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Claims (30)
George F. Kennan articulated
Truman Doctrine documented
“The aid itself was not ultimately an important as much as the change in strategy. Under a new concept, Soviet power was to be quote-unquote contained, as George Kennan articulated and coined the word containment as part of the Truman Doctri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:04:51
George F. Kennan member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“George Kennan was among the first State Department officials to grasp the connection between Allied policy on war crime prosecutions and U.S. political and economic policy towards post-war Germany and the Soviet Union. He lobbied quite exte…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 10_11 @ 5:43
Allen Dulles removed_from_power
George F. Kennan documented
“China lobby group, by honestly evaluating why communist revolutionary Mao had defeated the drug kingpin, Chiang Kai-shek. You're not allowed to talk about facts. The civil service apparatus was supposed to protect people like that, but it d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 22:05
George F. Kennan involved_in
Gehlen Organization guest_asserted
“100%, right? So that was full-on Operation Gladiator type stuff, right? Behind the lines type stuff. Very James Bond-ish. And so after that, then you had the development of the Gehlen, Reinhard Gehlen Network. Yes, we've talked all about th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 2:15:20
George F. Kennan founded
National Committee for a Free Europe book_quoted
“which comes up repeatedly because he was one of the first people to begin the Cold War rhetoric to a large extent. And it says Kennan's memo led directly to the first such public-private organization in 1949 called the National Committee fo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1 @ 28:21
George F. Kennan funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“the support of indigenous anti-communist elements in the threatened countries of the free world. So basically, he's advocating for funding Operation Gladio. The liberation committees proposed by Kennan would encourage the formation of a pub…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6 @ 11:09
George F. Kennan spied_on
West Germany documented
“Kennan was a junior diplomat at the time, but he laid claim to comment on such questions because he was second in command of the U.S. diplomatic staff in Berlin at the outbreak of the war. Kennan had been interned by the Germans in a luxury…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 10_11 @ 6:12
George F. Kennan founded
NSC-4/A documented
“meaning that Congress would have to authorize the funding of covert operations before covert operations could actually be conducted. Hill and Cotter took the problem to Truman. State Department policy planner George Kennan played a key role…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 46:33
George F. Kennan founded
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“So, George Kennan continued to press for the special studies group under the State Department control for things like the Italian operation, which was election interference. Admiral Hillenkotter now advised the White House that the CIA coul…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 1:19
George F. Kennan member_of
NSC 10/2 host_asserted
“George Kennan, the secretary who later soured on this whole enterprise, so we're told, remained an enthusiastic supporter of covert operations at their inception. It was Kennan who the secretary of state placed on the 10-2 panel as the firs…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 7:44
George F. Kennan member_of
U.S. State Department book_quoted
“Blonde Beast, Chapter 7, titled No Action Required. Everybody, please repost the space. Yes, thank you, Bridget, for reminding me and everyone else. This starts off with, like George F. Kennan, state specialists discounted reports of Nazi a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 2:02
Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed
George F. Kennan documented
“Eisenhower took Kennan's point. The president jumped up and said he wished to summarize. Rollback, Ike said, would strain American alliances and represent a departure from our traditional concepts of war and peace. I'm sorry, but covert ope…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 54:51
George F. Kennan appointed
Green Hackworth book_quoted
“According to author Kroc of the New York Times, George Kennan, who was a member of the CFR at the time, persuaded Roosevelt to accept the Berlin zoning arrangement. Kennan at the time was the political advisor to Ambassador John Winant, who…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 2 @ 17:54
George F. Kennan covered_up
Holocaust documented
“to fdr the public pattern of nazi crimes fell outside the realm of what these men considered criminal for them germany's forced labor seemed little more than a particularly harsh solution to a problem they ignored reports of any of the spie…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 1:00:11
George F. Kennan member_of
U.S. Forest Service documented
“They also said legal authority to protect the rights of slave laborers inside of Germany was considered indirect threats to U.S. interests because their proposals would require official U.S. recognitions of the rights of laborers far beyond…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 58:15
George F. Kennan headed
Task Force C documented
“theater. Planners estimated that it was going to cost $60 billion and then declined to $45 billion each fiscal year. And George Keenan, who was chief of the task force alpha panel of this supposed project, argued for the alternative of cont…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 53:15
George F. Kennan member_of
European Advisory Commission host_asserted
“European Advisory Commission for study. All of the U.S. representatives to the new commission, George Kennan, Philip Mosley, and E.F. Penrose, were openly hostile to any accommodations with the Soviet on post-war policy towards Germany. Ins…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 4:01
George F. Kennan member_of
Dartmouth Conference book_quoted
“who had taken high positions in the Kennedy administration, including Dr. Walt Rostow, who was an assistant to JFK, and George Kennan, who was the U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia. And then he goes on and talks about several of the people from…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 1 @ 11:43
George F. Kennan member_of
CFR host_asserted
“George Kennan, Julius Holmes, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., George Ball, McGeorge Bundy, Paul Nitz, Adolph Burrell. Those are just some of the notable ones. Is Warhamster here? He'd be going, skull and bones, skull and bones. Okay, that's just cr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 1 @ 41:03
George F. Kennan member_of
CFR book_quoted
“According to author Kroc of the New York Times, George Kennan, who was a member of the CFR at the time, persuaded Roosevelt to accept the Berlin zoning arrangement. Kennan at the time was the political advisor to Ambassador John Winant, who…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 2 @ 17:54
Philip Mosley succeeded
George F. Kennan book_quoted
“He succeeded George Kennan as a political advisor to John Winnett of the European Advisory Commission shortly after Kennan had persuaded Roosevelt to accept the Berlin zoning agreement. So basically, the whole thing's CFR. It's easy to see …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 2 @ 20:27
Paul Nitze member_of
George F. Kennan host_asserted
“He comes up in he was very close friends with everybody at Standard Oil. He was basically like tied at the hip with George Kennan. And it says here his brother in law founded the Aspen Institute. So, yeah, I just put down that he's secretar…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Bady 2025-05-22 @ 29:53
George F. Kennan appointed
Soviet Union documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:47:36
George F. Kennan founded
Long Telegram documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:47:36
George F. Kennan funded
CIA documented
“So there was no predication from the Russians in order to do any of this. George Kennan's proposed the formation of a special studies group under the State Department's control to serve as an elite force in addition to the covert operations…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:14:49
George F. Kennan proposed
Bosnia book_quoted
“public publicized a menu of options which included sending western troops to enforce designated safe havens in bosnia initiating covert actions against milosevic who was head of the serbian republic in late 93 and 94 u.s government official…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 13:42
George F. Kennan appointed
Frank Wisner host_asserted
“At the head of the list can input Frank Wisner, whom he did not know, but came highly recommended by Chip Bolin, the State Department's chief authority against the Soviet Union. And reportedly, George Marshall, Frank Wisner, OSS veteran, wa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 8:12
George F. Kennan appointed
Franklin D. Roosevelt book_quoted
“According to author Kroc of the New York Times, George Kennan, who was a member of the CFR at the time, persuaded Roosevelt to accept the Berlin zoning arrangement. Kennan at the time was the political advisor to Ambassador John Winant, who…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 2 @ 17:54
George F. Kennan member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“When to the creation of the Operation Gladio units all over Europe, he assisted in the narrative, creating this entire apparatus. But he did later on have a change of heart as he, I mean, like decades later. And he began writing about thing…”
▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 2:03:04
George F. Kennan founded
Marshall Plan host_asserted
“A Foreign Service officer coined the term containment, and we were off to the races. From the initial help in Turkey and Greece, it would be but a short step of offering foreign aid more widely to European nations. Secretary of State George…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 36:42
Mentions (66)
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There was a lot of unrest. We have simultaneously, we have a lot of the weather underground things going on back then as well. And you can never discount anything. So I have an open mind. I do know like Kennan is a good example of that. Ken…
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When to the creation of the Operation Gladio units all over Europe, he assisted in the narrative, creating this entire apparatus. But he did later on have a change of heart as he, I mean, like decades later. And he began writing about thing…
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He comes up in he was very close friends with everybody at Standard Oil. He was basically like tied at the hip with George Kennan. And it says here his brother in law founded the Aspen Institute. So, yeah, I just put down that he's secretar…
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100%, right? So that was full-on Operation Gladiator type stuff, right? Behind the lines type stuff. Very James Bond-ish. And so after that, then you had the development of the Gehlen, Reinhard Gehlen Network. Yes, we've talked all about th…
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sometime in the near future. But that's Charles Boland. It's not a name that comes up too often, but he was one of those six wise men. The third one was W. Averill Harriman, who we've discussed, George Kennan, who we've talked about ad naus…
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The aid itself was not ultimately an important as much as the change in strategy. Under a new concept, Soviet power was to be quote-unquote contained, as George Kennan articulated and coined the word containment as part of the Truman Doctri…
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So there was no predication from the Russians in order to do any of this. George Kennan's proposed the formation of a special studies group under the State Department's control to serve as an elite force in addition to the covert operations…
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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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made clear that the OPC should be controlled by the State Department during peacetime and by the Pentagon during war. In turn, George Kennan, who of course was the State Department, specified that his department be given detailed informatio…
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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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Here's a quote. The CIA predicts on June 14th a capability for invasion at any time. No one disputes that. Five days later, it predicts an impending invasion. Some dispute that judgment, but the report is still missing. Kennan says that no …
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Nationalist military resistance disintegrated on the mainland. They were forcing a shift in emphasis to those operations that could be mounted from outside China. Civil air transport became even more important as a potential asset, but the …
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theater. Planners estimated that it was going to cost $60 billion and then declined to $45 billion each fiscal year. And George Keenan, who was chief of the task force alpha panel of this supposed project, argued for the alternative of cont…
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as offering a much lower cost. Eisenhower took Kenan's point. When the presenters had finished, the president jumped up and said he wished to summarize. Rollback, Ike said, would strain American alliances and represent a departure from our …
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Few had noticed that the case of the Solarium study, the president did not select a pure strategy, i.e. containment. Kennan's option A was actually mixed with elements of Task Force C as well, including covert operations. Solarium results e…
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assign an underling like their deputy or a division chief to go to those meetings so they can plan on killing people around the world and the big guys don't have to get their hands dirty. Only disagreements among the panel were to be referr…
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Because Chiang Kai-shek was in charge of them and his KMT army. That's the reason why they wanted that property back. The fact that Mao was an avowed communist gave them top cover. In early October, the CIA received an analysis of the Chenn…
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and the employment of Chinese nationalist troops, Chiang Kai-shek and his KMT army, and focused on China, not Russia. Planners estimated the cost at $60 billion for two years. That's just literally crazy. George Kennan, chief of the task fo…
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Eisenhower took Kennan's point. The president jumped up and said he wished to summarize. Rollback, Ike said, would strain American alliances and represent a departure from our traditional concepts of war and peace. I'm sorry, but covert ope…
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And option B was continuing previous policies. Few have noticed that Eisenhower did not select a pure strategy, containment. Kennan's option A, he mixed with elements of Task Force C, in particular, covert action. That this was the decision…
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which soon grew substantially. This shift in Truman's policy towards countering Soviets proved more important than the aid itself. Under the new concept, Soviet power had to be contained within the areas that had previously achieved further…
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meaning that Congress would have to authorize the funding of covert operations before covert operations could actually be conducted. Hill and Cotter took the problem to Truman. State Department policy planner George Kennan played a key role…
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Lindsay was another OSS veteran and one of the real paramilitary, well-experienced agents. During the war, he had worked in what was then Yugoslavia, arranging secret arms shipments. It was Lindsay, together with a former State Department o…
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public publicized a menu of options which included sending western troops to enforce designated safe havens in bosnia initiating covert actions against milosevic who was head of the serbian republic in late 93 and 94 u.s government official…
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So, George Kennan continued to press for the special studies group under the State Department control for things like the Italian operation, which was election interference. Admiral Hillenkotter now advised the White House that the CIA coul…
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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…
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George Kennan, the secretary who later soured on this whole enterprise, so we're told, remained an enthusiastic supporter of covert operations at their inception. It was Kennan who the secretary of state placed on the 10-2 panel as the firs…
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By mid-50s, there was another 1,000 on top of that. George Kennan, who fancied himself as a political warfare expert, supposedly reacted negatively to the transformation of the OPC being foreign interventionist. They all seem to have really…
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Yeaton said little. In his turn, George Kennan demanded the State Department be given a detailed information about objectives and methods to be employed. Instead, Wisner effectively manipulated the system. The Director of Central Intelligen…
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It's just like an old World War II comrade group to attack Russia. The committee created a broadcasting subsidiary called Radio Free Europe with corporate offices in New York. Internal Radio Free Europe documents make out Kennan as the fath…
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George Kennan, simply because he took exception to the Secretary of State's liberation strategy aimed at Eastern Europe, a policy so dangerous that even Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers themselves would soon make clear that they had no in…
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Roosevelt finally came around to the idea of an international war crimes tribunal, but once again, he had to face stiff opposition in his own State Department. Foreign service legend George Kennan, who was a junior diplomat in the U.S. Emba…
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greatly understood by the German people, Kennan said, it would be disruptive. We would not find any other class of people competent enough to lead post-war Germany. Whether we like it or not, nine-tenths of what is strong and able and respe…
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who had taken high positions in the Kennedy administration, including Dr. Walt Rostow, who was an assistant to JFK, and George Kennan, who was the U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia. And then he goes on and talks about several of the people from…
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George Kennan, Julius Holmes, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., George Ball, McGeorge Bundy, Paul Nitz, Adolph Burrell. Those are just some of the notable ones. Is Warhamster here? He'd be going, skull and bones, skull and bones. Okay, that's just cr…
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According to author Kroc of the New York Times, George Kennan, who was a member of the CFR at the time, persuaded Roosevelt to accept the Berlin zoning arrangement. Kennan at the time was the political advisor to Ambassador John Winant, who…
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George Kennan broke the deadlock by going directly to Roosevelt and persuading him to accept the Berlin Zoning Agreement, which Mr. Knox called war-breeding monstrosity and a witless travesty in statescraft. Mr. Kroc says most of his inform…
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Basically, the incredible zoning agreement that placed Berlin 110 miles within the Soviet zone and reserved no guaranteed access was formulated in the committee group. It's interesting to note that Philip Mosley, a CFR member, was Cordell H…
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To see the British viewpoint squeezed against two giants who were his allies, Churchill tried to play the Soviets against the Americans in the interest of getting the most he could in future trade and commerce for England. But why would Ame…
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Kennan and Mosley and other men associated with them at the CFR are not ignorant fools. The author did not believe that that was the reason they did it. He was left with only one choice, that they wanted Berlin to be able to use in a strate…
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meaning Groton, than the men who actually went to Groton in the State Department. So in other words, if they somehow made it to the State Department and had not had this prep going into it, they actually began acting more like they did than…
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George Kennan was among the first State Department officials to grasp the connection between Allied policy on war crime prosecutions and U.S. political and economic policy towards post-war Germany and the Soviet Union. He lobbied quite exte…
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Kennan was a junior diplomat at the time, but he laid claim to comment on such questions because he was second in command of the U.S. diplomatic staff in Berlin at the outbreak of the war. Kennan had been interned by the Germans in a luxury…
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Kennan, wartime writings show that he was unable or unwilling to separate even the activities of the prison work-to-death camps from conventional war. The day we accept the Russians as our allies in the struggle against Germany, he wrote in…
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Kennan's moral and intellectual failure cannot be attributed to a lack of information about what was going on in the death camps. It was widely known at the time. Indeed, he wrote the memo precisely because of the Allies' discussion concern…
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In gross detail, the Allied punishment for war crimes remained a particular reason for the unhappiness I felt over the post-war treatment of Germany. In a second memo, Kennan explained his objectives to purging Nazis from the German state a…
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the Allies could never cooperate well enough to carry out the task, and it would require a massive investigation that undoubtedly would be unpopular in Germany. Second, the most pertinent here, according to Kennan, argued that even if you c…
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operated on the assumption that Nazi persecution of German Jews and of non-Jewish Germans was an integral or internal German matter and did not elevate itself to the classification of an international war crime. This was not a conspiracy, h…
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It would heighten U.S. conflicts with Britain over Palestine, and it would tend to criminalize the German economy and military elite in the eyes of the U.S. public, thus undermining longer-term goals as it related to Germany. This faction w…
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European Advisory Commission for study. All of the U.S. representatives to the new commission, George Kennan, Philip Mosley, and E.F. Penrose, were openly hostile to any accommodations with the Soviet on post-war policy towards Germany. Ins…
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Murphy had risen through the ranks at the State Department after World War I because of his talent for diplomacy and his ability to find common cause between U.S. interests and the old guard in the European establishment. Early in the war, …
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division of the State Department, which disagreed with FDR's politics. The State Department Eastern Specialists included William Bullitt, Loy Henderson, and George Kennan. They leaned towards the strategy of rapprochement with Hitler and tu…
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They also said legal authority to protect the rights of slave laborers inside of Germany was considered indirect threats to U.S. interests because their proposals would require official U.S. recognitions of the rights of laborers far beyond…
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regarded almost any German depravity against the Soviet Union to be legal because they regarded the Soviet Union as an illegitimate regime, even though they were their allies. Most of these Western experts had difficulty coming to grips wit…
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wrote George Kennan in April 1941, even though he knew that was a lie, when he was the chief administrative officer of the U.S. consulate in Berlin. He wrote this after almost two years of well-publicized programs in Poland and mass deporta…
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Germans are most anxious that their new subjects should be, I'm quoting this, Germans are most anxious that their new subjects should be happy in their care. They are willing to make what seems to be important compromises to achieve this re…
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the book is going to reveal the names of the people behind what George Kennan just said. There's a whole laundry list of names that are very prominent people in the State Department. As far as policy goes, most of them we've not ever heard …
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Blonde Beast, Chapter 7, titled No Action Required. Everybody, please repost the space. Yes, thank you, Bridget, for reminding me and everyone else. This starts off with, like George F. Kennan, state specialists discounted reports of Nazi a…
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Well, there was no direct evidence, but then lists like three things that is the evidence. And so you have to be very on your toes when you read these things to read all of the stuff to include the footnotes, because they will make assessme…
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which comes up repeatedly because he was one of the first people to begin the Cold War rhetoric to a large extent. And it says Kennan's memo led directly to the first such public-private organization in 1949 called the National Committee fo…
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Goated on by Kennan, the CIA, under the initial guidance of its pioneers, Frank Wisner and Alan Dulles, rapidly developed what was referred to as the mighty Wurlitzer of patrons and partnerships that enabled it to disseminate news, views, o…
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The director of policy planning staff at the State Department was George Kennan, who we ran across a lot. He presented a document called the Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare at the NSC meeting for May 1948 in the presence of Harr…
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the support of indigenous anti-communist elements in the threatened countries of the free world. So basically, he's advocating for funding Operation Gladio. The liberation committees proposed by Kennan would encourage the formation of a pub…
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They were all being coordinated out of the Office of Policy Coordination, which we know is Frank Wisner. Kennan, together with the CIA and the Office of Policy Coordination, before it moves to the CIA, because it does, were supporting vario…
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would be presented as a public cause and funded with taxpayer dollars and embedded into our foreign policy. In February of 1949, Kennan first discussed these issues with the Secretary of State, Dean Atkinson, who gave his assent and asked f…
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come from the exile organizations and be used as part of this operation. They have no problem using religion against us. Alongside Kennan, other figures that contributed to the formation of the FEC were former ambassador to Germany and Japa…