documented document

“about a quarter of the covert operations in terms of dollar value were approved by the 40 Committee…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.43

Committee of 40 funded Chile documented document

“In September 1972 for instance the 40 Committee authorized $24,000 in emergency support for an anti-Allende businessmen's organization…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.161

Committee of 40 member_of United States government documented document

“Specifically the State Department was directed by the 40 Committee to contact American businesses having interests in Chile…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.164

Thomas Mann member_of Committee of 40 documented document

“To manage the election effort an electoral committee was established in Washington consisting of the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas Mann…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.167

Desmond Fitzgerald member_of Committee of 40 documented document

“To manage the election effort an electoral committee was established in Washington consisting of ... the Western Hemisphere Division Chief of the CIA Desmond Fitzgerald…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.167

Ralph Dungan member_of Committee of 40 documented document

“To manage the election effort an electoral committee was established in Washington consisting of ... Ralph Dungan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.167

McGeorge Bundy member_of Committee of 40 documented document

“To manage the election effort an electoral committee was established in Washington consisting of ... McGeorge Bundy from the White House…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.167

Committee of 40 located_in Washington, D.C. documented document

“To manage the election effort an electoral committee was established in Washington…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.167

Committee of 40 refused American businessmen documented document

“A group of American businessmen in Chile offered to provide one and a half million dollars ... This offer went to the 303 Committee ... which decided not to accept the offer…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.167

Committee of 40 funded Christian Democratic Party documented document

“In February 1965the 303 Committee approved $175,000 for a short term political action project to provide covert support to selected candidates in the March 1965 congressional elections in Chile…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.168

CIA funded Committee of 40 documented document

“The 40 Committee authorized $350,000 for this effort with the objective of strengthening moderate political forces before the 1970 presidential election…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.169

Committee of 40 funded Radical Party documented document

“The 303 Committee also approved $30,000 in 1967 to strengthen the right wing of the Radical Party…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.169

Committee of 40 targeted_for_regime_change Popular Unity documented document

“In March 1970 the 40 Committee decided that the United States should not support any single candidate in the election but should instead wage 'spoiling operations' against the Popular Unity coalition which supported the Marxist candidate…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.170

Committee of 40 worked_for United States documented document

“The 40 Committee met on September 8 and 14 to discuss what action should be taken prior to the October 24 congressional vote…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.174

CIA worked_for Committee of 40 documented document

“the CIA at the direction of the 40 Committee mobilized on interlocking political action economic and propaganda campaign…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.175

Committee of 40 targeted_for_regime_change Chile documented document

“It was agreed that an attempt would be made to have American business take steps in line with the U.S government's desire for immediate economic action…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.176

Committee of 40 funded opposition groups in Chile documented document

“after Allende's inauguration the 40 Committee approved a total of over seven million dollars in covert support to opposition groups in Chile…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.178

Committee of 40 funded opposition parties documented document

“The Committee has taken testimony that 40 Committee-approved funds were used to help maintain and strengthen the democratic opposition in Chile…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.181

Committee of 40 succeeded 5412 Group documented document

“Throughout its history the 40 Committee and its direct predecessors the 303 Committee and the Special Group have had one overriding purpose to exercise political control over covert operations abroad…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.192

Committee of 40 operated_in Chile documented document

“Minutes and summaries of 40 Committee meetings on Chile indicate that by and large these considerations were discussed and occasionally debated by 40 Committee members…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.192

Committee of 40 funded CIA documented document

“During this period the Committee authorized a total of $8.8 million for CIA covert activities in Chile…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.193

United States Department of State member_of Committee of 40 documented document

“Stated simply the State Department was generally skeptical about intervening in the Chilean electoral process whereas the CIA the U.S Ambassador to Chile the Defense Department and the White House favored intervention…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.193

CIA member_of Committee of 40 documented document

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.193

United States Department of Defense member_of Committee of 40 documented document

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.193

White House member_of Committee of 40 documented document

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.193

Committee of 40 operated_in Chile documented document

“The question of whether anything should be done with regard to the September 1970 presidential election in Chile was first raised at a meeting of the 303 Committee on April 15 1969…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.193

National Security Council worked_for Committee of 40 documented document

“approvals or disapprovals are obtained over the phone by the 40 Committee Special Group officer a CIA officer on loan to the NSC staff…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.192

Committee of 40 funded Salvador Allende documented document

“On March 25 1970 the 40 Committee approved a "spoiling opera tion against Allende and approved $125,000 for this purpose…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.194

Committee of 40 funded National Party documented document

“303Committeeapproves$350,000to assist selectedcandidates in March1969congressionalelections…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.208

Committee of 40 funded Popular Unity documented document

“40 Committeeapproves $125,000for a "spoiling operation againstAllende'sPopular Unitycoalition(UP)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.209

Committee of 40 funded Edward M. Korry documented document

“The Committee approves $250,000for the use of Ambassador Sorry to influencethe October24 Congressionalvote…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.209

Committee of 40 funded Edward Korry documented document

“40 Committeeapproves$60,000for AmbassadorSorry's proposal to purchase a radio station…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.210

Committee of 40 funded opposition political parties documented document

“40 Committee approves $1 million to support opposition political parties and private sector organizations…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.212

Committee of 40 funded anti-Allende radio station documented document

“40 Committee approves $34,000 for an anti-Allende radio station and travel coats of pro-Junta spokesmen…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.212

5412 Group renamed_to Committee of 40 documented document

“Today this group is known as the 40 Committee…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.24

Committee of 40 funded CIA documented document

“A total of $135,000 was authorized by the 40 Committee for this anti-Allende activity…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.243

Henry Kissinger met_with Committee of 40 documented document

“I think the meeting of September 15th has to be seen in the context of two previous meetings of the 40 Committee on September 8th and September 14th…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.244

Committee of 40 targeted_for_regime_change Salvador Allende documented document

“the 40 Committee was asked to look at the pros and cons and the problems and prospects of a Chilean military coup to be organized with United States assistance…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.244

Committee of 40 funded Track I documented document

“A contingency of $250,000 was approved for 'covert support of projects which Frei or his trusted team deem important.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.244

Committee of 40 funded United States documented document

“On October 7 Ambassador Korry received the following cable from Washington apparently authorized by the 40 Committee…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.246

Henry Kissinger headed Committee of 40 documented document

“Kissinger the 40 Committee chairman also attended…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.262

Henry Kissinger member_of Committee of 40 documented document

“In addition to the 40 Committee principals (Kissinger John Mitchell David Packard Alexis Johnson Admiral Moorer) the meeting was attended by Karamessines…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.264

John Mitchell member_of Committee of 40 documented document

“In addition to the 40 Committee principals (Kissinger John Mitchell David Packard Alexis Johnson Admiral Moorer) the meeting was attended by Karamessines…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.264

David Packard member_of Committee of 40 documented document

“In addition to the 40 Committee principals (Kissinger John Mitchell David Packard Alexis Johnson Admiral Moorer) the meeting was attended by Karamessines…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.264

Alexis Johnson member_of Committee of 40 documented document

“In addition to the 40 Committee principals (Kissinger John Mitchell David Packard Alexis Johnson Admiral Moorer) the meeting was attended by Karamessines…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.264

Elmo R. Zumwalt member_of Committee of 40 documented document

“In addition to the 40 Committee principals (Kissinger John Mitchell David Packard Alexis Johnson Admiral Moorer) the meeting was attended by Karamessines…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.264

Operations Advisory Group succeeded Committee of 40 documented document

“The 40 Committee has now been replaced by the Operations Advisory Group…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.51

5412 Group renamed_to Committee of 40 documented document

“During the Johnson Administration the Special Group which was renamed the 303 Committee,19 continued to be chaired by the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61

McGeorge Bundy headed Committee of 40 documented document

“During the Johnson Administration the Special Group which was renamed the 303 Committee,19 continued to be chaired by the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs first McGeorge Bundy…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61

Walt Rostow headed Committee of 40 documented document

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61

Committee of 40 funded Salvador Allende documented

“and told the ambassador, quote, I am not interested in nor do I know anything about the southern portion of the world from the Pyrenees down, unquote. A year later, he heard from Edwards and everything changed. The 40 committee approved the…”

▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 36:51

Committee of 40 funded UNITA book_quoted

“already had approved $300,000 in secret subsidies to go to the head of UNINA, and the president personally approved that action, according to the administration of President Ford. The source stated that both the president and Kissinger were…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 52:48

Robert McFarlane spied_on Committee of 40 documented

“But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…”

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57

Dick Cheney spied_on Committee of 40 documented

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57

John Marshall spied_on Committee of 40 documented

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57

Philip Buchan spied_on Committee of 40 documented

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57

Scott Breckenridge spied_on Committee of 40 documented

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57

Frank Nock spied_on Committee of 40 documented

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57

Committee of 40 funded CIA host_asserted

“approving another $1 million to further destabilize Chile. And it was used to basically begin bribing political parties. By the CIA's own reckoning, it brought $6.5 million to be the total that was spent on covert operations against Alente …”

▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 1:21:43

Henry Kissinger headed Committee of 40 book_quoted

“which was composed of the country's top national security officials. Kissinger effectively ran the committee. When he proposed an action, the others approved. His old friend, David Rockefeller, whose Chase Manhattan Bank had multi-billion d…”

▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 31:54

Henry Kissinger member_of Committee of 40 host_asserted

“And it was Henry Kissinger at the time that was part of that deliberative body that was okaying many of these types of missions. And also, from what I've read, that these were specially modified C-130s that the CIA had and not part of...…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Is weather modification real_ And more @ 7:13

Henry Kissinger headed Committee of 40 documented

“Henry Kissinger convened the 40 committee on March 7th to review progress. By now, the situation did not seem so favorable. Poll data had been skewed. It's always skewed. Allende's gain had gained ground despite the best the CIA was doing. …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 5:57

Alexis Johnson member_of Committee of 40 book_quoted

“of new covert actions, and it says a new covert action staff was replaced. They replaced the previous psychological and paramilitary operational staff, so it's going to have a new name. Having carefully set up the framework, Nixon and Kissi…”

▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:06:32

Richard Nixon bypassed Committee of 40 book_quoted

“It is true that during the Nixon administration, the president and the CIA bypassed the committee on sensitive topics. Unquote. When Nixon gave his first go ahead on Cambodia, he ordered Kissinger to say nothing about it to the committee. E…”

▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:07:01

Henry Kissinger headed Committee of 40 host_asserted

“But none of those are covert actions. When in 1972, they decided they were going to spend $10 million to interfere in the Italian election. That got discussed at the 40 committee. Kissinger was the chairman of the 40 committee. He set up me…”

▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:07:58

Committee of 40 funded Christian Democratic Union book_quoted

“Think of Chileans like they think of Americans. He complained in his memoirs that the CIA state private exchanges had kept him in the dark about the proposal for four months. And then that the 40 committee approved this grand sum of just a …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 1:04:02

Committee of 40 funded Christian Democratic Union book_quoted

“Alessandri ahead of Allende, with the supposition he might be defeated. On June 27th, the 40 committee added another $300,000 to the pot. State still argued against Corey's latest idea, a two-phase proposal, which included a contingency pla…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 1:06:38

CIA spied_on Committee of 40 documented

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57

Nelson Rockefeller headed Committee of 40 host_asserted

“um for anything that was deemed communist originally and then communist and terrorism after that when it was amended so that's where that's where the 303 committee came out of right yes but it wasn't originally called that it's been called …”

▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 38:55

Committee of 40 ordered_assassination_of USS Liberty incident host_asserted

“Well, I'll give you a great example of how zero accountability came out of there. One of the two things that came out of that Committee of 303 was, of course, that they had the submarines outside of the United Arab Republic, the UAR, and th…”

▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 40:47

Committee of 40 funded 1948 Italian election documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 1:03:50

Committee of 40 funded Operation IA Feature book_quoted

“a choice for President Ford, who, of course, opted for intervention. Action then returned to the 40 committee, dominated in 1975 by none other than Henry Kissinger. Meeting on July 14th, a special group directed the CIA to create a covert a…”

▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 24:42

Committee of 40 funded CIA book_quoted

“It appears that the top leadership at Langley may have opposed this intervention. They never do. Because this, for them, is resources which the oligarch, the international syndicate, desperately wants. The CIA came back to warn of a risk of…”

▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 25:12

Fabian Society founded Committee of 40 guest_asserted

“in Europe and they had a Fabian society and they created all of these subordinate organizations like the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and then the corresponding organization the Council of Foreign Relations in the Unit…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio with Wesley @ 15:28

Richard Nixon headed Committee of 40 host_asserted

“The Nixon administration left the special group mechanism in place, retitled it the 40 Committee, and with extra presidential watchdogs added. But the group was left to monitor only the less important kind of covert actions because Nixon di…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 18 (Final) @ 25:27

Henry Kissinger headed Committee of 40 book_quoted

“Henry Kissinger convened the 40 Committee on March 7th to review progress. By now, the situation did not seem so favorable. Poll data had been skewed. It's always skewed. Allende's gain had gained ground despite the best the CIA was doing.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 35 @ 12:08

Henry Kissinger headed Committee of 40 book_quoted

“and presented to the NSC as merely one policy option, the others being to do nothing or to make a substantial intervention. June 13th report of the interagency group was thus used to frame the frame game, a choice for President Ford, who of…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 cont @ 23:59

Henry Kissinger headed Committee of 40 documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 1:03:50

McGeorge Bundy member_of Committee of 40 host_asserted

“um it's rumble's not letting me use my mic so i'm going straight off the laptop and it's i'm doing the best i can so i apologize um i don't know if i can get edited out but we're doing the best we can all right he would then become the chai…”

▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 1:23:05

Richard Nixon founded Committee of 40 documented

“The change was formalized in February 17, 1970, in Nixon's National Security Decision Memorandum 40. The special group had thus begun labeled as 40 Committee. The National Security Decision Memorandum also rescinded National Security 5412-2…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 59:26

John Mitchell member_of Committee of 40 documented

“was expanded to include the Attorney General John Mitchell. Nixon's Attorney General was a close friend of the President's, and it was likely that he was added to the special group as the President's personal representative for plausible de…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 58:58

Committee of 40 funded Holden Roberto book_quoted

“That has been sabotaged repeatedly and stolen from in a variety of different ways. Okay, so back to the book. I just want to kind of put it in perspective. Within days of the Angolan agreement on a coalition government, the 40 committee, re…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 cont @ 20:11

Committee of 40 funded Operation IA Feature book_quoted

“because this for them is resources which the oligarch, the international syndicate, desperately wants. The CIA came back to warn of a risk of exposure and estimated the price tag to be $100 million. That was not within their current budget.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 cont @ 24:52

Edward Mulcahy member_of Committee of 40 host_asserted

“The worsening situation was viewed with alarm in Washington. By late November, Langley prepared a memo with options for the 40 committee featuring programs costing $30 million. Then another one at $60 million and another one at $100 million…”

▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 41:20

Committee of 40 funded Holden Roberto book_quoted

“I just want to kind of put it in perspective. Within days of the Angolan agreement on a coalition government, the 40 committee, remember that's the NSC coup machine, had a recommendation to increase the subsidies to Holden Roberto by $300,0…”

▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 20:49

British Roundtable founded Committee of 40 host_asserted

“And outside of the table, they would set up all of these other entities, which you're familiar with, called the Committee of 300, the Bilderberg Groups, the RIII, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the CFR, blah, blah, blah. So a…”

▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 48:22

John Coleman exposed Committee of 40 host_asserted

“where I give pretty long speeches, stuff like that. I very much enjoy his very pleasant British accent, and the story he tells runs pretty close to what the colonel and I have been talking about. The Committee of 300, he's probably the only…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 1:21:51

Richard Nixon founded Committee of 40 book_quoted

“is going to be on his staff, and he didn't trust him. Other special group members saw little reason for his inclusion. Mitchell rarely spoke at meetings and instead played with his pipe. Nixon formalized the change on February 17, 1970. In …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 13:27

Committee of 40 discussed Glomar Explorer book_quoted

“And the Glomar Explorer, which was an attempt to raise a Soviet missile submarine from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, were discussed by the 40 Committee. A project to spend $10 million to influence the Italian elections again in 1972, much…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 16:55

Committee of 40 funded Italy book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 16:55

Committee of 40 paid Bokassa book_quoted

“Another routine function was the approval of subsidies to certain foreign leaders. Reportedly, half a dozen were on the CIA payroll to include King Hussein of Jordan. Thus, it came as no surprise when the secret war managers were asked to a…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 17:25

Henry Kissinger headed Committee of 40 book_quoted

“impugning American motives and threatened to break relations with the U.S. The 40 Committee was used on everyday decisions, but not for the big ones. Henry Kissinger chaired the 40 Committee. He set the meetings and the agenda. Assisted by …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 17:57

William Colby spied_on Committee of 40 documented

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57

Richard Helms spied_on Committee of 40 documented

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57

Gerald Ford spied_on Committee of 40 documented

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57

Henry Kissinger spied_on Committee of 40 documented

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57

Donald Rumsfeld spied_on Committee of 40 documented

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57

Committee of 40 member_of Bilderberg Group host_asserted

“Another five is on Bilderberg and another five is on CFR. And then you go to the CFR and you will have people from all of the different ones. It's just like a musical chairs thing so that they can meet throughout the year and co-plan all of…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 1:10:10

Committee of 40 succeeded 208 Committee caller_asserted

“It apparently was named the 303 Committee. The blurb says an NSC National Security Council staffer had recommended the new name, and this is in quotes, be something utterly drab and innocuous to deflect away attention. Yeah. Yeah. So if you…”

▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:07:25

Operations Advisory Group succeeded Committee of 40 caller_asserted

▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:07:25

Committee of 40 funded Operation Popeye host_asserted

“Everything that I've read said that the decision to use this capability was briefed at, if you guys remember way back, we were talking about a thing called the Committee of 40 or the 40 Committee, which was basically an entity inside the Na…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Is weather modification real_ And more @ 6:45

Henry Kissinger headed Committee of 40 host_asserted

“And in a couple of other shows, we've talked about this thing that Henry Kissinger set up because it was the key factor in the 1967 USS Liberty. It was a thing called the 40 Committee. It was a committee of 40 of the top people in governmen…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 52:19

Henry Kissinger founded Committee of 40 host_asserted

“in large part, are set up there. The Bank of International Settlement, the World Bank, the IMF, blah, blah, blah. So yes, it has everything to do with that. The WEF is the logical follow-on to Kissinger's setting up of the 40 committee and …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 1:43:25

Committee of 40 member_of British Roundtable host_asserted

“American guy sitting in one chair, the pan-British guy sitting in one, the pan-European guy sitting in another one, pan-Asia, blah, blah, blah. Then tethered to that table are all of the sub-elements like the CFR, the RIIA, the Committee of…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Afghanistan @ 1:23:50

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Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1

▶ 48:22 And outside of the table, they would set up all of these other entities, which you're familiar with, called the Committee of 300, the Bilderberg Groups, the RIII, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the CFR, blah, blah, blah. So a…

Operation Gladio - Afghanistan

▶ 13:40 And Thailand, we did. So there was still a network there, but it was not near the capacity that the CIA money-wise had become accustomed to. So they immediately began looking for other places, they and the international syndicate. So Kissin…

Operation Gladio - Afghanistan

▶ 14:39 Very diversified farming. But what the CIA and the Committee of 40 and everybody else saw was opium fields, poppy fields. So they orchestrated this second coup and supposedly did so by impersonating communists. So they basically said, hey, …

Operation Gladio - Afghanistan

▶ 1:23:50 American guy sitting in one chair, the pan-British guy sitting in one, the pan-European guy sitting in another one, pan-Asia, blah, blah, blah. Then tethered to that table are all of the sub-elements like the CFR, the RIIA, the Committee of…

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 52:19 And in a couple of other shows, we've talked about this thing that Henry Kissinger set up because it was the key factor in the 1967 USS Liberty. It was a thing called the 40 Committee. It was a committee of 40 of the top people in governmen…

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 52:48 already had approved $300,000 in secret subsidies to go to the head of UNINA, and the president personally approved that action, according to the administration of President Ford. The source stated that both the president and Kissinger were…

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 1:07:15 Generally, a president faced with a hard or controversial choice in foreign policy must address many audiences. You have debates about it. All of this is avoided with secret policies. Covert action projects usually originate in the clandest…

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 1:08:44 which I've already argued it is only because we are stealing all of the crap out of the Congo to include their uranium. The response could have been to intervene to protest Soviet's intervention or do nothing. The African Bureau of the Stat…

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 1:43:25 in large part, are set up there. The Bank of International Settlement, the World Bank, the IMF, blah, blah, blah. So yes, it has everything to do with that. The WEF is the logical follow-on to Kissinger's setting up of the 40 committee and …

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 1:43:50 The same way with the Bilderberg's meeting, the Committee of 300, Club of Rome, the CFR, all of those things, the WWF, it provides them venues to meet and plot and plan and blackmail people and set them up and all of the above. Sally. Oh, g…

Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975

▶ 1:31:12 groups. So once a month they would meet and they would hash out all of this politics stuff and they belong to like 20 of them. So they were together all the time. And they set up the Royal Institute of International Affairs and its counterp…

Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975

▶ 1:31:39 Like the kind of mobile that you put in your kid's bedroom that you wind up and it turns around. The top table is the British Roundtable crowd that set the entire thing up in the late 1800s. The next layer down is like the RIIA, the CFR, th…

Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975

▶ 1:34:38 entity, along with Open Society for George Soros and all of those, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, all of those entities are like that third level. That second level is like the Bilderberg's Committee of 300, Globe of Rome. An…

Operation Gladio in Chile

▶ 31:22 Ambassador Corey and his CIA station chief, Henry Heckscher, H-E-C-H-S-H-E-R, asked the Nixon administration for permission to embark on a covert spoiling campaign to block Allente. They addressed their request to the 40 Committee. The 40 C…

Operation Gladio in Chile

▶ 36:51 and told the ambassador, quote, I am not interested in nor do I know anything about the southern portion of the world from the Pyrenees down, unquote. A year later, he heard from Edwards and everything changed. The 40 committee approved the…

Operation Gladio in Chile

▶ 40:45 Helms and his operatives were working to design a covert operation. Kissinger told a group of newspapers if Alente was allowed to take power, he would establish some sort of communist government, and that would be a massive problem for the …

Operation Gladio in Chile

▶ 1:21:16 His colleagues in Chile had not. President Alente said General Prats considered him to be supremely apolitical and not ambitious. Both would pay dearly for their miscalculation. While CIA operatives in Santiago were helping to orchestrate t…

Operation Gladio - Is weather modification real_ And more

▶ 6:45 Everything that I've read said that the decision to use this capability was briefed at, if you guys remember way back, we were talking about a thing called the Committee of 40 or the 40 Committee, which was basically an entity inside the Na…

Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program

▶ 1:05:59 overlap with some of the 303 committee stuff that i've dug up and i just i just thought i'd bring that up so you and your researchers could have some fun with it because there's a lot of juicy stuff with 303 committee and i'm like i said i'…

Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program

▶ 1:07:25 It apparently was named the 303 Committee. The blurb says an NSC National Security Council staffer had recommended the new name, and this is in quotes, be something utterly drab and innocuous to deflect away attention. Yeah. Yeah. So if you…

Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978

▶ 56:48 The entire room where it was briefed at one of the, what did he call that, 40 committee. That was what Kissinger used, this group of 40 foreign policy people to make their quote unquote decisions. When it was brought up there that week befo…

Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE

▶ 1:36:47 And also Pergamon is the publisher of several works of the Club of Rome. And anybody that knows what that is, it's along the lines of the Committee of 300 and those types of organizations. So another definitely propaganda machine. So we're …

The Colonel’s Corner Charlie Kirk Shooting and PRE 9_11 conversation

▶ 1:41:49 the covert operations um through that committee of 30 the whatever they name it different every presidency has a different name for their little covert group that meets and approves all of the findings for the president to sign of assassina…

The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9

▶ 1:08:15 Because they're not actually terrorist events, they're events that they plan. Right, and false flags and everything. Absolutely, absolutely. Earlier today, as I'm driving, I'm listening to, his last name is Coleman, I believe. He did the Co…

The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9

▶ 1:09:17 while you're reading this chapter too. So my brain's all over the place, but it's getting spicy. Yeah. And that's an important, all of these, the Club of Rome, the WWF, all of these, the Committee of 300, CFR, they're all basically duplicat…

The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9

▶ 1:09:42 People, La Circle, we did a show on that, several shows on that a long time ago. They all have the same, the Bilderberg group. They have the same, if you were to take the entire bucket of international syndicate people, you just like divide…

The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9

▶ 1:10:35 Their specialization in each one of them, like the WWF kind of uses the whole climate change bullshit. As you just articulated, the Committee of 300 is more into kind of the PR piece of it, psychological operations. They all have their area…

The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont

▶ 1:06:03 The Joint Reconnaissance Schedule and an annual review of covert programs, because now they're going to be covert programs and actions in more than just the CIA. To fulfill its role in planning at the CIA, the area where covert actions was …

The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont

▶ 1:06:32 of new covert actions, and it says a new covert action staff was replaced. They replaced the previous psychological and paramilitary operational staff, so it's going to have a new name. Having carefully set up the framework, Nixon and Kissi…

The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont

▶ 1:07:01 It is true that during the Nixon administration, the president and the CIA bypassed the committee on sensitive topics. Unquote. When Nixon gave his first go ahead on Cambodia, he ordered Kissinger to say nothing about it to the committee. E…

The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont

▶ 1:07:30 on the matter of the Kurds either. Among the decisions that can be tracked to the 40 Committee, those on intelligence collection figures predominantly. Overhead and satellite reconnaissance missions and the GLOMAR, G-L-O-M-A-R, explorers at…

The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont

▶ 1:07:58 But none of those are covert actions. When in 1972, they decided they were going to spend $10 million to interfere in the Italian election. That got discussed at the 40 committee. Kissinger was the chairman of the 40 committee. He set up me…

The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont

▶ 1:08:29 Only principals were allowed to attend, so your deputy couldn't go for you. Henry was the ultimate arbitrator. The first official manual on covert operations prepared by the CIA in 1972 observed that only about a quarter of them would be co…

The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont

▶ 1:08:59 So the ones that went to the 40 committee was basically for show because they were just minor, unsensitive ones. One technique used by Kissinger to minimize the committee's impact was to have as few meetings as possible. He liked to poll th…

The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued

▶ 20:49 I just want to kind of put it in perspective. Within days of the Angolan agreement on a coalition government, the 40 committee, remember that's the NSC coup machine, had a recommendation to increase the subsidies to Holden Roberto by $300,0…

The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued

▶ 24:42 a choice for President Ford, who, of course, opted for intervention. Action then returned to the 40 committee, dominated in 1975 by none other than Henry Kissinger. Meeting on July 14th, a special group directed the CIA to create a covert a…

The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued

▶ 25:12 It appears that the top leadership at Langley may have opposed this intervention. They never do. Because this, for them, is resources which the oligarch, the international syndicate, desperately wants. The CIA came back to warn of a risk of…

The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued

▶ 28:01 a civilian general officer equivalent. Judging from Stockwell's account of Operation Feature, it was then run by Potts, the division chief, rather than directly by William Nelson, which it would have been under normal procedures. Jim Potts …

The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued

▶ 41:20 The worsening situation was viewed with alarm in Washington. By late November, Langley prepared a memo with options for the 40 committee featuring programs costing $30 million. Then another one at $60 million and another one at $100 million…

The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued

▶ 57:49 Ford's executive order prohibited assassination, a reiteration of internal directives Colby issued in 1973. It replaced the 40 committee with a panel called the Operations Advisory Group, placing covert action decisions in the hands of a ca…

The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)

▶ 1:19:42 about the John Coleman's, the committee of 300. But he's kind of got this wild, his theory of why they outed Nixon was kind of the city of London, the MI6, because, you know, he considered Kissinger and Haig, Alexander Haig, kind of agents …

The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)

▶ 1:20:55 Yeah, I'll share a couple excerpts in the pill of the Committee of 300, but it seemed to all tie together with what you posted yesterday, today, and my memory of the Committee of 300. And also, in some digging I had done before about P2 and…

The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)

▶ 1:21:51 where I give pretty long speeches, stuff like that. I very much enjoy his very pleasant British accent, and the story he tells runs pretty close to what the colonel and I have been talking about. The Committee of 300, he's probably the only…

The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)

▶ 1:22:47 Like I said, he's not far off the mark at all. But the Committee of 300 is basically what he's calling that is the same like the roundtable that actually did exist. And he's submitting one entity for the others. It seems like he almost omit…

The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)

▶ 1:23:15 Yeah, I have his book. I've read his book, The Conspirator's Hierarchy, The Committee of 300. It's a fascinating book. That was probably, I read that book in the first year that I was doing this research. And his work is corroborated.…