Hungarian Revolution event
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Nikita Khrushchev ordered_assassination_of
Hungarian Revolution documented
“So maybe this guy didn't get that memo. I don't know. The ABN leaders also glimpsed American weakness in the U.S. in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, when the Hungarian government tried to create a multi-party democracy and withdraw from t…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 3 @ 44:46
United States covered_up
Hungarian Revolution host_asserted
“For years, Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles had suggested that they would do exactly that, you know, kind of like what they did with the Kurds and left them high and dry. Same thing. Stoking anti-Soviet sentiment in Hungary through broadca…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 3 @ 45:17
Frank Wisner carried_out_attack
Hungarian Revolution host_asserted
“Alan Dulles tapping him to be in charge of this one. He also had been in charge of a rebellion that had happened in Hungary. Well, the rebellion in Hungary was a failure. Basically, everybody that was in theater got killed. That was part of…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 17:51
Allen Dulles covered_up
Hungarian Revolution host_asserted
“To Statsco and other ABN leaders, this was clear proof that the U.S. had given up on liberating Eastern Europe through force of arms. Indeed, Dulles said as much behind closed doors, quote, we have always been against violent revolutions, u…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 3 @ 45:45
CIA carried_out_attack
Hungarian Revolution host_asserted
“of uh of hungary from the cia and the uh and the russia and and the betrayal and what what what what did they hope to what what what what did they achieve with this so they didn't achieve anything except for a bunch more dead bodies um they…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:33:10
Radio Free Europe carried_out_attack
Hungarian Revolution book_quoted
“invoking them to rise up against it. But of course, we know exactly what happened when they did that. All the patriots got killed. It's almost like a calling. If you go back to the Hungarian Revolution, where they actually believed the CIA …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 @ 3:52
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Alan Dulles tapping him to be in charge of this one. He also had been in charge of a rebellion that had happened in Hungary. Well, the rebellion in Hungary was a failure. Basically, everybody that was in theater got killed. That was part of…
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His adamant insistence, because you're going to see he goes to great lengths to set this whole thing up, and Kennedy's visit to Indonesia would have upset everything. He devised a covert operation in Indonesia that seemed to fail, but the v…
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Dulles knew in 1956 that his brother had already been diagnosed with cancer and used that to his advantage. In 1956, CIA operations in Hungary under the operational control of Dulles' deputy, Frank Wisner,…
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had provided lessons for Allen, and he reapplied them to this Indonesia operation. When Soviet tanks in Hungary squashed the uprising, the entire CIA operation was sacrificed on John Foster's instructions because of his strategy with the Su…
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Frank Wisner, because he was in charge of the Hungary operation, shouldered 100% of the responsibility, but was known to have suffered basically a minor mental and emotional trauma as a result of the failure. This was included in Alan Dulle…
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was utilized by Alan Dulles. In other words, what John Foster Dulles did reluctantly in 1956 caused the CIA operation ran by Wisner to be a failure. Alan Dulles did on purpose in 1958. After the CIA's failure with the Indonesia revolution, …
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The failed Hungarian Revolution in 1956 indicated that ordinary people across Eastern Europe were now ready to pick up arms and liberate their nations from the quote-unquote Soviet rule. Others speculated that widespread suffering in commun…
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So maybe this guy didn't get that memo. I don't know. The ABN leaders also glimpsed American weakness in the U.S. in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, when the Hungarian government tried to create a multi-party democracy and withdraw from t…
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For years, Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles had suggested that they would do exactly that, you know, kind of like what they did with the Kurds and left them high and dry. Same thing. Stoking anti-Soviet sentiment in Hungary through broadca…
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To Statsco and other ABN leaders, this was clear proof that the U.S. had given up on liberating Eastern Europe through force of arms. Indeed, Dulles said as much behind closed doors, quote, we have always been against violent revolutions, u…
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And we read all about the Swan Island that was being used for the radio. So he basically kind of just takes the reader through a whole bunch of that, which we already know. So for Buckley and Mannion, the Bay of Pigs fiasco was instantly fa…
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to help the Hungarian crisis, because remember where we left that is that they had basically rebelled, thinking that the West, specifically the U.S. and Britain, would come to their aid and free them if they began a civil war against the So…
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He would eventually die of cancer in 1959, and the continuing crisis that followed Hungary took a great toll on him. One of the new plans originating in the months before the Suez, a CIA contract officer assigned for purposes of cover to th…
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After Eisenhower took no action in response to the Hungarian revolt, the unconventional warfare experts were also smarting from an encounter with the army bureaucracy, which banned the wearing of special forces headgear, the green beret. De…
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of uh of hungary from the cia and the uh and the russia and and the betrayal and what what what what did they hope to what what what what did they achieve with this so they didn't achieve anything except for a bunch more dead bodies um they…
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The Soviet Union, it reinforces psychologically that the Soviet Union is bad. And I'm using that psychological value all over the world. Okay. And forgive me, this is not Khrushchev. This is not... It was Khrushchev on the Hungary part. Rig…
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Isn't it interesting that you go around the world and you wonder why people don't want democracy because the view of democracy that the rest of the world has, thanks to our psychological operations, is basically colonialism disguised as dem…
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of these preachings beyond question that when the efforts to reach the values that the Americans professed were challenged, the U.S. response would be predicated on power considerations, not democratic beliefs. Realization that people in Ea…
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Bruce and Lovett expressed certainty that no one who had helped launch the secret war in 1948 had foreseen these consequences. Easy approvals brought messy realities. Wisner defended his operations, arguing as he left for Europe just before…
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the warring side. So they're going to pretend like they're the peacekeepers. The maneuver patently colonialist in its aim of restoring British dominion over the canal would conflict directly with American rhetoric for democracy and self-det…
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Indeed, Foster pursued the secret war with the same zeal and energy he displayed in covering distances headed for diplomatic meetings, making himself the most traveled Secretary of State in American history at that time. Of course, Foster k…
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um democrats amory had already seen the depths of failure hungary several years into his watch had affected amory deeply in atonement he and his wife mary subsequently sponsored a hungarian refugee into the united states um let me get sr up…
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did not. They were swayed by McCone, who held out the scepter of the Hungarian revolt and warned that the U.S. would risk another slaughter. In the context of the rapid buildup of Soviet forces already beginning, McCone's argument had merit…
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invoking them to rise up against it. But of course, we know exactly what happened when they did that. All the patriots got killed. It's almost like a calling. If you go back to the Hungarian Revolution, where they actually believed the CIA …
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was the Secretary of State. When the 1919 Communist Revolution broke out in Budapest, Hungary, for example, Dulles' recommendations for measures to isolate the Hungarian Revolution from Russia and prevent its spread to neighboring countries…
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send U.S. gunboats to control the situation in Budapest, encourage the Czechs, Romanians, French, and Slovakians, each of whom had territorial claims against Hungary, to seize Hungarian rail lines, mountain passes, and other strategic point…
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So they obviously became prized commodities because in this, quote unquote, anti-communist push to retake what they had just given to the Soviet Union. It kind of I say that kind of flippantly because they really weren't interested in the u…
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people that wanted their freedom in Hungary and basically staged a revolution there and the U.S. wouldn't help them. Nobody in NATO would help them. And so that tells you everything that you need to know about the fact that this entire thin…
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And let's see. So there was the Geneva conference in 1955 had brought together representatives of the Soviet Union and the U.S. And for the first time since World War II, there seemed to be discussions happening. However, what happens right…
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by people inserted into Hungary by the CIA, by NATO, as part of an Operation Gladio, stay behind. And they actually got traction. People actually created a revolution. And with the expectation, because they were told that by the people that…
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So the Taliban had to be taken out. So the exiles. OK, so you have the Hungarian uprising. Exiles responded to the desire to secure the status quo with dismay, meaning they weren't going to intervene. Fearing further East-West normalization…