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Claims (93)
David Atlee Phillips worked_with
Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented
document
“Harvey gave Rosselli the poison pills for use against Castro (and shortly thereafter was informed that the pills were inside Cuba) three months before the August 10 meeting…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.175
David Atlee Phillips supplied_arms_to
Frank Rosselli documented
document
“The Support Chief received the pills from TSD probably in February 1961 with assurances that they were lethal, and then gave them to Rosselli…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.94
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Sam Giancana reported
document
“According to Shimon he Giancana Rosselli and Maheu shared a suite in the Fountainebleau Hotel…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Samuel Rosselli reported
document
“According to Shimon he Giancana Rosselli and Maheu shared a suite in the Fountainebleau Hotel…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Anthony Trafficante reported
document
“The money and pills were delivered at a meeting between Maheu Rosselli Trafficante and the Cuban at the Fountainebleau Hotel in Miami…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Fidel Castro reported
document
“The money and pills were delivered at a meeting between Maheu Rosselli Trafficante and the Cuban at the Fountainebleau Hotel in Miami…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
Joseph Shimon met_with
David Atlee Phillips reported
document
“Shimon testified that he had accompanied Maheu to Miami to see the third Patterson-Johansson World Heavyweight Championship fight which took place on March 12 1961…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
David Atlee Phillips operated_in
Miami reported
document
“Shimon testified that he had accompanied Maheu to Miami to see the third Patterson-Johansson World Heavyweight Championship fight which took place on March 12 1961…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
David Atlee Phillips operated_in
Fountainebleau Hotel reported
document
“According to Shimon he Giancana Rosselli and Maheu shared a suite in the Fountainebleau Hotel…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
David Atlee Phillips supplied_arms_to
Fidel Castro reported
document
“Maheu recalled delivering an automobile which he had been told contained communications equipment to an empty lot…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
David Atlee Phillips worked_for
CIA reported
document
“Shimon testified that Maheu had said the liquid was to be put in Castro's food that Castro would become ill and die after two or three days and that an autopsy would not reveal what had killed him…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.96
Allen Dulles met_with
David Atlee Phillips documented
document
“The evidence indicates that the meeting between Dulles Bissell Edwards and Cabell occurred sometime 'in the autumn of 1960 probably in late September'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.113
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Special Mission Group documented
document
“Harvey attended an August 10 1962 meeting of the Special Group Augmented.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.119
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Meyer Lansky reported
document
“I am sure that I had discussed with Rosselli at least on a tentative basis by August the probable necessity of terminating this…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.119
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Richard Helms documented
document
“The SGA request for Helms to estimate... is another example of the close control the SGA exercised over Operation MONGOOSE (Memo Lansdale to Helms 3/5/62)…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.159
David Atlee Phillips met_with
John McCone documented
document
“Harvey complained to McCone about the SGA control requirement for advance approval of 'major operations going beyond the collection of intelligence.'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.159
David Atlee Phillips did_business_with
Felix Rodriguez reported
document
“Helms testified that he doubted that he was informed when Harvey gave poison pills to Rosselli…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.162
John McCone removed_from_power
David Atlee Phillips reported
document
“Harvey stated that Robert Kennedy 'took a great deal of exception to this order and as a result McCone ordered Harvey to stop the agent operations…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.162
Richard Helms met_with
David Atlee Phillips documented
document
“The Attorney General was on the phone to me he was on the phone to Mr Harvey…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.164
David Atlee Phillips did_business_with
Lucky Luciano documented
document
“Harvey had given the pills to Rosselli in Miami…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.164
David Atlee Phillips proposed
Samuel J. Rosselli documented
document
“Helms also testified to his 'very grave doubts about the wisdom of dealing with underworld figures when Harvey proposed contacting Rosselli to see if gangster links to Cuba could be developed'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.165
CIA Technical Services Division supplied_arms_to
David Atlee Phillips documented
document
“The Support Chief received the pills from TSD probably in February 1961 with assurances that they were lethal…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.94
David Atlee Phillips worked_for
Special Group (Augmented) documented
document
“Lansdale's August 13 memorandum was sent to Harvey and to the other members of Lansdale's interagency working group.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.175
John McCone met_with
David Atlee Phillips documented
document
“McCone spoke with Harvey in Elder's presence after receiving Lansdale's August 13 memorandum…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.180
Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited
David Atlee Phillips documented
document
“Both Bissell and Harvey recall a meeting in November 1961 in which Harvey was instructed to take over the contact with John Rosselli as part of Project ZR/RIFLE…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.202
David Atlee Phillips headed
Operation Mongoose documented
document
“during the period in which Harvey was freed from his duties on another Agency staff and assumed direction of Task Force W which ran CIA activity against the Castro regime…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.202
David Atlee Phillips did_business_with
John Roselli documented
document
“Harvey was instructed to take over the contact with John Rosselli as part of Project ZR/RIFLE…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.202
Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited
David Atlee Phillips documented
document
“Bissell asks Harvey to assumecontrol of underworld operation onstand-bybasis…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.307
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Anthony Salerno documented
document
“Harvey establishes contact with Rosselli…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.307
David Atlee Phillips supplied_arms_to
Anthony Salerno documented
document
“Harvey passespoisonpills to Hosselliin Miami…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.307
David Atlee Phillips worked_for
CIA documented
document
“Harvey was asked during his testimony why he had not inquired of Bissell as to who in the White House had communicated with him…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.331
David Atlee Phillips member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“when queried by the Committee as to why he never raised the subject of assassination at any of the Special Group Meetings he attended…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.331
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Fitzgerald Bissell reported
document
“The fact that Executive Action and actual plots were at times blended together is best illustrated by Harvey's testimony of his discussion with Bissell about the creation of an Executive Action capability…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.333
David Atlee Phillips recruited
Sam Giancana documented
document
“the wiretap installed through Maheu at the request of Giancana was discovered…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.341
FBI spied_on
David Atlee Phillips documented
document
“The FBI commenced an investigation which soon led to both Maheu and Giancana…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.341
CIA recruited
David Atlee Phillips documented
document
“CIA has used Maheu as an intermediary in contacting Sani Giancana…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.345
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“CIA has used Maheu as an intermediary in contacting Sani Giancana…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.345
David Atlee Phillips linked_to
Chile documented
document
“In the hearings with Mr David Phillips who had extensive background and experience in Chile…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.25
David Atlee Phillips worked_for
CIA documented
document
“we asked Mr Phillips what he thought were the chances of success He said `On this Chile thing I assure you that those people that I was in touch with at the Agency just about universally said…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.51
David Atlee Phillips worked_for
CIA documented
document
“In working with the CIA I knew roughly three CIA's…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.79
Stefan Halper relationship_with
David Atlee Phillips documented
document
“I'd just like to add something Senator First I welcome the opportunity to agree with my good friend and next door neighbor Morton Halperin which we don't always do…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.82
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Frank Sturgis documented
document
“Sometime in late August or early September 1960 the Support Chief approached Maheu about the proposed operation…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.89
David Atlee Phillips ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
document
“The Support Chief testified that Maheu was told to offer money probably $150,000 for Castro's assassination.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.89
John Roselli met_with
David Atlee Phillips documented
document
“A meeting was arranged for Maheu and Rosselli with the Support Chief at the Plaza Hotel in New York…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.90
David Atlee Phillips met_with
John Roselli documented
document
“A meeting was arranged for Maheu and Rosselli with the Support Chief at the Plaza Hotel in New York…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.90
David Atlee Phillips worked_for
CIA documented
document
“Rosselli claimed that Maheu told him at that time that the Support Chief was with the CIA…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.90
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented
document
“Edwards informed Bissell that contact had been made with the gambling syndicate…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.90
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“The Support Chief who was using the name "Jim Olds, said he had met "Sam and "Joe once and then only briefly…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.91
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Santos Trafficante documented
document
“The Support Chief who was using the name "Jim Olds, said he had met "Sam and "Joe once and then only briefly…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.91
David Atlee Phillips worked_for
CIA documented
document
“Maheu recalled that he had initially asked the Support Chief if the CIA would handle the job…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.92
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented
document
“The Support Chief testified that he had called Edwards and cleared the placement of an electronic "bug in the apartment prior to the installation of the tap…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.92
David Atlee Phillips member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“The money was used by Klein to form various business groups. All of the principals have 20% shares, and all but Klein's shares were secret. Each man, because basically what they're setting up is front companies. Each man in the meeting wrot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 28:31
David Atlee Phillips member_of
CIA host_asserted
“and of course was used in Watergate as well. Also, David Attlee Phillips. He was a newcomer to the CIA, but he will later be in many of these as well. When Phillips was first approached about the assignment, he asked his superior, Tracy Bar…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 49:01
David Atlee Phillips involved_in
Chile host_asserted
“Next one's a real fun one. A guy by the name of David Phillips. Now, Phillips actually met with Oswald before the assassination. Who is this guy? He's a failed actor, newspaper publisher from Chile. Gets recruited by the CIA in the 1950s. H…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 16 JFK Assassination - w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 21:24
David Atlee Phillips founded
Association of Former Intelligence Officers host_asserted
“Phillips never looked back in his entire career in the CIA from that point on. He just basically implemented the party line within the CIA. He afterwards is the guy, and we've looked into this a little bit, that created the Association of R…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 50:01
David Atlee Phillips recruited_in
Chile documented
“He was recruited in Chile four years before that to run black propaganda radio stations. On the paramilitary side, Haney had brought in William A. Robertson, Jr. He was a CIA trainer in Saipan. And remember, Saipan is basically like what we…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 39:57
David Atlee Phillips spied_on
Fulgencio Batista documented
“Aboard three planes, the group took flight. Batista left Camp Columbia base at 2.40 in the morning on January 1st, 1959. David Attlee Phillips, now a part-time CIA undercover agent in Havana, sat in his backyard as the aircraft flew overhea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 41:35
Jim Flannery succeeded
David Atlee Phillips book_quoted
“The Cuban task force stayed alive. Dave Phillips succeeded Fitzgerald and eventually Jim Flannery followed him. But the project accomplished little. As long as the exiles continued plotting and the agency needed to know, plus holding the ha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 23:19
David Atlee Phillips headed
Association of Former Intelligence Officers book_quoted
“as the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, headed at the time by none other than David Phillips. Incidentally, he headed the CIA's Latin America Covert Action Department at the time of the September 11, 1973 Chilean coup. He was in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 1:11:50
Eddie P. Haney recruited
David Atlee Phillips documented
“Haney soon had his task force and a plan to go. The chief of political action, the CIA euphemism for psychological warfare, was E. Howard Hunt. Like how he shows up in all of these? He had previously worked in Albania. Yeah, we found him th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 39:59
David Atlee Phillips spied_on
Chile documented
“He was recruited in Chile four years before that to run black propaganda radio stations. On the paramilitary side, Haney had brought in William A. Robertson, Jr. He was a CIA trainer in Saipan. And remember, Saipan is basically like what we…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 40:26
David Atlee Phillips member_of
Operation PBSUCCESS documented
“Less than one year after the Iranian coup, the CIA director and his team had won a second opportunity to boast about their successful coup machine. PB's success would forge deep, lifelong bonds among Dulles and his Guatemala crew, which inc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 43:10
David Atlee Phillips founded
American Bar Association host_asserted
“They're going to be that. They're like shape shifters. And then it says, in 1976, Russia, together with Marvin Liebman and a former CIA officer, David Atlee Phillips, founded a new pro-Rhodesia lobbying group called the American Rhodesian A…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4 @ 39:35
David Atlee Phillips succeeded
Desmond Fitzgerald book_quoted
“The Cuban task force stayed alive. Dave Phillips succeeded Fitzgerald and eventually Jim Flannery followed him. But the project accomplished little. As long as the exiles continued plotting and the agency needed to know, plus holding the ha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 23:19
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Lee Harvey Oswald host_asserted
“Next one's a real fun one. A guy by the name of David Phillips. Now, Phillips actually met with Oswald before the assassination. Who is this guy? He's a failed actor, newspaper publisher from Chile. Gets recruited by the CIA in the 1950s. H…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 16 JFK Assassination - w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 21:24
David Atlee Phillips operated_in
Mexico City host_asserted
“He was doing that, and he got a medal for it. He worked with E. Howard Hunt on propaganda for the Bay of Pigs. So this is David Phillips. He's stationed in Mexico City, and he's informed within days when Oswald contacted the Cuban embassy i…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 16 JFK Assassination - w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 21:56
David Atlee Phillips worked_with
E. Howard Hunt host_asserted
“He was doing that, and he got a medal for it. He worked with E. Howard Hunt on propaganda for the Bay of Pigs. So this is David Phillips. He's stationed in Mexico City, and he's informed within days when Oswald contacted the Cuban embassy i…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 16 JFK Assassination - w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 21:56
Eddie R. Hansen recruited
David Atlee Phillips documented
“and others in the surrounding area. Haney soon had his task force and a plan to go. The chief of political action, the CIA euphemism for psychological warfare, was E. Howard Hunt. Like how he shows up in all of these? He had previously work…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 39:27
David Atlee Phillips ordered_assassination_of
René Schneider documented
“Produced documents that showed that Phillips, at the direction of Richard Helms Nixon, would actually be in charge of the assassination of the Chilean president in 1970. Sorry, it's a general, Rene Schneider. So that's David Phillips. He's …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 16 JFK Assassination - w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 22:56
David Atlee Phillips member_of
Project FUBELT book_quoted
“Chile had become a crash priority. Phillips would be in charge of a task force for Project Belt. Returning to Langley after his fateful encounter with the president, Director Helms called together senior people to develop a plan to show Nix…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 35 @ 24:29
David Atlee Phillips headed
Radio Swan documented
“was used by Dave Phillips' radio show. The Arbenz government made a significant error, taking the government radio station off the air for installation of a new antenna. For several weeks, the Voice of Liberation was the only game in town. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 37:59
David Atlee Phillips member_of
Guatemala Coup documented
“But in his communication with St. John, Hunt was more emphatic about the plotters. In addition to Harvey and Morales, the name David Atlas Phillips and Cord Meyer was Hunt's speculations. Phillips was the CIA counterintelligence specialist …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 59:43
David Atlee Phillips member_of
Project FUBELT book_quoted
“station chief in Brazil, Phillips suddenly received orders to take the next flight to D.C. and tell associates that he'd be away for several weeks for a promotion board. Phillips knew something was up, speculating it was Chile, but on his l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 17:57
David Atlee Phillips recruited
Tony Sforza book_quoted
“all would act as false flag agents, pretending to act for someone other than the CIA. One, Tony Sforza, had cover as a professional gambler, an Argentinian with business interests. Among the other agency exploits, Sforza had been a CIA debr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 26:19
David Atlee Phillips recruited
Bruce McMaster book_quoted
“Another, Bruce McMaster, masqueraded as a representative of the Ford Foundation, one of the CIA's favorites, which was a violation of CIA regulations that had been put in place when they were exposed using the National Student Association. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 26:48
David Atlee Phillips recruited
John J. Devine book_quoted
“Okay, sure. I'm in the CIA and I pretend to be anybody I want anywhere in the world. I have multiple passports, but all of a sudden I've got a conscience about adopting a false story. Please. His staff mixed experienced people with some you…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 24:20
David Atlee Phillips carried_out_attack
Salvador Allende book_quoted
“Agents whose communication with Phillips ran through the undercover officer at a safe house in Santiago. Ambassador Corey left to believe that track one amounted to everything the U.S. did in Chile would eventually be furious. As the task f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 27:14
David Atlee Phillips member_of
Operation Pluto documented
“But in his communication with St. John, Hunt was more emphatic about the plotters. In addition to Harvey and Morales, the name David Atlas Phillips and Cord Meyer was Hunt's speculations. Phillips was the CIA counterintelligence specialist …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 59:43
David Atlee Phillips trained
Antonio Vecchiana host_asserted
“And we've covered them as well. They basically were a terrorist organization. Vekian, who arrived at the Dallas building for his own meeting with Phillips and who was his CIA supervisor, would later recognize Oswald when his face was splash…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24 @ 22:49
David Atlee Phillips member_of
Task Force 157 book_quoted
“And a large segment of them had participated in PB's success. But we all know that PB's success wasn't all that big of a challenge because our bins basically got scared and left. It's not like that was a really big deal. Okay, if you look a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 34:31
David Atlee Phillips succeeded
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“In June, Ted Shackley moved up to the deputy director of operations, replacing Bill Colby. His successor was David Phillips. Only 10 months into a tour in Venezuela, it seemed Phillips was always being called back from places where he was s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 24:18
David Atlee Phillips spied_on
Lee Harvey Oswald book_quoted
“He was aware of how the agency had monitored the defector during his exploits in Dallas, New Orleans, and Mexico. David Phillips, a man whose career had been nurtured by Helms, had been meeting with Oswald in Dallas. But when Helms was swor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 16:27
David Atlee Phillips headed
CIA documented
“and Chilean specialist David Attlee Phillips, which we've talked about many times, was called on by Rio de Janeiro to head the task force. Heckscher was informed that Santiago's military attache, a Colonel Paul Weimert, W-I-M-E-R-T, was goi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 44:03
David Atlee Phillips member_of
CIA documented
“But in his communication with St. John, Hunt was more emphatic about the plotters. In addition to Harvey and Morales, the name David Atlas Phillips and Cord Meyer was Hunt's speculations. Phillips was the CIA counterintelligence specialist …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 59:43
Allen Dulles recruited
David Atlee Phillips documented
“Dulles had recruited them and promoted them throughout the agency. Meyer was particularly beholding to Dulles, who had saved his career in 1953 when Joe McCarthy wanted him purged. Howard Hunt might have been worried about joining the JFK p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:01:42
Richard Helms appointed
David Atlee Phillips documented
“He had been a nose gunner in World War II, not an OSS gentleman. After the war, he rambled around Latin America, trying his hand at acting and publishing before being recruited in the CIA. His covert work won the admiration of Richard Helms…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:00:14
David Atlee Phillips member_of
CIA book_quoted
“The money was used by Klein to form various business groups. All of the principals have 20% shares, and all but Klein's shares were secret. Each man, because basically what they're setting up is front companies. Each man in the meeting wrot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 28:31
David Atlee Phillips carried_out_attack
Chile host_asserted
“Now, Phillips actually met with Oswald before the assassination. Who is this guy? He's a failed actor, newspaper publisher from Chile. Gets recruited by the CIA in the 1950s. He got some kind of a, well, this is a fun one. In 1955, he wins …”
▶ JFK ASSASINATION WITH COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY @ 21:13
Antonio Vecchiana relationship_with
David Atlee Phillips guest_asserted
“Others that he was just a, what called himself a patsy. And others say he was a big CIA operative the entire time. We're not going to go too deep into Oswald today, I don't think. But it's interesting that this David Phillips had met, you k…”
▶ JFK ASSASINATION WITH COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY @ 22:10
David Atlee Phillips relationship_with
Lee Harvey Oswald host_asserted
“Now, Phillips actually met with Oswald before the assassination. Who is this guy? He's a failed actor, newspaper publisher from Chile. Gets recruited by the CIA in the 1950s. He got some kind of a, well, this is a fun one. In 1955, he wins …”
▶ JFK ASSASINATION WITH COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY @ 21:13
Antonio Vecchiana witnessed
David Atlee Phillips guest_asserted
“Others that he was just a, what called himself a patsy. And others say he was a big CIA operative the entire time. We're not going to go too deep into Oswald today, I don't think. But it's interesting that this David Phillips had met, you k…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 16 JFK Assassination - w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 22:26
David Atlee Phillips spied_on
Lee Harvey Oswald host_asserted
“since he was spotted in the company of David Atlee Phillips, one of the more glaring indications that the ex-Marine was involved in an intelligence operation. Oswald and Phillips were observed talking to each other in the lobby of the downt…”
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“His two sons revealed that their father had recorded several claims about the assassination. In 2007, once again, the Rolling Stone, St. John Hunt, son of E. Howard Hunt, detailed the individuals who were implicated by his father in the JFK…”
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and of course was used in Watergate as well. Also, David Attlee Phillips. He was a newcomer to the CIA, but he will later be in many of these as well. When Phillips was first approached about the assignment, he asked his superior, Tracy Bar…
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and throw him out of office, unquote. For a moment, wrote Phillips later, I detected in the face a flicker of concern, a doubt, the reaction, but Barnes quickly recovered and repeated the party line, quote, the Soviets were establishing an …
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Phillips never looked back in his entire career in the CIA from that point on. He just basically implemented the party line within the CIA. He afterwards is the guy, and we've looked into this a little bit, that created the Association of R…
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for Nixon to be installed in the front office. This has zero to do with communism, and it has zero to do with the Chileans, obviously. Their warnings had no effect on the coup plotters in Washington. One of them, David Attlee Phillips, whos…
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who had run the highly successful Voice of Liberation radio campaign in the 1954 coup against President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala, became co-director of the CIA's newly formed Chilean task force. His partner was William Breaux. The two of …
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As the American plot against Alente began to take shape, Phillips and Brough sent a lengthy cable to their agents in Santiago. It directed them to use three tools, economic warfare, political warfare, and psychological warfare to create a c…
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They're going to be that. They're like shape shifters. And then it says, in 1976, Russia, together with Marvin Liebman and a former CIA officer, David Atlee Phillips, founded a new pro-Rhodesia lobbying group called the American Rhodesian A…
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It is very disconnected when you get to that. And I'm talking of the William Colbys and those people, the Wisners and all of those people from back then. A lot of their children were involved in CIA operations, not necessarily as a CIA empl…
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had lunch with Tom Clines at a restaurant in suburban Virginia. In their report they filed after the luncheon, they speculated that Clines had been using a concealed tape recorder. Clines had repeatedly lied to the investigators about his c…
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had anything to do with. What the investigators found put von Marburg, Klein, and Shackley in the middle of an enormous criminal enterprise dealing with the new president that the CIA installed in Egypt. It did not take the FBI long to trac…
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The FBI traced the $500,000 in Arcadia loans to International Research and Trade, IRT, the company Shackley and Klein set up in Bermuda. In mid-August 1981, Klein's made two $500,000 loans from ETSCO to IRT about a week apart. On August 20t…
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who had been promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern, African, and South Asian Affairs, that he must not initiate any written or oral communication with Wilson, Klein, von Marburg, or Shackley. By this time, von M…
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The U.S. had taken pains to avoid angering or embarrassing Cairo, unquote. The pains the Reagan-Bush administration was willing to take became clear as the Itzko case moved up the bureaucratic ladder to the National Security Council. What h…
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Van Marbogh, Klein's, and the Egyptians in an illegal and unauthorized intelligence operation. As the Pentagon, with Van Marbogh retired, Frank Carlucci was now doing his best to protect General Secord. The depth of the government's knowled…
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in order to inject national security concerns to thwart the DOJ investigation. Discussing the substance of the meeting, Sporkin wrote that Clines, Shackley, Secord, and von Marburg were conducting weekly meetings to discuss ways to obtain c…
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The money was used by Klein to form various business groups. All of the principals have 20% shares, and all but Klein's shares were secret. Each man, because basically what they're setting up is front companies. Each man in the meeting wrot…
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In the end, it works out to be an $8 million ripoff by ETSCO, funds which the Egyptians could have used for supplies. The Department of Justice memorandum stated it went on to say that von Marbog received a cash payoff in Geneva in October …
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Helms did not believe that this would work, but the ambassador thought that it would. The secret CIA program would be an effort to induce a military coup as the backup option. The backup option was discussed at Langley, and a special task f…
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million in 1973. The CIA actually spent the money that the special group approved, let's see, to overthrow Allende on September 11th, another date they love, 1973. To get some idea of the relative increase of the amount spent, consider the …
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NGOs. The State Department and CIA, of course, denied this, and David Attlee Phillips, who was back in Washington in 1973 following, he went to Venezuela, which we know they did that in Venezuela. Okay. Despite the widespread chaos, Allende…
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Meanwhile, feelings favored regulatory action on intelligence peaked in Congress during the middle of the years of the Carter administration. When charters were considered at hearings, the vast majority of the CIA officials testified agains…
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Haney soon had his task force and a plan to go. The chief of political action, the CIA euphemism for psychological warfare, was E. Howard Hunt. Like how he shows up in all of these? He had previously worked in Albania. Yeah, we found him th…
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started. Dave Phillips checked material for the radio broadcast during a visit with Henry Hexer, who posed as a German businessman. American Ambassador John Purifoy set the tone, and I'll spell his name, P-U-R-P-U-E-R-I-F-O-Y.…
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Project PB Success became the first real CIA covert operation for David Atlee Phillips, brought in after a brush with Florida police who had arrested him for trying to spend an alleged bogus check that almost broke his CIA cover and ended h…
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as well as a quote-unquote journalist, originally recruited in Chile four years earlier, had a flair for colorful language, but was not dumb. He put the key question to Tracy Barnes at their first meeting. Quote, but Arbenz became president…
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PB6S political action kicked off after the Arbenz white paper. Chief political operator E. Howard Hunt masterminded this aspect. Dave Phillips was assigned to run the black radio station. Phillips began with a field trip where he contrived …
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But when Phillips checked, not much of Heckscher's information proved useful. In April, Phillips and several Guatemalan acolytes prepared a dairy barn at Santa Fe in rural Honduras as a clandestine voice of liberation radio, CIA codename Sh…
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was used by Dave Phillips' radio show. The Arbenz government made a significant error, taking the government radio station off the air for installation of a new antenna. For several weeks, the Voice of Liberation was the only game in town. …
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In a 1966 interview with New York Times reporter Richard Bissell conceded that the action went well beyond the established limits of policy. Frank Wisner and Tracy Barnes celebrated. Barnes would be rewarded with stewardship of the station …
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Aboard three planes, the group took flight. Batista left Camp Columbia base at 2.40 in the morning on January 1st, 1959. David Attlee Phillips, now a part-time CIA undercover agent in Havana, sat in his backyard as the aircraft flew overhea…
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A few days later, David Attlee Phillips stood in the crowd as Fidel Castro entered Havana in a motorcade. Washington's efforts to shore up the dictatorship and then to force Batista into reforms that might save off a Castro revolution left …
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And a large segment of them had participated in PB's success. But we all know that PB's success wasn't all that big of a challenge because our bins basically got scared and left. It's not like that was a really big deal. Okay, if you look a…
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Told the cargo represented a small proportion of the capacity, Cabell ordered the load topped off with rice and beans. Dick Drain, startled, warned Cabell that the plane's task was to deliver the specific items requested. Propaganda chief D…
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to E. Howard Hunt. Hunt finally had to be relieved and relegated to work with Dave Phillips in the propaganda unit. President Kennedy still reserved his final decision with an option to cancel the invasion up to 24 hours before landing. Alt…
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The Cuban task force stayed alive. Dave Phillips succeeded Fitzgerald and eventually Jim Flannery followed him. But the project accomplished little. As long as the exiles continued plotting and the agency needed to know, plus holding the ha…
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In his golden years, secret warrior David Phillips used to meet his good old buddies for lunch and dinner to chew over their exploits. Their watering hole was a good Cuban restaurant called Omega in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washingt…
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station chief in Brazil, Phillips suddenly received orders to take the next flight to D.C. and tell associates that he'd be away for several weeks for a promotion board. Phillips knew something was up, speculating it was Chile, but on his l…
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Returning to Langley after his fateful encounter with the president, Director Helms called together senior people to develop a plan to show Nixon. Early the next morning, Helms gathered the group, including his deputy, General Robert Cushma…
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Bro, Deputy Division Chief Jim Flannery, and a few subordinates. Helms told the Secret Warriors they were going to get $10 million to spend and put Cara Macenas in command. There would be a task force of the best people with Colonel White t…
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thus being a good man to enforce secrecy. Dave Phillips found himself pressed into service. Barely had he gotten an ID badge with access to appropriate headquarters areas when the deputy chief Flannery pulled Phillips aside to brief him. Ph…
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Flannery had served with Phillips several times in the past and now led him carefully to the appropriate conclusion. Both men saw poor prospects. Phillips recounted, the odds were unacceptable and it was something that was not going to work…
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Helms and his crew all testified later to intense White House pressure. As Flannery told investigators, there was just no question that we had to make the effort. Track two was very closely held at Langley. Except for Breaux, Flannery, and …
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There was talk of running Phillips' task force directly out of Karamanene's office, but that would have been a tip-off. Instead, they put it in a small mailroom. At least it adjoined the White House Division front office. Phillips experienc…
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Okay, sure. I'm in the CIA and I pretend to be anybody I want anywhere in the world. I have multiple passports, but all of a sudden I've got a conscience about adopting a false story. Please. His staff mixed experienced people with some you…
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So Rene Snyder happens to be the obstacle of which they will target. Santiago's military attache, Colonel Paul Weimert, used as a go-between with Chilean officers of several factions, had to know too, and Hexter would control him. Otherwise…
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all would act as false flag agents, pretending to act for someone other than the CIA. One, Tony Sforza, had cover as a professional gambler, an Argentinian with business interests. Among the other agency exploits, Sforza had been a CIA debr…
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Agents whose communication with Phillips ran through the undercover officer at a safe house in Santiago. Ambassador Corey left to believe that track one amounted to everything the U.S. did in Chile would eventually be furious. As the task f…
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with ITT. Meanwhile, the agency's false flag officers had decided that Chileans they were talking to were useless. Corey learned of the contacts and again prohibited them. The same day as the 40 committee, Kissinger ordered Corey's prohibit…
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Desperation is evidence in this cable where the task force chief demands creating some sort of acute climate, starting a rumor until it could not be disproven to try to create a pretext. The status report of a few days later noted that Hext…
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In June, Ted Shackley moved up to the deputy director of operations, replacing Bill Colby. His successor was David Phillips. Only 10 months into a tour in Venezuela, it seemed Phillips was always being called back from places where he was s…
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American Institute for Free Labor Development was accused of passing money. State and CIA officials denied this to Congress. Dave Phillips also said that the CIA was not involved in that. But of course, we know all of those people lie, so f…
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William Colby, Dick Bissell, Tom Karamanenis, David Ackley Phillips, and General Richard Stilwell. You know, all the guys deeply up to their eyeballs in covert operations don't want you to stop them. Outpacing Congress, the White House sees…
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Allen enjoyed whining and dining the nation's opinion makers, while Foster would almost rather negotiate with the Russians than be bothered by any of them. The brothers sometimes clashed. David Attlee Phillips, a CIA counterintelligence off…
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Less than one year after the Iranian coup, the CIA director and his team had won a second opportunity to boast about their successful coup machine. PB's success would forge deep, lifelong bonds among Dulles and his Guatemala crew, which inc…
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We considered Harvey to be one of our prime suspects from the very start. He had all the key connections, organized crime, CIA station chief in Miami where the plots to kill Castro were run, other prime CIA suspects like David Phillips. We …
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But in his communication with St. John, Hunt was more emphatic about the plotters. In addition to Harvey and Morales, the name David Atlas Phillips and Cord Meyer was Hunt's speculations. Phillips was the CIA counterintelligence specialist …
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He had been a nose gunner in World War II, not an OSS gentleman. After the war, he rambled around Latin America, trying his hand at acting and publishing before being recruited in the CIA. His covert work won the admiration of Richard Helms…
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is is saying that you know i had nothing to do with you know this this whole conspiracy theory about the cia killing um kennedy and you know he does mention bill harvey in the book he speculates that it could have been him um i want to say …
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Oswald also made contact with the DRE, a young militant anti-Castro Cuban exile group overseen by CIA David Phillips. So he's supposedly on both sides of that issue, so they can use him either way. Oswald began passing out Fair Play leaflet…
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since he was spotted in the company of David Atlee Phillips, one of the more glaring indications that the ex-Marine was involved in an intelligence operation. Oswald and Phillips were observed talking to each other in the lobby of the downt…
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And we've covered them as well. They basically were a terrorist organization. Vekian, who arrived at the Dallas building for his own meeting with Phillips and who was his CIA supervisor, would later recognize Oswald when his face was splash…
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In the final weeks of his life, Oswald was a subject of intense CIA coverage. Much of the scrutiny emanated from the offices of Jim Angleton and David Phillips. After sifting through declassified government documents from this period, John …
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Still thick in the clandestine affairs, meeting with key officials from the CIA's covert side, like Desmond Fitzgerald, who, along with David Phillips, oversaw the violent intrigue swirling around Cuba. Angleton and his deputy, Cord Meyer, …
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He was aware of how the agency had monitored the defector during his exploits in Dallas, New Orleans, and Mexico. David Phillips, a man whose career had been nurtured by Helms, had been meeting with Oswald in Dallas. But when Helms was swor…
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as the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, headed at the time by none other than David Phillips. Incidentally, he headed the CIA's Latin America Covert Action Department at the time of the September 11, 1973 Chilean coup. He was in…
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Uh, it's like the center of the big, of the country. And I also found he trained there, but I was like, well, at a military base or what? No, it was the intelligence agency that he was connected with there. So I started digging in that and …
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um so people would not ask questions okay and then he goes on and talks a little bit more about that most of this stuff um we've covered before but i'm going to quote this part for war hamster this came a later article that in the nation af…
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player involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion had been in Yale's secret skull and bone society by the time Bush became director of the CIA in 76. Phillips writes, three generations of Bush and Walker families already had some six decades of i…
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He arranged for an appearance in front of that committee. On January 22nd, Colby and Latin American David Phillips appeared at a quote-unquote hearing of that subcommittee. Director Colby danced around the issues, according to Harrington, s…
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His two sons revealed that their father had recorded several claims about the assassination. In 2007, once again, the Rolling Stone, St. John Hunt, son of E. Howard Hunt, detailed the individuals who were implicated by his father in the JFK…