Richard Holbrooke person
also: Holbrook, Holbrooke, Richard Holbrook, Ambassador Holbrooke, Richard Holbrooks
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Richard Holbrooke carried_out_attack
Bosnia peace negotiations host_asserted
“of, um, him doing that job about just the world in, in general and how it operates. I know, um, when the whole Bosnia, um, thing blew up and, um, Holbrook was over there trying to negotiate, um, a settlement that, um, and now I find out tha…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia @ 1:16:57
Robert Komer recruited
Richard Holbrooke book_quoted
“many, many times in the future as a corrupt SOB working inside the White House of various administrations, who had worked for him in Saigon. Holbrooke, in turn, recommended that Comer hire Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Montague. Montague h…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 43:54
Richard Holbrooke proposed
Bosnia book_quoted
“At the very onset, the Clinton administration diplomat Richard Holbrooks had written a paper identifying Bosnia as a key test for America's European policy, recognizing the arm flows and recommending that we allow covert supply of arms to t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 13:12
Richard Holbrooke proposed
Bosnia book_quoted
“At the end of July, Richard Holbrooke took over as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs and promptly tried to implement the actions suggested in his transition paper. Holbrooke put together a plan to give Bosnian Muslims as muc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 19:42
Richard Holbrooke proposed
Bosnia book_quoted
“finally, would not be Clinton's solution. He resorted to bombing, an operation called deliberate force. Combined with U.S. mediation by Richard Holbrook, that broker to peace deal signed at Dayton, Ohio, towards the end of 1995, the arms em…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 26:40
Mentions (16)
▶ 1:16:57
of, um, him doing that job about just the world in, in general and how it operates. I know, um, when the whole Bosnia, um, thing blew up and, um, Holbrook was over there trying to negotiate, um, a settlement that, um, and now I find out tha…
▶ 1:17:27
When he went over there for the peace summit, no one would agree to the terms. And so his aircraft takes off. He's on his way back. And he's over there for the White House. So the White House has a communications section just like the secti…
▶ 1:17:56
willing to then sign the peace agreement. So they're trying to get a hold of Holbrooke, but their senior comm guy at the time was fairly new at the White House and Army. And so he called my ex, who happened to be on duty at the SecDef offic…
▶ 55:52
assistant to Ambassador Holbrooke, who, for those of you who don't remember, he was intricately involved in the Yugoslavia-Bosnia false flag to break up Yugoslavia. And let's see, from 98 to 2000, he served as executive assistant deputy sec…
▶ 43:25
And he would not report to the president's national security advisor. He was going to report directly to the president. Comer had then created an office with a small select staff to assist him. Leonhardt, as noted, was going to be his deput…
▶ 43:54
many, many times in the future as a corrupt SOB working inside the White House of various administrations, who had worked for him in Saigon. Holbrooke, in turn, recommended that Comer hire Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Montague. Montague h…
▶ 13:12
At the very onset, the Clinton administration diplomat Richard Holbrooks had written a paper identifying Bosnia as a key test for America's European policy, recognizing the arm flows and recommending that we allow covert supply of arms to t…
▶ 19:42
At the end of July, Richard Holbrooke took over as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs and promptly tried to implement the actions suggested in his transition paper. Holbrooke put together a plan to give Bosnian Muslims as muc…
▶ 21:16
in Zagreb and asked for $250 million in weapons. Developments convinced the station chief that nefarious schemes were afoot. In reports on the arms traffic, he began feeding Langley information on Holbrook's activities. A foot-high stack of…
▶ 21:45
Price warned the CIA director that a covert arms channel would be costly and inevitably found out. Jim Wolseley, reading the feed from Zagreb, his link to Lake was very tenuous, feared the extent to which the NSC contemplated a covert opera…
▶ 22:09
In October 94, Woolsey again complained about the Bosnia policy. The CIA doubts contributed directly to rejection of the Holbrooke plan by Lake and Secretary Christopher in early November. The National Security Advisor went beyond simply re…
▶ 24:37
made a very bold call, and asked for NATO airstrikes. In response, the Serbians took hostage almost 400 UN peacekeepers. President Clinton then scheduled an NSC meeting for Memorial Day weekend on Memorial Day. The entire national security …
▶ 26:40
finally, would not be Clinton's solution. He resorted to bombing, an operation called deliberate force. Combined with U.S. mediation by Richard Holbrook, that broker to peace deal signed at Dayton, Ohio, towards the end of 1995, the arms em…
▶ 28:12
was in the SECDEF's communication area. So even when the state departments flew, all of their communications came through the Department of Defense. At least it did then. I don't know what the setup is now. So Holbrook went over there a cou…
▶ 29:11
There was an urgent phone call put through from the station in the former Yugoslavia to the State Department that after Holbrooke had left, got on his airplane, took off, that they had finally got a consensus and were willing to sign the pe…
▶ 55:35
Congress inevitably wanted to sink its teeth into that. Nevermind that the Senate had pressured Clinton to lift the embargo, passing some of the legislation at the very moment that Lake and Galbraith was making their plans. Or that a few mo…