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Harry S. Truman created
National Security Council documented
“Truman created the National Security Council in 1947 as part of this Clark Clipper drafted law to advise him on defense and foreign affairs and basically merge the war and Navy departments into a Department of Defense, which also set up a D…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 43:11
Harry S. Truman founded
CIA documented
“to a billowing anxiety that the public felt about unsolved mystery in Dallas. If Harry Truman, the man who created the CIA, was worried about it, it might be a matter of time before prominent European figures and even more straight voices i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 35:18
Harry S. Truman funded
NSC Directive 10/2 documented
“Also wanted basically a special operations caveat. In June 1948, President Truman resolved this matter by expanding the function not only of the CIA, but of the state and defense departments with the National Security Council as well. Throu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:15:20
Louis Johnson forwarded_proposal_to
Harry S. Truman book_quoted
“Louis Johnson forwarded the proposal and the accompanying memorandum from Wisner to Truman. But the collapse of the resistance, i.e. the Nationalists, on the mainland temporarily paused the process. This became a defining moment for civil a…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 15:53
Lee Teng-hui invited_by
Harry S. Truman book_quoted
“60-year-old acting President Lee went to New York for medical treatment. Invited by President Truman for an official visit, Lee claimed to have almost 200,000 guerrillas loyal to him, not Chiang Kai-shek, him personally. In a memorandum dat…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 25:36
Harry S. Truman appointed
Robert Jackson documented
“but higher duties called. All right, we're in May of 1945. Alan Dulles and OSS Chief Bill Donovan met in Frankfurt with Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson, who had just been named Chief U.S. War Crimes Prosecutor by the new pres…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 0:31
Gordon Gray appointed
Harry S. Truman documented
“Planning for propaganda and psychological warfare and later monitoring national efforts in that area was the job of a PSB staff office. The first staff director that Truman chose was Gordon Gray, G-R-A-Y, Gordon. And I would love to know wh…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 35:17
Harry S. Truman founded
NSC 10/2 documented
“included both psychological operations and paramilitary programs. You know, in addition to political warfare, we're just going to do the whole nine yards. Truman signed the new directive 10-2 on June 18th. Both kinds of missions would be ca…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 2:49
Psychological Strategy Board founded
Harry S. Truman documented
“all of its ambitious aims, the PSB encountered bureaucratic opposition to psychological warfare planning at just about every turn. Truman had previously established the PSB, and they often found it difficult to get the interagency cooperati…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 37:15
Harry S. Truman funded
CIA documented
“The following day, President Truman signed National Security Council Directive 4-A, approving a secret propaganda program and assigning responsibility to the CIA. A week later, the CIA formed a special procedures group within the Office of …”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:14:20
Harry S. Truman created
Intelligence and National Security Alliance documented
“But they have to have an emergency in order to get us to go along. So I'm highly encouraging us not to listen to anybody that tries to make things an emergency that clearly are not an emergency. OK, so they get to the part where President T…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 38:20
Harry S. Truman appointed
Sidney Sowers documented
“who ran the Central Intelligence Group. And so the first guy that was selected to do this was a guy by the name of Sidney Sauer, S-O-U-E-R-S. Now, this guy was a businessman. He had a commission in the Navy as a rear admiral, and he had par…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 39:16
Harry S. Truman appointed
Hoyt Vandenberg documented
“He was not interested in having that job long term. He did say that he would take the job initially, but only stayed in it a few months. Army Chief of Staff General Dwight D. Eisenhower then recommended one of his top Pentagon planners to t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 39:45
Harry S. Truman established
Psychological Strategy Board documented
“so to speak, okay? Concerns over the OPC's autonomy and potential to overshadow the CIA's primary intelligence role led to reforms. In April 51, President Truman established the Psychological Strategy Board to better coordinate U.S. psychol…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 53:03
Harry S. Truman covered_up
West Germany documented
“other than Alan Dulles knew the precise terms of the German emissaries had offered. John Foster Dulles advocated consideration of this strategy as early as 1943. There was also an undercurrent of support for a separate piece among some of t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 10_11 @ 21:48
Harry S. Truman removed_from_power
Office of Strategic Services documented
“The surrender of Japan in August of 1945 brought a scramble to demobilize armies, one that extended to the intelligence service. The OSS had built up a strength of 13,000 people when President Truman ordered its dissolution on September 20,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 16:48
Harry S. Truman appointed
Sidney Sowers documented
“Truman's first DCI was Sidney Sowers, S-O-U-E-R-S. He was a St. Louis businessman and presidential crony. He was also a reserve officer in his wartime service with the Navy Intelligence. But Sowers served only five months as director of the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 24:54
Harry S. Truman appointed
Hoyt Vandenberg documented
“authority, and then the first executive secretary of the National Security Council. Army Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower recommended Charles Bonestell, a top Pentagon planner, for the DCI job. Truman instead selected Lieutenant General …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 25:25
Harry S. Truman founded
CIA documented
“asked to clarify before Congress what its meaning and intent, unquote. President Truman signed the legislation on July 26, 1947, and the National Security Act became law. Six weeks later, on September 8, the CIG became the Central Intellige…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 32:04
Harry S. Truman member_of
Potsdam Conference documented
“and the Soviets thought to extend, instead halted. In July 1945, Truman met with Stalin and British leaders at Potsdam, Germany. They talked of arrangements for the Eastern Europe and the work of Allied control councils in the occupied coun…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 34:39
Harry S. Truman funded
Greece documented
“And the British didn't want to do it. They had kind of tried to do it and didn't do a very good job. So Greece is plunged into a civil war. And, of course, it was blamed on the communists in Greece. President Truman approved a suggestion th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 35:39
Harry S. Truman founded
NSC-4/A documented
“threatened to defeat American foreign policy objectives absent this Cold War tool. He wanted the U.S. Directorate for Political Warfare. At its very first meeting on December 13th, the National Security Council discussed a program for secre…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 46:58
Harry S. Truman funded
CIA host_asserted
“in sabotaging the Italian election expanded not only the functions of the agency but those of the state and defense departments plus the National Security Council. You know the guy that said he regretted ever doing it? He just made it bigge…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 2:17
Harry S. Truman appointed
Walter Bedell Smith documented
“Truman already had Hill and Cotter's successor lined up. He was going to ask Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith. The 54-year-old officer had been a wartime chief to Dwight D. Eisenhower. From 46 to 49, Smith had served as a U.S. ambassa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:03:41
Harry S. Truman member_of
Missouri Gang documented
“who's from Missouri, is surrounded by a group of people called the Missouri Gang, a bunch of people he brought to D.C. with him that were loyal to him. And there are a couple of names that are worth mentioning. One guy, Roscoe Hillenkotter,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:48:06
Dean Acheson sent_memo_to
Harry S. Truman book_quoted
“presidential directive to get these people into the United States. In August of 1946, Acting Secretary of State Dean Atkinson sent a copy of a memo, the memo that said you can't do it, and basically attempted to revise the paperclip policy …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 3 @ 20:22
Harry S. Truman endorsed
Operation Paperclip book_quoted
“But it didn't take long for people in the Joint Intelligence Committee and Exploitation Branch under the Army GT-2, as well as the Joint Intelligence Objective Agency and the OSS, to change those plans. Endorsed by President Truman, papercl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 3 @ 7:51
Harry S. Truman appointed
Roscoe Hillenkoetter book_quoted
“working in the executive branch, when in fact many of them are actual CIA agents. And they have been the focal point of orchestrating all elements of governmental power when we go to overthrow a government. The National Security Council pla…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 15:51
Riga Group installed
Harry S. Truman book_quoted
“Which there's some degree of truth to that, but it's also, as you know, a very deceptive label because, I mean, getting back to just how closely the oligarchy had really co-opted both parties by the end of World War II. Because, as you know…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 1:02:11
Harry S. Truman appointed
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“President Truman authorized Dulles to supervise the organization of the new agency. In keeping the OSS protocol, Dulles recruited almost exclusively from the elite millionaire businessmen, Wall Street bankers, lawyers, members of the nation…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 24:51
Allen Dulles covered_up
Harry S. Truman book_quoted
“Soon after the post published Truman's diatribe, Dulles began a campaign to get the retired president to disavow his own peace. The spymaster began enlisting the help of Washington power attorney, again, Clark Clifford. The same Clark Cliff…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 35:47
Allen Dulles covered_up
Harry S. Truman book_quoted
“Unable to alter reality, he simply altered the record, like any good spy would do. On April 21st, 1964, upon returning to Washington, Dulles wrote a letter about his half-hour meeting with Truman to CIA General Counsel Lawrence Houston. Dur…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 38:35
Harry S. Truman member_of
Pendergast Machine host_asserted
“I know about the Missouri gang. I think when you were going over some of the skull and bones, wasn't one or two from there? And we just briefly touched it. We may have touched it. Do you want me to spend a couple minutes on it for everyone …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 1:04:41
Robert A. Taft criticized
Harry S. Truman host_asserted
“So go ahead. And as we big picture, we've been talking about who runs Americans foreign policy as we keep screwing other people over. And it's these people we're talking about. Yes. A couple more interesting factoids about Mr. Robert Alfons…”
▶ The Shadow State 25_ Secret Societies 9; The Taft Dynasty @ 31:11
Harry S. Truman appointed
Fred Korth host_asserted
“In 1952, Truman appointed Korth, K-O-R-T-H, as Assistant Secretary of the Army.…”
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Harry S. Truman ordered_assassination_of
China book_quoted
“false flag crisis. Clearly, it was a stimulus from the U.S. government that basically made all of this stuff happen. We now know that a plan for a KMT reinvasion of South China, a plan first authorized by Truman in 1951, continued to be sup…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 19:42
Harry S. Truman ordered_assassination_of
CIA host_asserted
“of the National Security Action Memorandum 4512-2 that said that we will assassinate, up to and including assassination of anybody that we deem a communist. So he's just like Eisenhower. When Eisenhower left, he did that famous speech about…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 2:05:47
Harry S. Truman funded
Turkey host_asserted
“He asked Congress for like $400 million, which back then was a lot of money, gives most of that to Turkey. And as I understand it, it's like a drug addict. It's like you start giving money to a country. And by the way, you and I, Brady, hav…”
▶ Live Research Dig w WarHamster and GBPH @ 1:13:38
Harry S. Truman ordered_assassination_of
Jacobo Árbenz book_quoted
“on its head and said he was a communist who just was using the nationalist sentiment in his country to take advantage of it. The first plan to topple Arbenz was a CIA operation approved by Truman in 1952, but at the 11th hour, the Secretary…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 21:50
Harry S. Truman funded
National Security Action Memorandum 4512-2 host_asserted
“to not have that happen to them again. Well, those all of a sudden got labeled as communist. If you actually wanted to form a union, you were a communist. But they needed that because Truman had signed a law saying you could assassinate peo…”
▶ X SPACES Éire Community-Operation Gladio, Colonel Towner Watkins @ 59:02
Harry S. Truman ordered_assassination_of
China documented
“which intercepted the freighter on the high seas. Cox and his CIA agents were hidden below the deck when the nationalist gunboats commandeered the cargo. After the Korean War began, President Truman declared the Straits, the Taiwanese Strai…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 46:25
Harry S. Truman approved
Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted
“of the National Security Council, and it became the Office of Special Projects. As if that name did not sound innocuous enough, it was soon changed again to the Office of Policy Coordination, OPC. This unit was the action group that all cov…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 12:30
Harry S. Truman pardoned
Estonia host_asserted
“So President Truman, in a dramatic gesture near the end of 1946, congratulated a group of Estonian refugees who had crossed the Atlantic in old wooden sailing boats and ordered the Immigration Service to ignore the fact that they didn't hav…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 39:38
Harry S. Truman appointed
Li Zongren documented
“Proposals for covert action actually predated nationalist defeat in the Civil War. Chiang had gone to Formosa in early 1949, resigning the presidency in favor of his vice president, General Lee Tung Jen, who was left to try to negotiate a s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 10:48
Harry S. Truman appointed
Gordon Gray host_asserted
“From the president's point of view, revising his NSC covert action directive had the purpose of designating a new subcommittee of the National Security Council as the lead authority on approvals. Gray would be chief of that unit. Truman kne…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 41:30
Harry S. Truman founded
Psychological Strategy Board host_asserted
“When that didn't happen, the president took psychological warfare off the NSC's action list. He would settle the matter himself, and he did. On April 4th, he issued orders establishing the Psychological Strategy Board, a subcommittee of the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 53:24
Harry S. Truman ordered
Office of Chief of Psychological Warfare book_quoted
“an insufficiently appreciated resource. In February 1949, he ordered the creation of the State Department's Psychological Warfare Office. So it was started in the State Department, and Frank Wisner was in the State Department before he move…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 32:29
Harry S. Truman approved
NSC 59 book_quoted
“The intelligence aspect of it is focused in supporting oligarchs, not the country, which is why they go around overthrowing governments on behalf of the oligarch and not us, because technically we don't need anybody government overthrown. N…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 33:21
Harry S. Truman approved
NSC 74 book_quoted
“plan for national psychological warfare when he signed NSC 74. He also asked Rear Admiral Sidney Sowers, S-O-U-E-R-S, to return as a consultant and review non-military Cold War activities. Sowers learned that suggestions were afloat for the…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 33:54
Harry S. Truman appointed
Sidney Sowers book_quoted
“plan for national psychological warfare when he signed NSC 74. He also asked Rear Admiral Sidney Sowers, S-O-U-E-R-S, to return as a consultant and review non-military Cold War activities. Sowers learned that suggestions were afloat for the…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 33:54
Harry S. Truman appointed
Psychological Strategy Board book_quoted
“The former DCI supported the recommendation to which Truman responded by setting up a Psychological Strategy Board, PSB, under the NSC in the spring of 51. That fall, in approving the NSC 10-5, the president gave the PSB membership on the 1…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 34:23
Harry S. Truman removed_from_power
Operation Sunrise host_asserted
“Even Roosevelt's successor, Harry Truman, who would become a dedicated cold warrior, took a dim view of Operation Sunrise and tried unsuccessfully to shut it down. Truman later wrote in his memoirs that Dallas unauthorized diplomacy stirred…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 36:44
Tom Pendergast installed
Harry S. Truman book_quoted
“pendergast machine was launching Harry Truman on the path to presidency, so it was not a little thing. There is no doubt that growing up in this environment gave Depew a cynical look at the political process. When the Second World War broke…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 22:28
Harry S. Truman funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“So this one starts off talking about how both President Truman and President Eisenhower took a very active role, both in policy and training and funding and everything, in setting up Operation Gladio paramilitary covert actions. And Ike als…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 2:36
Harry S. Truman appointed
Gordon Gray host_asserted
“had approved covert operations informally, but the NSC directives merely gave it authority to regulate the Office of Planning. That was Wisner's group. These procedures was dismantled by Eisenhower. Also gone was the Psychological Strategy …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 5:51
Harry S. Truman threatened
Soviet Union documented
“One milestone of sorts occurred in early 1946. By this time, troops garrisoned in Iran under a joint occupation arrangement were to be withdrawn. The deadline came and passed with Russian soldiers still in the country. Stalin did finally ev…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 52:01
Roscoe Hillenkoetter recruited
Harry S. Truman documented
“Hillenotter then went to Truman with the problem. A proposal for secret propaganda was initiated for presidential consideration. In this connection, the State Department advised in December that the Soviet covert operations threatened to de…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:13:51
Harry S. Truman approved
NSC 10/2 book_quoted
“that NSC that we talked about before called 10-2 in 1948. It seemed natural to oversee closely any kind of sensitive endeavor. That summer, there were three NSC meetings that specifically dealt with the Office of Special Projects, which was…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 17:51
Harry S. Truman founded
CIA book_quoted
“had convinced Harry Truman that we needed a peacetime version of it as well. Truman, of course, agreed and set up all types of intelligence capability, mainly what originally was termed the Central Intelligence Group, which became the Centr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 11:17
Harry S. Truman exposed
CIA documented
“1963, while the country was still reeling from the gunfire in Dallas, Truman published a highly provocative op-ed article in the Washington Post, charging that the CIA had grown alarmingly out of control since he established it. His origina…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 23:15
Harry S. Truman appointed
CIA host_asserted
“on the ground in their respective areas of operation and gather intelligence that is fed back into this system. So we have way more intelligence than we would ever need to have as a country. The only purpose, regardless of what Truman said,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 1:09:57
Harry S. Truman founded
CIA book_quoted
“That was the collection at the time of information and had things like the Foreign Broadcast Information Service with a dotted line to it for our foreign propaganda. And by the time all of this happens, the intelligence group had grown to 2…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 14:47
Harry S. Truman founded
CIA book_quoted
“And that is true. So Dulles continued, Truman's ill-advised rant in the post amounted to a repudiation of a policy that the former president himself, quote, had the great courage and wisdom to initiate, unquote. To an extent, Dulles had a p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 37:14
Harry S. Truman removed_from_power
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“In September 1945, President Truman abolished the OSS as a separate spy agency and placed what remained under the War Department, first calling it the Strategic Services Unit. A few months later, designating it a National Intelligence Autho…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 23:26
Harry S. Truman opposed
Korea book_quoted
“articles about him having sex. He was basically a pedophile. He was freed by MacArthur and goes on to set up the Unification Church. Yay! Okay. Within days, Truman decided to oppose the North invasion committing the U.S. to the war.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 42:51
Harry S. Truman ordered_protection_of
China book_quoted
“or CCRAC, was formed in December of 51 in a further unsuccessful effort to eliminate duplication and organize the CIA paramilitary efforts. Decisions in Washington sharpened the command problems by expanding the scope of the covert operatio…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 57:41
Harry S. Truman funded
Aramco caller_asserted
“They basically recognize that Standard Oil or the former Standard Oil that was now Aramco had just gotten this amazing coup done by the U.S. taxpayer in securing these oil concessions in Saudi Arabia. And it's like there were still some lin…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:26:45
Harry S. Truman ordered_assassination_of
Soviet Union host_asserted
“During the course of the blockade, there were 733 incidences between the Soviets and Allied aircraft. 39 British, 31 American, and five German airmen were killed during that process. So at this point, there's a lot of friction, to say the l…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:10:53
Sam Zemurray funded
Harry S. Truman host_asserted
“Sam Zimory and how he funded Truman and that led to the creation of the State of Israel, UN Resolution 181. That whole story is fascinating. The British decided to not vote on that one because, again, they knew they would lose their empire …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 2:44:18
Harry S. Truman supported
Soviet Union host_asserted
“that the Nazis and the Soviets could fight a war of attrition, and they really didn't care. I mean, Truman even said that when he was a senator, that they should back whichever side, and even suggested switching sides based on whoever was w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 44:58
Harry S. Truman removed_from_power
Kermit Roosevelt guest_asserted
“be outside of Iran at the time, and he bumped into Schwarzkopf's father, and he was discussing the issue. In the meantime, we had a, this would have had to have been in 51 and 52, because we had... Yeah, but what I'm really trying to talk a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 1:24:49
Harry S. Truman supported
Nazi Party host_asserted
“that the Nazis and the Soviets could fight a war of attrition, and they really didn't care. I mean, Truman even said that when he was a senator, that they should back whichever side, and even suggested switching sides based on whoever was w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 44:58
Harry S. Truman founded
French Communist Party host_asserted
“Truman imposed a loyalty test on federal employees and created an extensive surveillance apparatus to go with it, which turned up few real security risk. He also shredded the Bill of Rights by unleashing a wave of prosecutions against Commu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 9:27
Harry S. Truman proposed
NSC 10/2 guest_asserted
“and it started with Truman, actually, 10-2, a National Security Action Memorandum says, if you are labeled a communist, we have the right to kill you.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 33:39
Harry S. Truman ordered_assassination_of
Soviet Union host_asserted
“access to Turkey seemed to confirm Russia's aggressive intentions. Truman explained to his Secretary of State, James Burns, I'm tired of babying the Soviets. The secession of crises proved a watershed for public opinion in the U.S. Winston …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 33:35
Mentions (120)
▶ 45:46
elected in 1948, so he was part of the cheat. In 1952, Truman appointed Korth, K-O-R-T-H, as Assistant Secretary of the Army. He worked under Frank Pace. Now, Frank Pace, just so that you know, was a big deal. He ends up being like an assis…
▶ 1:12:39
I can share some things. Right after World War II ends, 1946, Truman deploys the Franklin Roosevelt aircraft carrier and parts of the 6th Fleet to the Turkish Straits. If you want to share my screen, I'll just share some maps here. For the …
▶ 1:13:08
and we're going to start a conflict with them. And the idea was we sent the carrier group, we sent, I think, the Missouri battleship to Istanbul, and the idea was to control the Turkish Straits because we were trying to strong-arm Russia. T…
▶ 13:12
The CIA then had the label of the labor unions being communist, which then made them a target because Truman had set up a national security action memorandum that said the CIA can do anything, including assassination, if someone was labeled…
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Week after week sent alarming reports to US President Truman in the White House. Washington and the US Secret Service were convinced that the PCF had to be attacked and defeated in a secret war. General Hoyt Vandenberg, who was the director…
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CIA, that's the Central Intelligence Group, which was the precursor to the CIA. They kind of stepped in in the middle of dissolving the OSS and it being a full-fledged CIA. So Vandenberg became the director of the CIG while he was still on …
▶ 36:57
PCF in France, they could seize power whenever they wanted, which was not true. They did not have a majority. In discounting the possibility that a French government could be formed excluding them, Ambassador Caffrey asserts that the commun…
▶ 45:43
in his memorandum to Truman, basically says that if you attack the union, you can definitely guarantee their exclusion from the government. The CIA succeeded in creating a divide between anybody that was union affiliated and…
▶ 21:50
on its head and said he was a communist who just was using the nationalist sentiment in his country to take advantage of it. The first plan to topple Arbenz was a CIA operation approved by Truman in 1952, but at the 11th hour, the Secretary…
▶ 33:39
What happens as soon as that phone call is made? They call him a communist. He's not a communist, but because they call him a communist and Eisenhower, and it started with Truman, actually, 10-2, a National Security Action Memorandum says, …
▶ 52:50
I would love to say I'm shocked, but I'm not. Ike and former President Harry Truman lent their names to letterhead of the Moon-created Korean Cultural Freedom Foundation, which is another CIA front. In 1969, Moon and Sasakawa jointly formed…
▶ 13:50
for example, was so opposed to any outcome short of total victory of the entire peninsula that both Truman and Eisenhower administration drew up plans to overthrow him, the guy they set in place as the figurehead that they groomed for the j…
▶ 17:39
Korean troops supported by Soviet-supplied tanks, heavy artillery, and aircraft crossed the 39th parallel and invaded the Republic of South Korea. Notified at his home in Missouri, Secretary of State, I guess he was on leave, Dean Atkinson,…
▶ 18:08
invasion, because we're not going to condemn the attacks that happened before that. By all appearances, North Korean attacks seem to have caught the Truman and MacArthur and the fledgling CIA by surprise. Within days, the congressional crit…
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The war is unpopular in the U.S. and goes badly. It costs the president a chance at a second term. This is not Vietnam. This is Korea. The Korean War is a very bitter memory for Americans. Even though a non-communist South Korea was preserv…
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It was not a happy outcome, even though a non-communist government was preserved. The war was very unpopular and ended in an armistice, not a peace agreement. America's involvement was plagued by mismanagement and dereliction. The whole aff…
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Because we know Kennedy already had those cautions. He wanted out. He had already announced that he was withdrawing from Vietnam. That's another element. That was another nail in his coffin. David Halberstam tells the complete story from Xi…
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Yeah, but the other thing also about Saudi Arabia is, you know, when those standard oil companies were going in, the final stage was during World War II, you know, when they used the political topsy-turvy nature of the State Department to j…
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Basically, it becomes a dispute in the Truman administration and it's like they push it to the end and it's all over when Eisenhower comes in and the Dulles just give the oil companies. There's no longer a dispute. But originally it was see…
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Grombach never shared the identities of his sources, totaling over 2,500 people in 32 different countries. Although the pond was an army operation, its existence was kept from the chief of the naval intelligence operation, and it was not cl…
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is that they were able to discover quote-unquote communists. But keep in mind when, and Alger Hiss was one of them, but keep in mind when they label somebody a communist, you don't know whether they're actually a communist or whether they'v…
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What would that have been? 50 to 1960, 52 to 60. So he took office with Eisenhower in 53. They left in 61. And so during that time, not that Operation Gladio hadn't already basically started under Truman because the Truman Doctrine was real…
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And then Forrestal found out about what happened with Patton. He was, you know, very aware of it. He was going to come out and make his own newspaper and start telling the truth. They threw him out of a building. And then you had Joe McCart…
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All right, I'm jumping over to Harriman real quick because I think that needs to be done. I talk about Harriman being a titan in democratic politics. He was an ambassador to the USSR during the war from 1943 to 1946. This is W. Averill Harr…
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Which is basically, yeah, just the unaccountable independent intel board who is accountable only to POTUS. You know, who sat on that first PIAB was Lovett. So let me explain something to everybody, because this is huge, what you just said. …
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part of going through this chronology that you're doing is because you see that Eisenhower is the one that in 1950, it was Truman that got us into the Korean War. And you have Eisenhower who commits the forces to Vietnam initially. He does …
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The director of the NIAID at the time was Dr. Fauci, so they knew each other. Those are two of the institutes. There's 27 institutes that make up the whole National Institute of Health. It's a huge bureaucracy. The NIMH, National Institute …
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Adam was initially approached by one of the most respected and powerful men in Washington, Clark Clifford, who rose to power under Harry Truman and had enjoyed a relationship with the intelligence community for years. Quote, Clark Clifford …
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But he did give them resources. Well, do you know what the CIA did? They labeled him a communist. And that's why I mentioned that anti-communist label. This whole thing has been a psyops. So they label somebody a communist because there was…
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So there's nothing he could have done that would have added to it. You have to start looking from there forward because he was a great guy. Really? We have unequivocally illustrated to you that not only was he not a great guy, that he creat…
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And he was the first prime minister to meet an American president. He met Dwight D. Eisenhower, JFK, and he visited Truman as well, and Lyndon B. Johnson. And in 1948, Sweden was one of the first countries to recognize Israel. And in 1951, …
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The OSS worked hand in hand with the communist Ho Chi Minh, which we talked about. And let's see, there was one other highlight. That's why I hate working online because you can't highlight this stuff. Let's see. So once Truman gets in, he …
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South America and in Central America. Did the whole Iran-Contra thing. Talked extensively about the... Because we cooed literally every government in Latin America. Every government. A fascinating history is the Boston Fruit Company and how…
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called the Republic of Korea, headed by a U.S.-backed Syngman Rhee, South Korea's first president. In a letter to Truman, Syngman Rhee wrote, quote, Such bullshit. Syngman Rhee also expressed confidence that the U.S. would be permitted to b…
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such tragedies in the future anywhere around the world, unquote, as they are continuing to do them every day. Such bullshit. Heo Ho-jung, who spent more than 30 years researching the uprising for his book, says that America's role is well-p…
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when it was estimated that 75% of Greek children were malnourished. So difficult was it to gloss over the atrocities that President Truman, in his address to Congress in March of 1947, who was funding all of this shit, asking for aid to Gre…
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You know, it has even more non-Bonesman members, but does have a number of Bonesman. And the CFR has provided the CIA with a ton of classified policy recommendations over the years. Many government officials are members. And he points out t…
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Financial crimes on very large magnitude. Okay, so Mr. Lovett. He's off to a good start in his career, but there's a lot more coming. Okay, 1941, he became the Secretary of War for Air. War ends in 1945, and he submits his resignation to Tr…
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David Bruce had somehow retained a relaxed probity, which all but invalidated him for invisible government involvement. It had been Bruce's intervention in the Truman Air move on Arbenz, which is the overthrow, the coup in Guatemala. And no…
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The Philippines, when he makes his triumphant return, which is why he's a hero in the Philippines, they get a hold of a limo driver from one of the Japanese generals who gives them a map or gives the locations of some of the stashes of gold…
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And, you know, they lost the 48 election in a close election to Truman. And yes, Truman was, you know, the guy who signed the CIA. But I still think that, you know, when kind of matters in the sense of the later it gets, the more the CIA is…
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doing the Antitrust Act on the gigantic oil cartel. And then Dulles came in with Eisenhower and it was a done deal. It was not going to be, there would be no antitrust and the oil cartel would go on running everything. So the later, and so …
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The surrender of Japan in August 1945 brought a scramble to demobilize all of this capability. The OSS had built itself up to a strength of 12,000 people. And parts of the OSS that had dealt with the analytical intelligence capability moved…
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But they have to have an emergency in order to get us to go along. So I'm highly encouraging us not to listen to anybody that tries to make things an emergency that clearly are not an emergency. OK, so they get to the part where President T…
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He was not interested in having that job long term. He did say that he would take the job initially, but only stayed in it a few months. Army Chief of Staff General Dwight D. Eisenhower then recommended one of his top Pentagon planners to t…
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Truman created the National Security Council in 1947 as part of this Clark Clipper drafted law to advise him on defense and foreign affairs and basically merge the war and Navy departments into a Department of Defense, which also set up a D…
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what was going to be included in that. President Truman signed the legislation in 1947, and the National Security Act became law. Six weeks later, the Central Intelligence Group became the Central Intelligence Agency, and the CIA began expa…
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One milestone of sorts occurred in early 1946. By this time, troops garrisoned in Iran under a joint occupation arrangement were to be withdrawn. The deadline came and passed with Russian soldiers still in the country. Stalin did finally ev…
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in May of 1946. The U.S. must also take some of the blame for this Cold War stalemate. From the beginning of his administration, Harry Truman proved more eager to use muscle in relations with Soviet Union than his predecessor had, FDR. Hist…
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And the Council of the Five Colonels, one of which was Papadopoulos, no relation, he told me. But Greece had been, you know, it's been a mess since because we kept trying to destabilize it. So also it says that a marked shift in Truman's po…
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And then it says the Soviet leaders were not mistaken by believing that Truman and the Marshall Plan was designed to be used against them. Stalin forbade participation in the Marshall Plan by the occupied Western European countries. The Cze…
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During the course of the blockade, there were 733 incidences between the Soviets and Allied aircraft. 39 British, 31 American, and five German airmen were killed during that process. So at this point, there's a lot of friction, to say the l…
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other considerations in the matter, whereupon the lawyer provided a second memorandum where Houston stated that, quote, if the president, with his constitutional responsibilities for conducting foreign policy, gave the agency the appropriat…
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Hillenotter then went to Truman with the problem. A proposal for secret propaganda was initiated for presidential consideration. In this connection, the State Department advised in December that the Soviet covert operations threatened to de…
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Also wanted basically a special operations caveat. In June 1948, President Truman resolved this matter by expanding the function not only of the CIA, but of the state and defense departments with the National Security Council as well. Throu…
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evolution of American covert operations. For the first time in a governmental decisional document, there appeared to be a mechanism designated by the president to approve and manage a secret operation and make them responsible to him. Secon…
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of being placed inside. They're a mafia. There are legalized mafia that has been placed inside the U.S. government and pretends to be an intelligence agency. So were you saying that there's never been a pushback before Kennedy? No. I mean, …
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or intelligence gathering plus covert actions. A guy by the name of George Kennan, who I know you've discussed, was the U.S. ambassador to Russia at the time of the Soviet Union, and he wrote what's called the Long Telegram, where he basica…
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They organized resistance there right away. The captive nations, disaffected minorities, and groups of disillusioned social democrats and communists were fertile recruiting grounds for the CIA and Western intelligence. The first unit at CIA…
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of the National Security Council, and it became the Office of Special Projects. As if that name did not sound innocuous enough, it was soon changed again to the Office of Policy Coordination, OPC. This unit was the action group that all cov…
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play an intricate part in that. And he had been in contact with Wisner since 1948 as a result of working on a report for President Truman that basically ended up being used as the foundation to create the CIA. So George Kennan is credited w…
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So President Truman, in a dramatic gesture near the end of 1946, congratulated a group of Estonian refugees who had crossed the Atlantic in old wooden sailing boats and ordered the Immigration Service to ignore the fact that they didn't hav…
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who appeared first in Britain and then came to America, and he wrote an account of the partisan, basically the Forrest Brotherhood actions. In 1948, a study group submitted to Truman an interim report that said they had keen interest in the…
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Truman and Eisenhower were disliked because of their support for the New Deal programs, and Ike earned special ire for his warnings about the military-industrial complex. And as you guys know, that was not a warning. That was a statement of…
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The mixture of this video is profound because it takes you from the beginning, although Truman was actually the beginning, but Eisenhower was the first president that began using the NATO secret army as a methodology to attack foreign count…
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was to show you the connection between setting up the operation, which was done during the Truman-Eisenhower administration, JFK's recognizing that it had been set up and his commitment to dismantling it. And then you see the presidents in …
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pendergast machine was launching Harry Truman on the path to presidency, so it was not a little thing. There is no doubt that growing up in this environment gave Depew a cynical look at the political process. When the Second World War broke…
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Alan Dulles in the Cromwell law firm was also tied up in this as representatives of that French company as well. These contacts were powerful. And in 1948, it was pressure from the Wall Street Club that seceded in pushing the infant CIA int…
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Truman's lack of sympathy for the way the CIA had been diverted into covert operations did not result in any curb to the CIA by anyone involved. On the contrary, the CIA began to grow under Bedell Smith. All seven persons who are known to h…
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While Chenault lobbied openly from a Washington office against a more cautious China policy that Truman and Atkinson State Department was trying to put in place. In November 1949, Chenault, after a similar visit by Chiang, flew to Korea and…
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false flag crisis. Clearly, it was a stimulus from the U.S. government that basically made all of this stuff happen. We now know that a plan for a KMT reinvasion of South China, a plan first authorized by Truman in 1951, continued to be sup…
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Maybe we'll start a campaign. Colonel, one month after the assassination of JFK, Truman himself wrote an editorial. This goes to what you were just saying. And the timing is very ominous, in which he said, when I created the CIA, it was sup…
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You know, to the farthest extreme. So I don't know what the legalistic, you know, the legal justifications are for for regime change and all the things that they do. But, you know, they really in terms of. I'll tell you what it is. And that…
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of the National Security Action Memorandum 4512-2 that said that we will assassinate, up to and including assassination of anybody that we deem a communist. So he's just like Eisenhower. When Eisenhower left, he did that famous speech about…
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And that's the same thing with Truman. Truman is the one that started the precedence of defining that last sentence, as you talk about with all other duties assigned by the president, of actually assigning the assassination of people that t…
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Say how good we've been as the stewards of the military industrial complex when they're brainwashing you in professional military education. And they tell you about, you know, Truman's thing. Oh, my God, I created a monster. And so you have…
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This was a brilliant move on the oligarchs part. They set up, using Truman, the CIA, the precursor to it, but let's just call it the CIA, and offloaded off of their expense account.…
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aid package to Chiang Kai-shek, a fucking drug lord, half of which would have been earmarked for military airlift going in his pocket as the guy in charge of the military airlift. After the establishment of the Chinese People's Republic in …
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from the defense of Taiwan. By contrast, Civil Air Transport chose to expand its paramilitary business operations, appealing to more pilots. And there's absolutely, I don't know where he gets this, that Truman moved to separate himself beca…
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Wherever civil air transport flies, it proclaims to the world that somehow the men of Mao will be defeated and driven off the mainland and all China will return to being free. Again, Chennault is married to a KMT, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese l…
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Forrestal had served on Johnson's committee, the one that created the whole program. And Forrestal's home estate was next door to this place. I'm sure that's a coincidence. So, only then did Engle realize that the site he had chosen was nex…
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There was a narrative being built with Ruby Ridge and Waco and Oklahoma of domestic terrorism. And we just also went through the process of Truman and Eisenhower creating the NSC Memo 4512-2 that authorized Covert, basically Gladio, through…
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Well, that was a problem. It was a problem like Biden would make, you know. Right. So, I mean, people like Alan Doss were aware of this. This is really a catastrophe. And people like David Rockefeller were keenly aware of this, but he signe…
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connected to the CIA. In the mid-1970s, King did a year in jail for income tax fraud and quietly retired to a Colorado ranch. Before that happened, King had gotten close to Richard Nixon and claimed to have been an advisor to President John…
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With China and India and Southeast Asia in the Cold War, the potential for enormous power hung in the balance. The U.S. was involved in the struggle for Asia from the beginning, because remember, we've been in the Philippines for decades by…
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He was not only interested in the military assistance, but thought an airline like Civil Air Transport could provide CIA with important covert assets. This isn't actually the way it happened, but we're going to go with it. President Truman …
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Aid to the Muslims in the Northwest was the sole covert action known to have been specifically mentioned by President Truman in a November 1949 meeting on assisting anti-communist Chinese. But before shipments could be organized, General Ma…
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60-year-old President Li Chongzhen went to New York for medical treatment. There, the general was invited to Washington by President Truman for an official visit. Li claimed to have 175,000 guerrilla troops loyal to him, most of them locate…
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that this guy, Ling Songzhen, who is temporarily president while Chiang Kai-shek's out playing war, is treated as if he is the government of mainland China. Because they refer to this government as basically China's government in exile. Jus…
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articles about him having sex. He was basically a pedophile. He was freed by MacArthur and goes on to set up the Unification Church. Yay! Okay. Within days, Truman decided to oppose the North invasion committing the U.S. to the war.…
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or CCRAC, was formed in December of 51 in a further unsuccessful effort to eliminate duplication and organize the CIA paramilitary efforts. Decisions in Washington sharpened the command problems by expanding the scope of the covert operatio…
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NSC 118, and President Truman approved this by the end of the year. In early 1952, the Joint Chiefs issued orders for the Navy to provide the CIA with ships and facilities for coastal landings on mainland China and Korea. Joint planners at …
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So this one starts off talking about how both President Truman and President Eisenhower took a very active role, both in policy and training and funding and everything, in setting up Operation Gladio paramilitary covert actions. And Ike als…
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In March of 1954, Eisenhower approved a directive to replace NSC 10-5, which was titled National Security Council Directive on Covert Operations, and it was numbered NSC 5-4-1-2. It was top secret and gave the rationale for continuing these…
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had approved covert operations informally, but the NSC directives merely gave it authority to regulate the Office of Planning. That was Wisner's group. These procedures was dismantled by Eisenhower. Also gone was the Psychological Strategy …
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or keep him with his limitations. I'd rather have Alan. That's it. What the president did instead was work hard at implementing NSD 5412, which created basically just another version of an overarching panel to do the same thing that Truman …
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be outside of Iran at the time, and he bumped into Schwarzkopf's father, and he was discussing the issue. In the meantime, we had a, this would have had to have been in 51 and 52, because we had... Yeah, but what I'm really trying to talk a…
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They failed so miserably in trying to overthrow Mossadegh that he closed the embassy and kicked them out of the country. They contacted Truman in order to have the CIA do that. Truman and the CIA sent Kermit to meet with the people in Londo…
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I'm not saying that he met somebody and decided, let's follow. And I can bring some historical documents. Yes, in the beginning, Truman did look at it. But Truman told him not to follow. And it was failing. And as it was failing, he told hi…
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to the arms shipment while admitting that the agency had known of the B-26 transfer flights five days in advance. The Congo shows the secret warriors in full stride, created under Truman, enhanced by Eisenhower, and used by the Kennedy-John…
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because he's a fucking liar. Okay, let's do the rest. So we're going to be just a few minutes over. For more than two decades since the inception of operations, covert operations during the Truman administration, it had been assumed that ce…
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available to those nations that figured as targets of such things. It was never intended to deny decision makers and their involvement in the United States government. That's bullshit. That's the whole purpose of it. Since the inception of …
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Operations as the Albanian one that we talked about and the China one that we talked about, you know, from those not corrupt CIA people, were only the tip of the iceberg. During the Truman administration, more precisely during the Korean Wa…
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who would direct the covert actions within the agency, and who would be their commander. Over the Pentagon, the military was concerned about how they would interrelate with the CIA during paramilitary operations because they're not supposed…
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that NSC that we talked about before called 10-2 in 1948. It seemed natural to oversee closely any kind of sensitive endeavor. That summer, there were three NSC meetings that specifically dealt with the Office of Special Projects, which was…
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Colonel Ivan Yeaton, Y-E-A-T-O-N, for the Pentagon. The degree of cooperation achieved by this panel is suggested by the lack of any record of any of them talking to the full NSC. Yet the cooperation also meant the lack of the opportunity f…
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He had served as a naval attache in Paris, which that's interesting because that's exactly where they set up NATO originally. Helen Cotter was also an associate of Admiral William Leahy, who at the time was advising President Truman on inte…
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write a report on exactly what the post-OSS intelligence arrangement needed to be. And weirdly enough, it looked exactly like the CIA ended up looking. That was reviewed by President Truman in 1940. So they set up the Central Intelligence G…
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What do you see today that the CIA is involved in via National Endowment for Democracy and USAID? The exact same thing. News media, labor movements, youth movements, and public interest groups. Pursuing these programs, Wisner was simply fol…
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The intelligence aspect of it is focused in supporting oligarchs, not the country, which is why they go around overthrowing governments on behalf of the oligarch and not us, because technically we don't need anybody government overthrown. N…
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The former DCI supported the recommendation to which Truman responded by setting up a Psychological Strategy Board, PSB, under the NSC in the spring of 51. That fall, in approving the NSC 10-5, the president gave the PSB membership on the 1…
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Planning for propaganda and psychological warfare and later monitoring national efforts in that area was the job of a PSB staff office. The first staff director that Truman chose was Gordon Gray, G-R-A-Y, Gordon. And I would love to know wh…
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all of its ambitious aims, the PSB encountered bureaucratic opposition to psychological warfare planning at just about every turn. Truman had previously established the PSB, and they often found it difficult to get the interagency cooperati…
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in place upon the death of Stalin. So, all of the high-level interest in the encouragement of President Truman and the advice of psychological warfare experts like Paul Leinbarger had not created the technique above a relatively crude stage…
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Frank Wisner, and representing the Joint Chiefs of Staff was Rear Admiral Leslie Stevens, S-T-E-V-E-N-S, who had also handled military participation in covert operations at the Pentagon. Rather than restraining and coordinating propaganda a…
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A North Carolina state senator, both before and after the war, an assistant secretary at the Pentagon and then secretary of the Army, Gray left government service in 1950 to preside over the University of North Carolina. A few short months …
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Before the end of the conflict, the CIA and the military possessed paramilitary resource out the yin-yang. They had covert legions ready to undertake any type of operation anywhere, and operators like Frank Wisner and managers like Gordon G…
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in the buildup and the creation of the psychological warfare capability that we see present in the United States today. While it occurred in secret, in public, the political perception developed that Truman's foreign policy of quote-unquote…
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That containment consisted of growing secret covert operations that they were using to antagonize the people they supposedly were trying to contain. Just to make that clear. Eisenhower spoke often of the ideological struggle against communi…
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The Republican Party platform offered to roll back the Iron Curtain, not just contain it. While Eisenhower, though he pledged to end the Korean War, promised to intensify the Cold War through such measures as removing restrictions on Chiang…