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Claims (19)
Jimmy Carter appointed
James Schlesinger documented
“dealt with energy and he reorganized them all under the Department of Energy. And James Schlesinger becomes the first Secretary of Energy under Carter. Okay, so we already talked about the Panama Treaty. He also cut off funding for the B-1 …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner President Jimmy Carter in review @ 35:10
William Colby succeeded
James Schlesinger book_quoted
“William Colby was swiftly moved on to be the DCI or the director of CIA. Another change began by Helms continued under Schlesinger to be completed by Colby. This was the reorganization of air proprietories, meaning Air America and those typ…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 4:43
James Schlesinger rejected
Southern Air Transport book_quoted
“All of that in the Department of Defense. So I'm going to go back to the book now. A former owner of Southern Air Transport bid for the corporation and offered $5.6 million. Helms approved the sale during his last month as DCI. And the Sout…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 13:01
Richard Nixon appointed
James Schlesinger documented
“would come to pass. Rather, in early February 73, among appointments, Nixon announced James Schlesinger as the director of the CIA. The president had reached outside the agency and the accelerated dismissal of Helms, which barely gave the d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 39:30
William Colby succeeded
James Schlesinger documented
“This document gathered together allegations of illegal questionable activities observed by employees throughout the agency. It happened that Kissinger had never been briefed on the family jewels. Completed as Colby replaced Lessinger at Lan…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 37:36
James Schlesinger appointed
Pentagon book_quoted
“He did the management study for Nixon in 70 and 71. First, he replaced Richard Helms. Schlesinger then moved over to the Secretary of Defense after only five months. And that's going to make sense in a minute. Within the agency itself, the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 2:29
James Schlesinger replaced
Richard Helms book_quoted
“He did the management study for Nixon in 70 and 71. First, he replaced Richard Helms. Schlesinger then moved over to the Secretary of Defense after only five months. And that's going to make sense in a minute. Within the agency itself, the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 2:29
Henry Kissinger covered_up
James Schlesinger book_quoted
“Not everyone in Washington was happy about these events. Secretary of Defense Schlesinger drafted a memo to then Gerald Ford questioning about our policy of supporting an open-ended Iranian military buildup to continue. And the memo never r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 57:52
James Schlesinger ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“At last, William Colby proceeded with his briefing, then handed Kissinger a copy of the report. It contained allegations of CIA assassination efforts against such foreign political leaders as Castro, Diem in Vietnam, the Dominican dictator …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 25:58
James Schlesinger ordered_assassination_of
Ngo Dinh Diem book_quoted
“At last, William Colby proceeded with his briefing, then handed Kissinger a copy of the report. It contained allegations of CIA assassination efforts against such foreign political leaders as Castro, Diem in Vietnam, the Dominican dictator …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 25:58
James Schlesinger ordered_assassination_of
Rafael Trujillo book_quoted
“At last, William Colby proceeded with his briefing, then handed Kissinger a copy of the report. It contained allegations of CIA assassination efforts against such foreign political leaders as Castro, Diem in Vietnam, the Dominican dictator …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 25:58
James Schlesinger succeeded
William Colby book_quoted
“who had returned to the Pentagon as well from being the CIA director, he was replaced at the CIA by William Colby, who was fresh out of Vietnam. He sent Von Marburg back to Saigon as his top logistics aide to prepare for the abandonment of …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 39:11
Vernon Walters succeeded
James Schlesinger host_asserted
“Yeah, he's a mess. He was only there for a few months, though. And then he was followed by Vernon Walters. So we went from one bad one to another bad one to another bad one. And Vernon Walters, because he was the deputy, was only in there a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 1:16:29
James Schlesinger appointed
U.S. Department of Energy host_asserted
“So there was a lot of other things that were going behind the scenes that we didn't see. Yeah, absolutely. Definitely very true. Yeah, the Schlesinger thing is very interesting to me, too. I don't know if you guys know anything about him th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner President Jimmy Carter in review @ 1:07:27
James Schlesinger member_of
Atomic Energy Commission host_asserted
“had worked with different nuclear technologies. And he spent some time under Nixon at the Atomic Nuclear Energy Commission. And he spent a very short period of time as the CIA director because they got rid of William Colby.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner President Jimmy Carter in review @ 1:07:56
James Schlesinger succeeded
William Colby host_asserted
“Another change initiated by Helms was continued under Schlesinger and consummated by his successor, William Colby. This concerned the major air proprietories like Air America and Southern Air Transport. A former owner of this freight line n…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:11:51
James Schlesinger member_of
RAND Corporation host_asserted
“So obviously has some intel stink on him. He moves over in between of 73 and 75 as the sec def after having left the CIA, which I find very interesting because he ends up at Rand, which is part of the CIA too. So that's what I'm saying. I t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner President Jimmy Carter in review @ 1:08:24
James Schlesinger succeeded
William Colby host_asserted
“Yeah, he's a mess. He was only there for a few months, though. And then he was followed by Vernon Walters. So we went from one bad one to another bad one to another bad one. And Vernon Walters, because he was the deputy, was only in there a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 1:16:29
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
James Schlesinger host_asserted
“Oh, okay. Okay, so yeah, it's enlightening that Nixon oversaw that too, and he ended up getting cooed as well. The actual reduction amounted to about 7%, not the 40% Nixon had spoke of earlier. The covert action budget had been in decline s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 3:35
Mentions (36)
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I mean, how many times has the deputy CIA director been a military person? Multiple, multiple, multiple times. So there's no difference in any of these entities. Von Marbog made his reputation as a trusted Pentagon bureaucrat when Congress …
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who had returned to the Pentagon as well from being the CIA director, he was replaced at the CIA by William Colby, who was fresh out of Vietnam. He sent Von Marburg back to Saigon as his top logistics aide to prepare for the abandonment of …
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dealt with energy and he reorganized them all under the Department of Energy. And James Schlesinger becomes the first Secretary of Energy under Carter. Okay, so we already talked about the Panama Treaty. He also cut off funding for the B-1 …
▶ 1:07:27
So there was a lot of other things that were going behind the scenes that we didn't see. Yeah, absolutely. Definitely very true. Yeah, the Schlesinger thing is very interesting to me, too. I don't know if you guys know anything about him th…
▶ 1:07:56
had worked with different nuclear technologies. And he spent some time under Nixon at the Atomic Nuclear Energy Commission. And he spent a very short period of time as the CIA director because they got rid of William Colby.…
▶ 1:08:24
So obviously has some intel stink on him. He moves over in between of 73 and 75 as the sec def after having left the CIA, which I find very interesting because he ends up at Rand, which is part of the CIA too. So that's what I'm saying. I t…
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CIA director from 72 to 76, spent a great deal of his time in the intelligence community coordinating the defense of the CIA during the Watergate investigation. This period was also a time for secret warriors. The man chosen to replace Helm…
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But in the short time, he presided over some important changes. Within the agency itself, Schlesinger was convinced that much of the dead would lay in the plan's directorate. Personnel figures began to fall as about a thousand officers reti…
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Another change initiated by Helms was continued under Schlesinger and consummated by his successor, William Colby. This concerned the major air proprietories like Air America and Southern Air Transport. A former owner of this freight line n…
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had assembled a memorandum describing how the New York Times had exaggerated. But there were fire behind the smoke, as Colby was obliged to admit. In fact, Hearst had succeeded in uncovering some of the major CIA abuses exposed internally i…
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and was so sensitive it was sarcastically referred to as the family jewels. It happened that Kissinger had never been briefed on the report, which was completed during the transition, which Colby replaced Schlesinger as the director of cent…
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would come to pass. Rather, in early February 73, among appointments, Nixon announced James Schlesinger as the director of the CIA. The president had reached outside the agency and the accelerated dismissal of Helms, which barely gave the d…
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than Benzani had ever filled it. They engaged large Iraqi forces, including more than 90,000 regular troops with 1,200 tanks and 200 guns per auxiliary. By October, the CIA would report that they were engaging much of the Iraqi army. In 197…
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Schlesinger had left and William Colby was the boss. He argued against any increase in the aides to the Kurds. Kissinger viewed Colby as an isolated voice among the multitudes who agreed the Kurds would be unable to defeat the Iraqis at the…
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section of the Global Reach chapter, and we're on page 394. This period became a time for change for the secret warriors. James Schlesinger, a quote-unquote defense analyst with no intelligence experience other than his work on a management…
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He did the management study for Nixon in 70 and 71. First, he replaced Richard Helms. Schlesinger then moved over to the Secretary of Defense after only five months. And that's going to make sense in a minute. Within the agency itself, the …
▶ 4:12
and given to the Pentagon. The old Directorate of Plans disappeared. It became the Directorate of Operations, which is obviously more appropriate. Tom Casamacenas went into retirement, quote-unquote retirement, with his colleague and friend…
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Intelligence agencies act as coordinators for a vast network of private military and intelligence contractors. The assets didn't disappear. They were just laundered through a corporate veil. Now, does it make sense why we move Schlesinger f…
▶ 10:43
laundered air operations using Department of Defense monies to do it because that's exactly what they did. Schlesinger was institutional and critical to the CIA's perpetuation of quote-unquote proprietary projects that were becoming increas…
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The funding didn't vanish. It was just put under DOD support for contingency operation, which became much more harder for Congress to audit. The CIA was the primary focus of the 1975 Church and Pike Committee, but they had already moved it …
▶ 12:13
the people who view war and covert operations and even political destabilization as a challenge. His transition from the intelligence office to the Pentagon signaled that the government was prioritizing industrial approach to intelligence.…
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It was no longer about local assets and bush pilots. It was about a massive signal intelligent global transport capability and seamless integration of private sector with a security state. And that was all done thanks to the move of Schlesi…
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All of that in the Department of Defense. So I'm going to go back to the book now. A former owner of Southern Air Transport bid for the corporation and offered $5.6 million. Helms approved the sale during his last month as DCI. And the Sout…
▶ 15:29
all kinds of electronic, which is where this eSystems comes in, in order for the CIA to be able to contract to these proprietary, non-proprietary companies. Meanwhile, William Colby received the nod to follow Schlesinger as the Director of …
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They had had socialist parties serving in the government this entire time. In short, when Kennedy took office, the Chilean politics had long had a reformist characteristic and represented a wide political spectrum. Author Schlesinger credit…
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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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James Schlesinger then cautions that if we do something, we must have some confidence that we can win or we should just stay neutral. Schlesinger saw Holden Roberto as not a strong horse. Those were his exact words. The consensus bypassed t…
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Actions in Vietnam found the agency still licking its wounds. The Special Operations Group paramilitary experts had been reduced under James Schlesinger, and they had no recent African experience. As of late 74, the agency had fewer than 10…
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In the post-Watergate era, numerous high-ranking military and intelligence officers were purged from the government. The CIA was especially hit hard. In 1974, more than 12,000 senior officials were made to retire by Director James Schlesing…
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Not everyone in Washington was happy about these events. Secretary of Defense Schlesinger drafted a memo to then Gerald Ford questioning about our policy of supporting an open-ended Iranian military buildup to continue. And the memo never r…
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Because Felt is FBI. The others are military. That would have been Helms at least at the beginning of it, but I think they went through a couple of CIA directors. Helms until 73. Was it Schlesinger? No. It was Colby who replaced Helms in 73…
▶ 1:15:58
And so when people say, I can't believe this stuff happened in the past, look at today. Look what's going on today. So Schlesinger is the person that was in after Helms. And Schlesinger has all of his own baggage as well. He was the Secreta…
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And in the middle of all of this, like Schlesinger, you know, he was at Rand and all kinds of different things. And just so that we can talk about the show I just did with Warhamster today. Schlesinger is a graduate of the Horace Mann Schoo…
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Theodore Shackley recommended outflanking the criticisms by privately approaching Senator Henry Jackson on the Armed Services Committee to intervene on grounds CIA sources and methods needed to be protected, which was, again, absolute crap.…
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It had been two days since the Hearst article and the CIA director had assembled a memorandum describing how the New York Times story was exaggerated. But there were fire behind the smoke, as Colby had to admit. In fact, Hearst had uncovere…
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This document gathered together allegations of illegal questionable activities observed by employees throughout the agency. It happened that Kissinger had never been briefed on the family jewels. Completed as Colby replaced Lessinger at Lan…