Pujo Committee organization
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Claims (27)
Pujo Committee investigated
William Avery Rockefeller Jr. documented
document
“From 1912 to 1913, the Pujo Committee investigated Rockefeller and others for allegedly earning $30 million in profit...…”
source: url — William Rockefeller Jr. · p.1
Mitchel Rogovin met_with
Pujo Committee documented
document
“In December 1975 this argument was made publicly by the Special Counsel to the Director of the CIA in testimony before the House Select Committee on Intelligence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.141
Pujo Committee operated_in
Laos documented
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“The Committee studied in detail covert military operations in five countries including Laos Vietnam and Angola…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.162
Pujo Committee operated_in
Vietnam documented
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“The Committee studied in detail covert military operations in five countries including Laos Vietnam and Angola…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.162
Pujo Committee operated_in
Angola documented
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“The Committee studied in detail covert military operations in five countries including Laos Vietnam and Angola…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.162
Nicholas Katzenbach worked_for
Pujo Committee documented
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“Nicholas Katzenhach testimony House Select Committee on Intelligence 12/10/75 Hearings Vol 5 p 1797.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.162
William Colby met_with
Pujo Committee documented
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“Former Director William Colby expressed this concern in recent testimony before the House Select Committee on Intelligence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.200
William Colby worked_for
Pujo Committee documented
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“In his testimony to the House Select Committee on Intelligence on November 6 1975 Colby made a general reference to these categories…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.203
James Schlesinger met_with
Pujo Committee documented
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“As James Schlesinger told the Select Committee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.390
Pujo Committee spied_on
Federal Bureau of Investigation documented
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“Concurrent with this Committee's investigations the House Select Committee on intelligence considered FBI domestic intelligence activities…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.296
Otis Pike headed
Pujo Committee documented
“by New York Democrat Otis Pike. In his memoirs, A Time to Hill, Gerald Ford writes as if the year of intelligence should be blamed on journalists and congressional committees who wanted to look at everything in the files. Yeah, blame it on …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 45:07
U.S. Congress founded
Pujo Committee documented
“Very swiftly, Congress established its own investigative committee. The Senate approved a resolution, S-21, on January 27th by a vote of 82 to 4, naming a select committee to study governmental operations with respect to intelligence activi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 @ 26:47
United States House of Representatives funded
Pujo Committee documented
“approved a panel on January 27th with a vote of 82 to 4, naming a select committee to study government operations with respect to intelligence activities. Frank Church would chair it. The House set up a 10-member panel in February, but this…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 44:36
Otis Pike headed
Pujo Committee documented
“The 14-member panel was to be chaired by Frank Church. The House did a similar version with 10 members, and that was going to be called the Pike Commission after New York Democrat Otis Pike. In his memoirs, A Time to Heal, President Gerald …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 28:16
Pujo Committee exposed
Operation Mockingbird documented
“It was discovered during both the Pike Commission and the Church Commission that people like Philip Graham of the Washington Post had been recruited by Frank Wisner almost immediately, like back in 1948. We've covered this extensively on my…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 30:27
Henry Kissinger covered_up
Pujo Committee documented
“were voted, but Kissinger surrendered the material only when he was about to be cited for contempt. Before the year of intelligence was over, the House voted seven subpoenas, but the government surrendered the material for only four of the …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 @ 29:08
Daniel Schorr exposed
Pujo Committee documented
“An assortment of congressional and executive offices, no culprit ever emerged. Though it was established the initial leak was Daniel Score. Again, Gerald Ford might have done better with the original House committee. The first chairman, Rep…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 1:02:03
Henry Kissinger covered_up
Pujo Committee documented
“House of Representatives to secure subpoenas. The subpoenas were voted. The CIA's own lawyer concluded that the documents at issue could not be protected, but Kissinger gave up the papers only when he was about to be cited for contempt of C…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 59:37
Lucian Nedzey removed_from_power
Pujo Committee documented
“the Intelligence Subcommittee. NEDC's leadership of the House investigation began to disintegrate. In fact, when it became known that the Michigan congressman had been briefed by William Colby on the portion of the Family Jewels report conc…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 @ 32:49
Pujo Committee exposed
USAID documented
“was closed in 1974 because it was all discovered, thanks to the Church Commission and the Pike Commission, that the Office of Public Safety was running all of the kidnapping, torture, and disappearing of Operation Condor, as you note on the…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 46:44
Pujo Committee targeted_for_regime_change
Henry Kissinger documented
“After consultation with the Attorney General, President Ford intervened on November 19, 1975, writing Otis Pike that the subpoenaed documents had been legitimately withheld. The committee responded by voting to cite Kissinger for contempt o…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 @ 30:24
Henry Kissinger covered_up
Pujo Committee documented
“which was forced to go to the full House of Representatives to secure subpoenas. The subpoenas were voted, but Kissinger surrendered the material only when he was about to be cited for contempt. Before the year of intelligence was over, the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 30:10
Pujo Committee covered_up
CIA documented
“that they hoped to obtain intelligence material in the future as oversight panels, staff would have to be reduced, plus stiff penalties for leaks adopted. Penalties would include expulsion from Congress. For its part, the CIA recommended nu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 32:05
Gerald Ford covered_up
Pujo Committee documented
“Penalties would include expulsion from Congress. For its part, the CIA recommended numerous deletions in the Pike report for reasons of national security. A number were accepted, but Pike's committee rejected 150 of the proposed deletions. …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 1:01:06
Donald Gregg covered_up
Pujo Committee host_asserted
“in stonewalling the Pike Committee and the Church Committee, who was investigating the CIA at the time. CIA love traps or sexual blackmail operations used to lure foreign diplomats to book apartments was kind of a routine thing. The Washing…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 10 @ 1:40:17
Pujo Committee targeted_for_regime_change
Henry Kissinger host_asserted
“1961. And they did not want the fact that they boiled a man in acid to be known. So convenient date there. The second subpoena also concerned covert actions, while the third related to intelligence reporting on strategic arms limitation agr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 31:11
Pujo Committee exposed
Morgan Stanley caller_asserted
“Congressional subcommittee called the Peugeot Committee that was put together to investigate this thing. I can go back and look. I don't recall that being part of this particular book. Thank you. Sure. Ellie, what you got? I forgot my quest…”
▶ Operation Gladio - The History of the International Syndicate @ 2:03:53
Mentions (32)
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California Davis. Her name is Catherine Olmstead. And I put her book over in the bubble or whatever, the bullet or whatever it is down below. Okay. Because she basically is looking at the church committee, the Pike committee, which is the e…
▶ 1:11:30
And no intelligence committee is going to change that. Right. Well, it ended up that way, but it's very important to see how the CIA did that. And that is primarily through Operation Mockingbird. She has them just go into the New York Times…
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Anthony Sutton had done. Did he have any mention about the Peugeot Committee and the results of what came out of that when this thing first organized? What thing? Our trust here and everybody in 14 Wall Street. I don't know what trust you'r…
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Congressional subcommittee called the Peugeot Committee that was put together to investigate this thing. I can go back and look. I don't recall that being part of this particular book. Thank you. Sure. Ellie, what you got? I forgot my quest…
▶ 31:11
1961. And they did not want the fact that they boiled a man in acid to be known. So convenient date there. The second subpoena also concerned covert actions, while the third related to intelligence reporting on strategic arms limitation agr…
▶ 31:37
After consultation with the Attorney General, President Ford intervened on November 19, 1975, writing Otis Pike that the subpoenaed documents had been legitimately withheld. The committee responded by voting to cite Kissinger for contempt o…
▶ 32:05
that they hoped to obtain intelligence material in the future as oversight panels, staff would have to be reduced, plus stiff penalties for leaks adopted. Penalties would include expulsion from Congress. For its part, the CIA recommended nu…
▶ 32:34
The Ford administration was able to prevail upon the full House of Representatives not to release the Pike report. Some 246 representatives voted to suppress the report against 124 for its release. When television reporter Daniel Score, S-C…
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the Intelligence Subcommittee. NEDC's leadership of the House investigation began to disintegrate. In fact, when it became known that the Michigan congressman had been briefed by William Colby on the portion of the Family Jewels report conc…
▶ 4:23
And so you guys can just click on that and hear the audio if you want to listen, but then stay on the app in order to be able to ask questions and stuff at the end. FYI, I wish they'd stop it, but whatever. OK, so we were just talking about…
▶ 4:54
We are up to the what the African piece of the pie, because we were talking about some of the other the family jewels and that type of exposure. So this starts with the covert action in Africa being carried out, even while the investigation…
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not a Cold War problem. But again, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Military intervention carried a high risk of exposure with the possibility of negative effects across Africa. It offered only limited results and poten…
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when the Church Committee and the Pike Committee began poking into the CIA's proprietary empire, which began during the Nixon administration of serious questions being asked because of Vietnam. They formally started the commissions a little…
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The funding didn't vanish. It was just put under DOD support for contingency operation, which became much more harder for Congress to audit. The CIA was the primary focus of the 1975 Church and Pike Committee, but they had already moved it …
▶ 6:54
a specific study of Angola from the Pike Committee. The church committee had recently released its report on CIA assassination plots, opening many eyes and increasing Ford's political difficulties on the issue of Angola. As the House bill m…
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Yeah, it did. Really fun chapter. That whole period, like 75 through 77, it's just remarkable how close we came to actually cleaning house and failed to do so. Bush was put in, CIA absolutely to block a bunch of stuff that was coming out. I…
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Turner came down especially hard on the clandestine covert operations, which is basically where all of them came from, because Jimmy Carter wanted to get rid of that capability. In 1977, he ordered 823 positions slashed called the Halloween…
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National Security Action Memorandum that gave them that authority. Just FYI. Years later, in the 1970s, when post-Watergate congressional committees forced the CIA to account for its legal reign under Dulles, the agency tried to downplay it…
▶ 45:07
by New York Democrat Otis Pike. In his memoirs, A Time to Hill, Gerald Ford writes as if the year of intelligence should be blamed on journalists and congressional committees who wanted to look at everything in the files. Yeah, blame it on …
▶ 59:09
instances, Church did voluntarily. On October 31st, President Ford wrote members asking that the entire report be classified. Several weeks later, during a debate on the Senate floor, the committee released the report on its own authority. …
▶ 59:37
House of Representatives to secure subpoenas. The subpoenas were voted. The CIA's own lawyer concluded that the documents at issue could not be protected, but Kissinger gave up the papers only when he was about to be cited for contempt of C…
▶ 1:00:08
to Kissinger to supply copies of all State Department recommendations. The second also concerned covert action, while the third related to intelligence on arms control. Ford's opinion is that the Pike Commission went out of its way to stick…
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Writing Otis Pike that the subpoenaed documents had been legitimately withheld, the committee responded by voting to cite Kissinger for contempt, a measure that went to the full House. President Ford compromised, releasing some material. Co…
▶ 1:01:06
Penalties would include expulsion from Congress. For its part, the CIA recommended numerous deletions in the Pike report for reasons of national security. A number were accepted, but Pike's committee rejected 150 of the proposed deletions. …
▶ 46:44
was closed in 1974 because it was all discovered, thanks to the Church Commission and the Pike Commission, that the Office of Public Safety was running all of the kidnapping, torture, and disappearing of Operation Condor, as you note on the…
▶ 29:56
So this would, of course, launch some investigations. You had the Church Committee in 1975. And there's a lot of good stuff. You've talked about the Church Committee a lot. But there's also a committee called the Pike Committee. If you want…
▶ 30:27
It was discovered during both the Pike Commission and the Church Commission that people like Philip Graham of the Washington Post had been recruited by Frank Wisner almost immediately, like back in 1948. We've covered this extensively on my…
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uh the all-time cia bad guys cord meyers on that mount rushmore is an anti-hero without a doubt yes so this is a big this guy's a big deal so again one of the funny things about operation mockingbird it gets exposed a few different ways and…
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The Pike Committee's final report, which was completed in 76, was never officially published because the House voted against its release. Tell me if you heard this before. There's objections on classification grounds. It was focusing on int…
▶ 35:35
What you have here is the House Select Committee on Intelligence, known as the Pike Committee, called the CIA and the media, also Operation Mockingbird. Testifying in a bit will be none other than DCI William Colby. I'm going to play a few …
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And the entire network of CBS was part of this. And the reason why they had the disconnect in the funds is because the Pike Commission was unaware that Wisner had secret access to the Marshall Plan funds. And they had a carve-out in the Mar…
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But that should not disguise the active role the CIA played in influencing domestic presses output. OK, so they were doing it. It just doesn't really have a name. They just admitted it. You know, we just played the darn Pike committee testi…