Donald Gregg person
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Claims (25)
Donald Gregg worked_for
George H.W. Bush book_quoted
“the guy that featured prominently in the Phoenix program, Donald Gregg and Rudy Enders. He goes on to explain that Donald Gregg, and let me just tell you guys, this is how overlapping these are. Donald Gregg is the guy that worked for Vice …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 11:47
George H.W. Bush appointed
Donald Gregg book_quoted
“Obviously, he was hired as Vice President Bush's National Security Advisor, because that's where we found him in our other story for the Iran-Contra. Rudy Enders, assigned as Chief of the CIA Special Operations Division to oversee covert pa…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 21:42
William Colby appointed
Donald Gregg book_quoted
“Greg had worked under William Colby in the CIA Far East Division from 1961 to 64 as chief of the Vietnam desk at the CIA headquarters. When Colby became director of the CIA in 73, he promoted Greg to the CIA's executive management staff. Gr…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 20:25
Donald Gregg member_of
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“in Vice President Bush's office that ran the entire Iran-Contra affair. So Donald Gregg is in Vietnam and was part of the management of the Phoenix program. So he goes on to explain a little bit about Donald Gregg, and he says that he was t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 12:15
Donald Gregg member_of
Washington, D.C. book_quoted
“In the old executive office building on June 25th, Rodriguez had a problem just getting into the White House gate. I'm not sure I believe that either because he was reporting to Donald Gregg and he was in Donald Gregg's office all the time.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 3:33
Donald Gregg appointed
George H.W. Bush host_asserted
“And you have Donald Gregg, who was actually working directly as the national security advisor for Vice President Bush on his staff. He's the guy that ran Felix Rodriguez. So all of these people ended up in these kind of nebulous, which peop…”
▶ Operation Gladio - National Endowment for Democracy @ 14:42
Donald Gregg member_of
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“SS tactic that the Germans used against the French resistance. I guess he doesn't know about Operation Gladio because that's where all of it comes from. It was standard Phoenix program operating procedures, which they rebranded as their quo…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 19:58
Felix Rodriguez reported_to
Donald Gregg book_quoted
“In the old executive office building on June 25th, Rodriguez had a problem just getting into the White House gate. I'm not sure I believe that either because he was reporting to Donald Gregg and he was in Donald Gregg's office all the time.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 3:33
Donald Gregg member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Oliver North's deputy listened to the outrageous charges from Greg via Felix Rodriguez. We're supposed to believe that Felix Rodriguez, the trained assassin, cares about money. Greg followed up in CIA and Pentagon channels a few days later.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 7:37
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Donald Gregg book_quoted
“was going to take over the responsibilities, or at least in part, take over those responsibilities, unquote, not as a volunteer, but as a worker. And we know that he was reporting to Donald Gregg directly to the National Security Advisor of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 16:27
Donald Gregg member_of
Iran-Contra host_asserted
“Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to be tasked with that either, but he was. So the rank of the individual has literally nothing to do with that. And it was out of the vice president's office using his national security advisor that Iran-Cont…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:10:49
Donald Gregg member_of
Iran-Contra book_quoted
“He was in El Salvador with the death squads. He was in Honduras with the death squads. He was working on the CONFRA thing out of the Bush vice president White House for Donald Gregg, because Donald Gregg, who was the national security advis…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 25:26
Donald Gregg member_of
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“the vice president staff running basically the operation for the conference. And he knew Donald Gregg, who was Bush's national security advisor as VP. And Donald Gregg had been involved in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And basically, the …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 25:54
Donald Gregg met_with
Cyrus Hashemi book_quoted
“national security staff. Gregg's official job was to coordinate intel in East Asia. At about that time, the first rescue mission collapsed. Gregg attended a meeting in New York with Cyrus Hashimi's bank at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. As G…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:07:03
Donald Gregg met_with
George H.W. Bush host_asserted
“who's also CIA. Former National Security aide David Aaron told the Village Boys, I think most people were unaware of those connections. They were definitely unaware of it. Gregg first met Bush at a dinner in Tokyo in 1967. So, you know, tha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:07:33
Donald Gregg received
Carter Administration book_quoted
“Greg secretly received non-public material from the Carter White House that even included a copy of a personal letter from Ammar Sadat to Carter. The October surprise, Gary Sick, about the October surprise, Gary Sick wrote what is widely ac…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:13:08
Donald Gregg involved_in
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“intensely loyal supporters. One of the loyalists was Donald Gregg, who we've talked about many times. Donald Gregg was in Vietnam and was an intricate person in the administration of the Phoenix program. The man Jimmy Carter is convinced pl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 22:20
Donald Gregg hired
Felix Rodriguez book_quoted
“Because he became President Bush's national security advisor, and he immediately turned around and hired Felix Rodriguez, who was front and center in the Iran-Contra scandal. He is also a Cuban exile that was used as an assassin on many, ma…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 22:50
Donald Gregg subordinate_to
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“Because he became President Bush's national security advisor, and he immediately turned around and hired Felix Rodriguez, who was front and center in the Iran-Contra scandal. He is also a Cuban exile that was used as an assassin on many, ma…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 22:50
Donald Gregg recruited
Felix Rodriguez host_asserted
“And you have Donald Gregg, who was actually working directly as the national security advisor for Vice President Bush on his staff. He's the guy that ran Felix Rodriguez. So all of these people ended up in these kind of nebulous, which peop…”
▶ Operation Gladio - National Endowment for Democracy @ 14:42
Felix Rodriguez appointed
Donald Gregg host_asserted
“to do those exact same things as the liaison between Donald Gregg and George Bush while he's vice president. And you look back at the dates when he was the CIA director, you know, you see the direct.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 42:05
Donald Gregg member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Hey, Colonel. I'm doing well. One thing that I observed in here was Donald Gregg's name came up a couple of times. And, you know, it's interesting because, you know, again, his name comes up in the Craig Spence scandal as well. In fact, he'…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 49:06
Donald Gregg member_of
CIA book_quoted
“This starts out with President Nixon's appointment of William Colby in September of 1973 as the new CIA director. And about him, let's see, and his relationship with Ted Shackley and all of the associates from Vietnam and Laos, which includ…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 3:34
Donald Gregg member_of
The Enterprise host_asserted
“And you have Donald Gregg, who was actually working directly as the national security advisor for Vice President Bush on his staff. He's the guy that ran Felix Rodriguez. So all of these people ended up in these kind of nebulous, which peop…”
▶ Operation Gladio - National Endowment for Democracy @ 14:42
George H.W. Bush appointed
Donald Gregg book_quoted
“Vice President Bush's office running the Iran-Contra as his national security advisor. Also is Tom Klein, Bernie Houghton. If you guys remember Bernie Houghton, he's the guy that was a CIA asset agent that set up the restaurant down in Aust…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 4:03
Mentions (53)
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And you have Donald Gregg, who was actually working directly as the national security advisor for Vice President Bush on his staff. He's the guy that ran Felix Rodriguez. So all of these people ended up in these kind of nebulous, which peop…
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He was in El Salvador with the death squads. He was in Honduras with the death squads. He was working on the CONFRA thing out of the Bush vice president White House for Donald Gregg, because Donald Gregg, who was the national security advis…
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the vice president staff running basically the operation for the conference. And he knew Donald Gregg, who was Bush's national security advisor as VP. And Donald Gregg had been involved in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And basically, the …
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This starts out with President Nixon's appointment of William Colby in September of 1973 as the new CIA director. And about him, let's see, and his relationship with Ted Shackley and all of the associates from Vietnam and Laos, which includ…
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to do those exact same things as the liaison between Donald Gregg and George Bush while he's vice president. And you look back at the dates when he was the CIA director, you know, you see the direct.…
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He goes on to say, I talked about the CIA officers who had exported Phoenix from South Vietnam to Latin America and about whom I had written in a book about the Phoenix program. And we're going to get to that because I have that book, too. …
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the guy that featured prominently in the Phoenix program, Donald Gregg and Rudy Enders. He goes on to explain that Donald Gregg, and let me just tell you guys, this is how overlapping these are. Donald Gregg is the guy that worked for Vice …
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in Vice President Bush's office that ran the entire Iran-Contra affair. So Donald Gregg is in Vietnam and was part of the management of the Phoenix program. So he goes on to explain a little bit about Donald Gregg, and he says that he was t…
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sports club-like atmosphere. Once private businesses learned how profitable it was, training for and waging wars became America's way of life, as it had in England, where the YMCA was created. Greg's CIA service and devotion to the American…
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naming him as an ambassador to South Korea from 1989 to 1993. Greg's daughter carried on the family tradition by marrying a writer by the name of Christopher Buckley, who was also a Skull and Bones guy, and the son of CIA officer William Bu…
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also the guy who told African-American author James Baldwin in their famous debate in 1965 that it would be immoral to desegregate the South. Chris Buckley served as a speechwriter for Vice President Bush. So Greg's daughters, Greg worked f…
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is married to Vice President Bush's speechwriter. Got to keep them close. Chris' article that he wrote, one of his articles that he wrote, signaled that the neoconservative propagandists were harnessing the resentment of the masses that fel…
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but had the same values as Greg. He was a graduate of the Maritime Academy. Enders had been a Navy diver in 1961 when the CIA recruited him to run maritime operations against Cuba. Enders was assigned to Vietnam in 65 and stayed for many ye…
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Enders says, our main job was to keep rockets from raining on Saigon. And he went on to explain that he and Greg identified the hunted and hunted the Liberation Army guerrillas with the assistance of, and he makes an appearance in every sto…
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Greg had worked under William Colby in the CIA Far East Division from 1961 to 64 as chief of the Vietnam desk at the CIA headquarters. When Colby became director of the CIA in 73, he promoted Greg to the CIA's executive management staff. Gr…
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Company man. Colby asked him to be the liaison to the congressional committees investigating the CIA's illegal activities called the Family Jewels and its role in assassinations. Congressman Otis Pike wanted to abolish the CIA. So on Colby'…
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Unquote. Colby's public confessions and tough bargaining behind the scenes succeeded. The CIA was spared and Greg's career went upwards. When George H.W. Bush succeeded Colby as the director of the CIA in 1976, Greg moved on to Bush's staff…
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Obviously, he was hired as Vice President Bush's National Security Advisor, because that's where we found him in our other story for the Iran-Contra. Rudy Enders, assigned as Chief of the CIA Special Operations Division to oversee covert pa…
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And the author goes on to say, I had written to Greg in 1987 at Colby's suggestion, then serving on Bush's staff as his national security advisor. Greg called him at home one day and caught me entirely by surprise. He said, I got your lette…
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Well, never mind about that part. So he says, it all started, I explained, when Colby agreed to help me write the book that is dedicated to the Phoenix program. That and him having met with Richard Helms. Richard Helms hated Colby for givin…
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Special Operations Division, and it became an elite special operations group and cross-trained paramilitary officers that was known as low-intensity warfare. Enders and Gregg looked up to Parker with great respect. Having served in the OSS …
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to the Contra operations. Some were eyewitnesses or direct participants in the gun for drugs shipments to Contra bases in Central America. The final report issued in 1993 contains information about the central role of George H. W. Bush and …
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Donald Gregg was Vice President Bush's National Security Advisor, and his assistant was none other than Felix Rodriguez. Of course. These people just show up like bad pennies. Donald Gregg was a 30-year CIA veteran who became Bush's Nationa…
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And Greg's daughter married William Buckley's son. Yeah. And William Buckley, CIA. Right. Have you ever had any? It's all in the family. Right. It was Bush's office that deployed Rodriguez, the Central American, made arrangements for him to…
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Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to be tasked with that either, but he was. So the rank of the individual has literally nothing to do with that. And it was out of the vice president's office using his national security advisor that Iran-Cont…
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was going to take over the responsibilities, or at least in part, take over those responsibilities, unquote, not as a volunteer, but as a worker. And we know that he was reporting to Donald Gregg directly to the National Security Advisor of…
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with a cleric by the name of Ayatollah Makdini Kurubi, who had close ties to Khomeini's son. According to Gary Sick, the Hashmini brothers also offered the Carter administration a meeting as well. When Donald Gregg, keep that name in mind, …
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During the Iran-Contra affair. So Donald Gregg, he's CIA, a Carter National Security Council aide, again, he's CIA, who had nothing to do with Iran, went out of his way to see Cyrus Kashimi. It should have seemed very suspect. Donald Gregg …
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national security staff. Gregg's official job was to coordinate intel in East Asia. At about that time, the first rescue mission collapsed. Gregg attended a meeting in New York with Cyrus Hashimi's bank at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. As G…
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who's also CIA. Former National Security aide David Aaron told the Village Boys, I think most people were unaware of those connections. They were definitely unaware of it. Gregg first met Bush at a dinner in Tokyo in 1967. So, you know, tha…
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because they were killing people left and right. According to Gary Sick, the other Carter NSC officials who wish to remain confidential, there were no official reason for Greg to meet with Hashimi in New York at all. Hashimi took Greg to lu…
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openings that the Carter administration and the Hashimis were trying to make with the new Iranian government. Years later, Greg denied that he had any contact with any of them. He did not deny that he had contact with his old boss, Ted Shac…
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They're basically going to string along the Carter administration thinking he's going to get a deal and he's not. But at the same time, they're working the deal with the Reagan administration to hold on to him until January. Gary Sixth repo…
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they actually employed CIA officers pretending to be PR people all over the world. That Robert Gray was with Donald Gregg and William Casey to go arrange the October surprise. The following week, Gray officially joined the Reagan-Bush campa…
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Greg secretly received non-public material from the Carter White House that even included a copy of a personal letter from Ammar Sadat to Carter. The October surprise, Gary Sick, about the October surprise, Gary Sick wrote what is widely ac…
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intensely loyal supporters. One of the loyalists was Donald Gregg, who we've talked about many times. Donald Gregg was in Vietnam and was an intricate person in the administration of the Phoenix program. The man Jimmy Carter is convinced pl…
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Because he became President Bush's national security advisor, and he immediately turned around and hired Felix Rodriguez, who was front and center in the Iran-Contra scandal. He is also a Cuban exile that was used as an assassin on many, ma…
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was found operating in El Salvador, setting up the death squads there. He wanted to apply a bomber helicopter attack method that he had invented in the Mekong Delta during Vietnam. In December of 84 through January of 85, Rodriguez made the…
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a friend and former CIA boss in Vietnam, who was now the National Security Advisor to Vice President Bush. He didn't make the rounds. He was working for Don Gregg. That's a proven fact. So Felix meets Oliver North. As part of his work for t…
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In the old executive office building on June 25th, Rodriguez had a problem just getting into the White House gate. I'm not sure I believe that either because he was reporting to Donald Gregg and he was in Donald Gregg's office all the time.…
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He told Bermudez to consider Secord's planes FDN property. At Ipilopango, Rodriguez arranged for armed guards on each flight to ensure that the planes didn't divert from their mission. In Washington, on August 8th, Rodriguez met with Donald…
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association with the Nicaraguan War. Bush had visited with the Contra commanders at an airfield in Honduras in March of 85. Gregg continued to keep him apprised of conditions in Central America. Rodriguez went over the ground he had covered…
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Meanwhile, phone records tied North explicitly to all of the actions. Inquiries in El Salvador quickly revealed that Max Gomez was Felix Rodriguez and led directly to Donald Gregg in Vice President Bush's office. As if that weren't enough, …
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Hey, Colonel. I'm doing well. One thing that I observed in here was Donald Gregg's name came up a couple of times. And, you know, it's interesting because, you know, again, his name comes up in the Craig Spence scandal as well. In fact, he'…
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that they had set up the camp and trained the Contras with the approval of the White House. But the prosecutors claimed the operation was not sanctioned by the Reagan administration. It certainly was sanctioned by the vice president because…
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Others like Jack Bloom and author Mark Hasenball says some is and some isn't, and it's hard to tell the difference. The jurors in Beneke's trial in Portland believe Beneke over the witnesses from the CIA, Secret Service, and Donald Gregg. A…
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Vietnam background, that he had worked in counterinsurgency operations there with CINGLAB and SACORD, and that he was kind of the NSC liaison for Iran-Contra. Then Donald Gregg, Donald Gregg was Vice President Bush's National Security Advis…
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Donald Gregg, of course, is a quote unquote former CIA officer that had been in Saigon under Shackley and Clines. And he had served during the Carter administration as the CIA's liaison to the National Security Council. He's the guy that wh…
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was their point guy in the National Security Council to hide all their shit. Kind of like what they're doing right now for Trump. Okay, so Greg served as a NSC CIA liaison and worked close with Oliver North and Felix Rodriguez. He was basic…
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secret teams and covert operations in the Reagan era, between 83 and 86, Felix Rodriguez had 17 meetings with Greg, three of which was with Greg and Bush. It was Greg who introduced Oliver North to Felix Rodriguez. William Casey, former OSS…
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of note during his Laotian tour is his relationship to one such bureaucrat. Rodriguez was one of the principal contacts between Donald Gregg, the national security advisor, to future, so he was working with Donald Gregg while he was in Viet…
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In the 1980s, he's working with Donald Gregg again because Donald Gregg becomes the National Security Advisor for Vice President George H.W. Bush. And Donald Gregg had Felix Rodriguez as basically his associate to run the Contra operations.…
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And another guy from the past that we talked about. And of course, our Boris Gump, Felix Rodriguez, Donald Gregg from Vietnam and all those other places. Casey, he goes all the way back to OSS. He's been on all of these operations. And then…