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David Stirling person

also: David Sterling, Sir David Sterling, Sterling, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Archibald David Sterling

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David Stirling member_of Le Cercle host_asserted
“was Watchguard International, another early military intelligence corporation. Watchguard had been founded by SAS co-founder David Sterling, who was a colonel. Sterling was a close associate of the Circle and all of its British partners. As…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 27:10
David Stirling founded Watchguard International book_quoted
“There were two companies that would qualify as the charter firms of this growing business. The first of numerous companies founded, led, and directed by former SAS operatives. One was called WatchGuard International. It was started by SAS f…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 34:21
David Stirling founded Watchguard International documented
“actual flights were logged as logistical support, which is bullshit. Generally, WatchGuard International is considered to be the first true private military company. It was founded by Special Air Services, SAS, founder Sir David Sterling an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 47:56
David Stirling founded Kilo Alpha Services documented
“It isn't the first use of them to conduct covert operations, but maybe the first use of a UK one. Sterling himself got back into the game. In the mid-1980s, he helped establish Kilo Alpha Services, more commonly referred to as KAS Enterpris…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 54:39
David Stirling founded Kilo Alpha Services host_asserted
“He used that money to basically pay the KAS security company commando unit. So he's money laundering. That's what I just told you. Prince Bernhard is money laundering. Not only did Sir David Sterling found the KAS company, he was funding so…”
▶ Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2 @ 1:02:05
David Stirling funded Operation Block Leader host_asserted
“He used that money to basically pay the KAS security company commando unit. So he's money laundering. That's what I just told you. Prince Bernhard is money laundering. Not only did Sir David Sterling found the KAS company, he was funding so…”
▶ Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2 @ 1:02:05
David Stirling founded Watchguard International host_asserted
“was Watchguard International, another early military intelligence corporation. Watchguard had been founded by SAS co-founder David Sterling, who was a colonel. Sterling was a close associate of the Circle and all of its British partners. As…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 27:10
David Stirling supplied_arms_to Yemen host_asserted
“conspired to deploy former SAS troops to Yemen to aid the royalist factions that had recently been deposed and stop advances of Nasser's Egyptian forces. Sterling's work in Yemen would lay the foundation for WatchGuard International and the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 1:00:25
David Stirling founded Watch Guard documented
“would have had access to Skorzeny's Paladin Group. Skorzeny's Paladin Group had access to everybody. They would have had access to the Circle and could use the veterans of all of these organizations in any of their operations to include the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 53:01
David Stirling founded Watchguard International documented
“David Sterling is the guy's name. And he worked with John Woodhouse. They founded together a company called WatchGuard International as a private company. And basically it would contract out security and military. So think of this as the CI…”
▶ Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2 @ 29:07
David Stirling member_of Le Cercle host_asserted
“While not a member of the circle, David Sterling was a very close friend of Lord Julian Emery, A-M-E-R-Y, who became the circle's chairman by the 1980s. During the early 60s, Emery, Sterling, and other future circle members like Neal Billy …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 59:56
David Stirling attempted_coup_against Muammar Gaddafi host_asserted
“He worked for the Gulf States with weapons supplies and training. Also, he was instrumental in the failed overthrow of Omar Gaddafi in 1971. This guy sucks at his job. I'm just going to go ahead and say that. At least Otto Skorzeny killed e…”
▶ Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2 @ 31:33
David Stirling attempted_coup_against Iran host_asserted
“Sterling was active in the Iranian government, which turned and this was this is just hysterical to me because, again, it's all of this stuff coming back. So remember when we did Iran and I told you that the UK tried to coup the new prime m…”
▶ Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2 @ 30:04

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Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2
▶ 29:07 David Sterling is the guy's name. And he worked with John Woodhouse. They founded together a company called WatchGuard International as a private company. And basically it would contract out security and military. So think of this as the CI…
Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2
▶ 30:04 Sterling was active in the Iranian government, which turned and this was this is just hysterical to me because, again, it's all of this stuff coming back. So remember when we did Iran and I told you that the UK tried to coup the new prime m…
Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2
▶ 30:33 So, and then they had to call with their hat in their hand, the CIA and say, hey, could you come do this for me? Because their new prime minister in Iran had basically told BP to lock the door on their way out and get the hell out of Iran b…
Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2
▶ 31:02 just in case you wanted to know that part. He also operated in Zambia and Sierra Leone, providing training teams and advising on security matters. So he's basically an Otto Skorzeny going around training terrorists. Sterling also organized …
Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2
▶ 31:33 He worked for the Gulf States with weapons supplies and training. Also, he was instrumental in the failed overthrow of Omar Gaddafi in 1971. This guy sucks at his job. I'm just going to go ahead and say that. At least Otto Skorzeny killed e…
Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2
▶ 1:02:05 He used that money to basically pay the KAS security company commando unit. So he's money laundering. That's what I just told you. Prince Bernhard is money laundering. Not only did Sir David Sterling found the KAS company, he was funding so…
Operation Gladio- World Wildlife Fund - Africa Part 2
▶ 1:02:35 So clearly you see that Sterling was a Gladio operator as well. Former South African Secret Service operators testified for Dowling that mercenaries deployed by the WWF were not only interested in game poachers, their commanders offered sup…
The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11
▶ 50:44 to all of Britain's higher-ups, as well as the Netherlands and everybody else all over Germany. So, Colonel David Sterling again, we have the circle and all of their contacts being in bed with this Spicer guy. A year after his meeting with …
The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6
▶ 27:10 was Watchguard International, another early military intelligence corporation. Watchguard had been founded by SAS co-founder David Sterling, who was a colonel. Sterling was a close associate of the Circle and all of its British partners. As…
The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7
▶ 53:01 would have had access to Skorzeny's Paladin Group. Skorzeny's Paladin Group had access to everybody. They would have had access to the Circle and could use the veterans of all of these organizations in any of their operations to include the…
The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7
▶ 53:31 It will be recalled that Sterling's group was an affiliate of Paladin. Sterling was also close to several British Circle members. As such, the strategy of tension came to the colony. It was associated with the German BND. It was associated …
The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9
▶ 47:56 actual flights were logged as logistical support, which is bullshit. Generally, WatchGuard International is considered to be the first true private military company. It was founded by Special Air Services, SAS, founder Sir David Sterling an…
The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9
▶ 49:30 which pitted several of Watchguard's would-be clients against one another, proved to be a financial disaster from which the company never completely recovered. After a botched operation in Libya, Sterling would wind down Watchguard in 1972.…
The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9
▶ 54:39 It isn't the first use of them to conduct covert operations, but maybe the first use of a UK one. Sterling himself got back into the game. In the mid-1980s, he helped establish Kilo Alpha Services, more commonly referred to as KAS Enterpris…
The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9
▶ 59:56 While not a member of the circle, David Sterling was a very close friend of Lord Julian Emery, A-M-E-R-Y, who became the circle's chairman by the 1980s. During the early 60s, Emery, Sterling, and other future circle members like Neal Billy …
The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9
▶ 1:00:25 conspired to deploy former SAS troops to Yemen to aid the royalist factions that had recently been deposed and stop advances of Nasser's Egyptian forces. Sterling's work in Yemen would lay the foundation for WatchGuard International and the…
The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9
▶ 1:07:24 the most serious of all private intelligence and action services available. Because it's Operation Bladio. It's a NATO paid-for operation. It had an international scope. It conducted in operations not only in Spain itself, but Greece and ev…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1
▶ 24:44 There are pictures of the Special Operations Executive, the SOE, which ran their Operation Gladio program. And they have pictures of a variety of the people that were part of that. One of which is Lieutenant Colonel Sir Archibald David Ster…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1
▶ 34:21 There were two companies that would qualify as the charter firms of this growing business. The first of numerous companies founded, led, and directed by former SAS operatives. One was called WatchGuard International. It was started by SAS f…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1
▶ 34:50 basically special forces, goes on to set up the beginnings of these paramilitary private military companies, Watch Guard International. The other, and this is such a weird name, Keeney, K-E-E-N-I-E, Meany, M-E-E-N-I-E, Keeney Meany Services…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1
▶ 35:22 We're going to refer to that as KMS. It was also started by a guy that worked for Sterling as a former SAS lieutenant colonel. Watchguards specialties included training teams of bodyguards for heads of state in high risk places, primarily i…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1
▶ 39:28 Lieutenant Colonel Sterling revealed the firm's mission in a British TV interview. Quote, the organization was designed to tackle really important military objectives which could not be tackled officially because of questions they would rai…