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Claims (41)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
CIA 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
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
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
“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 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
“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
Richard Helms 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
Gerald Ford 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
Henry Kissinger 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
Donald Rumsfeld 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
“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
John Marshall 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
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
Philip Buchan 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
Scott Breckenridge 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
Frank Nock 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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 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
“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
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…”
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Mentions (92)
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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, …
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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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
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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…
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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…
▶ 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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
▶ 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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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'…
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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…
▶ 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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
▶ 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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 …
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National Security Decision Memorandum 40, the special group, was to approve all major and politically sensitive covert action programs in the joint reconnaissance schedule and to review covert programs annually. The review requirement respo…
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To fulfill CIA's role at Langley, the DO's mission and program staff developed the justification and objective memoranda for the 40 committee. This staff also became the center of operational planning. A reorganized covert action staff also…
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U. Alexis Johnson, back on the group again, writes, quote, it is true that during the Nixon administration, the president and CIA bypassed the committee on sensitive issues, unquote. When Nixon gave his first go-ahead on covert arms to Camb…
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to supply rifles to King Jordan, the King of Jordan. So this was not a matter of excluding a certain type of activity. Everyone from the special group to the Secretary of State lived in ignorance of the Chilean initiative called Track Two, …
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Similarly, the 40 Committee could not be consulted on the project shortly to be described, a paramilitary effort among the Kurds of Iraq. Among decisions that can be traced to the 40 Committee, those on collection figures prominently. Overh…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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manual on covert operations prepared by the CIA in 1942, or 72, sorry, observed that only about a quarter would be considered by the 40 committee. Excluded were not only minor unimportant operations, but virtually all major ones. One techni…
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In 1972, the 40 Committee met only once. In 73 and 74, it adopted more than three dozen decisions without meeting to discuss any of them. The essential activity became focusing on covert activities more tightly. In Southeast Asia, Latin Ame…
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Spending declined in most geographic and functional areas, mostly due to Vietnam. The cost of paramilitary operations peaked in 1970. But after 72, it declined even in the Far East. By 73, the CIA director could report that only 5% of the a…
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Yet Kissinger then refused the board access to the 40 committee minutes and the NSC's records that would have shown that the covert actions were approved and carried out. So how are you going to review something if you're not allowed to see…
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the Kurdish minority, as well as the Iranian security concerns. Kissinger's military aide, Colonel Richard Kennedy, met with the CIA and one of Barzani's sons on the Kurdish request. A staff assistant, Alfred Atherton, became the NSC's staf…
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because it envisioned supporting the Christian Democrat Party again, which they believed did not have a practical chance, and because it thought mere money insufficient to help Alexandria. Corey and Hexter revised their plan, which State De…
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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 …
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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…
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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. …
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An official CIA review in September of 2000 notes that high-level concern in the Nixon administration resulted in the development of a much more aggressive covert action initiative. The issue before the 40 committee that day, Kissinger writ…
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And since the president had invited Rogers to Camp David, Nixon began talking to H.R. Holderman about a Kissinger problem. That happened the day before Kissinger convened his senior review group, the most powerful unit other than the presid…
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Early Saturday morning, Richard Helms and TOPS officials gathered in the CIA Ops Center to follow the results. They were all in a bad mood. Kissinger summoned the 40 committee for Tuesday. In the interim, he demanded State get him Corey's a…
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That to be caught in the act would be disastrous. That Eduardo Fry's participation was essential and unlikely in any blocking scenario. And that Washington could accommodate itself to an Allende government. He didn't seem to think it was su…
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Not only a major distraction, the crisis suggested a need for U.S. action elsewhere. When Kissinger heard at the 40 committee confirmed the judgment of the embassy in Santiago, Latin American oligarch Bill Brone started by agreeing with Cor…
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When the 40 committee met again on September 14th, in the face of Corey's advice, the secret war managers voted $250,000 for a campaign to influence the Chilean Congress runoff. Helms recalls the atmosphere as grouchy. In main decision, des…
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into the valley of death. So dramatic. When Helms saw Kissinger again, their conversation on track two was perfunctory. Rather, the national security advisor expressed himself as more concerned with economic pressure and could be brought to…
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with ITT. Meanwhile, the agency's false flag officers had decided that Chileans they were talking to were useless. Corey learned of the contacts and again prohibited them. The same day as the 40 committee, Kissinger ordered Corey's prohibit…
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There were four sessions of the 40 committee in the month between mid-September and mid-October, all wrestled with the scant potential for any coup or parliamentary maneuver to not allow Allende to take office. On October 14th, the CIA told…
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By late November, the 40 committee had begun reviewing a covert action program designed to advance the new Nixon policy. It was quickly approved and a contingency budget assigned. On November 19th, the covert program for Chile was the top i…
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And we left off with November, the meeting of the 40 committee under the Nixon administration with Kissinger discussing covert actions. Henry Kissinger told Nixon on November 25th that the plan included assisting friendly Chilean media and …
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enlarging contacts with the Chilean military, now that we've assassinated the guy that's in charge of it, supporting non-Marxist opposition groups, and Kissinger repeated the language Bill Breaux had used at the 40 Committee, not preserving…
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who had worked in Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring. You guys thought the Arab Spring was unique. Over the first half of 1971, the 40 Committee approved another half million dollars for direct action among the Chilean Christian Democr…
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That's their New York Times that basically the CIA has taken over. In the fall of 71, that became the focus of Kissinger and the 40 Committee. Based on a new CIA proposal, Nixon administration approved a $700,000 subsidy. Agency payments to…
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Shackley confirmed his instructions and said that they stood. At Langley, at the same time, Shackley reviewed the covert action program for the director, suggesting additional measures. Among them were payments of $350,000 for the Christian…
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of the CIA State Department Coordination Office, which they call INR. On August 20th, the 40 committee approved the latest proposal. Several days later, Santiago Station asked for subsidies for particular groups, another million dollars. St…
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including within the Washington Special Action Group, which was a bold-faced lie. He also told him that the CIA had absolutely nothing to do with the coup and that he knew nothing about the Chilean activities of the CIA-backed labor unit, w…
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of 1974, the New York Times counterpart, associates were told that their subsidies were going to end. At about the same time, the 40 Committee considered a proposal to fund the Christian Democrat Party. They're not going to have an election…
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This became the first time when the U.S. and communist China was actually working together on a covert operation. Imagine that. I thought we didn't like them. Within days of the Albor agreement, the 40 committee approved the provision to Ro…
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the CIA program. In early July, just as Langley completed options for Project Feature, another round of fighting erupted in the Capitol. The MPLA drove its adversaries out for good. That presence in the Capitol, the condition for success th…
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as the usual State Department carping. So the guy in the State Department serving on behalf of the CIA thinks the State Department is wrong and advocates for CIA involvement. This is my shock-faced. Meeting on July 14th, Kissinger's 40 comm…
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from covert action. On July 17th, the 40 committee blessed the project. He failed. Henry Kissinger took the proposal to Ford, along with Davis's dissent paper. Kissinger quotes himself as favoring action and urging the president to study th…
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an operation in Angola. If the White House had been in charge, this would not have freed Ford from clearing a more muscular approach with Congress. Kissinger quotes himself telling the 40 committee that there were no rewards for losing by w…
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office to review plans for the Colby Working Group. When Costello suggested that the moment had come to determine how far the CIA should go, the deputy director of operations, Nelson, spoke up. Gentlemen, we've been given a job to do. Let's…
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the city. Henry Kissinger cites a CIA report to the 40 committee on November 5th as showing that FNLA and UNITA were on the cusp of victory. But what he quotes showed a static picture, a list of ports and capitals controlled. The report its…
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except for the shit coming in from Nugent Hand. Langley prepared options for the 40 committee and the new price tag was in another $28 million. Then it went up to 60 million. Later, it went up to 100 million. Director Colby was now a lame d…
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partly to a set of a dozen suggestions Bush had made as he prepared to take over. In early 76, Ford's executive order 11905 became the first public regulations ever to describe the function of the U.S. intelligence and restrictions. The ord…
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because it really needs to be done together. And it's talking about the Mont Pelerin, P-E-L-E-R-I-N Society. And it is fascinating. It's another one of those organizations that they, it's like the Committee of 300, all of those. You'll see …
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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…