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Byron Engle funded
Ghana documented
“$1.75 million program in 56. That's a ton of money to, quote, train their police in Ghana. And oh, by the way, don't forget what we learned a long time ago. The Office of Public Safety also used the Los Fresnos, Texas.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 1:09:10
U.S. State Department financed_via
Ghana book_quoted
“that a sharp note of protest was sent to the author and the $25 million aid to Ghana was promptly canceled as a result of writing this book. So you know I want this book. Do you know that a hardcover copy of this book is $2,600? That's how …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke @ 1:47:42
CIA paid
Ghana host_asserted
“nevertheless was enraged by the CIA's high-level decision not to permit the raid on the Chinese embassy. At the time, the Peking government owned only embassy in Africa. They didn't have the guts to do it, he later said. After the coup, the…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966 @ 36:15
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Ghana host_asserted
“The historical record in Liberia and elsewhere leads African to believe otherwise. It has been widely alleged that the CIA supported regime change in nations like Ghana and the Congo. And other people have written about U.S. covert and over…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 46:59
Maurice Tempelsman attempted_coup_against
Ghana host_asserted
“And then all of these international syndicates go in there and exploit all of that crap when they're the ones that funded the initial point paper for Congress to use as their bullshit excuse for doing what they're doing, because they're goi…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 14:36
Thomas Sankara traded_network_to
Ghana host_asserted
“And Ghana Economic Union with a new currency that would end the dependence on the French franc. That really was his death sentence. He basically was doing a mini African community, which later would then expand with Gaddafi's support into a…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 32:08
East India Company financed_via
Ghana host_asserted
“But we've always used currency as a mechanism. So we flooded Ghana with these agra beads, these fake agra beads that were made of glass. It destroyed the currency, inflated it into economic ruin. We stole all the gold. And then that was the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 1:27:56
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Ghana host_asserted
“The U.S. had been forced to end collaboration with Niger on its counterterrorism efforts in accordance with the rule, American rules that prohibited partnerships with military juntas. To make up for the potential, quote unquote, loss of Nig…”
▶ Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin @ 15:35
Kwame Nkrumah overthrew
Ghana host_asserted
“A-T-T-A-R-A, who brutally suppressed demonstrations over rigged 2020 elections and has sustained his power further by inciting ethnic violence, which of course is their standard go-to. Ghana, meanwhile, is headed by the son of a national tr…”
▶ Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin @ 25:54
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peninsula that sticks down and then it has the big bend in it that goes out to the west, it reminds you a lot of the state of Florida. So as you go down the peninsula, you have Equatorial Guinea, you have Angola down there, and then at the …
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Togo, Ghana, and basically the coast of Ivory is. You have just north of Ghana, Burkina Faso. So, easy for you to say. It has many neighbors. To the north and most of the west is Mali. It kind of goes across the northern border and swoops d…
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He basically took heritable farmland and gave it to the people so that they could basically like an Allende. Of course, he ended up dead, as did the guy in Guatemala. I mean, in Nicaragua. Only 37 at the time of his death, he broke the powe…
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Mobutu, who is a CIA stooge, to arrest him too. Gazinga was in fact arrested shortly after Mobutu took power, but a UN contingent from Ghana, whose leader was an ally of Lumamba, intervened and freed him. In the continuous musical cheer gam…
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provide compelling new evidence of the U.S. government in the 1966 overthrow of the Ghana president Kwame Nkrumah. And I'm going to spell this for you guys. K-W-A-M-E. And his last name is N-K-R-U-M-A-H. The coup d'etat organized by army of…
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and its ongoing official history of American foreign policy. This was prepared by the State Department's Office of Historian. The latest volumes reflect the overt diplomacy and covert actions of LBJ's administration from 1964 to 1968. Thoug…
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was lacking until 1978 when anecdotal evidence was provided from an unlikely source, a former CIA case officer, John Stockwell, who reported firsthand testimony in his memoirs in search of enemies, a CIA story. The inside story came to me, …
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Stockwell was stationed one country away in Ivory Coast. Subsequent investigations by the New York Times and Covert Action Information Bulletin identified the station chief as Howard Baines, B-A-N-E-S, who operated undercover as a political…
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was handled as Stockdale related. The Ghana station was encouraged by headquarters to maintain contact with dissidents in the Ghanaian army for the purpose of gathering intelligence on their activities. It was given a generous budget and ma…
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was the station's involvement that it was able to coordinate the recovery of some classified Soviet military equipment by the U.S. as the coup took place. According to Stocksdale, Bain's sense of initiative knew no bounds. The station even …
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kill everyone inside, steal all of their secrets, and blow up the building to cover up the fact that they had done it. Though the proposal was squashed inside the CIA headquarters in Ghana, they were given full, if not unofficial, credit fo…
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While the newly released documents written by the National Security Council staffer and an unnamed CIA officer confirmed the essential outlines set forth in what Stockdale said, they also provided additional and chilling details about the U…
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the U.S. ambassador in Ghana, participated in a candid discussion in Washington with CIA Director John McCone and the Deputy Chief of the CIA Africa Division, whose name has been withheld. Significantly, the African Division was part of the…
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Topic one was the coup in Ghana. While Mahoney was satisfied that popular opinion was running strong against Kruma and the economy of the country was in a precarious state because of, you know, they do economic espionage against them as wel…
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Mahoney again correctly forecast the future. Ambassador Mahoney stated that initially, at least, it would be a military takeover. But Mahoney was not a prophet. However, he represented the commitment of the U.S. government in coordination w…
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He felt that there was little chance that either the Chinese communists or the Soviets would, in adequate measure, come to his financial rescue. The British would continue to adopt a hard-nosed attitude in denying Ghana aid. At the same tim…
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interagency sanctioned by the White House and supervised by the State Department CIA, but also intergovernmental, meaning that they were using other NATO countries to orchestrate the coup. FYI, he advised, we may have a pro-Western coup in …
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economic conditions may provide the spark because that's the entire intent. Every single one of these coups has been preceded by economic blackmail. They go hand in hand. The plotters are keeping us brief, he noted, and that the State Depar…
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It would be unreasonable to argue that the U.S. was not directly involved in the creation and increasing hostile conditions that favored a coup. You just weren't allowed to say it out loud. As it turned out, the coup did not occur for anoth…
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His assessment that Kruma and his successors was telling, quote, the coup in Ghana is another example of fortuitous windfall. Kruma was doing more to undermine our interests than any other black African. And in a reaction to his strongly pr…
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While I pull that up. OK, here it is. So this is a BBC article. And not only did it talk about during the same time frame, the Patrice Lumumba coup in 1961, but it mentions the overthrow of Kruma in Ghana. And I'll just read real quick what…
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was overthrown in a military coup in 1966 while he was out of the country. He later suspected that the U.S. had a role in his downfall, and in the 1978 book, former CIA officer John Stockwell backed that up. In Search of Enemies, he writes …
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CIA station, was nonetheless encouraged by headquarters to maintain contact with all the dissidents. It was given a generous budget to help patch the plot. He says that the CIA in Ghana got more involved and its operatives were given unoffi…
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William Bloom in his book, Killing Hope, has to say about Ghana as well. Some of this will be a little bit of a duplicate, but I definitely wanted to cover this. So in October of 1965, Kruma, the president of Ghana, published his famous Neo…
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In this book, Pruma accuses the CIA of being behind numerous setbacks and crises in Africa as well as Eastern Europe. He later wrote that the American government sent me a note of protest and promptly refused Ghana $35 million in aid. Four …
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unable, ultimately, to keep Ghana from falling under the way of the multinationalist corporations. When he attempted to lessen his country's dependence on the West by strengthening economic and military ties with other countries, to include…
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France and West Germany wanted him out. Those Ghana, Ghana Indians who carried out the coup suffered from no doubt that a move against him would be embraced by the Western powers. At the time of the coup, the Soviet pressed charges.…
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that the CIA had been involved. And in 1972, the Daily Telegraph, a conservative London paper, reported that by 1965, the capital, CIA station, had two scores of active operatives, meaning at least 24, contributing to largest among Presiden…
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The two scores. That's wrong. Never mind. Don't do math in public. It's a rule. By February 1966, the report continued. The CIA had its plans ready to end Kruma's regime. The patient and insidious work of the CIA station was fully rewarded.…
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The historical record in Liberia and elsewhere leads African to believe otherwise. It has been widely alleged that the CIA supported regime change in nations like Ghana and the Congo. And other people have written about U.S. covert and over…
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detailed outline of things that she had written. Did she produce any scholarly work other than her long-awaited dissertation? Did Anne Sotero work in Ghana and in Thailand? If so, during what years and for whom did she work? What scholarshi…
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Hold on just a second, Stellar. I just looked up this book that was a recommended book if you buy that other one that we were just talking about. It's called Neocolonialism, The Last Age of Imperialism. And this guy's name's like Kwame Karu…
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session by first looking at the map. And we're going to look at Ghana. We're going to look at Ivory Coast and Benin, B-E-N-I-N. And let me look these up or pull up my map. I already have it. All right. So we were yesterday in Liberia, which…
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southwest corner of the big bump out in western Africa. Again, we mentioned that these are former French colonies, and you go across over to the armpit of Africa. You start out with Liberia, then you have Ivory Coast, then you have Ghana, t…
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And then you run into Nigeria. And we have to talk about right north of Ghana is Burkina Faso, which is the one that we talked about. And also, we have to talk about Niger. Niger is just north of Nigeria. Niger goes all the way over to the …
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the Biden administration seeking to establish drone bases in Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Benin. And that was in discussion after the coup in Niger, which basically Niger, for those of you who are not keeping up, government got couped by a U.S.-…
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The U.S. had been forced to end collaboration with Niger on its counterterrorism efforts in accordance with the rule, American rules that prohibited partnerships with military juntas. To make up for the potential, quote unquote, loss of Nig…
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A-T-T-A-R-A, who brutally suppressed demonstrations over rigged 2020 elections and has sustained his power further by inciting ethnic violence, which of course is their standard go-to. Ghana, meanwhile, is headed by the son of a national tr…
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And then all of these international syndicates go in there and exploit all of that crap when they're the ones that funded the initial point paper for Congress to use as their bullshit excuse for doing what they're doing, because they're goi…
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Now, tomorrow, I kind of want to spend a little bit of time on the surrounding areas of Congo, because I think what we're going to find in looking at them, which they made mention of a couple of times here of Ghana and Uganda, is I think we…
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The trick that has always been used has actually been currency wars. If you go back to some of the earliest British Empire and European Empire operations, when the Brits wanted to infiltrate Ghana, they had a currency called an agrabid.…
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But we've always used currency as a mechanism. So we flooded Ghana with these agra beads, these fake agra beads that were made of glass. It destroyed the currency, inflated it into economic ruin. We stole all the gold. And then that was the…
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kept a very close relationship with Carter, which then provides you the other side of that story in that it wasn't random at all that they picked the Atlanta bank and that Jimmy Carter was in on it from the whole get-go. So that's both side…
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$1.75 million program in 56. That's a ton of money to, quote, train their police in Ghana. And oh, by the way, don't forget what we learned a long time ago. The Office of Public Safety also used the Los Fresnos, Texas.…
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which is during the Johnson administration. Actual withdrawal took 18 months. This did not end the activities in Africa, however. The station in Ghana is informally credited with assisting the overthrow of Kiwami Koruma during the year 1966…
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So as an American, I would have been paid with, let's just say the country was, I don't know, Ghana. And there was somebody over there threatening a U.S. company from the inside of the country. And so I would be hired on a USAID contract to…
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In the summer of 1964, Washington viewed Ghana's leader, Kwame Karuma, as a troublemaker as well. Again, these are all strongmen who are wanting, basically they're nationalists like Patrice Lumumba. They're all a problem for the CIA. The CI…
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a nationalist hero and first president of independent Ghana. Karuma had an uneasy relationship with the U.S., educated in missionary schools and also in America in the 30s and 40s. He was not a Moscow puppet, they determined. He had his own…
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Guyanaan politics, Ghana, sorry, had soured Karuma, who became increasingly agitated after multiple assassination attempts in 1962 and 64 because he had just watched Patrice Lumumba be assassinated in 1961. Imagine getting pissed off at the…
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he began to introduce press censorship and imprison anyone he viewed as an opponent after they tried to kill him. And this is what we talk about often in these stories. This is the blowback. Instead of reaching out to him and embracing him …
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and then the whole country goes to hell. And then we use that as an example of how they can't lead, and they're incompetent, and more people die. Ghana's economy went into deficit as prices for cocoa plunged. He attributed the hardship to b…
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for a dam in the upper Volta River and to develop new economic resources was hung out to try to get him to embrace America. He attributed the January 1964 assassination attempt to the CIA. The Johnson administration stepped carefully around…
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that the CIA was under full control and the CIA denied any involvement, which means absolutely nothing. In February 64, he sent Johnson a letter asserting that there were two conflicting establishments representing the US, the diplomatic mi…
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and impairing any good relations that could exist between the two governments. Johnson, in turn, reassured that both the CIA and his ambassador was on the same sheet of music. But Washington's record was not innocent. As early as February 6…
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the Ghana government. The two men speculated on the possibility of concocting a covert operation with MI6. When the State Department proposed an action program, it had the explicit purpose of thwarting any activity that the current presiden…
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recognizing his opponents and promoting them and using psychological warfare to diminish his support. Johnson deliberated on this program at the exact moment that the Ghana president sent his letter telling Johnson his CIA was trying to ass…
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And there were dated documents saying they were attempting to do exactly that. LBJ went ahead with the damn aid, but he may well have approved undermining the government as well. During a home visit in March of 1965, Ambassador Mahoney met …
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buying off police and senior military figures, including General Joseph Ankara, the same man McCone and Rusk had considered a year earlier. Evidence indicates that Ghana's military plans were well known to the CIA, which reported on them mo…
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who accurately foresaw that he would be replaced in a military junta within a year, and NSC staffer Robert Comer. And that summer, Karuma detected the coup plot and cashiered the general. The Ghana generals and their pathetic plot, more tha…
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Karuma strove for a role on the world stage, trying to be a peacemaker and end the Vietnam War. This more than anything else pissed Washington off, especially when he tried to intercede between the British and Guyana Chetty Jagan. He also m…
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Ghana leader published a book called Neocolonialism, The Last Stage of Imperialism. That raised everybody's eyebrows in Washington. Then came an overt move towards Moscow. He accepted Soviet arms and training for his presidential guard. Tha…
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And for eight months there, there was no U.S. ambassador. Station Chief Howard Bain, B-A-N-E, had him much freer hand. He proposed the CIA sponsor a coup. The views of African Division Chief Glenn Fields are not known. But he began, he was …
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Bain took advantage of his instructions to keep a close watch on Ghana military. With a complement of various case officers, at one point, there were 36 case officers. A few winks and a nod from Bain with U.S. support to Ghana soldiers with…
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headquarters was all supportive. But in mid-January of 1966, Bain reported that a rash of coups elsewhere in Africa had basically scared off the Ghana officers. And on February 17th, there was concrete indications of a plot called Operation…
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for a time when the president was out of the country. Karuma left Ghana on February 22nd. The coup occurred on the 24th. General Ankara was the head of the military junta that claimed power, which is the guy the CIA wanted. That coup suppos…
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including Don Winters, who stayed on as deputy chief, who had also served in Guatemala and Nicaragua under Somoza. New additions included Frederick Latrash, L-A-T-R-A-S-H. He was there posing as USAID. Another project success foot soldier w…
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would be a prelude to chaos. When the killing of Lumumba was finally announced, furious street protests swept the world. New Delhi, Warsaw, Tokyo, Lumumba's fellow leaders in the third world, including Egypt's Nasser and Naruma of Ghana, wh…
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Dulles and McCloy. After months of investigative wheel spinning, the panel would reach its foregone conclusion. Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president, case closed. When President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, one of the new Afric…