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James Jesus Angleton member_of
CIA host_asserted
“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 @ 1:00:40
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Vatican host_asserted
“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 @ 1:00:40
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Israel host_asserted
“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 @ 1:00:40
James Jesus Angleton member_of
CIA host_asserted
“He's the guy that ran the Mossad and the Vatican desk at the CIA at the same time.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 9:08
James Jesus Angleton headed
CIA Directorate of Plans host_asserted
“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 @ 28:16
Allen Dulles recruited
James Jesus Angleton documented
“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 @ 29:54
James Jesus Angleton covered_up
Lee Harvey Oswald documented
“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 12 @ 1:21:28
James Jesus Angleton worked_for
Inter-Services Intelligence book_quoted
“Pagnotta's aide, William Gowan. Angleton seemed to work more closely with the Brits than he did the army counterparts, because of course he did. Before transferring to Rome in 1944, Angleton had been stationed in London, where his X-2 unit …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 32:59
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Operation 40 host_asserted
“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 13 (14) @ 18:49
James Jesus Angleton saved
Julio Valerio Borghese host_asserted
“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-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 20:51
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
FBI documented
“as he was dying in the spring of 1987 to pay their last respects. Dulles also put Angleton in charge of the CIA's relationship with the FBI, a delicate task considering the rivalry. At the same time, he was working with the FBI, supposedly …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 54:52
James Jesus Angleton member_of
CIA documented
“The propaganda campaign on behalf of the Warren Report was primarily run out of the CIA by Dulles, Angleton, and Ray Rocha, the same people involved in the cover-up. In 1967, CIA documents later released under the Freedom of Information Act…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 55:56
James Jesus Angleton ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“in the hands of government. Years later, when James Jesus Angleton and William Harvey, two legends of the counterintelligence, were searching for assassins to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, they sought the advice of Peter Wright, another B…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 25:50
James Jesus Angleton member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Angry Hoover would later mete out punishment for errors such as this, quietly disciplining 17 agents. But the FBI director was desperate to avoid public censure, and he fully supported the commission's lone gunman story. Angleton, who had a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 12:40
James Jesus Angleton framed
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“And what Colby and not that it directly was Colby. It was a retelling of what Angleton had really done while in the agency. But that disclosure made him too hot to handle to ever be the director. And he knew that. So, yeah, he was on his wa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 1:28:11
James Jesus Angleton framed
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. book_quoted
“offered sanctuary in Harvard's history department to anti-Mussolini exile Savamini, an Italian socialist politician and historian. Angleton was so furious about the new tilt in favor of an open government that he began telling people that S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 6:43
James Jesus Angleton suggested
William Harvey book_quoted
“And that was Angleton's idea. Angleton thought the CIA station there had gone soft and was not doing enough to scoop Soviet skullduggery in the Eternal City where there was none. Helms and Angleton did not tell McComb, the actual CIA direct…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 28:46
James Jesus Angleton headed
CIA host_asserted
“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 12 @ 1:20:14
William Harvey succeeded
James Jesus Angleton host_asserted
“It's complicated. But one of the great things about Harvey, he kind of makes it complicated. Because on the one hand, Talbot is portraying him as having conflicts with, of all people, our good friend, you know, Mr. What am I thinking about?…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:26:04
James Jesus Angleton member_of
CIA host_asserted
“I guess it's not when anyone used to be, I guess what I'm saying is used to be, there was one person that the international syndicate was using to manipulate the CIA, whether they were like with Dulles, he was at one time part of the CIA. A…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 1:08:21
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Lee Harvey Oswald documented
“There's so many connections that we've uncovered that you don't hear most people talking about. So I agree with you that it's just amazing to me, all of the stuff that's coming out. But I had not heard about the initials of Angleton's secre…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 1:00:43
James Jesus Angleton targeted_for_regime_change
David Slauson book_quoted
“that he was friendly with the president of USC, and he wanted to make sure that Slauson was going to remain a friend of the CIA. In other words, he was threatening him. Far from shuffling through the Warren Commission proceedings, Dulles se…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 19:49
James Jesus Angleton rescued
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“of the OSS counterintelligence in Italy during the war and had stayed behind to use his wiles against the quote-unquote communist threat. After tracking down Dolman in Milan's asylum, Angleton sent a big U.S. Army Buick with a chauffeur to …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 14:27
James Jesus Angleton headed
X-2 book_quoted
“Dolman decided to sample some of the forbidden fruit that the screen siren kept stashed in her room, heroin. For a time, Dolman, who had much to forget about in his life, was plagued by detailed memories. Salvation came in the form of James…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 13:56
James Jesus Angleton supported_by
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“Angleton, however, was lost in his own passion. He had found strong support for his views from Alan Dulles in the months after the war. Dulles lingered in Europe, hoping that Truman would appoint him commander of the shadow war against the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 16:52
James Jesus Angleton arranged_meeting_for
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“But he had another mission as well, to organize the Italian front in the Cold War, i.e. Operation Gladio. Angleton, who was wired into the Vatican, helped arrange a secret meeting for Dulles and Pope Pius XII, who had mutually beneficial ar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 17:22
James Jesus Angleton looked_up_to
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“But he had another mission as well, to organize the Italian front in the Cold War, i.e. Operation Gladio. Angleton, who was wired into the Vatican, helped arrange a secret meeting for Dulles and Pope Pius XII, who had mutually beneficial ar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 17:22
Hugh Angleton father_of
James Jesus Angleton book_quoted
“James Hugh Angleton, who was an international businessman who had paved his son's path into the spy trade and continued to play an influential role in his life. Dulles would remain a strong paternal figure for Angleton throughout their inte…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 17:54
James Jesus Angleton provided_identity_for
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“While Dolman was unimpressed with Angleton's political lecture, he did appreciate the fake identity card the young spy gave him. The document, which identified him as an Italian employee of an American organization, afforded Dolman the conf…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 20:05
Eugene Dolman contacted
James Jesus Angleton book_quoted
“American, Dolman thought. The situation appeared bleak for Dolman. His next stop would be Nuremberg, but he knew that he had an ace up his sleeve. Dolman took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Pagnotta. Please call this …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 32:02
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“Or so he thought. But it soon became clear that the Dulles dynasty was not entirely dismantled. In truth, the Kennedy purge had left the ranks of Dulles loyalists at the CIA largely untouched, like Angleton and Helms. They continued to call…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 23:53
James Jesus Angleton supplied_arms_to
Israel book_quoted
“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 Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 32:12
James Jesus Angleton reassigned
Eugene Dolman documented
“Gowan might have been Angleton's social superior with much better connections to Roosevelt and Truman administration, but in the end, it was Angleton who prevailed at the spy games. In May of 1947, after Dolman had spent several bleak month…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 41:43
James Jesus Angleton framed
William Gowan book_quoted
“Hungary, all of those areas. That was Frank Wisner's area of expertise. But it was Gowan that was going to take the fall for the escapade. It did not take him long to figure out who was responsible for setting him up. Pearson had been fed t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 50:52
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Mossad book_quoted
“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 @ 20:08
James Jesus Angleton covered_up
Mary Meyer host_asserted
“woman who I was trying to find her name, Mary. 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…”
▶ The Shadow State 38Secret Societies 22; Grooming Technocrats @ 29:53
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Operation Gladio guest_asserted
“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 @ 9:16
James Jesus Angleton member_of
CIA book_quoted
“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 @ 19:39
James Jesus Angleton headed
Counterintelligence Corps book_quoted
“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 @ 39:22
James Jesus Angleton ran
U.S. Embassy in Rome host_asserted
“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 5 (4) @ 1:02:01
James Jesus Angleton headed
Catholic Church book_quoted
“Because he ran both the Vatican and the Israeli desk at the CIA. They work seamlessly together. Finally, in 1992, Sikord and Kimchi were reportedly in Azerbaijan trying to negotiate the sale of arms from Israel. One year later, Hek Martyr, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 8:26
James Jesus Angleton headed
Israel book_quoted
“Because he ran both the Vatican and the Israeli desk at the CIA. They work seamlessly together. Finally, in 1992, Sikord and Kimchi were reportedly in Azerbaijan trying to negotiate the sale of arms from Israel. One year later, Hek Martyr, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 8:26
James Jesus Angleton headed
CIA book_quoted
“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 @ 10:32
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
CIA documented
“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 @ 32:34
James Jesus Angleton member_of
CIA documented
“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 @ 32:02
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Operation 40 book_quoted
“Marbog, who had served as Nixon's Operation 40 covert operation advisor, meaning the one against Cuba, was sent to the Department of Defense to monitor all U.S. contracts inside the country of Iran. The old crew from Castro to Vietnam is no…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 18:45
NKVD spied_on
James Jesus Angleton documented
“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 @ 31:32
Ted Shackley attempted_coup_against
James Jesus Angleton book_quoted
“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 @ 20:08
William Colby removed_from_power
James Jesus Angleton book_quoted
“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 @ 19:11
James Jesus Angleton recruited
John McCaffrey host_asserted
“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 LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 1:20:35
James Jesus Angleton recruited
Cord Meyer documented
“the world of anti-Castro and anti-Kennedy from it. Meyer belonged to the agency's Georgetown set. At Yale, he had dreamed of a writing career. After returning from the war, he devoted himself to the cause of world peace. But after he was in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:00:43
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Lee Harvey Oswald documented
“Don't forget, this book was written before – I'm trying to remember the JFK Washington Post assassination reporter who's really covered this, and he was at a congressional hearing about a year ago. They finally released the last JFK files t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:12:24
James Jesus Angleton asserted
William Colby book_quoted
“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 @ 11:29
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Lee Harvey Oswald book_quoted
“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 …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24 @ 25:26
James Jesus Angleton recruited
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“However, aside from media relations, the agency had an initial, much more pressing problem, money. And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying, during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 36:38
James Jesus Angleton funded
Mario Brod book_quoted
“through a company called General Development Corporation. It was a shell company in Miami. We've talked about it many times. Angleton would handle any legal disputes between the mob and the CIA through New York lawyer Mario Brod, B-R-O-D. T…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 37:08
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“regarded the president as a degenerate and very likely a traitor. If the Soviets launched a sneak nuclear attack on America, Engelbrodin, the Kennedys would be safely cocooned in their luxury bunker, presumably watching World War III on tel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 7:36
William Colby removed_from_power
James Jesus Angleton book_quoted
“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 @ 11:02
Allen Dulles socialized_with
James Jesus Angleton host_asserted
“intelligence study groups, and Princeton Board of Trustees. There were luncheons at the Alibi Club, embassy parties, regular get-togethers with Angleton, Jim Hunt, and Howard Roman. Not even the civil unrest in Washington, ignited by the as…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 41:12
James Jesus Angleton led_team_to_secure
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“Even after death, the secret organism that Dulles had created continued to pulse. A team led by Angleton swept into the old man's home while Clover lay in bed upstairs and rifled through everything. CIA technicians installed secure phone li…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 48:46
Allen Dulles influenced
James Jesus Angleton host_asserted
“future watchmen, including Helms and Angleton, as well as others like William Casey, President Reagan's defiant law-breaking CIA director, and Donald Rumsfeld, President George Bush's smugly, confident conqueror of desert sands. And though …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 51:17
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Italy caller_asserted
“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 Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 1:07:54
James Jesus Angleton ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“the organized crime chief financial officer who had been forced to flee Havana ahead of Castro's revolutionaries, leaving behind the mafia's highly lucrative casino empire. Lansky was part of the Jewish mob, but had close business ties to t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 56:45
James Jesus Angleton recruited
Meyer Lansky documented
“by publishing CIA-vetted literature, and by eliminating the intellectuals and leaders who espounded these ideas. One day shortly after Fidel Castro took over power in Havana, Angleton had a brainstorm. He summoned two Jewish CIA officers, i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 56:17
James Jesus Angleton ordered_assassination_of
Kim Philby documented
“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 …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 50:34
Allen Dulles appointed
James Jesus Angleton documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 47:00
James Jesus Angleton founded
Foriso documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 45:00
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Kim Philby documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 49:27
James Jesus Angleton appointed
Warren Commission host_asserted
“That's his middle name. James Jesus Angleton. He's a Bonesman, 1936. He was a CIA counterintelligence chief, and he was appointed to the Warren Commission that investigated the JFK assassination. So you got a secret society, Skull and Bones…”
▶ The Shadow State 33 Secret Societies 17; Freemason Preview @ 56:32
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Lee Harvey Oswald book_quoted
“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 @ 2:29:44
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“That's his middle name. James Jesus Angleton. He's a Bonesman, 1936. He was a CIA counterintelligence chief, and he was appointed to the Warren Commission that investigated the JFK assassination. So you got a secret society, Skull and Bones…”
▶ The Shadow State 33 Secret Societies 17; Freemason Preview @ 56:32
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Lee Harvey Oswald documented
“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 @ 1:18:43
James Jesus Angleton headed
National Cash Register host_asserted
“And do you know who hoping who owned that franchise? James Jesus Angleton's dad.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 8:43
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Italy book_quoted
“And that's why Angleton spent a lot of time in Italy before he joined the OSS and then the CIA, because his dad was spying and providing information to the State Department based on his franchise in Italy. And that is all very well document…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 18:52
James Jesus Angleton headed
American Chamber of Commerce in Italy host_asserted
“So his dad was both the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy. Now think about that for a second.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 9:08
James Jesus Angleton exposed
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“That was based on Kent's expose of Kent's memo. So the DEA, so Kent, it reminds me of this letter that I, or this article that I found from James Angleton saying, debunking Gladio. So there's an expose that gets written about in Columbia an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 32:36
William Colby spied_on
James Jesus Angleton host_asserted
“But then Harvey goes over to Italy and he gets himself in a kind of a very similar situation there in an Italian context that should we work with the left or not, that we know had deeper divisions in CIA. For example, what Colby said that h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:28:30
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Operation Gladio caller_asserted
“Obviously, there's been a lot of news over the past, you know, four or five days. But I just think that piano solo kind of is your smoking gun, that the presidency doesn't really control the administrative states. The CIA Rome office obviou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:03:12
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
J. Edgar Hoover host_asserted
“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 Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 37:42
James Jesus Angleton covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“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 31 (33) @ 48:41
James Jesus Angleton covered_up
Edwin Wilson guest_asserted
“What the hell? Edwin Wilson was on trial for smuggling C4 explosives to Libya because the CIA set him up to steal his company. He had been a CIA asset for a very long time, but Angleton wanted his company and didn't want him, so they set hi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 50:50
James Jesus Angleton supplied_arms_to
Golpe Borghese host_asserted
“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 - Italy Part 3 @ 1:17:00
James Jesus Angleton covered_up
Lee Harvey Oswald book_quoted
“I mean, Oliver Stone was there and like, you know, the Republicans. It was kind of funny, like the people providing testimony were all basically liberal Democrats. And the Republicans basically just handed it over to them and basically said…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 1:20:05
James Jesus Angleton covered_up
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“None of the, and keep in mind, James Angleton at the CIA was both the Rome Vatican person and Israel. He ran both desks and had access to all of this information. You mean the same James Jesus Angleton, who's the guy who flew across the cou…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 12; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 2) @ 55:32
James Jesus Angleton created_aliases_for
James Earl Ray book_quoted
“defense team. And it's abundantly clear that this was a CIA controlled defense team. Emerson makes that bountifully clear. But he also just, you know, sorry for rambling on here, but he makes it clear that the four aliases used by James Ear…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 1:24:56
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Allen Dulles guest_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 48:58
James Jesus Angleton recruited
Robert Richards Jr. book_quoted
“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 @ 38:26
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
William Colby book_quoted
“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 @ 37:58
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Lee Harvey Oswald caller_asserted
“And he still doesn't have that crucial piece of information that James Angleton has Lee Harvey Oswald's file on his desk a couple of days before the shooting. The fact that he knew that Lee Harvey Oswald would be involved with something, th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 52:19
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Mossad host_asserted
“Well, it also allows coordination. With Angleton having the Vatican desk as well as the Mossad desk, it allows coordination. And that's why I've come away with the collective intelligence network operating as a cohesive body to include MI6.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:21:22
Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of
James Jesus Angleton guest_asserted
“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 14 @ 35:54
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Anti Communist League and Unification Church @ 2:05:47
James Jesus Angleton covered_up
Mary Meyer host_asserted
“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 @ 29:50
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Lee Harvey Oswald host_asserted
“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 Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 1:04:21
James Jesus Angleton framed
Harold Wilson host_asserted
“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 @ 18:43
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Otto Skorzeny host_asserted
“and Gladio. Angleton also found Skorzeny's service useful. He kept in regular contact with him because of Operation Gladio. They don't put that in here, though. Dolman undertook errands for Skorzeny's international neo-Nazi circuit, but Dol…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 57:36
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
William Gowan book_quoted
“The Gowan's family Italian background also infringed on Angleton's turf. I think between the father and son, the Angletons thought they had a lock on Italy and the Vatican, Gowan observed. Jim Angleton was very jealous of my family because …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 39:24
James Jesus Angleton funded
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“SS Eugene Winner, W-E-N-N-E-R, who had also played a part in Operation Sunrise Maneuvers. It soon dawned on Pagnotta's team that Angleton was operating a safe house, a stream of Nazi fugitives who were connected to Sunrise and other Dulles …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 36:27
William Harvey covered_up
James Jesus Angleton host_asserted
“single national foci are there to create deception. And so, and so Angleton's role in, in Italy with Harvey is, in other words, you can almost see Harvey as to some extent creating ambiguity about the Angleton role, whether, you know, Zioni…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:29:51
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Mossad host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 53:44
James Jesus Angleton attempted_assassination_of
Mary Meyer host_asserted
“Here's kind of a fun story here. Mary had a brother-in-law by the name of Benjamin Bradley. Who's Benjamin Bradley? Oh, he was the executive editor at the Washington Post during the Watergate investigation overseeing Woodward and Bernstein.…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:11:15
Lawrence Hartnett covered_up
James Jesus Angleton host_asserted
“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 @ 33:31
James Jesus Angleton member_of
P2 Masonic Lodge host_asserted
“the Masonic Lodge of P2 that they were associated with. And it's just an interesting web that they have spread around the world. I refer to the entire organization as the world's Praetorian Guard. They are the Praetorian Guard for the Inter…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 1:10:43
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Knights of Malta host_asserted
“And do they do some backstabbing things? Yes. James Angleton is probably the best example of that. You won't find anybody else that has two memorials in a foreign country, i.e. Israel. And he was also running the Vatican deaths at the same …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 1:10:20
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Saudi Arabian Intelligence book_quoted
“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 @ 22:10
William Colby covered_up
James Jesus Angleton host_asserted
“It's perhaps significant there. You know, a lot of people have sort of suggested that there was a conflict with Angleton. Angleton is, you know, retires in 74. Finally, you know, he's with some resistance as the way I've heard it. And Colby…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 1:19:33
James Jesus Angleton covered_up
Robert Kennedy assassination guest_asserted
“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…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:32:56
James Jesus Angleton covered_up
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“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 shit. I skipped right over the name. Okay. Keep go…”
▶ The Shadow State 35 Secret Societies 19; Jake Sullivan @ 8:38
James Jesus Angleton member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“And it just so happens at the beginning of creating Operation Gladio, guess where he was at? Italy.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 10:03
Mentions (120)
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
▶ 10:03
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 …
▶ 10:03
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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
▶ 9:16
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. …
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
▶ 8:17
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…
▶ 27:45
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…
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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…
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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.…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
▶ 9:32
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…
▶ 10:32
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…
▶ 11:02
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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
▶ 34:08
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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, …
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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…
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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 …