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Claims (35)
Charles Willoughby worked_for
Douglas MacArthur reported
document
“Some speculated that (Charles] Wil loughby IMacArthur's intelligence chief] anxious to insure full credit for his intelligence unit feared that "Wild Bill" would grab the spotlight…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.154
Charles Willoughby worked_for
McGraw-Hill Book Company documented
document
“Willoughby Charles A and John Chamberlain MacArthur 1941-1951 New York McGraw-Hill Book Company 1954 441 p E745.M3W5…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.313
Charles Willoughby headed
Allied Intelligence Bureau documented
document
“The Allied Intelligence Bureau composed of combined Allied forces in the Pacific command zone of General Douglas MacArthur was established at Brisbane Australia on July 6 1942 under the auspices of his intelligence staff headed by Major Gen…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.221
Douglas MacArthur used
Charles Willoughby book_quoted
“mainly from the reason that MacArthur was a control freak. MacArthur also continued to entrust special operations to the staff officer with whom he had personal ties that he used as his director of intelligence, which was Willoughby. Initia…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 48:06
Charles Willoughby founded
World Anti-Communist League guest_asserted
“anti-communism league have you come across the name of charles willoughby yes okay do you know who he is uh yeah he is the chief of military intelligence for douglas macarthur yeah and he's also a co-founder of the world…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Anti Communist League and Unification Church @ 2:27:32
Douglas MacArthur appointed
Charles Willoughby guest_asserted
“And that's how much he loved him. And so he was, if memory serves me right, was a logistician, you know, did like supply and crap like that. But MacArthur moved him over to be his chief of intel in the Philippines. And then when they moved …”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Anti Communist League and Unification Church @ 2:29:18
Charles Willoughby member_of
Douglas MacArthur book_quoted
“director. He had been a naval intelligence officer in the Pacific. He knew the value of both intelligence and secrecy. And he also had illustrated to him up close and personal by Willoughby, MacArthur's intelligence guy, that you can just m…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 16:23
Charles Willoughby member_of
CFR book_quoted
“General Charles Willoughby, one of the American Security Council most important members, was another general who I've written a couple of times about, Albert Wiedemeyer, W-E-D-E-M-E-Y-E-R. He was a focal point of the China lobby.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 2 @ 27:05
Charles Willoughby member_of
Catholic Committee International Defense, Civilization, and Culture book_quoted
“because that's where all the freaking Nazis went, under the leadership of a former Secret Service officer of German origin, none other than Charles A. Willoughby, to whom General MacArthur gave the title, My Pet Fascist. Who was Willoughby?…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 51:52
Douglas MacArthur appointed
Charles Willoughby book_quoted
“because that's where all the freaking Nazis went, under the leadership of a former Secret Service officer of German origin, none other than Charles A. Willoughby, to whom General MacArthur gave the title, My Pet Fascist. Who was Willoughby?…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 51:52
Charles Willoughby headed
M-Fund book_quoted
“All my life, I've heard of this thing called the Yoshida Fund. I think that's the same thing as the M Fund, unquote. So the author actually says that there was two separate funds, the M Fund and the Yoshida Fund. This was set up to manipula…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 54:52
Charles Willoughby covered_up
Japan book_quoted
“Even men who had been victims of the medical experimentation was forced to take this oath. At the time, they were told it was their patriotic duty to remain silent. Today, they realize that they were victimized by their own government when …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 1:10:29
Charles Willoughby moved_to
Corregidor host_asserted
“Willoughby's wife helped inventory all of it, and the treasure was stored in the Corregidor tunnel system. Exactly 1,430 tons of silver pesos were placed in the tunnel system. Two tons of private gold were stored inside the stockade, 51 ton…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 4 @ 44:08
Charles Willoughby studied_at
Gettysburg College book_quoted
“with her 18-year-old son, who immediately enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army. So eventually, he goes on to graduate from Gettysburg College, gets his degree, rejoins the Army as an officer, served in France during World War I, went to F…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 27:52
Charles Willoughby recruited
KATOH book_quoted
“bypassed cannon and brought in a murder squad called KATOH, the acronym for five Japanese army officers who did surgical assassinations for money. Willoughby was judged by the U.S. Army contemporaries to be incompetent, paranoid, and driven…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 1:01:27
Charles Willoughby appointed
Harvey Fukuda book_quoted
“Fukuta, which was a publisher in Salt Lake City. Harvey Fukuta spent the war broadcasting anti-Japanese radio propaganda. In post-war Tokyo, he was chosen by Willoughby to be Kodama's full-time press secretary.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 1:14:52
Charles Willoughby relationship_with
Douglas MacArthur host_asserted
“overseeing this intelligence web was MacArthur's protege, a fascist sympathizer by the name of General Charles Willoughby. Willoughby, we talk about in Chapter 5 in a little bit more in depth, but the China lobby is a domestic political pre…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:16:00
Douglas MacArthur relationship_with
Charles Willoughby host_asserted
“mainly from the reason that MacArthur was a control freak. MacArthur also continued to entrust special operations to the staff officer with whom he had personal ties that he used as his director of intelligence, which was Willoughby.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 44:57
Douglas MacArthur appointed
Charles Willoughby documented
“declared Manila an open city and withdrew to Bataan and Corregidor. Boats carried munitions, food, and medicines to that island. MacArthur ordered his G2, Colonel Charles Willoughby, and we're going to talk a lot about him because he's a di…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 4 @ 42:37
Yoshio Kodama member_of
Charles Willoughby book_quoted
“to make sure that it conformed with the needs of the American Cold War. On the Japanese side, Willoughby's historians included those most notorious war criminals, Kadama and Shusi, who mastermind massacres in Singapore and Malaysia. The his…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 1:10:56
Cannon Agency funded_by
Charles Willoughby book_quoted
“that was ran by an American by the name of Ted Lewin, L-E-W-I-N, who was a pal of Kadama, funded by the Cannon Agency, which was Willoughby's dirtiest and wettest operation in Japan. So evidently, Cannon Agency is an assassin for hire organ…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 58:31
Seishiro Itagaki member_of
Charles Willoughby book_quoted
“to make sure that it conformed with the needs of the American Cold War. On the Japanese side, Willoughby's historians included those most notorious war criminals, Kadama and Shusi, who mastermind massacres in Singapore and Malaysia. The his…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 1:10:56
Charles Willoughby did_business_with
Yoshio Kodama book_quoted
“fascist, was head of his G2 and controlled the Yoshida fund and worked energetically with Kodama and his legions to suppress any kind of leftist activity because democracy doesn't tolerate dissent, don't you know? You get no freedom of spee…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 55:28
Charles Willoughby born_in
Heidelberg book_quoted
“He was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1892. He basically was illegitimate between a Baron T. Schlepp-Weidenbach and a woman by the name of Emma Willoughby of Baltimore, Maryland. By 1910, her romance with the Baron had turned sour and Emma …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 27:22
Charles Willoughby member_of
Douglas MacArthur documented
“There's much hay, as we'll see in a book later on, made about the fact that MacArthur would not stay a single night in Korea. He would fly back over to Japan, which, according to most people, provided even more problems. MacArthur's chief i…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 4 @ 8:42
Charles Willoughby covered_up
China host_asserted
“Even when the Chinese prisoners were captured, Willoughby dismissed them as a few advisors. The G2 in Tokyo recognized that some Chinese divisions had been moved, but argued that they were not combat strength units. Willoughby basically doc…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 4 @ 10:10
Charles Willoughby headed
Allied Intelligence Bureau book_quoted
“And for Willoughby, who had no allegiance to the truth at all, viewed truth as being a flexible tool. So he sets up a thing called the Allied Intelligence Bureau to run guerrilla operations in the Philippines. He also started the Allied Tra…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 30:24
Charles Willoughby headed
Allied Translator and Interpreter Section book_quoted
“And for Willoughby, who had no allegiance to the truth at all, viewed truth as being a flexible tool. So he sets up a thing called the Allied Intelligence Bureau to run guerrilla operations in the Philippines. He also started the Allied Tra…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 30:24
Douglas MacArthur appointed
Charles Willoughby book_quoted
“MacArthur became commander of the new U.S. Far East Command and Willoughby wanted to stick around and work for MacArthur. So Willoughby becomes his assistant chief of staff for intelligence and MacArthur promotes him to colonel. When Japan …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 28:52
Douglas MacArthur recruited
Charles Willoughby host_asserted
“MacArthur hired the guy. MacArthur's the commander. He has 100% of the responsibility. Everything that happened after MacArthur retreated from the Philippines to include, because he took Willoughby with him to Japan when he was the basic mi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 2 @ 1:48:01
Charles Willoughby studied_at
Fort Benning book_quoted
“with her 18-year-old son, who immediately enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army. So eventually, he goes on to graduate from Gettysburg College, gets his degree, rejoins the Army as an officer, served in France during World War I, went to F…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 27:52
Charles Willoughby blocked_promotion_of
Edward Lansdale host_asserted
“In later chapters, some of these shipments will be described. General Willoughby, a man of limited imagination, detested Lansdell as a smartass and blocked his promotion to major until 1947, when Lansdell also made deputy director of G2 at …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:22:17
Charles Willoughby recruited
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“spelt correctly. And I noticed, oh, retired General Charles Willoughby was involved in helping move, with Paul Helliwell, by the way, Chiang Kai-shek over to Taiwan in 1949. And then they set up right after that the World Anti-Communist Lea…”
▶ Operation Gladio -NGOs and players @ 1:16:03
Charles Willoughby covered_up
Douglas MacArthur guest_asserted
“And kept him as his intel officer because Willoughby gave him the intel that he wanted to do whatever he wanted to do. Not real intel. Okay. Never told him what the real shit was. If MacArthur wanted to go north, Willoughby said it's fine t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Anti Communist League and Unification Church @ 2:29:47
Charles Willoughby spied_on
Robert Kennedy assassination caller_asserted
“anti-communist league yes he was during world war ii and the korean war yeah i was just wondering i haven't heard you mention his name and i and also i saw there was a call um right after the jfk assassination um that was listened in on tha…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Anti Communist League and Unification Church @ 2:27:54
Mentions (22)
▶ 26:35
The Birch Society. The Birch Society did the exact same thing. The Third Reich veterans belonging to the European branch of the World Anti-Communist League ran a similar organization in Germany. Some of its principals had been with Goebbels…
▶ 27:05
General Charles Willoughby, one of the American Security Council most important members, was another general who I've written a couple of times about, Albert Wiedemeyer, W-E-D-E-M-E-Y-E-R. He was a focal point of the China lobby.…
▶ 1:46:08
I'm going to use the word egotistical, but it's probably not the exact right word. He liked yes men. He did not want anyone telling him how to do anything. And that's why Willoughby ended up being his. Willoughby was not an intel officer. I…
▶ 1:48:01
MacArthur hired the guy. MacArthur's the commander. He has 100% of the responsibility. Everything that happened after MacArthur retreated from the Philippines to include, because he took Willoughby with him to Japan when he was the basic mi…
▶ 4:17
Willoughby is telling MacArthur there's no way China's going to come in to the war. They were wrong. And as a result, they got their butt kicked. This was not a failure of intelligence management, but they're going to blame it on, and right…
▶ 8:42
There's much hay, as we'll see in a book later on, made about the fact that MacArthur would not stay a single night in Korea. He would fly back over to Japan, which, according to most people, provided even more problems. MacArthur's chief i…
▶ 9:11
since his intel officer, not commander, that's a misprint, since serving in the Philippines in 1939, before World War II started, was an admirer of General MacArthur. And it was Willoughby that actually authored his 1,000, over 1,000 pages …
▶ 9:41
MacArthur that North Korea would not invade the South, despite alarms raised by then CIA Admiral Hillencocker, who was like the first guy before Alan Dulles showed up. In the fall of that year, Willoughby's office refused to believe or conf…
▶ 10:10
Even when the Chinese prisoners were captured, Willoughby dismissed them as a few advisors. The G2 in Tokyo recognized that some Chinese divisions had been moved, but argued that they were not combat strength units. Willoughby basically doc…
▶ 1:16:03
spelt correctly. And I noticed, oh, retired General Charles Willoughby was involved in helping move, with Paul Helliwell, by the way, Chiang Kai-shek over to Taiwan in 1949. And then they set up right after that the World Anti-Communist Lea…
▶ 2:27:32
anti-communism league have you come across the name of charles willoughby yes okay do you know who he is uh yeah he is the chief of military intelligence for douglas macarthur yeah and he's also a co-founder of the world…
▶ 2:28:24
said about Bobby being next. Right. Yeah, I've read that. Charles Willoughby was not an intelligence officer, but he was a suck-up. I mean, that's what we refer to him in the military. He was a butt-pisser. And MacArthur, who loved people t…
▶ 2:28:50
He didn't give a shit whether you were competent in whatever it was that you needed to do. He just liked you telling him what he wanted to do was the right thing to do, even when it wasn't the right thing to do. So when he met Willoughby, a…
▶ 2:29:18
And that's how much he loved him. And so he was, if memory serves me right, was a logistician, you know, did like supply and crap like that. But MacArthur moved him over to be his chief of intel in the Philippines. And then when they moved …
▶ 2:29:47
And kept him as his intel officer because Willoughby gave him the intel that he wanted to do whatever he wanted to do. Not real intel. Okay. Never told him what the real shit was. If MacArthur wanted to go north, Willoughby said it's fine t…
▶ 48:06
mainly from the reason that MacArthur was a control freak. MacArthur also continued to entrust special operations to the staff officer with whom he had personal ties that he used as his director of intelligence, which was Willoughby. Initia…
▶ 16:23
director. He had been a naval intelligence officer in the Pacific. He knew the value of both intelligence and secrecy. And he also had illustrated to him up close and personal by Willoughby, MacArthur's intelligence guy, that you can just m…
▶ 51:23
It raised itself to the level of a global organization and positioned itself as the Christian alternative to the emerging world anti-communist league. By the end of the 50s, initial contact had been made with Uganda. Latin America stood at …
▶ 51:52
because that's where all the freaking Nazis went, under the leadership of a former Secret Service officer of German origin, none other than Charles A. Willoughby, to whom General MacArthur gave the title, My Pet Fascist. Who was Willoughby?…
▶ 52:19
We discovered a long time ago that was the in the army working under MacArthur, but he was a logistician. He did logistics. But MacArthur wanted a yes man to do intelligence. He didn't really want to know.…
▶ 52:37
what was going on or what would be right or wrong or whatever in intelligence wise, he was going to do whatever he wanted to do. So he wanted a yes man as his chief intelligence. And so he moved Willoughby over to intelligence when he had z…
▶ 53:07
And he was definitely in the middle of the organization. Also, we end up with another, Theodor Oberlander, who was basically a Nazi as well. He ended up as part of this organization later on in Germany proper. So that takes us through those…