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Claims (60)
Gerald Ford funded
UNITA book_quoted
“President Ford chose to intervene, supporting the FNLA and UNITA initially with $50 million, and then it just escalated from there. Given the current absence on the consensus of foreign policy, it is at least doubtful that he would have mad…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 1:09:14
Gerald Ford funded
FNLA book_quoted
“President Ford chose to intervene, supporting the FNLA and UNITA initially with $50 million, and then it just escalated from there. Given the current absence on the consensus of foreign policy, it is at least doubtful that he would have mad…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 1:09:14
Gerald Ford pardoned
Frank Olson documented
“Olson's widow and grown children were invited to the White House by President Ford, who apologized to them on behalf of the government. The Olson case would become enshrined in history as one of the more outrageous examples of CIA hubris an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 26:33
Gerald Ford appointed
Nelson Rockefeller documented
“On January 4th, 1975, Gerald Ford declared his administration would not tolerate illegal activity by intelligence agencies. He also said that he had been assured by William Colby that no such activities were in progress, which was a big fat…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 27:19
Gerald Ford funded
Rockefeller Commission documented
“Publicly, Gerald Ford declared that he would not tolerate illegal activities by the intelligence agency. He said Colby had given assurances that no such activity still existed and announced a commission under Vice President, you get it, Nel…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 42:37
Gerald Ford pardoned
Richard Nixon documented
“Okay, all I was going to say is Nixon stepping down probably might have saved my life. When Ford took office, and I remember this well, it was in 1973. A lot of people think that Nixon stepped down and then Ford pardoned him for stepping do…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 1:25:04
Nelson Rockefeller member_of
Gerald Ford documented
“It's certainly possible they were turning the corner. And if you look what happened afterwards with the Ford and Nelson Rockefeller temporary administration there, a lot of really interest. Because what was going on during that period of ti…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 1:17:45
Gerald Ford appointed
Nelson Rockefeller documented
“Publicly, Gerald Ford declared that he would not tolerate illegal activities by the intelligence agency. He said Colby had given assurances that no such activity still existed and announced a commission under Vice President, you get it, Nel…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 42:37
Gerald Ford commended
Byron Engle documented
“going into foreign countries, training the national police to be terrorists. And Gerald Ford in the House said that we should persevere in these missions. Ford also expressed confidence that the Uruguayan government had done all in its powe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:06:05
Gerald Ford succeeded
Richard Nixon documented
“It's certainly possible they were turning the corner. And if you look what happened afterwards with the Ford and Nelson Rockefeller temporary administration there, a lot of really interest. Because what was going on during that period of ti…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 1:17:45
Gerald Ford funded
Project AFRIEND documented
“over the program and expected Davis to resign and the program to leak. Ford approved the initial $7 million the next morning. A million of that went directly to Mubato and Zaire, the corrupt CIA-controlled dictator. Not to any of the Angola…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 39:01
Gerald Ford covered_up
CIA documented
“Three days later, Hearst reported that Nixon's administration had decided in 1971 to escalate the covert actions against Allende. To say that Hearst's reports raised eyebrows at the Ford White House would be an understatement. They forced P…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 18:26
Gerald Ford covered_up
Pike Committee documented
“After consultation with the Attorney General, President Ford intervened on November 19, 1975, writing Otis Pike that the subpoenaed documents had been legitimately withheld. The committee responded by voting to cite Kissinger for contempt o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 31:37
Gerald Ford succeeded
Richard Nixon host_asserted
“list of syndicate he was bought and paid for. We know all of this if you look into his history. They basically get rid of Agnew first, install Ford, get rid of Nixon second, and Ford moves up. Then he hires Nelson Rockefeller. I've just bee…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Open Mic Friday (241018) @ 10:40
Gerald Ford appointed
Nelson Rockefeller host_asserted
“list of syndicate he was bought and paid for. We know all of this if you look into his history. They basically get rid of Agnew first, install Ford, get rid of Nixon second, and Ford moves up. Then he hires Nelson Rockefeller. I've just bee…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Open Mic Friday (241018) @ 10:40
Ray Price appointed
Gerald Ford book_quoted
“He was speechwriters for Nixon, Ford, and Bush, senior. But that's the only one in Scroll and Key that's listed on here, on Skull and Bones. Let me see if I can go to Scroll and Key and see what their alumni's are. Let's see. Membership. Th…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 1:21:54
Gerald Ford succeeded
Richard Nixon documented
“But perhaps similar attention should be focused on whether or not a nonviolent coup happened to Nixon. Obviously, his penance for secrecy and paranoia didn't help him. It may also be shocking to realize that after Nixon's resignation, this …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 30:48
Nelson Rockefeller appointed
Gerald Ford documented
“But perhaps similar attention should be focused on whether or not a nonviolent coup happened to Nixon. Obviously, his penance for secrecy and paranoia didn't help him. It may also be shocking to realize that after Nixon's resignation, this …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 30:48
Gerald Ford appointed
James J. Dillon host_asserted
“appointed Dillon to another panel that examined a possible CIA connection to the Kennedy assassination. Listen to this. The same Dillon that refused to give the Warren Commission the Secret Service records, that same guy that came and asked…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 33:30
Gerald Ford appointed
Nelson Rockefeller host_asserted
“Dylan, the guy that was in charge of the Secret Service during the assassination. Or I'm sorry, he picked Nelson Rockefeller. Let's get this correct. The 1975 commission was chaired by the lifelong friend of Dylan. Sorry, Nelson Rockefeller…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 34:35
Gerald Ford appointed
Alexander Haig documented
“during the Nixon, so he picked up some vibes from Kissinger, and then he was Nixon's deputy assistant for national security affairs. Nixon promoted him to a four-star general and the Army's vice chief of staff. He was Nixon's personal emiss…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 43:26
Gerald Ford covered_up
Church Committee documented
“instances, Church did voluntarily. On October 31st, President Ford wrote members asking that the entire report be classified. Several weeks later, during a debate on the Senate floor, the committee released the report on its own authority. …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 59:09
Gerald Ford spied_on
Committee of 40 documented
“But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57
Gerald Ford appointed
Roderick Hills book_quoted
“After Watergate deposed Richard Nixon, the news emerged that the CIA had spied domestically since at least the Johnson administration. Congressman Otis Pike of the House Intelligence Committee began to probe publicly into the CIA. Newspaper…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 14:55
Gerald Ford appointed
Nelson Rockefeller book_quoted
“It was clear to me that they were holding back not only from Colby, but from the president. Ford felt enough political pressure that he appointed Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a commission to look into the CIA. From assassinatio…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 15:51
Gerald Ford removed_from_power
William Colby book_quoted
“Angleton's final departure from the CIA came at about the same time Gerald Ford decided that Colby's open approach to the investigation had to end. Ford fired Colby. But Colby's sudden job loss did not cause him any severe worries. He began…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 21:03
Gerald Ford appointed
George H.W. Bush book_quoted
“But Donald Rumsfeld and others convinced Ford that the CIA under siege by Ford's attorney general, the last thing they needed was a reformer to head the CIA. Henry Kissinger, who needed someone at the CIA to stave off Richard Helms' very re…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 22:02
Gerald Ford funded
Vietnam documented
“The U.S. natural interest, Ford concluded, had to be on the side of Indonesia. Ford gave his approval December 6, 1975. Five days after the invasion, the U.S. voted to condemn the attack as an act of international aggression. The U.S. absta…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia @ 32:56
Gerald Ford funded
Operation IA Feature book_quoted
“which in July had succeeded in driving both the other factions out of the capital. On August 20th, while Stockdale was observing the FNLA and UNITA, President Ford authorized an additional $10 million for the project. Now notice that they d…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 29:29
Gerald Ford funded
FNLA host_asserted
“Ultimately, from that moment, they decided not to allow the CIA advisors into combat. President Ford approved another $7 million in military aid, and any further money would have to have come from Congress, which we know is a lie because th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 42:18
Gerald Ford removed_from_power
William Colby host_asserted
“Deputy Director of Operations William Nelson went up first and admitted the truth about the U.S. involvement. Bill Nelson was a William Colby protege. As the Director of Central Intelligence had suddenly been called in by President Ford abo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 45:26
Gerald Ford funded
FNLA host_asserted
“of Ambassador Davis's resignation. Dick Clark Amendment passed the House of Representatives in January 1976, as Kissinger failed in Moscow to inject the Angola issue into a superpower meetings on arm control. The legislation was signed into…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 46:55
Gerald Ford founded
Executive Order 12036 host_asserted
“Tom Karamasin, David Atlee Phillips, and General Richard Stilwell, all advised against any regulatory oversight. Outpacing a slow-moving Congress, the executive was quick to seize the initiative on intelligence reform, and in 1976, Presiden…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 57:20
Gerald Ford appointed
Frank Church documented
“but it looks suspicious when they resist even a cursory investigation or submitting to questioning under oath. This is another quote. After a meeting with President Gerald Ford and his top national security advisor, Church and Vice Chairman…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 43:04
Gerald Ford covered_up
Lumumba assassination book_quoted
“You know, with the Rockefeller Commission, Ford responded that he needed to appoint those who could be trusted to keep those secrets that had to remain secret. Yep. Rosenthal, Hersh's editor, follows up with, like what? He asks. And then Pr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:23:58
Rosenthal spied_on
Gerald Ford book_quoted
“um met with gerald ford on january 16th 1975 about the rockefeller commission and you know rosenthal leaves this memo behind that uh that that hirsch finds years later and when he was asked you know why why the president you know why he had…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:23:30
Seymour Hersh exposed
Gerald Ford book_quoted
“And then decades later, he comes out with his book called Reporter, which is basically his autobiography and his stories about working on all these different stories. And I have a quote from it that goes to La Mamba here. So he was discussi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:23:05
Gerald Ford funded
Covert operations in Angola documented
“The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence went on to do a year-long investigation of Project Feature. In the spring of 78, it concluded that the Ford administration had misled Congress on the scope of the operation, not revealing some act…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 14:47
Gerald Ford appointed
William Casey documented
“in OSS veteran associations and was appointed to the intelligence board, the presidential intelligence board by Gerald Ford. To a newly elected Ronald Reagan looking for a CIA director, Bill Casey was a natural. Casey himself had wanted to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 16:30
Gerald Ford funded
Project AFRIEND documented
“Director of Operations William Nelson. Potts, his deputy George Costello, and Stockwell prepared the detailed plans right up to the last minute. On July 27th, President Ford upped the ante, giving them $8 million. The CIA principals gathere…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 46:16
Gerald Ford funded
Project AFRIEND documented
“Americans from working inside Angola were spurred by a fresh army mobile training team from FNLA headquarters. Washington viewed the worsening situation with alarm. On November 27th, Ford authorized another $7 million. That exhausted the CI…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:11:26
Gerald Ford funded
Project AFRIEND documented
“Unable to tell the working group just what Kissinger had decided, said he read it. Then he grunted and walked out of the office. They were reduced to trying to figure out what was going on. Kissinger is silent about this exchange. He writes…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:12:29
Gerald Ford removed_from_power
William Colby documented
“Senator Clark's subcommittee. The CIA witness, William Nelson, went first. Nelson, a Colby protege, probably feared his own days were numbers, as Ford had suddenly fired Colby a month earlier. Having spent most of his career in the Far East…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:15:56
Gerald Ford targeted_for_regime_change
Tunney Amendment documented
“They relied on Bender for expertise in Angola history and politics. Other than that, he had no role. Meanwhile, Democrat John Tunney, junior senator from California, faced tough competition for re-election in 76, beginning with the nominati…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:17:17
Gerald Ford succeeded
Richard Nixon documented
“with the Supreme Court decision that required him to give up the Oval Office audiotapes, providing incontrovertible evidence that he had conspired to cover up his 1972 election issues. The House of Representatives voted on three articles of…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 14:43
Gerald Ford covered_up
1973 Chilean coup d'état documented
“was bought and paid for by the CIA. Ford carefully denied involvement in the coup. He characterized covert action as necessary to help prevent foreign policy and to protect national security. Again, a bold-faced lie. He justified them on th…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 19:28
Gerald Ford covered_up
Pujo Committee documented
“Penalties would include expulsion from Congress. For its part, the CIA recommended numerous deletions in the Pike report for reasons of national security. A number were accepted, but Pike's committee rejected 150 of the proposed deletions. …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 1:01:06
Gerald Ford exposed
Family Jewels host_asserted
“No one who makes this criticism notes Rockefeller's role on covert action at the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board or the political vulnerabilities hanging over the vice president as a consequence. Because again, many of the covert o…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 56:25
Gerald Ford member_of
Warren Commission host_asserted
“Ford was completely owned by the establishment. Ford was the guy they stuck on the Warren Commission because he's adult. He was completely under their control. So you have to get Ford in there first so that Nixon, when you do him, you're go…”
▶ Operation Gladio 1968 and East Pakistan @ 1:16:01
Sun Myung Moon funded
Gerald Ford host_asserted
“Chronicle reported that, quote, in Washington, Moon opened his checkbook to the Republican Party mainstays as former President Gerald Bush, George Bush, GOP candidate Jack Kemp, and Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed, unquote. Purdue Uni…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 58:52
Gerald Ford member_of
Warren Commission caller_asserted
“Yes. So the two so the two paper clippiest dudes, the two closest to Alan Dulles, one of whom was Alan Dulles, but John J. McCloy, you know, as you I know you've mentioned him repeatedly is known as the chairman on Wall Street. So and their…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3 @ 1:18:15
Gerald Ford member_of
Warren Commission host_asserted
“And what a coinkydinky that that's the part that Netflix leaves out because our good friends Alan Dulles and John J. McCloy, future top dogs of the Warren Commission, because Gerald Ford was their water boy. Right. No question about it. We'…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 1:05:47
Gerald Ford member_of
Warren Commission host_asserted
“And, you know, he played his role on the Warren Commission. So he was just a good soldier for him.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:42:19
Gerald Ford covered_up
Family Jewels host_asserted
“No one who makes this criticism notes Rockefeller's role on covert action at the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board or the political vulnerabilities hanging over the vice president as a consequence. Because again, many of the covert o…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 56:25
Gerald Ford ordered_assassination_of
Covert operations in Angola host_asserted
“and abandoning, quote unquote, our responsibility in Angola. Ford's statement laid the groundwork for a counterattack when the bill came before the House. But on December 21st, a provocative article appeared on the front page of the New Yor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 5:58
Gerald Ford covered_up
Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted
“And you cannot have somebody that is even the slightest bit interested in the truth in charge when this can of worms is going to explode, which it did. And it was nicely contained by Ford, who was on the Warren Commission, and how the whole…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 1:18:15
Gerald Ford covered_up
BCCI host_asserted
“It was covered up by the White House during all of the administrations in the 1970s, which would include Nixon. It would include Ford. It would include Reagan, Jimmy Carter.…”
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Gerald Ford appointed
Carla Anderson Hills host_asserted
“And she was HUD in the Ford administration.…”
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Citigroup recruited
Gerald Ford host_asserted
“Oh, they recruit President Ford, a Republican, and Robert Rubin, a Democrat who was Clinton's Treasury Secretary.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 37:58
Gerald Ford covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“both World War II policy and post-World War II management of West German policy, along with Alan Dulles, who end up directly on the Warren Commission and are the two most important players. And of course, their waterboy was Gerald Ford in t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 1:19:49
Mentions (120)
▶ 37:58
Oh, they recruit President Ford, a Republican, and Robert Rubin, a Democrat who was Clinton's Treasury Secretary. And they collectively, this group of people using those two front people, Ford and Rubin, they are the ones that were responsi…
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crazy wild people in these stories. Okay. So if you go down and look at her profile, she was an assistant attorney general in the civil rights division at DOD. And she was HUD in the Ford administration. She also,…
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You can thank Allie. I think she's the one that invited me. I didn't even know anything about it. I stick my nose in books most of the time. So I just happened to get on and she, I think, is the one that had shared that with me. It was fun.…
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About who? Ford. Gerald Ford. Yeah, well, he's kind of a blip on the radar. Ford, in his role in... I don't even know how to describe him. He's kind of a... What do you call those? A doorstop.…
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The whole way he came about, if you go back where he's from, the money that was poured into his campaigns, he was a bought and paid for guy as well. Did what he was told to do, how he was told to do it. And, you know, he played his role on …
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And it was covered up by the DEA. It was covered up by the CIA. It was covered up by the FBI. It was covered up by the White House during all of the administrations in the 1970s, which would include Nixon. It would include Ford. It would in…
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that seems to have been going on in the Nixon and Ford administrations between advocates of like a full Saudi Arabia tilt as opposed to an Iran tilt. And Cooper makes the argument, I guess, that, you know, Nixon and debatably Kissinger, alt…
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And again, this is right. This is about two years before the CIA knew but did not tell Jimmy Carter that the Shah had cancer because they knew that by 76 or possibly early 77. But anyway, the other part led by which Cooper makes the case is…
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The taking of Agnew out to me makes it bigger than just Nixon. It was because they wanted what they ended up with of Ford and Nelson Rockefeller. And once you find out the backdrop as we go through Nelson Rockefeller specifically and all of…
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What difference does it make, Colonel, that they took, and forgive me if you've already been over this, what difference does it make that they took out Spiro Agnew and not, and Nixon as well? Like, what difference would it have made if they…
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Ford was completely owned by the establishment. Ford was the guy they stuck on the Warren Commission because he's adult. He was completely under their control. So you have to get Ford in there first so that Nixon, when you do him, you're go…
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Nelson Rockefeller had to be there. I don't know what that is yet. But there was some reason. And you could not have gotten him in without getting Agnew out first in order to then get Ford in and then you do Nixon. Because otherwise, Nixon …
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that with the disorienting events in Portugal, that that was going to be the best window of freedom for Angola. And the CIA wanted to be in the middle of it. Thus, with Roberto already safely inside the American camp because of his relation…
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already had approved $300,000 in secret subsidies to go to the head of UNINA, and the president personally approved that action, according to the administration of President Ford. The source stated that both the president and Kissinger were…
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And as a result of that, here he is again, and he's going to go up against the CIA and Henry Kissinger yet again in their globalist garbage. The Secretary of State's African Bureau in June recommended almost unanimously that the U.S. stay o…
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President Ford chose to intervene, supporting the FNLA and UNITA initially with $50 million, and then it just escalated from there. Given the current absence on the consensus of foreign policy, it is at least doubtful that he would have mad…
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was launched the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger left Indonesia following a meeting with President Suharto, which many people believe was the go-ahead for him to launch the invasion. So by Decembe…
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President Gerald Ford, on his way to Indonesia for a state visit, the intelligence report forewarned that Sukarta would bring up a Timor issue and would try and elicit a sympathetic attitude. Sukarta succeeded. The fact that Sukarta concede…
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The U.S. natural interest, Ford concluded, had to be on the side of Indonesia. Ford gave his approval December 6, 1975. Five days after the invasion, the U.S. voted to condemn the attack as an act of international aggression. The U.S. absta…
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Yes. So the two so the two paper clippiest dudes, the two closest to Alan Dulles, one of whom was Alan Dulles, but John J. McCloy, you know, as you I know you've mentioned him repeatedly is known as the chairman on Wall Street. So and their…
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And Gerald Ford, in particular, in the final commission, like three days before the final report of the Warren Commission comes out, he changes the wording so that it can align with Arlen Specter's crazy, insane magic bullet theory. And he …
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Moon proclaimed as his family value conference that he was the only one who knew, quote, all the secrets of God, unquote. One of them, according to the Chronicle, was the husband is the owner of his wife's sex organs and vice versa. Preside…
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So we're going to consider that a pretty good source, right? He says, and how they measure the way someone's related to somebody is that, you know, 1,000 and 24th, like Elizabeth Warren. Yeah, I bet there's some of that too, but these blood…
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that people normally call the Cuban exiles, to orchestrate a coup of Nixon. And you end up with Ford and Nelson Rockefeller. And one of the things in having researched all of that, you know, yes, we know Ford is one of the syndicate buddies…
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list of syndicate he was bought and paid for. We know all of this if you look into his history. They basically get rid of Agnew first, install Ford, get rid of Nixon second, and Ford moves up. Then he hires Nelson Rockefeller. I've just bee…
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The conservatives charged that faulty CIA estimates of Soviet strategic strength had allowed the U.S. to sign the SALT I Treaty, which had permitted the Soviets to catch up with its strategic weapon. In August 1975, the president's Foreign …
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in the COVID-19 intelligence estimate, right? So we know exactly what's going on behind the scenes because it has occasionally leaked out or been exposed, and that's what they're afraid of. Admiral Anderson, let's see, after President Ford …
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deputy thanks to the manipulation of Shackley and Bush. And as it turns out, Carlucci is very close friends with Donald Rumsfeld. And it was Donald Rumsfeld who worked with President Ford to get Bush appointed to the directorship of the CIA…
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After Watergate deposed Richard Nixon, the news emerged that the CIA had spied domestically since at least the Johnson administration. Congressman Otis Pike of the House Intelligence Committee began to probe publicly into the CIA. Newspaper…
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It was clear to me that they were holding back not only from Colby, but from the president. Ford felt enough political pressure that he appointed Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a commission to look into the CIA. From assassinatio…
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President Ford realized that Colby intended to comply with all requests for information, with the exception of the names of American agents. The establishment, both Republicans and Democrats, now was facing lots of revelations. From Iran, H…
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Angleton's final departure from the CIA came at about the same time Gerald Ford decided that Colby's open approach to the investigation had to end. Ford fired Colby. But Colby's sudden job loss did not cause him any severe worries. He began…
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Among those clients were Nugent Hand. So again, all Colby did was go to the enterprise, which is what I call the covert side of the CIA in all of their fake entities. Ford had thought about replacing Colby with Elliot Richardson, the forthr…
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But Donald Rumsfeld and others convinced Ford that the CIA under siege by Ford's attorney general, the last thing they needed was a reformer to head the CIA. Henry Kissinger, who needed someone at the CIA to stave off Richard Helms' very re…
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to the more experienced and better known Nelson Rockefeller as Gerald Ford's vice president. To console Bush, Ford offered him his choice of two assignments, either the ambassador to London or the ambassador to Paris. Bush shocked Ford and …
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For blackmail, President Ford's appointment of Bush to head the CIA in November 1975 was greeted with a howl of objections from Democrats who feared that Bush would use the CIA as a political platform and allow more of their embarrassing se…
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He had flown in from Beijing on very short notice. By the end of the second day of hearings on Bush's confirmation, it was clear that the appointment was in trouble. President Ford found himself in the unenviable position of having to defen…
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Ford finally said, if Ambassador Bush is confirmed by the Senate as director of the Central Intelligence, I will not consider him as my running mate in 1976. According to many who would be, let's see, Bush would not have been confirmed if F…
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George Bush made no secret that he would not follow his predecessor, William Colby, in the policy of openness and cooperation with Congress. Bush said the scrutiny of the agency had undergone, quote, frankly, many of our friends around the …
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with us on important intelligence project, unquote. So in other words, we have to keep lying to you for your own protection. Not that the oversight had been very thorough. Ford's assistant, Rod Hills, recalled a case when two senators were …
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Along the same lines, he came out to the agency and was sworn in. Quote, Ford came out to the alcove. Colby presided and then got into his old battered up jalopy and drove off into the sunset with a standing ovation. And Potter Stewart, the…
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He, during Dwight Eisenhower's administration, which we know is when they were setting up Operation Gladio in 1960, he ran as the vice president on the Richard Nixon ticket that got derailed by JFK. And it says that he later served as a dip…
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I'm going to agree with you because they've done that before. They absolutely did that before. They did that with Agnew and Ford. Right. So, John, and that's the reason why the three of us have worked closely together. I'm not going to say …
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He was also later appointed by Gerald Ford to a commission on CIA activities within the United States, which was referred to as the Rockefeller Commission. So you've got the guy running Operation Gladio with the CIA in NATO, who, like the e…
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correlation there. He was the CIA director for Ford in 76 and 77. And that's right around this same time. And so he kind of scooped up all of the Operation Phoenix people to incorporate…
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who was the Director of Economic Opportunity back in 1970. Cheney would go on to become the Deputy Assistant to the President in 74, 75. That was Ford. Interesting is that Dick Cheney is the one who wrote the memo to use the Justice Departm…
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Yeah, that's Cheney who did the cover up there. Becomes the White House chief of staff from 75 to 77, and then would manage Ford's 1976 presidential campaign. The one he lost. Yes. Jimmy Carter. Yes. So he goes back to Congress. I'm sorry, …
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Ford and Carter administration in the National Security Council. So basically every coup that we did between Nixon, Ford and Carter, this guy was involved in. He also specialized in NATO. He was a special assistant, meaning like right hand …
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Colonel, did you find any connections to, you know, Iran Contra or some of the behind-the-scenes players, you know, in all of that? Because, like, in the same mix, you've got, like, Adnan Khashoggi, but I can't quite connect them. So that's…
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goes through Nixon, Carter and Ford and then becomes the special assistant for Bush senior while Bush senior is president and becomes Obama's deputy director of DNI. So he's literally one of the swamp people that covers a large span of time…
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was disliked because he pushed the country even further off the gold standard, ending the convertibility of dollars into gold and introducing market interventions such as wage and price controls. Ford continued most of Nixon's policies. The…
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If that be our definition, then every patriot should hear this phone call because it's amazing. You can literally hear the CIA knit the Warren Commission, which is, again, why, you know, the Gene Hackman character was named Rankin. That's a…
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The Vatican, in an unsigned article on the front page of their newspaper, condemned crimes attempted in the name of fanatical ideologues. Pope Paul VI, a day earlier, had called political kidnappings vile. The political figure to speak at t…
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That's crazy. Although the murder had led some voices to suggest that the U.S. should not be engaged in these activities that had taken Dan to Uruguay, Ford took the murder as proof of how important it was for the U.S. to persevere in these…
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going into foreign countries, training the national police to be terrorists. And Gerald Ford in the House said that we should persevere in these missions. Ford also expressed confidence that the Uruguayan government had done all in its powe…
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I mean, the sheer evilness of that entire family. And then he goes on to become the vice president and not part of any election process. He gets there, obviously, by the same Cuban exiles that are Operation Gladio staging the break in at th…
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If Michener so testified under oath, then he could be prosecuted for perjury because that's exactly what happened. Several months later, when the author interviewed Michener, he had found an article in the Washington Post dated August 10th,…
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during the Nixon, so he picked up some vibes from Kissinger, and then he was Nixon's deputy assistant for national security affairs. Nixon promoted him to a four-star general and the Army's vice chief of staff. He was Nixon's personal emiss…
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contacts. His former boss, Von Marbog, ended up working with Frank Carlucci at the short-lived Sears World Trade, which was a company that was a front for the CIA. According to Roderick Hills, who was a lawyer who had been an intelligence a…
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Or did I? I didn't remember if I did know that Ronald Reagan ran against Ford in the primary. And then obviously Ford ran against Carter and lost. And I'm kind of interested to know because Ford ran with Bob Dole as his running mate, as opp…
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So you're talking about calming the herd? Something like that, yeah. Okay, Stellar, go ahead. Well, also you have, in my opinion, also go farther. Back in the 70s, I think when Ford and Nixon were in office and stuff like that, there was so…
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Or even Nelson Rockefeller under Ford was crazy. And nobody knows all of the crap that he did as vice president. He had this entire commission in which volumes were written about. And his commission that he headed, which literally has volum…
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been passed. By 1974, however, there was a lot of bad feelings in Congress on the issue. Some legislation was tentatively considered that year by the Senate Committee on Government Operations. Before anything emerged from the effort, Willia…
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appearance of a hearse story on CIA domestic activity. Ford immediately asked for a report later that day responding to a growing number of press inquiries. The president issued a public statement that said he asked Henry Kissinger, acting …
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Quickly, through the various allegations, but slowed down when he came to the part about assassinations, he stopped and looked at William Colby. Well, Bill, when her story first came out, I thought you should have flatly denied it as totall…
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There was no White House denial and Ford made no statement in support of the CIA. There was also no denials by William Colby or official statements from the CIA. The only denial of the Hearst story came on Christmas Day from Richard Helms, …
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On January 4th, 1975, Gerald Ford declared his administration would not tolerate illegal activity by intelligence agencies. He also said that he had been assured by William Colby that no such activities were in progress, which was a big fat…
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Nelson Rockefeller, one of the guys who is in the syndicate directing the CIA's abuses. Very swiftly, Congress established its own investigative committee. The Senate approved a resolution, S-21, on January 27th by a vote of 82 to 4, naming…
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The 14-member panel was to be chaired by Frank Church. The House did a similar version with 10 members, and that was going to be called the Pike Commission after New York Democrat Otis Pike. In his memoirs, A Time to Heal, President Gerald …
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and the congressional committees who wanted to look at everything in the files. Ford is correct that the atmosphere created in the Watergate scandal contributed to the intensity, but the CIA abuses were hardly incidental. From the instance …
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After consultation with the Attorney General, President Ford intervened on November 19, 1975, writing Otis Pike that the subpoenaed documents had been legitimately withheld. The committee responded by voting to cite Kissinger for contempt o…
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The Ford administration was able to prevail upon the full House of Representatives not to release the Pike report. Some 246 representatives voted to suppress the report against 124 for its release. When television reporter Daniel Score, S-C…
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though it was discovered that the initial leak had been to Daniel's score. Ironically, Gerald Ford might have done better with the initial House committee leadership. The original choice for chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence …
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was to balance the requirements for secrecy with American democracy. Except for we're not a democracy. From all of the millions of words in the hearings, findings, and recommendations of the church committee, one phrase in particular stuck …
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I just want to kind of put it in perspective. Within days of the Angolan agreement on a coalition government, the 40 committee, remember that's the NSC coup machine, had a recommendation to increase the subsidies to Holden Roberto by $300,0…
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a choice for President Ford, who, of course, opted for intervention. Action then returned to the 40 committee, dominated in 1975 by none other than Henry Kissinger. Meeting on July 14th, a special group directed the CIA to create a covert a…
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which in July had succeeded in driving both the other factions out of the capital. On August 20th, while Stockdale was observing the FNLA and UNITA, President Ford authorized an additional $10 million for the project. Now notice that they d…
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Ultimately, from that moment, they decided not to allow the CIA advisors into combat. President Ford approved another $7 million in military aid, and any further money would have to have come from Congress, which we know is a lie because th…
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successfully sponsored legislation to require reporting of significant covert operations to relevant committees in Congress, which is why they hated him. In practice, this worked out to eight committees and 163 members and their senior staf…
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Deputy Director of Operations William Nelson went up first and admitted the truth about the U.S. involvement. Bill Nelson was a William Colby protege. As the Director of Central Intelligence had suddenly been called in by President Ford abo…
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of Ambassador Davis's resignation. Dick Clark Amendment passed the House of Representatives in January 1976, as Kissinger failed in Moscow to inject the Angola issue into a superpower meetings on arm control. The legislation was signed into…
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CIA subcommittees with permanent select intelligence committees. And then they just compromised them. So it wasn't like we got a whole lot out of that. But they tried. Oversight did not mean the end of covert actions. On February 15th, 1976…
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Tom Karamasin, David Atlee Phillips, and General Richard Stilwell, all advised against any regulatory oversight. Outpacing a slow-moving Congress, the executive was quick to seize the initiative on intelligence reform, and in 1976, Presiden…
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Ford's executive order prohibited assassination, a reiteration of internal directives Colby issued in 1973. It replaced the 40 committee with a panel called the Operations Advisory Group, placing covert action decisions in the hands of a ca…
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He supported legislation in 1980 to reduce the CIA reporting to the two specialized intelligence committees of Congress. Carter also made use of a gambit first resorted to by Kissinger and Ford, blanket presidential findings issued to the i…
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He was speechwriters for Nixon, Ford, and Bush, senior. But that's the only one in Scroll and Key that's listed on here, on Skull and Bones. Let me see if I can go to Scroll and Key and see what their alumni's are. Let's see. Membership. Th…
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Licio Gelli is really connected to a lot of these guys. And recently I came across that, and I don't know if you've come across this, but apparently he was at inauguration of not only Ronald Reagan, but I believe Carter and possibly Ford as…
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Kissinger credits Zambian leader Kenneth Karunda in the April 1975 visit with convincing him and Ford that the MPLA could not be permitted to win the Angola election, of course, because they're communist.…
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President Ford quickly approved this money. The project amounted to a political action, enabling the FNLA to get a leg up in the elections. The CIA funded a printing press to create a newspaper. They gave them equipment to set up a radio st…
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50 unarmed MPLA activists were killed, gunned down in the street. These attacks, emboldened by CIA support, ended any possibility of a coalition government. Thus, both the initial CIA subsidy and the outbreak of fighting predated any appeal…
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The June 13th report of the Davis Group framed a stark choice for President Ford. By then, another outbreak of fighting had occurred, sparked this time by Netto increasing power in PLA. Events that had begun to move against U.S. ally Robert…
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At all, the NSC meeting, the fateful one that took place the same afternoon. Secretary Kissinger's briefing memorandum for Ford conceded that U.S. interests were important but not vital. And noted Mubato's push for intervention. Contrary to…
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on Soviet military aid is deleted from the currently available declassified version of the document. But its placement and length suggests that the CIA had no evidence of the huge arms shipment that Kissinger kept insisting had already been…
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but probably favorable since immediately after, President Ford asked if there are specific proposals for providing them weapons. Ford also asked that diplomacy would be naive. The group does recognize Kaunda's encouragement of U.S. interven…
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from covert action. On July 17th, the 40 committee blessed the project. He failed. Henry Kissinger took the proposal to Ford, along with Davis's dissent paper. Kissinger quotes himself as favoring action and urging the president to study th…
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went off to the FNLA via Zaire before Langley even formed a task force and before the Portuguese withdrew from the airfields to receive them. By August 9th, two more loads had been sent on C-141s, while the CIA assembled shiploads of suppli…
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a secret war in Kurdistan, Laos, and Vietnam, all of which had been long-term over a decade and a half. And it had worked against, and the CIA had been working against Cuba for years. They had been working in Tibet. Except for Project Mongo…
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Director of Operations William Nelson. Potts, his deputy George Costello, and Stockwell prepared the detailed plans right up to the last minute. On July 27th, President Ford upped the ante, giving them $8 million. The CIA principals gathere…
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Zavimbi had the strongest movement. He was a leader. His political organization was competent and had grassroots. Much of Roberto's support resided in Zaire. On August 20th, while Stockwell observed the FNLA and UNITA, President Ford author…
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in Zaire and resided there as well. He's not even in the country. In fact, Roberto showed no inclination to leave his villa to be on the front, something the U.S. was well aware of. Roberto had not been in Angola for years. Jim Schlesinger …
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called Operation Carlotta. Cuban volunteers came in large numbers. The remainder of the elite battalion almost immediately was destroyed. Between the end of October and November, according to the CIA, more than 20 Russian aircraft delivered…
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Americans from working inside Angola were spurred by a fresh army mobile training team from FNLA headquarters. Washington viewed the worsening situation with alarm. On November 27th, Ford authorized another $7 million. That exhausted the CI…
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Unable to tell the working group just what Kissinger had decided, said he read it. Then he grunted and walked out of the office. They were reduced to trying to figure out what was going on. Kissinger is silent about this exchange. He writes…
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applied to amounts of less than $50 million and could be done with the approval and appropriation committee chairman alone. But the $28 million gamut was blocked. In the year of intelligence, Congress had ceased to be a rubber stamp. It als…
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Senator Clark's subcommittee. The CIA witness, William Nelson, went first. Nelson, a Colby protege, probably feared his own days were numbers, as Ford had suddenly fired Colby a month earlier. Having spent most of his career in the Far East…
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They relied on Bender for expertise in Angola history and politics. Other than that, he had no role. Meanwhile, Democrat John Tunney, junior senator from California, faced tough competition for re-election in 76, beginning with the nominati…
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He made telephone calls and newly promoted National Security Advisor Brent Scrocoff assembled a chronology designed to show how little had been done and threw his congressional liaison staff into the fray. Ford directed Kissinger to postpon…
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That had not been appropriated, thus ruling out reprogramming employee Ford was counting on. After debate in the Senate, Tunney's amendment passed by a considerable margin, 54 to 22. In a statement, Ford complained of the grave consequences…
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If you know the stuff that we've covered over the last three plus years, you see it all unfolding right in front of us. It's like crazy tunes. Okay, back to our book. We're on page 452. We were talking yesterday about President Ford and the…
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And basically, all of this stuff is getting exposed in the 1970 timeframe with the CIA under the spotlight, blah, blah, blah. So that's where we're going to pick up. So President Ford had made a statement about the grave consequences of the…
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He also had the story that Ambassador Davis's resignation was directly tied to it. Driven by more leaks, discussions of it in GOLA just kind of took on a life of its own. Ford simultaneously engaged in a very public fight with committees in…
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parsing of Angola questions and marching orders to reiterate Ford's position. On various occasions, Nissen's instructions were to claim that Washington knew nothing about South African troops being involved, that there had been no U.S. recr…
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And that a delay of even a few days were considered helpful for the CIA to move arms and for the U.S. to explore alternative sources. So they're using a congressional delay to move the arms that are already in the pipeline. Ford got his del…
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President Ford reluctantly signed it into law on February 9th, 1976. So intent is Kissinger on shifting blame that he argues, quote, with victory for the Cuban and Soviet forces in Angola, the geopolitical context for SALT was gone, unquote…
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The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence went on to do a year-long investigation of Project Feature. In the spring of 78, it concluded that the Ford administration had misled Congress on the scope of the operation, not revealing some act…
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Colby maintained that the CIA had not conducted Angola the way it had Laos. Kissinger dismissed the inquiry as a smear job. Project feature, a product of the White House determination, had been a dismal failure. Again, those who attributed …
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Ford and Kissinger heard lots of advice to steer clear, yet chose to go straight for disaster. As for America and democracy, the Ford administration acted against it. There is no doubt that Roberto's FNLA and Zebembe's United and Netto's MP…
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The newly minted CIA director, George H.W. Bush, refused to say whether the Angola project had ended. In a later interview, Bush commented, quote, what happened in Angola was that a properly conceived program, one signed off by the policyma…
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dirty laundry and not give it to the DOJ. Within weeks of Bush entering the director suite, President Ford issued an executive order on the intelligence community, billed at the time as a major reorganization. In fact, the move amounted to …
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partly to a set of a dozen suggestions Bush had made as he prepared to take over. In early 76, Ford's executive order 11905 became the first public regulations ever to describe the function of the U.S. intelligence and restrictions. The ord…