Thomas Clines person
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Claims (14)
Von Marburg paid
Thomas Clines book_quoted
“In the end, it works out to be an $8 million ripoff by ETSCO, funds which the Egyptians could have used for supplies. The Department of Justice memorandum stated it went on to say that von Marbog received a cash payoff in Geneva in October …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 29:01
Thomas Clines paid
Von Marburg book_quoted
“In the end, it works out to be an $8 million ripoff by ETSCO, funds which the Egyptians could have used for supplies. The Department of Justice memorandum stated it went on to say that von Marbog received a cash payoff in Geneva in October …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 29:01
Thomas Clines member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“The money was used by Klein to form various business groups. All of the principals have 20% shares, and all but Klein's shares were secret. Each man, because basically what they're setting up is front companies. Each man in the meeting wrot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 28:31
Edwin Wilson financed_via
Thomas Clines book_quoted
“On October 4th, 1978, the Defense Department received a letter from the Egyptians saying that Tersam of Panama, it was registered in Panama, is the sole shipping agent for the government of Egypt. In January 1979, Wilson, Secord, and von Ma…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 28:01
Thomas Clines founded
EATSCO documented
“multiple times because it's infiltrated with CIA. Azizma told the Kansas City Star that Eatsco's contract accounted for more than half of their cargo. Eatsco, as previously noted in this book, had a connection to Herman Beebe, the mafia guy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 25:05
Saddam Hussein paid
Thomas Clines book_quoted
“citing those pesky health concerns. And also that Klein's got booted out of ETSCO. It continued, Salam buys him out. Salam says that Egyptians kicked Klein out because Klein's ties to Wilson and hence to Libya. Klein's comes out of this wit…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 29:31
Ricardo Chavez worked_with
Thomas Clines book_quoted
“He operated both with Thomas Clines and Edwin Wilson. And remember, Edwin Wilson is the guy that worked both for setting up these private companies as well. He's the guy that helped the Navy set up that company to map all of the harbors. Bu…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2 @ 41:44
William Corson warned_about
Thomas Clines book_quoted
“References to lunch with WC are a regular feature in the note-taking, and that is Corson. Also, in Oliver North's notes are Corson's warning about Bush, Shackley, Secord, Klein, Wilson, and their cohorts. North knew that Corson had been thr…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 31:43
Thomas Clines reassigned
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“and had been operating in Iran since 1975. He was an agent of a super secret naval intelligence task force called Task Force 157. We've also talked about that. I've posted a whole bunch of different threads about it on X. Clines arranged Wi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 15:18
Thomas Clines founded
International Research and Trade book_quoted
“The money was used by Klein to form various business groups. All of the principals have 20% shares, and all but Klein's shares were secret. Each man, because basically what they're setting up is front companies. Each man in the meeting wrot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 28:31
Systems International front_for
Thomas Clines host_asserted
“Quote, the government would submit and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that on September 29th, 1978, the defendant System Services International was established as a corporation entirely owned and controlled by Mr. Thomas Clines, unquote, w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 37:40
Thomas Clines ordered_assassination_of
William Cantrell book_quoted
“His conclusion was that the trio had been eliminated because they had discovered profit skimming going on, which again is exactly what the CIA does. They go in and they set these fake companies up. They get all of these military contracts a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 24:14
Shirley Brill spied_on
Thomas Clines host_asserted
“Office of Origin, Alexandria. Like Itzko, that case involving the documents Shirley Brill watched Clines and Chi Chi Quintero cut the classification codes off of all of the documentation would never be prosecuted. Wilson said, quote, there'…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 39:10
Theodore Greenberg covered_up
Thomas Clines host_asserted
“And inside those files was the information that would have exposed Greenberg's performance in Judge Williams' courtroom as a complete fraud. Also sitting in Greenberg's safe were the files that made up the case Thomas G. Kline's et al. misu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 38:41
Mentions (54)
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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…
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He operated both with Thomas Clines and Edwin Wilson. And remember, Edwin Wilson is the guy that worked both for setting up these private companies as well. He's the guy that helped the Navy set up that company to map all of the harbors. Bu…
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The Shackley and Klein were intimately involved in the drug side of our wagon wheel. Wilson was the person that they used for drug or excuse me, for arms trafficking. And in that respect, even though he was not a high placed person within t…
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An ex-CIA agent who is now in prison charged with selling 20 tons of C4 explosives to Libya. He was set up, by the way, by the CIA because they wanted his company. Some of Wilson's closest associates were CIA officials Thomas Klein and Theo…
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In the late 1970s, Wilson put up half a million dollars to front Klein's half ownership in the Egypt American Transport Services, ETSCO. We've done shows on ETSCO before. Which won the contract to transport billions of dollars worth of Amer…
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The company was later convicted of overbilling the Pentagon for $8 million. In 1990, Clines was convicted of income tax fraud involving payments received for arms shipments to the Contras. Clines had been brought in by Secord to handle arms…
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He's a CIA agent whose previous claim to fame was his role in Rafael Chichi Quintero's case officer during the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Quintero, an infamous CIA operative who worked with Thomas Klein and Edwin Wilson, among others, was brought …
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Edwin Wilson is the guy that was in Libya brokering weapons into Gaddafi that the CIA set up and sent to jail. Thomas Klein shows up in so many of these things, especially the ones that deal with drugs. Jenkins is mentioned in a number of p…
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The FBI traced the $500,000 in Arcadia loans to International Research and Trade, IRT, the company Shackley and Klein set up in Bermuda. In mid-August 1981, Klein's made two $500,000 loans from ETSCO to IRT about a week apart. On August 20t…
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of $499,934.63. At the same time, Clines arrived in Geneva and was given a release on the original Wilson loan when he finally paid him off. In January 1982, Clines officially severed his business relationship with Eatsco, selling his share…
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on July 29, 1981, detailing a briefing that he and Mr. Salam had, who was an Egyptian national with contacts to their minister of defense. Von Marbog left out the fact that Salam was the business partner of Klein's in Itzko, and that Klein'…
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notified General Richard Secord that he was the subject of a criminal investigation. Tapp wrote Secord, the investigation involved Itzko von Marbog, Edwin Wilson, Thomas Klein, Hussein Salam, and officials in the United Arab Republic and em…
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who had been promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern, African, and South Asian Affairs, that he must not initiate any written or oral communication with Wilson, Klein, von Marburg, or Shackley. By this time, von M…
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The U.S. had taken pains to avoid angering or embarrassing Cairo, unquote. The pains the Reagan-Bush administration was willing to take became clear as the Itzko case moved up the bureaucratic ladder to the National Security Council. What h…
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Van Marbogh, Klein's, and the Egyptians in an illegal and unauthorized intelligence operation. As the Pentagon, with Van Marbogh retired, Frank Carlucci was now doing his best to protect General Secord. The depth of the government's knowled…
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in order to inject national security concerns to thwart the DOJ investigation. Discussing the substance of the meeting, Sporkin wrote that Clines, Shackley, Secord, and von Marburg were conducting weekly meetings to discuss ways to obtain c…
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On October 4th, 1978, the Defense Department received a letter from the Egyptians saying that Tersam of Panama, it was registered in Panama, is the sole shipping agent for the government of Egypt. In January 1979, Wilson, Secord, and von Ma…
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The money was used by Klein to form various business groups. All of the principals have 20% shares, and all but Klein's shares were secret. Each man, because basically what they're setting up is front companies. Each man in the meeting wrot…
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In the end, it works out to be an $8 million ripoff by ETSCO, funds which the Egyptians could have used for supplies. The Department of Justice memorandum stated it went on to say that von Marbog received a cash payoff in Geneva in October …
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citing those pesky health concerns. And also that Klein's got booted out of ETSCO. It continued, Salam buys him out. Salam says that Egyptians kicked Klein out because Klein's ties to Wilson and hence to Libya. Klein's comes out of this wit…
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to the media. If Wilson exposed the activities of Shackley, Clines, and Bar-Malbach in the media, it could have detailed, derailed the ongoing and now main, like it had already heated up, contra operation. Because basically what they were d…
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that at the time he was telling everything he knew to Barsala. Theodore Greenberg had long since made a plea bargain with Clines and all of the others. As part of that arrangement, Shackley, Secord, and von Marbog went on with their lives a…
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entered into the first plea bargain. Then, on July 21, 1983, Hussein Salam and Isko paid $3 million in settlements of all claims. Salam pled guilty to two counts of filing a false invoice with the Department of Defense. His plea bargain agr…
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Systems International paid a fine of $10,000 for filing a false statement. Klein's agreed to pay an additional $100,000 to settle all civilian claims, civil claims, sorry. That is all he ended up having to pay, and they had made millions. P…
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Quote, the government would submit and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that on September 29th, 1978, the defendant System Services International was established as a corporation entirely owned and controlled by Mr. Thomas Clines, unquote, w…
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that because of the national security, he was leaving out what his own investigators had discovered. Sitting inside a safe in his office at the Justice Department were the files of a case entitled Thomas Gregory Klein's Major General Richar…
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And inside those files was the information that would have exposed Greenberg's performance in Judge Williams' courtroom as a complete fraud. Also sitting in Greenberg's safe were the files that made up the case Thomas G. Kline's et al. misu…
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Office of Origin, Alexandria. Like Itzko, that case involving the documents Shirley Brill watched Clines and Chi Chi Quintero cut the classification codes off of all of the documentation would never be prosecuted. Wilson said, quote, there'…
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Adding to Wilson's bitterness was the fact that it was all so unnecessary. He was quoted as saying, if I had run it, eats go, it would have all been done legal and I would have been able to control clients. I would have said, you're not goi…
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You know, depending on the dates of those transactions, Klein and Shackley worked for the CIA and they weren't entitled to any cut of anything. But what they were doing is they were cutting in their buddies who then gave them kickbacks. And…
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In the 1960s, Corson taught constitutional government at the Naval Academy. He was a linguist, an economist, and an accomplished historian. He did not appreciate shortcuts. And that is why in 1966, with thousands of Marines having died in V…
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which spooks, because he made a reference to retired ones. North told him how Brennan, Tully, Shackley, Secord, Klein, and Von Marbog had been helpful. It was then that I realized what was happening. These dumb bastards got sucked into the …
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He tried to warn North about the character flaws in the men that he was dealing with, but all I could do was hope that Oliver North would get burned and back away before the whole thing fell apart. Preaching to him just caused him to shut y…
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References to lunch with WC are a regular feature in the note-taking, and that is Corson. Also, in Oliver North's notes are Corson's warning about Bush, Shackley, Secord, Klein, Wilson, and their cohorts. North knew that Corson had been thr…
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The JM wave people reflected the trainees. Shackley's assistant, Thomas Klein, and the CIA men like Rudy Enders, George French, Robert Wall, Edwin Wilson. You guys all remember Edwin Wilson. Holy moly. And Harold Chipman were all paramilita…
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At the Miami station, the situation was very confusing. Ted Shackley had seen a stream of orders for more than a week. His exile teams were on edge. Felix Rodriguez, for example, had been accosted by case officer Thomas Clines and asked to …
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by an Air America pilot firing a rifle from his helicopter. This battle punctuated Ted Shackley's final months as the station chief in Laos. The blonde ghost from Cuba and Berlin rode close herd over Project Momentum, installing his own man…
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Secord, who liked to think he and Clines made a great team, watched the aerial photography of Hanoi's troops close in on the mountaintop. He called repeatedly for airstrikes to halt the buildup. Lair took those warnings to heart, but the re…
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George also spoke with Alan Fiers about weapons being bought in China by Richard Secord. A year later, in April of 86, the CIA reporting from Europe picked up indications of purchases on behalf of the Contras by Secord and his agent, CIA Th…
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Call sign in this operation became Island. Rodriguez was doubtful about one of the operatives called Mr. Green, actually fellow Bay of Pigs and Mongoose veteran, Rafael Quintero, who went between Sawyer's people and the higher ups. Quintero…
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Thomas Klein, a colleague of Morales' in the CIA's Miami station, was more complimentary in his description, but it amounted to the same thing. Quote, we all admired the hell out of the guy. He drank like crazy, but he was bright as hell. H…
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Hussein Salam, an Egyptian. Ex-CIA operative Edwin Wilson put up Klein's $500,000 as the initial capital investment in ITSCO. Former CIA Associate Deputy Director of Operations, the covert side, Ted Shackley, according to his Iran-Contra te…
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So the guy that set up the narcotics is in charge of counter narcotics. And by counter, we mean narcotics. And of course, Thomas Klein is not far behind. They're actually like evil twins. Another guy that we have talked about throughout thi…
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and had been operating in Iran since 1975. He was an agent of a super secret naval intelligence task force called Task Force 157. We've also talked about that. I've posted a whole bunch of different threads about it on X. Clines arranged Wi…
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and reestablished contact with Wilson and began utilizing his talents on behalf of the CIA's efforts to prop up the Shah's regime. Wilson's specialty was establishing proprietary companies to act in clandestine operations. And he was really…
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because these people turn on you on a dime. He had already set up fronts like the World Marine Inc. and Maryland Maritime and Consultants International. Under Klein's direction, he would become a quote-unquote advisor to the Savak and act a…
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Marbog, who had served as Nixon's Operation 40 covert operation advisor, meaning the one against Cuba, was sent to the Department of Defense to monitor all U.S. contracts inside the country of Iran. The old crew from Castro to Vietnam is no…
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His conclusion was that the trio had been eliminated because they had discovered profit skimming going on, which again is exactly what the CIA does. They go in and they set these fake companies up. They get all of these military contracts a…
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He also was instrumental in training the team that trained and equipped and ran the Contras. Thomas Klein was another one of the characters. And he had been Shackley's second in command at the Miami station. He had been a deputy to him in L…
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run clandestine arms deliveries both in Laos and then later to the Contras. Klein had put together a quote-unquote private aid network even before Reagan was inaugurated. In 1978, he and Edwin Wilson had negotiated a $650,000 deal with Somo…
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Along with Israeli arms merchants, Klein, who left the agency on bad terms under the Carter realm, was operating in violation of Carter's official policy. No shit. And then one of my top five Felix Gumbs, he talks about Felix Rodriguez, whi…
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Because he's one of the most evil people that we've come across in our Operation Gladio journey. He was a quote unquote retired CIA officer who had served under Klein's in Operation 40. He also had been involved in the ZR rifle assassinatio…
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You're not allowed to disagree. That same year, the U.S. established a military advisory group in Iran. Two years later, almost 8,000 Americans were working in Iran on military contracts, among them Edwin Wilson, Thomas Klein, Theodore Shac…
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aircraft for a drug operation. Theodore Shackley was the head of the former Castro. He had worked with Shackley and Richard Helms and Laos. He's all involved. And of course, he had a huge role in the Phoenix program, creating death lists, h…