Hans Tofte person
also: Hans Tochte, T-O-F-T-E, Toph, Toft, Hans... The T-O-F-T-E, Hans Hans Tofte, Tofte, Toftke, Topty, Topki, Kovke, Hans Tolte, Tochti
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Claims (14)
Hans Tofte member_of
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“The Office of Strategic Services, the old OSS, European veteran by the name of Hans Tofte, T-O-F-T-E, who also worked in the Office of Policy Coordination where Wisner was, had other ongoing projects. His paramilitary operations chief, a Ma…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea part 3 @ 23:15
Hans Tofte established
Special Mission Group host_asserted
“Specifically for covert operations and intelligence collections, concerns about compartmentaling the special military group, referred to as SMG, from other guerrilla activities and training prompted Hans Tochte to establish a more isolated …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea part 3 @ 24:16
Hans Tofte met_with
Frank Wisner documented
“Wisner's Far East station chiefs in Tokyo to plan the heist. At one point in Hong Kong, Al Cox made sabotage preparations under the noses of the British authorities, for which the Norwegian vessel was docked. The freighter bypassed Hong Kon…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 45:55
Richard Stilwell recruited
Hans Tofte book_quoted
“began its China operations. They sought him out. And Richard Stilwell basically was his recruiter. He definitely wanted him back on the team. Deputy Desmond Fitzgerald, who was Stilwell's deputy, and Stilwell met with him to try to get him …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 51:08
Desmond Fitzgerald met_with
Hans Tofte book_quoted
“began its China operations. They sought him out. And Richard Stilwell basically was his recruiter. He definitely wanted him back on the team. Deputy Desmond Fitzgerald, who was Stilwell's deputy, and Stilwell met with him to try to get him …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 51:08
Frank Wisner hired
Hans Tofte book_quoted
“The 43-year-old Topty was on summer active duty with his reserve unit when he learned about what was going on in Korea. Two days later, he showed up at the CIA Washington, D.C. headquarters. Frank Wisner saw in him a well-qualified former c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 51:37
Hans Tofte sent_to
Japan book_quoted
“and sent to Japan. Topki quickly began creating the infrastructure for CIA operations. At the base called Atsugi, A-T-S-U-G-I, he and his deputy, Colwell Beers, B-E-E-R-S, found a 50-track acre isolated piece of land at the corner of this b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 52:08
Hans Tofte worked_with
Colwell Beers book_quoted
“and sent to Japan. Topki quickly began creating the infrastructure for CIA operations. At the base called Atsugi, A-T-S-U-G-I, he and his deputy, Colwell Beers, B-E-E-R-S, found a 50-track acre isolated piece of land at the corner of this b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 52:08
Hans Tofte recruited
Dutch Kramer book_quoted
“Kottke recruited an energetic Marine officer by the name of Lieutenant Colonel Dutch Kramer, K-R-A-E-M-E-R, to run the base. The Military Special Operations Group coordinated sea transport for agents while the civil air transport ferried al…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 53:11
Hans Tofte approached
Chiang Kai-shek book_quoted
“A more discreet plan evolved. Kovke simply approached Chiang Kai-shek, who was happy to lend his patrol boats to a scheme for stopping the ship on the high seas. Like pirates. Kind of like they taught the Somali pirates to do. Cox and other…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 56:11
Chiang Kai-shek lent_patrol_boats_to
Hans Tofte book_quoted
“A more discreet plan evolved. Kovke simply approached Chiang Kai-shek, who was happy to lend his patrol boats to a scheme for stopping the ship on the high seas. Like pirates. Kind of like they taught the Somali pirates to do. Cox and other…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 56:11
Hans Tofte member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Military attaches are in the embassy there, fully aware of what's going on. Hans Toft, T-O-F-T-E, took that frustration to Tracy Barnes. But the staff chief could do no better. We are still in the intro over on Rumble. What the heck? Sorry,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 5:02
Hans Tofte created_infrastructure_for
CIA book_quoted
“and sent to Japan. Topki quickly began creating the infrastructure for CIA operations. At the base called Atsugi, A-T-S-U-G-I, he and his deputy, Colwell Beers, B-E-E-R-S, found a 50-track acre isolated piece of land at the corner of this b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 52:08
Hans Tofte worked_for
Pan American World Airways book_quoted
“A Danish citizen by birth, Topty returned to Copenhagen after the war as a local manager for who? Pan Am Airlines. You can't make this up. Too bad war hamsters watching football right now. Later, he married an American woman and moved to Io…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 50:36
Mentions (19)
▶ 1:02:32
because he had already made it perfectly clear to the CIA and the U.S. that he was not going to be their puppet. Washington sent a Cherokee Indian codenamed Buffalo to Hans Tofte, a CIA officer stationed in Japan, after Buffalo had agreed t…
▶ 23:15
The Office of Strategic Services, the old OSS, European veteran by the name of Hans Tofte, T-O-F-T-E, who also worked in the Office of Policy Coordination where Wisner was, had other ongoing projects. His paramilitary operations chief, a Ma…
▶ 24:16
Specifically for covert operations and intelligence collections, concerns about compartmentaling the special military group, referred to as SMG, from other guerrilla activities and training prompted Hans Tochte to establish a more isolated …
▶ 49:32
The commander for Wisner was a guy by the name of Hans Hans Tofte, T-O-F-T-E. He was the son of a sea captain. He spoke fluent Chinese and had worked for 10 years in a shipping company in Peking and Manchuria before the war. Another of the …
▶ 50:04
Toftke was part of the OSF. His World War II experience had been in organizing armed shipments to guerrillas across the Adriatic Sea from Bari, Italy, which would have been Albania. Isn't that interesting? He later parachuted into France an…
▶ 50:36
A Danish citizen by birth, Topty returned to Copenhagen after the war as a local manager for who? Pan Am Airlines. You can't make this up. Too bad war hamsters watching football right now. Later, he married an American woman and moved to Io…
▶ 51:08
began its China operations. They sought him out. And Richard Stilwell basically was his recruiter. He definitely wanted him back on the team. Deputy Desmond Fitzgerald, who was Stilwell's deputy, and Stilwell met with him to try to get him …
▶ 51:37
The 43-year-old Topty was on summer active duty with his reserve unit when he learned about what was going on in Korea. Two days later, he showed up at the CIA Washington, D.C. headquarters. Frank Wisner saw in him a well-qualified former c…
▶ 52:08
and sent to Japan. Topki quickly began creating the infrastructure for CIA operations. At the base called Atsugi, A-T-S-U-G-I, he and his deputy, Colwell Beers, B-E-E-R-S, found a 50-track acre isolated piece of land at the corner of this b…
▶ 53:11
Kottke recruited an energetic Marine officer by the name of Lieutenant Colonel Dutch Kramer, K-R-A-E-M-E-R, to run the base. The Military Special Operations Group coordinated sea transport for agents while the civil air transport ferried al…
▶ 55:12
humanitarian aid to China, mainland China, and they want to mount a paramilitary operation to stop that. Medical supplies, including makings for three full field hospitals, were aboard a Norwegian freighter en route to China. Operation Stol…
▶ 56:11
A more discreet plan evolved. Kovke simply approached Chiang Kai-shek, who was happy to lend his patrol boats to a scheme for stopping the ship on the high seas. Like pirates. Kind of like they taught the Somali pirates to do. Cox and other…
▶ 5:02
Military attaches are in the embassy there, fully aware of what's going on. Hans Toft, T-O-F-T-E, took that frustration to Tracy Barnes. But the staff chief could do no better. We are still in the intro over on Rumble. What the heck? Sorry,…
▶ 45:25
makings for three-field hospitals was packed onto a Norwegian freighter. Stoll, Operation Stoll, proposed to stop the shipment at all costs, and the CIA earmarked a million dollars to make sure this shipment didn't reach mainland China. Han…
▶ 45:55
Wisner's Far East station chiefs in Tokyo to plan the heist. At one point in Hong Kong, Al Cox made sabotage preparations under the noses of the British authorities, for which the Norwegian vessel was docked. The freighter bypassed Hong Kon…
▶ 45:08
Fittingly, perhaps Tracy Barnes became chief of the domestic operations division and E. Howard Hunt was a senior staffer there. You know, the guy that's working with the stay behinds in the United States called Cuban exiles. Yeah, that's wh…
▶ 45:37
who finally brought Barnes down by getting the agency and the newspapers again under dubious circumstances. A junior CIA officer looking at an apartment Toft offered to rent saw secret documents in Toft's home and reported the security viol…
▶ 48:44
The key conversations took place in Alan Dulles' office. In mid-afternoon on Friday, September 18th, Dulles brought together the players and concerned observers. Those present besides Dulles included General Cabell, Frank Wisner, Tracy Barn…
▶ 53:56
Hans Tochte, who became a Barnes protege at the CIA, had worked under Haney in Korea. Tochte himself had recently come on board and thus could have been pulling Haney in after him. Brief in the late October, Haney accepted on the spot. Oh, …