Christian Herter person
also: Christian Harder, Harder, Secretary of State Harder, undersecretary
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Christian Herter succeeded
Allen Dulles documented
“Because, of course, you're not supposed to be able to be compromised. He didn't give a crap. He had so much dirt on everybody, he didn't care. John Foster Dulles passed away two years after first being diagnosed with colon cancer. Allen's c…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 48:17
Christian Herter member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“Because he might actually say something they didn't want to get said. The rate at which the diplomatic initiative gained momentum supplied the State Department the necessary fodder. Harder feared the UN resolution on genocide would fail and…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 47:03
Christian Herter headed
Marshall Plan documented
“Nixon parents came to see him off before the ocean liner embarked. The family took in a performance of Oklahoma. The young congressman was part of a 19-member delegation chaired by Representative Christian Harder, a patriarch of the Republi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 9:02
Christian Herter member_of
League of Nations book_quoted
“head of the American Socialist Party, Alan Dulles, John Foster Dulles, Christian Harder, who was a Secretary of State. These intellectuals around Wilson, under the leadership of Colonel House, drew up a charter for world government that was…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 1 @ 22:20
Christian Herter member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“offered a resolution condemning China for genocide. What? We're going to condemn China for genocide for fighting against a CIA-backed insurgent? Despite the secret paramilitary support for the Tibetans, the U.S. wished to stay in the backgr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 46:01
Dwight D. Eisenhower approved
Christian Herter documented
“I would propose that the existence and substance of this current policy statement be held on a very strict need to know basis, unquote. So we're already talking intervention and he hasn't even really done anything. Eisenhower accepted the p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 1:00:51
Christian Herter member_of
United States documented
“They're setting up black site prisons. They're torturing their people. They're disappearing their people. But they're our dictator. And a few people in the meeting had the wherewithal to say, you know, that might be a problem. General Cabel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 33:04
Christian Herter proposed
Fidel Castro documented
“Even though they're officially recognizing Castro's not a communist. As Cabell spoke on Capitol Hill, Secretary of State Christian Harder put finishing touches on a paper he sent to Eisenhower. The memo proposed four measures on Cuba. These…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 59:48
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▶ 48:17
Because, of course, you're not supposed to be able to be compromised. He didn't give a crap. He had so much dirt on everybody, he didn't care. John Foster Dulles passed away two years after first being diagnosed with colon cancer. Allen's c…
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On the way it is, we will have something across there which will be pretty bad, unquote. A few minutes later, Foster was on the phone to his undersecretary, Christian Herter, H-E-R-T-E-R. What he would like to do is to see things get to a p…
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Though he claims to have stopped them before they could broach the CIA operation, Cummings necessarily had knowledge of the plan because he was the State Department's intelligence chief. Indeed, we have seen that Foster Dulles discussed ope…
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the way it is, we will have something that will end up pretty bad. John Foster's undersecretary, Christian Harder, told him that the CIA chief was quite upset with the British. John Foster wondered why London resisted action and whether the…
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On February 22nd, both Alan Dulles and Christian Harder again raised this matter with the CNO. About this time, aerial reconnaissance disclosed Indonesia's site preparation for a bomber-length airstrip on the island of Natuna Basar, which w…
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offered a resolution condemning China for genocide. What? We're going to condemn China for genocide for fighting against a CIA-backed insurgent? Despite the secret paramilitary support for the Tibetans, the U.S. wished to stay in the backgr…
▶ 47:03
Because he might actually say something they didn't want to get said. The rate at which the diplomatic initiative gained momentum supplied the State Department the necessary fodder. Harder feared the UN resolution on genocide would fail and…
▶ 47:32
Instead, suggesting a slap on the wrist for the Chinese. Secretary Harder told Lodge he had informed the British diplomat that all we wanted to do was to have this thing come in as a mild resolution as possible. American interests were not …
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was sent, and Eisenhower preserved his plausible deniability. The following year, Washington again discouraged the Dalai Lama's request to come to the United States. Secret plans proceeded despite their refusal to associate publicly with th…
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Desmond Fitzgerald countered that no brutality could be greater than that which the Hans were doing. Secretary of State Harder added that the project certainly was embarrassing Beijing. Eisenhower approved more weapons. Beijing pushed back.…
▶ 59:48
Even though they're officially recognizing Castro's not a communist. As Cabell spoke on Capitol Hill, Secretary of State Christian Harder put finishing touches on a paper he sent to Eisenhower. The memo proposed four measures on Cuba. These…
▶ 1:00:22
the American concept of democracy, encouraging opposition to Cuba, both inside Cuba and elsewhere, avoiding any impression that Washington was doing it, and preserving mutual interest for the U.S. in a Cuban government. Harder ended with a …
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I would propose that the existence and substance of this current policy statement be held on a very strict need to know basis, unquote. So we're already talking intervention and he hasn't even really done anything. Eisenhower accepted the p…
▶ 33:04
They're setting up black site prisons. They're torturing their people. They're disappearing their people. But they're our dictator. And a few people in the meeting had the wherewithal to say, you know, that might be a problem. General Cabel…
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Nixon parents came to see him off before the ocean liner embarked. The family took in a performance of Oklahoma. The young congressman was part of a 19-member delegation chaired by Representative Christian Harder, a patriarch of the Republi…
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of the New Deal if Republican congressmen like Nixon were wise enough to refuse to be drawn into support of a dangerous, unworkable, and profoundly inflationary foreign policy. Harder, a Boston Brahmin who had married an heir to the Standar…
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Harder's circle saw the Marshall Plan not only as an essential antidote for the growing appeal of communism in poverty-stricken Western Europe, but as a financial boom to American export industries and international banks, which would profi…
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a man who shared his views and was well known for the power of persuasion. Dulles had another motive for backing the Marshall Plan. He and Frank Wisner would later use funds skimmed from the program to finance their anti-Soviet operations i…
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Now that Harder's committees round-trip transatlantic journey and lengthy tour of Europe, a political expedition that would stretch for longer than two months would give Dollison Harder an ample opportunity to win over skeptics like Richard…
▶ 12:48
The storied cruise ship had hosted the likes of Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Fred Astaire, Winston Churchill, and General Eisenhower. It was all heady stuff for the 34-year-old Nixon. Nixon's all-consuming ambition was fueled by resentment and…
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He was not at all charmed by New York. Ten years later, being wined and dined on the Queen Mary in the same privileged company as Alan Dulles was amazing to him. The spymaster and harder took the young congressman under the wing during the …
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But as usual, Nixon's opponents underestimated him. Nixon may have suffered a tortured psyche, but it made him acutely sensitive to the nuances of power. He had a Machiavellian brilliance for reading the chessboard and calculating the next …
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Committee would have to close its noisy show and his political career would be wrecked. John Foster felt that Nixon approached the group with a proper sense of humility and no doubt intrepidation. It was clear he did not want to proceed unt…
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Harder had checked with his friends at the State Department who assured him Hiss was not a communist. But Nixon was also aware that he came into the room with his own unique leverage. As the leading inquisitor of the Hiss case, an affair wh…
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had none other than House in charge. It consisted, you're never going to believe this, of course you will, 150 college professors, graduate students, lawyers, economists, writers, among others. There were men still familiar to Americans in …
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The U.S. did not join the League of Nations. House was very, very disappointed. But he was not willing to give up because the Fabians are turtles. They just keep on going. He called a meeting in Paris, France. A group of his most dedicated …
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United World Federalists, to name a few, all had the same agenda. They also had the support of many prominent Americans like Harry Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, John Sparkman, Adelaide Stevenson, Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, Christian Har…