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Frank Wisner ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba documented document

“Scheider testified I explained to him [Station Officer]what Tweedy and his Deputy had told me that Headquarters wanted him to see if he could use this [biological] capability I brought against Lumumba…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.38

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination documented document

“The supervisor testified that he consulted with Frank Wisner the Director of OPC who agreed that Pash should have jurisdiction over assassinations.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.135

Frank Wisner worked_for CIA documented document

“In addition the then DDP Frank Wisner sent a memorandum to TSS...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.403

Frank Wisner headed CIA documented document

“TSD had received a memo advising the staff that LSD was not to be used without the permission of the DDP Frank Wisner…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.415

Frank Wisner trained Lawrence Devlin documented document

“The Station Officer testified that he received "rubber gloves a mask and a syringe along with lethal biological material from Scheider who also instructed him in their use.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.38

Frank Wisner worked_for CIA reported document

“I assume was speaking for himself and not the CIA…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.124

John Hedgman met_with Frank Wisner documented document

“In late November Hedgman attended a meeting of CIA officers from African Stations with Bissell and Tweedy…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.65

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Frank Wisner reported document

“Bissell said that it was 'very probable that he discussed the assassination of Lumumba with Scheider who was then his science advisor…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.50

Frank Wisner headed CIA Directorate of Plans documented document

“Under this arrangement Wisner was named Deputy Director for Plans and assumed the command functions of the ADSO and ADPC…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.44

Frank Wisner worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“In addition his service with OSS had been oriented toward Central Europe…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.42

Frank Wisner worked_for United States Department of State documented document

“During his term in the State Department Wisner had spent much of his time on problems involving refugees in Germany Austria and Trieste…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.42

Frank Wisner supplied_arms_to Lawrence Devlin documented document

“The Station Officer testified that he received "rubber gloves a mask and a syringe along with lethal biological material from Scheider who also instructed him in their use.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.38

Lawrence Devlin met_with Frank Wisner documented document

“Station Officer Hedgman reported through the PROP channel that he had contacted Scheider on September 26…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.38

Frank Wisner worked_for CIA documented document

“Scheider was en route to the Congo at this point…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.38

James Doolittle relationship_with Frank Wisner documented document

“Doolittle himself was a friend of Wisner's…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.58

Frank Wisner worked_for CIA documented document

“Both Wisner and Dulles cultivated relations with foreign intelligence officials…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.55

Frank Wisner worked_for CIA documented document

“Men such as Frank Wisner... had developed a wide array of contacts which bridged the worlds of government...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.49

Frank Wisner moved_to Congo documented document

“Scheider was en route to the Congo at this point…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.38

Frank Wisner worked_for Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Bissell said that it was 'very probable that he discussed the assassination of Lumumba with Scheider who was then his science advisor…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.50

Frank Wisner member_of Carter, Lanyard, and Milburn documented

“at a private school and attended the University of Virginia. He graduated third in his class, bringing an immediate offer from a Wall Street firm. Wisner joined Carter Ledyard Milburn in 1934, located three floors above Donovan's law firm i…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 12:46

Frank Wisner headed Operation Archipelago documented

“This move was a signal for Wisner, who loved to be at the scene of action, to leave Singapore and come command the operation. In Singapore, the CIA station chief had been augmented for the project. The Navy also quietly moved two destroyers…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 45:19

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination documented

“They did it here. They did it here in 2020. You have only have to ask, where else have they done it and when else have they done it? We know that they tried to do it in 2016. How long have they been doing it? My guess would be since 1947. J…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 6 @ 57:23

Frank Wisner relationship_with Jacob Esterlin documented

“Frank Wisner passed through town about then, and Esterling told him that if the agency decided to do anything about Castro, he wanted in. Now Esterling found himself as the head of the Cuban task force. Early planning focused on several con…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 13:27

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination documented

“Paul Nitz, just finished working on a massive study of aerial bombing who had fingers in policy pies. Wisner jumped at the opportunity to take charge of a new Cold War action group and soon found himself ensconced at CIA headquarters. The N…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 18:45

The Determined Spy member_of Frank Wisner documented

“telling you. For example, when I read The Determined Spy about Frank Wisner, I don't think that author understood what stay-behind units were. I don't think he, because it's written as kind of almost like an offhanded comment and admitting,…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 1:45:32

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination documented

“Where we left off, Skorzeny is now gone, supposedly escaped, although he didn't actually escape. They just let him go. But the story was he escaped. So we're at August 19th, 1948. Frank Wisner, who is the director of the Office of Policy Co…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 8 @ 14:45

Richard M. Bissell Jr. succeeded Frank Wisner documented

“who was tried in December 1959 and sentenced to life in prison, would fly again for the CIA. The disaster did finally sap the strength of Frank Wisner. The chief went to London as the station chief to be replaced in Washington by Richard Bi…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 1:00:18

Frank Wisner member_of Office of Policy Coordination documented

“Security Council order, which prescribed the procedures for approval. Truman's 10-5 panel, the Psychological Strategy Board, had endorsed covert operations informally, but Truman's directive merely gave the group authority to regulate the O…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 5:14

Frank Wisner member_of CIA book_quoted

“On March 16th, Frank Wisner met with Richard Helms, Tracy Barnes, and J.C. King and others for a high-level review. Haney warned that delaying D-Day would cause morale problems and weather difficulties. Wisner saw no need to change the ops …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 21:44

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination documented

“Alan Dulles was the head of the CIA and his brother, John Foster Dulles, was running the State Department. And the two have been working just like that ever since. Set up to run just like that. And just let me put one other stamp on that. W…”

▶ SitRep with War_Hamster and Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 7:05

Frank Wisner member_of CIA book_quoted

“by consultants like Paul Leinbarger that argued for better articulation of capabilities. Appeals for help from Frank Wisner at the CIA also had their uses within the Army hierarchy. Gray went further, knocking heads together, demanding prog…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 7 @ 23:52

Frank Wisner moved E. Howard Hunt host_asserted

“into cultural operations after his Albanian Psyops War assignment, that completely failed. Hunt managed to secure film rights to Animal Farm from Orwell's widow, Carlson Alsop. Or excuse me, from his widow, period. Carlson Alsop, one of the…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 7 @ 43:03

Frank Wisner financed_via Marshall Plan book_quoted

“his office operations by diverting a portion of the so-called counterpart funds the administration of the Marshall Plan controlled. This is just all crap. We know from other sources that the Marshall Plan actually had a covert element alrea…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 5:25

Richard M. Bissell Jr. funded Frank Wisner book_quoted

“by European countries in exchange for assistance they received because this money was used for Operation Gladio units. Concerned with the apparent rising security threat in Europe in the wake of the Korean War, they felt compelled to use th…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 5:56

Frank Wisner recruited Kermit Roosevelt book_quoted

“Kermit Roosevelt served as the lead writer on an official history of the OSS, and he retreated to writing and academia afterwards, returning to Iran repeatedly beginning in 1947, when he went back to research a book on Arabs and oil. Three …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 34:57

Frank Wisner member_of Laurel, Mississippi book_quoted

“But they actually sat with the CIA because the State Department didn't want to be seen as owning a covert element, although they did. And one of the fascinating things that I found out about Frank Wisner, guess where he's from? Waco? No. Th…”

▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 3:33

Frank Wisner member_of American Academy of Diplomacy documented

“Robert O'Brien. You're going to love this next one. Your buddy, Thomas Pickering. Wow. Finishing up, we've got Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Susan Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and also in memory, Frank Wisner. And we've got John Negroponte, who…”

▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady 250418 @ 26:30

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted

“There was a total of a little over 300 people working for him. The OPC had access to another fund that had been set up of unused currency stabilization accounts at the treasury. From their headquarters, Wisner's web began to encircle the wo…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 19:43

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted

“The military's interest became Frank Wisner's entree into outflanking the 10-2 panel when he encountered obstacles from CIA and State Department. In August of 49, Wisner asked the Army for extensive assistance, including the designation of …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 36:55

Reinhard Gehlen worked_with Frank Wisner book_quoted

“The general then contrived to have himself taken by Americans. Galen offered to tell them everything he knew about Russia and bring together a cadre of his former top people to add to that intelligence capability. And he peddled the wartime…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 40:28

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted

“Nonetheless, an attempt would be made. Wisner's move into paramilitary action was preceded by the British Secret Intelligence Service, SIS, whose controller, North, became the first to make contact and give the Baltics hope and support. It …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 4:31

Frank Wisner funded Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted

“Here's where the CIA could be helpful. You know, our money. In particular, Frank Wisner. He had money to burn because of the Marshall Plan. Not only was Wisner liberally funded by three different agencies and the Marshall Plan, he had other…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 13:09

Franklin A. Lindsay proposed Frank Wisner book_quoted

“Lindsay was another OSS veteran and one of the real paramilitary, well-experienced agents. During the war, he had worked in what was then Yugoslavia, arranging secret arms shipments. It was Lindsay, together with a former State Department o…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 16:07

Frank Wisner funded Gehlen Organization book_quoted

“OSS, let me be here to set up the Marshall Plan, then I'm going to go implement it and ensure that Dulles' stay-behind units are fully funded. Not shocked. Oh, and by the way, he works on the Congressional Foreign Aid Committee to make sure…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 17:08

Frank Wisner funded National Committee for a Free Europe documented

“where the CIA psychological warfare chief, Joe Bryan, helped the Albanians prepare press releases. The Albanians visited the U.S. more openly, sponsored by Frank Wisner's funded Committee for a Free Europe. Acquiring American entry visas pr…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 43:50

Frank Wisner ordered Hemat Majani documented

“With Philby already under investigation, three groups were parachuted in by Wisner. One was obliterated on landing. One was surrounded in a house and burned alive. While two pixies of the last group of four were killed, the other two were c…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 53:23

Allen Dulles recruited Frank Wisner host_asserted

“had Alan Dulles brought in who was hired to be a consultant. The brains at CIA came up with the idea of bringing better cooperation between Wisner and the OSO office by co-locating them. That didn't work out very well. It didn't work out at…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:07:50

Richard Helms succeeded Frank Wisner book_quoted

“at least for the CIA. An era passed unheralded when a deeply depressed Frank Wisner put a shotgun to his head and killed himself in 1965. Lots of questions about that. It was Richard Helms, the professional espionage specialist, that then b…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 39:57

Frank Wisner headed Operation Archipelago documented

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 45:12

Richard M. Bissell Jr. succeeded Frank Wisner documented

“The disaster did finally sap the strength of Frank Wisner. The chief went to London as the station chief to be replaced in Washington by Richard Bissell. Al Umer went to Paris as station chief. His place at the Far East Division was taken b…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 1:00:18

Frank Wisner headed CIA Directorate of Plans host_asserted

“Kermit Roosevelt returned to Washington as the assistant director of the Directorate of Plans, working directly for Wisner. And, you know, Wisner is the guy that runs all the covert operations. And it says Roosevelt directed the political a…”

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 25:46

Frank Wisner recruited Kermit Roosevelt host_asserted

“If we, the CIA, are ever going to try something like this again, we must be absolutely sure that the people in the Army want what we want. If not, you had better give the job to the Marines, unquote. Roosevelt wrote later that John Foster D…”

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 26:15

Frank Wisner recruited Albert Haney host_asserted

“B-I-S-S-E-L-L, had been an economist by trade and came to the CIA from the Ford Foundation. Together, they coordinated the Washington Inn of the planning. Frank Wisner's task as deputy director of plans was to select who's going to be the f…”

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 33:29

Frank Wisner funded Eddie P. Haney documented

“Wisner and Allen Dulles, however, backed Haney and gave him a free hand. In the end, United Fruit itself decided not to go in on Operation Success. If the operation failed, they didn't want to have anything to do with it. And that, by the w…”

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 37:59

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted

“Oh, and Nazis. These individuals were generally assigned to a super secret Office of Policy and Coordination, later known Office of Dirty Tricks, under Frank Wisner. In 1949, an act was passed to legally permit the CIA to import as many as …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 19:55

Allen Dulles recruited Frank Wisner documented

“as well as research and editing skills by top CIA analyst Sherman Kent and Dulles' former right-hand man, Frank Wisner, whose career came to an end in 1962 because of quote-unquote mental problems. Dulles also drew on his extensive academic…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 10:11

Frank Wisner recruited Meyer Lansky book_quoted

“However, aside from media relations, the agency had an initial, much more pressing problem, money. And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying, during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 36:38

Frank Wisner member_of CIA book_quoted

“Had the CIA stuck with its original charter, men like Bush would have been used to collect overt economic and political intelligence. But President Eisenhower, like so many of his successors, heeded the siren sound of being able to secretly…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2 @ 17:27

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted

“and several other Operation Gladio peripheral activities. As far as Gladio is concerned, the chief architect at OPC was Frank Wisner and his British counterpart, Sir Colin Govans. They basically maintained the already existing Gladio networ…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 19:28

Frank Wisner headed Operation Bloodstone book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 19:28

Dean Rusk ordered_assassination_of Frank Wisner book_quoted

“Russ ended by asking the department to use diplomatic channels and to ask CIA Frank Wisner to stop. One thing President Kennedy demanded as a prerequisite for his decision had been analysis of the possibility and limitations of action. Marc…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 29:41

Desmond Fitzgerald succeeded Frank Wisner host_asserted

“with all of the stay-behind units, including Otto Skorzeny. Desmond Fitzgerald got the Far East Division chief's position. Even Alan Pope, tried in December in 1959 to a life sentence in Indonesia, would fly again for the CIA. The disaster …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 55:04

Frank Wisner recruited Jacob Esterlin documented

“but he didn't get listened to. Then he witnessed a state visit by Fidel Castro and he was widely heralded in Venezuela. Frank Wisner passed through town about then and Esterling told him that if the agency decided to do anything about Castr…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 9:05

Frank Wisner funded National Committee for a Free Europe book_quoted

“secret or black, including operations and propaganda. He also had what was referred to as gray propaganda and operations as well. The same support that Wisner had lent to the Committee for a Free Europe, which was the balloon leaflet effort…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 30:59

Allen Dulles recruited Frank Wisner host_asserted

“Frank Wisner to be in charge of it because he had just failed in Hungary. And Dulles is going to arrange a sleight of hands that is going to end up with an operational-looking failure, which he's betting will lead to a centralized army deve…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 24:57

Frank Wisner carried_out_attack Hungarian Revolution host_asserted

“Alan Dulles tapping him to be in charge of this one. He also had been in charge of a rebellion that had happened in Hungary. Well, the rebellion in Hungary was a failure. Basically, everybody that was in theater got killed. That was part of…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 17:51

Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of Frank Wisner host_asserted

“And he later committed suicide. And they didn't give a crap. He was just another body spent on the sidelines of this war that Alan Dulles was waging on behalf of his collective benefactors in the international syndicate. Bridget, I tried to…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 42:04

Allen Dulles recruited Frank Wisner host_asserted

“Frank Wisner, because he was in charge of the Hungary operation, shouldered 100% of the responsibility, but was known to have suffered basically a minor mental and emotional trauma as a result of the failure. This was included in Alan Dulle…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 41:08

CIA sacrificed Frank Wisner host_asserted

“There was nothing that came out of the church committee that changed a single thing. And it is not like Greece is the only example. We just had another example. They sacrificed Frank Wisner and used him to the point where he has a mental br…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:12:18

Frank Wisner member_of CIA guest_asserted

“who is like the guy for the CIA. No way. Yes, Frank Wisner. That's how I first found out about him. That's crazy. Yeah, Frank Wisner worked for this guy, actually, at the Secretary of State. He was the policy branch at the Secretary of Stat…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:07:12

CIA recruited Frank Wisner book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 19:55

Frank Wisner member_of CIA host_asserted

“It definitely has a spin on it. But in the 400-page book, I found out a lot about Frank Wisner's life that I had no idea about. So you're going to find additional clues and other operations they did, even if the book is a limited hangout bo…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 1:19:29

Frank Wisner member_of CIA host_asserted

“the upper echelons of the syndicate. They're the ones that go out and perform the duties of president, which is in, I mean, I think we've clearly established that's a figurehead position for all of them. The putting them in the CIA director…”

▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 6 @ 1:01:48

Frank Wisner member_of CIA book_quoted

“Among them was William Burdett, Washington's point man on Guyana policy. The CIA senior officer at the London office was none other than Frank Wisner, the agency's former covert operations chief. Bruce received instructions to minimize the …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 16:15

Frank Wisner headed CIA host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 55:04

Frank Wisner financed_via Vietnam book_quoted

“president into Indonesia for a stay of over two months. In May, the U.S. flatly rejected a request by Sukarno to make a visit to Washington. The fall of 1957, as it turns out, there would be little opposition to putting Indonesia on the CIA…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 30:33

Frank Wisner headed CIA host_asserted

“That was Frank Wisner's area that was chopped out of the State Department and basically inserted into the CIA when it stood up.…”

▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 24:46

Frank Wisner headed CIA book_quoted

“do that whole book as a book review. I probably will do kind of like an overview of it. But because it gets monotonous, the agenda of the author of the book is that later on, you know, Frank Wisner of the OSS, then he was put in charge of t…”

▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 2:38

Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of Frank Wisner host_asserted

“Dulles knew in 1956 that his brother had already been diagnosed with cancer and used that to his advantage. In 1956, CIA operations in Hungary under the operational control of Dulles' deputy, Frank Wisner,…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 40:22

Frank Wisner headed Pentagon Office of Special Operations book_quoted

“to open dissension between them. So, as it ends up, they fuse the whole thing together, and Frank Wisner ends up being the boss of the entire operation. As the Wurlitzer, called Jupebok, Wisner, he was called the Wurlitzer, because he playe…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 30:28

Frank Wisner member_of Carter, Lanyard, and Milburn documented

“All of them had worked in the same Wall Street law firm called Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn before World War II. Gray hired as his assistant in this psychological warfare area a guy by the name of Tracy Barnes, B-A-R-N-E-S.…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 36:14

Frank Wisner financed_via Marshall Plan documented

“And the entire network of CBS was part of this. And the reason why they had the disconnect in the funds is because the Pike Commission was unaware that Wisner had secret access to the Marshall Plan funds. And they had a carve-out in the Mar…”

▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 36:45

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted

“had approved covert operations informally, but the NSC directives merely gave it authority to regulate the Office of Planning. That was Wisner's group. These procedures was dismantled by Eisenhower. Also gone was the Psychological Strategy …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 5:51

Frank Wisner member_of CIA host_asserted

“a former Secretary of Defense, was also on the board or commission. Frank Wisner was not at all happy that people were looking at his work. He viewed himself with a sophisticated understanding of a secret world. David Bruce went to the hear…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 9:07

Frank Wisner recruited Kermit Roosevelt documented

“and Aramco. 1950, he gets recruited to the CIA by none other than Frank Wisner and gets assigned to Egypt. I'm going to pass the ball over to the Colonel because we're going to do Egypt and Operation Azax and then I'll take us home. Well, I…”

▶ The Shadow State 55 The Delano and Roosevelt Bloodlines @ 1:21:42

Frank Wisner recruited Philip Graham documented

“It was discovered during both the Pike Commission and the Church Commission that people like Philip Graham of the Washington Post had been recruited by Frank Wisner almost immediately, like back in 1948. We've covered this extensively on my…”

▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 30:27

Frank Wisner recruited Stuart Alsop documented

▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 30:27

Frank Wisner recruited Joseph Alsop documented

▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 30:27

Frank Wisner member_of Skull and Bones host_asserted

“a Sullivan and Cromwell lawyer and why they picked Frank Wisner and why they picked Paul Helliwell and all of these different people while Bill Donovan with all of their connections to set up the OSS and then the CIA, because they were doin…”

▶ The Shadow State 21 Secret Societies 5; Skull & Bones 1887-1908 @ 5:37

Frank Wisner headed Operation Gladio host_asserted

“was the real mental center behind the engine room of the Marshall plant, which we were just talking about. And it says basically for Frank Wisner, and who's that? That's the guy that was running the covert operations, Operation Gladio cell …”

▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 32:59

Frank Wisner financed_via Marshall Plan book_quoted

“The counterpart funds seem to be a godsend. So as Wisner is setting up Gladio, he's using the Marshall Plan funds to do it. So I just wanted to bring that connection out. One other one is who we just talked about says there.…”

▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 33:23

Frank Wisner served_under Allen Dulles book_quoted

“with covert psychological and paramilitary operations. Now, Wisner and Dulles is like this. So there's no way he was working with Skorzeny and Dulles. No, I'm just going to clarify that for you. Wisner served under Dulles.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 8 @ 18:26

Frank Wisner recruited Reinhard Gehlen book_quoted

“working all of the stay-behind programs set up in NATO out of the Galen organization. Very, very interesting. Wisner would chair the OSS committee that recommended the United States arrange to exploit Galen. In this assignment, Wisner came …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 15:24

Frank Wisner recruited Reinhard Gehlen book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 39:34

Frank Wisner recruited Otto Skorzeny book_quoted

“covert that turns into the policy area of the CIA, that Frank Wisner. Wisner was recruited in 47 by George Kennan to lead the OPC, which is in the CIA. Well, initially it was in the State Department, then the CIA. Subsequently, utilized Ott…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 33:35

Frank Wisner recruited Otto Skorzeny book_quoted

“Wet Works Department, and they're going to be directly under the CIA at this point. Wisner had nearly no oversight from the CIA leadership while they had that dual chain of command and embarked on highly secretive operations unknown to othe…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 8 @ 17:58

Frank Wisner appointed CIA host_asserted

“was brought in as the OPC chief. And so as soon as they stand up the CIA, Wisner, who had been at the state department doing basically the covert operations there, he gets moved by Alan Dulles into basically perform that exact same job in t…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 4 and 5 @ 37:09

Frank Wisner member_of CIA documented

“then appeared to confirm Americans' fears by making official visits during the 1956 to China, Russia, and other Eastern European countries. The American began rumblings that he's now a communist. Again, it was Frank Wisner who set the pace.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 23:16

Frank Wisner did_business_with Mafia book_quoted

“And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working relationship between the CIA and mafia were ironed out by Frank Wisner and Angleton. Meyer Lansky an…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 38:31

Frank Wisner member_of U.S. State Department documented

“Ironically, one of the diplomats closely questioning CIA's plans for Angola was Frank Wisner Jr., the son of the legendary Frank Wisner, who had done so much to establish this entire covert network. Another cautious diplomat was Edward Mulc…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 cont @ 35:39

Frank Wisner architect_of Operation Gladio book_quoted

“who says they tended to be white Anglo-Saxon patreons from old families with old money, and they somewhat inherited traditional British attitudes toward the colored races of the world, unquote. Wisner became the chief architect of the netwo…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 6 @ 58:21

Frank Wisner operated_in Turkey book_quoted

“commissioned a Navy Reserve officer, Wisner's international legal experience quickly led to him being assigned to the OSS. The OSS sent him to Cairo, then to Turkey, where in 1944 he opened an OSS station. As Nazi Germany retreated, Wisner …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 14:23

Cord Meyer member_of Frank Wisner host_asserted

“that supposedly had a liaison with JFK, and they stole her diary. A highly decorated World War II, so Cord Meyer was in the Marines. Then he was invited to join the CIA under Alan Dulles. Meyer was assigned to Frank Wisner's office, which o…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 9:11

Richard Helms met Frank Wisner documented

“Helms met many who became towering figures of the CIA during this time. And that would have been a time Operation Sunrise was going on and they were transitioning all of the stay-behind units into the future NATO. He would meet Dulles, Case…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 37:27

Allen Dulles appointed Frank Wisner host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 4 and 5 @ 37:09

Cord Meyer did_business_with Frank Wisner documented

“I'll walk through why. You can jump in anywhere. I'll give you a brief background. You can fill in the detail. He joins the CIA in 1949. Worked directly under Frank Wisner. The FBI would go after this guy his whole career as a notorious lef…”

▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #37 @ 27:25

Allen Dulles appointed Frank Wisner documented

“government in the evolution of the intelligence organization, which of course we know he does because he comes back as the CIA director. As time progressed through the Nuremberg trials, the WDD would be involved in the recruitment and redir…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 39:48

Kermit Roosevelt worked_for Frank Wisner host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 25:17

J. Edgar Hoover investigated Frank Wisner book_quoted

“And he had turned up, Hoover had turned up old news that Beadle Smith had earlier checked out and found groundless. But it turned out that the information had been provided by Nicholas Malaxa. Oh, that's when they were in the FBI. So the FB…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 9 @ 1:01:52

Harry Barnes worked_with Frank Wisner documented

“recalled a CIA officer, Harry Brozeski, a Soviet expert who had once worked with Wisner. He also added it was a visceral business of using any bastard as long as he was anti-communist. Gotta love that. At least he's honest. Wisner was also …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 8 @ 55:32

Struve Hensel did_business_with Frank Wisner book_quoted

“And E. Perkins McGuire. And his name's come up before. Hensel served as general counsel and then as assistant secretary of the Navy before returning to his law practice in 46. There, he worked at a law firm called Carter Ledyard. Excuse me.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 32:34

Crosby Lewis succeeded Frank Wisner documented

“were formed across Western Europe and in the American zone of Germany. An extensively sensitive area for the production division was the control of Allen Dulles' Crown Jewels, or high-level secret agents Dulles had controlled during the war…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 41:45

George F. Kennan appointed Frank Wisner book_quoted

“George Kennan, the secretary who later soured on this whole enterprise, so we're told, remained an enthusiastic supporter of covert operations at their inception. It was Kennan who the secretary of state placed on the 10-2 panel as the firs…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 6:50

Paul Aussaresses relationship_with Frank Wisner documented

“At the end of the day, there's going to be over 20 assassination attempts on Charles de Gaulle. So de Gaulle launched a purge of his security forces and ousted a General Paul Grossen, the chief of his basically special forces unit, Secret S…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 7 @ 43:17

Raymond Klein relationship_with Frank Wisner book_quoted

“During 58 to 62, Klein was CIA station chief in Taiwan. A job that he got through the chief of dirty tricks, Frank Wisner. Just before Wisner went insane, the Taipei, in Taipei, Klein was responsible for all the clandestine operations all o…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:03:54

George F. Kennan recruited Frank Wisner book_quoted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 33:35

Frank Wisner aware_of Otto Skorzeny documented

“The bottom line is that these later legends of the CIA, Harvey, Angleton, and Wisner, were all aware of the CIA operational use of Skorzeny in the months after his escape. It can also be pointed out that Lucien Koning, C-O-N-E-I-N, the CIA …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 13 @ 7:24

Frank Wisner secretly_owned Air America book_quoted

“In June of 1950, Whitting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, who supposedly was working for the Civil Air Transport Airline, flew to Washington to negotiate the final takeover of the airline by the U.S. government's Office of Policy Coordination, p…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 33:14

Frank Wisner removed_from_power John Peurifoy host_asserted

“the Honduran ambassador because he didn't want them staging the attack on Guatemala and housing the dictator that they're going to install there and training his forces in Honduras. So he starts making waves and Frank Wisner picks up the ph…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 35:09

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted

“Things like this kind of tend to get put in the waste paper basket. The Office of Policy Coordination was the entity within the State Department that did all of this prior to World War II. It was at the time during World War II headed up by…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Korea part 3 @ 4:05

Frank Wisner ordered Alfred Ulmer host_asserted

“One day towards the end of 56, he said to the chief of the DO Far East Division, I think it's time we held Sukarno's feet to the fire. Wisner's subordinate, Al Ulmer, returned to his office with word that the new arrangement for Sukarno was…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 51:14

Hans Tofte met_with Frank Wisner documented

“Wisner's Far East station chiefs in Tokyo to plan the heist. At one point in Hong Kong, Al Cox made sabotage preparations under the noses of the British authorities, for which the Norwegian vessel was docked. The freighter bypassed Hong Kon…”

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 45:55

Frank Wisner headed Directorate of Operations book_quoted

“got cut in on the profits, not the American people who paid for it. After the Iranian project, Kim Roosevelt returned to headquarters as assistant deputy director of the Directorate of Operations under Frank Wisner. He led his political act…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 33:55

Frank Wisner carried_out_attack Operation PBSUCCESS host_asserted

“Weird! The first key meeting on Guatemala's project took place in Frank Wisner's office around Labor Day of 1953. Barnes and J.C. King of the Western Hemisphere Division went over all of the existing networks and operations in Central Ameri…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 41:16

Frank Wisner appointed Albert Haney host_asserted

“Once Roosevelt turned down the job, Wisner got Allen Dulles to recall Korean station chief, former Army Colonel Albert Haney, H-A-N-E-Y. Haney had set up the CIA guerrilla units in Korea. And by guerrilla units, I mean stay behind units. Do…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 52:51

Frank Wisner ordered_assassination_of Soviet Union book_quoted

“by means of its powerful insurgent army. In Washington, there was growing interest in these operations. In 1948, the NSC study advocated ties with anti-Soviet groups as a prime means of acquiring information. Frank Wisner demanding the Gale…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 16:37

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted

“the wrong person being elected in Italy. So their very first operation of interfering with an election for the CIA was 1948. Covert action also received a tremendous boost from the man selected by the Secretary of State to head the Office o…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 14:21

Frank Wisner funded Operation Mockingbird book_quoted

“Wisners had a friend by the name of Stuart Osop, who was a journalist, and he began using him right away for basically what we would later on call Operation Mockingbird. So one of Wisners' favorite OPC programs was secret propaganda. Frank …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 16:39

Frank Wisner supplied_arms_to Radio Free Europe book_quoted

“and it had corporate offices in New York, and its studios were in Munich. It employed Eastern European, quote-unquote, immigrants as broadcasters, some of which are the same people that was in the Operation Gladio cells during World War II.…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 20:41

Frank Wisner founded Operation Gladio book_quoted

“So C.W. Jackson and a politician by the name of Harold Stassen, S-T-A-S-S-E-N, and journalist Drew Pearson were all representatives of their plausible deniability radio stations. Another facet that Frank Wisner was involved in is the creati…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 23:38

Frank Wisner recruited U.S. Army book_quoted

“their own units to do it. Isn't that amazing? In early August 1949, Wisner asked the Army for extensive assistance and basically designated an Army officer to serve as the Chief OPC Guerrilla Warfare Group. And the use of Army facilities be…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 25:29

Frank Wisner recruited Reinhard Gehlen book_quoted

“Galen was given a preliminary interrogation by G2 and OSS. One of his inquisitors was Frank Wisner in the immediate aftermath of the war. Galen had been moved to the U.S. in August 1945 and began an alliance with the G2 that ultimately took…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 28:52

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Planning documented

“He was very well connected with the government. Corcoran put Chenault in contact with CIA officers, culminating in a series of meetings during the summer. By August, Chenault was talking to Colonel Richard Stilwell, chief of staff of the Fa…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 12:14

Frank Wisner hired Hans Tofte book_quoted

“The 43-year-old Topty was on summer active duty with his reserve unit when he learned about what was going on in Korea. Two days later, he showed up at the CIA Washington, D.C. headquarters. Frank Wisner saw in him a well-qualified former c…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 51:37

Frank Wisner succeeded Allen Dulles host_asserted

“and told him to shut up. Braden was able to form his own division. Once Wisner succeeded Dulles as the director of the operations branch, Braden continued to rely on his direct link to Dulles, ignoring Wisner and going directly to Dulles an…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 51:55

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted

“to get a particular outcome. And then they set up, they had already set up the Office of Policy Coordination in the State Department long before it ever was moved to the CIA. They were going to use the intelligence gathered, and you can't e…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 1:10:54

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination documented

“That sleight of hand was likely performed by none other than Frank Wisner, a close collaborator of Dulles' from their OSS days, who had recently been appointed as head of the State Department's Office of Policy Coordination that would later…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 50:22

Allen Dulles appointed Frank Wisner book_quoted

“The Nazi treasure, looted from Jewish families and German-occupied nations, had become a key funding source for Dulles' secret operations. Private citizen Dulles further spread his influence by inserting close allies like Frank Wisner into …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 20:09

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted

“and buried it in the State Department's bureaucracy called the Office of Policy Coordination, which of course is where Frank Wisner was placed. It was kind of a combative agency that Dulles envisioned the CIA becoming in the Dewey administr…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 20:40

Frank Wisner exposed Operation Splinter Factor documented

“where the accused were made to publicly condemn themselves before they were executed. The comrades are merely sticking knives into each other's back, Wisner wrote gleefully. The Office of Public Coordination men knew that many of the Splint…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 38:10

Erika Wallach worked_for Frank Wisner documented

“Wallach was one of the few OSS women on Dulles' payroll at the time, and she had undoubtedly caught his eye. She had also worked for Frank Wisner at the winery, but neither man ever expressed any regret to what they did to her. A few months…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 43:04

Frank Wisner headed CIA Directorate of Plans documented

“forming the Directorate of Plans, later the Directorate of Operations. That's a name change, not a role change. Just so everybody understands that. And then they were moved into the CIA. Correct. With Frank Wisner in charge the entire time.…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 53:33

Frank Wisner member_of CIA host_asserted

“Frank Wisner. I have Wisner's book right here. Let me see if he's even mentioned in here, but I know he was working beside him because of some of the same things that are talked about in here. Frank Wisner's book on the, there's several cha…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 59:39

J. Edgar Hoover spied_on Frank Wisner host_asserted

“He had turned up, Hoover had turned up old news that Beadle Smith had earlier checked out and found groundless. But it turned out that the information had been provided by Nicholas Malaxa. Oh, that's when they were in the FBI. So the FBI ke…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 1:02:49

Nicolae Malaxa spied_on Frank Wisner host_asserted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 1:02:49

Frank Wisner founded Airedale Corporation host_asserted

“And that is where Frank Wisner worked in the State Department originally. And then that entire office was moved over into the CIA and became in charge of clandestine covert operations, i.e. Operation Gladio, out of the CIA. So Airedale was …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 35:04

Frank Wisner opposed Psychological Strategy Board documented

“Psychological Strategy Board as a command or operating agency. He wanted it under his control. He refused to go to their meetings, even though Gray held them next door. Wisner encouraged Beadle Smith, as the director of the CIA, to form a c…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 6 @ 1:01:42

Frank Wisner opposed Tom Braden documented

“putting his activities on a more formal basis instead of just being a special assistant to Dulles. Frank Wisner was not happy with that because that unit would cut across his responsibilities. Wisner vetoed that initiative. Tom Braden march…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 6 @ 56:22

Frank Wisner recruited Albert Haney host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 32:59

Frank Wisner member_of Office of Special Projects documented

“Wisner fell under the State Department policy staff headed by Foreign Service Officer George Kennan. But remember, Wisner then gets moved over to the policy section of the CIA once it's up and running. Kennan was also an expert on the Sovie…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 6 - 7 @ 18:09

Frank Wisner worked_for Carter, Lanyard, and Milburn book_quoted

“He worked at the firm Carter, Linyard, and Milburn. And Alan Dulles, who worked for the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, which was the Wall Street's best law firm, Burnham would back Nelson Rockefeller's nomination for president and Ronal…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 27:26

Frank Wisner member_of Carter, Lanyard, and Milburn book_quoted

“Ledyard Milburn in 1934, located three floors above Donovan's law firm in the same building at 2 Wall Street in New York. Carter Ledyard did essentially the same work as Donovan's law firm. Even older than Sullivan and Cromwell, the firm ha…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 12:11

Frank Wisner did_business_with Nicolae Malaxa book_quoted

“Nicolai's arch enemy in America. And Malaxa had hired Alan Dulles. So Wisner's representing one of them and Dulles is representing the other one. And that's how you control the outcome. That's crazy. That's absolutely crazy. I had even forg…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 9 @ 1:00:46

Frank Wisner studied_at University of Virginia book_quoted

“and it was originally from the Midwest, and when they had cut down all the trees with no care to replant, they just picked up, left the town a mess, and moved to Laurel, Mississippi. He put down roots in Virginia at a private school and att…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 11:36

Frank Wisner headed Project Bloodstone book_quoted

“to use these Germans. The executive agent for Bloodstone was Wisner's man, Carmel Offie, O-F-F-I-E. We've talked about him before. Odd duck. In each case, authorities rationalized decisions with variations on the argument that a pact with t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 42:51

Frank Wisner did_business_with Frank Ryan book_quoted

“Frank Wisner's OPC and Frank Ryan's WCC also align with 10-2 instructions that the directing and financial support for the civilian group will come from the government, like come from us. These facts also confirm that Skorzeny's…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 6 - 7 @ 25:19

Frank Wisner appointed Boris Pash documented

“particular office will be responsible for assassinations, kidnapping, and other such functions from time to time may be given it by higher authority. The same officer also stated that Frank Wisner agreed that Pash should have jurisdiction o…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 8 @ 50:43

Frank Wisner recruited John Brown book_quoted

“In February of 49, the British bowed out. The Wisner Group then furnished all the money for when? More than a million dollars over three years, going directly to the Russians. In 51, Lindsay recruited John Bross, another of the former lawye…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 6 @ 34:47

Frank Wisner member_of Navy Reserve book_quoted

“Gordon Gray, and Tracy Barnes. Jackson, having just attained the exalted status of partner himself, had actually hired Wisner. The war clearly approached in mid-1941 before Pearl Harbor, Wisner volunteered for the Navy Reserve. Gray took up…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 13:13

Frank Wisner funded Indonesia documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 30:40

Frank Wisner recruited Stuart Ossoff book_quoted

“Wisner developed Stuart Ossoff as one of his media people. For his secret propaganda programs, Wisner included a shortwave radio transmitter that he had acquired from the army and a fleet of air balloons to carry leaflets over the controlle…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 26:20

Frank Wisner represented CIA documented

“Representative of the SEC DEF, John Magruder, safeguarded defense interests. The State Department repeatedly construed the Psychological Strategy Board inquiries as infringements. General Smith was CIA's delegate. Frank Wisner, the alternat…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 6 @ 1:02:36

Frank Wisner headed CIA host_asserted

“That's especially true in the realm of what used to be called propaganda and can now simply be called information. That's just so sick. Frank Wisner, the head of the CIA covert operations during the mid-1950s, once remarked that he could pl…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 14 @ 53:59

Frank Wisner member_of CIA documented

“The CIA's architect of these adventures was Frank Wisner, originally. He ran the clandestine service, and he was a very close friend of Prescott Bush's. Of course he was. Because they run these ops for the people like Prescott Bush of the I…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 2 @ 17:11

Frank Wisner headed CIA host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 25:17

Frank Wisner headed CIA host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 32:59

Paul Aussaresses spied_on Frank Wisner host_asserted

“and he shut down its armed unit, the Shock Battalion, the 11th Shock Battalion, which he suspected as being a breeding ground for the coup, and he was correct. Grossen, who was closely aligned with the CIA, had told Frank Wisner over lunch …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 7:03

Allen Dulles appointed Frank Wisner documented

“Already in a senior position, Richard Helms rose to become the CIA staff chief, then a division chief for Germany, responsible for the major theater of the Secret War, and that would be Operation Gladio. By the 1950s, Helms had a reasonable…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 34:00

Frank Wisner carried_out_attack 1953 Iranian coup d'état book_quoted

“And not only this book, but I told you in the book, The Determined Spy about Frank Wisner, he was intimately involved in the planning with Kermit Roosevelt of the Iran coup. And he talks about it a lot. I mean, he goes into detail about the…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 1:05:49

Frank Wisner funded Radio Free Europe book_quoted

“An Asian version of Radio Free Europe was set up where? Oh, in Taiwan and beamed across mainland China. There was evidence of CIA complicity in subsidizing publications, labor movements, youth movements, public interest groups, including th…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 31:28

Frank Wisner recruited William Durkee documented

“Agency psychological warfare expert Cord Meyer, who had supervised Radio Free Europe since 1954, awakened the morning of October 24th to a phone call from Dulles, who ordered him to the headquarters immediately. All hell has broken loose in…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 52:01

Frank Wisner recruited Michael Josselson documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 52:01

Frank Wisner recruited James McGarger documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 52:01

Frank Wisner recruited Carl Kalase documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 52:01

Frank Wisner recruited William Griffith documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 52:01

Frank Wisner spied_on Noel Field book_quoted

“Wisner had acquired a high-place double agent inside the Polish security service, a man named Joseph Switzlow. He would be told to spread the word all the way from Warsaw to Moscow that Field is actually coming to Prague on a secret mission…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 23:56

Frank Wisner recruited National Labor Alliance documented

“There was relationships with the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps as well, the Army G2, the Galen Organization, which is the German counterpart to the CIA. They had relationships with the British SIS. So soon, all of this is in the works…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 47:36

Frank Wisner recruited Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists documented

“the OUN as an organization to work with. Officers at the OPC, meaning the CIA, believed that the tide of history was running against the OUN, and they wanted to collaborate with some organizations that were outside of the Ukrainian but stil…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 45:20

Alfred T. Cox worked_for Frank Wisner documented

“not unlike those that the CIA was encountering in Europe. There were factions among nationalists, all of whom hoped to corner some prospective piece of the pie of the USAID. Alfred Cox, a guy that worked for Frank Wisner, was sent to Hong K…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 16:16

Frank Wisner directed Kermit Roosevelt host_asserted

“when he kicked out BP after they wouldn't renegotiate the contract with him and split it 50-50. You remember that the British tried to coup him and they got kicked out and their embassy closed. And then we had Teddy Roosevelt's grandson, Ke…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 2 @ 37:06

Frank Wisner removed_from_power Henry Hexer documented

“In this fast-moving situation, Washington had little possibility of acting in time. Wisner rejected Bill Harvey's suggestion. A paper prepared for the Psychological Strategy Board on June 17th noted that John Foster Dulles at State Departme…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 51:19

Frank Wisner removed_from_power William Harvey documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 51:19

CIA recruited Frank Wisner documented

“There, Lansdale established a close friendship with Diem. Then, President Eisenhower sent a new U.S. envoy to Saigon in late 1954, General J. Lawton Collins. He received a briefing from Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, and Pierre Cabal, advis…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 39:42

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination documented

“C-O-R-A-N. He was very well connected with the government. Corcoran put Chenault in contact with CIA officers, culminating in a series of meetings during the summer. By August, Chenault was talking to Colonel Richard Stilwell, chief of staf…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 9:02

Frank Wisner relationship_with Prescott Bush documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 2 @ 17:11

Frank Wisner operated_in Romania book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 14:23

Frank Wisner recruited Hans Hensel book_quoted

“Good chance that he knows we're using Otto Skorzeny. So Hensel was also recruited by Frank Wisner for the OPC operations as well. In 1949, Hensel headed radio arrangements in Europe for the CIA cover organization National Committee for a Fr…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 34:08

Frank Wisner recruited William J. Lansdale host_asserted

“His appropriated budget was $84 million. How big was his unofficial budget? Because that $84 million isn't going to buy you a whole lot based on what he was doing. So he hires a guy by the name of Desmond Fitzgerald, who he had worked with …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 33:19

Frank Wisner supported Eddie R. Hansen documented

“you're crazy because his idea was to include United Fruit in it because United Fruit had done many of these. Wisner and Allen Dulles, however, backed Haney and gave him a free hand. In the end, United Fruit itself decided not to go in on Op…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 37:22

Frank Wisner member_of Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted

“He had brought Chenault and the aviation company to the attention of Frank Wisner, who we know very well. He was in the Office of Policy Coordination, which was originally in the State Department, and then he moved over with it to the CIA. …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:27:01

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination documented

“What you have to do is go back prior to World War II and the setup of the CIA. The office of policy coordination inside the State Department was Frank Wisner. They took that entire office out of the State Department, plugged it in the CIA, …”

▶ JFK ASSASINATION WITH COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY @ 38:58

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted

“The National Security Council approved Wisner's appointment on August 19, 1948. A week later, issuing the directive formally creating Wisner's organization, Admiral Hillencotter adopted the new name of Office of Policy Coordination. Weird n…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 18:11

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted

“is Frank Wisner's OPC, which had been the point of contact prior to Skorzeny's arrival in Spain, was also under Air Force cover. Imagine that. So, in 1956, when Captain Winnington, let's see, Captain Winnington departed Spain in 51, but tha…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 11 - 12 @ 47:21

Frank Wisner led Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted

“and moved over to lead that branch once it was set up. And during World War II, Burnham would leave his teaching post at NYU to work for the OSS in 1944. Carried on the work of the CIA when the OSS was disbanded, Joseph Bryan III offered Bu…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:08:50

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted

“trick squad was Frank Wisner, W-I-S-N-E-R. He had essentially a free hand in Asia. CIA director Alan Dulles knew little about Asia. He spent his wartime in Europe. So he gave that part of the world basically to Wisner's Office of Policy Coo…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 27:16

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination documented

“What you have to do is go back prior to World War II and the setup of the CIA. The Office of Policy Coordination inside the State Department was Frank Wisner. They took that entire office out of the State Department, plugged it in the CIA, …”

▶ The Shadow State Pt 16 JFK Assassination - w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 39:14

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted

“It eventually moves out of the State Department into the CIA. And Frank Wisner, who was originally in charge of it in the State Department, moves with it to the CIA. And he becomes kind of the chief covert black ops guy. So they basically w…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 32:17

Frank Wisner founded World Commerce Corporation documented

“Roger Wybot, you remember him, W-Y-B-O-T, and Pierre Bertraud, the two French intelligence chiefs who was harboring Otto and Elsie when they were in Paris working on Operation Compass Rose setup. Skorzeny was integrated into the World Comme…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 13 @ 6:55

Frank Wisner relationship_with Philip Graham documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 2 @ 17:11

Frank Wisner relationship_with Katharine Graham documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 2 @ 17:11

Frank Wisner operated_in Cairo book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 14:23

Frank Wisner funded Congress for Cultural Freedom host_asserted

“And since everything about the West is said to be free, free, free, then it went without saying that everything about the Soviet Union wasn't. Organized by Burnham and Hooke, the American delegation represented a who's who of America's post…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:16:07

Frank Wisner recruited Desmond Fitzgerald host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 33:19

Frank Wisner headed Operation Bloodstone documented

“or the SAN-ACC, which also becomes a part of NATO, this official body directed all U.S. covert activity. Selected to lead the Bloodstone Project was veteran OSS officer Frank Wisner, who had been very instrumental in the formation of the po…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 6 - 7 @ 17:40

Frank Wisner worked_for George F. Kennan host_asserted

“where many of the agency's recruits of the ex-Nazis were located, which is very important. Again, that blending of fascism. George Kennan, State Department policy planning staff, was a key figure behind the OPC's creation, which we know bec…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:08:23

Frank Wisner tasked Curtis LeMay book_quoted

“of foreign agents in the Eastern Bloc countries to be used in the event of nuclear war. This included preparing forces and stockpiling weapons. U.S. General Curtis LeMay, commander of Strategic Air Command, SAC, also tasked OPC to set up es…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 8 @ 26:54

Frank Wisner founded Economic Cooperation Administration book_quoted

“ECA, another front company. The ECA was an important U.S. government agency involved with labor issues in the European recovery program, which Wisner embedded his officers. So you can, one of the things that we have to understand by going t…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 8 @ 19:58

Frank Wisner founded International Regional Labor Organization book_quoted

“Wisner established OPC representatives throughout Germany and Austria, including the embassy staff at the State Department. Within a year, it had 300 individuals with a budget of $4 million, which, of course, in 1949, that's a lot of money.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 8 @ 19:27

Richard M. Bissell Jr. succeeded Frank Wisner host_asserted

“He took over from Frank Wisner and was involved in the assassination of, well, in the overthrow of Iran and Guatemala and all of those.…”

▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 26:47

Frank Wisner spied_on Soviet Union host_asserted

“And Frank Wisner, when he was in Romania, which is where he was during part of World War II, was actually actively spying on the Soviet Union for the United States.…”

▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 55 - _WEF - WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ORIGINS_ - EP.417 @ 6:38

Frank Wisner ordered_assassination_of Mohammad Mosaddegh guest_asserted

“all of the British embassy people out, all of the MI6 agents that they knew about out of the country. So they have to come hat in hand to the U.S. to ask for assistance. And Frank Wisner selects Kermit Roosevelt Jr. to create a plan to over…”

▶ The Shadow State 55 The Delano and Roosevelt Bloodlines @ 1:24:33

Frank Wisner relationship_with Otto Skorzeny book_quoted

“The outcome of the FBI inquiry is not known, but the highly detailed decodes are in the Skorzeny paperwork. In the end, Skorzeny emerges as a clear asset of Angleton's counterintel staff, shared with equally secretive offices of Frank Wisne…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 13 @ 48:37

Frank Wisner recruited Darryl F. Zanuck host_asserted

“put more daylight on this. And can we spend a minute with their influence during using Mockingbird in Hollywood? Sure. So Frank Wisner recruited via Cordmire, recruited a whole bunch of media people in Hollywood. For example, former OSS fil…”

▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 53:30

Frank Wisner recruited Nicolae Malaxa book_quoted

“As he had long demonstrated, Frank Wisner was quite willing to recruit from the ranks of the fascists for his espionage operations in Eastern Europe, many of whom he had even passed immigration authorities in order to get them into the Unit…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 6:49

Frank Wisner opposed Nicolae Malaxa host_asserted

“immigration authorities in order to get them into the United States, just like we've been saying all along, despite their barbaric wartime records. But Wisner somewhat mysteriously had insisted on drawing the line at Nikolai Malaksa, whom h…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 9 @ 6:11

Frank Wisner member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted

“If you go to somebody like Frank Wisner, Frank Wisner was one of the most crucial people in Operation Gladio and the overthrow of governments during the initial phases. He obviously was part of the OSS, blah, blah, blah. There is a secret s…”

▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 1:39:35

Frank Wisner recruited Iron Guard host_asserted

“when Gordon Mason walked into Wisner's office with a copy of the check. Wisner's response was, Jesus Christ, we'd better see Alan Dulles. As he had long demonstrated, Frank Wisner was quite willing to recruit from the ranks of the fascists …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 9 @ 5:44

Frank Wisner ordered_assassination_of Enver Hoxha book_quoted

“Well, Frank Wisner told Bob Joyce that Albania was going to be a clinical experiment to see whether a large rollback operation was feasible inside the Soviet Union. Wisner returned the British visit and conferred with his counterpart in Lon…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 11:03

American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism worked_with Frank Wisner host_asserted

“Yeah, they work directly with Frank Wisner's covert operations. I had a fun little side note on J. Peter. In 1980, Reagan selected him, even though he's a Democrat, to lead what's called the Grace Commission. And that commission was a gover…”

▶ Operation Gladio meets Society Societies @ 1:02:56

Colin Gubbins partnered_with Frank Wisner host_asserted

“The people that's carrying out these stay-behind units, all of them remained in place. So Gubbins becomes partners with Frank Wisner, who is the director of the covert operations under the CIA, which is called the Office of Policy Coordinat…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 6 @ 47:25

Frank Wisner headed CIA host_asserted

“the higher ups were working out of a place called Yoko Suka. And Frank Wisner's group, by contrast, was, according to this guy, just getting into action. They've been there. They're crazy. The OSS was there. They never left. The new station…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 42:55

Frank Wisner operated_in Otto Skorzeny host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 9:11

Frank Wisner worked_for Edward Stettinius Jr. host_asserted

“universities. It's never like a million. It's always like 777,000, blah, blah, blah. So afterwards, you know several of the people. And do you know who one of the people that was a member? Frank Wisner, who is like the guy for the CIA. No w…”

▶ Operation Gladio - LYBERIA - AFRICA @ 1:05:44

Frank Wisner financed_via Operation Gladio book_quoted

“a man who shared his views and was well known for the power of persuasion. Dulles had another motive for backing the Marshall Plan. He and Frank Wisner would later use funds skimmed from the program to finance their anti-Soviet operations i…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 11:20

Frank Wisner funded CIA host_asserted

“except for the few they hung for show. They just threw the rest of them all over the world. They went as far as Malaysia, literally all over the world. And so Wisner funded his covert teams initially by siphoning off funds from the Marshall…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 32:18

Frank Wisner headed CIA book_quoted

“the higher-ups were working out of a place called Yokosuka. And Frank Wisner's group, by contrast, was, according to this guy, just getting into action. They've been there. They're crazy. The OSS was there. They never left. The new station …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 46:03

Frank Wisner member_of Quill and Dagger host_asserted

“And that's the same school that Frank Wisner. I did not see Frank Wisner's name on any of the, but that's where he went to school, which is very interesting. But they are the next rung down.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 1:14:39

Frank Wisner headed CIA host_asserted

“While denying that this would amount to nurturing popular anti-Soviet movements, the authors make clear that such covert aid would be part of a policy including political and economic measures. There are strong echoes of a rollback here, as…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 18 (Final) @ 3:56

Edward Lansdale worked_for Frank Wisner host_asserted

“After a few months at its strategic intelligence school in Colorado, where he rose to lieutenant colonel, Lansdale was sent back to the Philippines as a full colonel working for Frank Wisner. And Frank Wisner is definitely one of the premie…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:22:49

Frank Wisner recruited Cecil B. DeMille host_asserted

▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 53:30

Frank Wisner spied_on Reinhard Gehlen host_asserted

“would chair the OSS committee that recommended the United States arrange to exploit Galen. In this assignment, Wisner came under the command of Alan Dulles in Bern. The Washington desk officer responsible for that area was none other than R…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 16:32

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:22:49

Frank Wisner recruited Carlton Ossoff book_quoted

“And it includes details that Jackson was in contact with a CIA agent in Hollywood's Paramount Studios. He didn't identify who it was. But one author who wrote Who Paid the Piper said that it was Carlton Ossoff, a CIA agent employed by Frank…”

▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 55:52

Frank Wisner recruited John Fox host_asserted

▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 53:30

George F. Kennan appointed Frank Wisner host_asserted

“At the head of the list can input Frank Wisner, whom he did not know, but came highly recommended by Chip Bolin, the State Department's chief authority against the Soviet Union. And reportedly, George Marshall, Frank Wisner, OSS veteran, wa…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 8:12

Walter Bedell Smith appointed Frank Wisner host_asserted

“They were just going to ignore that legal opinion. When State refused to go along with this political warfare thing in any sane or sound matter, the CIA director threw up his hands. Early in June of 1948, Hill and Cotter told a Truman aide …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 1:48

Frank Wisner member_of CIA host_asserted

“started at the Office of Policy Coordination, which originated in the State Department, but was put in the building with the CIA…”

▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 55 - _WEF - WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ORIGINS_ - EP.417 @ 6:38

Frank Wisner member_of Seven Society host_asserted

▶ Operation Gladio - LYBERIA - AFRICA @ 1:05:44

(unidentified book about Frank Wisner) about Frank Wisner structural

“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): '(unidentified book about Frank Wisner)' is a work/event about 'Frank Wisner'…”

Frank Wisner ordered_assassination_of Tibet book_quoted

“approval from the 5412 group still cannot be pinpointed. The outcome, however, can. Rebel leaders were told that the United States was considering a move in Tibet, but the decision depended upon what the CIA learned through their initial sc…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 39:36

Frank Wisner's book on his entire history of coups about Frank Wisner structural

“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Frank Wisner's book on his entire history of coups' is a work/event about 'Frank Wisner'…”

Frank Wisner spied_on Nicolae Malaxa host_asserted

“of an equally disreputable Roman steel magnet accused of collaborating with the Germans. So they're basically having a pissing contest. Wisner came into Malexa's sights because immediately after the war, when he had returned to his law firm…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 1:01:03

Frank Wisner's book about Frank Wisner structural

“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Frank Wisner's book' is a work/event about 'Frank Wisner'…”

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AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 55 - _WEF - WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ORIGINS_ - EP.417

▶ 6:10 I've done the research and I know for a fact that much of the OSS, while they were supposedly focused on defeating Germany, was actually already starting to spy on the Soviet Union. They were doing it in Eastern German countries like Albani…

AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 55 - _WEF - WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ORIGINS_ - EP.417

▶ 6:38 started at the Office of Policy Coordination, which originated in the State Department, but was put in the building with the CIA. But they didn't report to the CIA. And Frank Wisner, when he was in Romania, which is where he was during part…

@Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government

▶ 24:46 That was Frank Wisner's area that was chopped out of the State Department and basically inserted into the CIA when it stood up. So this guy is the guy, I mean, like he's at the heart of this Operation Gladio Evil Empire kind of thing. And s…

@Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government

▶ 26:47 And very instrumental with the nuclear weapons and the new propulsion systems, the whole thing. He was a brilliant man, no doubt, but he was as evil as they come. Yes. He took over from Frank Wisner and was involved in the assassination of,…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 35:09 the Honduran ambassador because he didn't want them staging the attack on Guatemala and housing the dictator that they're going to install there and training his forces in Honduras. So he starts making waves and Frank Wisner picks up the ph…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 61 - 'MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE- DO ALL ROADS LEAD TO OBAMA!_!' - PART 1 - EP.437

▶ 41:08 Now, why is that important? Because I just was reading Frank Wisner's book on his entire history of coups. Jones, as the ambassador in Indonesia, was there when the CIA launched their first coup of Sukarno that was unsuccessful. And he was …

Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6

▶ 16:55 creating havoc in order to justify or create the need, if you will, of this strong centralized government. Into this whole mix walks Frank Wisner. Now, we remember Frank Wisner from a whole bunch of other Gladio operations. He's CIA. He was…

Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6

▶ 17:23 running the covert operations for the State Department prior to the CIA. And then when the CIA was set up, they took that entire office out to include Frank Wisner and plopped the covert operations down in the CIA. And so this is the guy fo…

Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6

▶ 17:51 Alan Dulles tapping him to be in charge of this one. He also had been in charge of a rebellion that had happened in Hungary. Well, the rebellion in Hungary was a failure. Basically, everybody that was in theater got killed. That was part of…

Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6

▶ 18:20 Only Alan Dulles, and we'll get to that in a few minutes, could turn that failure into a tool. If it wasn't on purpose failure, it will be used as such in order to basically orchestrate what's going to happen in Indonesia. I would be hesita…

Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6

▶ 24:26 His adamant insistence, because you're going to see he goes to great lengths to set this whole thing up, and Kennedy's visit to Indonesia would have upset everything. He devised a covert operation in Indonesia that seemed to fail, but the v…

Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6

▶ 40:22 Dulles knew in 1956 that his brother had already been diagnosed with cancer and used that to his advantage. In 1956, CIA operations in Hungary under the operational control of Dulles' deputy, Frank Wisner,…

Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6

▶ 41:08 Frank Wisner, because he was in charge of the Hungary operation, shouldered 100% of the responsibility, but was known to have suffered basically a minor mental and emotional trauma as a result of the failure. This was included in Alan Dulle…

Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6

▶ 41:36 was utilized by Alan Dulles. In other words, what John Foster Dulles did reluctantly in 1956 caused the CIA operation ran by Wisner to be a failure. Alan Dulles did on purpose in 1958. After the CIA's failure with the Indonesia revolution, …

Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6

▶ 42:41 While his death was never been described as the only American fatality in the Indonesian revolution, it should be, according to the author. So that is the extent to which the CIA will offer up one of its own in order to meet the operational…

Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6

▶ 44:06 And the heart attack gun and all that other stuff stuff. And it was making people mad at the CIA. And so they were going to start killing CIA agents. And once that assassination, which I believe to be in the house, occurred, the church comm…

Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6

▶ 44:36 evidently was one of those as well. Now, I have read already multiple different accounts of Frank Wisner and his mental breakdown and subsequent suicide. I have never had anyone put it together in the way that Dr. Polgreen just did. So, hug…

Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6

▶ 1:12:18 There was nothing that came out of the church committee that changed a single thing. And it is not like Greece is the only example. We just had another example. They sacrificed Frank Wisner and used him to the point where he has a mental br…

Operation Gladio - Korea part 3

▶ 4:05 Things like this kind of tend to get put in the waste paper basket. The Office of Policy Coordination was the entity within the State Department that did all of this prior to World War II. It was at the time during World War II headed up by…

Operation Gladio - Korea part 3

▶ 23:15 The Office of Strategic Services, the old OSS, European veteran by the name of Hans Tofte, T-O-F-T-E, who also worked in the Office of Policy Coordination where Wisner was, had other ongoing projects. His paramilitary operations chief, a Ma…

Operation Gladio - Liberia

▶ 1:06:45 because they have all kinds, they use the number seven all of the time in various different ways. Like when they leave donations at universities, it's never like a million. It's always like 777,000, blah, blah, blah. So afterwards, you know…

Operation Gladio - Liberia

▶ 1:07:12 who is like the guy for the CIA. No way. Yes, Frank Wisner. That's how I first found out about him. That's crazy. Yeah, Frank Wisner worked for this guy, actually, at the Secretary of State. He was the policy branch at the Secretary of Stat…

Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady 250418

▶ 26:30 Robert O'Brien. You're going to love this next one. Your buddy, Thomas Pickering. Wow. Finishing up, we've got Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Susan Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and also in memory, Frank Wisner. And we've got John Negroponte, who…

Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508

▶ 27:11 The St. Paul School in Concord, New Hampshire. Yeah. SPS. Here's a guy by the name of, tell me if you've heard it, Cord Meyer. Oh, my gosh. Are you kidding me? CIA's own Cord Meyer. If I walk through why, you can jump in anywhere. I'll give…

Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2

▶ 17:27 Had the CIA stuck with its original charter, men like Bush would have been used to collect overt economic and political intelligence. But President Eisenhower, like so many of his successors, heeded the siren sound of being able to secretly…

Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2

▶ 17:56 And he was a very close friend of Prescott Bush's. Of course he was. Because they run these ops for the people like Prescott Bush of the International Syndicate. And he was also very good friends with Catherine and Philip Graham of the Wash…

Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background

▶ 13:44 Frank Wisner bragged, that's probably not true, but I think they did like 15,000 or so. And a lot of the victims were just sort of Ukrainian peasants who, you know, they were like, you cannot obey the Soviet authorities or you become the en…

Shadow State 30 Secret Societies 14; Rhode Island Rats

▶ 53:29 who is the head of the offices of policy coordination, which is basically the political warfare arm of the CIA. That's his brother-in-law. And the policy coordination is Frank Wisner's thing that they took basically out of the State Departm…

The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz

▶ 40:01 originally, as well. Okay, moving on. There's a tie to them doing business in Romania, too, and I wanted to see if it coincided with the time that Frank Wisner, during OSS times, was in Romania, and it did not. I asked Grok if there was any…

The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady Secret Societies Skull&Bones cont'd

▶ 4:52 folded all of that capability, the executives, the corporate espionage, all of those functions, the Justice Department piece of this, gets folded into the CIA post-World War II. So it's very interesting to go back and look at how they did i…