Syngman Rhee person
also: Ri, Sigmund Rhee, Bree, Rhee, Dr. Lee, Dr. Rhee, Ree, Reeve, R-H-E-E, President Rhee, sigmanry, Ri, R-H-E-E, Reid, Sigmund Reed, Ri from Korea
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Claims (19)
Syngman Rhee headed
Republic of Korea documented
“called the Republic of Korea, headed by a U.S.-backed Syngman Rhee, South Korea's first president. In a letter to Truman, Syngman Rhee wrote, quote, Such bullshit. Syngman Rhee also expressed confidence that the U.S. would be permitted to b…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 46:17
Syngman Rhee headed
Korea book_quoted
“Now, what most people that have done the extensive research into this of who said what and when, down to like what we just went over, the different news accounts and that type of thing, that that is in fact what happened. The head of South …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea @ 30:33
United States attempted_coup_against
Syngman Rhee host_asserted
“for example, was so opposed to any outcome short of total victory of the entire peninsula that both Truman and Eisenhower administration drew up plans to overthrow him, the guy they set in place as the figurehead that they groomed for the j…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 2 @ 13:50
United States installed
Syngman Rhee host_asserted
“And gosh, doesn't that sound so familiar to all of us who have been deployed in coalition forces? Why, yes, it does. The war, and a brutal one indeed, was fought ostensibly in defense of Syngman Rhee's regime. Outside of books published by …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea @ 45:00
United States installed
Syngman Rhee host_asserted
“against the Japanese 35-year occupation turning Korea into a penal colony, a colony, whatever you want to call it. So he was the Ho Chi Minh of Korea, unequivocally. Who was not there was Ri, R-H-E-E, the guy that we installed in the southe…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Singapore History @ 1:19:31
Syngman Rhee supported
Northwest Youth League host_asserted
“Basically not true at this point. Not saying it didn't happen. The association conducted vigilante justice on anyone accused or suspected of being a communist. The association was supported by who? Sigmund Rhee, who was the U.S.-backed auto…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 28:46
Syngman Rhee suppressed
Jeju Uprising documented
“attacking the U.S.-trained police, and you can think Phoenix programs type police in this case, and this youth league that was sent in by Ri. And the First Republic of Korea under Ri escalated the suppression of the uprising by declaring ma…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 29:48
Chunghee Park succeeded
Syngman Rhee host_asserted
“Because he was the CIA installed guy. Well, the guy that came after him is a guy by the name of Chunghee, C-H-U-N-G-H-E-E Park. Chunghee Park. And that's who this guy is going to initially begin talking about. There was a strong connection …”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Anti Communist League and Unification Church @ 15:51
Syngman Rhee friend_of
National Council of Churches documented
“It lines up perfectly with the World Anti-Communist League and the Unification Church and the drug lord, Chiang Kai-shek. The South Korean president in 1950s was Syngman Rhee, was a longstanding personal friend of one key ICCC official. Oth…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 20:28
United States installed
Syngman Rhee host_asserted
“in South Korea. There is also guerrilla forces being trained by the army and the U.S. was trying to install Ri into the presidency of all of Korea because he was bought and paid for by the West. Kim Il-sung…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 2 @ 2:35
Syngman Rhee attempted_coup_against
Korea book_quoted
“had often expressed his desire and readiness to compel the unification of Korea by force. On 26 June, the New York Times reminded its readers that on a number of occasions, Dr. Lee had indicated that his army would have taken the offensive …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea @ 30:59
Syngman Rhee carried_out_attack
Korea host_asserted
“which is why it's so important. A year later, when the Committee of the National Assembly launched an investigation of the collaborators, Rhee had his police raid the assembly. 22 people were arrested, of whom 16 were later found to have be…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea @ 54:51
World Anti-Communist League founded
Syngman Rhee book_quoted
“by Chiang Kai-shek, the drug lord, Sigmund Rhee, the CIA-installed guy in South Korea, and the two war criminals in Japan. That's who started this. Oh, and Reverend Moon from the Unification Church, the Moonies, created the Asian People Ant…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1 @ 22:26
United States installed
Syngman Rhee host_asserted
“The activity slowed after the establishment of that new government in the South because they had already got what they wanted. They'd killed a bunch of people in the South, kowtowed them, propped up Bree, and then magically some of the kill…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea part 3 @ 50:45
Syngman Rhee carried_out_attack
Korea book_quoted
“has stated that probably over 100,000 were killed without any trial whatsoever by Reeve's forces in the South during the war. Following some of the massacres of civilians in the South, the Reeve government turned around and attributed them …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea @ 1:00:36
Syngman Rhee covered_up
Unification Church book_quoted
“generated widespread publicity and opposition among regular Protestant church officials because, again, they thought he was crazy. And the complaints of the regular Protestant churches led to his arrest under President Rhee in 1955. The nat…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Anti Communist League and Unification Church @ 28:20
CIA installed
Syngman Rhee host_asserted
“was basically someone that, between the time of 1945 and 1950, the CIA had basically invaded the south part of Korea, which is where most of the leadership of the colony that had been orchestrated from Japan, and they figured that there wou…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea @ 32:58
Syngman Rhee installed
Korea host_asserted
“Because he was the CIA installed guy. Well, the guy that came after him is a guy by the name of Chunghee, C-H-U-N-G-H-E-E Park. Chunghee Park. And that's who this guy is going to initially begin talking about. There was a strong connection …”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Anti Communist League and Unification Church @ 15:51
Syngman Rhee ordered_assassination_of
Korea host_asserted
“And its manifestation into political forms in South Korea. And remember, we learned that one of the things is any nationalistic person that was interested in the unification of the Korean Peninsula was assassinated. And people became very i…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Anti Communist League and Unification Church @ 20:57
Mentions (48)
▶ 30:33
Now, what most people that have done the extensive research into this of who said what and when, down to like what we just went over, the different news accounts and that type of thing, that that is in fact what happened. The head of South …
▶ 30:59
had often expressed his desire and readiness to compel the unification of Korea by force. On 26 June, the New York Times reminded its readers that on a number of occasions, Dr. Lee had indicated that his army would have taken the offensive …
▶ 31:29
That's a common theme as well. Ri may have had good reason for provoking a full-scale war apart from the issue of unification. On 30 May, elections for the National Assembly were held in the South in which Ri's party suffered a heavy loss. …
▶ 32:28
The guy that was the primary leader in the North wanted his country back. We see that time and time again, because that's what happened to Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam. They didn't want an occupying force. They didn't want the U.S. to be there fo…
▶ 45:00
And gosh, doesn't that sound so familiar to all of us who have been deployed in coalition forces? Why, yes, it does. The war, and a brutal one indeed, was fought ostensibly in defense of Syngman Rhee's regime. Outside of books published by …
▶ 47:00
And the South Koreans already had their own provisional government, Korean People's Republic. They're not interested in that one because those people were interested in a unified country as well. Despite its name, the KPR included a number …
▶ 48:57
John Gunther, hardly a radical, summed up the situation this way, quote, so the first and best chance at building a united Korea was tossed away, unquote. And Alfred Crofts, a member of the American military government at the time, has writ…
▶ 51:04
to prevent the Korean People's Republic from assuming a measure of power. And it wasn't because there wasn't Koreans there to do the job. It had everything to do with controlling the outcome. And while the North soon implemented widespread …
▶ 51:33
Two years later, it enacted a land reform measure, but this applied only to former Japanese property. In 1949, a law to cover other holdings was not enforced at all, and the abuse of land tenants continued both in the new and old forms. Pub…
▶ 52:02
and some very questionable elections, like really questionable. So reluctant was Rhee to allow an honest election that by early 1950, he had become enough of an embarrassment to the U.S. for Washington to threaten to cut off his aid if he f…
▶ 52:32
And the re-government was decisively repudiated. The resentment was manifested in the form of frequent rebellions, including some guerrilla warfare in the hills, from 1946 to the beginning of the war. And even during the war, the rebellions…
▶ 53:27
evidently permitted U.S. troops to take part in the repression. And we've got a lot of evidence to this that we will present in the next couple of days. Mark Gain, a correspondent in Korea for the Chicago Sun, wrote that American soldiers f…
▶ 54:51
which is why it's so important. A year later, when the Committee of the National Assembly launched an investigation of the collaborators, Rhee had his police raid the assembly. 22 people were arrested, of whom 16 were later found to have be…
▶ 1:00:10
the shooting without trial of civilians designated by the police as quote-unquote communist, these executions were done usually at dawn on any patch of waste ground where you could dig a trench and line up the people in front of it. As Greg…
▶ 1:00:36
has stated that probably over 100,000 were killed without any trial whatsoever by Reeve's forces in the South during the war. Following some of the massacres of civilians in the South, the Reeve government turned around and attributed them …
▶ 2:35
in South Korea. There is also guerrilla forces being trained by the army and the U.S. was trying to install Ri into the presidency of all of Korea because he was bought and paid for by the West. Kim Il-sung…
▶ 13:50
for example, was so opposed to any outcome short of total victory of the entire peninsula that both Truman and Eisenhower administration drew up plans to overthrow him, the guy they set in place as the figurehead that they groomed for the j…
▶ 5:07
that basically created a civil war inside of the South in order to get all of the dissidents out of there so they could prop up Ri to be the new president of South Korea. Okay, as explained in a pamphlet, CIA, the name of it was called CIA …
▶ 5:40
All U.S. military services, the British Marines, the CIA, and the Republic of Korea, which is basically Ri's area, military and civilian intelligence conducted special and intelligence operations during the war. My purpose is to correct, cl…
▶ 14:22
which when the French came back in after they expelled the Japanese, they turned it back into a colony. And he didn't want that. So the U.S. has to bring in a Korean living in the United States, Ri, R-H-E-E. They fly him in. They prop him u…
▶ 50:45
The activity slowed after the establishment of that new government in the South because they had already got what they wanted. They'd killed a bunch of people in the South, kowtowed them, propped up Bree, and then magically some of the kill…
▶ 53:50
was go back from 1948 in South Korea and went through all of the presidents that they have had. And I want to just briefly read this. You have Syngman Rhee, which we talked about. He's the guy that the CIA installed there after they killed …
▶ 55:48
And they knew they were only going to have the South. They installed a sigmanry. And he lasts as a dictator for 12 years. He gets couped. And this young Bun Sung, it comes in only there for a couple of years. He also is the dictator. He get…
▶ 42:05
and encourage the development of a guerrilla war. As a result, the Asian People Anti-Communist League evolved into a key conduit through which anti-communist leaders and civilians across the region developed closer ties with each other. It …
▶ 42:32
basically stop what had been propagated by the United States as this quote-unquote domino theory. American officials have often warned about the domino theory as it related to communism, but Rhee had basically reversed that notion, explaini…
▶ 43:02
Southern California than Northern California, then you'll be giving up the White House. Although the Anti-Communist League strove for a broad grassroots movement, its most active members were state officials and military officers in Taiwan,…
▶ 1:19:31
against the Japanese 35-year occupation turning Korea into a penal colony, a colony, whatever you want to call it. So he was the Ho Chi Minh of Korea, unequivocally. Who was not there was Ri, R-H-E-E, the guy that we installed in the southe…
▶ 15:18
From the inside, exactly like the World Anti-Communist League. And we'll get to that in the second half of this. And again, we're only staying at like the 20 to 30,000 foot look of all of this. This could be weeks on end of talking about th…
▶ 15:51
Because he was the CIA installed guy. Well, the guy that came after him is a guy by the name of Chunghee, C-H-U-N-G-H-E-E Park. Chunghee Park. And that's who this guy is going to initially begin talking about. There was a strong connection …
▶ 28:20
generated widespread publicity and opposition among regular Protestant church officials because, again, they thought he was crazy. And the complaints of the regular Protestant churches led to his arrest under President Rhee in 1955. The nat…
▶ 23:22
push the Japanese out because they're allies. And we were given the southern sector to push the Japanese out. But what we did when we got there is we started a civil war basically within our own sector because the CIA, the OSS, all of those…
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left the country and he was, quote unquote, the guy in charge. And they were going to repatriate him and put him in charge. And that's the reason why the U.S. couldn't support a nationwide consolidated election, because Reid would not have …
▶ 26:46
a South election only and a North election only. They wanted a unified country. So a general strike was later organized by the Workers' Party of South Korea from February to March of 1948. At the beginning of this, the Workers' Party launch…
▶ 28:46
Basically not true at this point. Not saying it didn't happen. The association conducted vigilante justice on anyone accused or suspected of being a communist. The association was supported by who? Sigmund Rhee, who was the U.S.-backed auto…
▶ 29:48
attacking the U.S.-trained police, and you can think Phoenix programs type police in this case, and this youth league that was sent in by Ri. And the First Republic of Korea under Ri escalated the suppression of the uprising by declaring ma…
▶ 30:43
within South Korea for several decades. In other words, they classified it and you weren't allowed to talk about it. The Jeju Uprising repression was notable for its extreme violence. They basically did an ethnic cleansing in there, redid. …
▶ 34:44
The islanders courageously stood up against the division of the Korean Peninsula and strongly protested against the first election because the U.S. only wanted to be done in South Korea because they wanted their guy, Ri, to be in charge. Un…
▶ 45:17
They really don't like Reid because he wasn't even there during the worst of their persecution by Japan. And number three, they want their country to be an entire country, not divided. And they're very concerned that if they have a South-on…
▶ 46:17
called the Republic of Korea, headed by a U.S.-backed Syngman Rhee, South Korea's first president. In a letter to Truman, Syngman Rhee wrote, quote, Such bullshit. Syngman Rhee also expressed confidence that the U.S. would be permitted to b…
▶ 47:48
you know, like in the media or news. One U.S. official saw the uprising as an opportunity for the South Korean forces to gain, quote-unquote, combat experience. You know, just kill your neighbors, no big deal. In late 1948, Sigmund Rhee was…
▶ 48:18
According to a U.S. Army G2 report, between 14 and 15 residents of the Jeju were killed in 1948. In one mass execution the following year, 249 people were killed with the approval of Sigmund Reed, an event that was not reported at all outsi…
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While Chenault lobbied openly from a Washington office against a more cautious China policy that Truman and Atkinson State Department was trying to put in place. In November 1949, Chenault, after a similar visit by Chiang, flew to Korea and…
▶ 50:14
In 1954, Chenault conducted a vigorous political campaign in support of a grandiose but detailed proposal whereby his old friends Chiang Kai-shek and Syngman Rhee of Korea would be unleashed together against the Chinese mainland with the su…
▶ 51:09
What he's talking about is the World Anti-Communist League. The International Volunteer Group is the World Anti-Communist League. It included Chiang and Syngman Rhee because they were founding members along with the two war criminals from J…
▶ 22:26
by Chiang Kai-shek, the drug lord, Sigmund Rhee, the CIA-installed guy in South Korea, and the two war criminals in Japan. That's who started this. Oh, and Reverend Moon from the Unification Church, the Moonies, created the Asian People Ant…
▶ 4:21
excuse me, a headquarters in Paris, the League, which is interesting because originally that's where NATO was. But we know the actual headquarters headquarters was in Taiwan. And we had the Ri from Korea and the two war criminals from Japan…
▶ 25:35
In 1954, at the end of the Korean War, Chiang visited his Korean counterpart, Syngman Rhee, to discuss further collaboration. Communist victories in China and Indochina and insurgencies in Malaya, thanks to the Brits, and the Philippines, t…
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It lines up perfectly with the World Anti-Communist League and the Unification Church and the drug lord, Chiang Kai-shek. The South Korean president in 1950s was Syngman Rhee, was a longstanding personal friend of one key ICCC official. Oth…