SDECE intelligence service
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Claims (43)
SDECE recruited
Roger Degaulles host_asserted
“chose to marry Barbarote's secretary at the embassy. In the fall of 68, Deloitte and Barbarote went on a mysterious trip to Cuba, 1968 to Cuba, during which Deloitte was approached by SDECE and asked to become an agent on the island of Cuba…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 46:38
Yves Guérin-Sérac member_of
SDECE host_asserted
“by Anton Pinet and Jean Vallée. Pinet was the prime minister and minister of finance. He also became the minister of economic affairs during the administration of Charles de Gaulle. Vallée was a shadowy figure that kind of always operated i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 0:34
SDECE administered
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“And that's where we first came across him because the SDECE administered the French Gladio program. And they are the ones that worked with the OAS and had the OAS and the shock troop that engaged in Algeria.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 1:07
Alexander de Marenches headed
SDECE host_asserted
“was the chief executive of the French Secret Service, which we know as SDECE. He served as one of the primary leaders of the Safari Club. He was also a sovereign knight of Malta, as was Bill Casey, Alexander Haig.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Turkey @ 37:21
SDECE member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“Also present were numerous intelligence officers that weren't necessarily members of that, but affiliated with Operation Gladio, especially members of the Western European nations. One of those organizations that participated a lot was the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 26:28
Alexander de Marenches member_of
SDECE documented
“visited both Holden Roberto and Jonas Zimbimbi. The latter, Zimbimbi, seemed by far more credible as an opponent for the MPLA. French Intelligence Chief Alexander de Marcenas agreed. So did the British. Apparently, a British corporate aircr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 47:11
SDECE front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“No one should be surprised by that. DeMarc Marincas, not so fortunate, had to send one of his SDECE officers on a trek of more than a thousand miles just to put key questions to the UNITA leader. And again, SDECE was the entity in France th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 47:42
11th Parachute Brigade member_of
SDECE book_quoted
“During the Algerian Civil War, he served on the 11th Deme Brigade of Parachutists, and they referred to that as the Shock Troop. It's spelled C-H-O-C, but pronounced Shock, the 11th Shock Parachute Brigade. The 11th Shock was a paramilitary…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 30:29
SDECE funded
Le Cercle book_quoted
“which is the French civilian intelligence service, much like the CIA. And it just so happens that the SDECE was an early backer of the Circle and the Academy. Jean Vallée was a longtime asset of SDECE. So basically, he's a CIA asset, only t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 30:59
SDECE funded
Academy Europe Science Politics book_quoted
“which is the French civilian intelligence service, much like the CIA. And it just so happens that the SDECE was an early backer of the Circle and the Academy. Jean Vallée was a longtime asset of SDECE. So basically, he's a CIA asset, only t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 30:59
Yves Guérin-Sérac member_of
SDECE book_quoted
“which is the French civilian intelligence service, much like the CIA. And it just so happens that the SDECE was an early backer of the Circle and the Academy. Jean Vallée was a longtime asset of SDECE. So basically, he's a CIA asset, only t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 30:59
SDECE founded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“And from 1947, the SDECE continued to work in complete secrecy on the development of a clandestine, quote unquote, anti-communist army. And the fact that they labeled them anti-communist was done not necessarily just because they were afrai…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 12:26
SDECE headed
11th Demi-Brigade of Foreign Legion Paratroopers host_asserted
“The 11th shock troops was the Iron Fist for the SDECE. One of the most prominent members of the 11th shock troop originally was Yves-Garin Seurat. And y'all remember him because we talked about him. He eventually goes to Portugal and sets u…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 21:49
Ainge Simone Pari member_of
SDECE book_quoted
“between the U.S. and France between 1960 and 1970. His partner in crime had been a Swiss banker by the name of Andre Hertz. Ainge had worked for both the SDECE and the SAC, smuggling drugs, working for the French government. Like Christian …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 8:41
Andre Labre member_of
SDECE book_quoted
“because of all the big wigs that he pissed off. On 5 October 1971, one of, he, Andre LeBay decided to visit Paris and just so happened to stop off at the BND office. He said that he was working for the SDECE and helped to bring in 100 kilos…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 17:17
Service Order RPF infiltrated
SDECE book_quoted
“Service de Order was based in France, but it also had active personnel in all French occupied zones, whether it was in Germany or Austria and eventually Algeria. The group was highly effective at penetrating all levels of the French militar…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 3 - 4 @ 47:26
SDECE investigated
Plan Blue documented
“He kind of blew the whistle on Operation Gladio. There were even suggestions that planning was underway to assassinate de Gaulle in an attempt to incite public resentment. The scandal also served to fuel the political turmoil in the country…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 3 - 4 @ 37:35
Paul Aussaresses member_of
SDECE host_asserted
“Chali expected to face a firing squad, but de Gaulle's military tribunal proved surprisingly merciful, sentencing the 45-year-old general to 15 years in prison. After the failed coup, de Gaulle launched a new purge of his security forces. H…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 6:33
SDECE member_of
Organisation armée secrète host_asserted
“his time away from Iran in France. Now, France, as everyone knows, was a hot seat of Operation Gladio. And the SDECE in France had basically been in bed with the OAS, which were the trained assassins that deployed all over the world and con…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Deep Dive into @AAnon55_ video post 1030 ET @ 1:23:43
Christian David recruited
SDECE book_quoted
“effort, is what they're saying. The first serious study of Ben Berka's mystery to be published in America is this book. Peter Del Scott goes on to say that Kruger's book is also the first in America, to his knowledge, to explore further the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 28:48
SDECE carried_out_attack
Colonel Argott book_quoted
“On February 25th, Argott arrived in Munich from a Rome huddle with fellow OAS leaders, Vladio. Driving from the train station to the hotel, he could not have known that half a dozen disguised loyalists to Charles de Gaulle awaited him. Hand…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 3 @ 42:12
SDECE spied_on
George Ball book_quoted
“SDECE agent broke into a hotel room of the assistant secretary of state, George Ball, and photographed documents that Ball had in his room. An agent rummaged through the baggage of a Moroccan ambassador to France. And some of these people g…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 3 @ 11:35
France founded
SDECE host_asserted
“which again was Gladio in Italy, which we've already covered. And so basically France is doing the same thing. The organization would be managed out of a new organization in France called the SDECE. That's the Service de Documentation, some…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 11:57
Yves Guérin-Sérac member_of
SDECE book_quoted
“and ensured it was properly funded. So the man pulling the strings behind the development was Panay's long-standing companion, Jean Vallée, spelt Violet, who we talked about several chapters ago. He provided the international legal advice. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 47:54
SDECE member_of
Christian David book_quoted
“the narcotics trade, heroin specifically, from Marseille to Argentina, Paraguay, and into the United States. Record's organization welcomed him with open arms and soon moved him into the highest ranks. Also part of his reception committee w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 4:38
SDECE did_business_with
Argentina book_quoted
“prize to Central America. Eventually, the SDECE made a deal for the papers with the Argentine government, which led to the arrest of several of the resistance forces and the death by torture of at least one, probably a whole lot more, becau…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 15:25
Charles de Gaulle funded
SDECE book_quoted
“and an additional 50 million at their disposal based on what de Gaulle commissioned them to do. And it says that they had only had from 1945 until this book was written in 1980, only six chiefs of the French CIA.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 3 @ 7:17
Christian David member_of
SDECE book_quoted
“But David had performed so impressively in Algeria that he was urged to become a full-time agent of the French CIA. He jumped at the chance and was given complete training at their official academy. Upon graduation, he went on a long series…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 3 @ 33:26
Christian David worked_for
SDECE book_quoted
“to 20 years in prison for smuggling a half ton of heroin into the United States. During the trial, proof was obtained of David's activities on behalf of a very special branch of French intelligence known as Service Action Civic, SAC. His tr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 15:04
Joe Attila member_of
SDECE host_asserted
“He was released. In 1957, while he was on an SDECE mission in Tanzania, a member of the defense minister's staff accidentally set eyes upon the SDECE gangster role and demanded to be told why Adia was working for the agency.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 58:06
Colonel Beaumont member_of
SDECE host_asserted
“alias Bertrand, of the SDECE, the French intelligence organization, whose life Attica had saved during the war. Helps to know people. When released, Attica was tracked down by his friend Beaumont, who had become head of one of the subdivisi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 55:52
Roger Degaulles member_of
SDECE host_asserted
“absolved him of any crimes, the guy that's in the SDCE. At this point, Deloitte's past becomes of interest. He began working for French intelligence immediately after the war. His first assignment was keeping tabs on the Greek election. Wow…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 44:55
Roger Degaulles member_of
SDECE host_asserted
“He agreed and remained in service for nearly a year, after which he and Barbarote journeyed once again back to Africa. In late 69, Deloitte suddenly contacted the SDECE, a colonel for Nair, to demand back pay and request reinstatement. Both…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 47:08
Michel Victor Mertz member_of
SDECE host_asserted
“And Mertz himself had killed 20 Gestapo agents, freeing 400 prisoners and escaping four different times from imprisonment. In 1945, Charles de Gaulle awarded him a Legion of Honor. Mertz was considered a hero in France. In 1960, while in th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 51:19
Georges Pompidou removed_from_power
SDECE host_asserted
“is the special meeting that Pompadour had with Nixon and their decision, because Pompadour doesn't like these elements that are de Gaulle's loyalists in his SDECE. So he's using the narcotics thing as an excuse to purge the de Gaulle's out …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 1:02:49
André Moyen relationship_with
SDECE book_quoted
“According to Moyen's own testimony, Belgian interior minister had in September 1945, 45, sent him to his Italian colleague, interior minister Skleba, with the task to find ways to prevent communists from coming to power. Thereafter, also, F…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 27:13
SDECE carried_out_attack
Enrico Mattei book_quoted
“And Washington. And again, this is during a time when Cuba was under the control of Batista. He said that he would tip off the United States about the presence of things that were going on in Cuba. He also goes on to say that French version…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 3 @ 9:21
SDECE infiltrated
Red Brigades host_asserted
“is that much of the Red Brigade was infiltrated with the SDECE and the New Order. You guys remember us talking about that. And the people that originally joined the fake Red Brigades, I'm just going to faux Red Brigade, whatever you want to…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 9:18
Roger Degaulles member_of
SDECE host_asserted
“89 packets of heroin hidden in a Volkswagen van on board the Atlantic Cognac, a freighter docked in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey. It contained 45 kilos of white gold. Deloitte was arrested the same day when he came for the car. Under interrog…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 42:21
SDECE founded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“which is their version of the CIA. So again, nothing to see here. The entire Christian international anti-communist thing is lined up to basically be an SDECE was the organization that gave birth to OAS and their Operation Gladio Network. S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 48:26
SDECE front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“by French intelligence. Now, this is the same SDECE that ran the Operation Gladio OAS elements of France. There is evidence that the French, in briefing a senior CIA officer about their activities in Saigon in December 1953, offered the CIA…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 23:36
SDECE ordered_assassination_of
Roger Degaulles host_asserted
“statement, Barot surprisingly told Radio Luxembourg that he believed the operation had been led by Paris SDECE figures seeking to do away with both Deloitte and his past. In other words, in other words, they were offering him up. The Americ…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 47:41
SDECE funded
U.S. Navy host_asserted
“It conducted the secret collaborations with NATO. And from 1951, there was documented cooperation with the United States. And the SDECE opened an office in Washington, D.C. Now, why would they need an office for the France secret police?…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 19:44
Mentions (35)
▶ 11:57
which again was Gladio in Italy, which we've already covered. And so basically France is doing the same thing. The organization would be managed out of a new organization in France called the SDECE. That's the Service de Documentation, some…
▶ 12:26
And from 1947, the SDECE continued to work in complete secrecy on the development of a clandestine, quote unquote, anti-communist army. And the fact that they labeled them anti-communist was done not necessarily just because they were afrai…
▶ 18:47
set up their units. He's in contact with all of the SDECE people on the French government side. And eventually, not too long, he wasn't there very long, he gets spotted. And he's technically not supposed to be there. He's there under an ass…
▶ 19:44
It conducted the secret collaborations with NATO. And from 1951, there was documented cooperation with the United States. And the SDECE opened an office in Washington, D.C. Now, why would they need an office for the France secret police?…
▶ 20:13
In Washington, D.C., isn't that weird? But anyway, I digress. In fact, when NATO was founded in 1949, let's see, the Rose de Vence received similar orders as the stay-behind in other countries. And let's see.…
▶ 21:49
The 11th shock troops was the Iron Fist for the SDECE. One of the most prominent members of the 11th shock troop originally was Yves-Garin Seurat. And y'all remember him because we talked about him. He eventually goes to Portugal and sets u…
▶ 17:50
And they were buried in normally a wooded area so that when they got the call, they could fall in on this cache of weapons and do whatever the mission was. And as you said, the majority, all of the missions, not the majority, all of the mis…
▶ 18:18
just call it their central intelligence, their version of the CIA. The only two people of those 15 member units that they knew was the leader and the assistant leader. They didn't know any of the names of the other citizens. And that's why …
▶ 1:31:41
The France, the SDECE, is the Operation Gladio guy. Saudi Arabia guy was their chief of intelligence, Kamal Adam, and the Egyptian chief of intel, the Morocco chief of intel, and then the Iranian guy that we trained. So those are all just b…
▶ 37:21
was the chief executive of the French Secret Service, which we know as SDECE. He served as one of the primary leaders of the Safari Club. He was also a sovereign knight of Malta, as was Bill Casey, Alexander Haig.…
▶ 1:36:25
that were created after World War II didn't exist in France either. And then the BND was new in Germany. So many, and there may have been some that didn't change their name up in the Scandinavian area, but those that we know the most about,…
▶ 2:41:16
unfortunately, but her book is called Escadron de la Mort, which means Death Squads. And she goes into the entire history of the French involvement with Operation Gladio. The SDECE, the OAC, the Organisation Armée Secrète, the OAS, and the …
▶ 9:18
is that much of the Red Brigade was infiltrated with the SDECE and the New Order. You guys remember us talking about that. And the people that originally joined the fake Red Brigades, I'm just going to faux Red Brigade, whatever you want to…
▶ 1:23:43
his time away from Iran in France. Now, France, as everyone knows, was a hot seat of Operation Gladio. And the SDECE in France had basically been in bed with the OAS, which were the trained assassins that deployed all over the world and con…
▶ 23:36
by French intelligence. Now, this is the same SDECE that ran the Operation Gladio OAS elements of France. There is evidence that the French, in briefing a senior CIA officer about their activities in Saigon in December 1953, offered the CIA…
▶ 47:11
visited both Holden Roberto and Jonas Zimbimbi. The latter, Zimbimbi, seemed by far more credible as an opponent for the MPLA. French Intelligence Chief Alexander de Marcenas agreed. So did the British. Apparently, a British corporate aircr…
▶ 47:42
No one should be surprised by that. DeMarc Marincas, not so fortunate, had to send one of his SDECE officers on a trek of more than a thousand miles just to put key questions to the UNITA leader. And again, SDECE was the entity in France th…
▶ 1:10:30
some with no military experience at all. 23 arrived too late and were sent home. Another group was rejected because they weren't qualified. The CIA engaged in a parallel effort to recruit in Portugal, yielding several hundred men for the FN…
▶ 1:20:13
And it's been fed from so many different directions. I mentioned Portugal and the French SDECE. So the fact that everybody in Europe, government-wise, is pissed off at Trump is a good sign. That means that he is taking this apparatus down. …
▶ 26:28
Also present were numerous intelligence officers that weren't necessarily members of that, but affiliated with Operation Gladio, especially members of the Western European nations. One of those organizations that participated a lot was the …
▶ 30:29
During the Algerian Civil War, he served on the 11th Deme Brigade of Parachutists, and they referred to that as the Shock Troop. It's spelled C-H-O-C, but pronounced Shock, the 11th Shock Parachute Brigade. The 11th Shock was a paramilitary…
▶ 30:59
which is the French civilian intelligence service, much like the CIA. And it just so happens that the SDECE was an early backer of the Circle and the Academy. Jean Vallée was a longtime asset of SDECE. So basically, he's a CIA asset, only t…
▶ 1:32:32
whatever organization. In the case of Germany, it would have been the BND. And in Italy, the SDECE or the Agenda Press in Portugal, the Grey Wolf Network, which was tied into the intelligence, the CIA version of Turkey, each one of them bas…
▶ 6:33
Chali expected to face a firing squad, but de Gaulle's military tribunal proved surprisingly merciful, sentencing the 45-year-old general to 15 years in prison. After the failed coup, de Gaulle launched a new purge of his security forces. H…
▶ 7:03
and he shut down its armed unit, the Shock Battalion, the 11th Shock Battalion, which he suspected as being a breeding ground for the coup, and he was correct. Grossen, who was closely aligned with the CIA, had told Frank Wisner over lunch …
▶ 7:32
had grown into a dangerously unhinged killing unit. They were also trained by Otto Skorzeny, targeting representatives of the Algerian independence movement and their European supporters, even on the streets of France. Those branded enemy o…
▶ 11:22
The president and his wife, who kept their heads down throughout the affair, escaped unharmed. The French president demonstrated that he was willing to fight fire with fire. De Gaulle loyalists in the SDECE even recruited their own secret a…
▶ 55:26
Satre was arrested in Dallas after the Kennedy assassination. And this book says that he was expelled to Mexico. He was not expelled. A Dallas police officer put him in his car and drove him to the border. He was not expelled. He was protec…
▶ 18:42
It was in this way that drug dealers and couriers served as informants to the British MI6 and to the American CIA and to the French SDECE and to the Galen organization, even the Italian SIFAR, which are all of the collective intelligence ag…
▶ 19:14
that other sources they had learned about had at least two members of the competing record network, Christian David and Mikel Nicolai, who were former members of the SAC in France, the parallel police who had been used to assassinate member…
▶ 0:34
by Anton Pinet and Jean Vallée. Pinet was the prime minister and minister of finance. He also became the minister of economic affairs during the administration of Charles de Gaulle. Vallée was a shadowy figure that kind of always operated i…
▶ 1:07
And that's where we first came across him because the SDECE administered the French Gladio program. And they are the ones that worked with the OAS and had the OAS and the shock troop that engaged in Algeria.…
▶ 1:31
And were trained by Otto Skorzeny. So the SDECE was very... Bridget, are you over on... I am. Hang on. Yeah, there's a weirdo over there. I'm taking care of it. Yep. Okay. So working in the intelligence area from 1950 through the 1970s.…
▶ 47:54
and ensured it was properly funded. So the man pulling the strings behind the development was Panay's long-standing companion, Jean Vallée, spelt Violet, who we talked about several chapters ago. He provided the international legal advice. …
▶ 48:26
which is their version of the CIA. So again, nothing to see here. The entire Christian international anti-communist thing is lined up to basically be an SDECE was the organization that gave birth to OAS and their Operation Gladio Network. S…