John Grombach person
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Claims (6)
Hayes Croner appointed
John Grombach host_asserted
“an army captain, Grombach, G-R-O-M-B-A-C-H, that had worked in the OSS for Donovan to head up the pond. The pond was disbanded post-World War when the Central Intelligence had matured enough in 1955 to take over its mission.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 11:29
John Grombach headed
The Pond host_asserted
“In 2008, Associated Press reported that the CIA planned to release a stash of Pond-related papers accidentally discovered in a Virginia barn in 2001 and then hand them over to the National Archives. John Grombach led the Pond in intelligenc…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 11:54
John Grombach recruited
Alexander Barmine host_asserted
“Soviet intel officer by the name of Alexander Barmine to discover a list of OSS Soviet agents. This was mostly left by the wayside when the U.S. government chose the Soviet unions as an ally. Then they had something that was very interestin…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 15:49
John Grombach founded
Project 1641 host_asserted
“Grombach bought this project, excuse me, began this project as a comprehensive record of reports eliminated by Alfred McCormick. And he was basically part of a thing called Operation Magic that gathered intercepts of encrypted information.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 16:19
CIA recruited
John Grombach documented
“But new light was shed on his case recently when some of the personal archives of military intelligence agents, John Valentin Grombach, found their way into public domain in the 1950s. The CIA hired Grombach's private intelligence network a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:10:48
John Grombach spied_on
CIA documented
“But new light was shed on his case recently when some of the personal archives of military intelligence agents, John Valentin Grombach, found their way into public domain in the 1950s. The CIA hired Grombach's private intelligence network a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:10:48
Mentions (18)
▶ 11:01
He, let's see, the PON was a small secretive organization formed by the government of the U.S. which operated between 42 and 55 and engaged in espionage. In the spring of 1942, Kroner, K-R-O-N-E-R, let's see, was given the go-ahead to set u…
▶ 11:54
In 2008, Associated Press reported that the CIA planned to release a stash of Pond-related papers accidentally discovered in a Virginia barn in 2001 and then hand them over to the National Archives. John Grombach led the Pond in intelligenc…
▶ 12:24
Wildly enough, is described as an anti-communist. Imagine that. Who had an obsession with secrecy and security. Grombach was born in New Orleans, as is so many of these people we come across. He was a, let's see, he competed on the Olympic …
▶ 12:53
and managed the Olympics, and we know what goes on there. At age 18, Grombach, the son of a French consul, renounced his French citizenship and obtained American citizenship. He went on to go to West Point, and Grombach left the army and jo…
▶ 13:23
As all important CIA assets are, he was both at CBS and Paramount. He produced his own radio show. Oh, my gosh. And then he worked at the Office of Coordinator of Information, which eventually turns into a CIA front. In the spring of 42, Cr…
▶ 14:21
Grombach never shared the identities of his sources, totaling over 2,500 people in 32 different countries. Although the pond was an army operation, its existence was kept from the chief of the naval intelligence operation, and it was not cl…
▶ 14:49
The extreme secrecy and small size of the pond are the reasons why it survived. The budget, well, we don't need about the budget. The pond employed personnel and agents, observers from, oh my God, from large corporations around the world. S…
▶ 15:19
from large corporations around the world. It started out as part of the War Department, but became a private company working under a government contract. So it was the first of the fake companies to serve the intelligence community. The lis…
▶ 15:49
Soviet intel officer by the name of Alexander Barmine to discover a list of OSS Soviet agents. This was mostly left by the wayside when the U.S. government chose the Soviet unions as an ally. Then they had something that was very interestin…
▶ 16:19
Grombach bought this project, excuse me, began this project as a comprehensive record of reports eliminated by Alfred McCormick. And he was basically part of a thing called Operation Magic that gathered intercepts of encrypted information.…
▶ 19:15
In Paris, and that's how he became a source of information, was through his medical practice. And it says it was later filmed by the FBI, who, let's see, yeah, he had some credibility issues later on. So, while investigating a lead that sug…
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The PON began D-A-H-L as an information assembly in Argentina and Uruguay. John Grombach reported on Uruguayan officials that were quote-unquote communists. In other words, they were labeling Uruguayan officials as communists so that they c…
▶ 23:19
goes on to talk about the Voight-Vandenberg, who is a military general from the Air Force, became the director of the CIA and wanted to consolidate the power of organizations like the Pond and others that had been fielded like that and to a…
▶ 1:10:48
But new light was shed on his case recently when some of the personal archives of military intelligence agents, John Valentin Grombach, found their way into public domain in the 1950s. The CIA hired Grombach's private intelligence network a…
▶ 1:11:18
intelligence reports on CIA agents that he leaked to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and other people that didn't like the CIA. Dahlman kept in contact with American intelligence after the war. Grombach wrote in a con…
▶ 1:11:47
Oh, no kidding. Probably. Let's see. That's around the same time that Otto Skorzeny is working for the CIA. His work became especially important during the period when General Walter Bedell Smith was the director and Alan Dulles was the dep…
▶ 1:12:16
press, reports brought to light a series of scandals involving former Nazi officials who favored a Soviet-backed proposal for a neutral Germany. Dolman's role in the affair is not completely clear to this day, but it was certain that he had…
▶ 1:24:59
I know he had an organization that some refer to as, quote, the pond, unquote. And I didn't quite, I was a little distracted in that part of the chapter, but let it be said, I just like, I want to know what that was. And you mentioned that …