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Claims (63)
Averell Harriman involved_in
Operation Overlord host_asserted
“Yes. Harryman's there. He's involved in the planning of Operation Overlord. There's the Tehran Conference when they talked about relations with Poland and China. Basically, here's an interesting blurb. The conference highlighted, this is th…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 55:15
Averell Harriman elected
Democratic Party host_asserted
“So in 1950, where is this? Let me see if I get the year right. He runs for governor of New York in 1954, and he wins. He would then lose. I'm sorry, he's the Democrat governor of New York in 1954. He would lose to Republican Nelson Rockefel…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 57:55
Averell Harriman lost_election_to
Nelson Rockefeller host_asserted
“So in 1950, where is this? Let me see if I get the year right. He runs for governor of New York in 1954, and he wins. He would then lose. I'm sorry, he's the Democrat governor of New York in 1954. He would lose to Republican Nelson Rockefel…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 57:55
Averell Harriman member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“goes to Yale, gets invited into secret societies. And after that, he's basically had his finger involved in railroads, shipping, banking, espionage, trading with the enemy, sits on all kinds of boards, becomes an American diplomat going all…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 59:57
Averell Harriman founded
Sun City, Arizona host_asserted
“anyway quite well taken i should have started with this one you know what he's really known for is he's the founder of sun valley idaho um oh and i did want to point out to people when you mentioned china earlier you're not really talking a…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 1:00:30
Averell Harriman member_of
Club of Rome host_asserted
“in 1969. Well, he joins the Council on Foreign Relations, of course, and eminently qualified. But more importantly, he joins the Club of Rome. The Club of Rome in 1969. The Club of Rome was founded in 1968. I think a lot of our listeners ar…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 1:09:59
Averell Harriman member_of
CFR host_asserted
“in 1969. Well, he joins the Council on Foreign Relations, of course, and eminently qualified. But more importantly, he joins the Club of Rome. The Club of Rome in 1969. The Club of Rome was founded in 1968. I think a lot of our listeners ar…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 1:09:59
Averell Harriman member_of
Pilgrims Society host_asserted
“All of the people that we have talked about, a bunch of the Warburgs are in it. James Woolsey, a lot of CIA guys. So just so that you know, you can get a flavor of the Harrimans were part of that venture too. Yeah, we should definitely make…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 1:19:42
Averell Harriman controlled
Poland book_quoted
“and went there often. And interestingly enough, it says in here that Harriman didn't necessarily like the Dollases, but he respected their ability to get done what he needed to have done. Said that he controlled the entire electrical grid i…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 48:42
Averell Harriman headed
Brown Brothers Harriman book_quoted
“later vice chair of the War Production Board and a central figure in creating the CIA, and C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. diplomat and later Secretary of the Treasury. Another Wall Street firm that specialized in U.S.-German trade was Brown Brothe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 19:52
Averell Harriman member_of
CFR host_asserted
“who in 1961 held positions in the government. Dean, I'm not gonna read them all. I'll read the most notorious ones. Dean Rusk, Douglas Dillon, Adelaide Stevenson, W. Avril Harriman, John McCloy, General Lyman Lemitsker. I have to say that w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 1 @ 40:33
United States recruited
Averell Harriman host_asserted
“no matter who they hire to come in and harvest the oil. So now that there's basically a standoff at this point, we send over W. Avril Harriman. Yeah, from Brown Brothers Harriman. And a guy by the name of Paul Nitz, N-I-T-Z-E. They too fail…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 13:12
Allen Dulles traded_network_to
Averell Harriman book_quoted
“and Royal Tyler, a wealthy Boston Globe trotter. Bostonian, sorry. Quote, now Dulles and Holenlo and their mutual friend, Royal Tyler, were gathered amicably around the OSS man's fireplace. Dulles broke the ice by recalling old times with P…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 16:08
Averell Harriman sided_with
John Kenneth Galbraith documented
“lost most of what it had gained after India's 1962 border war with China when W. Avril Harriman made a diplomatic tour of the region and sided with the ambassador. Not even Desmond Fitzgerald, Jim Critchfield, or John Noss, who were among h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 21:56
Averell Harriman member_of
Skull and Bones documented
“We discussed him a bit last week, but he was a bonesman in 1918. We'll skip back to him in a bit, but I wanted to bring him up here because he's part of that same class as Prescott Bush and the Harriman boys. All three of those guys were sk…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 31:44
Averell Harriman member_of
National Recovery Administration documented
“We discussed him a bit last week, but he was a bonesman in 1918. We'll skip back to him in a bit, but I wanted to bring him up here because he's part of that same class as Prescott Bush and the Harriman boys. All three of those guys were sk…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 31:44
Averell Harriman member_of
Brown Brothers Harriman documented
“drove a lot of the growth of Wall Street, underwrote some of the earliest railroad deals, real big driving force of Wall Street becoming the center of finance in the Western world. So these two firms merge in 1931. It's called Brown Brother…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 33:37
Averell Harriman removed_from_power
Phoumi Nosavan documented
“Oh, you mean JFK pissed off the CIA yet again? It was Harriman who engineered the cutoff of Fumi. A loyal Democrat and senior statesman, Harriman carried some weight with JFK, and he went to some length to set up a credible Laotian neutrali…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 40:34
Averell Harriman member_of
U.S. State Department guest_asserted
“was, you know, strongly influenced by CIA. What was his name again? Hold on, I'll have to go back to my notes. What was your point? Well, my point is that he's so important, I forgot his name. Because he wrote a book called, he is actually …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 1:12:54
John F. Kennedy appointed
Averell Harriman documented
“with them being neutral, like where they started. With the help of Avril Harriman, Roger Hilsman, and Dean Rusk, Kennedy achieved his aim in a 1962 Geneva Agreement. When Fumi Nocevan stood in the way, his American assistants evaporated and…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 40:03
William Colby recruited
Averell Harriman documented
“Ambassador Sullivan could command the CIA station and would be responsible for implementing the second of the two basic decisions made in Washington. The first had come in the wake of the Geneva Agreement when William Colby had convinced Av…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 1:03:30
Philip Reed appointed
Averell Harriman book_quoted
“Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan. On other occasions, Reed traveled as a representative of General Electric. And on others, he traveled as the International Chamber of Commerce representative. So he was wearing a whole bunch of hats. And he bec…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 14 Final @ 24:45
Averell Harriman member_of
Brown Brothers Harriman host_asserted
“Moscow, Averill Harriman of Brown Brothers Harriman, one of the people funding and arranging all of this interconnectivity with the U.S., vetoed that. Inviting the Soviets to negotiations would make the Germans nervous, he said. It really m…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 35:31
John F. Kennedy appointed
Averell Harriman book_quoted
“For months, President Kennedy and his special envoy, Avril Harriman, another traitor, had been attempting to restore Laotian neutrality and bring about the withdrawal of foreign military elements by working to establish a tripartite coaliti…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 47:03
Averell Harriman founded
Brown Brothers Harriman host_asserted
“We talked about him because, well, skull and bones. He also was one of the people that founded Brown Brothers Harriman, which of course financed the Nazis in the first place. And we're going to be, he's the guy that's in London as we're set…”
▶ The Shadow State 75 The Pilgrims Society @ 4:20
Averell Harriman overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“Like the World Anti-Communist League, the ABN, all of those. Well, Harriman's not done yet. He goes to Iran in 1951 to mediate the Anglo-Iranian oil company nationalization. How'd that work out? How'd that work out? Jinx, you owe me a Coke.…”
▶ The Shadow State 48 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 1 @ 43:20
Averell Harriman supported
Ngo Dinh Diem host_asserted
“He was one of Kennedy's closest confidants during the Bay of Pigs, and he's the guy who advised JFK to give Khrushchev a dignified way to back down. He would be accused of spying for the Soviet Union by Russian defector Anatoly Golitsyn, bu…”
▶ The Shadow State 48 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 1 @ 44:14
Averell Harriman member_of
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made book_quoted
“I want to hammer home the Weisman angle of this, though. Like I said, this is a book about who basically formed the post-World War II world, the Cold War. There's six of them. There's a Charles, who was the ambassador of the USSR and part o…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 1:15:02
Averell Harriman paid
James Forrestal host_asserted
“The Secretary of Defense's forestall after he committed suicide adopted his son. Yeah. Yeah. That blew me away. I actually paid for him to go to Harvard Law. Yeah. So he becomes his protege, which kind of is creepy. I mean, actually, but wh…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 1:02:17
Averell Harriman financed_via
Marshall Plan host_asserted
“the ambassador there to continue hiding information from them exactly and then in 1948 they put him in charge of the marshall plan which was the precursor funding mechanism for operation gladio without a doubt and when he's there he becomes…”
▶ The Shadow State 48 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 1 @ 42:48
Averell Harriman member_of
Harriman family host_asserted
“Kind of a big deal. Since we're on the H's, we may as well mention that there are two Harrimans, because of course there are. One of the wealthiest families in American history. 1909, that's where W. Averill Harriman went to school, and his…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 49:16
Averell Harriman founded
Brown Brothers Harriman host_asserted
“You got Averill and Roland Harrington, both founding brothers, founding partners of Brown Brothers Harriman. We've talked about Prescott Bush is a founding partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. Here's a guy by the name of Mallon and he's the …”
▶ The Shadow State #18 Secret Societies Pt. 2; Skull & Bones @ 1:17:43
Averell Harriman member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“and uh he had two sons well i think they had three that's two they're notable one was w uh averil harrington and his brother who we'll get to in a second um averil harrington was a member of skull and bones uh and his younger brother uh was…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 14:13
Averell Harriman member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“Go ahead. No, he became Truman's Secretary of Commerce for three years, and then he became governor of New York for one term. Very, very powerful guy. Another guy who comes into the play with these guys is Robert Lovett. We discussed him a …”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 31:45
Averell Harriman appointed
United States documented
“So Averill Harriman and Prescott Bush are overlapping all throughout their career. Prescott's mostly a Wall Street banker, was a politician for a short period of time. We'll get to that. A couple other families. I'm jumping over to Harriman…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 31:12
Averell Harriman appointed
United States documented
“Go ahead. No, he became Truman's Secretary of Commerce for three years, and then he became governor of New York for one term. Very, very powerful guy. Another guy who comes into the play with these guys is Robert Lovett. We discussed him a …”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 31:45
Averell Harriman appointed
New York documented
“Go ahead. No, he became Truman's Secretary of Commerce for three years, and then he became governor of New York for one term. Very, very powerful guy. Another guy who comes into the play with these guys is Robert Lovett. We discussed him a …”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 31:45
Averell Harriman member_of
National Recovery Administration host_asserted
“And I want to, before you jump off of April Harriman, I want to point out a couple of things. His time at the National Recovery Administration, the NRA was basically, there was a law that was, that it accompanied this organization. And it b…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 32:19
Averell Harriman member_of
Brown Brothers Harriman documented
“Harriman Brothers merges with the Brown Brothers. Brown Brothers, a very old Wall Street firm founded in 1818, drove a lot of the growth of Wall Street, underwrote some of the earliest railroad deals, real big driving force of Wall Street b…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 33:46
Averell Harriman member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“you know and the importing of all of these scientists um and how big of a role that the bushes end up playing in that whole um thing yeah i don't i believe it's all related but anyway go ahead that's pretty much all i had for him i think th…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 15:16
Averell Harriman monopolized
Soviet Union book_quoted
“came to monopolize the Soviet Manganese production for over 20 years, which leads us right into World War II. So they were on both sides. Well, yeah, it's great business if you can do it. Yeah. Doesn't matter who wins. You win. All right, s…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 42:15
Averell Harriman member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“Which is kind of crazy, isn't it? Yeah, it really did. I was thinking about that when I was typing out my notes. I go, this guy was actually running around still doing things when I was alive. And we're talking about pre-World War I stuff? …”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 42:48
Averell Harriman owned
Union Pacific Railroad host_asserted
“So the interesting thing about him, well, first of all, let's talk about his business. You know, he's obviously a very successful investment banker with Brown Brothers Harriman. And he had owned parts of Union Pacific Railroad Merchant Ship…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 43:47
Averell Harriman member_of
United American Alliance host_asserted
“helped overthrow Hawaii. He was part of the United American Alliance. Okay, these next two actually matter. Guarantee Trust Company and Union Bank Incorporation. Union Bank Incorporation, it's now defunct, but it was a big deal back in, I'd…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 44:19
Averell Harriman member_of
National Recovery Administration host_asserted
“FDR and him become friends. They're in the middle of the Great Depression. And Averill Harriman, I think it was 1932, joins what's called the National Recovery Administration. Now, everything that the government through the Great Depression…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 44:56
Averell Harriman member_of
Business Advisory Council host_asserted
“FDR and him become friends. They're in the middle of the Great Depression. And Averill Harriman, I think it was 1932, joins what's called the National Recovery Administration. Now, everything that the government through the Great Depression…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 44:56
Averell Harriman appointed
Franklin D. Roosevelt host_asserted
“Roosevelt FDR's personal envoy to the United Kingdom and became very good personal friends with Winston Churchill. You're going to find all kinds of these conferences regarding World War II that Harriman was the U.S. envoy and he was travel…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 45:29
Averell Harriman attended
Atlantic Conference host_asserted
“Roosevelt FDR's personal envoy to the United Kingdom and became very good personal friends with Winston Churchill. You're going to find all kinds of these conferences regarding World War II that Harriman was the U.S. envoy and he was travel…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 45:29
Averell Harriman pushed_for
Soviet Union host_asserted
“Harriman's a guy who pushed for USAID to Russia when they were fighting the Germans. He also would accompany Churchill to the Moscow conference, where basically Stalin chewed out Churchill and FDR, though not to his face, for why don't you …”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 46:03
Averell Harriman attended
Moscow Conference host_asserted
“Harriman's a guy who pushed for USAID to Russia when they were fighting the Germans. He also would accompany Churchill to the Moscow conference, where basically Stalin chewed out Churchill and FDR, though not to his face, for why don't you …”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 46:03
Averell Harriman assets_seized_by
Trading with the Enemy Act host_asserted
“So the Soviets at the time were taking an awful lot of the brunt of the Nazi assault. Yeah, all of it. Yeah. And so this guy's going toe-to-toe with Stalin at a bunch of these conferences all over the world. So interestingly enough, here he…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 46:31
Averell Harriman hired
Sullivan & Cromwell book_quoted
“Oh, please do. So, you know, this book that I've been reading about, it's called A Law Into Itself about Sullivan and Cromwell that we want to talk about. All right. W. Averill Harriman, then a banker, hired Sullivan and Cromwell for his pe…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 48:10
Averell Harriman supported
Containment Policy host_asserted
“Yeah, very much so. Here's an interesting, we just segued right into what I was going to go to next. So after the war, he is a huge supporter of George Kennan's policy of containment of Soviet Union. Now think about that 180. You know, he h…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 51:23
Averell Harriman attended
Tehran Conference host_asserted
“It was kind of like, what is it? Like a house built on sand. There was no there there, but they made it sound imminent that it was going to just pop out all over. And this guy, you know, he was all over the place in World War II with all th…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 54:46
Averell Harriman attended
Yalta Conference host_asserted
“Absolutely. Another interesting thing about the Tehran conference is that's where they negotiated with Russia. It says, look, if Germany's defeated Soviets, the Union will then attack Japan to help us with a war in the Pacific, which they e…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 56:48
Allen Dulles recruited
Averell Harriman host_asserted
“Anti-Semitism made him a colleague with the Reich. He was also well-connected in the enemy camp. Tyler was among the first people whom Dulles sought out when he got to Switzerland. Now, Dulles and the prince and their mutual friend, Royal T…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 50:28
Averell Harriman had_affair_with
Randolph Churchill host_asserted
“Didn't look like anything too special, but there's more to this guy. Do you want to talk more about the World War II stuff, all these conferences with Stalin and Churchill? There's some interesting anecdotes about it. Go ahead. I was going …”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 49:23
Averell Harriman funded
Poland host_asserted
“complete what was referred to as his pet project, financing the electrification of Poland, because he was actually involved in electrification with GE of Russia. And so they also moved on. Harriman had agents in Poland, and the Sullivan and…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 36:05
Averell Harriman covered_up
Operation Sunrise host_asserted
“Moscow, Averill Harriman of Brown Brothers Harriman, one of the people funding and arranging all of this interconnectivity with the U.S., vetoed that. Inviting the Soviets to negotiations would make the Germans nervous, he said. It really m…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 35:31
Averell Harriman funded
Poland book_quoted
“like we were talking about with the Harrimans in Russia and doing the railroads and stuff like that. You're also going to find, according to this book of Sullivan and Cromwell, which I know is one of your favorite topics, that Averill Harri…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 36:02
Averell Harriman member_of
Pilgrims Society host_asserted
“You got to be connected. You got to be part of the club to be an ambassador. And the U.S. ambassador to the U.K. is probably the most important position. So some of the names that have been ambassador to the U.K. that we've talked about bef…”
▶ The Shadow State 75 The Pilgrims Society @ 3:17
James Forrestal adopted
Averell Harriman host_asserted
“The Secretary of Defense's forestall after he committed suicide adopted his son. Yeah. Yeah. That blew me away. I actually paid for him to go to Harvard Law. Yeah. So he becomes his protege, which kind of is creepy. I mean, actually, but wh…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 1:02:17
Milton Katz succeeded
Averell Harriman host_asserted
“He also served as an ambassador and special representative to Europe in the 1950s. And he took W. Avril Harriman's place in that job.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 55 - _WEF - WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ORIGINS_ - EP.417 @ 58:57
Mentions (120)
▶ 58:57
that he directed from 54 to 1974. He also served as an ambassador and special representative to Europe in the 1950s. And he took W. Avril Harriman's place in that job. Katz had previously worked in the Department of Defense and at the Ford …
▶ 24:17
Stephen Rhodes, all of those people. So you know that he was being groomed. And the guy we just talked about this past, like yesterday, last week, Averill Harriman. So Bissell went to work for Averill Harriman to work on the Marshall Plan. …
▶ 1:01:50
Oh, not a big deal, but when Gladio first kicked off in Italy, she was the ambassador there that helped throw the election over to the pro-NATO guy. So, you know, no big deal at all. And you start looking at these other people, all of these…
▶ 1:48:30
One of the things I just want to capitalize on what you said, I've done a lot of research into the education process. And if you guys were talking about Rockefeller earlier and how the Alan Dulles and Sullivan and Cromwell and all of that. …
▶ 1:48:30
One of the things I just want to capitalize on what you said, I've done a lot of research into the education process. And if you guys were talking about Rockefeller earlier and how the Alan Dulles and Sullivan and Cromwell and all of that. …
▶ 12:54
in the Midwest. So there was a company that I see a lot in Operation Gladio Research around the early 1900s time that's spelled America, but it's A-M-E-R-I-K-A. And so Walker became president of W.A. Harriman and Company's investment…
▶ 13:27
and took control of a part of that organization that was a transatlantic shipping enterprise out of Hamburg, Germany. Let me jump in on that real quick, because how he became a partner with the W.A. Harriman Company is a fascinating story. …
▶ 13:56
And he had two sons. Well, I think he had three of those. Two that are notable. One was W. Averill Harrington and his brother, who we'll get to in a second. Averill Harrington was a member of Skull and Bones. And his younger brother was a b…
▶ 14:25
Averill Harrington, at the time his father passed away, that's E.H. Harrington, he inherited more money than any person in the United States history. And we can go deeper into the whole railroad robber barons. I've got a lot of notes on tha…
▶ 19:43
CIA being created where we were using the wealthy people as part of the OSS and feeding into that. If you go back into their backgrounds, a lot of them have links to mafia. And one of the links to mafias were racetracks, right? So you would…
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Obviously, W. Averill Harriman, the older of the Harriman brothers, was a titan in Democrat politics. And yet the Bushes were more involved with Republican politics. Yet they worked together side by side, financing both issues, both sides. …
▶ 31:11
All right, I'm jumping over to Harriman real quick because I think that needs to be done. I talk about Harriman being a titan in democratic politics. He was an ambassador to the USSR during the war from 1943 to 1946. This is W. Averill Harr…
▶ 31:44
We discussed him a bit last week, but he was a bonesman in 1918. We'll skip back to him in a bit, but I wanted to bring him up here because he's part of that same class as Prescott Bush and the Harriman boys. All three of those guys were sk…
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law that he tried to pass. And Harriman was instrumental in this effort. So I just wanted to add that. Excellent. So Prescott Bush, you know, does his, I think he does two years in the war and then joins Harriman and Brothers. About 10 year…
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I also want to make mention because I think it's important to keep focusing this internationally too. Like we were talking about with the Harrimans in Russia and doing the railroads and stuff like that. You're also going to find, according …
▶ 36:05
complete what was referred to as his pet project, financing the electrification of Poland, because he was actually involved in electrification with GE of Russia. And so they also moved on. Harriman had agents in Poland, and the Sullivan and…
▶ 1:12:54
was, you know, strongly influenced by CIA. What was his name again? Hold on, I'll have to go back to my notes. What was your point? Well, my point is that he's so important, I forgot his name. Because he wrote a book called, he is actually …
▶ 1:13:25
important to look at. Namely, it was it was a crocodile, you know, what you would call it over its Democratic Harriman, April Harriman. Right. And April Harriman had adopted. Check this out. The first secretary of state forced us, you know,…
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when he died in 1949, extremely significant in terms of, will the president be able to control this new, you know, the services conflict that, you know, strongly influenced World War II. That was a hint. And, but, so he had, yes, Harriman a…
▶ 47:41
sometime in the near future. But that's Charles Boland. It's not a name that comes up too often, but he was one of those six wise men. The third one was W. Averill Harriman, who we've discussed, George Kennan, who we've talked about ad naus…
▶ 11:11
Recovery Act office that basically tried to implement socialism in the United States, and it was so outrageous and so obvious that the Supreme Court overturned it. He had a relationship slash mentorship with Harriman, the banker, and he sta…
▶ 47:03
For months, President Kennedy and his special envoy, Avril Harriman, another traitor, had been attempting to restore Laotian neutrality and bring about the withdrawal of foreign military elements by working to establish a tripartite coaliti…
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Then State Department intelligence chief, who we found in other Operation Gladio operations, by the way, records that the president and National Security Council agreed with Harriman's contention that the U.S. should comply with both the le…
▶ 39:32
In a feat of Laotian daredevilish, Soup converted his guards and walked out of the jail free. President Kennedy did not feel Laos was the place for a major war. In office, he used the U.S. military forces, briefly converting the PEO into an…
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Oh, you mean JFK pissed off the CIA yet again? It was Harriman who engineered the cutoff of Fumi. A loyal Democrat and senior statesman, Harriman carried some weight with JFK, and he went to some length to set up a credible Laotian neutrali…
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when CIA officers briefed him in the Capitol on their assessment of the Laotian politics and the extent to which popular support for anyone other than the Americans. The president's envoy turned off his hearing aid in the middle of the meet…
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Ambassador Sullivan could command the CIA station and would be responsible for implementing the second of the two basic decisions made in Washington. The first had come in the wake of the Geneva Agreement when William Colby had convinced Av…
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Which, for those of you guys that are following the kind of secret society thing, she comes up a couple of different times as well. She comes up in relationship to, let's see, Thomas Dewey and Avril Harriman and Nelson Rockefeller and blah,…
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no matter who they hire to come in and harvest the oil. So now that there's basically a standoff at this point, we send over W. Avril Harriman. Yeah, from Brown Brothers Harriman. And a guy by the name of Paul Nitz, N-I-T-Z-E. They too fail…
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lost most of what it had gained after India's 1962 border war with China when W. Avril Harriman made a diplomatic tour of the region and sided with the ambassador. Not even Desmond Fitzgerald, Jim Critchfield, or John Noss, who were among h…
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Fitzgerald's fallback proposal, an alliance among CIA, Indian intelligence, and the Tibetans. As the Mustang forces diminished, most of the partisan enlisted in the Indian Border Commando Unit, which eventually far exceeded the resistance i…
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is directly linked to the stay-behind creation, Operation Gladio, in Europe. Reinhard Galen, who's a Nazi, he's the CIA director. He had played second fiddle to Wisner, then Bissell. Now Helms began a meteoric rise that took him to the top …
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in Muleli's home province. This could not have been worse for Leopoldville. The UN was withdrawing, even as Mubato's army remained far from effective. The rebellion known for Muleli, or as the Simba Rebellion, for the name Lion in Swahili, …
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the Congo in March 1964, promising more aid to Mobato, who is basically a dictator and has killed tons of Congolese on behalf of his CIA bosses. Secret warriors faced a new problem. The CIA's best chance and Mobato's lay in the new undercov…
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weapon pods converted the aircraft to basically a ground support role. The first mission was flown from a strip in Kualu province in February. After Harriman's visit, the air project accelerated. Better T-28 aircraft came along. Along with …
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and briefly converting the program evaluation office into an advisory group. But he wanted to stay within the international guidelines of how to deal with that. With the help of Avril Harriman, Roger Hilsman, and Dean Russ, Kennedy achieved…
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His CIA handler, Jack Hasey, disappeared. He got sent to the Congo. Oh gosh, that's interesting because we already fucked them up. Sorry. But his reassignment was much to the chagrin of Desmond Fitzgerald and William Colby. They didn't want…
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A loyal Democrat and senior statesman, Harriman carried weight with JFK, and he tried for a credible Laotian neutralization agreement. Harriman also knew that he wanted, when CIA officers in the capital of Laos briefed him on Laotian politi…
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He was very critical of Dulles, Schlesinger wrote, and implied after Dulles, anybody would be better. If Kennedy thought he was getting in McComb a respectable Republican front man who would readily do his bidding at the CIA, he was sorely …
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banker diplomat W. Averill Harriman, an old Democrat Party wise man who had served as FDR's ambassador to Moscow and who was now serving JFK as a globetrotting ambassador at large. Harriman gave Schlesinger an evaluation of the new McComb r…
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This was clear, Harriman confided, from looking at the policy maneuvers around Laos, the Southeast Asian sideshow in which Kennedy was determined not to get involved. JFK's policy of neutrality was being systematically sabotaged by both the…
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the CIA took five years ago. They want to prove that a neutral solution is possible, is not possible, and that the only course is to turn Laos into a new war zone. Harriman, a veteran of Washington infighting, then advised Schlesinger how t…
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General George Marshall once told me that when you change a policy, you must change the men too. The CIA has the same men on the same desk in the same fields who were responsible for all of the disasters of the past. And naturally, they do …
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was not sweeping enough. The president had lopped off the head of the top three men, but all of his deputies were still there. And McCone, a CIA outsider who largely shared the former regime's views, was not going to change anything. McCone…
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That became a notorious weekend retreat for pro-Nazi aristocracy. There is no getting around this unwelcome fact. Hitler was much more fashionable in the social settings that men like Dulles frequented in England as well as the U.S. Royal T…
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Born in Boston, Tyler traipsed around Europe for most of his life, collecting art, marrying a Florentine Contessa, and playing the market. He was multilingual, and his wife led a richly cultured life with Tyler haunting antique shops and pr…
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as a courier. The Contessa, who was equally sophisticated, moved in art and literary circles. Tyler was another one of those refined men who glided seamlessly across the borders and didn't think twice about doing business with Nazis. During…
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Anti-Semitism made him a colleague with the Reich. He was also well-connected in the enemy camp. Tyler was among the first people whom Dulles sought out when he got to Switzerland. Now, Dulles and the prince and their mutual friend, Royal T…
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with fire going against FDR. After receiving a warning from Washington about fraternizing with the prince, Dulles sent back a cable saying that he realized the prince was a tough customer and extreme caution required, but found him useful. …
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Quote, we all inhibit a small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's future, and we are all mortal, unquote. JFK reinforced his path-breaking speech by dispatching Avril Harriman to Moscow the following month to …
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which the hawks in America did not want controlled. They wanted people living in fear. When the triumphant Harriman returned home, his Georgetown neighbors poured into the streets outside of his brick townhouse to celebrate his achievement.…
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The crusty old millionaire was touched by the neighborhood welcome. Harriman told Schlesinger that by picking him for the mission instead of one of the Cold War envoys, Kennedy had persuaded Khrushchev that we really wanted an agreement and…
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of having a role in the assassination, McCoy was a Cold War hardliner too. McCoy had resigned as JFK's chief arms negotiator at the end of 1962 in frustration with what he felt to be Soviet entrances. But it was McCoy himself who was the ob…
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who in 1961 held positions in the government. Dean, I'm not gonna read them all. I'll read the most notorious ones. Dean Rusk, Douglas Dillon, Adelaide Stevenson, W. Avril Harriman, John McCloy, General Lyman Lemitsker. I have to say that w…
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there was a surprising number of known communist and communist sympathizers or admitted socialist. And says the prime minister of Ghana, who was widely believed to be a communist, who is admittedly socialist and who aligned his nation with …
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Look there. It is also interesting to note the principal book offered for sale at his seminars is called American Strategy for the Nuclear Age. The first chapter is called Basic Aims of the U.S. Foreign Policy. It is a reprint of the CFR's …
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later vice chair of the War Production Board and a central figure in creating the CIA, and C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. diplomat and later Secretary of the Treasury. Another Wall Street firm that specialized in U.S.-German trade was Brown Brothe…
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The British military command in Italy notified the Soviets that new peace negotiations had begun for a rapid German surrender in northern Italy. The Soviets replied that they were glad to hear this. All that was required, understanding alli…
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Moscow, Averill Harriman of Brown Brothers Harriman, one of the people funding and arranging all of this interconnectivity with the U.S., vetoed that. Inviting the Soviets to negotiations would make the Germans nervous, he said. It really m…
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then Major General Lyman Lemitsker and General Hoyt Vandenberg. A week after the talks began, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov sent a note to Harriman in Moscow expressing complete surprise that the Soviet representatives were still being ba…
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Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan. On other occasions, Reed traveled as a representative of General Electric. And on others, he traveled as the International Chamber of Commerce representative. So he was wearing a whole bunch of hats. And he bec…
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So this is the international syndicate. This is the vultures that swoop in on the dead body. Like Brown's book, Reid's report to Harriman lamb blasted the denazification and cartel policy the U.S. had approved at Potsdam because, you know, …
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It labeled itself a citizens organization, but was in reality funded and administered by the same economic foreign policy elite that had been discussed so far, like the GEs and the Morgans and the Rockefellers. Its initial sponsors included…
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Actual businesses that are still owned by at this point, like in the 30s and 40s, by the Western oligarchs operating inside of the Soviet Union. There were some. Well, I mean, but they were operating as businesses. Sutton talked about how t…
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But even three years into the war, Alan Dulles was looking for a way to close out the war on terms favorable to Germany. After the Casablanca Conference in July 1943, Roosevelt's declaration that Germany must surrender unconditionally, Dull…
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and Royal Tyler, a wealthy Boston Globe trotter. Bostonian, sorry. Quote, now Dulles and Holenlo and their mutual friend, Royal Tyler, were gathered amicably around the OSS man's fireplace. Dulles broke the ice by recalling old times with P…
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Another railroad company. Guy by the name of Cochran. He's a partner at the previously mentioned J.P. Morgan. Whitney's a bonesman. He just ran the family business, but the Whitney's are so expansive and pervasive. That's a huge multination…
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You got Averill and Roland Harrington, both founding brothers, founding partners of Brown Brothers Harriman. We've talked about Prescott Bush is a founding partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. Here's a guy by the name of Mallon and he's the …
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the middle, in the Midwest. So there was a company that I see a lot in Operation Gladio research around the early 1900s time that's spelled America, but it's A-M-E-R-I-K-A. And so Walker became president of W.A. Harriman and Company's inves…
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company and took control of a part of that organization that was a transatlantic shipping enterprise out of Hamburg, Germany. So let me jump in on that real quick, because the how he became the partner with the W.A. Harriman Company is a fa…
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and uh he had two sons well i think they had three that's two they're notable one was w uh averil harrington and his brother who we'll get to in a second um averil harrington was a member of skull and bones uh and his younger brother uh was…
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Averill Harrington, at the time his father passed away, that's E.H. Harrington, he inherited more money than any person in the United States history. And we can go deeper into the whole railroad robber barons. I've got a lot of notes on tha…
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CIA being created where we were using the wealthy people as part of the OSS and feeding into that. If you go back into their backgrounds, a lot of them have links to mafia. And one of the links to mafias were racetracks, right? So you would…
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He immediately gets to be the president of W.A. Harriman and Company because he was a classmate to E. Rowland Harriman at Yale and in Skull and Bones, and that's how he got involved with the Harriman family. Obviously, W. Averill Harriman, …
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So Averill Harriman and Prescott Bush are overlapping all throughout their career. Prescott's mostly a Wall Street banker, was a politician for a short period of time. We'll get to that. A couple other families. I'm jumping over to Harriman…
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Go ahead. No, he became Truman's Secretary of Commerce for three years, and then he became governor of New York for one term. Very, very powerful guy. Another guy who comes into the play with these guys is Robert Lovett. We discussed him a …
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with the kind of New Deal, which was kind of the socialist light version of the original law that he tried to pass. And Harriman was instrumental in this effort. So I just wanted to add that. Excellent. So Prescott Bush, you know, does this…
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Two Harriemans, both Roland and Averill. Prescott Bush. Robert Levitt. Once again, skull and bones. And interestingly, a guy named Roe Delano of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yeah, he pops up in these founding fathers. And it's a very legi…
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like we were talking about with the Harrimans in Russia and doing the railroads and stuff like that. You're also going to find, according to this book of Sullivan and Cromwell, which I know is one of your favorite topics, that Averill Harri…
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financing the electrification of Poland because he was actually involved in electrification with GE of Russia. And so they also moved on. He had, Harriman had agents in Poland to, and the Sullivan and Cromwell's office in Berlin actually he…
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you know and the importing of all of these scientists um and how big of a role that the bushes end up playing in that whole um thing yeah i don't i believe it's all related but anyway go ahead that's pretty much all i had for him i think th…
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So he didn't make it to Yale. Takes a job as a Wall Street errand boy. And by 22, he's become a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He marries a woman named Mary Williamson Averell. That's where Averell Harriman got his name from. Again,…
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Unless you have anything more on him. No. Okay. He dies and leaves an estate estimated to be worth about $200 million at the time. That's about $7 billion in today's money. He left it all to his wife, and she passed away shortly thereafter,…
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gold out of Russia post-Bolshevik Revolution. The shipments were coordinated by Jacob Schiff, Kuhn, Loeb & Company, Standard Oil, period. Standard Oil and General Electric supplied the Soviet Union with $37 million of machinery. Banker and …
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came to monopolize the Soviet Manganese production for over 20 years, which leads us right into World War II. So they were on both sides. Well, yeah, it's great business if you can do it. Yeah. Doesn't matter who wins. You win. All right, s…
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Which is kind of crazy, isn't it? Yeah, it really did. I was thinking about that when I was typing out my notes. I go, this guy was actually running around still doing things when I was alive. And we're talking about pre-World War I stuff? …
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So the interesting thing about him, well, first of all, let's talk about his business. You know, he's obviously a very successful investment banker with Brown Brothers Harriman. And he had owned parts of Union Pacific Railroad Merchant Ship…
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helped overthrow Hawaii. He was part of the United American Alliance. Okay, these next two actually matter. Guarantee Trust Company and Union Bank Incorporation. Union Bank Incorporation, it's now defunct, but it was a big deal back in, I'd…
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FDR and him become friends. They're in the middle of the Great Depression. And Averill Harriman, I think it was 1932, joins what's called the National Recovery Administration. Now, everything that the government through the Great Depression…
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Roosevelt FDR's personal envoy to the United Kingdom and became very good personal friends with Winston Churchill. You're going to find all kinds of these conferences regarding World War II that Harriman was the U.S. envoy and he was travel…
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Harriman's a guy who pushed for USAID to Russia when they were fighting the Germans. He also would accompany Churchill to the Moscow conference, where basically Stalin chewed out Churchill and FDR, though not to his face, for why don't you …
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So the Soviets at the time were taking an awful lot of the brunt of the Nazi assault. Yeah, all of it. Yeah. And so this guy's going toe-to-toe with Stalin at a bunch of these conferences all over the world. So interestingly enough, here he…
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No. All right, so here's another fun one he did. So during the wartime compensation, they pretty much tried to calculate it based on what your pre-war holdings were. And Harriman had a ton of coal reserves in Poland. So when all those warti…
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Oh, please do. So, you know, this book that I've been reading about, it's called A Law Into Itself about Sullivan and Cromwell that we want to talk about. All right. W. Averill Harriman, then a banker, hired Sullivan and Cromwell for his pe…
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and went there often. And interestingly enough, it says in here that Harriman didn't necessarily like the Dollases, but he respected their ability to get done what he needed to have done. Said that he controlled the entire electrical grid i…
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Didn't look like anything too special, but there's more to this guy. Do you want to talk more about the World War II stuff, all these conferences with Stalin and Churchill? There's some interesting anecdotes about it. Go ahead. I was going …
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Bear with me one second. You want to talk a little bit more about that? I'm trying to find something real quick. About what? Well, I found it very interesting that Harriman's presence with much of overlaps with the Dulles brothers, both in …
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Yeah, very much so. Here's an interesting, we just segued right into what I was going to go to next. So after the war, he is a huge supporter of George Kennan's policy of containment of Soviet Union. Now think about that 180. You know, he h…
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So this whole thing is fascinating when all of that's devastated, right? It's overrun, destroyed. And you've got Harriman sitting over there doing an assessment of just how devastated the Soviet Union is. He knows they're not aggressive. He…
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It was kind of like, what is it? Like a house built on sand. There was no there there, but they made it sound imminent that it was going to just pop out all over. And this guy, you know, he was all over the place in World War II with all th…
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Especially on Poland. Now, why would he be so interested in Poland? Now you know. Uh-huh. There's like one or two other blurbs I didn't get a chance to type out. Yeah, it should be good for him for his wartime. I think we've made the case t…
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So in 1950, where is this? Let me see if I get the year right. He runs for governor of New York in 1954, and he wins. He would then lose. I'm sorry, he's the Democrat governor of New York in 1954. He would lose to Republican Nelson Rockefel…
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Aval Harrison had some pretty big aspirations. He wanted the Democrat nomination for president, and he tried to get it in both 1952 and 1956. But both times, he lost to the Democratic Convention. Was that Adelaide? No. Remind me who were th…
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There's some JFK stuff in here. He helped implement the Marshall Plan. Under JFK, he was pushing for the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. And then under LBJ, he became deeply involved in the Vietnam War. So let's sum up what we know about h…
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goes to Yale, gets invited into secret societies. And after that, he's basically had his finger involved in railroads, shipping, banking, espionage, trading with the enemy, sits on all kinds of boards, becomes an American diplomat going all…
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one of the things that I thought was one of the most interesting ones, and I had read it in, I think it's the American Memory Hall book, but there is a mention of it in Wikipedia, and that was in just after World War II, where you have Harr…
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Well, if they're going to do all those firings of the stars, I hope and I think they would strip their security clearance as well. Oh, they have to. Good stuff. I didn't realize we were going to get into that today, but that's cool. A coupl…
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Klaus Schwab, another one of the Rockefeller stooges, in 1971 found the World Economic Forum, who has pushed the Great Reset for the last 54 years now. All this stuff happened in a five-year period and all floats downhill from the Rockefell…
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All of the people that we have talked about, a bunch of the Warburgs are in it. James Woolsey, a lot of CIA guys. So just so that you know, you can get a flavor of the Harrimans were part of that venture too. Yeah, we should definitely make…
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But that's Charles Boland. It's not a name that comes up too often, but he was one of those six, you know, wise men. The third one was W. Averill Harriman, who we've discussed. George Kennan, who we've talked about ad nauseum. Robert Lovett…
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Kind of a big deal. Since we're on the H's, we may as well mention that there are two Harrimans, because of course there are. One of the wealthiest families in American history. 1909, that's where W. Averill Harriman went to school, and his…
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Yeah, they really need to keep that stuff really close-knit. Then, of course, the last we've got, we've got W. Averill Harrington, one of the richest men in the world. His father was a robber baron, railroad guy. I've got a lot more on Harr…
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In World War II. And keep in mind that he is the one that withheld so much of the information from the Soviet Union as our ally during World War II. Very much so. He was also the U.S. ambassador to the USSR until 1946. So the guy that was b…
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the ambassador there to continue hiding information from them exactly and then in 1948 they put him in charge of the marshall plan which was the precursor funding mechanism for operation gladio without a doubt and when he's there he becomes…
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Like the World Anti-Communist League, the ABN, all of those. Well, Harriman's not done yet. He goes to Iran in 1951 to mediate the Anglo-Iranian oil company nationalization. How'd that work out? How'd that work out? Jinx, you owe me a Coke.…
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He then become the ambassador at large for JFK, which means basically a guy with no portfolio, but all every place was his business. He advised on Laos and how'd that work out? Got a lot of opium out of there. He helped negotiate the limite…
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He was one of Kennedy's closest confidants during the Bay of Pigs, and he's the guy who advised JFK to give Khrushchev a dignified way to back down. He would be accused of spying for the Soviet Union by Russian defector Anatoly Golitsyn, bu…
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Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963, which set off the whole Vietnam conflict. So that's W. Averell Harriman. Good life. And he became Secretary of State or Undersecretary for political affairs from 63 to 65. But obviously he was a lot more than his titl…
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and Greece had to pay reparations, but Crete got granted autonomy under international oversight. And the other neat thing that happened while he was ambassador is we had the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. How are you doing on…
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I want to hammer home the Weisman angle of this, though. Like I said, this is a book about who basically formed the post-World War II world, the Cold War. There's six of them. There's a Charles, who was the ambassador of the USSR and part o…