William Waldorf Astor II person
also: Viscount William Waldorf Astor II, Lord Astor
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William Waldorf Astor II documented
“And one of her suitors was Waldorf Astor from the Waldorf Astoria fame. We've got Helena Zimmerman. She married a guy named William Montague, the Duke of Manchester. Yeah, I've read a lot about him. So I thought that story was good enough t…”
▶ The Shadow State 25_ Secret Societies 9; The Taft Dynasty @ 11:34
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“was Viscount William Waldorf Astor II. Lord Astor had been a naval intelligence officer during World War II and had very close ties with MI6 and MI5. Lord Astor was especially close to MI5, which is basically their FBI, and ran honey traps …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 1 @ 38:33
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▶ 38:33
was Viscount William Waldorf Astor II. Lord Astor had been a naval intelligence officer during World War II and had very close ties with MI6 and MI5. Lord Astor was especially close to MI5, which is basically their FBI, and ran honey traps …
▶ 39:01
The Anglo-American Astor family is quite the powerhouse in its own right. During the 20th century, the descendants of John Jacob Astor were among the wealthiest individuals in the world. They were, let's see, Lord Astor's father was a key f…
▶ 39:32
and the Council of Foreign Relations. So these are the guys that created, basically, eventually Operation Gladio, Fascist International, blah, blah, blah. So these guys are right in the same lineage, which I, again, I just found this fascin…
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sought appeasement with Nazi Germany because they're all fascist. The Cliveden set was so named because they occasionally held their meeting at the estate. Lady Astor was still present a generation later when the Profumo scandal occurred. W…
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in January of 1963, at which point Hitchcock promptly contacted his uncle, David Bruce, and Corbley was then asked to visit the ambassador, who was friends with Lord Astor as well, and that they met at Cliveden the next day. Bruce asked Cor…
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Dulles brushed aside all of those concerns because they would make great qualities in his spy network, and he met with them routinely. He felt perfectly at ease in the company of people like that. Before the war, Dulles had been an occasion…
▶ 11:34
And one of her suitors was Waldorf Astor from the Waldorf Astoria fame. We've got Helena Zimmerman. She married a guy named William Montague, the Duke of Manchester. Yeah, I've read a lot about him. So I thought that story was good enough t…
▶ 11:34
And one of her suitors was Waldorf Astor from the Waldorf Astoria fame. We've got Helena Zimmerman. She married a guy named William Montague, the Duke of Manchester. Yeah, I've read a lot about him. So I thought that story was good enough t…