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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 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

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 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

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 recruited Michael Josselson 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 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 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 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

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 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 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 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

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

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 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 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 recruited William Durkee documented

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

Frank Wisner headed CIA 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 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 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 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 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

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 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

“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…”

▶ 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 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

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

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

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

▶ 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 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

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

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 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 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 recruited John Fox 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 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 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 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

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 recruited Cecil B. DeMille host_asserted

▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 53:30

Frank Wisner recruited Darryl F. Zanuck host_asserted

▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 53:30

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

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

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

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 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 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

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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…