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AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS
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OK, it was a way because they had cash registers all around the world and they had franchises like the one they had in Italy under Mussolini. And do you know who hoping who owned that franchise? James Jesus Angleton's dad. So James Angleton…
AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS
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OK, it was a way because they had cash registers all around the world and they had franchises like the one they had in Italy under Mussolini. And do you know who hoping who owned that franchise? James Jesus Angleton's dad. So James Angleton…
AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS
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who is obviously of CIA fame. He's the guy that ran the Mossad and the Vatican desk at the CIA at the same time. He's like notorious for everything in relationship to the CIA. So his dad was both the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy. N…
AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS
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who is obviously of CIA fame. He's the guy that ran the Mossad and the Vatican desk at the CIA at the same time. He's like notorious for everything in relationship to the CIA. So his dad was both the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy. N…
AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS
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In Italy. Did we have a lot of business in Italy? Well, as it turns out, we did. And so we're lock, stock and barrel in bed with Italy while it was a fascist dictatorship under Mussolini. That ought to blow your mind. But there's more. So J…
AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS
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In Italy. Did we have a lot of business in Italy? Well, as it turns out, we did. And so we're lock, stock and barrel in bed with Italy while it was a fascist dictatorship under Mussolini. That ought to blow your mind. But there's more. So J…
AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS
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was the franchise owner for National Cash Register in Italy. So James Angleton grew up in Italy. And it just so happens at the beginning of creating Operation Gladio, guess where he was at? Italy. Shocker. James Angleton. Oh, and there's a …
AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS
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was the franchise owner for National Cash Register in Italy. So James Angleton grew up in Italy. And it just so happens at the beginning of creating Operation Gladio, guess where he was at? Italy. Shocker. James Angleton. Oh, and there's a …
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
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says that there was a tape and he had it in his safe and James Angleton came and got it from him after he died. And oh, by the way, two of the Warren Commission investigators went to Mexico City and they told PBS Frontline, they're on the v…
Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale
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is the one that literally says the CIA repeatedly went out of its way to make sure it redacted anything in relation to Israel or Mossad. Literally says that in fine print. So that's like the biggest thing that was discovered in the JFK file…
Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale
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the Warren Commission. He frames the JFK assassination in terms of that whole Bay of Pigs thing. And then, of course, most recently what we find out at the hearings, and I'm curious about Destiny's opinion on this, is Jefferson morally come…
Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale
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Has checked out Lee Harvey Oswald's file using her three-character initials, and she's James Angleton's secretary, and it's sitting there on his desk the week before the assassination. Yes.…
Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale
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I know that right before the assassination, there was a prior attempt on John F. Kennedy's life that was scheduled to, I think, happen. I think it was in Chicago, if I'm not mistaken. And so I think that probably had something to do with th…
MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses
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that James Angleton of CIA counterintelligence, and you know how much we've been hearing about him on the Israel angle. Yeah. Which is, all right. Well, check out that, where Emerson points out to the four aliases within a one mile radius o…
Operation Gladio (241113)
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Crazy. Yes. The guy was just no good. No good. Yes. But that's like the Angleton having two memorials in Israel for him. True. True. Sometimes I'm just flabbergasted. I'm like, boy, they, you know, when they talk about them really waving it…
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429
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which is basically a CFR rag that was titled Operation Gladio. So the next issue was a article from James Jesus Angleton that basically calls it a conspiracy theory. Now, this importance of that is that these periodicals.…
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429
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are usually written months in advance. The articles for them, the vetting of the articles for them, it appeared in the very next one. So someone's article didn't get published in order to refute the gentleman who wrote the initial article. …
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429
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a lot of these documents and stuff, uh, as you were talking for the audience to see, um, the links will be in the description, you know, after the show and I'm doing the editing and this is crazy. And then if you go back to, you know, when …
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429
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Understand how he fits into this whole thing. Let me bring up his picture so everybody can see this weirdo. He ran the Israeli and the Vatican desk at the CIA. He has two monuments in Israel dedicated to him when he died. The Vatican and Is…
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429
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I don't know if there's any relation here, but I'll just read it. Investigative journalist Edward J. Epstein agrees with the high regard in which Angleton was held by his colleagues in the intelligence business and adds that Angleton earned…
Operation Gladio - Germany
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Slayer died with the conviction that his fate had been at least partially ordained by the state. There was certain uncanny resemblance to the practice run for the Aldo Moro tragedy a year later. And keep in mind, the practice run for the Al…
Operation Gladio - Italy
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Paul Helliwell's boss during the OSS days was Wild Bill Donovan. He has a very interesting background I'm going to delve into for just a little bit as it relates to this. Donovan takes this idea and runs it past James, Jesus, Angleton, Alle…
Operation Gladio - Italy
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David Bruce, who was Andrew Mellon's son-in-law, and members of the Vanderbilt, Carnegie, DuPont, and Ryan family. Angleton was also a Yale graduate and the son of Hugh Angleton, a multi-millionaire who owned the Italian franchise of Nation…
Operation Gladio - Italy
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Donovan, Angleton, and Dulles all viewed Paul Helliwell's proposal as basically an answer to a prayer. They would have cold hard cash in order to be able to pay off foreign agents, bribe politicians, and basically just have a stash of unacc…
Operation Gladio - Italy Part 3
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He set up his military headquarters in Rome at a shipyard that was owned by Remo Orlandini, one of the country's leading industrialists, i.e. the International Syndicate. And according to newspapers, Jesus James Angleton arrived at the ship…
Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady 250418
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Cord Meyer. He's CIA. I skipped right over it. Cord Meyer is the, his wife, Mary, whatever her name, Cord Meyer. She's the one that was murdered. And Angleton ran in and grabbed her diary that she supposedly had an affair with JFK. Holy shi…
Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508
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J. Edgar Hoover did not like commies, apparently, or people that had left-leaning notions. This guy is known as the principal operative of Operation Mockingbird. Y'all heard about the Mockingbird media? This is the guy. He's really good fri…
Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508
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Flew out when Alan Dulles died. He flew out across the country to Dulles' house and stashed all his, grabbed all his papers. So that's that, Angleton. He was the head of what's called the Directorate of Plans from 1962 onward. He becomes th…
Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508
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And there is a lot of very interesting connections to that because she was shot dead. And it was James Angleton that broke into her house and stole her diary because she was supposedly seeing JFK behind the scenes.…
Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508
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But a lot of people think that that was a rumor and that it wasn't actually happening. And that was all documented in her diary. But they were using that after JFK was assassinated. They put out all of these rumors, you know, to lessen the …
OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372
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And they framed Edwin Wilson for arms trafficking and sent him to prison for 25 years. Just so they could steal his company so they could continue to do covert operations and do it under the guise of this company that had been established f…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19
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According to Mike Pilgrim, Livingstone and the legendary James Angleton came from the same hometown. And Livingstone had traded on that relationship with the Israelis who loved Angleton. Quote, he told me that he had hired Angleton's old CI…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13
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all over the world as part of Gladio. I'm shocked. I'm just, this is my shock face. All right. Binder, a veteran newsman known for his ties to members in the intelligence community. Okay, so what they're basically saying here is the guy the…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13
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hundreds of billions of dollars worth of equity, and then sells a share to Saudi Arabia. Changing the primary source of intelligence in the Middle East from Israel to Saudi Arabia is profoundly important. The CIA and the State Department's …
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13
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His firing in December 1974 allowed the options directorate to play for the first time an unfettered role in the Middle East operations. The covert staff long sought to treat Saudi Arabia and other states in an even-handed manner, which Ang…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13
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Near East officials in the CIA were convinced that Israel withheld huge amounts of intelligence information from the U.S. Bush's longstanding family and business relationships with the Gulf states changed things. While the switch had begun …
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18
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While Israeli intelligence had enjoyed an excellent secret relationship with Adom over many, many years, the Israelis had been much more comfortable with the Israeli-Saudi-American triangle as long as James Jesus Angleton was the American p…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18
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The Israelis had one American they trusted absolutely, although James Angleton had been forced out of his job at the CIA. He was not about to allow his relationship with the Israeli intelligent hierarchy to be taken over by Shackley. Anglet…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18
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inside or outside the agency who still possessed the ability to penetrate Shackley and Klein's activities and find out what they were doing. While the Israelis and Saudis now relied on Shackley, who was doing liaison work with Friendly Inte…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18
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Angleton would be able to tell his Israeli associates if Shackley was playing it straight. Angleton had the perfect resource in mind. General, yes, as in military general, Robert Richardson, who ran a company called Exim, E-X-I-M, one of Wi…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18
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of Wilson began in 1977 and continued right up until he was arrested in 1980. Wilson said General Richardson was a real close friend of Angleton's. About once a week, he would say, come on, Eddie, go to lunch with Angleton at the Army-Navy …
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18
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Angleton offered Wilson some advice. He suggested that Shackley was playing him for a fool, but Wilson ignored most of the warning. In retrospect, Wilson admits that when I first had this trouble, Angleton was really trying to help me. Angl…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18
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I drifted off and he drifted off. Richardson stuck with me as long as he could. He really tried to help. Angleton was right. He was on the right track, but there was nothing too definitive. You couldn't say yes or no at that point. Barn Mar…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20
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Shackley used the Safari Club basically to pass himself off as the new James Angleton. And remember that Angleton covered both the Vatican desk and the Israeli Mossad desk, which is very interesting in and of itself, if you think about it f…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
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William Colby, who had his share of covert secrets to protect, tried to appease Congress. But what the public and Congress did not know was that James Angleton's massive mole hunt was underway. The hunt for Soviet agents inside the director…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
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be bore out with the exposure of several moles. But Colby and other CIA officials began to attack Angleton, which resulted in his dismissal by Colby in December of 1974. This, combined with Watergate, is what prompted the Safari Club to sta…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
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James Angleton said before his death that Colby destroyed counterintelligence, but because Colby was seen by Shackley and Helms as having betrayed the CIA to Congress, they simply began working with outsiders like Adam and Saudi Arabia. The…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
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B-R-A-D-E-N. Braden remembered Helms saying, quote, if I am going to be charged, then I will reveal Henry Kissinger's role in these operations, unquote, which, of course, he was guilty as hell in the whole Allende assassination. There were …
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
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the suspicious counterintelligence chief who had turned the CIA inside out trying to find the Soviet mole. Angleton also served what was known as the CIA Israeli account. So for those of you guys who followed us along from the beginning, An…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
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because they're money laundering this entire time through the Vatican. And Angleton is the one that handled both of those accounts. Over the years, he had built up a very productive and close relationship with the Israeli intelligence, Moss…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
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more trustworthy than Angleton and that he could feel the shoes of Angleton. Angleton says, as far as I know, these overtures were never authorized. After Colby fired Angleton in 1974, it took Angleton nine months to clean out his desk. Nin…
Operation Gladio-Turkey
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Another few names I want to throw out just from what Paul Williams said. Ergenekon basically originated back when Bill Donovan and Paul Helliwell and James Angleton was kind of at the helm where they funded and enabled street thugs and assa…
Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson
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caused panic everywhere. And in addition, he refused to extradite CIA whistleblower Philip Agee. This, with the aforementioned withdrawal from the Suez Canal, sent the intel agencies right over the edge. James Angleton, our legendary Operat…
Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson
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as a KGB agent. Angleton makes this accusation in the aftermath of the exposure of his close friend and British defector, Harold Kim Philby, being exposed as a KGB spy. Philby had been posted to the UK embassy in Washington, D.C., and was o…
Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson
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MI5 asked the CIA for evidence of the accusation, but Angleton said unless MI5 could guarantee not to expose the information, he wasn't going to release it. So MI5 turned him down. Nonetheless, MI5 would be actively spying on their newly in…
Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson
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internal to the intelligence community in basically an Operation Gladio sting. This has increased significance given Wright's friendship with Angleton. The two would play chess for hours on end, and Angleton, as we all know, ran both the Mo…
Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson
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given what we know about Operation Gladio, with one being the weapons supplier, i.e. Israel, and one being the money laundering, as in the Vatican. And Angleton is the single point of contact between them both. So Angleton was close to Shin…
Operation Gladio - World Anti Communist League and Unification Church
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And I don't think it's a coincidence that Jim Angleton was the desk officer at the CIA for both the Vatican Church and for Israel, because they were both involved in this Operation Gladio entity of which he was at the heart of. And so he wa…
The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3
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Yeah, it's crazy when you start looking into the different things. And that's another interesting link, the National Cash Register company that James Angleton's father owned the franchise for in Italy. And he was a spy. He was using his cas…
The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3
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But maintain that. And that's why James Angleton had spent so much time in Italy prior to World War Two was because he grew up there because of his father's franchise of the National Cash Register Company. I have a direct response to Renee …
The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen
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The CIA tried to kill. And we will finish the rest of the chapter on James Angleton, which no one could believe he was still around, even Kevin Shipp. And go from there. How are you doing tonight, Ron? I'm doing great. I just got done recor…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12
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I'm not sure. You probably didn't see the JFK files testimony today. But if you're familiar with Jefferson Morley, who's one of the big JFK researchers, it looks like he kind of came out of the hearing and said that James Angleton, his secr…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12
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And he went out with like six bullets, you know, three bullets. Right. And it couldn't have been anybody else. Have we got that kind of a case? Yeah. Right. We basically got that was kind of the gist of of the hearing from, you know, this t…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12
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They kind of basically said, yeah, Angleton lied. And yeah, we kind of know that there was, you know, false testimony about Oswald because he wasn't supposed to be able to speak Spanish. And they were claiming that he did. You couple that w…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2
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It's a reoccurring theme because they all work together. And that's kind of the foot stomping thing. If anybody listens to anything that I say, it is not one intelligence organization. They work together. They work seamlessly together. That…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5
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Benny Johnson's show had about 60,000 viewers this morning, and they brought on a certain James Angleton grandson, who I'm not going to name, but he did basically walk through the Paul Williams book, not necessarily by name. I think he ment…
The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO
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I don't know if he uses that word in here, but it's certainly this is the timeline. James Jesus Angleton collecting the Princess Borghese. Basically, they rescued him because he put to death. He was evil. But anyway, Italy signs NATO agreem…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12
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I believe it was right after our good friend Claire Booth Luce, a.k.a. Mrs. Paint Chips. And he was, Protos writes that Colby was suspicious that, you know, sort of one faction of the CIA connected to Claire Booth Luce and Angleton were kin…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12
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and very interesting. He did have some words with James Angleton, who goes on to run both the Vatican and the Israeli desk at the CIA, Angleton did. So yeah, and you mentioned the P2 Lodge, all of that stuff was happening in Italy at that t…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13
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James Angleton's desk, they're now saying, according to Morley, who runs JFK Facts, had Oswald's file on it a week before the shooting. He had it checked out. It was on his desk before the shooting occurred. You can imagine a scenario where…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24
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Unknown to Hugel, the CIA's counterintelligence staff was very interested in his Japanese business associations, and some of which had served in Soviet POW camps. According to James Angleton, the longtime head of counterintelligence, a numb…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24
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After they returned home and rose to the top of Japanese corporations, they transferred important technology to the Soviet Union. In the 70s, one of the executives transferred U.S. submarine technology that did real damage, according to Ang…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
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was much more than an interim figure and much more important than Westerners originally thought, and that he was interested in peace in the Middle East. Henry Kissinger in the State Department basically ignored that because they're not inte…
The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter
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to help their nuclear program as well in the 1950s and 60s. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson had given James Angleton permission to assist Israel in further developing its nuclear program. Now, the Reagan administration was leveling the playing fiel…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)
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One of the code names used was Red Sock, Red Cap, linked to this project. According to CIA officer James Angleton, the exile force ensured the CIA's ability to act. This is where the whole Detachment A concept comes up because the CIA just …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)
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It is inconceivable that Anderson did not show the president it. If Klein quotes Alan Dulles accurately, Dulles may have amused himself by hoodwinking his own staff members. The rendition infuriated James Angleton, the case officer for the …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)
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James Angleton later confirmed, were not ready. The Gladio arms, they actually used that. The Gladio arms caches could not be drawn down either. If this crisis brought war, they would be needed, indicating that they knew they were there. Be…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14)
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hosted a group at his home to hash out the Middle East. Those present, Alan Dulles, Kermit Roosevelt, and James Angleton. Unfamiliar with the chain of command, the CIA officer Wilbur C. Evelyn thought, quote, the plans to undertake a coup i…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27)
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In May of 1962, Harvey's man took up the position. He had local knowledge. Ted Shackley came from Palm Beach and became known as the blonde ghost while playing football in high school. The star of Lansdale's operation had made his mark in t…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
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The NSA was a conference affiliate. This permitted Langley counter-spy James Angleton to assert that the entire matter was a Soviet disinformation plot. Had the CIA followed Angleton's advice, it would have been even less prepared for the c…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35)
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facilities without encountering the impact of the hunt for alleged Soviet moles that had been tearing apart the CIA for years. Gray's report contained no criticism whatsoever of Langley and its counter-spy, James Angleton, the operator behi…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4)
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You know, that U.S. Embassy to Rome, that's the same building that the CIA's Rome Station is in. That's the same building that James Angleton was running the Rome Station from, that Vernon Walters was running the Rome Station from, that Tom…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 7
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between the authors and the CIA. And more than one agency division was involved in these operations. The story of the CIA's relation with labor centers, more on Jay Lovestone's former boss of the American Communist Party, who became an agen…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 7
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1950 meeting, Lovestone complained about the funding level and Wisner countered by citing the amount the agency had actually given that year, $250,000. This is 1950. Just a few months later, Lovestone submitted even more ambitious proposals…
The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6
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At the end of the war, Borghese was set to be hanged by the Italians that were in control of the government at the time. But CIA, then OSS, James Jesus Angleton saved his life because they intended to use him as part of Operation Gladio. Th…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10
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James Angleton liked to say that any intelligence service that doesn't keep a close eye on its own government wasn't worth its own salt. Penetration begins at home, he said. The CIA counterintelligence chief was rumored to occasionally show…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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March 31st, 1953, several months before Frank Olson died or was murdered, Dulles invited an old friend and protege, James Cronthal, to his Georgetown house for dinner. The CIA director said he had business to discuss, but it turned out the …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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Two-year-old Cronthal was a rising star in the CIA, where his profile fit the mold for one of Dulles' very best men. The son of a prominent New York banker, Cronthal was educated at Yale and Harvard and served under Dulles at the Byrne OSS …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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brought a keen business instinct to the art trade, establishing himself in Germany in the 1930s as a broker for Goring and Himmler and other Nazi leaders selling art treasures stolen from primarily Jewish collectors. After the war, he sough…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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Dulles, who helped Cronthal take over the burn station in 47, after it became one of the CIA's first overseas outpost. When Dulles took charge of the agency in 53, he brought Cronthal back to Washington and had big plans for him. He was tou…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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that Cronthal was a top-flight intelligence officer who commands respect from his subordinates. Cronthal, whom Dulles fondly referred to as Jimmy, reminded him of his son, Allen Jr., highly intelligent with lots of promise. Dulles would als…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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Cronthal's attitude for the espionage game derived in part from a lifetime of hiding his own personal secrets. He was gay. He had a weakness for young boys. The Gestapo discovered his sexual taste while he was working in Germany as an art d…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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the Soviet secret police agency got access to Kronthal's Gestapo files after penetrating the Galen organization. The Soviets set up a honey trap for him in Switzerland with Chinese boys as bait. He was secretly filmed and blackmailed. By th…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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who informed Dulles that his protege had turned. Edwards' internal security department was tasked with protecting the CIA against enemy penetration. The security unit was also in charge of what was delicately called enforcement, providing t…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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quietly eavesdropping in the adjoining room. The sense of betrayal was certainly overwhelming for Dulles, but the CIA director, whose fit of rage was legendary, held his fury in check. The spy chief sounded sad. He spoke with the traitor in…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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Impossible situation and his dismal options, the shattered agent walked back home, a white brick townhouse with a small garden just two blocks from Dulles' residence. He was followed by the two CIA security men. When Cronthal's housekeeper …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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Later that morning, two men who identified themselves as colleagues appeared at the house and told the housekeeper they had an urgent note. They wanted his body found. When they opened the door, they found the lifeless Cromthal across his b…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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of the Washington DC Metro Police, a homicide detective with a history of helping the CIA with their domestic problems. They've infiltrated all of the major police forces. Nett revealed that Cronthal had left a letter to Richard Helms in wh…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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as well as a letter for Dulles. The autopsy concluded that he had taken his own life. How convenient. But the report left more questions than it answered, failing to determine the cause of death or the contents of the vial found in his bedr…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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Cronthall's final words to his sister was, I can't wait till 1984. Love, Jim. Was it his way of saying that for him, Big Brother's authoritarianism had already been realized? James Cronthall case was like the Frank Olson matter. Later that …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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which they made it appear, it appeared to have been assisted. This is what one high-ranking CIA official, Robert Crowley, later suggested. One where the other, Crowley said, who was interviewed after he retired by journalist Joseph Trento, …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
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Allen probably had a special potion prepared that he gave Cronthal, should the pressure become too much, unquote. Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and the medical people produced all kinds of potions like that that could not be detected. Dulles never sp…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15
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There was nothing particularly surprising in the article, but the article was deemed unacceptable by the editors of Encounter. And though McDonald was a former editor there, they refused to publish it. Like many in the CIA-sponsored literar…
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Angleton had founded the avant-garde literary magazine, Foriso. He had also befriended Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings. The spy wizard was a devotee of modernist school of poetry, especially the high priest, T.S. Eliot. And on the pages of Enc…
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Years later, Ginsburg imagined a confrontation between himself and Angleton's favorite poet. What did you think of the dominance of the poetics by the CIA? Ginsburg asked Elliot. After all, wasn't Angleton your friend? The old master admits…
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Vast stone of war, whose soul is electricity and banks. A culture that would devour its own children. Angleton carried an elaborate portfolio at the CIA, from politics of art to the metaphysics of assassinations. In December 1954, Dulles of…
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But in reality, his duties were as hard to get a hold on as smoke curling up from a cigarette. I remember Jim as one of the most complex man I ever met, said Richard Helms, one of Angleton's defenders and patrons in the agency. One did not …
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Jim had the ability to rise an operational discussion not only to a higher level, but to another dimension. It is easy to mock this, but there is no one within the agency with whom I'd rather have a discussion on a complex operational probl…
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He referred to himself as the postmaster. He also wiretapped bedrooms of CIA officials. It was his job to be suspicious of everybody. He was keeping a treasure trove of sensitive files and photos locked in his vault. Each morning at the CIA…
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As Dulles was well aware, Angleton had even tucked away explosive secrets on Dulles himself. That is why Dulles had rewarded him with the most sensitive job in the agency. Angleton confided to journalist Joseph Trento near the end of his sl…
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They were afraid that their own business dealings with Hitler's pals would come out. That's according to Angleton. Angleton's selection as the top hunter of Soviet moles struck many in the agency as peculiar. During and after the war, Angle…
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Angleton's children remembered the drunken nursery game played by Philby and his friend Guy Burgess and Donald McLean, who belonged to the same secret ring of Cambridge-bred traders, when they were invited to the Angleton home for dinner. A…
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I have no doubt that the exposure of Kim Philby was lodged in the deepest recesses of Jim's being, Helm said. Angleton told another British intelligence, I would kill Philby. The betrayal was painfully intimate, and it bred a paranoia that …
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and ruining the careers of dozens of CIA agents. But under Dulles, Angleton enjoyed free reign to pursue his demons. He dreamed up Cold War phantoms and boogeymen everywhere. He operated a kind of virtual CIA within the CIA, reporting only …
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one of the daughters of Angleton said. Dulles and Angleton went out back together to the dark maze of post-war Rome, went back together to that time. Like Helms, Dulles admired Angleton's complex mind and his spy craft. Jim Dulles once told…
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who he viewed as a father figure. Angleton was fascinating, recalled Joan Dulles. My mother liked him a lot. He was very talkative and very intellectual. He loved to grow orchids. He was referred to as an oddball as well as a real scholar. …
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Dulles and Angleton shared a disdain for Washington bureaucracy and for governmental oversight of their agency. Later in post Watergate 70s, when the church committee opened a probe into the CIA law breaking, Angleton was called to account …
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with all of the overt orders of the government, unquote. That's exactly the way he viewed the CIA, that they were unaccountable, and they were. Allen wasn't red tape, and neither was Daddy, according to Angleton's daughter. You know, back t…
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with the key foreign intelligence services, including the frontline Cold War nations like France, West Germany, Turkey, Taiwan, and Yugoslavia, as well as Mossad. What they leave out in this book is he also was the Vatican's desk officer. A…
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And of course we know that because they have two monuments to him when he died. Both parties conveniently overlooked Angleton's role in the Nazi rat lines after the war. I would take issue with that because we found Israel working with all …