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Claims (132)
William Casey member_of
CIA documented
“even though it had nothing to do with the Soviets or the Cubans. They just said it looked like that. You know, like Brennan's famous, it has the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. This had the hallmarks of Soviet influence. CIA Director W…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 38:16
William Casey resigned
CIA documented
“Having said that, we're going to dig in. And we're on chapter 23, page 572. Again, we're almost done with this book. So we start off with CIA Director Casey resigning on February 2nd, 1987.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 5:23
William Casey member_of
Alibi Club book_quoted
“telephone on a stand with a list of excuses next to it and the price for each. The alibi prided itself on decorating with odd things donated by its members. Besides Dulles, future CIA directors Richard Helms, William Casey, and William Webs…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 13:16
William Casey exposed
Grenada documented
“of terrorists come to find out when you actually look into the records of what they found there was a bunch of old like relic munitions and documents discovered by the american military allegedly showed that cubans were planning to put thei…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 32:35
William Casey headed
CIA documented
“Didn't worry about it. Proprietaries had long constituted the backbone of CIA covert capability. Under Casey's leadership, they were even more important. As before, aviation companies performed most of the useful services, but in the 80s br…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 37:10
William Webster succeeded
William Casey documented
“the Director of Intelligence. Shackley's connection to Ed Wilson and his involvement in Iran-Contra had spelled doom on his chances of being the DCI. He named Robert Gates to replace William Webster, who had gone from the FBI to the CIA in …”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 1:17:50
William Casey headed
CIA documented
“Also, when William Casey, who headed the CIA under Reagan, was an attorney in the private practice in the 50s, he was hired by two DuPont brothers for tax advice and their inheritance. Casey handled the matter so well for them that they mad…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 32:11
William Casey founded
Operation Gladio guest_asserted
“But I'm talking general population in America has never heard of William Polly. There's probably in this story, no one that contributed more foundationally to the creation of Operation Gladio in a real productive way than William Polly. Yea…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 15:40
Ayatollah Khomeini ordered_assassination_of
William Casey book_quoted
“Most disturbing was the fact that Ayatollah Khomeini had placed a price on Casey's head. The author goes on to say that Bob Woodward would claim in his book, Veil, The Secret Wars of the CIA from 81 to 87, that he was able to penetrate the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 38:36
Bob Woodward spied_on
William Casey book_quoted
“Most disturbing was the fact that Ayatollah Khomeini had placed a price on Casey's head. The author goes on to say that Bob Woodward would claim in his book, Veil, The Secret Wars of the CIA from 81 to 87, that he was able to penetrate the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 38:36
William Casey met_with
Jamshid Hashemi book_quoted
“No one else except his brother Cyrus was supposed to know what he was doing. So when someone knocked on his hotel door, he was surprised. At the door was a businessman named Roy Furmark, F-U-R-M-A-R-K, who had business connections to Cyrus.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:02:55
William Casey met_with
Cyrus Hashemi book_quoted
“opened the discussion by asking Casey what was the purpose of the meeting. Casey replied with a question of his own. Was the Islamic Republic ready to deal with the Republicans? It was impossible to establish good relationship between the t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:13:38
William Casey proposed
Reagan-Bush campaign book_quoted
“opened the discussion by asking Casey what was the purpose of the meeting. Casey replied with a question of his own. Was the Islamic Republic ready to deal with the Republicans? It was impossible to establish good relationship between the t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:13:38
William Casey promised
Iran book_quoted
“Casey said that that would be impossible at this time since the Republicans weren't in power, but it could be done after they come to power. As the arms, perhaps that could be done through a third country, which we now know as Israel, unquo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:14:07
Cyrus Hashemi appointed
William Casey book_quoted
“Iran now expected the Republicans to fulfill their end of the agreement by using their influence to assist Iran in procuring arms. A threat of imminent war with Iraq was looming, and the Iranian exiles had thrown in with Saddam Hussein. Acc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:15:52
William Casey appointed
Tom Carter book_quoted
“to London, Madrid, and Paris, the negotiators dealing with William Casey and the September surprise. The Thatcher regime, already deeply beholden to the Arabs, were the host. A Royal Kuwaiti jet collected the negotiating party from Madrid a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:19:46
Barry Goldwater told
William Casey book_quoted
“Inman had already demonstrated his willingness to blow the whistle on illegal operations as he had on Billy Carter. Inman would be a serious problem if he ever got wind of this operation. The solution was to bless the move of Inman to the n…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 26:12
William Casey did_not_trust
Bobby Ray Inman book_quoted
“Casey did not trust Inman because Inman had a close relationship with Bush. Inman did not approve or trust Shackley and was never officially told anything about Shackley's off the book operations with Bush. But Inman felt caught in the midd…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 28:39
Alexander Haig lunched_with
William Casey book_quoted
“At a meeting at Reagan's oceanfront home in Pacific Palisade during the transition, Bush had spoken to Reagan about Haig. Quote, do you do what you want to, but if you pick Al Haig, I predict you'll have serious problems, unquote, because h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 29:38
William Casey learned_from
Alexander Haig book_quoted
“The two men became great friends. Casey learned much about Haig during these sessions, including the fact that Haig had independently began talking to the Soviets about abandoning Castro. Haig wanted the U.S. to move directly against Cuba i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 30:04
William Casey turned_to
The Enterprise book_quoted
“You know, lead them on, play them. It was in this area that Casey turned to Bush's off-the-books intelligence apparatus. After all, Shackley had run all of the anti-Castro programs for the Kennedys, and he still maintained a close relations…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 31:05
William Casey supplied_arms_to
Israel book_quoted
“missiles being launched and that type of thing. So the U.S. was proposing to sell $8.5 billion worth of an AWACS package to Saudi Arabia. And Casey told Israel that he wants them to pretend like they're uncomfortable with it when they reall…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 45:44
William Casey appointed
Max Hugel book_quoted
“When Casey surprised nearly everyone by naming Hogle to the CIA's most sensitive job, which was the director of operations on May 1981, the old boy clandestine services turned to Shackley to help get rid of Hogle. General William Odom, O-D-…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 50:39
William Casey headed
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“went to the continent in this campaign, including two future directors. Bill Colby led one of the 90 Jedburgh teams in France. And later, the operational group in Norway, William Casey masterminded the overall OSS effort to infiltrate Germa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 14:47
William Casey introduced
Oliver North book_quoted
“Altitude was too high, Corson said, and Oliver North would not give up and would not ask for reassignment. I told him it could all end only one way, but he just wouldn't give up. William Casey liked North a great deal. He quickly introduced…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 32:12
William Casey created
Secret Service book_quoted
“Claridge, who was a Rome station chief, had had a special interest in Libya along with Ed Wilson. One of the few remaining traditional secret operatives the agency still employed, Inman watched as Carey created a secret service within a sec…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 32:41
Sharon Steele Corporation spied_on
William Casey documented
“Posner himself, his son Stephen, two other associates, and Armour White, who was also on the board of directors of Posner's Sharon Steele Corporation. In a list submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee during the confirmation hearing …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 17:06
William Casey ordered_assassination_of
Robert McFarlane book_quoted
“The Israelis were providing weapons and all kinds of other things. At the height of the mining controversy, on March 27, 1984, Director Casey handed McFarland a memo expecting failure to obtain the money, adding, I am in full agreement that…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 7:54
William Casey appointed
Dewey Claridge book_quoted
“Casey sent Claridge to South Africa, leaving immediately after the disastrous Senate hearing on April 10th to solicit aid. But Deputy Director McMahon canceled the approach amid controversy. Instead, the South Americans were asked to help w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 8:22
William Casey appointed
Alan Fiers documented
“By the time Fiers was slated to take over the Afghan task force, instead Casey told Fiers he couldn't have the post. Casey would not say why. Fiers answered that he would serve wherever Casey wanted him. A couple of days later, Claire Georg…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 38:00
William Casey headed
CIA documented
“might propose. In early 1982, CIA Director William Casey and Attorney General William French Smith inked a formal memorandum of understanding that spelled out which spy crimes were to be reported to the Justice Department. It was the same a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 25 (Final) @ 7:53
William Casey member_of
World Commerce Corporation host_asserted
“who we know, not only did he work for Donovan's law firm, which started out in Buffalo, New York, and eventually moved to New York City, and was instrumental in setting up the World Commerce Corporation. So naturally, all of the initial fro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 32:00
William Casey ordered_assassination_of
Sandinistas book_quoted
“That's what William Casey said. Like many of the things the CIA said about the Contras, the explanation was a lie. It was a smokescreen to hide the agency's true agenda, which was to run a full-scale covert war against Sandinistas. The Reag…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 35:27
William Casey headed
CIA book_quoted
“at Langley, Bob Gates, who had replaced John McMahon as the deputy DCI, received the data on the covert operation as if they didn't have it already because Casey's intimately involved with it. Alan Fires objected that the plane and other eq…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 9:31
William Casey covered_up
Manuel Noriega documented
“again to discuss his help for the Contras. According to a Senate subcommittee report, Casey decided not to raise the allegation of Noriega's cocaine trafficking with him, quote, on the grounds that Noriega was providing valuable support for…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 33:01
William Casey appointed
Oliver North documented
“While all of the official ring kissing was going on, Oliver North and the CIA was quietly knitting parts of Noriega's drug transportation system into the Contra supply line and hiring drug smugglers to make the Contra supply flights for the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 33:26
William Casey ordered_assassination_of
Pseudo Miranda book_quoted
“Mr. CIA himself and CIA Director William Casey were behind the operation. The aim was to centralize the cocaine trade in Colombia and neutralize Bolivia and Peru as rivals. A tactical commander of Pseudo Miranda, Buki attended the Zurich me…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 47:38
William Casey hated
Jimmy Carter host_asserted
“paraphernalia on it. So I'll have to wear that one day so you guys can see it. It's amazing. All right. We're going to jump in to chapter 25, which is Bush versus Casey. So the one thing that Casey and George Bush Sr. could both agree on is…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 5:59
William Casey headed
CIA documented
“He sent CIA Director William Casey to present the finding to Congress, saying it was a covert operation planned for Nicaragua and that it was in the interest of the United States national security. Nicaragua has nothing to do with the Unite…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 31:28
William Casey headed
CIA host_asserted
“He did time in Vietnam working on the Phoenix program for William Casey, who goes on to be the CIA director.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 29:45
William Casey ordered_assassination_of
Soviet Union book_quoted
“During a secret visit by CIA Director Casey to Pakistan, Casey startled his Pakistani host by proposing that they take the Afghan war into enemy territory, including the Soviet Union, which is exactly what they did in Korea. Imagine that. P…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 8:17
William J. Donovan member_of
William Casey host_asserted
“We came across William Polly's name. I had meant to look up the other people there. I recognized one of the guy's names. And now I know why I recognized his name. And I normally do that as I'm going through the book, taking notes. But I did…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 1:14
William Casey worked_for
William J. Donovan host_asserted
“veterans to the Circle Complex. Among the American partners were several former OSS men and current CIA people like William Casey. Casey, it will be recalled, worked for William Donovan's law firm back in Buffalo and the same law firm that …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 34:48
William Casey member_of
Knights of Malta host_asserted
“veterans to the Circle Complex. Among the American partners were several former OSS men and current CIA people like William Casey. Casey, it will be recalled, worked for William Donovan's law firm back in Buffalo and the same law firm that …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 34:48
William Casey supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang host_asserted
“In early 1953, the U.S. gave the Nationalists their first jet aircraft, an F-84 fighter, and sanctioned an expansion of the Nationalist Marine Corps to three brigades, tripling their amphibious force. So the U.S. and William Polly, because …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 27:30
William Casey covered_up
Nicaraguan harbor mining book_quoted
“Casey withheld the information from us. The president personally gave the go-ahead to start mining in the fall of 1983. Casey and McMahon admitted it. They claim they told us, unquote. The staffer described the limited briefings, adding the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 42:36
William Casey funded
Contras book_quoted
“With the assistance of former securities lawyer and then CIA director William Casey, North created an elaborate network of offshore bank accounts to conceal the source of the money that was to sustain the Contras during the congressional cu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 49:44
William Casey succeeded
Stansfield Turner host_asserted
“running for a very long time. But during this phase of the operation, in most books, it's referred to as the Enterprise. So he talks about William Casey having taken over from Admiral Stanford Turner, Stanfield Turner, as the DCI.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner_ The Medusa Files; Part 12 @ 17:59
William Casey headed
CIA documented
“Woodward, sorry. And he starts with, in 1987, the director of the CIA, the legendary William Casey, was in power. And they were in the throes of the Iran-Contra scandal. And he was assigned to a protective detail, keeping a 24-hour watch ov…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 11:28
William Casey member_of
CIA documented
“Woodward, sorry. And he starts with, in 1987, the director of the CIA, the legendary William Casey, was in power. And they were in the throes of the Iran-Contra scandal. And he was assigned to a protective detail, keeping a 24-hour watch ov…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 11:28
William Casey appointed_as_director_of
CIA book_quoted
“William Casey longed to be the Secretary of State, and according to his biographer, was terribly disappointed not to get it. But when Reagan selected Casey, who had worked for the OSS in London during World War II as the director of the CIA…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 20:01
William Casey appointed
CIA book_quoted
“So after Casey was appointed DCI, a devastating story broke tying Casey to an organized crime figure in New Orleans. The Senate Intelligence Committee quickly pulled together an investigation headed by Watergate Minority Counsel Fred Thomps…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 35:27
William Casey headed
CIA book_quoted
“The experience of Iran-Contra demonstrated that at least with an oil man like William Casey running the CIA, such intrigues could escalate to the level of a U.S. constitutional crisis. They would not normally lead to war. Similarly, the big…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 9:22
William Casey headed
CIA book_quoted
“We're on page 523 of Bill Casey's war. Even more than Afghanistan, Nicaragua became Bill Casey's war. When Reagan set the policy, Casey executed it. But for Nicaragua, Casey went to Reagan, pushing him, encouraging his worst fears. Supervis…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 2:41
William Casey visited
Honduras book_quoted
“the CIA director visited, whatever the name of that town is, Tegucigalpa in the early summer of 1982 when the machinery was just moving into gear. At the height of the controversy over human rights violation in the summer of 83, Casey again…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 3:11
William Casey member_of
International Telephone and Telegraph documented
“for Civil Affairs and Military Government section of the Army. Then he joined ITT in 62. In 74, the nomination of William Casey, who would later lead the CIA to head the Export-Import Bank, was temporarily blocked because of his role in an …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 9:22
William Casey member_of
Wackenhut book_quoted
“not directly controlled by federal regulations of firearms laws, it was the perfect place to do this. This is also where the programmer was located that was giving the back door to the DOJ for Promise Software. It should be noted at this po…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing @ 23:41
William Casey member_of
Wackenhut host_asserted
“Like Clarence Kelly, FBI Director. Deputy CIA Director, Secretary of Defense, Frank Carlucci. How many times have we come across him? This is just Wackenhut. Board of Directors, William Casey. Before, he was Ronald Reagan's CIA Director. Wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 1:05:49
William Casey proposed
National Endowment for Democracy book_quoted
“Chile, Iran, Guatemala, the top secret MKUltra project. Those actually got exposed in the 70s. But Reagan was the next president after that. The student movements during the Vietnam, just to name a few. To take the spotlight away from them,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner US Empire-CIA-NGOs @ 4:20
William Casey founded
Jedburgh Program book_quoted
“Been around for a long time. He actually also helped organize the Jedbird program in London. And it says in 44, Casey replaced his boss as OSS chief of secret intelligence in the European theater. And he was able to infiltrate several hundr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 36:25
William Casey member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board book_quoted
“and was part of the presidential's intelligence advisory board for Ford. And Casey basically had no ability to speak in public. And as a result of that, it was considered like his big limiting factor in his functionary duty as the chief of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 36:56
William Casey worked_for
Vietnam book_quoted
“Several more items called into question Bill Casey working for Ronald Reagan, and they had to do with his personal financial disclosure forms. It says it was also developed that Casey had not registered as a foreign agent as required by law…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 37:27
William Casey recruited
Max Hugel book_quoted
“Judgments also became an issue following Casey's confirmation in 81 when it became known that there was a thing called Hoogle Affair, H-U-G-E-L. This concerned the resignation of a man Casey had personally brought in to the agent as an assi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 37:57
William Casey promoted
Max Hugel book_quoted
“Judgments also became an issue following Casey's confirmation in 81 when it became known that there was a thing called Hoogle Affair, H-U-G-E-L. This concerned the resignation of a man Casey had personally brought in to the agent as an assi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 37:57
William Casey appointed
John Stein book_quoted
“Bill Casey's intention were reflected in his directions to his new deputy director to focus on covert paramilitary operations and political action. Espionage management could be left to the assistant. Instead, the director of intelligence i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 40:25
William Casey headed
CIA documented
“According to one account, the main source for Newsweek's story was none other than CIA Director William Casey, who wanted to ensure that the Contra project didn't get shelved. Now that it was public knowledge that the administration was hel…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 10:25
William Casey headed
CIA host_asserted
“Like Clarence Kelly, FBI Director. Deputy CIA Director, Secretary of Defense, Frank Carlucci. How many times have we come across him? This is just Wackenhut. Board of Directors, William Casey. Before, he was Ronald Reagan's CIA Director. Wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 1:05:49
William Casey recruited
Robert Crowley host_asserted
“If I don't get to it today, we will do it tomorrow. In 1981, Casey summoned retired intel officer Robert Crowley, which is one of the guys that donated the papers for this book, and a retired colleague from New York to his office in Langley…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 10:02
William Casey recruited
Robert Gates book_quoted
“Gates had received his reward for his role in helping the Reagan-Bush campaign while working in the Carter White House. John Brose, who we met last time, B-R-O-S-S, had recommended Gates as a personal deputy to Casey. He was obviously a pup…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 13:24
William Casey recruited
John Carbaugh book_quoted
“And I'm not sure how you spell, say this guy's last name. I'm going to spell it V-I-G-U-E-R-I-E. Viguerere, the direct male consultant and PR executive Robert Gray. Casey had an eye for talent. He also recruited John Carbog, C-A-R-B-A-U-G-H…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 33:49
William Casey used
Glenn Fields book_quoted
“and Lou was on his way to Geneva. The magic may have been less to do with the magic magnetism than the fact that Fields offered a way for Casey through Carbog to keep an eye on his rivals at the State Department, including George Schultz. S…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 41:07
George Shultz blocked
William Casey book_quoted
“and Lou was on his way to Geneva. The magic may have been less to do with the magic magnetism than the fact that Fields offered a way for Casey through Carbog to keep an eye on his rivals at the State Department, including George Schultz. S…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 41:07
William Casey recruited
Manuel Noriega host_asserted
“That was the CIA, too. After all, President Reagan had held the Contras as the moral equal to our founding fathers. The U.S. government would be hard pressed to expose the Contras as drug traffickers. In Panama, CIA director William Casey r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 14:02
William Casey headed
CIA documented
“to be cleared with General Zia of Pakistan, the Saudis, and others. Chuck Cogan recalls an adrenaline rush when William Casey took over from Stan Turner. But to some degree, escalation had to be incremental simply because the foundations ne…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 5:58
William Casey appointed
Howard Hart documented
“and had led the Near East branch for Pakistan and Afghanistan at the inception of the project. Kogan selected him to lead the station on the basis of their shared experience. A regional conference among station chiefs occurred in late 1981.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 6:57
William Casey reassigned
Claire George documented
“The CIA project had nearly ended before the last bullet was ready. The Mujahideen had long since switched to automatic weapons instead of these ancient bolt-action rifles. In 1984, William Casey needed a new team. Beset by problems from cov…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 15:22
William Casey appointed
Alan Fiers documented
“George, in turn, persuaded William Casey to approve a comrade from the African division, Burt Dunn, to head the Near East. Then came the matter of a task force chief. Alan Friars, the lead candidate, still had a few months to run on a tour …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 15:52
William Casey funded
Mujahideen documented
“General Zia again emphasized giving the rebels Stinger missiles. Finally, the log jam was broken. At a breakfast in early December, McMahon told Fred Eichel that the CIA would ship as many of the missiles as the Pentagon could provide. When…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 33:14
Allen Dulles influenced
William Casey host_asserted
“future watchmen, including Helms and Angleton, as well as others like William Casey, President Reagan's defiant law-breaking CIA director, and Donald Rumsfeld, President George Bush's smugly, confident conqueror of desert sands. And though …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 51:17
William Casey recruited
Howard Hart documented
“a Soviet Vietnam, but they did. That might have been the idea at the White House, and it was. When Howard Hart replaced John Reagan as station chief in Islamabad, Casey's instructions were simply to go out and kill Russians. Hart had won th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 6:27
William Casey funded
Mujahideen documented
“We had the opportunity early on to have negotiations, but we don't have control of all of the opium yet. So we're just going to keep going and kill a bunch of Russians. Big money combined with funneling aid through third parties led a numbe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 13:21
William Casey funded
Mujahideen documented
“Nudged by Zia, within a month, Reagan approved an immediate shipment of 100 of them. While the joint staff, Pentagon and State Department opposition melted away. Brigadier Yusuf began to organize and train the rebels to use them. In October…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 32:47
William Casey headed
CIA host_asserted
“Casey led an expansion of the CIA held at the time as a renaissance. Casey pushed for another covert action projects with anti-Soviet bent. Many of Langley's tribes would have their hands full during the coming years. To the secret warriors…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 13:32
William Casey trained
Jedburgh Program host_asserted
“Casey had also been one of the original secret warriors. In World War II, he went into the OSS, where he worked as an aide to Wild Bill Donovan. The OSS chief, in turn, sent Casey to London. There, the acolyte helped organize the Jedburgh P…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 15:30
William Casey succeeded
David Bruce documented
“David Bruce as OSS chief of secret intelligence for the European theater. Basically negotiating the changeover of Hitler's stay behind with General Wolf to soon to be NATO and Alan Dulles. He supervised the infiltration of OSS agents into G…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 16:01
Gerald Ford appointed
William Casey documented
“in OSS veteran associations and was appointed to the intelligence board, the presidential intelligence board by Gerald Ford. To a newly elected Ronald Reagan looking for a CIA director, Bill Casey was a natural. Casey himself had wanted to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 16:30
Ronald Reagan appointed
William Casey documented
“in OSS veteran associations and was appointed to the intelligence board, the presidential intelligence board by Gerald Ford. To a newly elected Ronald Reagan looking for a CIA director, Bill Casey was a natural. Casey himself had wanted to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 16:30
William Casey recruited
Max Hoge documented
“Judgment again became an issue in the summer of 81 during the Hoogle affair. This concerned Max Hoogle, whom Casey personally brought into the agency as an assistant, then promoted him to deputy director of operations. Hoogle's attraction f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 19:06
William Casey appointed
John Stein documented
“judging, quote, there is no basis for concluding Mr. Casey is unfit to serve, unquote. Casey mollified the professionals with his next deputy director, John Henry Stein, the man originally recommended by the transition team. He was 48 years…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 21:36
William Casey viewed
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence documented
“tributes to both Casey and Brzezinski viewed the congressional oversight intelligence committees as compromising sensitive information and according oversight power to people with no expertise. Yeah.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 36:18
William Casey funded
Mujahideen documented
“feelings towards the agency. McMahon responded by turning energy to making sure Afghanistan went smoothly. Admiral Turner's successor, William Casey, later called him the father of the Afghanistan secret war. The sleekness of the CIA's comm…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 46:53
William Casey funded
Saudi Arabia documented
“Later, he applied it to all rebel groups all over the world that had CIA support. They were all freedom fighters. Reagan's Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger, quickly advocated more arms for the guerrillas. That spring, Director Casey …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 51:14
William Casey funded
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq documented
“Turki al-Fasal, plus the leader of Pakistan, military strongman, General Mohammed Zia. The CIA's project cannot proceed if these men softened their commitment. The Saudis continued matching U.S. contributions to the rebels, and General Zia …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 51:47
William Casey appointed
Max Hoogle documented
“He was shifted to head of the agency's analysis directorate, the one that they don't pay any attention to. At Langley, CIA insider favored John Stein for his replacement, but Casey put in Max Hoogle, a business associate with zero intellige…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 55:19
William Casey appointed
Bobby Ray Inman documented
“But John McMahon, whom Casey wanted to push aside, reappeared in a new incarnation, resulting in a different case of personnel turbulence. Casey had appointed a Navy Vice Admiral, Bobby Ray Inman, as his deputy director, second man for the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 56:18
William Casey appointed
John McMahon documented
“much more dedicated to staying within the lines, closely connected to Senator Barry Goldwater. He watched Casey's secret wars with melting anxiety. In mid-1982, Inman resigned. Casey, by then already under attack as a covert action cowboy, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 56:49
William Casey headed
CIA book_quoted
“Casey sent the fuller paper intended for internal circulation to the White House, but the CIA's official position contained in the May 1985 update to the Iran Special National Intelligence Estimate remained pessimistic. Improvement, because…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 3:40
William Casey ordered_assassination_of
Seychelles book_quoted
“opposition, but it actually was canceled because the cover was blown. Schultz shot down Serenam, where in 1983, Casey wanted to insert a couple hundred Korean commandos to overthrow the government. And by Korean commandos, he's talking abou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 22:09
William Casey appointed
Dewey Claridge documented
“grumbly content to work through channels, but not with Nicaragua. In a notable breach of boundaries, Casey brought in Dwayne Claridge, a Middle East specialist to head the DO's Latin American division. This marked the beginning of a fateful…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 39:28
William Casey funded
Contras documented
“To Langley, to brief Casey, the deputy director, Admiral Bobby Inman, walked in on the conversation. He thought a weapons drop to rebel troops in a friendly country was a crazy idea. But Casey approved it. The drop took place within a month…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 12:40
William Casey member_of
CIA documented
“Argentina's departure didn't stop the CIA. They found the activities of the Battalion 601 leaders obstructive. Casey made a trip around that time to Japan, and about a year later, reports began of a mysterious Japanese presence among the re…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 14:31
William Casey reprimanded
Ray Doty documented
“The Intelligence Oversight Board pretended to do an investigation. Again, Casey's methods were called into question. Casey escaped the heat by reprimanding a half dozen officers, including Chief of Base Doty and Political Action Chief Joe F…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 38:33
William Casey reprimanded
Joseph Fernandez documented
“The Intelligence Oversight Board pretended to do an investigation. Again, Casey's methods were called into question. Casey escaped the heat by reprimanding a half dozen officers, including Chief of Base Doty and Political Action Chief Joe F…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 38:33
William Casey faced_questions_from
Daniel Patrick Moynihan documented
“Already clouds were gathering as the American public, never comfortable with the Contra operation and distinctly disturbed by the allegations of abuse and Congress suspicion of the administrative motives, were beginning to gather speed. At …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 40:30
William Casey consulted_with
William Clark documented
“This became known as the Boland Amendment, the first one. Supposedly, the CIA recognized this with a cable instructing officers to avoid any of a series of activities that could be prohibited. Casey went to the National Security Advisor, Wi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 41:28
Jerry Spott refused_to_communicate_with
William Casey documented
“by the ambassador in the CIA every single time. Leahy went on to Panama, where Dewey Claridge, making a circuit of stations, had just visited. Leahy told the chief, former CATF boss Jerry Spott, that he wanted a briefing on the Nicaraguan p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 43:24
William Casey recruited
Contras book_quoted
“We're on page 523 of Bill Casey's war. Even more than Afghanistan, Nicaragua became Bill Casey's war. When Reagan set the policy, Casey executed it. But for Nicaragua, Casey went to Reagan, pushing him, encouraging his worst fears. Supervis…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 2:41
William Casey visited
Tegucigalpa book_quoted
“the CIA director visited, whatever the name of that town is, Tegucigalpa in the early summer of 1982 when the machinery was just moving into gear. At the height of the controversy over human rights violation in the summer of 83, Casey again…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 3:11
William Casey appointed
Claire George book_quoted
“Claridge added to Casey's concern, describing the way Senator Moyhan pushed at him when the CIA man went to the Hill. Director Casey resolved to bring a new broom to deal with Congress, for which he summoned Claire George, the associate dep…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 4:07
William Casey member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Cap Weinberger and George Shultz all recognized that Managua depended on imports, especially weapons and foreign oil. Americans' military exercises in Central America had already featured naval task force all up and down the Nicaraguan coas…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 24:06
William Casey founded
Global International Airways guest_asserted
“Another private investigator in Houston who does work for federal agencies has looked into Global and Eats Go, agreed, quote, William Klein and Richard Secord incorporated Global. Azizma has denied this, pointing out that he incorporated Gl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 44:27
William Casey targeted_for_regime_change
Angola host_asserted
“politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 8:01
William Casey targeted_for_regime_change
Spain host_asserted
“politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 8:01
William Casey targeted_for_regime_change
Afghanistan host_asserted
“politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 8:01
William Casey targeted_for_regime_change
Egypt host_asserted
“politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 8:01
William Casey targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 8:01
William Casey targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala host_asserted
“politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 8:01
William Casey financed_via
BCCI book_quoted
“had all used BCCI services in some of their key operations.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 36:35
William Casey supplied_arms_to
Inter-Services Intelligence host_asserted
“Casey is said to have given ISI data on Soviet bases drawn from satellite photos. A year after the Russian attacks, the KHAD or KGB struck back, blowing up huge ammunition dumps in Pakistan. Meanwhile, a new director, General Hamid Gol, too…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 56:41
William Casey targeted_for_regime_change
Poland host_asserted
“politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 8:01
William Casey covered_up
BCCI host_asserted
“So William Casey had something to do with the immunity BCCI enjoyed. Casey died in 1987.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 20:31
Robert Gates provided
William Casey book_quoted
“a week before the election in Cleveland, and the other was the possible release of the hostages. The theft of Carter's briefing book basically defeated one of the legs, being the debate, because, of course, Reagan's going to know everything…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 55:36
William Casey contributed_to_immunity_of
BCCI host_asserted
“The only issue is whether it's a result of high level corruption or if it's designed to hide illegal government activities. Well, that's not or. So William Casey had something to do with the immunity BCCI enjoyed. Casey died in 1987. Genera…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale @ 20:31
William Casey ordered_assassination_of
Sandinistas book_quoted
“to cease backing insurgents in the region. Okay, who are you designating an insurgent? Nicaragua was to be robbed of the resources necessary to furnish such aid because they had already implemented an economic warfare campaign against them …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 7:48
William Casey proposed
Ronald Reagan guest_asserted
“recounts that William Casey went to Ronald Reagan in September of 81 with a dual-track program. The president approved a tryout. The CIA would fund Iranian exile groups while maintaining the United States, excuse me, while simultaneously th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 53:54
William Casey carried_out_attack
October Surprise host_asserted
“on the outside but inside. And you can tell that by some of the different things that he did. Namely, there's no way he pulled off, as the campaign manager, the quote-unquote October surprise, which was the... Fossages in Iran. Yes. He coul…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:23:59
William Casey carried_out_attack
October Surprise host_asserted
“that William Casey orchestrated those meetings in Paris and I forget where the other one was, someplace else over in Europe. There was at least three meetings and the weapons people that it was a brother group, two brothers from Iran origin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:25:22
William Casey funded
Contras book_quoted
“He was pushed out after Oliver North's enterprise ostensibly took over the Contra War from the CIA. They're actually one in the same. Northrup hates North with a passion, but like William Casey, the late CIA head, whom he dealt with directl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 3:21
William Casey ordered_assassination_of
Eden Pastora host_asserted
“One, Alfonso Robelo, another, E. Pastor Gomez, a C.I.A. commander. Claridge enlisted him in Acapulco in February of 1982. Pastora demanded a weapons drop in Costa Rica as a token of the C.I.A.'s sincerity. He's the guy that they eventually …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 12:00
CIA assassinated
William Casey host_asserted
“and also contributed to the immunity that Abedi had inside of Pakistan, was murdered in his aircraft being blown up in August of the next year. So within 12 months of each other, the two people that was basically covering for BCCI, both in …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale @ 20:58
William Casey recruited
Agha Hasan Abedi book_quoted
“A bet he had by then came to be an ally in William Casey's crusade against the quote unquote evil empire.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 32:51
William Casey headed
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“He did time in Vietnam working on the Phoenix program for William Casey, who goes on to be the CIA director.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 29:45
Mentions (120)
▶ 20:31
The only issue is whether it's a result of high level corruption or if it's designed to hide illegal government activities. Well, that's not or. So William Casey had something to do with the immunity BCCI enjoyed. Casey died in 1987. Genera…
▶ 32:51
Had investigators from Agency X looked at BCCI in 84 or 85, they would have discovered the bank's relationship with the CIA. A bet he had by then came to be an ally in William Casey's crusade against the quote unquote evil empire. When Sena…
▶ 36:07
was furious at the pardons and said that Bush, quote, had stopped the trial of a Confederate, unquote. But the fact was that the arms dealers, former military officers, and Middle Eastern hustlers like Oliver North, William Casey, Admiral P…
▶ 41:56
Casey was very good at compartmentalizing their information, but the agency was using BCCI in connection with covert operations from England to Pakistan. Other elements of the agency were collecting information about Abedi and the bank's ne…
▶ 52:24
The extent of, I don't know how you pronounce this guy's name, Gamal Mazru. I'm going to spell it. G-H-A-N-I-M. And his last name is A-L-M-A-Z-R-U-I's involvement has never been brought to the forefront. But he was very much involved with W…
▶ 10:50
companies that were set up to do that. Their international contacts put them in a position to cash in on almost any foreign policy initiative undertaken by the new president, all of them. That means all regime change they're going to make a…
▶ 11:16
allowed Shackley, Secord, and Von Marbog and Klein to continue their profit-making activities while convincing Casey and Bush that they were doing their individual bidding. Deputy Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci supported Von Marbog and…
▶ 29:45
like a commanding member of the Brigade 2506, which is basically a death squad. He did time in Vietnam working on the Phoenix program for William Casey, who goes on to be the CIA director. He was training people in El Salvador. He was train…
▶ 27:59
Taiwan was ran by a dictator that the CIA installed there by the name of Chiang Kai-shek. And the reason they put him there is because he controlled all of the opium out of southern China, Burma, and what would eventually be known as the Go…
▶ 28:28
in a couple of countries in Latin America, who also coincidentally ended up with dictators in charge of them because of coups from the CIA. William Polly was also intimately involved in Cuba as the owner of the only airline in and out of Cu…
▶ 56:15
Let's see, the Vatican offering the cartels money laundering with diplomatic immunity and CIA coordination. And it's funny because it's either William Casey or Colby. And I want to say it was Colby who was because Colby also was a Catholic …
▶ 1:41:25
And Nugent was found executed in his Mercedes car with William Colby's card on the, I think it was Colby. It may have been Casey. I get the two of them mixed up because they did all the same shit. Anyway, he had the CIA director's card layi…
▶ 32:35
of terrorists come to find out when you actually look into the records of what they found there was a bunch of old like relic munitions and documents discovered by the american military allegedly showed that cubans were planning to put thei…
▶ 33:20
Tom called Ed the dumb son of a bitch, unquote. Also, he said, the dumb son of a bitch still thinks he works for the CIA. She said, wait a minute. That's no one's fault but your own. You're the one that's telling him that he's still working…
▶ 38:17
Wilson had no hint that he was a suspect in the Orlando Latier bombing or that he was under any investigation beyond a minor CIA internal issue. Complicating all of this was the divided loyalties inside the CIA with the old boys versus the …
▶ 4:00
We are trying to figure out what the hell the truth is. George Bush was plotting his presidential campaign with the full support of hundreds of angry intelligence officers that had been thrown out of the CIA. Because keep in mind, George Bu…
▶ 4:31
Largely owing to Nancy Reagan's influence, the two main Republican primary campaigns had men connected to the CIA, one directly and one through a director. In addition to being an OSS agent, Bill Casey had been in a CIA business for a very …
▶ 51:37
British Guyana and Suriname as part of the entire old former Guyana country. It was unusual to be sure that the director of the CIA would inform Congress in advance of an agency plan to overthrow a foreign government. President Reagan said …
▶ 37:52
Treasury Secretary William Simon, the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican William Wilson, Lucio Gelli, the Grand Poobah Lodge Mason P2 Atheist Guy, Friar Felix Morleone, and General Santibito of the Military Intelligence Organization in Italy. T…
▶ 1:21:50
I noticed early on, Colonel, that we got two familiar names involved in all of this stuff. One of them was General Singlop. Yeah. And the other one was Colby, the CIA director. Yeah. And of course they were in the woods. Of course they were…
▶ 5:59
paraphernalia on it. So I'll have to wear that one day so you guys can see it. It's amazing. All right. We're going to jump in to chapter 25, which is Bush versus Casey. So the one thing that Casey and George Bush Sr. could both agree on is…
▶ 7:32
system installed by the Democrats now had their chance with both Bush and Bill Casey. So Casey, who was already starting to operate all over the world again, and Bush, who wanted to solidify his political powerhouse because, of course, he w…
▶ 10:02
If I don't get to it today, we will do it tomorrow. In 1981, Casey summoned retired intel officer Robert Crowley, which is one of the guys that donated the papers for this book, and a retired colleague from New York to his office in Langley…
▶ 11:53
Covert action would no longer be limited to the professionals in the CIA. The technicians who had professional intelligence backgrounds could supervise new amateur army of assets. Crowley was more than dubious. Crowley thought Casey remarka…
▶ 12:53
Casey continued to push Crowley to come back from his retirement and run the effort. To Crowley's surprise, during a Saturday afternoon meeting in the DCI's office, Deputy Director Bobby Ray Inman sat passively as Casey made his pitch to Cr…
▶ 13:24
Gates had received his reward for his role in helping the Reagan-Bush campaign while working in the Carter White House. John Brose, who we met last time, B-R-O-S-S, had recommended Gates as a personal deputy to Casey. He was obviously a pup…
▶ 13:51
before he reinstituted the program. So Crowley gave him the letter and started to walk to the door. And he said that he thought there was a lot of good things going on, a lot of changes, and asked if I had an interest in coming back. Crowle…
▶ 14:55
of how intelligence and business operated during the Reagan and Bush administration. Now, keep in mind, this whole Robert Keith Gray story is how this was my first, like, a year and a half ago. My first exposure to the CIA using PR firms wa…
▶ 18:02
through this operation. Through the 1980s, the number of people carrying the administrative water grew and the scope of their efforts reached around the world. With the expansion, Casey and Bush became even more reliant on Shackley and his …
▶ 20:02
and the relationship between Casey and his deputy, Bobby Ray Inman, was bad. Casey first realized that Inman was secretly reporting on CIA activities to Bush when President Reagan ordered a copy of his own and Bush's appointment schedules d…
▶ 20:31
According to a guy by the name of Joseph Persico's biography, an angry Casey burst into Inman's office one morning and demanded to know why he had been to see Bush so many times. Persico wrote, quote, Inman struggled for the cool demeanor t…
▶ 21:07
Of course, that made the entire situation ridiculous. Bush believed he was manipulating the rogues and through Inman was learning everything that was going on inside the CIA. Casey believed that Inman and Bush were in a collusion to deny Ro…
▶ 21:28
The old line veterans at the CIA were shocked to see men like Shackley and Klein being welcomed into Casey's inner circle. Shackley and his partner now had their tentacles throughout the foreign policy side of the administration. Shackley a…
▶ 26:15
Nixon became part of the outside intelligence network. His true role as a facilitator for Brennan and Mitchell when they became part of the Reagan administration's secret tilt towards Iraq did not even get discovered for many years. While C…
▶ 31:55
Barr nearly succeeded in covering up Bush's role in Iraqgate. Meanwhile, in a parallel private intelligence community that Casey was trying to run with ex-military and intelligence people, they became the foot soldiers of a political and re…
▶ 32:22
So they identified some political and religious organizations that they wanted to infiltrate. And Casey was hiring previous intelligence people and military people to do that job. These were the most secret and political of private intellig…
▶ 32:53
was looking over here, they continued this covert operation over out of sight that they didn't even know to even talk about because it was so covertly done. To motivate these new troops, Casey preached a steady diet of how the increasing th…
▶ 33:20
And that it was going to come back to haunt us. And so we had to step up our efforts to combat the communism that didn't exist, at least in America. Casey did not share with them the details of the October surprise or secrets like the cocai…
▶ 33:49
And I'm not sure how you spell, say this guy's last name. I'm going to spell it V-I-G-U-E-R-I-E. Viguerere, the direct male consultant and PR executive Robert Gray. Casey had an eye for talent. He also recruited John Carbog, C-A-R-B-A-U-G-H…
▶ 38:39
Bush honest in terms of agenda on which Ronald Reagan ran. Casey wanted enough on Bush to keep Bush in line. William Corson said the following, quote, To Casey, Bush was the spoiled son of a father who had a good sense to marry well. The di…
▶ 41:07
and Lou was on his way to Geneva. The magic may have been less to do with the magic magnetism than the fact that Fields offered a way for Casey through Carbog to keep an eye on his rivals at the State Department, including George Schultz. S…
▶ 22:16
when it was coined by the Casey Bush years of the Reagan administration and shown to be deceptive rhetoric by intelligence agencies in Latin America who were themselves involved as the drug traffickers. Even when Clinton's drug czar, Genera…
▶ 38:16
even though it had nothing to do with the Soviets or the Cubans. They just said it looked like that. You know, like Brennan's famous, it has the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. This had the hallmarks of Soviet influence. CIA Director W…
▶ 47:08
Bucci, B-U-C-C-H-I, and Al Martin detail covert drug operations in Latin America involving the CIA. Bucci tells of a third meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, in August of 1984, which was linked to a major covert operation called Pseudo Miranda…
▶ 1:01:27
At the height of the cocaine decade, the Iran-Contra scandal revealed the U.S. involvement in drug trades during the Reagan-Bush presidencies. Evidence emerged that the CIA's involvement in covert drug operations, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver …
▶ 1:11:39
and also among Oliver North and the Contra leaders. The BCCI link, which is the Pakistani bank, CIA bank, link with the CIA strengthened under President Ronald Reagan and Vice President Bush. Bush and CIA Director William Casey, with the as…
▶ 40:11
CIA Director William Casey contended at the time that the laboratory was guarded by the FARC and planned by the Medellin cartel. But it was later revealed that the laboratory was being ran by the Cali cartel and protected by the Colombian a…
▶ 49:44
With the assistance of former securities lawyer and then CIA director William Casey, North created an elaborate network of offshore bank accounts to conceal the source of the money that was to sustain the Contras during the congressional cu…
▶ 55:10
And nothing about the Cali cartel. Yes, that's exactly what they do over and over again. One Central American station chief remembered watching Langley's odd non-reaction to the first wave of contra drug trafficking reports, which he said c…
▶ 55:40
His overriding political objective was to support the Contras at all costs, including American lives. Consequently, the CIA assigned a low priority of collecting intelligence concerning Contra's alleged narcotic trafficking. Agency's analys…
▶ 56:10
CIA unspoken policy about the Contra drug dealers, the station chief concluded, was we are going to play with these guys. That was made very clear by Casey and Dewey Claridge. A good example of this policy in action was the arrangement Norw…
▶ 32:33
been in attendance, Poindexter did bring up Spadafore's murder, but only to give Noriega some friendly advice on how to handle it. Poindexter spoke of the need to have a group of officers be sent abroad outside of Panama while the situation…
▶ 33:01
again to discuss his help for the Contras. According to a Senate subcommittee report, Casey decided not to raise the allegation of Noriega's cocaine trafficking with him, quote, on the grounds that Noriega was providing valuable support for…
▶ 33:26
While all of the official ring kissing was going on, Oliver North and the CIA was quietly knitting parts of Noriega's drug transportation system into the Contra supply line and hiring drug smugglers to make the Contra supply flights for the…
▶ 1:09:53
Bill Casey's friend and Oliver North's liaison for the Contras had escaped from Costa Rica after he was indicted there for drug trafficking in 1989. After being thrown in jail, Hall was let out on bail for health reasons and vanished. The D…
▶ 7:53
might propose. In early 1982, CIA Director William Casey and Attorney General William French Smith inked a formal memorandum of understanding that spelled out which spy crimes were to be reported to the Justice Department. It was the same a…
▶ 10:43
IF Magazine editor Robert Perry, who remains one of the few journalists exploring the CIA's drug issue, believes that Casey-French agreement smacks of premeditation. It was signed just as the CIA was getting into both the Contra project and…
▶ 15:45
Two weeks later, civil rights attorneys in Oakland and L.A. filed a class action suit against the CIA and the Department of Justice, charging that the secret 1982 agreement between CIA Director William Casey and the Attorney General William…
▶ 31:28
He sent CIA Director William Casey to present the finding to Congress, saying it was a covert operation planned for Nicaragua and that it was in the interest of the United States national security. Nicaragua has nothing to do with the Unite…
▶ 34:56
Halting Sandinista arm shipments to El Salvador was the official reason CIA Director William Casey told Congress when he informed lawmakers the Reagan decision in late 1981 to turn the CIA loose in Nicaragua. The Contras were being trained …
▶ 35:27
That's what William Casey said. Like many of the things the CIA said about the Contras, the explanation was a lie. It was a smokescreen to hide the agency's true agenda, which was to run a full-scale covert war against Sandinistas. The Reag…
▶ 38:51
by the name of Colonel Nicholas Carranza, head of the government's feared Treasury Police. According to one account, CIA Director Casey met personally with Carranza in the summer of 1983 and told him to knock it off or the CIA would stop pa…
▶ 10:25
According to one account, the main source for Newsweek's story was none other than CIA Director William Casey, who wanted to ensure that the Contra project didn't get shelved. Now that it was public knowledge that the administration was hel…
▶ 9:22
The experience of Iran-Contra demonstrated that at least with an oil man like William Casey running the CIA, such intrigues could escalate to the level of a U.S. constitutional crisis. They would not normally lead to war. Similarly, the big…
▶ 34:51
and more specifically, directly to the CIA Director Bush, because he actually later on was confirmed to have had an account at the CIA front bank called BCCI. And his successor, William Casey, are said to have increased in 1976 after Bush's…
▶ 36:40
It had been alleged that in 1976, CIA Director Bush acted with British intelligence and with William Casey, who at the time was a campaign manager for Reagan, to help set up the Cayman Islands affiliate and intelligence connection of BCCI. …
▶ 6:49
between the CIA and the ISI, and keep in mind that's the intelligence function of Pakistan, which was basically inseparable from the CIA, for carrying the Afghan war north into the Soviet Union. As a first step, Casey appears to have promot…
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or the war, so one of them. Maureen Oath heard from a guy by the name of Falco, who was head of the International Narcotics Control for the State Department under Jimmy Carter, that CIA and ISI together encouraged the Mujahideen to addict S…
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During a secret visit by CIA Director Casey to Pakistan, Casey startled his Pakistani host by proposing that they take the Afghan war into enemy territory, including the Soviet Union, which is exactly what they did in Korea. Imagine that. P…
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Another important contribution to spread the radical Islamic terror mantra. Casey was an oil man. In his Central Asian Initiative of 1984, it was made at a time when oil interests in Texas already had their eyes on the Caspian oil basin. Hi…
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the narco-guerrilla. The term narco-guerrilla was mocked by experts, but it was coined by the Casey Bush years in the Reagan administration and shown to be deceptive rhetoric by the intelligence agencies in the Latin America area. Even when…
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The CIA, let's see, Islamic guerrilla army of Hek Martyr in the 1980s. That's how they get local cooperations. This was thanks in part to CIA assistance and protection. Hek Martyr became, for a while, one of the leading heroin suppliers in …
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That was the CIA, too. After all, President Reagan had held the Contras as the moral equal to our founding fathers. The U.S. government would be hard pressed to expose the Contras as drug traffickers. In Panama, CIA director William Casey r…
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and even visited Carter in Georgia to have the conversation. The article went on that Bush's CIA deputy, Noshi, who accompanied him to Plains, Georgia for the meeting, recalled that Bush offered to stay on for a short while for a transition…
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Posner himself, his son Stephen, two other associates, and Armour White, who was also on the board of directors of Posner's Sharon Steele Corporation. In a list submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee during the confirmation hearing …
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Khashoggi sent his lawyer, Ray Fermart, to see William Casey at the CIA. Now, why would you do that unless you are the money man and weapons man for Iran? Because he was. The FBI was also curious about this letter of credit. An internal mem…
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who was training Contras in Belize by the name of Gilbert Dossier, the former Louisiana Agricultural Commissioner serving time for extortion and bribery, who was going to turn state's evidence against Beebe until President Reagan pardoned h…
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He was the Louisiana Agricultural Commissioner. He was serving time for extortion and bribery. He was going to testify against the mafia, this entire Iran-Contra failed savings and loan, all of this shit. President Reagan was asked by CIA D…
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Hopper later told the New York Times. The subcommittee report concluded that James Baker III, who was in charge of Reagan's debate group, had obtained the Carter material from campaign manager William Casey, another Mr. CIA, who went on to …
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for Civil Affairs and Military Government section of the Army. Then he joined ITT in 62. In 74, the nomination of William Casey, who would later lead the CIA to head the Export-Import Bank, was temporarily blocked because of his role in an …
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He was going to be nominated for the Export-Import Bank. Casey was investigated for alleged perjury and obstruction of justice in turning files of the SEC, which he had headed, over to the Justice Department. But Casey was never charged in …
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whose main partner, Milton Gould, was a close friend, attorney, and confidant of William Casey. Tesler served on the board of several of the Goulet's affiliated companies, including Imperial Savings and Loan in California. Tesler is also a …
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He was pushed out after Oliver North's enterprise ostensibly took over the Contra War from the CIA. They're actually one in the same. Northrup hates North with a passion, but like William Casey, the late CIA head, whom he dealt with directl…
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Also, when William Casey, who headed the CIA under Reagan, was an attorney in the private practice in the 50s, he was hired by two DuPont brothers for tax advice and their inheritance. Casey handled the matter so well for them that they mad…
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One of the sources stole a copy of President Carter's briefing book, which the Republican campaign then used to prepare Reagan for his debate with Carter on October 28th. And I actually remember that happening. William Casey and others in t…
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Robert Gates that we know ends up as a reward, the CIA director. Yeah, that same Robert Gates. There is no question Gates had access to it. There is no question Casey got it. Gates gets the job as the official White House liaison to the Rea…
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No one else except his brother Cyrus was supposed to know what he was doing. So when someone knocked on his hotel door, he was surprised. At the door was a businessman named Roy Furmark, F-U-R-M-A-R-K, who had business connections to Cyrus.…
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Jamshid expressed surprise to Furmark and Casey at their unexpected appearance. During the meeting, Jamshid phoned Cyrus, who assured him that Casey was reliable. Jamshid, who by the time this book was put together, had died, told Gary Sick…
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So Reagan's campaign manager is talking to the Shah's intelligence people, and that's crazy, and shady people. On March 21st, Cyrus and Jamshid got together at Cyrus's home in Connecticut. Cyrus told Jamshid that his contact with Casey…
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He decided to become basically a double agent to the Reagan-Bush campaign. Casey asked the Shahimi brothers to arrange a meeting with someone in Iran who had the authority to deal on the hostages. The Shahimi connection did not reach to Kho…
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They're basically going to string along the Carter administration thinking he's going to get a deal and he's not. But at the same time, they're working the deal with the Reagan administration to hold on to him until January. Gary Sixth repo…
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they actually employed CIA officers pretending to be PR people all over the world. That Robert Gray was with Donald Gregg and William Casey to go arrange the October surprise. The following week, Gray officially joined the Reagan-Bush campa…
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opened the discussion by asking Casey what was the purpose of the meeting. Casey replied with a question of his own. Was the Islamic Republic ready to deal with the Republicans? It was impossible to establish good relationship between the t…
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Casey said that that would be impossible at this time since the Republicans weren't in power, but it could be done after they come to power. As the arms, perhaps that could be done through a third country, which we now know as Israel, unquo…
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To the new administration, the Republicans would be eternally grateful and give Iran its strength back. Dick wrote Hashemi as saying that Karubi's response was that he had no authority to make this commitment, that he would have to seek ins…
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Casey said that he had no objection if the Iranians continued to deal with the Carter administration, but he personally had washed his hands of Carter. Hashimi said that Karubi ended the meeting by saying in Persian, I think we are opening …
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Iran now expected the Republicans to fulfill their end of the agreement by using their influence to assist Iran in procuring arms. A threat of imminent war with Iraq was looming, and the Iranian exiles had thrown in with Saddam Hussein. Acc…
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Bush claimed successfully that he had not personally been involved. And that's a cop out, right? We know that. They don't have to be personally involved. They send their emissaries to do the dirty work for them. On the days in Casey, let's …
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for him in England, but there's no photos or proof he ever went to England. And there's travel vouchers and airplane tickets for everything, so there would have been proof had it been true. Casey had a mysterious aide by the name of Tom Car…
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What is known is that Carter had worked for Casey for years and that after the 1980 election, Carter had an office across the hall from Casey's at the old executive office building. Carter was forced to come forward and give testimony on be…
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to London, Madrid, and Paris, the negotiators dealing with William Casey and the September surprise. The Thatcher regime, already deeply beholden to the Arabs, were the host. A Royal Kuwaiti jet collected the negotiating party from Madrid a…
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William Casey longed to be the Secretary of State, and according to his biographer, was terribly disappointed not to get it. But when Reagan selected Casey, who had worked for the OSS in London during World War II as the director of the CIA…
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Inman had already demonstrated his willingness to blow the whistle on illegal operations as he had on Billy Carter. Inman would be a serious problem if he ever got wind of this operation. The solution was to bless the move of Inman to the n…
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Inman considered himself a friend of Bush's and was reporting back to Bush on Casey's activity. At the same time, Inman's rival, Ted Shackley, was also reporting to Bush. Bush urged Inman, as deputy director of CIA, to become personally inv…
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Rather than keeping him silent, Inman wanted to have him in open court to indict Shackley. The administration quickly began to split into two intelligence factions, Bush and his crew versus Casey, Secretary of State Haig, and Secretary of D…
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Casey did not trust Inman because Inman had a close relationship with Bush. Inman did not approve or trust Shackley and was never officially told anything about Shackley's off the book operations with Bush. But Inman felt caught in the midd…
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of Inman while still making Bush happy. Bush placed Jack Lee and Inman off of each other to get what he wanted. Bush ran Inman like his own intelligent agent at the CIA, and Inman, increasingly at odds with Casey, became even more loyal to …
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At a meeting at Reagan's oceanfront home in Pacific Palisade during the transition, Bush had spoken to Reagan about Haig. Quote, do you do what you want to, but if you pick Al Haig, I predict you'll have serious problems, unquote, because h…
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The two men became great friends. Casey learned much about Haig during these sessions, including the fact that Haig had independently began talking to the Soviets about abandoning Castro. Haig wanted the U.S. to move directly against Cuba i…
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Casey learned that Haig had played a key role in the early 1960s in the Kennedy administration's effort to remove Castro. While many in the Reagan administration were sympathetic with Haig's view on Castro, the idea of an invasion was off t…
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competition to Bush when in a bizarre attempt to calm American public after the attempted assassination on Reagan, Haig went on television to say that he was in control. You know, I'm sorry, but now I look at that whole thing completely dif…
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that he would end up having to resign. And he does so within the next year. For Bush, Haig's fall meant that his potential competitor in the 1988 presidential nomination had destroyed himself. So now I find that statement probably one of th…
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He says this ridiculous thing, and then they later use that against him, and now what they saw as a potential threat is off the table. I mean, that's literally the kind of things that they do. Complete speculation, but it does change the wa…
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So after Casey was appointed DCI, a devastating story broke tying Casey to an organized crime figure in New Orleans. The Senate Intelligence Committee quickly pulled together an investigation headed by Watergate Minority Counsel Fred Thomps…
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But by then, Senator Goldwater had discovered that Casey had a long and shady association with U.S. intelligence. Well, no shit. Holy crap, like that's a newsflash? The guy's been in the CIA the entire time. I was never comfortable with wha…
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But John Bross, B-R-O-S-S, who symbolized the CIA establishment, was worried about a campaign member, which he was, who had come with Casey to the CIA and who seemed to have great influence on him. Max Hugel, H-U-G-E-L, who was a Brooklyn, …
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Northeast Boys Club. Brose, who had come out of retirement to advise Casey, recalled one of the first times he ever laid eyes on Hoogle. And here comes Max sweeping under my arm, dressed like a dandy, smelling like aftershave lotion, ploppi…
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He just didn't fit in, unquote. Corson says when you don't fit in, it means the clandestine services people don't think you fit in. Casey's OSS history made him acceptable to the CIA, but Hoogle was another matter. Casey, like Stanford Turn…
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Hoogle had came to the CIA. Weiss was head of security and safeguards at the Department of Energy, and he's basically a CIA agent posing as a civilian in DOE. One of the most critical positions in DOE. Hoogle had already impressed Casey wit…
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to a special relationship between Casey and Major General Haka Hoppe, H-O-F-F-I. His nickname was Haka, H-A-K-A. During a visit by Casey to Tel Aviv that Hoogle arranged, Hoppe requested that the U.S. help in planning a raid to destroy the …