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“telling you. For example, when I read The Determined Spy about Frank Wisner, I don't think that author understood what stay-behind units were. I don't think he, because it's written as kind of almost like an offhanded comment and admitting,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 1:45:32
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of the author and whether or not they have a particular spin. And as you've seen, when we talked about the Phoenix program with Doug Williams or Doug Valentine's, people do have spins. It doesn't mean you don't read it. You still read it. Y…
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It definitely has a spin on it. But in the 400-page book, I found out a lot about Frank Wisner's life that I had no idea about. So you're going to find additional clues and other operations they did, even if the book is a limited hangout bo…
▶ 1:19:57
And that most of the things he did was because he was crazy, not because he was an evil person working in the CIA, which he was. But I didn't really care. I understand what the tilt of the book is, but I did find a whole lot of additional m…
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The claim is reminiscence of U.S. officials talking about one more month of bombing in North Vietnam, one more month of bombing in North Korea. It's the old adage. If we just had one more chance. And it harkens back to the book, The Determi…
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And not only this book, but I told you in the book, The Determined Spy about Frank Wisner, he was intimately involved in the planning with Kermit Roosevelt of the Iran coup. And he talks about it a lot. I mean, he goes into detail about the…
▶ 1:45:32
telling you. For example, when I read The Determined Spy about Frank Wisner, I don't think that author understood what stay-behind units were. I don't think he, because it's written as kind of almost like an offhanded comment and admitting,…