Lucien Conein person
also: Lucien, L-U-C-I-E-N, Ponin, C-O-N-E-I-N, Lucien Koenig, Koenig, Lucian Coden, Lucian Conan, Lucy and Koenig, Lucien Conan, Lucien Conine, Conine
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Claims (15)
Lucien Conein spied_on
Ngô Đình Diệm documented
“of the plotters the next day. Thanks to Koenig, the CIA had a front row seat to the coup planning, if not the precise timing. Now, other authors have actually connected the coup to the CIA, that they were actually involved in it. As for his…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 32:17
Roger Hilsman instructed
Lucien Conein documented
“and CIA officer Alfonso G. Sparrow to tell the generals the U.S. was fine with the coup. Richardson reported the maneuver through CIA channels. McCone went on to oppose, supposedly, the coup initiative. Washington scuttled the Hillsman Cabl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 1:05:56
Lucien Conein involved_in
Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem host_asserted
“For a time, the Vietnamese generals backed down. But two days before Richardson's hurried recall, they told Koenig of a new coup plan. That coup took place on November 1st, 1963. The CIA put up $40,000 to pay for it. You know, because they …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 1:07:29
Lucien Conein trafficked
Vietnam caller_asserted
“And he was a very valuable intelligence partner during World War II, and at least according, I think, to the Kefauver committees, well after that, as well as Lucien Conine in his interview with Alfred McCoy in 71. Yeah, and Conine is the gu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 1:00:23
Lucien Conein trafficked
Laos caller_asserted
“And he was a very valuable intelligence partner during World War II, and at least according, I think, to the Kefauver committees, well after that, as well as Lucien Conine in his interview with Alfred McCoy in 71. Yeah, and Conine is the gu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 1:00:23
Lucien Conein trafficked
Cuba caller_asserted
“And he was a very valuable intelligence partner during World War II, and at least according, I think, to the Kefauver committees, well after that, as well as Lucien Conine in his interview with Alfred McCoy in 71. Yeah, and Conine is the gu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 1:00:23
Lucien Conein member_of
Mafia host_asserted
“some of it to ground too. And then you find out that he had a 1971 interview with, um, uh, Lucien Conine who showed him his medallion that he got from the Corsican mafia. Yeah. Uh, and then he always carried around in his pocket. Okay. That…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 1:16:49
Lucien Conein member_of
French Foreign Legion book_quoted
“and some soon-to-be infamous names would be in charge of setting them all up. From Paul Williams' book, Operation Gladio, the following quote, By the close of World War II, Helliwell and a number of fellow intelligence officers, to include …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 7:59
Lucien Conein spied_on
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“Can't keep track of my own notes. Abuses by corrupt security officers, policemen, politicians, and racketeers, all of whom extorted innocent civilians, as well as the Viet Minh. Legendary CIA officer Lucien Koenig, which is the French guy, …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 18:54
Lucien Conein spied_on
Mafia host_asserted
“they're talking about a former operation, consisted of five pounds of opium. One of Singlum's teammates, Lucien Koenig, went on to be the CIA's liaison with the Corsican Mafia. And he's talking a lot earlier, like in the early 1950s. During…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner_ The Medusa Files; Part 12 @ 25:36
CIA recruited
Lucien Conein documented
“Lansdale's mission specific for operations had that much time to fuck it all up. Lucien Koenig, who we see later on in, he's a big drug dealer, weapons guy, and was in close personal contact with the French mafia and drug trafficking in Mar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 38:40
Lucien Conein member_of
France host_asserted
“because the French is still in Vietnam and Laos and those, and they are using their networks. That's where Lucien Koenig comes in. They were using those networks, taking the harvest into the Marseille labs, and they were basically dominatin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 7 @ 1:10:45
Lucien Conein ordered_assassination_of
Mafia host_asserted
“Gladio type operation there on the inside when he was actually working for the CIA. And he went in during the early Nixon administration on the quote unquote war on drugs and outed all of the mafia and identified them for assassination. And…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 1:24:32
Edward Lansdale appointed
Lucien Conein documented
“Lansdale's mission specific for operations had that much time to fuck it all up. Lucien Koenig, who we see later on in, he's a big drug dealer, weapons guy, and was in close personal contact with the French mafia and drug trafficking in Mar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 38:40
Lucien Conein spied_on
Mafia host_asserted
“No, no, that's not what happened. The Lucien Koenig guy is the guy that wiped out the French connection. He was a double agent. They thought he was part of the mafia in France and part of their...…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 1:24:14
Mentions (39)
▶ 11:18
basically Operation Gladio. They're going to be, and so they set up an organization called the World Commerce Corporation, and that's going to be a vehicle. It's basically a CIA front company that they're going to do all of this through. So…
▶ 11:47
And a guy by the name of Lucien, L-U-C-I-E-N, Ponin, C-O-N-E-I-N. Now, that guy is a French guy. And he has ties to the Corsican Mafia. And he was instrumental in 1970, late 60s, early 70s, in Richard Nixon's War on the Drugs, where they ba…
▶ 1:24:14
No, no, that's not what happened. The Lucien Koenig guy is the guy that wiped out the French connection. He was a double agent. They thought he was part of the mafia in France and part of their...…
▶ 18:54
Can't keep track of my own notes. Abuses by corrupt security officers, policemen, politicians, and racketeers, all of whom extorted innocent civilians, as well as the Viet Minh. Legendary CIA officer Lucien Koenig, which is the French guy, …
▶ 26:55
The paramilitary crowd made up one circle. The espionage crew made up another. Since 1961, there had been a communications intelligence circle as well. One of the CIA political action men played a major role in the demise of President Diem,…
▶ 27:27
He was crossed between a mafia guy and a French OAS. And he also is the one that eventually helps Richard Nixon take down the Corsican mafia because he was basically playing a double agent. But while he's here during this period of time, he…
▶ 27:59
interior ministry. So he also was very familiar with all of the inner workings of Vietnam because, of course, the French had been there for a long time. So he had actually went to some of the same training classes with William Colby and had…
▶ 28:29
crazy people in Eastern Europe that were all war criminals that we brought over to the United States. Thanks to this guy. He had also been a Jedburgh and a veteran of the French commando operations in Northern Vietnam in 1945. Koenig had al…
▶ 28:59
and also to the Philippines that Lansdale brought over to Vietnam. Of course, the biggest empire within the CIA was Richardson's own. It was customary for station chiefs to maintain certain relationships, in particular with the chiefs of th…
▶ 30:51
However, reported back through CIA channels that the ambassador had regarded the cable as an order to support a coup d'etat. Richardson opposed this. At Langley, William Colby backed him up. John McCone was on vacation but was quickly infor…
▶ 31:18
a CIA officer by the name of Alfonso Spero, S-P-E-R-O, to tell the Vietnamese generals that the substance of Hillman's cable and to say the U.S. would not oppose a coup if they could conduct one. McCone went on to oppose the coup initiative…
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He insisted on the transfer of the station chief. Richardson was abruptly recalled on October 5th after little more than a year on station. For a time, the Vietnamese generals backed down, but two days before Richardson's hurried recall, Ko…
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of the plotters the next day. Thanks to Koenig, the CIA had a front row seat to the coup planning, if not the precise timing. Now, other authors have actually connected the coup to the CIA, that they were actually involved in it. As for his…
▶ 29:58
foreign nationals to blow up contraband planes while they were refueling at clandestine airstrips. Another proposal called for ambushing traffickers in America and taking their drugs and money. The creation of the Strategic Intelligence Off…
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that converts over to the CIA. So they're going to assign this guy who ran the drug trafficking in Laos and Vietnam into the BND organization that supposedly was created to keep the CIA out of their shit. Following along yet? As a member of…
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i.e. the beginning of their stay-behind units. As a CIA officer, Koenig in 1954 was assigned to Vietnam, and we already know all that. Historian Alfred McCoy has alleged that Koenig arranged a truce between the CIA and drug traffickers in S…
▶ 31:31
had the Corsicans gaining free passage into Marseilles' heroin labs. Koenig denied McCoy's allegation, but of course we know they're all true. It's impossible to know, according to this article author who was telling the truth, but we know …
▶ 32:02
on drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. He was assigned as a consultant on the Far East Asian desk of the BNDD's Strategic Intelligence Office. So he's the fox in the henhouse again. He is also the guy that gave the information to Nixon for …
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And he was a very valuable intelligence partner during World War II, and at least according, I think, to the Kefauver committees, well after that, as well as Lucien Conine in his interview with Alfred McCoy in 71. Yeah, and Conine is the gu…
▶ 1:16:49
some of it to ground too. And then you find out that he had a 1971 interview with, um, uh, Lucien Conine who showed him his medallion that he got from the Corsican mafia. Yeah. Uh, and then he always carried around in his pocket. Okay. That…
▶ 38:40
Lansdale's mission specific for operations had that much time to fuck it all up. Lucien Koenig, who we see later on in, he's a big drug dealer, weapons guy, and was in close personal contact with the French mafia and drug trafficking in Mar…
▶ 39:13
For the North, he managed to smuggle a few shipments of weapons and explosives into North Vietnam under cover of the French withdrawal and carried out psychological operations, but he had no capacity for long-term support. He's equipping st…
▶ 1:04:26
One of the agency's political specialists played a key role in the demise of Diem, Lucien Koenig. His cover as a lieutenant colonel assigned to the Vietnamese Interior Ministry, but whose real function involved contact with the Vietnamese g…
▶ 1:05:27
drafted a cable backing a coup that was suggested by the Vietnamese generals, or so they say. No special forces had just made bloody, widely condemned attacks on a Buddhist pagoda. That became the last straw. A cable on August 26, 1963, ins…
▶ 1:05:56
and CIA officer Alfonso G. Sparrow to tell the generals the U.S. was fine with the coup. Richardson reported the maneuver through CIA channels. McCone went on to oppose, supposedly, the coup initiative. Washington scuttled the Hillsman Cabl…
▶ 1:07:29
For a time, the Vietnamese generals backed down. But two days before Richardson's hurried recall, they told Koenig of a new coup plan. That coup took place on November 1st, 1963. The CIA put up $40,000 to pay for it. You know, because they …
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But we've got iteration after iteration after iteration that everywhere they go and do this shit, either the oligarchs get a resource or the CIA gets drugs. And there are no exceptions to that. All along, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, I think, y…
▶ 1:09:26
You know, this is such an important topic about, you know, was JFK getting out of Vietnam or was he not, which is at the core of our narrative that affects every single high school, blah, blah, blah. But is Kaiser's book, American Tragedy a…
▶ 1:10:53
And the third person being our good friend, who you mentioned before, what's his name? You know who I'm talking about. Lyman Lemonsker? No, the State Department guy who wrote that 1967 book called, oh, crap, I can't remember. Okay. Yeah, so…
▶ 1:11:22
JFK was not in the White House at the time. He was out of town and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So there's ambiguity built into this stuff. But it's really important to understand that Lucian Conan is, you know, at both of these situations…
▶ 1:13:12
That's where he's from. So to Illini's point about him being accepted into the Corsican mafia as one of their dons, very critical because it was French OAS agents that were in Dallas on November 22nd. So those are not separate stories. They…
▶ 1:10:45
because the French is still in Vietnam and Laos and those, and they are using their networks. That's where Lucien Koenig comes in. They were using those networks, taking the harvest into the Marseille labs, and they were basically dominatin…
▶ 10:19
Paul Helliwell, the famous lawyer that set up a bank called Castle Bank and bought all the land for Walt Disney and Orlando for Disney World and laundered billions of drug money. Lucien Koenig, who of course we know was the famous French gu…
▶ 12:13
five-pound bundles of opium. He's talking about a base in Southeast Asia. And he says that one of Senglib's teammates, Lucien Koenig, went on to be the CIA's liaison with the Corsican Mafia, which I just mentioned. And during the Vietnam Wa…
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Let's see, Bridget got kicked out. Let me get her back up here. They must be messing with us again. Yeah, that's really crazy. Another meeting occurred in which other players came together in Southeast Asia. According to sources that have o…
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starting off as an OSS veteran, then transferring to the CIA. And of course, we saw him in the drug operations in Taiwan, billed as China, of course. He was in the stay-behind setup in Korea. And he and E. Howard Hunt,…
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Paul Helliwell, the Castle Bank guy that bought all the land for Walt Disney. Yeah, him. And at one time, he supposedly was a Colonel, too. Lucien Koenig. And this guy finds Mitch Warbell again. Technically, Mitch Warbell III, I think it wa…
▶ 25:36
they're talking about a former operation, consisted of five pounds of opium. One of Singlum's teammates, Lucien Koenig, went on to be the CIA's liaison with the Corsican Mafia. And he's talking a lot earlier, like in the early 1950s. During…
▶ 7:59
and some soon-to-be infamous names would be in charge of setting them all up. From Paul Williams' book, Operation Gladio, the following quote, By the close of World War II, Helliwell and a number of fellow intelligence officers, to include …