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Claims (62)
Charles Rothschild lived_in
Hungary documented
document
“Natty’s son Charles was in Hungary with his wife…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. THIRTEEN The Military-Financial Complex (1906-1914)
Mendelssohn did_business_with
Hungary documented
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“For most of the period, such external finance as was required came from Germany, and specifically Mendelssohn and the Darmstädter and Deutsche Banks.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWELVE Finances and Alliances (1885-1906)
Darmstädter Bank did_business_with
Hungary documented
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“For most of the period, such external finance as was required came from Germany, and specifically Mendelssohn and the Darmstädter and Deutsche Banks.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWELVE Finances and Alliances (1885-1906)
Deutsche Bank did_business_with
Hungary documented
document
“For most of the period, such external finance as was required came from Germany, and specifically Mendelssohn and the Darmstädter and Deutsche Banks.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWELVE Finances and Alliances (1885-1906)
Hungary did_business_with
Postal Savings Banks documented
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“After 1897, a share of any new issues of rentes had to be allotted to the Postal Savings Banks.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWELVE Finances and Alliances (1885-1906)
United States financed_via
Hungary documented
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“after 1918, it was American capital which the various “successor states” of Central Europe—not only Germany but also Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia—could draw on.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FOURTEEN Deluges (1915-1945)
Harry Bandholtz operated_in
Hungary documented
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“General Harry Bandholtz mission to Hungary…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.87
Soviet Union targeted_for_regime_change
Hungary documented
document
“In 1947 Communists assumed power in Poland Hungary and Rumania…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.113
Ottoman Empire operated_in
Hungary documented
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“After all, it was control of Hungary and rivalry with the Austro-Hungarian empire that was at the center of the last Ottoman (Turkish) invasions into the heart of Europe...…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.187
Soviet Union operated_in
Hungary documented
document
“Communist regimes had been established in Poland Hungary Romania and Bulgaria…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.30
Salomon von Rothschild operated_in
Hungary documented
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“...he hoped also to extend his network into Hungary.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. FIFTEEN “Satan Harnessed”: Playing at Railways (1830-1846)
Hungary carried_out_attack
Austria documented
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“But this new involvement with the Magyar elite was to prove a source of political as well as financial embarrassment to the Rothschilds when, just a few years later, Hungary was plunged into a secessionist war with Austria.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. FOURTEEN Between Retrenchment and Rearmament (1840)
Arvid Gerhard Damm married
Hungary documented
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“Although already married with a son, he fell in love with a circus performer from Hungary whose opposition to a relationship he overcame by arranging a sham civil wedding ceremony in 1900...…”
source: url — Arvid Gerhard Damm · p.1
James A. de Rothschild funded
Hungary reported
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“(Incredibly, Salomon seems to have suggested lending money to allow the Hungarians to buy guns in England—this even as he was lamenting the collapse of the Habsburg Empire!)…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. SIXTEEN 1848
Rothschild banking dynasty financed_via
Hungary documented
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“Hungary was perhaps the most important Central European client of the period: here it was New Court which took the lead, issuing loans for £7.9 million in 1924, £2.25 million in 1925-26 and £1.6 million in 1936.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FOURTEEN Deluges (1915-1945)
Rothschild banking dynasty did_business_with
Hungary documented
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“When Hungary became the first Eastern-bloc economy to borrow from Western banks in 1968, the decision to turn to New Court had numerous historical precedents.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. EPILOGUE The first important strength of the family is unity.
Lionel Walter Rothschild operated_in
Hungary documented
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“Following a visit to Hungary in 1902, Rothschild brought six live edible dormice (Glis glis) back to Tring.…”
source: url — Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild · p.1
Austria operated_in
Hungary documented
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“Austria, after the calamity of 1866, reorientated herself politically and economically towards Hungary and the Balkans.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FIVE Bonds and Iron (1867-1870)
Anselm Salomon von Rothschild did_business_with
Hungary documented
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“Fresh proof of his Austro-Hungarian orientation came in February 1870, when he announced the conclusion of a new 30 million gulden Hungarian lottery loan.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FIVE Bonds and Iron (1867-1870)
Frankfurt Rothschild house did_business_with
Hungary documented
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“It was not until 1871 that another Rothschild house (Frankfurt) secured a worthwhile share in a Hungarian loan, a mortgage on the state railways;…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FIVE Bonds and Iron (1867-1870)
London Rothschild house did_business_with
Hungary documented
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“and not until 1873 that the London house participated in a Hungarian bond issue.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FIVE Bonds and Iron (1867-1870)
Ferdinand de Rothschild did_business_with
Hungary documented
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“He is now transacting the sale of a bridge at Pesth with the Hungarian Govt [on] which he hopes to make £20,000.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FIVE Bonds and Iron (1867-1870)
London Rothschilds did_business_with
Hungary documented
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“In 1914 the London Rothschilds, in partnership with Schröders, successfully arranged two separate bond issues by Austria and Hungary worth a total of £ 19.5 million.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWELVE Finances and Alliances (1885-1906)
Hungary member_of
NATO documented
“A period of unrest. Hungary underwent a crucial period of political change, economic reform, and international realignment, most notably marked by its accession to the European Union in 2004. There you go. And there's a boyfriend to usher t…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Wrap Up @ 1:12:11
Nazi Party overthrew
Hungary documented
“had long since made preparations for killing Jewish people. Yet its government had generally held back from mass murder, much to the dismay of the Nazis. In March, the Germans deposed the existing regime and installed a more compliant gover…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 10_11 @ 40:24
Hungary member_of
European Union documented
“A period of unrest. Hungary underwent a crucial period of political change, economic reform, and international realignment, most notably marked by its accession to the European Union in 2004. There you go. And there's a boyfriend to usher t…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Wrap Up @ 1:12:11
George Herbert Walker III appointed
Hungary documented
“Then we have an ambassador by the name of George Herbert Walker III. Is that name familiar? A little bit. United States ambassador to Hungary from 2003 to 2006. Who was the president during those years? His brother. George W. Bush, his cous…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Wrap Up @ 1:11:35
George Herbert Walker appointed
Hungary documented
“United States ambassador to Hungary from 2003 to 2006. Who was the president during those years? His brother. George W. Bush, his cousin. Cousin, sorry. Yeah. I wonder if anything's going on in Hungary. Give me one second. Chat GPT. What do…”
▶ The Shadow State 48 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 1 @ 1:12:07
Yuri Andropov spied_on
Hungary documented
“russian's ambassador to budapest canceled that possibility griffith's report was overtaken by events assistance to the rebels became an immediate question at cia as it had been in the eastern berlin episode the crisis caught the directorate…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 58:23
Assembly of Captive European Nations member_of
Hungary documented
“ACEN, Assembly of Captive European Nations. ACEN brought together all of these organizations, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. They also provided representatives to participate in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6 @ 26:30
Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured
Hungary book_quoted
“in Geneva and a group of students he recruited to make 50 copies of the report. The eyewitness account of life and death inside Auschwitz finally broke into the Swiss press and was then picked up by the New York Times and the BBC. In the up…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 36:31
Noel Field released
Hungary documented
“urban studies professor and pioneering studies at Tufts University and wrote novels. Noel and Herta shocked their family by staying in Hungary, where they quietly lived out the rest of their lives. For Noel, the personal betrayal by Dulles …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 40:35
Miklós Horthy member_of
Hungary documented
“who had been a royal regent of Hungary and supreme commander of Hungarian armed forces during the years of alliance with the Nazi Germany. Horthy also shared personal responsibility for establishing the Hungarian race laws and the persecuti…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 40:41
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Hungary book_quoted
“Political action is also a wild card in the sense that the activities begun for stipulated purposes may get out of control. This occurred in both East Germany in 1953 and Hungary in 1956, where basically they were undermining the government…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 46:02
The Pond spied_on
Hungary host_asserted
“both before and after World War II. During the war, they focused on gathering intel on battle information, and one of the admirals from Hungary's attempt to remove Hungary from the war. After the war in 1946, James McGarger became a case of…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 20:18
Czechoslovakia carried_out_attack
Hungary book_quoted
“counter-revolutionary government and begin aid and propaganda measures to sure this up. As things turned out, Wilson did not send gunboats to Budapest, but the Czechs and Romanians did indeed invade Hungary, and with their help, Hungarian A…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 30:11
Romania carried_out_attack
Hungary book_quoted
“counter-revolutionary government and begin aid and propaganda measures to sure this up. As things turned out, Wilson did not send gunboats to Budapest, but the Czechs and Romanians did indeed invade Hungary, and with their help, Hungarian A…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 30:11
Miklós Horthy installed
Hungary book_quoted
“counter-revolutionary government and begin aid and propaganda measures to sure this up. As things turned out, Wilson did not send gunboats to Budapest, but the Czechs and Romanians did indeed invade Hungary, and with their help, Hungarian A…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 30:11
Central European University member_of
Hungary documented
“It's founded in 1991. They promote open societies. I mean, it's on their motto, talking about open societies. The university actually got kicked out of Budapest, Hungary in 2017 by the Hungarian government because they didn't like what they…”
▶ The Shadow State 38Secret Societies 22; Grooming Technocrats @ 55:34
Otto Skorzeny operated_in
Hungary host_asserted
“Once again, Skorzeny had proven his superior methods of war. Quote, there are times when a million men can be saved by the removal of a single object. Obstacle, sorry. So I had to remove one man to save a million, unquote. After his success…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 1:15:41
Walker Kistler "Jack" Ulmer operated_in
Hungary host_asserted
“Very, very interesting. It also said that he spent some time in the Balkans and Hungary and Yugoslavia, which, again, is very interesting because they all ended up with stay behind units, too. So very, very interesting. Miles, go ahead. Col…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 1:16:04
Robert Amory Jr. carried_out_attack
Hungary documented
“Democrats. Amory had already seen the depths of failure. Hungary, several years into his watch, had affected Amory deeply. In atonement, he and his wife Mary subsequently sponsored a Hungarian refugee into the United States. Let me get SR u…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 7:32
Miklós Horthy headed
Hungary documented
“destruction of property enforcing Czech citizens into the Hungarian army, according to U.S. diplomatic report. The Czechoslovakians also brought charges against Horthy, but Horthy, as will be seen, was not an ordinary war criminal. Horthy h…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12B @ 40:46
Robert Amory Jr. carried_out_attack
Hungary documented
“He also had a lot more experience with invasions than anyone involved in the Cuba Project. In World War II, Amory had been a landing craft operator, finishing the war as a colonel in charge of a whole regiment of vessels. A veteran of 26 as…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 8:03
Adolf Hitler ordered_assassination_of
Hungary book_quoted
“In October 1944, Hitler ordered a Nazi takeover of the government in Budapest and they began again. In the final months of the war, the U.S. and British finally opened a second front in the war and Hitler's forces were caught in a vice betw…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 36:59
CIA attempted_coup_against
Hungary host_asserted
“to help the Hungarian crisis, because remember where we left that is that they had basically rebelled, thinking that the West, specifically the U.S. and Britain, would come to their aid and free them if they began a civil war against the So…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 4:29
Radio Free Europe carried_out_attack
Hungary documented
“Demanding a new government under Nagy, a previously purged Hungarian. Reinstalled as premier, Nagy's opponents continue to control the party. Radio Free Europe broadcasts encourage Hungarians to press the Nagy regime on liberalization. Nagy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 51:28
Imre Nagy installed
Hungary documented
“Demanding a new government under Nagy, a previously purged Hungarian. Reinstalled as premier, Nagy's opponents continue to control the party. Radio Free Europe broadcasts encourage Hungarians to press the Nagy regime on liberalization. Nagy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 51:28
Soviet Union carried_out_attack
Hungary documented
“outraged citizens murdered members of security detachments but then 10 000 russian troops entered budapest within days streets were engulfed in dead bodies the story in cia lore is that officers in budapest scribbled reports lying on the fl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 53:30
Radio Free Europe carried_out_attack
Hungary documented
“no Radio Free Europe broadcast to Hungary before the revolution could be considered as inciting armed revolt and non-promised U.S. military intervention. Some Hungarian exiles on Radio Free Europe staff could not resist statements about Wes…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 53:59
Zoltan Thury carried_out_attack
Hungary documented
“Where are the Americans, he was asked. Where are the British? When are they coming? Everyone there thought there was going to be help. On November 4th, Radio Free Europe broadcaster Zoltan Thury commented, quote, in the Western capitals, a …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 55:27
Soviet Union carried_out_attack
Hungary documented
“appealing for U.S. help. Eisenhower ended the debate asserting that Hungary was inaccessible to us as Tibet. But Tibet didn't prove to be too inaccessible, did it? Because we went in there and put stay behind units in it. We even extracted …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 59:22
Richard Nixon spied_on
Hungary documented
“Budapest students weather Radio Free Europe in the Voice of America had encouraged the rebellion. They all said yes, but we didn't hear about that here. Almost 200,000 refugees made it to Austria. Casualty estimates range up to 30,000 dead …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:01:27
Dorothy Matlack spied_on
Hungary documented
“Army intelligence set up a debriefing center where interrogators led by Dorothy Matlack tried to find out all they could about the events. Never let a catastrophe go to waste. Eisenhower's decision affected the secret warriors' morale. The …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:02:38
BND operated_in
Hungary host_asserted
“So you have that link, and then Germany ends up with all these stay-behind units under Galen, and they're in all of the Axis countries, the Ukraine, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and they all have fascist people in charge of the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 1 @ 1:23:18
CIA carried_out_attack
Hungary host_asserted
“Talking about some elements of the CIA regretted not being able to act to help the Hungarian crisis, because remember where we left that is that they had basically rebelled, thinking that the West, specifically the U.S. and Britain, would c…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 4:30
MI6 supplied_arms_to
Hungary book_quoted
“out of line themselves by running guns through Hungary and Croatia to arm the anti-Muslim front during the Serbian crisis. This was to prove a significant factor in the turf war between the CIA and MI6 when we get to Greece, which led to th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 3 @ 10:38
BND operated_in
Hungary host_asserted
“occupation of Eastern Europe where, you know, Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, all of those. So they planted stay behind unit. They trained rebels. They armed them while it was the Nazis that were pushing into the Russian borderland. And those ar…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 7 @ 35:30
Azov Battalion supplied_arms_to
Hungary host_asserted
“Ukrainian insurgent army leadership returned to the old enemy, the Soviet Union. They began making plans to share weapons and information with nationalist guerrillas in Belarus, Croatia, Romania, and Hungary. And keep in mind, those people …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 3 @ 33:17
BND carried_out_attack
Hungary book_quoted
“which was affiliated with the Spanish Foreign Ministry and had excellent financial and publishing resources at its command. So they're going to begin working with Albania, Hungary and Poland, as well as Slovakia. And weirdly enough, that's …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 42:03
Alfonso Taft Ambassador to Austria-Hungary and Russia about
Hungary structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Alfonso Taft Ambassador to Austria-Hungary and Russia' is a work/event about 'Hungary'…”
Alfred Ulmer carried_out_attack
Hungary host_asserted
“And Italy and Austria during the time that he would have been there in the late 40s and early 50s were all part of Operation Gladio. And then, of course, we just mentioned his excursion over into Greece as well. So very, very interesting. I…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 1:15:37
Mentions (120)
▶ 1:02:31
Every time he conquered a new country, whether it was Czechoslovakia or Hungary or Romania or Ukraine or whatever. Well, there wasn't Ukraine, but all of those. Poland, another example. He just picked up whatever communication device they h…
▶ 48:58
Right. And they're waving their rainbow freaking flags and they want to groom children and, you know, they want to, you know, sanction Russia and yada yada, blah, blah. Right. And of course, Georgians don't want to do that. They want to be …
▶ 49:49
So I find the timing extremely interesting that Newland is all of a sudden picking up and waving the NED flag. So let's see where that son of a bitch goes. Because, you know, she's evil. And isn't Moldovian the country that has that element…
▶ 50:20
Because that whole area, don't forget, guys, was broken up after World War I. That was part of the strategy of tension and creating chaos in that area was to break up and change borders. And Moldova was part of that. So there's a lot of Hun…
▶ 19:49
via diplomatic cable from London, Gromick suspected that the pouches that the British couriers were transporting were being opened, thus submitted an unopened pouch for the FBI investigation, confirming that the pouch had been opened and re…
▶ 20:18
both before and after World War II. During the war, they focused on gathering intel on battle information, and one of the admirals from Hungary's attempt to remove Hungary from the war. After the war in 1946, James McGarger became a case of…
▶ 20:48
on the communist takeover. His work led to an exfiltration of 75 anti-communist. But let me tell you, in researching this part of this, many of the people, when they call them anti-communist political leaders, if you guys are following the …
▶ 20:13
still 300 miles inside the Reich. Or Annie would send housewives raiding grocery stores by reporting that the Allies had dropped fake ration stamps. Once the station described a celebration honoring German railroads, most of them slave labo…
▶ 26:58
two other Walkers that were members of Skull and Bones a little bit later. And those would have been, double check the names. George Herbert Walker Jr. was a Bonesman in 1927. He was the one who would end up founding the New York Mets. And …
▶ 2:18:23
some podunk little gun club, and then you flood that gun club with FBI agents and they start telling you the plan. That is completely different than George Soros, who's destroyed Hungary, the UK pound. He didn't get duped into anything. He …
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There he met more than 100 delegates from across the East and Southeast Asia, as well as a few exiled anti-communists from Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine and Hungary. And the ones from Ukraine, by the way, is Stetsko, the terrorist. P…
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The failed Hungarian Revolution in 1956 indicated that ordinary people across Eastern Europe were now ready to pick up arms and liberate their nations from the quote-unquote Soviet rule. Others speculated that widespread suffering in commun…
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Ukrainian insurgent army leadership returned to the old enemy, the Soviet Union. They began making plans to share weapons and information with nationalist guerrillas in Belarus, Croatia, Romania, and Hungary. And keep in mind, those people …
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The war still raging in Eastern Europe, however, made the collaboration between the underground forces very difficult. This notion of a joint revolutionary struggle persisted in the minds of the anti-Soviet partisans as they fled to West Ge…
▶ 44:46
So maybe this guy didn't get that memo. I don't know. The ABN leaders also glimpsed American weakness in the U.S. in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, when the Hungarian government tried to create a multi-party democracy and withdraw from t…
▶ 45:17
For years, Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles had suggested that they would do exactly that, you know, kind of like what they did with the Kurds and left them high and dry. Same thing. Stoking anti-Soviet sentiment in Hungary through broadca…
▶ 20:25
tens of thousands of these OUMN members moved to Canada, Australia, and the U.S. during the Cold War, where they became sort of like this Ukrainian think tank. And they were also alive with all the other fascist collaborators through this p…
▶ 1:21:23
they have in Eastern Europe is very much this sort of, you know, the West is superior. And they think that the Europe, just because Ukraine is to the West of Russia, that doesn't mean it's in Western Europe. I mean, there's still like all t…
▶ 8:38
When they would have these meetings and they would decide, okay, we're going to basically screw up Yugoslavia or we're going to screw up and overthrow Hungary or we're going to screw up and overthrow XYZ country. He was the guy that went in…
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They talked about peace treaties for Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria that had participated in World War II. At the end of 1947, a conference ended with no accords at all. Even negotiations for a peace treaty with Austria was broken off by Ma…
▶ 1:02:03
presence in Eastern European nations rather than withdrawing. And after the peace treaties of Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, the Soviet troops stayed in place. Russian diplomats walked out of a meeting of the Foreign Council of Ministers. …
▶ 47:02
attacking democracy. That's exactly what they have done in Hungary, in Georgia, and every place else. Okay, united under Lopez, the opposition's most charismatic and prominent national figure, Volad Popular provided a political home to seve…
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They couldn't come in without registering. And you see that play over in Georgia. You saw that play out in Hungary. You saw that happen in Venezuela. And every single time that the countries stand up for themselves and their sovereignty, th…
▶ 59:54
Just go to Yandex and you search on Tiananmen Square and paramilitary CIA. It will turn up a whole bunch of articles. Well, the interesting fact is that, do you know what country banned George Soros first? Besides Hungary? It was China. Yea…
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to help the Hungarian crisis, because remember where we left that is that they had basically rebelled, thinking that the West, specifically the U.S. and Britain, would come to their aid and free them if they began a civil war against the So…
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He would eventually die of cancer in 1959, and the continuing crisis that followed Hungary took a great toll on him. One of the new plans originating in the months before the Suez, a CIA contract officer assigned for purposes of cover to th…
▶ 1:15:37
And Italy and Austria during the time that he would have been there in the late 40s and early 50s were all part of Operation Gladio. And then, of course, we just mentioned his excursion over into Greece as well. So very, very interesting. I…
▶ 28:43
Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, all of those. So they planted stay behind unit. They trained rebels. They armed them while it was the Nazis that were pushing into the Russian borderland. And those arms and the trained people, many of which were …
▶ 50:49
But army leaders continued to balk at the organization of an Eastern European unit modified special forces program in order basically to do overt stay-behind capability. A guy by the name of Harry Heckscher, H-E-C-K-S-H-E-R, he was the CIA'…
▶ 55:09
Just like NATO. It was not a European NATO only. It was NATO overall. So that kind of gets us to the end of the chapter. It does talk a little bit about the setting up of Radio Free Europe in 1953 as a part of this. Operation Veto, which wa…
▶ 55:40
And basically how in Hungary they had the rising up to throw the Soviets off. And we basically left them out in the cold. We basically ignored the fact that there was people that wanted freedom there and allowed the Soviets to take back ove…
▶ 56:10
If you were to go back and look at where all of this stuff happened, it definitely was financial. If you go to Vietnam, where you have the drugs and the rubber plantations that the French had created, very much a financial situation. If you…
▶ 1:12:52
I think Galen sold the idea to Alan Dulles that they had enough. All right. I'm thinking the best way to say that. So when Alan Dulles and Galen made the arrangement of saving Galen because he had all of these stay-behind units throughout R…
▶ 1:14:18
viewed all of those stay-behinds as a meticulous rooting out. And those, by the way, those stay-behind guys, they skin people alive. The local citizens didn't like them. That's not what you're told today because we want to make the Soviets …
▶ 57:10
CIA when Eisenhower took no action during the Hungarian revolt. The unconventional warfare experts also smarted from their encounters with army bureaucracy, which banned the wearing of special forces headgear the green beret. Dedication was…
▶ 1:11:53
Every single time they inserted a unit back into Ukraine, they were decimated. The same thing happened to Ukraine that happened in Hungary, that happened in Albania, that happened in Poland. They would just like literally kill them as soon …
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In the speech, the speech became an important lever of Cold War. Here, the leader of Russia, the Soviet Union, admitted flaws in Stalin's leadership. The speech even discussed Stalin's personal intervention in the affair in Hungary and Yugo…
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of broadcast through Radio Free Europe, it had moved ahead to special targeted initiatives. Operation Veto, inaugurated in early 54, encouraged long-term resistance in the Soviet areas, especially Hungary. Operation Focus succeeded Veto. Bo…
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The CIA radio being broadcast into Hungary 20 hours a day over Voice of Free Hungary. They also dropped tons of leaflets. It had a major role. By this time, Radio Free Europe had a substantial capacity to exploit Khrushchev's words. Surveys…
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while only 20% had gotten a leaflet. According to the CIA's own post-mortem, in the four months between publication of the secret speech and the Hungarian revolution, radio-free Europe was non-stop. There were also riots in Poland in reacti…
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Khrushchev also went to Yugoslavia, where his talks led to a declaration that there were multiple roads to socialism. This, too, was featured on Radio Free Europe. That news electrified Hungary. The CIA knew it had a problem. Eisenhower's d…
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Far East Division. He had then headed stations in Athens and Vienna and had an idea of the enormity of the situation. The two men could only scratch their heads in frustration. Some sources maintain Wisner maintained possible arms shipments…
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Others note a private meeting where Foster Dulles overruled his diplomatic experts and his brother Allen, who advised having U.S. forces hold military maneuvers in Austria. Nothing like using the military. The White House records show this …
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Demanding a new government under Nagy, a previously purged Hungarian. Reinstalled as premier, Nagy's opponents continue to control the party. Radio Free Europe broadcasts encourage Hungarians to press the Nagy regime on liberalization. Nagy…
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Agency psychological warfare expert Cord Meyer, who had supervised Radio Free Europe since 1954, awakened the morning of October 24th to a phone call from Dulles, who ordered him to the headquarters immediately. All hell has broken loose in…
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They produced no new ideas. Mac Carger brought in a former senior Hungarian politician and sent him to Vienna to contact people at home. But that resulted in little information. Wisner proceeded to Germany. Tracy Barnes found the DO staff s…
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outraged citizens murdered members of security detachments but then 10 000 russian troops entered budapest within days streets were engulfed in dead bodies the story in cia lore is that officers in budapest scribbled reports lying on the fl…
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no Radio Free Europe broadcast to Hungary before the revolution could be considered as inciting armed revolt and non-promised U.S. military intervention. Some Hungarian exiles on Radio Free Europe staff could not resist statements about Wes…
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noted that on October 27th, the broadcast said, fairly clearly implies that foreign aid will be forthcoming if resistant forces succeed in establishing a central authority, unquote. The next day, there was an announcement on the air, quote,…
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On October 30th, it was said, Nagy has not enough Hungarian blood to reign, unquote. On Radio Budapest, Nagy appealed for outside help. Jeffrey Blythe, Budapest correspondence for the London Daily Mail, encountered a large crowd of Hungaria…
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Where are the Americans, he was asked. Where are the British? When are they coming? Everyone there thought there was going to be help. On November 4th, Radio Free Europe broadcaster Zoltan Thury commented, quote, in the Western capitals, a …
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the worst break of all in the radio's policy. Though Thury's daughter, Eva, later countered that Griffith himself had set the policy for Radio Free Europe Hungarians and that on November 4th and over the following days, he made himself scar…
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in poor health during this period, who had delegated virtually all his script approvals to others, among them subordinates who practically never attended a single staff meeting. Sig Mickelson, a president of Radio Free Committee and foremos…
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And his assessment is there was excess exuberance. Lawrence D. Neufeld, formerly CIA's man on the production of the movie called Animal Farm, had been with Radio Free Europe since 1954. D. Neufeld termed the entire guidance exercise a sham …
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They had never even been translated into English for approval. The Russians withdrew temporarily at the end of October, but surged back not long after on a full-scale offensive. Griffith mentioned that the withdrawal on October 28th. Notes …
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russian's ambassador to budapest canceled that possibility griffith's report was overtaken by events assistance to the rebels became an immediate question at cia as it had been in the eastern berlin episode the crisis caught the directorate…
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medical units to Hungary, which of course would not have been medical units, amounted to an unfeasible proposition. The military risk to Western Europe from an intervention had not changed since 1953. The president's answer had to be the sa…
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appealing for U.S. help. Eisenhower ended the debate asserting that Hungary was inaccessible to us as Tibet. But Tibet didn't prove to be too inaccessible, did it? Because we went in there and put stay behind units in it. We even extracted …
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and 2,500 armored vehicles, reconquering Budapest by November 8th. Eisenhower administration, meanwhile, largely diverted by the unfolding Anglo-French intervention at Suez, had less and less time to even deal with the Hungary situation. It…
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His deputy chief of station at Vienna, Pierre de Salva, saw little to do. Events moved too fast for the CIA. Station officers like William B. Hood, an espionage specialist, and John Mapother, a political action man, looked on in horror. The…
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Accounts by former CIA officers suggest the agency people in Hungary were caught up in the events of the rebellion and barely escaped across the Austrian border. Vice President Richard Nixon and former OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan, like Wisn…
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Helms had met Nixon as far back as the Hungarian uprising when he briefed the vice president before Nixon's trip to Austria. They did not cross paths again until now. Helms had no illusion. Reappointment, he writes, quote, did not shake any…
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knowing that Iran-Contra is hanging out there in the wind. So they're claiming credit for this sudden shift in the Soviet Union. East Germans began escaping to the West through Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Efforts were made to seal Eastern G…
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They had brought down the Soviet Union. They credited, of course, their success in Afghanistan for doing that. Over the next months, the communist government of Eastern Europe were swept away. Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Roma…
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Political action is also a wild card in the sense that the activities begun for stipulated purposes may get out of control. This occurred in both East Germany in 1953 and Hungary in 1956, where basically they were undermining the government…
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Kellogg, Brown, and Root contractors were dispatched to Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, Hungary, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Somalia, Zaire, Haiti, a large swath of Southwest Asia, all to support U.S. Army operations. The Balkans, on the wh…
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During another meeting with Dulles in April of 44, Colby handed over a thick file of Nazi cables revealing the Hungarian Jews who had remained were about to be rounded up and deported to the labor camp, death camps in Germany. Dulles' repor…
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that he had discussed with Colby. Underground communist organizing seemed to be gaining strength in Germany as the Nazi war effort faltered. Colby had informed the U.S. agent. This was the emergency that Dulles thought FDR needed to hear ab…
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One German cable reported that 120 Jews in Budapest, including children considered unfit for work, would soon be taken to a quote-unquote labor service. The Nazis were always very careful to use labor service in their communication, meaning…
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He would later say that he was shocked. Dulles' concern clearly convinced the British reporter that something would be done. But in fact, Dulles had begun receiving reports about this type of thing two years earlier, before he had even left…
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in Geneva and a group of students he recruited to make 50 copies of the report. The eyewitness account of life and death inside Auschwitz finally broke into the Swiss press and was then picked up by the New York Times and the BBC. In the up…
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told Gowan that he was working on a hot scoop and that Gowan was at the center of it. Pearson was going to report that a fugitive from war crimes charges in Hungary, where he had worked as an anti-Semitic propagandist for a fascist Arrow Cr…
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There was some truth to Pearson's report. Gowan did indeed know who he was from his days in Rome when he had used the Hungarian as an informer to help track down Croatian fugitive Ante Pavelac. He was the fascist leader to the Ustasi moveme…
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Hungary, all of those areas. That was Frank Wisner's area of expertise. But it was Gowan that was going to take the fall for the escapade. It did not take him long to figure out who was responsible for setting him up. Pearson had been fed t…
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She was released into the custody of Soviet secret police officials who apologized and offered her money and then took her to East Berlin, where she was put in a taxi over to the west side. She walked to freedom through the same Brandenburg…
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I've seen it documented in several books, suggests that at least one or two of those white Russians was actually not anti-communist. And their involvement in Galen's organization is what thwarted many of the CIA operations in Eastern Europe…
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and serious attempts at revolution exploded in Berlin and Budapest. Nations such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia that had long been subordinate territories of old regimes could see independence. Existing countries wanted their borders redr…
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was the Secretary of State. When the 1919 Communist Revolution broke out in Budapest, Hungary, for example, Dulles' recommendations for measures to isolate the Hungarian Revolution from Russia and prevent its spread to neighboring countries…
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send U.S. gunboats to control the situation in Budapest, encourage the Czechs, Romanians, French, and Slovakians, each of whom had territorial claims against Hungary, to seize Hungarian rail lines, mountain passes, and other strategic point…
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counter-revolutionary government and begin aid and propaganda measures to sure this up. As things turned out, Wilson did not send gunboats to Budapest, but the Czechs and Romanians did indeed invade Hungary, and with their help, Hungarian A…
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helped push the conferences at Paris towards a more accommodating settlement for the new German government. The Paris Peace Conference broached the issue of war crimes in its first official act. It created a Commission on the Responsibility…
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Hearst was attempting to gain for the group a new authority and vigor. No longer would it be possible for the Foreign Office and State Department to use the existence to claim they were doing something while not doing anything at all. His d…
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had long since made preparations for killing Jewish people. Yet its government had generally held back from mass murder, much to the dismay of the Nazis. In March, the Germans deposed the existing regime and installed a more compliant gover…
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Worse, they formally declared in secret decisions that the perpetrators of this crime were to remain immune from prosecution for what they were doing. Lord Simon of the British War Department opposed any investigation into the Hungarian dep…
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On the legal front, Morgenthau strongly backed Pell's insistence that Nazis must be punished for crimes against Axis civilians and that tough immediate action be taken immediately to rescue Hungarian Jews that were on their way to Auschwitz…
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requests for new instructions by which he meant a reversal of the state's veto of prosecution of Nazis for crimes against the prison population of Germany, Austria, and Hungary. Green Hackworth ignored him as well. But the situation was bec…
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because evidence going back to 1933 could be presented even though the prosecution was seeking convictions of acts only after 1939. It also permitted prosecutors to present evidence of Nazi atrocities against Axis nationals, such as German …
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The Vatican proposal would give U.S. and British forces control of a strategically important port in Trieste on the border of Italy and Yugoslavia. This position would permit them to rapidly enter Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Austria so that th…
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repeatedly reached secret verdicts that they believed necessary to construct the post-war Germany. As early as the summer of 1945, Murphy was willing to defy U.S. treaty obligations concerning high-ranking Nazis and Axis collaborators when …
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who had been a royal regent of Hungary and supreme commander of Hungarian armed forces during the years of alliance with the Nazi Germany. Horthy also shared personal responsibility for establishing the Hungarian race laws and the persecuti…
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during Horthy's regime, and they felt justified in bringing formal charges against him at the War Crimes Tribunal. According to their agreements with the U.S., they seemed to have legal authority to prosecute him even in a Yugoslav court. T…
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September 25, 1945, declared the ex-regent Horthy a war criminal. President Masaryk took a serious view of Horthy's activities, characterizing them as aggression and invasion of Czechoslovakia, persecution, responsible for cruelties, ill tr…
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According to U.S. diplomatic report, the Czechoslovakians also brought charges against Horthy. But Horthy, as will be seen, was not an ordinary war criminal. Horthy had led the establishment of a Catholic monarchist state in Hungary after s…
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had been the centerpiece of Alan Dulles' recommendations to President Woodrow Wilson during the young diplomat's days as chief of the U.S. political intelligence for Central Europe. Horthy had emerged as something like a grand old man of Hu…
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They convinced themselves that Horthy had been quote-unquote forced to join the Axis. Horthy had always been a militarist in the mold of a Spain's Franco or Portuguese Salazar. In other words, he's a fascist. He preferred political and econ…
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worried about Horthy's loyalty to him, so the Germans deposed him, installed a more compliant regime, and swept away hundreds of thousands of Hungarians to death camps. The U.S. Army captured Horthy during the summer of 1945 and interned hi…
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After his arrival, U.S. political advisor Murphy sought Washington's approval for Horthy's release. Legal advisors Green-Hackworth agreed, provided the Soviet Union did not formally object. The Soviets said nothing. Murphy wished to offer H…
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regime sympathetic to the U.S. In other words, he was controlled by America. The U.S. ambassador to Budapest, Rudolf Schoenfeld, believed that Hungary's post-war government in 1945 would secretly agree to this, providing that it did not do …
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Officially, the former regent was supposed to notify US authorities if he moved, but other than that, he was free to do as he chose. Robert Murphy and the US ambassador to Hungary worked to clear Horthy's petition for permission to immigrat…
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and should be permitted to keep Austria and several other territories that Hitler had already claimed. Dulles did not seem too attached to the Czechoslovakian question. The notes continued. He favored enlargement of Poland eastward into the…
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In 1936, Roosevelt named Pell vice chairman of the DNC committee. After the victory, Roosevelt appointed Pell to sensitive ambassadorial posts in Portugal and later Hungary. FDR's conflicts with the Foreign Service dated back to the first d…
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Equally important, strong public action by the Wartime Commission during the war would almost certainly arouse further demands from citizens of the Allied countries for substantial action against Nazi crimes. R. Borden Rehm's fear of such a…
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The three allied foreign ministers reached new agreements on the terms of U.S.-British and Soviet alliance against Germany and on joint allied policy for post-war Europe. The foreign ministers announced their joint resolution in Moscow's de…
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states virtually unlimited authority over their own population. Jewish people and so-called stateless refugees in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Romania enjoyed no real protection under existing international law from persecution by …
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And it says the New York Times was to use part of the poster campaign to illustrate an article on communist domination in Hungary. The VFF, aware of the obvious associative imagery, preferred to keep only the blank silhouettes in order to d…
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Hungarians, Polish, Czechoslovakians, their ambassadors, deputies, other government officials were expelled, kicked out of those countries when most of them fled. When after World War II, those areas were basically, for all intents and purp…
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So they obviously became prized commodities because in this, quote unquote, anti-communist push to retake what they had just given to the Soviet Union. It kind of I say that kind of flippantly because they really weren't interested in the u…
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people that wanted their freedom in Hungary and basically staged a revolution there and the U.S. wouldn't help them. Nobody in NATO would help them. And so that tells you everything that you need to know about the fact that this entire thin…
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In November 1947, under the chairmanship of Monsir Bela Varga, V-A-R-G-A, the Hungarian National Committee was established, followed by a Romanian one. And then a Council of Free Czechoslovakia was organized in 49. Also, an Albanian one was…
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ACEN, Assembly of Captive European Nations. ACEN brought together all of these organizations, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. They also provided representatives to participate in …
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So it was going to basically be functioned like as a UN, but only for those countries. As it ends up, this ASIN organization is how they got the quote-unquote intel to do all of the insertions into Albania, Hungary, Romania. And you guys re…
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as well as concerns about the dramatic events in Eastern Europe. Along with the Suez Canal in the Middle East, this was the area where developments could unexpectedly erupt. Political analysis of the State Department noted that workers' rio…
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And let's see. So there was the Geneva conference in 1955 had brought together representatives of the Soviet Union and the U.S. And for the first time since World War II, there seemed to be discussions happening. However, what happens right…
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which was affiliated with the Spanish Foreign Ministry and had excellent financial and publishing resources at its command. So they're going to begin working with Albania, Hungary and Poland, as well as Slovakia. And weirdly enough, that's …
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Ukraine, Orange Revolution, the 2008 Tibet riots, the Arab Spring of 2011 to today, all have been done by this group of very select, quote-unquote, democracy NGOs. Little wonder that countries like Russia and China or Hungary act to ban the…
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And there's another guy by the name of Draper III, who was the chair of the United Nations Developmental Program. When I say United Nations Development Program, what do you think of? For me, it's regime change. Yeah, it's one of these NGOs …
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bones been class of 1953 would end up being the u.s ambassador to hungary which is kind of impressive and your first one would have been the brother of dorothy walker the brother-in-law of prescott bush perfect so you're right prescott is r…
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In countries like Bulgaria that was known as the weapons trafficking haven for Operation Gladio, in Romania, Hungary, Poland, all of these, the West went in with the upgrading of electrification, the railroads.…
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It's founded in 1991. They promote open societies. I mean, it's on their motto, talking about open societies. The university actually got kicked out of Budapest, Hungary in 2017 by the Hungarian government because they didn't like what they…
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And we were just trying to overthrow Azerbaijani too. Yeah, that's right. Oh, look, let's do that. Let's go through these countries and see how many of them have had it. We got a Romanian going on right now. Yes. Estonia, Hungary, Azerbaija…