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Claims (173)
Walter Jenkins worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Walter W Jenkins Special Assistant to the President…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.518
FBI worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“the plans of those who challenged the official delegation were developed by the FBI and submitted to the White House through the White House staff…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.30
Trump administration spied_on
Warren Commission reported
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“And this was an attempt then on the part of the White House in this case a request to the FBI so we set the record straight to discredit people who disagreed with the findings of the Warren Commission…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.61
Marvin Watson worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Marvin Watson Special Assistant to the President at the White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.92
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy documented
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“authors of books that were critical of the Warren Commission report on the assassination of President Kennedy were requested to file any pertinent personal data…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.92
Donald Trump worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“The President for instance you know we had an incident a few years ago about investigating a news man where we were requested and if I recall from our information we thought he was being considered for an appointed position which would have…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.94
FBI did_business_with
Trump administration documented
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“The reports on the plans for the meeting and on the meeting itself were disseminated to the State Department to military intelligence and to the White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.147
L. Patrick Gray did_business_with
Trump administration documented
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“When L Patrick Gray as Acting FBI Director destroyed documents and gave FBI reports to Presidential aides whom the FBI should have been investigating after the Watergate break-in he just carried to the extreme an established practice of ser…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.169
Walter Jenkins worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“The responsible White House official at the time Mr Walter Jenkins has told the committee that he can recall no political use made of these reports…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.173
William C. DeLoach worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Mr Johnson became President and requested Mr Hoover through Mr Hoover that I assume the responsibility of liaison with the White House in addition to my other duties…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.181
Trump administration did_business_with
Federal Bureau of Investigation documented
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“From time to time we did receive extensive requests for name checks from the Secret Service and from White House personnel…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.181
Trump administration did_business_with
Hale Boggs reported
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“I know specifically that Congressman Boggs son has testified that the White House passed material of this nature to him that was being received here from the FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.191
Mr. DeLoach worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Strictly in a liaison capacity…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.191
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Lee Harvey Oswald reported
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“Senator SCHWEIKERThe White House was asking the FBI to put out this statement Is that not correct Mr DELoacIT That's correct Senator…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.192
James Jones worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“I received a call from Mr James Jones who was the top assistant to the President at the time…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.203
Richard Nixon headed
Trump administration documented
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“The President then called me personally in my office late that night and indicated that did he understand my refusal to Mr Jones correctly…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.203
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Federal Bureau of Investigation reported
document
“I believe those were the expressed instructions by the White House as given to the FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.204
J. Bromley Smith worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Mr J Bromley Smith on the White House staff…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.261
Trump administration proposed
Huston Plan documented
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“Those original hearings explored the relationship of the White House to the FBI and other intelligence agencies in the development of a specific plan for using illegal techniques against domestic groups…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.321
H.R. Haldeman worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“This practice also continued under the Nixon Administration at the request of Mr H R Haldeman…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.489
John Edgar Hoover worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Director... John Edgar Hoover…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.502
Special Squad did_business_with
Trump administration documented
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“keepthe Whiterouse fullyapprisedofall major developments…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.505
E. H. DeLoach worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“at this time DeLoachwas responsible for liaison with the White Houseand had a direct line at his residence to the President…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.519
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“He worked closely with McGeorge Bundy the White House liaison for Cuban affars…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.132
Trump administration proposed
Executive Action reported
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“Harvey testified that Bissell had told him that 'the White House had twice urged the creation of such a capability'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.196
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Executive Action reported
document
“Bissell also said that as far as he knew it was true that he was asked by the White House to create a general stand-by assassination capability…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.198
Richard Goodwin worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Richard Goodwin of the White House staff had also received prior to May 16 a CIA memorandum…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.224
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“While in Washington Dearborn met with State Department personnel and with Richard Goodwin and Arthur Schlesinger of the White House staff…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.224
Robert F. Kennedy worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“the President prior to his May 16 approval of the NSC Record of Actions had been informed by Robert Kennedy of the reports that Trujillo might be assassinated…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.223
Henry Kissinger worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Kissinger testified that the White House stood down CIA efforts to promote a military coup d'etat in Chile on October 15 1970…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.241
Alexander Haig worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“After that date Kissinger testified.and Haig agreed.that the White House neither knew of nor specifically approved CIA coup activities in Chile…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.241
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
William Webster alleged
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“Kissinger and Haig testified that on October 15 1970 the White House stood down CIA efforts to promote a military coup d'etat in Chile…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.260
CIA worked_for
Trump administration reported
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“CIA officials testified that they operated before and after October 15 with the knowledge and approval of the White House…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.260
Trump administration targeted_for_regime_change
Richard Helms documented
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“During the summer and fall of 1969 the White House and then the Secretary of Defense indirectly pressured the DCI to modify his judgments on the capability of the new Soviet SS.9 strategic missile system…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.85
Trump administration proposed
Richard Helms documented
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“According to testimony by three Board members at the time they saw nothing improper in a White House request to redraft the estimate to include more evidence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.86
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence did_business_with
Trump administration documented
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“Approximately 110,000 document pages were obtained from the various intelligence agencies (still more were preliminarily reviewed at the agencies) as well as from the White House presidential libraries and other sources…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.9
FBI did_business_with
Trump administration documented
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“In the 1950's the Bureau collected information about the John Birch Society and passed it to the White House because of the Society's "scurillous attack on President Eisenhower and other high Government officials.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24
FBI spied_on
Trump administration documented
document
“President Nixon authorized a program of wiretaps which produced for the White House purely political or personal information unrelated to national security…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.26
Federal Bureau of Investigation did_business_with
Trump administration documented
document
“The vagueness of the FBI's investigative mandate and the overbreadth of its collection programs also placed it in position to supply the White House with numerous items of domestic political intelligence apparently desired by Presidents and…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.55
Sherman Adams worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Letter from J Edgar Hoover to Sherman Adams Assistant to the President 1/28/53…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.62
George W. Elsey worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Memorandum from G W Elsey to Charles S Murphy Counsel to the President 7/12/50…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.62
Charles S. Murphy worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Memorandum from G W Elsey to Charles S Murphy Counsel to the President 7/12/50…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.62
FBI met_with
Trump administration documented
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“The FBI reported to the White House in 1961 that the Communist Party had attempted to take advantage of racial disturbances in the South...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.65
J. Edgar Hoover met_with
Trump administration documented
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“A briefing of the Cabinet by Director Hoover in 1956 illustrates the breadth of collection and dissemination under the racial matters program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.66
FBI supplied_arms_to
Trump administration documented
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“Numerous items of political intelligence were supplied by the FBI to the White Ilouse in each of the three administrations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.67
Harry H. Vaughn worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Letter from J Edgar Hoover to Maj Gen Harry H Vaughn Military Aide to the President 2/15/47…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.67
Matthew J. Connelly worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Letter from J Edgar Hooverto Matthew J Connelly Secretary to the President 1/27/50…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.67
Dillon Anderson worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Letter from J Edgar Hoover to Dillon Anderson Special Assistant to the President 4/21/55…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.67
Robert Cutler worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Letter from J Edgar Hoover to Robert Cutler Special Assistant to the President 2/13/58…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.68
Gordon Gray worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Letters from J Edgar Hoover to Gordon Gray Special Assistant to the President 9/11/59 and 9/16/59…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.68
Thomas E. Stephens worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Letter from J Edgar Hoover to Thomas E Stephens Secretary to the President 4/13/54…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.68
Trump administration recruited
Internal Revenue Service documented
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“At the urging of the White House and a Congressional Committee the IRS established a program for investigating politically active groups and individuals...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.85
Trump administration recruited
CIA documented
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“Under pressure from the Johnson and Nixon White Houses to determine whether there was 'foreign influence' behind anti-war protests and black militant activity the CIA began collecting intelligence about domestic political groups…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.85
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Operation Chaos documented
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“Under White House pressure the CIA developed its own program Operation CHAOS as an adjunct to the CIA's foreign counterintelligence activities…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.115
Trump administration funded
Operation Chaos documented
document
“Rather the White House continued to ask for more information and continued to urge the CIA to confirm the theory that American dissidents were under foreign control.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.117
H.R. Haldeman worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“White House Chief of Staff H R Haldeman assigned principal responsibility for domestic intelligence planning to staff assistant Tom Charles Huston.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.128
Tom Charles Huston worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“White House Chief of Staff H R Haldeman assigned principal responsibility for domestic intelligence planning to staff assistant Tom Charles Huston.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.128
Lyndon B. Johnson worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Johnson aides requested such reports on critics of the escalating war in Vietnam…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.133
Richard Nixon worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“President Nixon's aides asked for similar name checks on another newsman…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.133
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
FBI documented
document
“On August 22 1964 at the request of the White House the FBI sent a 'special squad' to the Democratic National Convention site in Atlantic City New Jersey…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.133
Walter Jenkins worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Jenkins has stated that the mandate of the FBI's special unit did not encompass the gathering of political intelligence...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.135
Federal Bureau of Investigation worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“This 67-page summary was transmitted to the White House on March 21 1966...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.136
Robert Mardian did_business_with
Trump administration documented
document
“Mardian eventually took part in the transfer of these records to the White House.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.141
FBI worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Information gathered and disseminated to the White House ranged from purely political intelligence...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.242
Cartha DeLoach worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Former FBI executive Cartha DeLoach who was FBI liaison with the White Houseduring part of the Johnson administration...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.243
Stephen Early worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Memorandafrom StephenEarly Secretary to the President to Hoover 5/21/40 and 6/17/40…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.243
Bill Moyers worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Presidential aide Bill Moyers asked the Bureau to conduct 'name checks on all persons employed in Senator Goldwater's Senate office...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.244
Trump administration spied_on
Anna Chennault documented
document
“Similarly in the last two weeks of the 1968 campaign the Johnson White House requested an investigation (including indirect electronic surveillance and direct physical surveillance) of Mrs Anna Chennault...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.244
Trump administration spied_on
Spiro Agnew documented
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“This investigation also included an FBI check of Vice Presidential candidate Spiro Agnew's long distance telephone call records apparently at the personal request of President Johnson.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.244
Trump administration spied_on
Bobby Baker documented
document
“Another investigation for the Johnson White House involved executive branch officials who took part in the criminal investigation of former Johnson Senate aide Bobby Baker…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.244
Marvin Watson worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Presidential aide Marvin Watson told the FBI that Johnson was quite 'exercised...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.244
Trump administration spied_on
Robert F. Kennedy documented
document
“The Bureau was specifically insisted to include any associations between those persons and Robert Kennedy.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.245
Trump administration spied_on
Vietnam documented
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“The Johnson administration also requested information on contacts between members of Congress and certain foreign officials known to oppose the United States presence in Vietnam…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.245
Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Trump administration documented
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“The electronic surveillance of persons involved in a foreign country's lobbying activities on sugar quota legislation in 1961-1962 authorized by Attorney General Robert Kennedy for the White House also produced substantial political intelli…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.249
J. Patrick Coyne worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“A National Security Council staff member responsible for internal security matters summarized these reports as providing information 'regarding attempts being made by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to send in…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.249
Maxwell Rabb worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“The Secretary to the Cabinet who had 'experience in handling minority matters for the White House agreed that 'each Cabinet Member should be equipped with the plain facts.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.249
J. Edgar Hoover worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“It is also significant that after May 1970 the FBI Director's letters summarizing the results of the wiretaps were no longer sent to Henry Kissinger the President's national security advisor but to the President's political advisor H R Hald…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.252
Alexander Friedman worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“The foundation’s CFO, Alexander Friedman, was a White House fellow and assistant secretary of defense...…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.310
Sylvia Mathews Burwell worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“...while its number two executive, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, served as deputy White House chief of staff.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.310
Trump administration located_in
United States documented
document
“Then, because the major media outlets focus so narrowly on top leaders like those in the White House, when a few in the administration decided to reintroduce Iraq as a threat...…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.331
Nicholas Katzenbach met_with
Trump administration documented
document
“One week later Katzenbach sent to the White House a proposed Presidential directive to all Federal agencies on electronic surveillance…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.120
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed
Trump administration documented
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“This directive formally issued by President Johnson on June 30 1965 forbade the nonconsensual interception of telephone communications by Federal personnel...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.120
Federal Bureau of Investigation did_business_with
Trump administration documented
document
“A great deal of potentially useful political information was obtained from this wiretap and disseminated to the White House.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.129
FBI did_business_with
Trump administration documented
document
“He proposed that it be distributed to the Attorney General the White House CIA State Department Defense Department and Defense Department intelligence agencies.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.138
FBI worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“The summary of information obtained from surveillance at the Willard Honolulu and Los Angeles hotels was sent to the White House and to the Attorney General in March 1964 in order to 'remove all doubt from the Attorney General's mind as to …”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.146
Walter Jenkins worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“a memorandum summarizing the contents of the Willard Hotel tapes was shown to presidential assistant Walter Jenkins in January 1964…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.146
Bill Moyers worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“According to DeLoach's memorandum Walter Jenkins and Bill Moyers of the White House told him that Burke Marshall had called…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.156
Federal Bureau of Investigation worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“The FBI subsequently told the White House that McGill believes that the very best thing that could happen would be to have King step completely out of the civil rights movement...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.181
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Anna Chennault documented
document
“In order to determine the validity of this suspicion the White House instructed the FBI to institute a physical coverage of Mrs Chennault as well as physical and electronic surveillance of the South Vietnamese Embassy.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.320
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Vietnam documented
document
“In order to determine the validity of this suspicion the White House instructed the FBI to institute a physical coverage of Mrs Chennault as well as physical and electronic surveillance of the South Vietnamese Embassy.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.320
Richard Nixon worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“According to the transcript of the White House tapes President Nixon stated to John Dean on April 16 1973 that What I mean is I think in the case of the Kraft's stuff what the FBI did they were both fine I have checked the facts…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.342
John Ehrlichman worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Testimony of John Ehrlichman before the Senate Watergate Committee 7/24/73 p 2535…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.342
John Mitchell worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“John Mitchell approved the first of these two taps at the request of "higher authority" 299the second of these two was requested by H R Haldeman.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.343
H.R. Haldeman worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“John Mitchell approved the first of these two taps at the request of "higher authority" 299the second of these two was requested by H R Haldeman.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.343
Trump administration spied_on
Joseph Kraft documented
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“Beyond these claims there is little evidence that any national security issue was involved in the case Former Deputy Attorney General and Acting FBI Director William Ruckelshaus testified "I did review the information on which the effort wa…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.342
Trump administration spied_on
National Security Council documented
document
“The reinstatement of the tap on one National Security Council staff member was apparently requested by H R Haldeman simply because "they have some concern [about him] they may have a bad apple and have to get him out of the basket.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.343
Tom Charles Huston worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Presidential assistant Tom Charles Huston…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.371
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Strategic Services Unit reported
document
“When OSS protested to the White House the President's aides reportedly ordered the embassy entry project turned over to the FBI.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.432
John Doherty met_with
Trump administration documented
document
“and his principal deputy John Doherty had been FBI Director Hoover's liaison with the White House in the early 1950s…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.460
George Elsey worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Upon receiving the Attorney General's proposed statement presidential aide George Elsey asked Admiral Souers Executive Secretary of the National Security Council "to undertake a review of the state ment with a view to limiting the excessive…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.467
Stephen Spingarn worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Mr Elsey and Admiral Souers passed the matter on to White House aide Stephen Spingarn who met with Assistant Director Ladd of the FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.467
Trump administration did_business_with
Federal Bureau of Investigation documented
document
“The White House not only received the product of FBI intelligence on antiwar demonstrations but it also asked the Bureau to conduct 'name checks' of its files on dozens of…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.494
Trump administration proposed
FBI documented
document
“These efforts to broaden intelligence surveillance resulted largely from intense pressures from the White House to determine whether there was foreign direction or financing of domestic protest activity…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.528
Trump administration met_with
FBI documented
document
“Nevertheless Brennan pointed out that the FBI was 'constantly being asked by the White House as to whether or not there was foreign funding..…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.530
Federal Bureau of Investigation supplied_arms_to
Trump administration documented
document
“This document captioned "FBI Summary of Extremist Activities furnishes the White House and other agencies with a digest of the extremist problem in the United States.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.539
Intelligence Evaluation Committee worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“the new IEC assumed broader functions in preparing regular domestic intelligence evaluations for the White House.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.542
CIA did_business_with
Trump administration reported
document
“Computer technology may not have been instrumental in the misuse of CIA or IRS files to provide information to the White House on U.S citizens…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.115
Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division did_business_with
Trump administration reported
document
“Computer technology may not have been instrumental in the misuse of CIA or IRS files to provide information to the White House on U.S citizens…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.115
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Daniel Ellsberg documented
document
“Yet fresh in our memory is the use by the White House of the CIA to provide a "psychological profile" on Daniel Ellsberg…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.124
Trump administration did_business_with
CIA documented
document
“Yet fresh in our memory is the use by the White House of the CIA to provide a "psychological profile" on Daniel Ellsberg…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.124
E. Howard Hunt worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Hunt said that he had an office in a part of the White House.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.142
John Ehrlichman worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Were you Mr Ehrlichman aware at any time while you were on the White House staff of a program of intercepting mail...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.154
Federal Bureau of Investigation worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“The FBI delivered these reports to the White House and the Attorney General on December 5 1963…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.40
Federal Bureau of Investigation met_with
Trump administration documented
document
“By letter dated September 30 1964 the Bureau informed the White House and Acting Attorney General Katzenbach that "the Commission's report is seriously inaccurate insofar as its treatment of the FBI is concerned.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.61
FBI worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“The Bureau informs the White House and the Acting Attorney General that 'the Commission's report is seriously inaccurate insofar as its treatment of the FBI is concerned.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.111
FBI met_with
Trump administration documented
document
“The FBI forwards results of the interview with the lawyer to the White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.112
Trump administration did_business_with
Senate Foreign Relations Committee documented
document
“Upon the discovery of the cache of forbidden toxins the executive branch immediately came to this committee and indicated that an investigation was underway…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.6
CIA did_business_with
Trump administration documented
document
“The White House was notified as soon as the existence of the materials became known and was kept informed as the investigation progressed…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.10
Trump administration met_with
CIA documented
document
“The White House was notified as soon as the existence of the materials became known and was kept informed as the investigation progressed…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.14
Richard Nixon proposed
Trump administration documented
document
“Both the same day tained to the remarks of the President the President rjsident Nixon at that time on announcing the chemical cal defense policies and programs…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.61
United States Department of Defense worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“In that particular sheet or announcement or instruc x the category biological research program it specifically DOD Department of Defense has been asked to make rationsas to the disposal of existing stocks of bacteriological…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.61
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
United States Department of Defense documented
document
“mandatory DOD requirement implemented as a result of the White House announcements to the Department of Defense to destroy biological stocks and biological toxins…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.64
Tom Charles Huston worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Mr Huston were you employed in the White House as of 1970…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.9
Tom Charles Huston worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“anyone who was on the White House staff worked for Mr Haldeman…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.16
John Huston worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“I was the person who was given this responsibility It was my job…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.33
H.R. Haldeman worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“if he designated someone else on his staff to tell you that the President made a decision then you ought to believe that person…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.33
John N. Huston worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“keen interest on the part of the White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.34
John Ehrlichman worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“the original message that Dr Burns had conveyed to the Commissioner…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.35
FBI worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“The Bureau was under standing instructions from the President just as it had been from President Johnson to provide the White House with information…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.36
Trump administration approved
CONUS Intelligence Operation documented
document
“at that very time we had approved at the White House the request from the Secretary of the Army to dismantle the CONUS intelligence operation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.41
G. Gordon Liddy worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“because of my position on the White House staff I would not have been in a position to do that…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.42
Herbert Miller did_business_with
Trump administration documented
document
“the papers have been turned over to the White House by Mr Herbert Miller…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.42
Mr. Huston worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“I left the White House in June 1971…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.46
John Dean worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“the very first meeting of that unit was held in John Dean's office in the White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.76
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
CIA reported
document
“the CIA the FBI and the other intelligence agencies were placed under tremendous pressure by the White House to investigate and determine the source of these protests…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.91
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Federal Bureau of Investigation reported
document
“the CIA the FBI and the other intelligence agencies were placed under tremendous pressure by the White House to investigate and determine the source of these protests…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.91
Federal Bureau of Investigation worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Despite my clear-cut and specific opposition to the lifting of the various investigative restraints referred to above and to the creation of a permanent interagency committee on domestic intelligence the FBI is prepared to implement the ins…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.106
Trump administration worked_for
Fair Play for Cuba Committee documented
document
“In the light of the directives furnished to the Committee by the White House the subject matters hereinafter set forth were reviewed for the consideration and decision of the President…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.174
Henry Kissinger worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Dr Henry Kissinger Assistant to the President coordinates foreign intelligence on behalf of the President…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.194
J. Edgar Hoover met_with
Trump administration reported
document
“Mr Hoovershouldbe calledin privatelyfor a ctrolsing sessionat whichthe Presidentexplainsthe decisionhe hasmade…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.197
NSA supplied_arms_to
Trump administration documented
document
“and tin inforona tion it has :rovidcd ..as boon:host helpful of this inio_caa or is particularly useful to the WhiteIltusoa…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.199
H.R. Haldeman worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“H R HALDEMAN…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.204
Tom C. Huston worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“White House Mr TomC Huston Staff Assistant to the President…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.222
Tom Charles Huston worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“It was suggested by Mr Huston of the White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.236
Bob Haldeman worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“N.B Bob Haldeman has suggested to me that if you would like him to join you in a meeting wit'. Hoover he will be happy to do so…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.263
Egil Krogh Sr. worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“Honorable Egil Krogh Sr DeputyAssistant to the President for DomesticAffairs The White Mouse…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.293
Federal Bureau of Investigation did_business_with
Trump administration documented
document
“By letter dated 2/26/70 in response to a specific request we furnished the White House with material concerning income sources of revolutionary groups…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.315
Trump administration did_business_with
Internal Revenue Service reported
document
“because the IRS was getting these requests as I understand it from the FBI from the CIA and even from the White House to investigate these people…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.18
NSA did_business_with
Trump administration documented
document
“Under criteria determined by the Committee in consultation with the White House the Departments of Defense and Justice the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation certain materials have been deleted from these exhib…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.154
Trump administration worked_for
FBI documented
document
“these agencies the Attorney General and the White House together with the FBI have the primary responsibility for the domestic intelligence in this country…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.17
William Clark member_of
Trump administration book_quoted
“According to Wingate Lloyd's handwritten notes, Pittman stated that the National Security Advisor, William Clark, made clear that the White House does not want any criminal prosecution. With that clear instruction, Theodore Greenberg carrie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 30:53
Trump administration appointed
Gina Haspel host_asserted
“So this is basically, and then the next paragraph gets to Gina Haspel, who is the CIA director at the time. And it says, to some Trump officials, CIA executives, including the director, were clearly opposed to the administrative directive. …”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 24:42
Robert Gates headed
Trump administration host_asserted
“Into that, William Webster. And do you know who the FBI director was that appointed him? Robert Mueller. And we find Robert Gates, the guy we were just talking about, was the secretary over all of this.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 1:15:38
Trump administration member_of
Lima conference documented
“He said cocaine smoking can represent the same threat that the speed epidemic did in the 1960s. Beck also wasn't the only American scientist who attended the Lima conference that came back alarmed. The impact of these experiences were impre…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 42:05
Jim Bath did_business_with
Trump administration host_asserted
“everybody being the CIA, on different, he was in business with the Bushes. Yeah, his name shows up everywhere. And we're going to get into Bath in a lot of depth in this book later. Cook was on the board of directors with Lloyd Benson at a …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 16:30
Trump administration targeted_for_regime_change
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“Back to the article. But he was facing stiffer than expected pushback. Anti-government protests were racking the oil-rich South American nation. Hyperinflation was obliterating its economy. More than a million Venezuelans had fled, triggeri…”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 3:52
Trump administration covered_up
POW/MIA Cover-up book_quoted
“documentary on the POW MIA situation that presented dramatic evidence that MIA and POWs were still a lot. Landreth discovered that the stations that had agreed to carry the broadcast had suddenly backed out. Landreth began to investigate an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 8 @ 1:04:26
Nicole Wallace member_of
Trump administration host_asserted
“Nicole Wallace was originally in the W. Bush White House, who significantly was targeted with convincing Democratic resistance to support the Iraq war in 2003. So she was a Republican. To these people, it really doesn't matter whether you'r…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 1:35:28
Philip Buchan member_of
Trump administration documented
“Contrary to assertions that Director Colby said what he pleased and ignored the White House, Ford's staff actually kept close control. The president's political advisors looked after general attitudes while lawyer Philip Buchan followed dai…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 50:33
John Marshall headed
Trump administration documented
“Contrary to assertions that Director Colby said what he pleased and ignored the White House, Ford's staff actually kept close control. The president's political advisors looked after general attitudes while lawyer Philip Buchan followed dai…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 50:33
Trump administration covered_up
Rockefeller Commission documented
“He wanted to sanitize documents given to the Rockefeller Commission only to be overruled by the White House. He assigned Scott Breckinridge of the IG office, an original author of the 1967 report on assassination plots, to dissuade the Rock…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 52:56
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Orlando Bosch documented
“was dragging bare feet to find him a new home at the behest of the White House trying to mullify the anti-Castro community in South Florida, according to internal documents. Margaret Love, then Associate Deputy Attorney General, noted in Ja…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 1:19:25
Paul Kagame relationship_with
Trump administration host_asserted
“The Obama administration filed a suggestion of immunity on Kagame's behalf, making it difficult to prosecute him. So wait a minute. We have the Obamas, the first black American president in the United States, protecting a black genocide man…”
▶ Operation Gladio - RWANDA - AFRICA @ 1:02:27
Trump administration framed
Abraham Bolden guest_asserted
“You know, accused the Nixon administration of retaliating against this guy, you know, for speaking to the press and declaring him crazy and managed to get him out of the mental ward at that hospital. They really retaliated against this guy.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 1:19:09
William Corson advised
Trump administration book_quoted
“the FBI, NSA, CIA, White House, and the Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerry. Probably no one in Washington knew more genuine secrets than Corson. Marines who had served under his soldier spy leadership ended up in some of the most important …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 10:15
Trump administration covered_up
BCCI host_asserted
“And it was covered up by the DEA. It was covered up by the CIA. It was covered up by the FBI. It was covered up by the White House during all of the administrations in the 1970s, which would include Nixon. It would include Ford. It would in…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale @ 6:04
Trump administration covered_up
Operation Ranch Hand documented
“to compensate victims. Representative Weiss went on to state unequivocally that while the Reagan administration defended the Vietnam conflict as an honorable war, it worked behind the scenes to deny benefits to the very people who sacrifice…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 5 @ 44:36
Trump administration removed_from_power
Rene Vivas documented
“Almost single-handedly, an underpaid middle-aged Nicaraguan policeman had in 18 months done something that the entire U.S. government, with all of its bike satellites, international wiretapping, and an army of drug agents, had never been ab…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:27:35
Trump administration removed_from_power
Roger Mayorga documented
“the Nicaraguan National Police Commander, Vivas. Roger Mayorga, who by then had begun looking into Danielle Blanton's relationship with Menendez's drug ring and its money laundering in Central America, was fired too. Menendez, meanwhile, wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:28:05
Pedro Carmona visited
Trump administration documented
“It had failed in less than 48 hours. Diplomatic sources at the OAS in Washington eventually charged U.S. officials with directing the plot, revealing to The Guardian, quote, Venezuelans plotting a coup included Carmona himself, unquote. He …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 32:37
Operation Piano Solo member_of
Trump administration guest_asserted
“You know, ideally from, you know, journalists, like either Italian journalists, ideally translated into English or academics, you know, that could be really helpful for me right now because there's this interesting connection that gets you …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 1:19:31
Trump administration covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“Yet that became the main tactic utilized by the White House and the CIA, arguing the need to preserve the secrecy of the agency's quote unquote sources and methods. Then stretching that category to cover every conceivable bit of information…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 47:10
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Nicolás Maduro speculative
“Trump administration officials publicly denied any role in the drone attack and a dissident member of the Venezuelan army later claimed responsibility. There are a lot of evidence. There's a lot of people that believe that was actually a CI…”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 6:43
Mentions (120)
▶ 20:16
That's something to put on. I've got it on my watch list. Can you talk to us about the shorts that happened on Friday before the attempted assassination? Yeah, I'd love to. Well, the story comes out there that this company called Austin Pri…
▶ 2:30
Don't get me wrong. I don't want my government overthrowing other people's governments. I don't want my government anywhere near other people's governments. But on the surface of it, if he's a dictator and we were the white knights, that wo…
▶ 3:52
Back to the article. But he was facing stiffer than expected pushback. Anti-government protests were racking the oil-rich South American nation. Hyperinflation was obliterating its economy. More than a million Venezuelans had fled, triggeri…
▶ 6:43
Trump administration officials publicly denied any role in the drone attack and a dissident member of the Venezuelan army later claimed responsibility. There are a lot of evidence. There's a lot of people that believe that was actually a CI…
▶ 7:10
In recent days, Maduro had even said he was considering skipping the U.N. meeting altogether because he was worried about another assassination attempt, and rightfully so. As bitter adversaries, the Trump administration and Maduro's regime …
▶ 7:35
After the U.N. meeting, the Trump administration amped up their efforts around the world to isolate and depose the leader, including levying additional punishing sanctions against his regime. Much of that diplomatic maneuvering played out i…
▶ 9:29
disrupting a computer system that pays the military is some big feat. So it says the story of that secret Maduro effort also lays bare the tensions between the administration with hardliners laser focused on disposing the Venezuelan autocra…
▶ 11:35
whose latest sham reelection in July of 2024 has again thrust his country into chaos. The details of that covert CIA-assisted campaign told exclusively to Wired by eight Trump administration and former agency officials with knowledge of the…
▶ 13:01
Good conservatives, more like Khan Inc. Okay, according to the article, on January 23rd, Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido, the guy that was basically trying to get himself installed instead in Venezuela, stood before cheering protest…
▶ 15:14
the administration recognized him as Venezuela's rightful acting leader and went to work lobbying other countries to do the exact same thing. So where have we seen this before? In every freaking country. Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras. This is…
▶ 16:09
Around the time the administration turned to the CIA to seek the agency's help in ousting Maduro, according to former U.S. officials familiar with the secret program, so secret that Wired magazine is writing about it, sources requested anon…
▶ 16:37
The CIA quickly assembled a Venezuelan task force. That group had its work cut out for it before the Trump administration directives. Venezuela was a low priority for Langley and capabilities had to be built from the ground up, according to…
▶ 17:58
Go and basically create it from scratch? I'm just, the more I read this, the more livid I get at how fucking stupid they think we are. One of the task force's first goal, an expansion of efforts to hack Venezuela's government networks, very…
▶ 18:54
In fact, when officials in the administration asked to have NSA hacking resources redirected, a former Trump-era official said top Pentagon officials pushed back hard. Who the fuck is in charge? You're telling me that the president said do …
▶ 22:19
But as these efforts got underway, oh, and by the way, this actually counteracts what they had just said before about not having anything in Venezuela as far as assets. So they've actually got them there because they're secretly conducting …
▶ 22:50
Trump administration officials were unimpressed by the agency's quote-unquote democracy promotion effort. I wonder why. The CIA's secret program appeared to be indistinguishable from pro-democracy initiatives carried out openly by other org…
▶ 23:16
Embarrassing bullshit ever, one former national security official said. Not even sinister. Lazy. But to some Trump administration officials, the presence in Venezuela of a viable, legitimate opposition leader and the ongoing humanitarian ca…
▶ 23:42
The average person had lost weight, had no food, no electricity and no jobs. They have no medicine and we're trying to sell democracy to them. All this led some administration officials to believe that the CIA was focusing on the democracy …
▶ 24:42
So this is basically, and then the next paragraph gets to Gina Haspel, who is the CIA director at the time. And it says, to some Trump officials, CIA executives, including the director, were clearly opposed to the administrative directive. …
▶ 27:12
According to Wired magazine, he targeted Venezuela, home to a fraudulent elections in anti-American activity, unleashing the CIA on them. Did I just say something about unleashing the CIA? I mean, it's pathetic. It's absolutely pathetic. Wi…
▶ 27:42
But she goes on saying, which is basically what we have the CIA for. Trump dispatched the CIA to do what it does best, which is overthrow regimes creating problems so that we don't have to send in the Marines. What? It was about as legitima…
▶ 33:03
into Greece, the Nixon administration asked Papadopoulos to make some gesture towards a constitutional government, you know, at least pretend not to be a dictatorship, so that the White House could save face and drop the embargo. The Greek …
▶ 1:10:03
Soon after taking this step, Alente's government took one more, assuming management control of ITT. Two days later, ITT's vice president in Washington, William Merriam, sent the White House an 18-point list of steps it could take to ensure …
▶ 1:11:37
that Soleimani appears to be part of an U.S.-supported, like through the Obama administration, element in Iran. And that there are ties between him and the forces that were being armed in...…
▶ 1:13:08
Soleimani. So if my assumption of taking out Soleimani was in retribution to the taking of American lives at the Benghazi compound, that makes to me perfect sense to go back and then look at the left or the Obama administration's response t…
▶ 1:28:55
Yeah, they are. That's exactly what they're doing. They're shifting the blame and they're going to put it squarely back on Trump's team and not at the White House or the Department of Homeland Security, which it falls under. Which is part o…
▶ 45:37
lives of military personnel to the graveyard in order to harvest opium. And I can't say that often enough or loud enough, because everything that I'm telling you was known to the State Department, it was known to the CIA, it was known to th…
▶ 39:09
whacked good. We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greeks, Mr. Ambassador. If your prime minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament, and constitutions, he and his parliament and his constitution may not last very long, unquo…
▶ 51:12
And like the KCIA that we found in Korea, they basically had, when they were set up, this exact same setup. They were not the Korean CIA. They were our CIA posing as the Korean CIA. It's just quite crazy, actually. So in mid-February 1967, …
▶ 1:02:46
The embargo, the Nixon administration asked Papadopoulos to make some gesture towards constitutional government, which he could then use against Congress to lift the embargo. The Greek prime minister was to be assured, said a secret White H…
▶ 1:19:25
was dragging bare feet to find him a new home at the behest of the White House trying to mullify the anti-Castro community in South Florida, according to internal documents. Margaret Love, then Associate Deputy Attorney General, noted in Ja…
▶ 1:20:22
State's relatively relaxed efforts to find a country to take Dr. Bosch reflect what it understands to be the present disposition of the White House in the matter. So CIA agent George H.W. Bush is basically facilitating the harboring of a kn…
▶ 1:20:53
of his leading advocate in Miami. In the end, the Justice Department relented and informed the White House counsel, C. Boyden Gray, and then Deputy Director, Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, it would agree to a deal to free Bosch to live with h…
▶ 17:23
arrest a few people. Richard Nixon was elected president based on a vow to restore law and order in America. To prove that it intended to keep that promise, the White House in 1969 launched Operation Intercept along the Mexican border. This…
▶ 18:51
Indeed, as John Evans pointed out, the government was aware the CIA for years had sanctioned heroin traffic from the Golden Triangle of Bermuda, Thailand and Laos into South Vietnam as a way of rewarding top foreign officials in advancing U…
▶ 19:16
Given the addiction among U.S. troops in Vietnam was soaring, the massive amounts of Southeast Asian heroin being smuggled into the U.S. for use by middle class was on the verge of a revolution. Nixon's response was to make drug law enforce…
▶ 19:45
This betrayal occurred incrementally. Fred Dick, the BNDD agent assigned to Saigon, passed the names of the complicit military officers to the White House. But as Dick recalled, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker called a meeting in Saigon at whic…
▶ 25:41
The Nixon White House blamed the BNDD's failure to stop international drug trafficking on its underdeveloped intelligence capability, a situation that opened the door for even more CIA infiltration. That's so convenient. In late 1970, CIA D…
▶ 27:59
Seeking a way to circumvent the CIA, they recommended the creation of a special operations or strategic operations staff that would function on its own outside the CIA. Those operations would rely on longer-range deep penetration clandestin…
▶ 31:31
had the Corsicans gaining free passage into Marseilles' heroin labs. Koenig denied McCoy's allegation, but of course we know they're all true. It's impossible to know, according to this article author who was telling the truth, but we know …
▶ 32:27
Bush brought him to Florida from his position as director of strategy for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Florida Republican Bill McCollum helped secure the first $23 million for financing this chemical in his defens…
▶ 37:21
have produced consistent health complaints from peasants in the Colombian countryside, which were promptly ignored by both the White House and Monsanto. When interviewed by Corp Watch, a nonprofit investigative research group, a U.S. State …
▶ 40:33
A member of the American Center for Democracy advanced this of the narco-terrorists in three books in which Latin American guerrilla movements described as narco-terrorists were linked to Cuba and the Soviet Union, when in fact, they're not…
▶ 32:37
It had failed in less than 48 hours. Diplomatic sources at the OAS in Washington eventually charged U.S. officials with directing the plot, revealing to The Guardian, quote, Venezuelans plotting a coup included Carmona himself, unquote. He …
▶ 52:29
They considered that I am most useful at this moment denouncing the abuse which continued to exist against human rights in Venezuela on the international level, he told CNN in his first appearance since fleeing Venezuela. Vecchio described …
▶ 30:02
The U.S. officials eventually confessed their ability to conduct such large-scale industrial terrorism themselves. In June of 2019, the New York Times reported Washington had increased remote cyber attacks on Russia's electrical grid in a w…
▶ 42:05
He said cocaine smoking can represent the same threat that the speed epidemic did in the 1960s. Beck also wasn't the only American scientist who attended the Lima conference that came back alarmed. The impact of these experiences were impre…
▶ 1:34:49
The fact that there's one designated person, sometimes that person's the VP, sometimes that person's the Secretary of State. Sometimes that person is like the chief of staff of the White House. It varies in administrations. So that designat…
▶ 31:04
a Lieutenant Colonel Tom Harvey, who was on the staff of the National Security Council. Gritz has said Harvey was supervising the POW hunt that he and Weakley had went on and provided them with White House and NSC credentials. Harvey later …
▶ 1:27:35
Almost single-handedly, an underpaid middle-aged Nicaraguan policeman had in 18 months done something that the entire U.S. government, with all of its bike satellites, international wiretapping, and an army of drug agents, had never been ab…
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Nicole Wallace was originally in the W. Bush White House, who significantly was targeted with convincing Democratic resistance to support the Iraq war in 2003. So she was a Republican. To these people, it really doesn't matter whether you'r…
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In the closing days of 1968 presidential campaign, the Democrats made an 11th hour bid for the presidency through a White House announcement that all bombing in North Vietnam was being stopped and the serious peace negotiation was going to …
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who publicly rejected the coming negotiations. And three days later, the Democrat candidate lost to Richard Nixon in a narrow margin. After the election, it was revealed that a major Nixon fundraiser and supporter had engaged in elaborate n…
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Christopher Still, that Stephan Halper that was employed by the Pentagon in the Office of Net Assessment, that Stephan Halper. He, with BB's money, created Palmer National Bank in Washington, D.C. So that bank was set up to help funnel mone…
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I don't know what he was doing with it. I don't, really. In a statement Seale made after the trial, he said that the request for arms and ammunition was brought across the border to a rancher banker by the name of Mr. Richmond Harper in Eag…
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Ambrose's visits to Harper were also discovered in the 1976 House Banking Subcommittee investigation on the Texas rent-a-bank scandal. So, everybody knew it. They just didn't do anything about it. One of Ambrose's running buddies was Jack C…
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after its Batman was murdered. This was the C-123 that was shot down by the Sandinistas in 1986 while it was making a resupply run to the Contras. The resulting crash blew the lid off the White House secret support of the Contras as the pla…
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When he was chief counsel of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Weiland made a cameo appearance along with his boss, Senator Roth, in Oliver North's White House notebooks. On January 6, 1984, North got a phone call from a …
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North then wrote that Weiland wants Woodworth to proceed with a meeting with Sergio Brule, B-R-U-L-L, in Miami. The next line was set off in quote marks by North. Quote, White House, underlined twice by North, is interested in moving on Pro…
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are their terrorist training camp. The word that is illegible appears to be a four-letter word that begins with D-R and the last letter is G, meaning drug people. About the same time that Jenkins was training anti-Sandinistas, or Contras is…
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Oliver North quotes the chief counsel of a powerful Senate subcommittee that the White House is interested in a project, and the White House being Vice President George Bush, Mr. CIA himself, and Ronald Reagan. They're interested in a proje…
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Keep in mind that this is Wednesday night, so I will be breaking early. So we're just going to do one chapter. And this chapter is a very important one in the overall story because this deals with the company called EATSCO, E-A-T-S-C-O. So …
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Van Marbogh, Klein's, and the Egyptians in an illegal and unauthorized intelligence operation. As the Pentagon, with Van Marbogh retired, Frank Carlucci was now doing his best to protect General Secord. The depth of the government's knowled…
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where top officials of the CIA and the Justice Department and State Department gathered to discuss the White House position on the Itzko prosecution. Stanley Sporkin, Bill Casey's hand-picked general counsel for the CIA, wrote a memorandum …
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According to Wingate Lloyd's handwritten notes, Pittman stated that the National Security Advisor, William Clark, made clear that the White House does not want any criminal prosecution. With that clear instruction, Theodore Greenberg carrie…
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So in April 1984, Corson had decided that he was going to go there because he wanted to lend a hand to a former Marine student who had just undertaken an assignment at the National Security Council. Corson wanted to send a message to the as…
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He achieved his dream of going to Vietnam. He served as a Marine officer while Shackley and his cronies were running the intel war in Vietnam. After that first contact at the Navy Academy, the clandestine services had kept an eye on North. …
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He was close to Bill Casey, but not particularly popular with George Bush or with Shackley's private enterprise network. Allen did not like cowboys and was even less comfortable with Bush off the books operations. It was not long before All…
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because you can tell because of their haircut. As he walked across Lafayette Park to meet Corson for their lunch, North was fully aware that he was meeting with a man who had been a great success at the White House. When North had called Co…
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He thought he'd had them figured out. He thought he was playing poker with the big boys. But Corson repeatedly warned North, people like you and I play one role, and that's to be expendable. I don't think he ever really understood what I wa…
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A year later, Sarkis was slowly rebuilding his business in Jordan when he came home to the U.S. for Christmas. He was arrested by customs again and charged with bank fraud involving a counterfeit cashier's check on a Southern California ban…
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Whatever the Peruvians did with them after I sold them to them is on them. Sarkis's allegations of an elaborate double-cross raised serious questions about U.S. agencies' close ties to spy chiefs. To make matters worse, the CIA was involved…
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Barzani thought this was a good idea. The White House, unfortunately, did not. On October 16, 1973, Kissinger instructed the director of the CIA to tell the Kurds not to attack, and Barzani followed the orders. Because, again, their whole i…
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That, of course, pisses the CIA and the oligarchs off. Kennedy outlined this initiative and gave it a name in Tampa, Florida in October of 1960. Among the tenets of that speech, Schlesinger says, in a quote, unequivocal support for democrac…
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Fry to move in directions that the U.S. favored. Washington's deliberation took time in part because of a set of decisions that happened when Kennedy was assassinated. As the secret war wizards deliberated, the price tag went up. When Fry's…
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and find out exactly how much cash was at stake. The CIA now said it had no money for this project. The special group would have to approve the use of their contingency fund. Bundy convened the group in the White House sit room on April 2nd…
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Would it have been the CIA that had more authority to get him back to the US than the US government or the NSA? They work in tandem. The State Department and the CIA are not inseparable. They work in tandem with each other. We think of them…
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the State Department and the White House, they're not stepping outside their bounds of authority by telling the officials in that country that you're going to lose everything and we're going to sanction you because that's what the US govern…
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Yeah, I've been there. At least it's not just me. Sorry, SR. Go ahead and go back on X. Okay. All right. There we go. That's crazy. Well, I obviously did the co-host thing, too. So I don't know. Maybe it just picked one. All right. Let's ge…
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Casey sent the fuller paper intended for internal circulation to the White House, but the CIA's official position contained in the May 1985 update to the Iran Special National Intelligence Estimate remained pessimistic. Improvement, because…
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approached National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane two months later to ask if the U.S. might sell weapons to Iran. Huh. When McFarlane replied he thought not, the Israeli asked whether Washington would have any objections if Israel did i…
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You can just give us the weapons back. His request led to a national security group meeting at the White House on August 8th, which appears to have been the Israeli go-ahead. Deals with Iran, many deals with Iran followed, related both to o…
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The Israelis bungled their shipment, routing it through Portugal without appropriate clearance and appealed to the U.S. for help because they got caught. This compromised the White House. McFarland personally intervened with the Portuguese …
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being none other than General Richard Secord, attended a meeting at the White House on January 11th. There, Secord met with the CIA. And again, I need to remind you, Reagan is in these meetings. He's signing this stuff. This is not George H…
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They hired them as lobbyists. Savembe, the CIA stooge that is killing people in Angola, hired a PR firm to encourage the Reagan White House to get back involved in Angola. Despite...…
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perhaps relocating to the US. Yeah, BS. There was a bombing at Radio Free Europe in Munich. And then the board wanted to use operating funds to make repairs. The Reagan White House saw an opportunity to energize the entire operation. And th…
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You guessed it, the Soviets. John Lenkowski, Soviet specialist on the national security staff, spearheaded this effort. He proposed $2.6 billion to revamp Radio Free Europe. See what happens when you get a bomb detonated? You get a request …
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It's very exciting times. Thank you again. Sure. So I got to go back to War Hamster because you guys know I had a friend that was on his way to the processing center at Fort Hood during that shooting that the Obama administration labeled as…
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like sending the Marines into Lebanon in 1958 to ensure the Beirut government remained in friendly hands. The rest of the Americans' imperial mission during the Eisenhower years fell to Allen Dulles. Whispers about Dulles' tactics began mak…
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in books that we've already done or books that I've already read. So they all knew. There's just not a paper trail in most cases. John Eisenhower, who served his father as a White House aide, later blamed the Dulles spy set for manipulating…
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The freedom that they had been granted and his extremely high-powered machine go barging into other countries, scare the hell out of us, Levitt would later say. But once again, Eisenhower ignored the strong criticism leveled at the spy agen…
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Dulles' CIA grew to become the most potent agency of the Eisenhower era. Dulles was a master at seeding Washington bureaucracies with agency men, meaning putting CIA agents into other government organizations, even though they're not allowe…
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but by resisting the temptation to crow about his wisdom in the press. Kennedy soon began seeking his advice on other things. One of the liberal critics was Alfred Kazin, K-A-Z-I-N. When Kazin arrived at the White House, JFK was at his best…
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compiled essays and investigative features about Dulles' reign from the liberal press. The White House advisor completed his memo for revamping the CIA on June 30th. He acknowledged that his proposal implies a fairly drastic rearrangement o…
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Taylor also opposed changing the agency's name for the same reason. Who gives a shit? On the morning of July 15th, Bobby took Schlesinger aside at the White House and told him that the CIA reorganization was on hold until a replacement for …
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After Kennedy's engineered steel pack was signed, guess what U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blow did? He scheduled a meeting at the White House and told the president that he was announcing a 3.5% price increase anyway. But he had locked in labo…
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In victory, JFK adopted a magnanimous posture. Over dinner at the White House on May 3rd, Schlesinger asked Kennedy what he had said to Blow when the U.S. steel chairman surrendered. I told him that his men could keep their horses for the s…
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No, he just made them keep their word. Chatting with Schlesinger in the Oval Office, Kennedy said, I understand better every day why Roosevelt, who started out as such a mellow fellow, was so anti-business at the end. JFK vowed that he was …
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To counter the corporate assault on his presidency, Kennedy said, we have to put out the picture of a small group of men turning against the government and the economy because the government would not surrender to them. That's the real issu…
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not only to engage in deadly spy versus spy antics, but to subvert democratic governments they deemed insufficiently Americanized and to terminate these governments' elected leaders. Dedicated to dark necessity of expanding American power, …
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exasperated with him and succeeded in having him jettisoned from the administration. But Allen managed to stay on good terms with Nelson and with David too. As he left the Eisenhower White House in December 1955, Nelson sent the CIA chief a…
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In March of 1961, it was a massive foreign aid program for Latin America designed to stimulate economic growth, redistribute wealth, and promote democratic governments in the region. They don't want democratic governments in that region. Th…
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You know, accused the Nixon administration of retaliating against this guy, you know, for speaking to the press and declaring him crazy and managed to get him out of the mental ward at that hospital. They really retaliated against this guy.…
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Working in the Kennedy White House not only gave Schlesinger a voice in global affairs, it offered him the intellectual, as an intellectual, a chance to rub elbows with everyone. He gossiped over lunch with actresses and actors about Frank …
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Schlesinger was sipping midday cocktails with publishing queen Kay Graham and her Newsweek editors who had flown him to New York to advise them on a magazine makeover. Schlesinger soon realized that he was the odd man out in the anti-intell…
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Not a request to do anything, nor an invitation to a single meeting. The entire mood of the White House suddenly shifted under Schlesinger's feet. LBJ differs from JFK in a number of ways, he said. Most notably, perhaps, in the absence of i…
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Supreme FDR JFK gift of keeping a great many things in his head, remembering them all, and then demanding to know new things. Schlesinger's early resignation from the Johnson administration, which came seven months before Bobby Kennedy's ow…
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Quote, certainly we did not control the Joint Chiefs of Staff, unquote. And he knew from his futile efforts to reform the CIA, the Kennedy White House perhaps had even less control over it. But despite Schlesinger's inside knowledge of Wash…
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in our cities and to close the gap between black and white, between rich and poor, between young and old in the country. Oh my gosh, big target on him. Kennedy left unstated the other reason, the main reason that still tormented his family.…
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that they had set up the camp and trained the Contras with the approval of the White House. But the prosecutors claimed the operation was not sanctioned by the Reagan administration. It certainly was sanctioned by the vice president because…
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who was Ian Benson's partner and an alleged CIA operative. Jim Bath was definitely a CIA agent or asset. He's the guy that retrofitted all of the Saudi corrupt princes' aircraft outside of Houston. He's been in several of these books. He wa…
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to compensate victims. Representative Weiss went on to state unequivocally that while the Reagan administration defended the Vietnam conflict as an honorable war, it worked behind the scenes to deny benefits to the very people who sacrifice…
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Not everyone in the upper echelons of military power surrendered to the White House. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, the former chief of naval operations in Vietnam, testified in the Weiss Committee that Dr. Vernon Hawk, H-O-U-K, of the Center for Di…
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Embargo request while UPI and NBC after talking with the embassy press officer admitted the item entirely from its news story. Details on the account being reported through military channels by what was referred to as bright light messages …
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documentary on the POW MIA situation that presented dramatic evidence that MIA and POWs were still a lot. Landreth discovered that the stations that had agreed to carry the broadcast had suddenly backed out. Landreth began to investigate an…
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20,000 Americans were never returned from the Soviet Union post-World War II. Among other recent attempts to cover up the information regarding American POWs or taken prisoner and never returned are the following events. In 1991, Brent Scow…
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co-author of Soldiers of Misfortune, regarding evidence provided by Rastorov about the U.S. POWs that he had seen transported. Skrokov on White House stationery ordered the National Archives not to release the report and to classify it as s…
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have never blown up an airliner with a bomb planted in the U.S. The government spokesmen were being much more cautious about jumping to conclusions. However, the White House spokesperson, Mike McCurry, and others, including President Clinto…
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Variations of these sightings matched what the FAA radar controllers saw at JFK, departure control. And also was the exact same story the three C-130 crew members said happened. But the FBI and other federal agencies, up to and including th…
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They claim an Egyptian fundamentalist group backed by Iran was responsible for smuggling the weapons across the Canadian border and into the U.S. The article went on to identify that group as Gamma al-Islamiyah, the same group that attempte…