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Julian Lahant person

also: Lahant, Le Hant, Lahat

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Belgiumcountry · 2Leopold IIperson · 2Congocountry · 1United Statescountry · 1West Germanycountry · 1Belgian Communist Partyorganization · 1

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Julian Lahant member_of Belgian Communist Party host_asserted
“and was obviously labeled a communist. And after he was arrested by the Germans, Lahant had spent the war in captivity. And upon his liberation in 1945, was basically appointed as honorary president of the Belgium communist. Lahant openly a…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 22:02
Parker ordered_assassination_of Julian Lahant speculative
“the Leopoldist agitation, he insisted also on the formation of stay-behind groups to assure anti-communist resistance. So Parker evidently was placed in Belgium to ensure, in the U.S. Embassy, to ensure compliance with the NATO dictate that…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 23:53

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Operation Gladio - Belgium
▶ 21:30 place. And again, they're workers' rights people, not necessarily communists as you and I would think of them. So Belgium had, let's see, a guy by the name of Julian Lahant was a charismatic leader that was very vocal about workers' rights.…
Operation Gladio - Belgium
▶ 22:02 and was obviously labeled a communist. And after he was arrested by the Germans, Lahant had spent the war in captivity. And upon his liberation in 1945, was basically appointed as honorary president of the Belgium communist. Lahant openly a…
Operation Gladio - Belgium
▶ 24:22 the embassy that he was either a military attache on active duty or he was a member of the CIA, because both of those had a lot of involvement in the stay-behind units. When the king returned to Belgium in August 1950 and was taking his oat…
Operation Gladio - Belgium
▶ 24:49 Many on the Belgium right considered this to have been an unforgivable action and feared that he might radically alter the established system. Now, think about that for just a second. The guy that they're labeling the communist is saying lo…
Operation Gladio - Belgium
▶ 25:20 Lahat dead in front of his house. The assassination left large parts of the Belgian society in shock. And it was alleged at the time that this clandestine network that had already been in place as a result of the war is the one that carried…