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Jean Kirkpatrick exposed Allen Dulles documented
“They were a strange bunch of people with German experience, Arabic experience, and things like that. And most of them could not speak Spanish. The Kirkpatrick report detailed a number of glaring errors made by Dulles, Bissell, and their Bay…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 13:47
Jean Kirkpatrick exposed Bay of Pigs documented
“Inspector General Lyman Kirkpatrick. In the months immediately following the disaster, the Kirkpatrick report was one of the most surprising, honest self-evaluations ever produced within the CIA. It found that despite Dulles' insistence on …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 12:24
Oliver North lied_about Jean Kirkpatrick book_quoted
“He had the same ethical character Corson had seen in Shackley. He exaggerated his role at the NSC. He claimed to be on the phone with Henry Kissinger when he was not. He told a colleague he had dined with Jean Kirkpatrick, only to have Kirk…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 26:53
Jean Kirkpatrick member_of National Security Council book_quoted
“I don't know why the author didn't include the name of it. The money was in the name of Esther Morales, wife of a lawyer friend of Aldolfo Calero, and went to the FDN account at the CIA front bank. In June came a crucial set of discussions …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 9:20
Ronald Reagan appointed Jean Kirkpatrick book_quoted
“By then, Jean Kirkpatrick had left the administration just to ensure the doctrine's author kept her hand in. Reagan appointed her to the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. Ambassador Kirkpatrick had once visited Tegu, explicitly link…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 23:09
Jean Kirkpatrick member_of Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“By then, Jean Kirkpatrick had left the administration just to ensure the doctrine's author kept her hand in. Reagan appointed her to the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. Ambassador Kirkpatrick had once visited Tegu, explicitly link…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 23:09
Lindsay Group included Jean Kirkpatrick documented
“Their work relevant to whomever wins the election in 68, which happened to be Richard Nixon. Under the Harvard Center of International Affairs, which is Henry Kissinger's CIA proprietary, Lindsay's group included old war horses Richard Biss…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 53:55
Jean Kirkpatrick founded Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare documented
“An agency contract officer, John Kirkpatrick, wrote it. Kirkpatrick worked with Shimaro in Taegu several hours a day for weeks. A former Green Beret and veteran of Korea and Vietnam, Kirkpatrick drank too much and denounced FDN leaders whil…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 35:39
Jean Kirkpatrick worked_with Shimaro documented
“An agency contract officer, John Kirkpatrick, wrote it. Kirkpatrick worked with Shimaro in Taegu several hours a day for weeks. A former Green Beret and veteran of Korea and Vietnam, Kirkpatrick drank too much and denounced FDN leaders whil…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 35:39
Jean Kirkpatrick exposed Allen Dulles documented
“So the old man felt deeply betrayed when Kirkpatrick handed him and his deputy, Charles Cabal, copies of the highly critical Bay of Pigs autopsy. A furious Dulles denounced the report as a hatchet job. Dulles and Cabal were both exceedingly…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 46:36
Allen Dulles appointed Jean Kirkpatrick documented
“He was checked into Walter Reed, where Dulles had pulled strings to get him admitted. Kirkpatrick eventually returned to the CIA, but he was paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. But he was determined to resume his car…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 45:03
Jean Kirkpatrick criticized Operation Pluto documented
“Kirkpatrick with his staff of about a dozen investigators assembled a detailed picture of the CIA side of the affair. Studying the paper trail and talking to more than 125 people, the investigators touched the points made by the...…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 8:11
Richard M. Bissell Jr. criticized Jean Kirkpatrick documented
“animosity for Bissell after having been passed over for the job himself. His report was then characterized as a hatchet job. Even college friend Tom Parrott took that view. Richard Bissell raised the issue himself in a 1987 interview, or 67…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 8:58
Jean Kirkpatrick member_of Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“I'll just give you some of the names. William Jackson was involved, Lyman Kirkpatrick, Willard Wyman, Colonel Kilburn Johnson, and Allen Dulles. Lyman Kirkpatrick also wanted the DO staff kept to a minimum to avoid managers getting in the w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:08:17
John McCone criticized Jean Kirkpatrick documented
“By then, a new director held the reins at the CIA. Despite the direct relationship between the mess and his own appointment, John McComb gave Kirkpatrick's report short shrift. Then the IG presented it on November 20th. He met Kirkpatrick a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 11:00
Richard M. Bissell Jr. criticized Jean Kirkpatrick documented
“largely the work of Tracy Barnes, and practically as long as the IG report itself, that paper went to the director on January 18, 1962. Denunciations of the report was also filed separately by Alan Dulles, by Richard Bissell, and by Charles…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 11:55
Charles Cabell criticized Jean Kirkpatrick documented
“largely the work of Tracy Barnes, and practically as long as the IG report itself, that paper went to the director on January 18, 1962. Denunciations of the report was also filed separately by Alan Dulles, by Richard Bissell, and by Charles…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 11:55
Allen Dulles criticized Jean Kirkpatrick documented
“largely the work of Tracy Barnes, and practically as long as the IG report itself, that paper went to the director on January 18, 1962. Denunciations of the report was also filed separately by Alan Dulles, by Richard Bissell, and by Charles…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 11:55
Richard M. Bissell Jr. criticized Jean Kirkpatrick documented
“and by three Cuba task force officers. All these circulated with Kirkpatrick's report. Then Director McCone had the copies collected. McCone had all saved, one destroyed. Years later, in his memoirs, Richard Bissell reconsidered his view of…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 12:25
Richard Helms criticized Jean Kirkpatrick documented
“under JFK like they had been under Eisenhower. That was stuffy. Stuffy discussions and negotiations when you're talking about killing people. Imagine that. Richard Helms, who had a better opinion of Lyman Kirkpatrick's critique, also sided …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 13:49
Jean Kirkpatrick headed CIA documented
“Kirkpatrick with his staff of about a dozen investigators assembled a detailed picture of the CIA side of the affair. Studying the paper trail and talking to more than 125 people, the investigators touched the points made by the...…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 8:11
Jean Kirkpatrick headed CIA documented
“Lyman Kirkpatrick, removed as inspector general because he told the truth, became the CIA's executive director, another of McCone's new post, but found the job not to his liking. So he left in 1964 to become an academic. Robert Emery depart…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 25:15
Jean Kirkpatrick removed_from_power CIA documented
“Lyman Kirkpatrick, removed as inspector general because he told the truth, became the CIA's executive director, another of McCone's new post, but found the job not to his liking. So he left in 1964 to become an academic. Robert Emery depart…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 25:15
Jean Kirkpatrick proposed Bosnia book_quoted
“Paper arguing that America, having just presided over the creation of a new Bosnian federation, would be participating in its destruction if the embargo was left in place. Notice how they just kind of couched themselves right into the opera…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 15:06
Tom Parrott criticized Jean Kirkpatrick documented
“animosity for Bissell after having been passed over for the job himself. His report was then characterized as a hatchet job. Even college friend Tom Parrott took that view. Richard Bissell raised the issue himself in a 1987 interview, or 67…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 8:58
Richard Helms succeeded Jean Kirkpatrick host_asserted
“and continue the trip, alerting others to the orders. Kirkpatrick would become the chief of operations of the D.O. shop, which meant functioning as a deputy to Wisner. But Kirkpatrick never assumed that post. Before leaving Thailand, he sud…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:13:21
Jean Kirkpatrick member_of CIA host_asserted
“the SR-71, and NSA communications intercepts. But they loved covert operations. At its first meeting with the CIA, this committee endured eight hours of agency briefing, packed with details on intelligence collections, analysis, and covert …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 8:04
Jean Kirkpatrick exposed Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“and had an impressive espionage resume dating back to the war. But as a career CIA, he also had a well-tuned sense of proper conduct. Years later, Kirkpatrick would be called upon to direct the internal investigation of the Bay of Pigs deba…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 52:34
Jean Kirkpatrick headed CIA book_quoted
“At its first meeting, the members of the Intelligence Board endured a briefing of eight hours by the CIA, packed with details and intelligence reporting about covert operations. Lyman Kirkpatrick, the Inspector General of the CIA, who had r…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 7:03
John McCone removed_from_power Jean Kirkpatrick host_asserted
“Lyman Kirkpatrick, removed as inspector general because he told the truth, became the CIA's executive director, another of McCone's new post, but found the job not to his liking. So he left in 1964 to become an academic. Robert Emery depart…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 25:15

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Operation Gladio - National Endowment for Democracy
▶ 20:47 at the end of the Trump administration. So it had been busy doing democracy stuff in over 100 countries. So it has been very, very busy. It also says Gertman was a senior counselor to the U.S. ambassador at the U.N., Jean Kirkpatrick, and h…
Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname
▶ 33:10 In December 1981, the UN Security Council decided to send a commission to the Seychelles to investigate the invasion. Although the U.S. voted for the motion, the American ambassador, Jean Kirkpatrick, suggested to send the commission was to…
The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30
▶ 23:28 if they're part of, as this was a very new administration, and they probably had not been inventoried yet. Casey wanted Reagan to appoint a Democrat, Jean Kirkpatrick, as Allen's replacement. But instead, James Baker and Michael Deaver pers…
The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30
▶ 26:53 He had the same ethical character Corson had seen in Shackley. He exaggerated his role at the NSC. He claimed to be on the phone with Henry Kissinger when he was not. He told a colleague he had dined with Jean Kirkpatrick, only to have Kirk…
The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5
▶ 29:00 and had authored books of his exploits. He was the author of the NSD-50 study, basically setting up the whole structure. The merger idea was known as a fusion project. Both Wisner and the OSI director, who at that time was General Willard W…
The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont
▶ 7:03 At its first meeting, the members of the Intelligence Board endured a briefing of eight hours by the CIA, packed with details and intelligence reporting about covert operations. Lyman Kirkpatrick, the Inspector General of the CIA, who had r…
The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont
▶ 9:00 is undesirable for a group of this type to have responsibility for evaluating its own work, unquote. No shit, Sherlock. The CIA did act on this administrative question. Lyman Kirkpatrick and the new director of plans, Bissell, instituted a …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14)
▶ 8:04 the SR-71, and NSA communications intercepts. But they loved covert operations. At its first meeting with the CIA, this committee endured eight hours of agency briefing, packed with details on intelligence collections, analysis, and covert …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14)
▶ 8:38 responsible for all dealings with the board, recalled the first encounter as brutal and writes that it was in truth a saturation effort. But Kirk could not head off the initiative to examine covert action. David K.E. Bruce, the respected di…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16)
▶ 3:39 He then told Gray to study the entire relationship between the CIA and the 5412 group. What happened next had less to do with Indonesia than with the president's desire to fine-tune his own staff. Although angry about the Haig fiasco, Eisen…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20)
▶ 29:24 When Cuba was over and the dust was settled, there would be an internal inquiry by the IG Lyman Kirkpatrick, different from the ones of the anti-Castro plots. One of Kirkpatrick's big criticisms would be that the project had not been staffe…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 7:44 the DO role in reviewing its own covert operations. Who would ever do that? They assigned that function to the CIA IG, who, by the way, is just a defunct agent anyway. It's not like it's an independent review. Now the IG took a look at the …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 8:29 Taylor panel, but went far beyond it in terms of criticizing the Secret Warriors' assumptions about Castro's vulnerability, arrangements for equipment and training, and changes in the planning, the operational security, and the management o…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 8:58 animosity for Bissell after having been passed over for the job himself. His report was then characterized as a hatchet job. Even college friend Tom Parrott took that view. Richard Bissell raised the issue himself in a 1987 interview, or 67…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 9:30 extremely ambitious. He was an individual who, as I felt well before this incident, was not above using his reports and his analysis of situations to exert an influence in the direction that he chose. And these directions were, not always, …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 9:57 more or less of that character, which is ridiculous. This is the guy that was injured. He's in a wheelchair. He knows his career's over, which is why he was put in the IG position to begin with. Does he have animus because of his injury? Po…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 10:29 We attack him because we can't attack the information. In a wheelchair, he had contracted polio on duty for the agency and then had been assigned the IG job. Dark gossip attended the preparation of the IG report, but uproar followed its Oct…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 11:00 By then, a new director held the reins at the CIA. Despite the direct relationship between the mess and his own appointment, John McComb gave Kirkpatrick's report short shrift. Then the IG presented it on November 20th. He met Kirkpatrick a…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 12:25 and by three Cuba task force officers. All these circulated with Kirkpatrick's report. Then Director McCone had the copies collected. McCone had all saved, one destroyed. Years later, in his memoirs, Richard Bissell reconsidered his view of…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 12:55 the former deputy director now termed probably correct. As for Kirkpatrick's critique of the decision process, Bissell now wrote that, quote, much of his characterization was fair, but I have never felt that inadequate paperwork or staffing…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 13:49 under JFK like they had been under Eisenhower. That was stuffy. Stuffy discussions and negotiations when you're talking about killing people. Imagine that. Richard Helms, who had a better opinion of Lyman Kirkpatrick's critique, also sided …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 15:48 to publication of the Schlesinger and Theodore Sorensen's memoirs on Kennedy. With their description of the president's concerns about the CIA plans, Dulles wrote drafts of a reply, hundreds of pages, but never published. The rebuttal shows…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 25:15 Lyman Kirkpatrick, removed as inspector general because he told the truth, became the CIA's executive director, another of McCone's new post, but found the job not to his liking. So he left in 1964 to become an academic. Robert Emery depart…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26)
▶ 38:26 Typical of the CIA's approach would be that the Intelligence Board meeting of April 23rd, when Lyman Kirkpatrick asked that discussion on the Cuba operation exclude diplomat Sterling Cottrell, who headed the government's interagency Cuban t…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)
▶ 53:55 Their work relevant to whomever wins the election in 68, which happened to be Richard Nixon. Under the Harvard Center of International Affairs, which is Henry Kissinger's CIA proprietary, Lindsay's group included old war horses Richard Biss…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46)
▶ 35:39 An agency contract officer, John Kirkpatrick, wrote it. Kirkpatrick worked with Shimaro in Taegu several hours a day for weeks. A former Green Beret and veteran of Korea and Vietnam, Kirkpatrick drank too much and denounced FDN leaders whil…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46)
▶ 36:09 would lead to another major flap. Kirkpatrick relied on Vietnam experience and postulated approaches to insurgency. Psychological operations reprinted verbatim portions of several lessons that were instructed at Fort Bragg to Green Berets. …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46)
▶ 37:07 Joe Fernandez and about a dozen other DO officers all approved the manual. No one objected. They supposedly, when they were asked, deleted some shit. But not the assassinations? Not the martyr piece? What the hell was in it if that's what w…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48)
▶ 9:50 and players. Secretary Shultz listened in wonder at the UN Ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick and others spoke of the continued possibility of securing CIA supplemental money and blaming Congress for losing Central America if it fell through. A fe…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48)
▶ 10:21 talks in case he construed the 1983 finding as encouraging third country participation and support of this entire effort. Ambassador Kirkpatrick insisted the U.S. find the money for the Contras so as not to be seen as abandoning them. Schul…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48)
▶ 19:08 Reagan's efforts to pursue the war led to a covert operation conducted inside the White House by the staff of the National Security Council. The result would be a bizarre tale of greed, betrayal, and a controversy that eroded the Reagan adm…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48)
▶ 19:33 had been the most prominent woman among his campaign foreign policy advisors. Jean Kirkpatrick came to Reagan's attention as a result of her article in the magazine Commentary in November of 79. In an article called Dictatorships and Double…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48)
▶ 20:01 She used the supposed distinction to hit at the Carter administration's policies. For example, the president's refusal to support the Nicaraguan dictator, Somoza, because he was controlled by the CIA. We have good dictators and bad dictator…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48)
▶ 20:32 They do not create refugees, merely tolerate social inequities, and are more amenable to liberalization, and of course, are more friendly to the U.S., more respecting of human rights. That's weird, because there were hundreds of thousands o…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48)
▶ 21:07 That's really weird. Revolutions in this view stem entirely from, you guessed it, the Soviet Union. Kirkpatrick's article became far more influential in Reagan's years than warranted by the quality of its reasoning or the presentation of fa…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48)
▶ 21:43 they could rationalize support for right-wing dictatorships rather than democracies or the ones dubbed communist-influenced. The Reagan administration's rhetoric about global democracy and its specific assertions that the Nicaraguan Contras…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48)
▶ 22:13 enabling officials to finesse facts and use unsubstantiated claims. Nicaragua held an election in 1984, but the Sandinistas won. So according to Reagan and Kirkpatrick, no democracy existed there despite having an election. The Contra leade…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48)
▶ 23:09 By then, Jean Kirkpatrick had left the administration just to ensure the doctrine's author kept her hand in. Reagan appointed her to the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. Ambassador Kirkpatrick had once visited Tegu, explicitly link…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 26:07 That had developed an operational role, but Casey's CIA formed a mighty distraction. When Schultz finally saw the document, and it was laden with things that he had not known, that the agency had kept from the State Department, for his part…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 40:21 tried to divert Nicaragua by cutting communication routes. The program included $70 million for military, $27 million for humanitarian aid. Activity would be coordinated by a new Nicaraguan operational group under the control of an Army Col…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5
▶ 1:08:17 I'll just give you some of the names. William Jackson was involved, Lyman Kirkpatrick, Willard Wyman, Colonel Kilburn Johnson, and Allen Dulles. Lyman Kirkpatrick also wanted the DO staff kept to a minimum to avoid managers getting in the w…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5
▶ 1:10:43 They had their own entrance, everything. And they're saying that if the analysts sat in the room with the covert operators, then they'd know who they are. You're all in the CIA. You're all doing basically the same work. But they did not wan…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5
▶ 1:12:50 this function away from Wisner. Lyman Kirkpatrick in Thailand to reconcile OSO and OPC station chiefs who had a little war between themselves. Thailand, like where we spent $35 million to own the ports and run drugs out of there. The OSO an…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5
▶ 1:13:21 and continue the trip, alerting others to the orders. Kirkpatrick would become the chief of operations of the D.O. shop, which meant functioning as a deputy to Wisner. But Kirkpatrick never assumed that post. Before leaving Thailand, he sud…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 14:40 Policy concerns were attached and hiding the U.S. hand would place it squarely in the arena of covert operations, which required a presidential finding. By spring of 1994, Congress had legislation on the platter directing the Clinton admini…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 11:53 on much Latin America or Latinos and any of that. I had never been on amphibious operations, and if that was characteristic of my qualification, it really characterized the whole damn operation, about which it seemed to me there was a good …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 12:24 Inspector General Lyman Kirkpatrick. In the months immediately following the disaster, the Kirkpatrick report was one of the most surprising, honest self-evaluations ever produced within the CIA. It found that despite Dulles' insistence on …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 13:47 They were a strange bunch of people with German experience, Arabic experience, and things like that. And most of them could not speak Spanish. The Kirkpatrick report detailed a number of glaring errors made by Dulles, Bissell, and their Bay…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 15:40 to authorize, when it was failing, the use of the military to save face. He was baiting JFK into using the military the entire time. Kirkpatrick, who prepared his devastating report with the help of three investigators, flatly rejected the …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 44:02 over how much of the responsibility they each should face. If the Taylor Committee, which presented his findings to Kennedy on May 16th, badly damaged Dulles, the Kirkpatrick report sealed his fate. Lyman Kirkpatrick had been one of the age…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 44:32 was a war correspondent in Free French Forces to Liberate Paris. Lyman Kirkpatrick joined the CIA in its infancy, and he made his way up the ranks quickly, becoming CIA Chief Beatle Smith's right-hand man. Kirkpatrick appeared to be on a fa…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 45:03 He was checked into Walter Reed, where Dulles had pulled strings to get him admitted. Kirkpatrick eventually returned to the CIA, but he was paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. But he was determined to resume his car…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 45:33 but he demonstrated integrity as an IG, recommending that the CIA employees who were responsible for the 1953 death of MKUltra victim Frank Olson be punished, although they never were. Kirkpatrick also went on the record within the agency a…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 46:02 Kirkpatrick and JFK were on friendly terms. So JFK had invited Kirkpatrick to use the White House pool for his exercise because it was put in for FDR. Kirkpatrick was a lifelong CIA man, and he owed his resurrected career to Dulles.…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 46:36 So the old man felt deeply betrayed when Kirkpatrick handed him and his deputy, Charles Cabal, copies of the highly critical Bay of Pigs autopsy. A furious Dulles denounced the report as a hatchet job. Dulles and Cabal were both exceedingly…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 47:07 The report was basically a vendetta against Bessel, he said later. He had been a rising star. Once he had polio, he got sidetracked and became a bitter man. They have no shame. They will attack anybody for telling the truth, even their own.…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 47:35 But he did his job, he said of his dad. Dulles succeeded in suppressing the Kirkpatrick report. It would remain locked away until CIA was finally compelled to release it in 1998. But as word spread in Washington circles about the harsh repo…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b)
▶ 52:08 As Smith prepared to step down at the CIA, he lobbied against Dulles as his replacement, advising Eisenhower that it would be politically unwise to have the brother of the Secretary of State serve as the administration's chief intelligence.…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b)
▶ 52:34 and had an impressive espionage resume dating back to the war. But as a career CIA, he also had a well-tuned sense of proper conduct. Years later, Kirkpatrick would be called upon to direct the internal investigation of the Bay of Pigs deba…