French Communist Party organization
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Claims (11)
Jay Lovestone member_of
French Communist Party documented
“Brown sent almost daily reports to Jay Lovestone, who ran F-Tuck from its headquarters in Washington, well, in the U.S. I want to say I looked that up and it was Washington. Lovestone was a person for whom, quote unquote, anti-communism was…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 16:59
Hoyt Vandenberg spied_on
French Communist Party book_quoted
“PCF in France, they could seize power whenever they wanted, which was not true. They did not have a majority. In discounting the possibility that a French government could be formed excluding them, Ambassador Caffrey asserts that the commun…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 36:57
Jefferson Caffery spied_on
French Communist Party book_quoted
“Week after week sent alarming reports to US President Truman in the White House. Washington and the US Secret Service were convinced that the PCF had to be attacked and defeated in a secret war. General Hoyt Vandenberg, who was the director…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 36:08
Plan Blue targeted_for_regime_change
French Communist Party host_asserted
“plan blue. It supposedly had the objective of keeping the PCF from coming to power. And basically one of the SAS officers said, quote, we are setting up a secret army, especially in the area of Bretagne, B-R-E-T-A-G-N-E.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 38:30
Operation Demagnetize targeted_for_regime_change
French Communist Party documented
“It detailed how political paramilitary and psychological operations shall be employed according to the directive in order to reduce the strength of the Communist Party in Italy and also in order to reduce the strength of the Communist Party…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 1:05:00
Earl Browder member_of
French Communist Party book_quoted
“Earl Browder, leader of the U.S. Communist Party, would anoint him a stupid child in the woods. That's the same Earl Browder in charge of the Communist Party that is a relative of Bill Browder, the guy who went and tried to fleece the Sovie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 30:34
Joseph Stalin targeted_for_regime_change
French Communist Party book_quoted
“But Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, did not encourage the PCF to follow any strategy at all. And let's see, he in many ways had tried to distance himself because he was still under the impression that they were going to be able to m…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 31:38
French Communist Party member_of
John Birch Society host_asserted
“that I've noticed over time is a lot of the people that were originally in the Communist Party of the USA all end up on what we now refer to as the far right, right? The National Review crowd, the John Birch Society, they all have ties to..…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 1:17:15
Walter Lippmann member_of
French Communist Party host_asserted
“The guy at Harvard who graduated in 2000, Walter Lippman, the famous media guy, was like, yeah, his buddy, I think, in the freshman year, I think, was John, you know, John Reed, whatever the guy, you know. Yeah, Reed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:36:29
Harry S. Truman founded
French Communist Party host_asserted
“Truman imposed a loyalty test on federal employees and created an extensive surveillance apparatus to go with it, which turned up few real security risk. He also shredded the Bill of Rights by unleashing a wave of prosecutions against Commu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 9:27
Charles de Gaulle member_of
French Communist Party host_asserted
“wanted to create a government that was integrated. And he was not in favor of the Communist Party. And again, you have to read everything with a grain of salt because it is at this very time that there is the effort, despite the fact that..…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 6:56
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▶ 6:56
wanted to create a government that was integrated. And he was not in favor of the Communist Party. And again, you have to read everything with a grain of salt because it is at this very time that there is the effort, despite the fact that..…
▶ 7:22
the communist Soviet Union had just fought alongside the allies to label everything communist and create the boogeyman effect where everything is going to, that they want to target and eliminate is going to be fashionably called a communist…
▶ 7:50
that represented communistic qualities and the labeling of it. So I'm just putting that out there as a cautionary tale. Do not take at face value something that is labeled a communist because you're living in a scenario today where our gove…
▶ 8:20
So those are kind of the cautions that when I'm suggesting that you do the research into these areas to fact check everything that we present to you, because I hope you do that. You just have to be very careful because I have had people com…
▶ 8:45
Did he believe in the government taking over all of the industries, or was he simply trying to get the industries out of the U.S. and the U.K. or colonial power oligarchs that were, like in the case of Iran, where they had a 86-14 split on …
▶ 9:35
Lumumba had told everybody he's perfectly fine with the U.S. getting all the uranium. He just didn't want to share the revenue with Belgium, who supposedly had just granted Belgium their freedom. You see that? So then the U.S. government, w…
▶ 11:02
effort was called Plan Blue, P-L-A-N-B-L-E-U. And that resulted in an attempted coup in 1947. And in 1949, the U.S. Embassy cabled the State Department in Washington, and it said the following, the fight…
▶ 11:29
To fight the danger of communism, France has organized cells of restrained but efficient policemen. Those were Gladio operators, by the way. And Italy is erecting such anti-communist police squads under the control of the interior minister …
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And from 1947, the SDECE continued to work in complete secrecy on the development of a clandestine, quote unquote, anti-communist army. And the fact that they labeled them anti-communist was done not necessarily just because they were afrai…
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They did that so that they justify, if the information ever became public, the fact that they had done so. And if they were truly anti-communist, why would you hide them? Wouldn't the people in your country feel so much more secure if, in f…
▶ 13:25
Why would you hide that? Why would you hide the fact that you're protecting your citizens? You wouldn't. For those reasons, I've come to realize that I don't know how much of this anti-communist was propaganda in order to get queasy governm…
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I have yet I've been doing this for almost a year to find one example where they actually use them to fight communists, because in each and every case, even in Italy with the Red Brigades, it was later found through court documents that mos…
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Ganser, G-A-N-S-E-R. I want to read you a couple of quotes from this book. First, the PCF, which is the French Communist Party, had gained prestige and a sort of moral preeminence for having spearheaded the resistance, meaning the resistanc…
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Its patriotic credentials were unchallenged. On the right, you had the Vichy collaborators in the military and powerful groups within the French business society most vehemently rejected the idea of seeing France coming under communist cont…
▶ 28:51
Most importantly, the U.S., as well as Great Britain, were strictly opposed to the PCF, whom they considered to be strongly dependent on Moscow, unquote. So unfortunately, the Communist Party in France was not dependent on Moscow at all. Th…
▶ 29:20
people that fought the hardest against Hitler's forces, where most of the Vichy government were collaborators with Hitler's government and never actually left the country. They did kind of coalesce in a particular area during the war and di…
▶ 29:47
Because for some reason, the Germans weren't interested in getting rid of him. So you see the the disconnect between the two opposing sides of that situation. He also says that the communist.…
▶ 30:14
party or the labor unions would probably be a better way of saying that the labor unions were against any CIA involvement in France at all. They didn't want to be part of NATO. They didn't want to have anything to do with NATO. And that, of…
▶ 30:40
as communist and taking action against them because of the way the CIA's charter is written. Their charter is written so that if the U.S. government designates you as a danger to our national security, they can run covert operations against…
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As it is in all countries of the Atlantic Alliance, the former CIA agent Philip Agee later commented on the secret Cold War in France. For nowhere in Western Europe, with the exception of Italy, were the Communists as strong as in France in…
▶ 31:38
But Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, did not encourage the PCF to follow any strategy at all. And let's see, he in many ways had tried to distance himself because he was still under the impression that they were going to be able to m…
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I'm reading where it says that Charles de Gaulle had made promises when he was first elected president in the aftermath of World War II that he would not have any of these labor-focused, quote-unquote, communists in his...…
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And he basically reneged on that promise. But Ganser says that he included two of them in his newly founded cabinet. And at the same time, in November 1944, was able to convince strong French communist resistant army to peacefully hand over…
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Which, of course, showed they did have elections and garnered, depending on where you were at, in some areas as high as 30% of the vote. They were still a minority, but there were votes for them. And that, again, scared the hell out of peop…
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coalition government if you're going to demonize someone. And that happened throughout South America. Anyone who tolerated any person who used the name communist was immediately discredited and couped. Because if you can show the ability to…
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So some even became active in the French Communist Party that was founded in 1920. The best known nationalist, of course, is Ho Chi Minh, and his original name is Nguyen Sen Khun, C-U-N-G.…
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served as a catalyst for Stalin's decision to consolidate control of Prague. By February 1948, a sort of constitutional coup had been carried out. Non-communist ministers in the Czech coalition government resigned to be replaced by represen…
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that I've noticed over time is a lot of the people that were originally in the Communist Party of the USA all end up on what we now refer to as the far right, right? The National Review crowd, the John Birch Society, they all have ties to..…
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So he insisted that guerrilla war dated back before the Russian Revolution. Guerrilla warfare, he said, quote, is not a form of military and psychological magic created by the communists, unquote. Rather, quote, we confront a guerrilla warf…
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the indigenous people. And these ugly communists keep getting in the way of these poor peasant people, not the CIA and installing military dictatorships. That doesn't get in the way at all. We have to support that. America's central task wa…
▶ 9:27
Truman imposed a loyalty test on federal employees and created an extensive surveillance apparatus to go with it, which turned up few real security risk. He also shredded the Bill of Rights by unleashing a wave of prosecutions against Commu…
▶ 1:31:15
And it was only in the 40s that they kind of transitioned into this post-World War II neocon armor. But their families were, they all touched on the young communist movement in the United States, the communist CPUSA, all of those things.…
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I find that fascinating when you think about the strategy of tension of creating both sides of different things. Some of the same people transition in their lifetime from being a member of the CPUSA eventually becoming the neocon element.…
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Dulles and Forrestal didn't wait for the report to be finished before taking action. In March of 1948, James Angleton flew back from Rome to meet with Dulles, warning his mentor that Italy's Communist Party was taking over. Seeing an opport…
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would frequent the Capitol's racially segregated theaters, where they sat with their black friends. The Fields also invited racially mixed people into their house. Although he did not join the Communist Party, Noel was intrigued by the Sovi…
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Earl Browder, leader of the U.S. Communist Party, would anoint him a stupid child in the woods. That's the same Earl Browder in charge of the Communist Party that is a relative of Bill Browder, the guy who went and tried to fleece the Sovie…
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where Orange Grove still dominated the landscape. As the congressional race heated up, it became clear to Nixon's wealthy supporters that they had backed the right man to unseat Boris. The Republican challenger ran a ruthless campaign, cutt…
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In fact, Boris had long battled against the Communist Party encroachment in liberal organizations and had even spearheaded a 1940 bill requiring the registration of political groups that affiliated with foreign powers, a law aimed at much o…
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They had been occupied by Germany, which was anti-communist too. So the parliament elections of October 1945, they had a Denmark communist party receive 18 seats out of 149. So basically, not a lot.…
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that the reason that there was a shift in vote was basically because of the repulsion that the residents in Denmark had to the occupation of Germany, and they associated that occupation with socialists, and that pushed people towards a part…
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Brown sent almost daily reports to Jay Lovestone, who ran F-Tuck from its headquarters in Washington, well, in the U.S. I want to say I looked that up and it was Washington. Lovestone was a person for whom, quote unquote, anti-communism was…
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of the U.S. Communist Party. We've come across him repeatedly. And keep in mind, I'm just going to pause here for a second, in case you're new, almost all of what is proverbial…
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referred to as the far right being like National Review and all of those, the young leaders, conservative leaders, whatever that group was called, young Republican leaders, something like that. All of those people that created those organiz…