Maurice Bishop person
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Claims (9)
Maurice Bishop overthrew
Eric Gairy documented
“power in March of 1979 by ousting the Eric Gary guy that was illegally elected in a bloodless coup. Bishop, on the other hand, was a London educated lawyer. And see, that's kind of weird to me. And you see that in many of these cases where …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 42:03
United States overthrew
Maurice Bishop documented
“Grenada, however you say it. Their people's revolutionary government, what's called the New Jewel Movement, was absolutely explicitly Marxist-Leninist, and we overthrew them in 1983. So I got one example. That's it. That's all I got. One ou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 1:02:09
Maurice Bishop overthrew
Eric Gairy host_asserted
“And Bishop led basically a bloodless coup. So Gary had a propensity that when he went out of town, he left killing orders. So if he wanted someone taken out by the mongoose gang, he didn't want to be associated with it. So it was done when …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 5:02
Hudson Austin carried_out_attack
Maurice Bishop host_asserted
“And a guy by the name of Hudson Austin ran the op that led to Maurice Bishop's assassination. And you will never guess where he got his military training. Guyana. I about fell over dead. Now, of course, again, I'm telling you, I'm looking a…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 10:22
Ronald Reagan targeted_for_regime_change
Maurice Bishop host_asserted
“You may want to try and... There you are. Can you hear me? Yeah, now I can hear you great. So basically what he's trying to articulate is that the Reagan administration, all of them, viewed Maurice Bishop, despite the size of Grenada, a big…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 15:05
Fidel Castro funded
Maurice Bishop documented
“The world was asked to believe that there was a major Cuban military presence in imminent control, in threat of taking over the country. Yet the Cubans in Grenada were unable to even save Maurice Bishop, who supposedly was the communist, so…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 38:25
United States overthrew
Maurice Bishop host_asserted
“almost all of the Cuban advisors and embassy personnel, including the ambassador, and suspended all agreements with Havana. The expulsions were announced the day the U.S. invaded Grenada and was influenced because they didn't want to be par…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 58:57
Maurice Bishop targeted_for_regime_change
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“He realized that he had a formidable task. His first priority was to create jobs, schools, teacher training, which is why the Cuban teachers were there, adult literacy, a milk program for young kids. He wanted health care. He wanted agricul…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 43:32
Maurice Bishop headed
New Jewel Movement host_asserted
“mongoose game and um maurice bishop the guy who breaks apart and eventually coos um gary was the leader of the new jewel movement while it was part of the mongoose game um so unless gary the uk representative who installs himself as the pri…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 4:30
Mentions (30)
▶ 2:02
Bishop had a very interesting take on how to govern. And I will play a short recording of something that he said so you can understand. And then I'm going to go into his philosophy a little deeper later. But he was not a communist. And in 1…
▶ 4:30
mongoose game and um maurice bishop the guy who breaks apart and eventually coos um gary was the leader of the new jewel movement while it was part of the mongoose game um so unless gary the uk representative who installs himself as the pri…
▶ 5:02
And Bishop led basically a bloodless coup. So Gary had a propensity that when he went out of town, he left killing orders. So if he wanted someone taken out by the mongoose gang, he didn't want to be associated with it. So it was done when …
▶ 5:32
Grenada. And interestingly enough, Bishop did not radically reformat Grenada once he installed himself as the new leader. He recognized the queen. He left all of the tenants of the previous administration intact. There was still a governor.…
▶ 7:00
These were people who were not in uniform that were assassins, much like Gladio units. And one of their targets during this reign of terror was Rupert Bishop, who is Maurice's dad. And after they murdered his dad, Gary ends up...…
▶ 7:28
arresting Maurice, beating him, and jailing him for a short period of time. So, Maurice has every right to be seeking revenge from this Gary guy. Even MI6, at this point, it referred to this mongoose game as Ruthless Criminal. They didn't d…
▶ 8:48
They had a meeting that was hosted in Granada during this time frame. And there was violence throughout the entire city during this meeting as a way of trying to intimidate people. So let me get to the next point. So after Bishop takes Coup…
▶ 9:48
legitimately. And I mean, it was a Gladio style, truly a gang that repressed all of the local people, murdered people. So this is the equivalent of that type of horrific torture, kidnapping, all that stuff. So eventually, Maurice Bishop is …
▶ 11:22
So the CIA's tactic is that they go in and co-op the generals. They send them to the schools of America or the follow on at Fort Benning and they co-op them. And then when they pick up the phone and they tell the general, you know, do this,…
▶ 11:51
for Maurice Bishop was this Austin guy. And damned if he didn't go to basically a military terrorist training camp in Guyana, just like it has happened in every one of these other ones. So I found that astonishing. And anyway, so that was j…
▶ 15:05
You may want to try and... There you are. Can you hear me? Yeah, now I can hear you great. So basically what he's trying to articulate is that the Reagan administration, all of them, viewed Maurice Bishop, despite the size of Grenada, a big…
▶ 15:37
Cuba, El Salvador, or any of the other countries that they had couped, to include Chile, because he, in his own words, says because they are Black, and that was actually in a State Department memo that was leaked, and because they spoke Eng…
▶ 16:06
and everybody in America could understand what his message was. The rest of the people spoke Spanish, and that it would be very easy to lie to the American people. But when Maurice Bishop spoke, he spoke in English, and he spoke from a posi…
▶ 19:31
This is the government they're talking about is the one that this Guyana trained guy. So this is an irony of all ironies. So Austin, the CIA stooge that just had overthrown and murdered Bishop, is the guy that they're supposedly going in to…
▶ 20:02
So you can tell that there's much more going on there. Bishop had been cooed on the 12th of October and placed under house arrest, and then he was murdered on the 19th. Also, even if those fears were valid, it would constitute a principle u…
▶ 21:56
They basically violated the charter that they would later go on to say gave them the justification for doing what they did. It absolutely did not. Tom Adams, who was the prime minister of Barbados, stated that the U.S. had approached him on…
▶ 22:56
The U.S. ambassador to France, Eben Galbraith, stated over French television that the Reagan administration had been planning the invasion for over two weeks before this. That is, not only well before the request from the Caribbean countrie…
▶ 23:26
unless the CIA was in on it from the beginning. And so there was every likelihood that the CIA arranged for Maurice Bishop's coup and assassination and then was going to use the U.S. military to overthrow the guy that they had trained and w…
▶ 25:23
Grenada, a guy by the name of Paul Scone. So this again, and I need to foot stomp this. This is the Maurice Bishop for the entire time that he was prime minister did not get rid of this guy. This is the UK's representative, the governor gen…
▶ 34:25
have declared, we got there just in the nick of time. And it literally would have been the same thing. Comparable, because keep in mind that Maurice Bishop basically had no access to even source a military. His chief of the army had been tr…
▶ 38:25
The world was asked to believe that there was a major Cuban military presence in imminent control, in threat of taking over the country. Yet the Cubans in Grenada were unable to even save Maurice Bishop, who supposedly was the communist, so…
▶ 38:52
The Cuban government had expressed in no uncertain terms its distaste for the military revolutionary council, which is what overthrew Bishop. Before the U.S. invasion, Castro had blamed Bishop's death on grave errors by extremists. Yeah, li…
▶ 41:31
We're going to get to the numbers. We lost quite a few Marines and Army guys. We lost 135 dead Americans for this bullshit. We killed 84 Cubans and we killed 400 Grenadians with this invasion. Just saying. The neutral movement under Maurice…
▶ 42:03
power in March of 1979 by ousting the Eric Gary guy that was illegally elected in a bloodless coup. Bishop, on the other hand, was a London educated lawyer. And see, that's kind of weird to me. And you see that in many of these cases where …
▶ 43:03
the statute that would be willing to stand up against the United States and save their country. I mean, it's almost unthinkable that you have these people that are basically willing to give up what would otherwise be a very comfortable life…
▶ 58:57
almost all of the Cuban advisors and embassy personnel, including the ambassador, and suspended all agreements with Havana. The expulsions were announced the day the U.S. invaded Grenada and was influenced because they didn't want to be par…
▶ 1:00:25
They're actually telling you that they mounted a propaganda campaign to convince the Suriname president that they were coming for him and that they were going to do to him exactly what they did to Maurice Bishop, which was assassinate him a…
▶ 1:03:40
And that there was literally nothing going on on that island before the army showed up. So what's interesting though, for Grenada prior to the, forget his name. What was his name? Warhamster? The guy they were through? Bishop. Maurice Bisho…
▶ 1:06:17
That's authoritarianism, totalitarianism, all these isms by any – they're just different flavors of the same thing. So then, again, high level, tell me the difference between two islands and you have a – and go to Batista because we did ove…
▶ 1:07:31
Well, it's all part of the Cold War scare-mongering and justification of all of our actions. Obviously, that's the case. We've always known that. Yes. I just wanted to know if there are actually Marxist roots or not, and so I did the homewo…