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Charles de Gaulle person

also: President de Gaulle, Charles DeGaulle, De Gaulle, DeGaulle, the French general, the French leader, the French president, de Gaulle, the president, the general, General de Gaulle

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Claims (57)

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Charles de Gaulle book_quoted
“I know you've read called The Devil's Chessboard, wherein JFK, you know, attempts to call up Charles de Gaulle and says, yo, comma, Chuck, these, you know, quote, my CIA is helping your, quote, OAS try to kill you. And I cannot control them…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:31:45
Organisation armée secrète attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“OAS tried over 20 times to assassinate Charles de Gaulle.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 39:42
Charles de Gaulle suspected NATO host_asserted
“Fascists stay behind for muscle. De Gaulle himself suspected a NATO CIA plot after JFK telling associates in 1967, quote, they killed him because he wanted peace. The same forces that tried to kill me. I think you nailed that one, Colonel. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 1:08:37
Otto Skorzeny attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“He worked with Otto Skorzeny. He was in the plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. So, yeah. Lots of possible links there. A lot of Raoul options. Yeah. That all have ties to Gladio. All along, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, so...…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 1:33:32
Charles de Gaulle removed_from_power NATO host_asserted
“De Gaulle evicted NATO from France to regain full sovereignty over French territory after discovering the military alliance was encouraging Western European secret services to interfere with France's domestic policies. They were behind many…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 10:00
Plan Blue attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle book_quoted
“It was even planned to assassinate de Gaulle in order to increase the public's resentment. So the reason why I like quoting these things verbatim is because I want people to understand the extent to which these people will go in order to ma…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 42:17
Yves Guérin-Sérac attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“and the French War in Algeria. He was also part of a French unit that tried to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. And keep in mind, he is a relic of the OAS, which I believe we get to in a minute. And so they attempted to assassinate Charles de…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Portugal @ 19:20
Charles de Gaulle removed_from_power NATO host_asserted
“When you go back and you look at history, you realize we would not have been the first to pull out of NATO. France did it. Charles de Gaulle did it because this same NATO organization was trying to kill him when it was in his own country. T…”
▶ Operation Gladio - UK @ 1:33:26
Military Intelligence Division carried_out_attack Charles de Gaulle documented
“NATO was set up there and they eventually move on to try to assassinate Charles de Gaulle and NATO gets kicked out of Paris. So when the revolt against de Gaulle broke out, it was spearheaded by PSYOPs officers and French paratroopers from …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 48:45
11th Parachute Brigade carried_out_attack Charles de Gaulle documented
“NATO was set up there and they eventually move on to try to assassinate Charles de Gaulle and NATO gets kicked out of Paris. So when the revolt against de Gaulle broke out, it was spearheaded by PSYOPs officers and French paratroopers from …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 48:45
French Foreign Legion carried_out_attack Charles de Gaulle documented
“NATO was set up there and they eventually move on to try to assassinate Charles de Gaulle and NATO gets kicked out of Paris. So when the revolt against de Gaulle broke out, it was spearheaded by PSYOPs officers and French paratroopers from …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 48:45
Charles de Gaulle member_of France documented
“signed by Konrad Adenauer, who was the first chancellor of Germany, and Charles de Gaulle in January of 1963. Significantly, just over two weeks before the inter-doc agreement was sealed at The Hague. The closeness on the level of politics …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 17:44
Charles de Gaulle founded Elysee Treaty documented
“And then you had the Treaty of Rome in 1952, and the Germans were looking for full recognition, while the French wanted to consolidate a Franco-German axis at the heart of post-war Europe for economic purposes as well as political. This mut…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 17:18
Lyman Lemnitzer targeted_for_regime_change Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“Using Operation Gladio tactics of Cuban exiles dressed up as Cuban soldiers to kill Americans to justify a ground invasion of Cuba. Lyman Lemonsker, who as a result of riding Operation Northwood, was fired by Kennedy and reassigned to NATO …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 36:24
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change Charles de Gaulle book_quoted
“I know you've read called The Devil's Chessboard, wherein JFK, you know, attempts to call up Charles de Gaulle and says, yo, comma, Chuck, these, you know, quote, my CIA is helping your, quote, OAS try to kill you. And I cannot control them…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:31:45
Charles de Gaulle removed_from_power NATO host_asserted
“Multiple times, eventually over 20 times, they tried to assassinate him. So Charles de Gaulle calls Lyman Lemonsker into his office and says, get the hell out of my country. I'm pulling France out of NATO, which he did. They eventually rejo…”
▶ X SPACES Éire Community-Operation Gladio, Colonel Towner Watkins @ 1:06:11
Raoul Salan attempted_coup_against Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“started with the senior, several senior officials in the military in France. By the second day of the coup, a dark foreboding had settled over Paris. I'm surprised that you are still alive, said the president of the French National Assembly…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 1:32
Charles de Gaulle removed_from_power Paul Aussaresses host_asserted
“Chali expected to face a firing squad, but de Gaulle's military tribunal proved surprisingly merciful, sentencing the 45-year-old general to 15 years in prison. After the failed coup, de Gaulle launched a new purge of his security forces. H…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 6:33
Charles de Gaulle removed_from_power Michel Debré host_asserted
“which of course included Skorzeny. The 11th Shock Battalion assassination campaign reached the point where liquidations were almost a daily routine, according to one veteran of the SDECE, who served as a liaison to that organization for the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 8:02
Charles de Gaulle removed_from_power Alfred Ulmer host_asserted
“For the rest of his 10-year presidency, which ended with his retirement in 1969, de Gaulle continued to take strong countermeasures against forces he viewed as seditious threats. In 1962, he expelled CIA Station Chief Alfred Ulmer, who was …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 9:35
John F. Kennedy spied_on Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“President Kennedy met only once with de Gaulle on a state visit in May of 1961, a month after the failed coup. The president and first lady were at a banquet at the palace. The general was dazzled by Jackie. During the three-day visit, the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 12:23
NATO attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“When you go back and you look at history, you realize we would not have been the first to pull out of NATO. France did it. Charles de Gaulle did it because this same NATO organization was trying to kill him when it was in his own country. T…”
▶ Operation Gladio - UK @ 1:33:26
Operation Gladio attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“positions on heads of state. If you look at people like Charles de Gaulle, who they tried to kill over 20 times during his administration, you can definitely tell that whatever it was, his positions on whatever issues they were concerned ab…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 1:02:20
NATO attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“They tried to kill the French president over 20 times because Charles de Gaulle had the goal to want to give Algeria their freedom. It was a French slave colony. And the French, let's see, the elite is the best way to say that, did not beli…”
▶ Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner @ 33:54
Organisation armée secrète targeted_for_regime_change Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“A lot of evidence that two of his trained assassins from the French OAS, which are the same people that were trying to kill Charles de Gaulle while he was working with JFK over 20 times, were actually in Dallas that day. I did not know that…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day @ 1:06:48
Charles de Gaulle member_of France host_asserted
“And that's this. If you look at Charles de Gaulle, Charles de Gaulle grew up in the French military. So I'm going to challenge one of your points and say that when he became president, I would venture to say that he had, especially the Vich…”
▶ Operation Gladio -France Part 2 @ 1:16:15
Charles de Gaulle removed_from_power North Atlantic Treaty Organization host_asserted
“Over 20 times. So Charles de Gaulle got tired of his cars being wrecked and being shot at and his cars being blown up. So he decided to kick NATO out of Paris. And that is when it relocated to Belgium. And as a matter of fact, not only did …”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2 @ 15:02
Jean Souetre attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle documented
“That's all been established in previous books we've done. In fact, among the strange and murderous characters who converged on Dallas in November 1963 was a notorious French OAS commander named Jean Sautere, S-O-U-E-T-E-R-E, who was connect…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 54:57
Wendell Willkie met_with Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“When he's visiting Jerusalem, he writes to the British. He says this is an ancient conflict that could never be solved by goodwill and simple honesty. He spent some time staying with Charles de Gaulle. He'd get to Russia, and he'd meet with…”
▶ The Shadow State 25_ Secret Societies 9; The Taft Dynasty @ 1:16:28
Charles de Gaulle exposed Robert Kennedy assassination book_quoted
“assassins surviving a barrage of gunfire on his limousine. After returning from Kennedy's funeral in Washington, DeGaulle gave a remarkably candid assessment of the assassination to his information minister. Quote, what happened to Kennedy …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 27:04
Charles de Gaulle covered_up Robert Kennedy assassination book_quoted
“They won't allow themselves to find out, unquote. These astonishing observations about Dallas were captured in a memoir about Charles de Gaulle, which was published in France in 2002, three years after the author's death. Snippets of the co…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 31:25
11th Parachute Brigade attempted_coup_against Charles de Gaulle book_quoted
“against Muslim minorities. Well, majority. They were minority in government, but they were the majority of the people in Algeria. Naturally, elements of the 11th shock also participated in the 1961 coup against Charles de Gaulle, which was …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 32:02
Organisation armée secrète attempted_coup_against Charles de Gaulle book_quoted
“Algeria, their independence, so they tried to kill him. The coup was led by a clandestine network of French military known as the OAS, and the OAS coup failed, so Yves Savak deserted the 11th Shock Brigade and signed on with the OAS because…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 33:03
Maurice Challe attempted_coup_against Charles de Gaulle documented
“But the strange events that occurred in Paris in April 61 reinforced the disturbing feeling that President Kennedy was not in control of his own government. Paris was in a turmoil. It was April 22nd. A group of retired French generals had s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 52:32
Charles de Gaulle removed_from_power CIA book_quoted
“De Gaulle's dashing representative in the French underground to the Gestapo. After he was captured, Moulin was subject to brutal torture before he was beaten to death, thanks to Alan Dulles. After De Gaulle was elected president in 58, he s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:02:13
Charles de Gaulle appointed Konstantin Melnik book_quoted
“that Dulles had organized in France, a network of anti-communist militants with access to buried caches of arms. What? Who were originally recruited to resist potential Soviet invasion, but were now aligned with the rebellious generals and …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:03:10
Charles de Gaulle removed_from_power Allen Dulles book_quoted
“De Gaulle refused to see him, handing him off to Michael Debray. A formal dinner was organized for Dulles and Jim Hunt, the CIA station chief in Paris, which was also attended by Melnick. Dulles seemed unfazed by Charles De Gaulle's slight,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:04:31
National Security Council targeted_for_regime_change Charles de Gaulle book_quoted
“on de Gaulle took a much sharper edge. The National Security Council meeting convened by Eisenhower in September of 58 gloomily forecasted that the French leader's ability to settle the Algerian crisis to America's satisfaction was dim. The…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:05:29
Dwight D. Eisenhower removed_from_power Charles de Gaulle book_quoted
“at the National Security Council, overthrowing the French government. Eisenhower had decided that was a little too risky. However, by the time Kennedy took office in January of 61, the CIA was primed for a power switch in Paris. On January …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:05:58
Allen Dulles targeted_for_regime_change Charles de Gaulle book_quoted
“at the National Security Council, overthrowing the French government. Eisenhower had decided that was a little too risky. However, by the time Kennedy took office in January of 61, the CIA was primed for a power switch in Paris. On January …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:05:58
Charles de Gaulle removed_from_power North Atlantic Treaty Organization host_asserted
“They try to kill him. Shooting his car with his wife in it. It just went on and on and on. At that point is after JFK fires Lyman Lemonsker and moves him over to NATO headquarters. Charles de Gaulle calls Lyman Lemonsker into his office and…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:15:29
Operation Gladio attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“You know, I added a little bit of clarity for me around the whole situation of what could eventually happen. So it also dovetails into what you said. That's why Le Pen could not have been elected, because France has already withdrawn from N…”
▶ Operation Gladio- 2024 Election, day after with The Cates Bros @ 1:43:15
Charles de Gaulle removed_from_power France host_asserted
“not fitting of human consumption because that shows your ability to be a leader and to work with all of your citizens. And that's not allowed. So I want to just kind of foot stomp that point. So eventually there's a whole bunch of rabble ro…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 34:52
Organisation armée secrète attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle guest_asserted
“They tried to blow his car up. They tried to, they did actually kill several of his security guards when they tried to shoot him. But they tried to kill him over 20 different times.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 33:03
11th Shock Battalion attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“which of course was involved in the Kennedy assassination as well, because there's at least two of them documented being in Dallas that day. She would have been responsible for setting up the 11th Shock Battalion that was part of the Algier…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 1:16:14
NATO attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle guest_asserted
“NATO was already trying to kill Charles de Gaulle, the president of France, because he's trying to pull out of Algeria, which was a slave colony.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 32:02
United States disagreed_with Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“particularly in Germany, the U.S. and British foreign ministry strongly disagreed. And that's another reason why they hated Charles de Gaulle. Both Allied factions acknowledged that much of German's business elite had directly participated …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 36:05
Tony Hocknull attempted_coup_against Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“reportedly served with numerous Germans and SS troops because he was actually part of the Algerian fight to keep it a slave colony. He also participated in some of the efforts to overthrow Charles de Gaulle. So he has quite the checkered pa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 53:41
CIA targeted_for_regime_change Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“CIA, along with the OAS and the French intelligence forces, were trying to subvert Charles de Gaulle…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 39:42
Operation Gladio attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“That had played a role in the French resistance and were emerging as a strong political force in France. Rockefeller also set up a spy ring inside the provisional government of Charles de Gaulle and soon came to dislike Charles de Gaulle, w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24 @ 49:45
NATO attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“the commander of NATO, there is over 20 assassination attempts on Charles de Gaulle. So Lyman Lemesker and NATO is kicked out of France.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt @ 4:08
Otto Skorzeny trained Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“In Africa, Gladio destabilized resource-rich regions. In the Congo, Otto Skorzeny operated in Katanga, supporting a CIA-backed civil war against Patrice Lumumba, who was assassinated in January 1961 after seeking Soviet aid when rejected by…”
▶ Gladio 101 @ 9:49
CIA overthrew Charles de Gaulle book_quoted
“They go through about the hidden hand, speaking of the CIA, which promoted the coup and overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran, the Talmuds in Laos, in Vietnam, in the Congo, and in Algiers. Those who financed the secret army against De Gaulle. I m…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 1:00:10
North Atlantic Treaty Organization attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“The NATO-trained forces were trying to kill the president, Charles de Gaulle. Charles de Gaulle worked on several projects with JFK. They were together on, as far as policy goes, on a lot of foreign policy issues, like the liberation of Alg…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day @ 20:39
NATO attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle guest_asserted
“And after that machine tried to kill President de Gaulle, who was the French president at the time, over 20 times, they were kicked out of France and moved to Belgium. And what if I told you that same general that was the commander of NATO …”
▶ Colonel Towner WATKINS JOINS THE REVIVAL OF AMERICA 5 pm PST @ 6:23
North Atlantic Treaty Organization ordered_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“And of course, we know Paris, France in general, was steeped with NATO stay behind units all over. They had already tried to kill Charles de Gaulle over 20 times at this point. And they're willing to destabilize France in order to make sure…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 32:33
Charles de Gaulle member_of French Communist Party host_asserted
“wanted to create a government that was integrated. And he was not in favor of the Communist Party. And again, you have to read everything with a grain of salt because it is at this very time that there is the effort, despite the fact that..…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 6:56

Mentions (120)

Assassination_Operation Gladio W_Brady, GofBPH, Alpha, CannCon&Brian
▶ 51:08 I wanted to put that. And I also want to point out that during these things in the past, there's never just one assassination. If you go back and you look at the JFK assassination, you had Charles de Gaulle being assassinated. You had the D…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 39:42 during one of their operations, works with the terrorist element in France called OAS. OAS tried over 20 times to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. Charles de Gaulle and JFK was working on freeing Algeria, which pissed off everybody in this te…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 40:11 freeing Algeria, which is a country in Africa, trying to give them their independence because there were elements in France and elements of Frenchmen in Algeria that did not want to free the population, the African population in Algeria. So…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 40:40 Those OAS agents, two of them, were found on the ground on November 22nd, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Now, they're assassins. They were trained by Otto Skorzeny. These are the same two guys, by the way, that were in Congo when they kidnapped Lu…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 41:07 They're the same people that tried to shoot Charles DeGaulle. They're the same people that tried to blow his car up. Over 20 times they tried to assassinate him. Two of them were in Dallas, Texas. Now you can go. Yeah, that's a lot of good …
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 56:33 setting up the Bank of International Settlements, which is the central bank of central banks, setting up a UN, which started as the League of Nations, blah, blah, blah. So when you look at all of that, and then you have JFK, who probably ot…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:08:14 Quick question. When did Lemnitzer start to work with NATO? Well, that's a whole. Let me preface my answer with this. Lyman Lemnitzer, when he shows up, they are still in the midst of trying to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. He gets called …
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:08:44 And Charles de Gaulle, because most people don't know, NATO was originally in Paris. That's where it was originally set up. After the, you know, 10th time of them trying to assassinate, and Charles de Gaulle knows that this is being ran out…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:09:06 He has Lyman Lemesker come to his office and he says, you've got six months. Pack your shit up and get the hell out of here. I don't care where you go. He pulled France out of NATO. And France did not rejoin NATO at the political level agai…
Colonel Towner WATKINS JOINS THE REVIVAL OF AMERICA 5 pm PST
▶ 5:58 Hammerstall, which was also this, excuse me, and also the Swedish Prime Minister, Olaf Palm, Patrice Lumumba, Salvador Allende in Chile, and JFK were all associated with each other. And that this operation is ran out of NATO. And what if I …
Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)
▶ 32:02 Lyman Lemonsker moves over there to become the new commander in charge of NATO on the military side. They have a civilian secretary general and they have a military four star that's basically in charge of NATO on the military side. And so h…
Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)
▶ 32:32 France at the time. And there was a certain element in France known as the previous Vichy Nazi element of France that did not want to leave their slave colony in Algeria. And so they began trying to assassinate Charles de Gaulle and they ar…
Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)
▶ 33:03 tried to blow him up. They tried to blow his car up. They tried to, they did actually kill several of his security guards when they tried to shoot him. But they tried to kill him over 20 different times. And so he finally gets pissed off, c…
Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)
▶ 37:19 got crosswise with them on several different issues. It was not just that. So he also supported Charles de Gaulle pulling out of Algeria, and that pissed everybody off. He made several remarks about the fact that you have to free Africa. If…
Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)
▶ 1:22:35 is for that exact reason. You're very astute. It can't be released and allow the CIA to continue to exist. Because another element, we went through several, but another element of that is the same assassins, the OAS agents out of France tha…
ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt
▶ 3:38 Because they had just went through the Bay of Pigs, he didn't want to outright fire him. So he moved him to NATO. Unbeknownst to him, NATO was in charge of Operation Gladio, which basically is the king of all false flags. So Lyman Lemonsker…
ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt
▶ 4:08 the commander of NATO, there is over 20 assassination attempts on Charles de Gaulle. So Lyman Lemesker and NATO is kicked out of France. First time that had ever happened. France was withdrawn from NATO. They moved to Belgium. Now, Belgium …
Gladio 101
▶ 9:49 In Africa, Gladio destabilized resource-rich regions. In the Congo, Otto Skorzeny operated in Katanga, supporting a CIA-backed civil war against Patrice Lumumba, who was assassinated in January 1961 after seeking Soviet aid when rejected by…
Gladio 101
▶ 10:18 De Gaulle's expulsion of NATO from France relocated its headquarters to Belgium. Lyman Lemnitzer, a key Gladio figure, authored Operation Northwoods in 1962, proposing false flag attacks by CIA-trained Cuban exiles to justify invading Cuba.…
MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses
▶ 1:33:32 He worked with Otto Skorzeny. He was in the plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. So, yeah. Lots of possible links there. A lot of Raoul options. Yeah. That all have ties to Gladio. All along, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, so...…
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2
▶ 14:33 NATO was not always in Belgium. I had no idea until I started investigating Operation Gladio that it actually began in Paris, France. Well, why isn't it still in Paris, France? Well, because Gladio operators, under the guise of an organizat…
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2
▶ 15:02 Over 20 times. So Charles de Gaulle got tired of his cars being wrecked and being shot at and his cars being blown up. So he decided to kick NATO out of Paris. And that is when it relocated to Belgium. And as a matter of fact, not only did …
Operation Gladio- 2024 Election, day after with The Cates Bros
▶ 1:43:15 You know, I added a little bit of clarity for me around the whole situation of what could eventually happen. So it also dovetails into what you said. That's why Le Pen could not have been elected, because France has already withdrawn from N…
Operation Gladio - Belgium
▶ 2:41 or to participation in it back to World War II. So just as a reminder, I'm going to give you a little bit of history here. Belgium was defeated by Germany in World War II. And they, like Charles de Gaulle that we learned, created a governme…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 42:45 In May of 2008. Now, these son of a bitches know this guy murdered Sankara. And they give him a medal for it. Okay. During the 1960s, French President Charles de Gaulle entrusted Jacques Focart, F-O-C-C-A-R-T, with the mission of holding We…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 43:16 Nicknamed Major Afriki, Foucart set up a network of contacts under de Gaulle and Charles Papadou, which is the guy that came after Charles de Gaulle as president, which organized surveillance across the African region and adopted covert act…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 5:06 So, not a coincidence. All right. There's a lot of, depending on what you read and who's writing it, there's a lot of conversation around Charles de Gaulle.…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 5:27 End result of wherever he was. So at the end of World War II, when this whole network was agreed upon and set up, Charles de Gaulle was basically in exile, waiting out World War II in the UK. So he had been part of the French military. He w…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 5:55 He took refuge in basically a government in exile type of a scenario in the UK. So he, when the first election occurred after World War II, it was in 1945 in France, he basically wanted to create a coalition government in France because…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 6:27 France had basically what was labeled the Vichy government that had a lot of socialistic tendencies. And they had a very interesting relationship with the Nazi German. And so they were torn asunder. There was all kinds of malcontents. And C…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 23:39 So there was a guy by the name of Robert Denard, who was a French mercenary, and he had several different aliases. He also was identified as an assassin. He actually tried to kill Prime Minister.…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 24:12 Pierre Mendez France in 1954. So Charles de Gaulle isn't the first one that they tried to take out using the Operation Gladio trained assassins. And we will get to this, but I'm going to throw it out now. This group, primarily of the OAS, n…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 24:42 Um, try, depending on what you're reading, some people use the word, the number 20, some use 25 and some use 30 attempts, um, to assassinate Charles de Gaulle all during the time that, um, other heads of state, like in the, um, early sixtie…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 25:43 That's what they used these Gladio operators for. They were classic false flag people. And when Algeria's struggle in the late 1950s, the government. So let me start over. De Gaulle wanted to grant Algeria their freedom. And JFK and him spo…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 26:16 having their freedom, that that was something that definitely needed to happen throughout the continent of Africa. And that is not what the colonialists in Algeria that were former French citizens, some still maintain dual citizenship, want…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 26:44 They did not want to have any of the French colonies have their independence. And so Charles de Gaulle was dead set on doing it. And eventually, like I said, they try to take him out several times. So I want to switch over to Danielle Ganse…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 29:20 people that fought the hardest against Hitler's forces, where most of the Vichy government were collaborators with Hitler's government and never actually left the country. They did kind of coalesce in a particular area during the war and di…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 32:41 I'm reading where it says that Charles de Gaulle had made promises when he was first elected president in the aftermath of World War II that he would not have any of these labor-focused, quote-unquote, communists in his...…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 34:52 not fitting of human consumption because that shows your ability to be a leader and to work with all of your citizens. And that's not allowed. So I want to just kind of foot stomp that point. So eventually there's a whole bunch of rabble ro…
Operation Gladio - France
▶ 42:17 It was even planned to assassinate de Gaulle in order to increase the public's resentment. So the reason why I like quoting these things verbatim is because I want people to understand the extent to which these people will go in order to ma…
Operation Gladio -France Part 2
▶ 1:16:15 And that's this. If you look at Charles de Gaulle, Charles de Gaulle grew up in the French military. So I'm going to challenge one of your points and say that when he became president, I would venture to say that he had, especially the Vich…
Operation Gladio -France Part 2
▶ 1:20:52 No, I was just going to say, as far as DeGaulle is concerned, when he first got into office, he was behind the power curve on many of the nuances and details. But when he came back in his second time around, he was much more prepared. He wa…
Operation Gladio -France Part 2
▶ 1:38:52 Just a question for more clarification. There's a lot of information you're presenting. So I looked up, like, de Gaulle was president of France between 1959 and 69. And so there was an overlap there with Kennedy. And so I don't want to, you…
Operation Gladio -France Part 2
▶ 1:41:29 And OAS agents in Dallas at the time it happened. So I don't think any of that is coincidental. So I believe that if you look at some of the cables that went back and forth between JFK and Charles DeGaulle.…
Operation Gladio -France Part 2
▶ 1:42:41 And tell him that, you know, the uranium supply to America was going to be at risk if we didn't do this, blah, blah, blah. I think Charles de Gaulle, having been in the military and around these people that were traitors, particularly with …
Operation Gladio in Chile
▶ 58:57 And that technique of them doing that, that's how they tried like five different times to kill Charles de Gaulle. They use that boxing in of cars. They surround them. They always have equipment to smash in the windows. And they'll either pl…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4
▶ 1:13:33 piece of the narrative that there were OAS assassins from NATO that were trained by Otto Skorzeny that were deployed to Dallas and that his OAS was pissed off at him because they were the ones that were fighting to keep Algeria imprisoned i…
Operation Gladio Indonesia Part 5
▶ 1:27:14 I do tend to think that JFK was assassinated because the people during that period of time, for example, Charles de Gaulle, they tried to assassinate him over 20 times, like really close to over 30 times. I've read...…
Operation Gladio - Italy Part 2
▶ 1:22:03 French mercenaries that were used in Algeria to fight to keep Algeria a slave colony of France. And those people, when they lost Algeria and Algeria finally got their freedom, was pissed off at Charles de Gaulle and JFK because both JFK and…
Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508
▶ 24:15 And this is the ambassador. So he's hanging out with De Gaulle while we're trying to kill De Gaulle. Interesting. And he's from that same high school. He's got a son, R. Marie Houghton Jr., class of 1945. He was a New York congressman, also…
Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion
▶ 1:02:20 positions on heads of state. If you look at people like Charles de Gaulle, who they tried to kill over 20 times during his administration, you can definitely tell that whatever it was, his positions on whatever issues they were concerned ab…
Operation Gladio - Portugal
▶ 19:20 and the French War in Algeria. He was also part of a French unit that tried to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. And keep in mind, he is a relic of the OAS, which I believe we get to in a minute. And so they attempted to assassinate Charles de…
Operation Gladio - Portugal
▶ 19:50 He essentially functioned as a mercenary. And after Charles de Gaulle closed down the OAS out of France, the Gladio leadership fled to other countries. And Serac was hired by the Spanish dictator Franco. Franco employed his skills to incorp…
Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner
▶ 33:54 They tried to kill the French president over 20 times because Charles de Gaulle had the goal to want to give Algeria their freedom. It was a French slave colony. And the French, let's see, the elite is the best way to say that, did not beli…
Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner
▶ 34:28 Slave colonies. And so they arranged with NATO to try to kill Charles de Gaulle over 20 times. By that time, a four-star general had arrived at NATO headquarters, and his name was General Lyman Limitsker. And General Lyman Limitsker had jus…
Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner
▶ 55:09 true version, excuse me, of NATO. And when you said that Charles de Gaulle defied NATO by wanting to give a slave providence colony freedom, right? Do you think that now in today's age, right, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are slave co…
Operation Gladio - UK
▶ 1:33:26 When you go back and you look at history, you realize we would not have been the first to pull out of NATO. France did it. Charles de Gaulle did it because this same NATO organization was trying to kill him when it was in his own country. T…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 24:46 Because if you guys remember when we were talking about Europe during this entire thing, the actual French government that was the normal government made up of de Gaulle, they went in exile as the Germans was overrunning the French territor…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 25:14 of France in exile once Germany invaded France. What was left there were the fascist elements of France that were basically in bed with Germany. And that's the Vichy government, V-I-C-H-Y. And those are the people that after the war got pus…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final
▶ 30:07 The U.S. deficit had ballooned. The U.S. inflation was increasing as a result of spending on both social programs in the Vietnam War. That year, French President Charles de Gaulle delivered a landmark speech in which he declared, the conven…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final
▶ 31:04 meaning the U.S. had printed and issued billions upon billions of paper dollars that it had no physical back gold to exchange. As a result, the U.S. dollar, stashed in the central banks of Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, and beyond, represented a …
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final
▶ 31:35 that in this respect, there can be any other criterion, any other standard than gold. Oh yes, gold, which never changes its nature, which can be shaped into bars, ingots, and coins, which has no nationality, and which is eternally and unive…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final
▶ 32:02 promptly endeavored to reassert his country's financial independence by launching an initiative to convert Paris's U.S. dollars into gold, but his effort was cut short. De Gaulle resigned on April 28, 1969, following months of widespread st…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final
▶ 32:33 And of course, we know Paris, France in general, was steeped with NATO stay behind units all over. They had already tried to kill Charles de Gaulle over 20 times at this point. And they're willing to destabilize France in order to make sure…
The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1
▶ 47:20 Virtually every major officer who revolted against Charles de Gaulle back in the day in the 60s, which is where these guys who wrote this doctrine came from, later joined the OAS, which was Otto Skorzeny's Operation Gladio people. And OAS i…
The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1
▶ 47:50 that they had developed in Algeria and unleashed their own domestic terror by trying to assassinate Charles de Gaulle over 20 times. This is especially relevant in contemporary America, especially since you just had two people try to assass…
The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1
▶ 48:45 NATO was set up there and they eventually move on to try to assassinate Charles de Gaulle and NATO gets kicked out of Paris. So when the revolt against de Gaulle broke out, it was spearheaded by PSYOPs officers and French paratroopers from …
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7
▶ 1:26:23 If you have your Gladio glasses on, this is exactly what they did to Charles de Gaulle at the same time. They did at least 20 assassination attempts on de Gaulle. So this is not far-fetched. It's not something that's out of the realm. And t…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7
▶ 1:26:45 on this is the only people that were involved in the assassination of JFK. They miss all of the big dynamics going on. JFK talked frequently with Charles de Gaulle, and they were on the same sheet of music on many different foreign policy i…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7
▶ 1:27:09 De Gaulle was giving Algeria their freedom. And the OAS assassins that were trying to assassinate De Gaulle at the time, that at least two of them were in Dallas the day JFK was assassinated, all have a place in this story. But anybody who …
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3
▶ 6:41 they kind of ganged up on Charles de Gaulle over in France, and that left the French leader not liking either one of them. In 1938, the Mexican government had nationalized the U.S. oil companies, and the oil executives had appealed to Washi…
The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4
▶ 1:00:10 They go through about the hidden hand, speaking of the CIA, which promoted the coup and overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran, the Talmuds in Laos, in Vietnam, in the Congo, and in Algiers. Those who financed the secret army against De Gaulle. I m…
The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day
▶ 20:06 That I was assigned to NATO. I got a degree in military history. Excuse me. And I never knew that. Sorry. I never knew that NATO was actually initially set up in Paris. And then Lyman Lemonsker was thrown out of Paris because.…
The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day
▶ 20:39 The NATO-trained forces were trying to kill the president, Charles de Gaulle. Charles de Gaulle worked on several projects with JFK. They were together on, as far as policy goes, on a lot of foreign policy issues, like the liberation of Alg…
The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day
▶ 21:09 after having been a Dutch colony, and they hated him. They hated Charles de Gaulle for doing it, and they hated JFK for doing it. This is not as simple as one element, and this is the only reason that he was knocked off. There is so many el…
The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day
▶ 1:06:48 A lot of evidence that two of his trained assassins from the French OAS, which are the same people that were trying to kill Charles de Gaulle while he was working with JFK over 20 times, were actually in Dallas that day. I did not know that…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29
▶ 1:33:46 attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle multiple times, at least over 20. Some books I've read said it was over 30, but I'll stick with the 20 because that was in several books. And so it is not unprecedented that someone pulls out of …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1
▶ 1:16:14 which of course was involved in the Kennedy assassination as well, because there's at least two of them documented being in Dallas that day. She would have been responsible for setting up the 11th Shock Battalion that was part of the Algier…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26)
▶ 1:18:29 But if you understand Operation Gladio, it puts JFK's assassination in a completely different light. If you understand that the Cuban exiles were our Gladio units, if you understand what the role of the OAS was in France and the fact that t…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4)
▶ 1:08:08 Continuing Colonel Towner, JFK's moves threatened the whole Gladio ecosystem. He sought detente with the USSR, parentheses, Gladio's raison d'etre, parentheses, crackdown on CIA's rogue ops in Cuba, Vietnam, and alienated French nationalist…
The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11
▶ 8:22 and we talked about him before, who was generally credited with the key visionary behind strategy of tension. Since the early 1960s, Giannettini had been in contact with French terrorists involved in OAS, which was basically the Gladio unit…
The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11
▶ 53:41 reportedly served with numerous Germans and SS troops because he was actually part of the Algerian fight to keep it a slave colony. He also participated in some of the efforts to overthrow Charles de Gaulle. So he has quite the checkered pa…
The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final
▶ 47:20 Virtually every major officer who revolted against Charles de Gaulle back in the day in the 60s, which is where these guys who wrote this doctrine came from, later joined the OAS, which was Otto Skorzeny's Operation Gladio people. And OAS i…
The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final
▶ 47:50 that they had developed in Algeria and unleashed their own domestic terror by trying to assassinate Charles de Gaulle over 20 times. This is especially relevant in contemporary America, especially since you just had two people try to assass…
The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final
▶ 48:45 NATO was set up there and they eventually move on to try to assassinate Charles de Gaulle and NATO gets kicked out of Paris. So when the revolt against de Gaulle broke out, it was spearheaded by PSYOPs officers and French paratroopers from …
The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5
▶ 32:02 against Muslim minorities. Well, majority. They were minority in government, but they were the majority of the people in Algeria. Naturally, elements of the 11th shock also participated in the 1961 coup against Charles de Gaulle, which was …
The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5
▶ 32:33 the independence effort of Algeria because the French military and the French elite and, you know, of course, all of these intelligence people work for the businesses. The businesses who had vested interest in Algeria did not want Algeria t…
The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5
▶ 33:03 Algeria, their independence, so they tried to kill him. The coup was led by a clandestine network of French military known as the OAS, and the OAS coup failed, so Yves Savak deserted the 11th Shock Brigade and signed on with the OAS because…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 52:32 But the strange events that occurred in Paris in April 61 reinforced the disturbing feeling that President Kennedy was not in control of his own government. Paris was in a turmoil. It was April 22nd. A group of retired French generals had s…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 52:59 Rumors quickly spread that the coup plotters was coming next for de Gaulle himself, and the skies of Paris would soon be filled with battle. Paratroopers, French foreign legionnaires from Algeria to attack the capital. We've talked about th…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 53:56 against De Gaulle. By Sunday, panic was sweeping through Paris. All air traffic was halted over the area. The metro was shut down. The cinemas were dark. News that the coup was being led by a widely admired Maurice Challe, C-H-A-L-L-E, a fo…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 54:25 from Dagal down. Shali, a squat, quiet man, World War II hero, and had pretended to be a Dagal loyalist. But the passions of war in Algeria had deeply affected him and left him vulnerable to persuasions of more zealous French officers. He h…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 54:53 And he felt a responsibility to stand by that oath, not the one he took to his country, but to people that were living in another country. In his radio broadcast to the people of France, the coup leader explained that he was taking his stan…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 55:26 De Gaulle quickly concluded that Chalet must be acting with the support of U.S. intelligence. The officials began spreading the word to the press. Shortly before his resignation from the French military, Chalet had served as NATO commander-…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 55:54 Shali and American security officials shared a deep dissatisfaction with DeGaulle. Now, keep in mind, this is NATO that basically runs Operation Gladio. And this guy, the Shali guy, was in charge of the stuff for all of NATO. So he knows lo…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 56:20 The stubborn 70-year-old pillar of French nationalism was viewed as a growing obstacle to U.S. ambitions for NATO because he refused to incorporate French troops under Allied command and insisted on building a separate nuclear bunker beyond…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 57:22 Kostel, a former governor general of Algeria who joined the secret army organization OAS, which is Gladio, a notorious anti-De Gaulle terrorist group, i.e. Gladio, had a lunch meeting with Richard Bissell in Washington just shortly before. …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:01:18 had gone beyond the bounds of an objective intelligence gathering agency, which it never was, and has become an advocate of men and policies that have embarrassed the administration. Unquote. Alan Dulles was once again making his own policy…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:01:43 As OSS chief in Switzerland, Dulles favored a far-right faction of the resistance that opposed de Gaulle. In his war memories, de Gaulle accused Dulles of being part of a scheme that was determined to silence and set aside the French genera…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:02:13 De Gaulle's dashing representative in the French underground to the Gestapo. After he was captured, Moulin was subject to brutal torture before he was beaten to death, thanks to Alan Dulles. After De Gaulle was elected president in 58, he s…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:02:43 According to some French reports, during his visit to Paris, the spymaster would set himself up in a suite at the Ritz Hotel, where he would dispense bagfuls of cash to politicians, journalists, and influential figures. Some were wined and …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:04:01 Melnyk, who was the son of a white Russian general and grandson of Tsar Nicholas II's personal physician, who was executed along with the imperial family, was a passionate anti-Soviet and a colleague of the U.S. security network. In May of …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:04:31 De Gaulle refused to see him, handing him off to Michael Debray. A formal dinner was organized for Dulles and Jim Hunt, the CIA station chief in Paris, which was also attended by Melnick. Dulles seemed unfazed by Charles De Gaulle's slight,…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:04:59 which confirmed his fears. De Gaulle promised to be a tough and hostile partner who was sure to put an end to the laissez-faire attitude of the CIA operating inside of France, which is a problem for them because NATO's there. World leaders …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:05:29 on de Gaulle took a much sharper edge. The National Security Council meeting convened by Eisenhower in September of 58 gloomily forecasted that the French leader's ability to settle the Algerian crisis to America's satisfaction was dim. The…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:05:58 at the National Security Council, overthrowing the French government. Eisenhower had decided that was a little too risky. However, by the time Kennedy took office in January of 61, the CIA was primed for a power switch in Paris. On January …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:06:30 A pre-revolutionary atmosphere reigns in France. The army and air force are opposed to de Gaulle. The spymaster continued exaggerating the extent of the military opposition as if to present the demise of the French president as a fait accom…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:06:59 That in 1958, he had given his word of honor that he would never abandon Algeria. He is now reneging on that promise and they hate him for it. De Gaulle surely won't last if he tries to let go of Algeria. Everything will probably be over fo…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:07:29 When the coup against De Gaulle began three months later, Kennedy was still in the dark. It was a turbulent time for the young administration. He was continuing to wrestle with the fallout of the Bay of Pigs. JFK suddenly besieged with howl…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:07:58 had been triggered by de Gaulle's efforts to bring French colonial rule in Algeria to an end, a goal JFK shared. The CIA's support for the coup was one more defiant display of contempt, a backhand aimed not only at de Gaulle, but at Kennedy…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:08:56 which Alfand reported to Paris, was a startling moment in U.S. foreign relations, though it remained largely unknown today. Kennedy then underlined how deeply estranged he was from his own security machine by taking the extraordinary step o…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:09:24 in the interest of a good Franco-American relationship, whatever the rank or whoever the person. To solidify his support for de Gaulle, Kennedy ordered the U.S. Ambassador James Gavin to offer the French leader any help he might need, clear…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18
▶ 1:10:23 would be too absorbed in the Cuban affair to act decisively against the plot. But JFK did react quickly to the French crisis, putting on high alert Ambassador Gavin, a decorated paratrooper commander in World War II, who could be counted on…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19
▶ 1:01 We're going to go ahead and go. You can just interrupt me, SR, when she pops in so I can bring her up. Okay, so we were talking about the one of many over 30 coups of Charles de Gaulle, thanks to Operation Gladio. And they're trained assass…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19
▶ 1:32 started with the senior, several senior officials in the military in France. By the second day of the coup, a dark foreboding had settled over Paris. I'm surprised that you are still alive, said the president of the French National Assembly…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19
▶ 2:02 I would have already swooped down on Paris. The army here will move out of the way rather than shoot. If I were in the position he put himself in, as soon as I burst in, I would have executed with a bullet in the back here in the stairwell …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19
▶ 2:34 But at eight o'clock that evening, a defiant de Gaulle went on the air as nearly all of France gathered around their TV and rallied his nation with the most inspiring address of his public career. He looked exhausted, but he had put on his …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19
▶ 3:05 It was to serve and to obey, unquote. Now it was the duty of every French citizen to protect the nation from these military traitors. De Gaulle shouted, in the name of France, I order that all means, and I mean all means, be employed to blo…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19
▶ 3:36 The following day, a general strike was organized to protest the coup, led primarily by the left. And by the left, they mean labor unions. The mass protests won broad political support. Over 10 million people joined the nationwide demonstra…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19
▶ 4:34 Meanwhile, at the large Renault factory on the outskirts of Paris, workers took control of the sprawling complex and formed militias demanding weapons from the government so they could fend off rebels. In many ways, France, and particularly…
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