David Bruce person
also: Bruce, Ambassador David Bruce, David K.E. Bruce, David Bruce
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David Bruce carried_out_attack
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état book_quoted
“David Bruce had somehow retained a relaxed probity, which all but invalidated him for invisible government involvement. It had been Bruce's intervention in the Truman Air move on Arbenz, which is the overthrow, the coup in Guatemala. And no…”
▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones with War Hamster Brady @ 49:06
David Bruce member_of
Mellon family documented
“Now, why would that be? Because Bruce was an in-law to the Mellon family. Bruce sought out Corbly, and it was his nephew, Hitchcock, that put the two in touch with each other. Corbly then contacted Ward from Bruce's office and set up a lunc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 1 @ 46:47
David Bruce member_of
U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted
“responsible for all dealings with the board, recalled the first encounter as brutal and writes that it was in truth a saturation effort. But Kirk could not head off the initiative to examine covert action. David K.E. Bruce, the respected di…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 8:38
David Bruce recruited
William Mellon Hitchcock book_quoted
“Hitchcock would also be enlisted by his former in-law, David Bruce, to get to the bottom of the Profumo allegations, along with Corbley. Bruce was a full-blown OSS veteran himself. Hitchcock, less than a decade later, would be using Paul He…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 3:56
David Bruce member_of
United States Liaison Office host_asserted
“George Herbert Walker Bush, David K.E. Bruce, Leonard Woodcock, and Thomas S. Gates. Now, of course, we all get a red flag with Bush, but I didn't know who Bruce were and Woodcock. But I did hear of Gates, Thomas S. Gates. Thomas S. Gates w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 1:11:37
Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed
David Bruce host_asserted
“In 1956, to appease critics who charged the CIA was operating with extremely minimal supervision, Eisenhower again ordered a discreet investigation of the agency by national security insiders. This time, diplomat David Bruce, the Wall Stree…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 12:06
William Casey succeeded
David Bruce documented
“David Bruce as OSS chief of secret intelligence for the European theater. Basically negotiating the changeover of Hitler's stay behind with General Wolf to soon to be NATO and Alan Dulles. He supervised the infiltration of OSS agents into G…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 16:01
David Bruce spied_on
John Profumo book_quoted
“at all of these exclusive places, any private investigator is going to want to get to know Ward. In 1963, Prime Minister Harold McMillan became concerned over the rumors surrounding Profumo and Keillor, and he vowed to get to the bottom of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 1 @ 46:17
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▶ 17:11
And this is an interesting part here. Paul Helliwell was the son of an Englishman who was a cloth buyer, a member of the inner circle. And he also hung around with Henry Sturgis Morgan, who was the son of J.P. Morgan Jr., Nicholas Roosevelt…
▶ 3:37
World War II vet who used to sell, he was a disabled vet who sold ammo out of his home. It was antique ammo that he would trade and barter. Anyway, long story short, we used to joke because we would go up there and he would go on and on abo…
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And we would say, boy, crazy old Bruce. Crazy old Bruce. And when we were going through the Operation Gladio stuff, and I would explain this, whatever we had found, to my husband, there came a moment when I looked at him and I said, you do …
▶ 48:39
And Alan Dulles was intimately involved in this. It dealt with the Atomic Energy Commission. So that's in light of what I'm saying. More light. Both rose out of the sparks thrown off by the panel report on covert operations entrusted to Rob…
▶ 49:06
David Bruce had somehow retained a relaxed probity, which all but invalidated him for invisible government involvement. It had been Bruce's intervention in the Truman Air move on Arbenz, which is the overthrow, the coup in Guatemala. And no…
▶ 49:36
left Bruce alarmed. Quote, this is a Lovett quote. He approached it from the standpoint of what right have we to go barging around into other countries, buying newspapers and handing money to opposition parties and supporting a candidate fo…
▶ 1:11:37
George Herbert Walker Bush, David K.E. Bruce, Leonard Woodcock, and Thomas S. Gates. Now, of course, we all get a red flag with Bush, but I didn't know who Bruce were and Woodcock. But I did hear of Gates, Thomas S. Gates. Thomas S. Gates w…
▶ 1:12:59
Right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I'm going to put in the pill, I'm going to put the link to this liaison office. And all these guys, David Bruce, all of them, you know, are the usual corrupt suspects. And I'm just like, what did we just see l…
▶ 15:43
actually helped keep the CIA out of the act, objecting that the covert initiative could easily get in the way of overt policy. JFK sided with Schlesinger. He was not interested. A second round of talks with the British took place in London …
▶ 16:15
Among them was William Burdett, Washington's point man on Guyana policy. The CIA senior officer at the London office was none other than Frank Wisner, the agency's former covert operations chief. Bruce received instructions to minimize the …
▶ 16:47
that any specific move would be subjected to high-level U.S. consideration and British approval. Secretary Russ told Bruce, we should keep in mind the possibility of Jagen is a communist-controlled sleeper who will establish a Castro-like g…
▶ 8:38
responsible for all dealings with the board, recalled the first encounter as brutal and writes that it was in truth a saturation effort. But Kirk could not head off the initiative to examine covert action. David K.E. Bruce, the respected di…
▶ 9:07
a former Secretary of Defense, was also on the board or commission. Frank Wisner was not at all happy that people were looking at his work. He viewed himself with a sophisticated understanding of a secret world. David Bruce went to the hear…
▶ 9:40
Bruce found chalking up credits for success, but no debits for failures, with approvals made in pro forma fashion. Between frustrating the Russians and keeping the rest of the world Western-oriented, any operation was deemed important. The …
▶ 10:11
Bruce and Lovett expressed certainty that no one who had helped launch the secret war in 1948 had foreseen these consequences. Easy approvals brought messy realities. Wisner defended his operations, arguing as he left for Europe just before…
▶ 10:41
had concerns about coordination between the CIA and the Pentagon, observing that someone high in government could be calculating the long-term wisdom of these operations. Bruce and Lovett went to Eisenhower at the end of 56, advising Eisenh…
▶ 15:30
Casey had also been one of the original secret warriors. In World War II, he went into the OSS, where he worked as an aide to Wild Bill Donovan. The OSS chief, in turn, sent Casey to London. There, the acolyte helped organize the Jedburgh P…
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a guy by the name of David K.E. Bruce. Teams assisted the escape of Allied airmen downed over the continent, carried out commando raids, cooperated with resistance fighters. One of the biggest operations came with the Normandy invasion of 1…
▶ 25:47
Mellon Jr., the son of the Gulf Oil founder, was also in the OSF. And then you had in-laws of the Mellon family, David Bruce and Alan Scaife, S-C-A-I-F-E. On the whole, the Mellon family members and their in-laws were very active in London,…
▶ 46:17
at all of these exclusive places, any private investigator is going to want to get to know Ward. In 1963, Prime Minister Harold McMillan became concerned over the rumors surrounding Profumo and Keillor, and he vowed to get to the bottom of …
▶ 46:47
Now, why would that be? Because Bruce was an in-law to the Mellon family. Bruce sought out Corbly, and it was his nephew, Hitchcock, that put the two in touch with each other. Corbly then contacted Ward from Bruce's office and set up a lunc…
▶ 47:49
in January of 1963, at which point Hitchcock promptly contacted his uncle, David Bruce, and Corbley was then asked to visit the ambassador, who was friends with Lord Astor as well, and that they met at Cliveden the next day. Bruce asked Cor…
▶ 48:16
Slightly different versions, not a whole lot of difference. The bottom line is they all knew. So then Bruce supposedly now with knowledge of this affair, he knows. So the UK ambassador from the US knows about this whole thing in January. Ma…
▶ 48:46
Corbley had also informed a guy by the name of Clive Bossom, B-O-S-S-O-M, who was a British official sometime in February. And it says neither Corbley, who, of course, used to be in the OSF. So he was part of the Intel community. Bruce, who…
▶ 51:39
Reportedly, some of the information Corbley turned over to Cohn is still classified as of right now, so maybe we'll get to see it soon. William Mellon Hitchcock, along with Mellon's in-law, David Bruce, were right in the middle of all of it…
▶ 3:56
Hitchcock would also be enlisted by his former in-law, David Bruce, to get to the bottom of the Profumo allegations, along with Corbley. Bruce was a full-blown OSS veteran himself. Hitchcock, less than a decade later, would be using Paul He…
▶ 12:06
In 1956, to appease critics who charged the CIA was operating with extremely minimal supervision, Eisenhower again ordered a discreet investigation of the agency by national security insiders. This time, diplomat David Bruce, the Wall Stree…
▶ 12:30
There was nothing to fear from this new inspection since Bruce and Lovett were longtime friends of Allen Dulles. But the Bruce Lovett report shocked Dulles, taking strong aim at the CIA's penance for creating political mayhem around the glo…
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Born in Boston, Tyler traipsed around Europe for most of his life, collecting art, marrying a Florentine Contessa, and playing the market. He was multilingual, and his wife led a richly cultured life with Tyler haunting antique shops and pr…