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Claims (75)
Lucien Conein worked_for
United States documented
document
“Conein described his role as follows 'My job was to convey the orders from my Ambassador and the instructions from my Ambassador to the people who were planning the coup...'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.235
Lucien Conein met_with
General Don documented
document
“On October 28 Conein met with General Don who had received assurance from Lodge that Conein spoke for the United States…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.236
Lucien Conein worked_for
CIA documented
document
“Lucien Conein a CIA officer in Saigon testified that the Buddhist uprisings were the catalyst that ultimately brought down the Diem regime…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.232
Lucien Conein paid
General Don documented
document
“Conein brought 3 million piasters (approximately $42,000) to the headquarters which was given to Don to procure food for his troops and to pay death benefits to those killed in the coup…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.236
Lucien Conein operated_in
South Vietnam documented
document
“Conein was at the Joint General Staff headquarters during most of the coup…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.236
Lucien Conein worked_for
CIA documented
document
“CIA officer Conlin and another CIA officer were told to see Generals Khiem and Khanh respectively…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.233
Lucien Conein met_with
Duong Van Minh documented
document
“On October 3 Conein contacted Minh…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.234
Lucien Conein operated_in
North Vietnam documented
“transitional period when the OSS was dissolved and reformed into the CIA. Koenig would be dispatched by the agency to Vietnam as part of the military advisor team. He shows up everywhere, people. According to Kubler, Koenig was used, he use…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 5 @ 33:10
Lucien Conein member_of
Strategic Services Unit documented
“He made his way back to the U.S. and was assigned to the OSS due to his language proficiency and experience in fighting Germans. Koning was eventually transferred to the Pacific, where he conducted commando raids against the Japanese. He wi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 5 @ 32:40
Lucien Conein headed
Document Disposal Unit documented
“A declassified draft working paper of the history of the CIA reveals that the disposal unit, the DDU, had two sections. One under a Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Kubler and another at Frankfurt under the OSS. And that one was Captain Lucien Koni…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 5 @ 30:42
Lucien Conein reassigned
United States host_asserted
“would be a reoccurring factor right up until probably this administration. In 1971, however, a string of heroin labs were uncovered in Thailand. In 1971, furthermore, Colby and Koenig were recalled to the United States. Colby became the dep…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 38:55
Lucien Conein operated_in
Indochina book_quoted
“parachuting into Indochina, doing all kinds of secretive, nefarious things. Indochina would remain Koenig's base of operation long after World War II, like E. Howard Hunt. He slid over from the OSS to the CIA. He operated throughout South a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 4:38
Lucien Conein did_business_with
Mafia 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 …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 9:43
Lucien Conein operated_in
Burma host_asserted
“base of operation after World War II, when, like Hunt, he slid over from the OSS to the CIA. He then operated in South and North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma, and became the top U.S. expert on that area, because at that time, they were ship…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 39:44
Lucien Conein operated_in
Vietnam host_asserted
“base of operation after World War II, when, like Hunt, he slid over from the OSS to the CIA. He then operated in South and North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma, and became the top U.S. expert on that area, because at that time, they were ship…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 39:44
Lucien Conein operated_in
Cambodia host_asserted
“base of operation after World War II, when, like Hunt, he slid over from the OSS to the CIA. He then operated in South and North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma, and became the top U.S. expert on that area, because at that time, they were ship…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 39:44
Lucien Conein spied_on
France host_asserted
“who we first came in contact with as the French guy in Vietnam that basically gets bought out by the CIA. And while he is still pretending to represent the French and the French connection in Vietnam, he's actually working for the CIA. Also…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 1:30:20
Lucien Conein member_of
Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted
“The White House hired Koenig as an expert on Corsican drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. He was assigned as a consultant to the SIO's Far East desk. His activities will be discussed more. Now, what's important about this is, remember, it w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 40:19
Lucien Conein ordered_assassination_of
Ngô Đình Diệm host_asserted
“And these anti-communist forces they're talking about is basically a stay-behind network in Vietnam. Okay. In 1963, achieved infamy as the intermediary between Kennedy White House and Cabal generals that murdered President Diem. That's Koen…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 38:44
Lucien Conein evacuated_individuals_to
South America book_quoted
“transitional period when the OSS was dissolved and reformed into the CIA. Koenig would be dispatched by the agency to Vietnam as part of the military advisor team. He shows up everywhere, people. According to Kubler, Koenig was used, he use…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 5 @ 33:10
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 …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 9:43
John Muldoon did_business_with
Lucien Conein book_quoted
“off of basically like index cards all day long. He would then go out with Koenig for lunch. Then he'd come back and he'd continue making phone calls until he left to go home. You know, like you would do if you were setting up drop shipments…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 13:04
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 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
Ted Shackley did_business_with
Lucien Conein host_asserted
“Shackley was another contender for the most intriguing CIA conspirator award. After years of collaboration with Traficani's organization, the Cuban Exiles, he and part of his Miami staff would then be transferred to Laos to run that secret …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 8:12
Lucien Conein spied_on
Corsican Mafia book_quoted
“He spent his free time hanging out with the Corsicans and considered them part of his group. They never realized that he was ratting them out to the CIA. When Lansdale returned from Vietnam in the late 50s, the Corsicans had regrouped some …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 30:00
Lucien Conein member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Large quantities of opium were shipped to French Saigon headquarters and passed to the Corsican mafia, who in turn smuggled the drugs to Marseille. When the French withdrew from Indochina in 1955 after their defeat, and after the CIA had pu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 28:00
Lucien Conein created
Special Operations Group book_quoted
“He then goes on to say that Koenig's orders were to create clandestine services within the DEA, and each of the dirty dozen agents were regarded as future DEA chiefs of station in foreign countries. And the fact that they're from primarily …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 9:00
Lucien Conein member_of
White House Plumbers book_quoted
“took the ball and ran with it. Koenig's association with the White House plumbers, among whom was discussed in the plan from the White House and his subsequent role in the building that housed B.R. Fox, along with his quote-unquote DEA dirt…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 33:25
Lucien Conein worked_for
G. Gordon Liddy book_quoted
“and others during Lucian Koenig's tenure in the White House. Recruited in 1970 by E. Howard Hunt, Koenig handled various assignments for Charles Coulson and later for E. Gale Crow. And who was he? Oh, the guy that ran the plumber's unit. It…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 32:51
Lucien Conein coordinated
1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état host_asserted
“OK, we need a much stronger domestic government if we are going to land a massive number of ground troops in Vietnam, because this government is like quick. You can't land, you know, that many troops on quicksand. And so those two very diff…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 53:38
Lucien Conein member_of
Organization of American States host_asserted
“He was in charge of the embedded CIA presence in the newly formed DEA with an assassin squad. So, yeah, for decades, he is a central player in this entire thing. He knew everybody in the French OAS, their Gladio program, as well as a lot of…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 55:10
Lucien Conein subpoenaed_by
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations book_quoted
“It appears to have been abandoned. They don't abandon anything. They repackage it, create a new proprietary, and continue on because no one is ever held accountable. Koenig was subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 39:08
Lucien Conein headed
Special Operations Group book_quoted
“The group called the Dirty Dozen was handpicked Latino CIA officers transferred by Lucian Koenig, who was nicknamed Black Luigi. OK, it says the DEA suffered from internal corruption and its best agents were consistently outmaneuvered. I di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 6:11
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations closed_investigation_on
Lucien Conein book_quoted
“and the CIA sheep dipped into the DEA dirty dozen. But even as Warbell was prevented from testifying because all of a sudden the DOJ indicts him, weirdly enough, and then drops the indictment after the coast is clear, Koenig's testimony was…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 39:40
Mitchell WerBell III did_business_with
Lucien Conein book_quoted
“referred to in our other book as the dirty dozen and that he worked warbell worked extensively with lucian koenig and warbell and the cia so lucian koenig was seen by the author as the leader and the guy that had put together and was runnin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 2 @ 13:36
Mitchell WerBell III introduced
Lucien Conein book_quoted
“catalog that we just mentioned that B.R. Fox produced was Warbell's contribution to Koenig's DEA program. Everywhere you find drugs, you find weapons. Warbell was the one that was responsible for bringing Koenig and Morrissey together. So M…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 15:20
Richard Nixon recruited
Lucien Conein host_asserted
“The White House hired Koenig as an expert on Corsican drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. He was assigned as a consultant to the SIO's Far East desk. His activities will be discussed more. Now, what's important about this is, remember, it w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 40:19
Alfred McCoy exposed
Lucien Conein book_quoted
“And these anti-communist forces they're talking about is basically a stay-behind network in Vietnam. Okay. In 1963, achieved infamy as the intermediary between Kennedy White House and Cabal generals that murdered President Diem. That's Koen…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 38:44
Lucien Conein recruited
Grayston Lynch book_quoted
“was recruited by Lucien Koenig. This is the guy that was over in Vietnam, the French guy, the whole French-Marsai connection in Vietnam that basically works the transferring of what was the French network in Southeast Asia over to the CIA. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 12:22
Lucien Conein involved_in
Operation PBSUCCESS host_asserted
“And William Polly and E. Howard Hunt all were involved in setting up the heroin network, which we just talked about, out of Taiwan. And they were all in some fashion involved in the Guatemalan coup. Also involved in the Guatemalan coup was …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 1:29:47
Lucien Conein member_of
Corsican Mafia book_quoted
“how Conan gets out this gold medallion that was given to him by the Corsican Mafia as a token of their friendship that basically is something that's only given to high-ranking Corsican Mafia leaders. Right. And he gets out this gold coin an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 1:09:43
Lucien Conein relationship_with
Corsican Mafia book_quoted
“yale phd student who's doing his paper on all these different people he says hey this is what the corsican mafia gave me they made me an honorary mafia don for all of my relationships with them and the cia and and you know the cia's got a r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 54:46
Lucien Conein operated_in
North Vietnam host_asserted
“as a CIA liaison officer, voila, instant access. As a member of the OSS, Koenig had parachuted into France and formed resistance cells that included Corsican gangsters. These are the same ones that become Gladio. Do you see the connection h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 38:13
Lucien Conein member_of
CIA host_asserted
“Another proposal called for ambushing traffickers in America and taking their drugs and money. Enter Lucien Koenig. The creation of the SIO coincided with the assignment of CIA officer Lucien Koenig to the BND, the guy that set up the Frenc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 37:43
Lucien Conein did_business_with
Corsica book_quoted
“which is true. The truce, according to McCoy, allowed the Corsicans to traffic as long as they served as contact men for the CIA. The truce also endowed the Corsicans with free passage at a time when Marseille heroin labs were turning from …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 39:18
Lucien Conein evacuated_individuals_to
United States book_quoted
“transitional period when the OSS was dissolved and reformed into the CIA. Koenig would be dispatched by the agency to Vietnam as part of the military advisor team. He shows up everywhere, people. According to Kubler, Koenig was used, he use…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 5 @ 33:10
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
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
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
CIA recruited
Lucien Conein book_quoted
“using people like Ed Lansdale and Lucien Koenig. In 1971, when the coup's execution was seriously underway, Cuban exiles, partners as well, well, maybe not partners, at least useful soldiers, because they weren't necessarily cut in on the b…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 2:43
E. Howard Hunt recruited
Lucien Conein book_quoted
“and others during Lucian Koenig's tenure in the White House. Recruited in 1970 by E. Howard Hunt, Koenig handled various assignments for Charles Coulson and later for E. Gale Crow. And who was he? Oh, the guy that ran the plumber's unit. It…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 32:51
E. Howard Hunt recommended
Lucien Conein book_quoted
“into this new liaison group, both in the soon-to-be-created DEA and the White House. It was Hunt who recommended Lucien Koenig to head the group called the Dirty Dozen inside the DEA. Koenig's close friend, Mitch Warble III, told journalist…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 18:33
Lucien Conein worked_for
Charles Colson book_quoted
“and others during Lucian Koenig's tenure in the White House. Recruited in 1970 by E. Howard Hunt, Koenig handled various assignments for Charles Coulson and later for E. Gale Crow. And who was he? Oh, the guy that ran the plumber's unit. It…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 32:51
Lucien Conein did_business_with
Mitch Werbell book_quoted
“In August of 1976, this is chapter 20, sorry. In August of 76, sorry, Lucian Koenig and his chum, Mitch Warbell III, the guy that works at B.R. Fox, that is co-located with the DEA Dirty Dozen from the CIA in the same building, that group, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 38:37
Lucien Conein headed
Special Operations Group book_quoted
“referred to in our other book as the dirty dozen and that he worked warbell worked extensively with lucian koenig and warbell and the cia so lucian koenig was seen by the author as the leader and the guy that had put together and was runnin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 2 @ 13:36
Lucien Conein headed
Special Operations Group book_quoted
“into this new liaison group, both in the soon-to-be-created DEA and the White House. It was Hunt who recommended Lucien Koenig to head the group called the Dirty Dozen inside the DEA. Koenig's close friend, Mitch Warble III, told journalist…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 18:33
Lucien Conein moved_into
Drug Enforcement Administration book_quoted
“That was saying that all of the heroin was coming in from Mexico when they knew that was a lie. The emergence of the DEA was the next to last phase of this coup. Hunt and Koenig, CIA agents, moved into DEA intelligence and operations. Koeni…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 21:48
Lucien Conein located
Special Operations Group book_quoted
“That was saying that all of the heroin was coming in from Mexico when they knew that was a lie. The emergence of the DEA was the next to last phase of this coup. Hunt and Koenig, CIA agents, moved into DEA intelligence and operations. Koeni…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 21:48
William Colby boss_of
Lucien Conein book_quoted
“Lansdale's office was working closely with these people. Lansdale himself was one of the president of Laos at the time's biggest supporters. General Lansdale returned to the U.S. in 1967, leaving Conan in Vietnam. The next year, Conan is gr…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 9 @ 57:11
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
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 informant_for
Edward Lansdale book_quoted
“which was within control of the NATO Gladio unit. In 1955, CIA agent Edward Lansdell began a war to liquidate the Korsian supply network. The Lansdell-Korsian vendetta lasted several years. Oddly enough, his principal informant on Korsian d…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 9 @ 55:41
Lucien Conein member_of
Mafia book_quoted
“activity in France and Lucien Koenig being part of all of this. And again, he was part of the French underworld, the Corsican mafia and all of that stuff. He's the one that works with Nixon basically to take out the Corsican mafia under the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 10:02
Lucien Conein spied_on
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“to implicate President Kennedy in the DM assassination by suggesting to the press that Kennedy knew in advance of the plot to execute the leader. Koenig, having monitored those plots while a CIA officer in Saigon, did as Coulson asked and r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 8:30
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
Lucien Conein member_of
Corsican Mafia host_asserted
“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 are not not related. They are definitely related to each other. SR an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 1:17:21
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 member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“And some of the remaining operatives in intelligence that were the nefarious part of France associated with Gladio stays in country of Vietnam undercover with the CIA and helps them. And Lucien Koenig was one of them because they too had be…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 3 @ 50:19
Mentions (78)
▶ 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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for the entire french war in vietnam um that's where lucy and koenig came from the guy that ends up at um intertel and the dirty dozen in washington dc that's embedded with br fox the weapons the covert weapons manufacturer um lucy and koen…
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And some of the remaining operatives in intelligence that were the nefarious part of France associated with Gladio stays in country of Vietnam undercover with the CIA and helps them. And Lucien Koenig was one of them because they too had be…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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invasion. And he points out that in 1966, Mitch Warbell was a good deal more sober and effective. He starts drinking a lot because he's doing a lot of nefarious things. And he points out the fact that he had been a veteran of OSS operations…
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He goes on to say that he knew that Morrissey, Koenig, and Fox of B.R. Fox was part of assassination, international narcotics trafficking, electronic booby traps, foreign criminals, and the dozen ex-CIA officers secretly attached to the new…
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referred to in our other book as the dirty dozen and that he worked warbell worked extensively with lucian koenig and warbell and the cia so lucian koenig was seen by the author as the leader and the guy that had put together and was runnin…
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covered him enough to understand what his um role in this whole thing is with his companies like defense services and he brings in robert vesco and the dirty dozen dea uh embeds and lucien koenig and he moves on to a guy by the name of mike…
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a number of purposes, and it housed a bizarre assortment of characters. For one thing, it was used almost constantly by Lucian Koenig as a safe house. And as we've learned already, it housed the new DEA special operations group called the D…
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The group called the Dirty Dozen was handpicked Latino CIA officers transferred by Lucian Koenig, who was nicknamed Black Luigi. OK, it says the DEA suffered from internal corruption and its best agents were consistently outmaneuvered. I di…
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he does correctly identify the fact that the CIA was involved in setting up the financing and couriers of the drugs. And there is a footnote that I need to read. Quote, unquote, retired from the CIA in 1972, Koenig was persuaded by Nixon, C…
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to implicate President Kennedy in the DM assassination by suggesting to the press that Kennedy knew in advance of the plot to execute the leader. Koenig, having monitored those plots while a CIA officer in Saigon, did as Coulson asked and r…
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all under the mastermind Lucien Koenig, who, as you remember, traces back to France, traces back to Vietnam, part of the whole. He knew every one of the Gladio operators in France OAS was part of the whole giving up the Corsican mafia, all …
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off of basically like index cards all day long. He would then go out with Koenig for lunch. Then he'd come back and he'd continue making phone calls until he left to go home. You know, like you would do if you were setting up drop shipments…
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Manufacturers of clandestine weapons and surveillance devices have shifted their bases to locations in the Caribbean after that bill was passed. They were establishing factories and shops in what was referred to as mini nations or nations t…
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altitude sensitive, you know, for blowing up airplanes. They had ones that were humidity sensitive. So if you were traveling to Florida, they could put a device on you. And as soon as you walked outside of the airport, they could blow you u…
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I'm going to read this one last part, then we'll call it quits for today because today's an early day. It talks about, as for Koenig and his being involved in the astro equipment, it becomes very interesting when you look back at, because n…
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that you could get a hold of funneled through B.R. Fox. This stuff had been around for years. They just didn't have a fancy catalog, which makes Koenig's time in Vietnam even more interesting now that we have this piece because assassinatio…
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Isn't that convenient? It wasn't the DEA. It never was the DEA. It was the CIA who created the dirty dozen, put them in the building with D.R. Fox for this exact reason. So the author goes on to say it was then that Koenig reported his surp…
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and the CIA sheep dipped into the DEA dirty dozen. But even as Warbell was prevented from testifying because all of a sudden the DOJ indicts him, weirdly enough, and then drops the indictment after the coast is clear, Koenig's testimony was…
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Reporters that accepted Koenig's dismissal of the B.R. Fox affair point out that the explosive devices designed by Morrissey had never been manufactured, which isn't true. They were. And it goes on to say that, quote unquote, we never got t…
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As the owner of a quote unquote detective agency and co-owner of offshore versions of B.R. Fox kind of sealed the deal. Lucy and Koenig needed someone he could trust outside the DEA. That was Mitch Warbell. So.…
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There should be sirens and fireworks going off everywhere. So again, I'm not going to, I'm just looking through here in my notes about the different things. He did talk about the French connection of iOS under his ownership, which makes per…
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activity in France and Lucien Koenig being part of all of this. And again, he was part of the French underworld, the Corsican mafia and all of that stuff. He's the one that works with Nixon basically to take out the Corsican mafia under the…
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even though he doesn't name it as being the CIA, when he talks about some event, I put on there CIA, ha ha, when he gets something wrong and then still CIA. So he, I don't think he realized how in bed Lucy and Conan, well, I know he didn't.…
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Lucy and Koenig was with the OSS and then CIA. And so I make little smart aleck comments out in the column of the book about that. And he spends a whole lot of time with all of these Cuban exiles and their interface with Vesco. And again, I…
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So, that's that. That's crazy. All along, go ahead. Hi, Colonel, can you hear me? Yep. Okay, you mentioned Lucian Conan. And, of course, he's mentioned everywhere, probably for good reason. And I just think it's important that everybody rem…
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OK, we need a much stronger domestic government if we are going to land a massive number of ground troops in Vietnam, because this government is like quick. You can't land, you know, that many troops on quicksand. And so those two very diff…
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sorry, South Vietnamese generals around all this. So, you know, that we need to remember that at all times that it, you know, to understand his seeming ability to slip into every other situation of mystery. He's definitely a key player on m…
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And not as a two-bit player in the play. Like, to your point, front and center in it. He had years in Vietnam while it was a French colony. So, yeah. And, you know, he played a central role in taking down the Corsican mafia for the Nixon ad…
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He was in charge of the embedded CIA presence in the newly formed DEA with an assassin squad. So, yeah, for decades, he is a central player in this entire thing. He knew everybody in the French OAS, their Gladio program, as well as a lot of…
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Southeast Asia at the time when you know the Southeast Asian heroin ring was getting ready to replace the the Corsican one right right and also we also have to remember this is just when you know JFK was issuing ncm 55 and ncm 56 about tryi…
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In August of 1976, this is chapter 20, sorry. In August of 76, sorry, Lucian Koenig and his chum, Mitch Warbell III, the guy that works at B.R. Fox, that is co-located with the DEA Dirty Dozen from the CIA in the same building, that group, …
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using people like Ed Lansdale and Lucien Koenig. In 1971, when the coup's execution was seriously underway, Cuban exiles, partners as well, well, maybe not partners, at least useful soldiers, because they weren't necessarily cut in on the b…
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and the godfather of his children, yes, that close, was one of WACL's top U.S. supporters. Also connected to these lobby groups was Lucian Koenig and the State Department former intelligence chief turned CIA guy, Ray Klein, who attended Tai…
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included members of the Auguste Record and Christian David Networks. In other words, the Corsican Mafia. Hunt persuaded Egal Crow, Croft, to bring CIA agents into the White House Narcotics Task Force. He also told him that he knew key CIA o…
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into this new liaison group, both in the soon-to-be-created DEA and the White House. It was Hunt who recommended Lucien Koenig to head the group called the Dirty Dozen inside the DEA. Koenig's close friend, Mitch Warble III, told journalist…
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that he found it difficult to believe that a lifelong spy of Koenig's stature could ever really leave the CIA because they don't. Warble quite naturally held open the possibility that Koenig's DEA job was a sheep dipping opportunity of the …
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That was saying that all of the heroin was coming in from Mexico when they knew that was a lie. The emergence of the DEA was the next to last phase of this coup. Hunt and Koenig, CIA agents, moved into DEA intelligence and operations. Koeni…
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The Dirty Dozen was officially created on paper to combat the narcotic smugglers. Well, if that's their chartered reason, they suck at it. And the proof is in the pudding, as they say. Their function is what they do. And what they did was n…
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Koenig's forces were apparently directed, for the most part, against a small-time independent group of networkers doing narcotics, taking out additional competition. The biggest Cuban network, Santo Traficantes, were untouched. Miami's 1974…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …