1980 Liberian coup d'état event
also: coup, bloody coup, 1980 coup
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William Tolbertperson · 7United Statescountry · 5Liberiacountry · 4Richard Tolbertperson · 2Beneath the Cold War: The Death of a Nationbook · 1Sadie and Lennard Deschildperson · 1April 22 Memorial Grouporganization · 1Movement for Justice in Africaorganization · 1Tebotehperson · 1Operation Gladiooperation · 1Liberian Civil Warevent · 1True Whig Partyorganization · 1Victoria Tolbertperson · 1Frank Tolbertperson · 1
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United States funded
1980 Liberian coup d'état book_quoted
“Her youngest son, William Tolbert III, said that this successor government formed by his father's killers received more aid in just five years than the country had received in its entire history, which at that point was like, I mean, they s…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 26:38
Movement for Justice in Africa trained
1980 Liberian coup d'état book_quoted
“T-I-P-O-T-E-H. That organization also, it's M-O-J-A, MOJA, also was set up at exactly the same time. Kind of like they're planning something. MOJA indoctrinated a number of members of the armed forces of Liberia in its pan-African ideology,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 37:01
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Obviously, the whole reason we're talking about this is because they have had coups as a result of and very much into the bring up my other article here. Hold on just a second, because it gets pretty dang crazy here.…
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William, oh, sorry, Richard is the son of the brother. Sorry, it's his nephew. William Tolbert had been murdered in a bloody coup that ended 150 years of political domination by the nation's American descendant settler elites. And I want to…
▶ 23:32
everything that was ever written about Liberia and the nuances on how this whole thing unfolded. So we're going to carry on a little bit more about this. All right. So in the early morning of April 1980, as the president prepared to go to s…
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of the executive mansion and executed the commander-in-chief, the president. At least six of the attackers had been trained by the U.S. military. What's that tell you? Operation Gladio. But I want you to take, because I obviously have been …
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a small group of enlisted soldiers shot their way into a presidential suite on the eighth floor of the presidential mansion. There's almost no way that could ever happen in real life unless there's insiders involved in this coup. Every one …
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And there's no way that if you breach the bottom floor, you're ever going to make it into the presidential suite. No way. There's helicopter pads. There's all kinds of stuff. So there's no way this actually just happened unless there's CIA …
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Several days later, Richard watched in horror as his father, Frank, who was the president of the Senate, was executed on live TV. They had taken several Liberian heads of state in different occupations, but government employees, out to a be…
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Liberian elite continue to grapple with these events. Indicative of the complex historical relationship between U.S. and Liberia, their surviving family members entertain the possibility that the coup was enabled by basically the CIA. In he…
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Her youngest son, William Tolbert III, said that this successor government formed by his father's killers received more aid in just five years than the country had received in its entire history, which at that point was like, I mean, they s…
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And they said that they were haunted by the idea that the U.S. actions led to the demise of Tolbert and gave way to a 14-year civil war where over 250,000 Liberians died. And that's just in that 14-year period because they had a couple othe…
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prospecting for leadership change in Liberia was largely overlooked. Operation Gladio. Likewise, in a book called Beneath the Cold War, The Death of a Nation, a highly critical book on U.S. policy towards Liberia by the husband and wife tea…
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Funny how that works. So we call the Progressive Alliance of Liberia the product of the Peace Corps. They did such a good job for us when they were in high school. He's saying that facetiously. The homegrown campaign, a homegrown campaign, …