Nathaniel Davis person
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Nathaniel Davis member_of
U.S. State Department book_quoted
“The source recalls that Kissinger pushed hard for an increase in the CIA's intervention. Henry wanted to be told why we should intervene, said the official, not why not. Many within the government were opposed, including Nathaniel Davis, th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 53:17
Nathaniel Davis appointed
Chile book_quoted
“In 1973, during the coup and before. Curiously, Nathaniel Davis, a former staff member of the National Security Council who served as ambassador to Guatemala during a gender's terror campaign campaign there, became the U.S. ambassador to Ch…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 23:26
Nathaniel Davis member_of
U.S. State Department book_quoted
“That October, Corey's ride came to an end. His successor, career diplomat Nathaniel Davis, proved an acute observer but had a limited role. Economic assistance halted. USAID funds were all shut off. The U.S. prevented loans to Chile from an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 11:08
Henry Kissinger removed_from_power
Nathaniel Davis book_quoted
“towards Allende and not push him away from the U.S. Kissinger wanted Corey out right away, and he wanted the failure to prevent Allende's victory associated with the state house and blame it on Corey, not the White House. Al Haig advised Ki…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 9:08
Nathaniel Davis covered_up
Henry Kissinger documented
“to be released by the CIA. Davis would separately put one out from the State Department. Eagleburger argued in another memo to Kissinger, it was an unusual gamut of bringing out the denial through the CIA and that that would likely not paci…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 21:33
Richard Nixon appointed
Nathaniel Davis host_asserted
“In Washington, Nixon was overhauling his Chilean team. He had already replaced Ambassador Corey with another career diplomat, Nathaniel Davis, who had been serving in Guatemala. After Alente's United Nations speech, he decided to replace Ri…”
▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 1:15:36
National Security Council covered_up
Nathaniel Davis book_quoted
“which studied the Angola covert operation in detail, the Davis Group recommendation was removed from their report at the direction of the National Security Council and presented to the NSC as merely one policy option, the others being to do…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 24:13
Nathaniel Davis removed_from_power
Interagency Task Force book_quoted
“Nathaniel Davis resigned when he learned that the Angola effort was going to proceed despite his objections. CIA principals gathered in the director of operations office for a review of the plans and the interagency working group. When Pott…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 28:31
Nathaniel Davis funded
Patria y Libertad host_asserted
“Brazil provided the PL with $8 million, allegedly on behalf of the CIA. In other words, it is all the CIA. They're just funneling it through other entities. It is interesting to note that during the time PL's head, Pablo Rodriguez, was in r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 25:53
Mentions (36)
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The source recalls that Kissinger pushed hard for an increase in the CIA's intervention. Henry wanted to be told why we should intervene, said the official, not why not. Many within the government were opposed, including Nathaniel Davis, th…
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When we did the revolution down there and he left, he was so disgusted with what we were doing in Chile. He left Chile. He basically got. It's not that he was fired. He just left because he wouldn't go along with anything they were doing. S…
▶ 54:13
And as a result of that, here he is again, and he's going to go up against the CIA and Henry Kissinger yet again in their globalist garbage. The Secretary of State's African Bureau in June recommended almost unanimously that the U.S. stay o…
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In Washington, Nixon was overhauling his Chilean team. He had already replaced Ambassador Corey with another career diplomat, Nathaniel Davis, who had been serving in Guatemala. After Alente's United Nations speech, he decided to replace Ri…
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was replaced in Santiago by Ray Warren. Ambassador Corey was also replaced with Nathaniel Davis because these guys, they're about ready to install Pinochet, and these guys are the sadistic horror managers. Economic assistance was halted. US…
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Kissinger and Nathaniel Davis asserted that Allende created the opposition himself, which is a bold-faced lie. American money fueled a drumroll of Chilean press criticism, just like they've done everywhere else in these coups, and made it p…
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rang up Castro. The Soviet bloc aid seemed to make Angola a Cold War battlefield in the eyes of Washington, which is exactly what they want. They push these people into position for this exact same thing to happen repeatedly. The Soviet blo…
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Davis, according to his own account, had already advised Kissinger about a covert support in Angola. UNITA had been receiving some supplies from the Chinese since 1974 and also had ties to Mao Zedong. Davis warned the U.S. would have to rec…
▶ 23:17
about this arrangement and argued at most we would be in a position to commit limited resources which would only buy marginal influence. The recommendation of the national security group chaired by Davis was against intervention. Instead, t…
▶ 23:46
not a Cold War problem. But again, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Military intervention carried a high risk of exposure with the possibility of negative effects across Africa. It offered only limited results and poten…
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which studied the Angola covert operation in detail, the Davis Group recommendation was removed from their report at the direction of the National Security Council and presented to the NSC as merely one policy option, the others being to do…
▶ 28:31
Nathaniel Davis resigned when he learned that the Angola effort was going to proceed despite his objections. CIA principals gathered in the director of operations office for a review of the plans and the interagency working group. When Pott…
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In Kissinger's account, he makes a point of Castro's month-long visit not long after the election. But Ambassador Nathaniel Davis' memoirs actually shows that contacts between Castro and Allende were very cool. While nationalization of indu…
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That October, Corey's ride came to an end. His successor, career diplomat Nathaniel Davis, proved an acute observer but had a limited role. Economic assistance halted. USAID funds were all shut off. The U.S. prevented loans to Chile from an…
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the 40 committee's approval to proceed ahead with the coup. The station, Flannery cabled, should report history, not make it. Ambassador Davis had to exercise vigilance over CIA initiatives. Despite the country team concept, the constant Wh…
▶ 15:09
in an interesting position. Some things Davis learned only from reading the Senate investigative report several years later. Several CIA sources confirmed that money to the Chilean political parties often moved through third country conduit…
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His worst moment with Ray Warren came over the subsidizing when CIA started routing cash through a Chilean politician and Warren refused to tell the ambassador who it was. In a highly charged discussion, Davis told Warren that he would not …
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burst into the public in 1972 with leaked ITT documents. Opposition from both Ray Warren and Nathaniel Davis forced Shackley to cancel a planned trip to Santiago. The Cuban DGI had a good station in Chile under Juan Maraditero Ibanez.…
▶ 35:52
Kissinger told the senators that he had said to Ambassador Davis some days before in discussing reports of coup plotting, quote, just make sure none of our embassy personnel has anything to do directly or indirectly with any of the plotters…
▶ 24:00
Henry Kissinger asked for option papers. Bill Hyland sees Kissinger's involvement as late. Yet these moves predated the Cuban advisors by months. 140 committee discussion after the January project involved arms aid. Nathaniel Davis returned…
▶ 24:31
memorandums on May 1st advising against covert aid to Zavimbi, which he felt could not remain secret, and six days later cautioning against pre-independence shenanigans in Angola. Upon returning from a visit, Davis repeated his warning. Kis…
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That was conducted by a group under Davis. They submitted their option papers. The majority opposed intervention. Instead, the Davis panel held out for diplomatic efforts to encourage settlements among the factions. This reflected a basic u…
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would be used, this was the caution of the State Department, would be used as justification for the Soviet Union to become more involved. Davis warned the U.S. would have to reckon with a probable disclosure and argued at most we would be i…
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According to the Pike Committee, which studied Angola in some detail, the Davis Group's prime recommendation disappeared from its report at the direction of the National Security Council. The course was presented to the National Security Co…
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Action now moved to the 40 committee. Assistant Secretary Davis prepared a fresh dissent paper. The oil in Cabinda, in which golf had a $300 million interest, golf as in the company, remained the only significant American stake in the entir…
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He agreed with Kissinger's view that if the U.S. did anything at all, it had to do it quickly and massively. Davis simply doubted that it could be done, pointing to the CIA's own paper, which had made clear that the U.S. could not win in th…
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The diplomat warned against leaks, raised questions regarding the legality of weapons delivery. They would be given to Mobato, who would then hand them over to the UNITA and other group. He also questioned a premise in the CIA paper that ar…
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The CIA, like the State Department, worried of exposure while estimating a $100 million price tag, an amount not available in the contingency fund. While Langley refined details, the press reported FNLA forces completely driven from the Cap…
▶ 38:32
from covert action. On July 17th, the 40 committee blessed the project. He failed. Henry Kissinger took the proposal to Ford, along with Davis's dissent paper. Kissinger quotes himself as favoring action and urging the president to study th…
▶ 39:01
over the program and expected Davis to resign and the program to leak. Ford approved the initial $7 million the next morning. A million of that went directly to Mubato and Zaire, the corrupt CIA-controlled dictator. Not to any of the Angola…
▶ 23:26
In 1973, during the coup and before. Curiously, Nathaniel Davis, a former staff member of the National Security Council who served as ambassador to Guatemala during a gender's terror campaign campaign there, became the U.S. ambassador to Ch…
▶ 25:53
Brazil provided the PL with $8 million, allegedly on behalf of the CIA. In other words, it is all the CIA. They're just funneling it through other entities. It is interesting to note that during the time PL's head, Pablo Rodriguez, was in r…
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William Colby followed with a letter to the Times two days later referring specifically to Harrington. Colby denied ever using the term destabilization, which the congressman had used. Scott Breckinridge, Nathaniel Davis, and others seized …
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and the White House went into high gear to counter the Chilean revelations. Deputy Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger told Kissinger that Hersh would continue and that Henry himself was the ultimate target. Eagleburger got Nathaniel Davis and f…
▶ 21:33
to be released by the CIA. Davis would separately put one out from the State Department. Eagleburger argued in another memo to Kissinger, it was an unusual gamut of bringing out the denial through the CIA and that that would likely not paci…
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who want a series of hearings on the issue, unquote. Bill Colby volunteered to issue such a denial when talking to the Deputy National Security Advisor, Brent Scolcroft, on September 23rd. Langley ultimately did not issue that denial. Davis…