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Watchguard International organization

also: Watch Guard International, Watchguards, watchguard

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Claims (10)

John Woodhouse 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 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
Watchguard International supplied_arms_to Saudi Arabia book_quoted
“guerrilla war against the Egyptian-backed North Yemeni government in the Yemeni civil war. So let's stop right there. I spent like an entire show on Alpha Warrior explaining to you guys the history of Yemen and how the, what they refer to a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 36:23
Watchguard International carried_out_attack Yemen book_quoted
“to wage what we were told was a civil war. It wasn't a civil war at all. It was an attack on a sovereign country by the British using mercenaries. A few years later, and keep in mind, by the way, the 1960s, isn't that exactly the same? Oh, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 37:23
Watchguard International attempted_coup_against Libya book_quoted
“But what we were told was the Egyptian army was going to attack Israel imminently, and they just launched a pre-attack because they were going to get attacked anyway. And that's a bold-faced lie. So, a little history there. A few years late…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 38:55
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
John Woodhouse 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 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 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
Watchguard International member_of British Special Air Service host_asserted
“The SAS is the UK's most elite special forces unit specializing in covert guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency. They are generally considered to be among the most elite special forces in the world and was said to be the inspiration for t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 48:28

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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…
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 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
▶ 48:59 This shadowy network of former SAS men working at various private military companies came to be known as the Circuit. WatchGuard was a trailblazer. Its first operation was in where? Yemen. It also did work for the governments of Saudi Arabi…
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
▶ 50:00 is when we see the BCCI bank created. We see the Nugent Hand Bank created. So there was a reshuffling of the deck, if you will, and the movement of how they were going to conduct these operations. So while WatchGuard may have went away, BCC…
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
▶ 1:03:52 As we shall see, the relationship between the British private security industry and the Circle Complex will continue. One other trailblazer in the early private security racket was Otto Skorzeny, because of course, who allegedly, not allege…
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-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9
▶ 1:07:54 Italian fascist, among others, to include Nazis. The British affiliate was none other than Sterling's watchguard outfit. The British affiliate with Otto Skorzeny was watchguard. What time is it? Okay, that's a good place that we can stop be…
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
▶ 36:53 had been crunched from Saudi Arabia on the north, the UAE on the east, and the British from the south. They're actually the citizens of that country, not these other three surrounding, well, two surrounding and one from way up north, being …
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1
▶ 38:55 But what we were told was the Egyptian army was going to attack Israel imminently, and they just launched a pre-attack because they were going to get attacked anyway. And that's a bold-faced lie. So, a little history there. A few years late…
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…