Erich von Marbod person
also: Von Marbog, Eric von Marbog, Eric Marbog, Monbarg, Erich von Marbog, von Marbach
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Erich von Marbod member_of
Department of Defense host_asserted
“what Shackley and Clines and Edwin Wilson was doing as it relates to setting up the network. We left it off in Laos and that they were setting up that whole network. We also talked briefly about Eric von Marbog, M-A-R-B-O-D.…”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 12:59
Erich von Marbod supplied_arms_to
Iran book_quoted
“Deputy Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci supported Von Marbog and Secord's initiatives as they orchestrated the secret shipments through Israel, the weapons trafficking hub, for the October surprise weapons that were promised to Iran…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 11:16
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▶ 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…
▶ 12:59
what Shackley and Clines and Edwin Wilson was doing as it relates to setting up the network. We left it off in Laos and that they were setting up that whole network. We also talked briefly about Eric von Marbog, M-A-R-B-O-D.…
▶ 13:29
who was a logistician in the Department of Defense. And he basically was the guy that got everything together. The Loggies is probably one of the least appreciated and most critical elements in an operation because they're the ones that, an…
▶ 13:58
To their cash flow. That's all done by logisticians. And so very, very critical. And Edwin Wilson said about this Eric Marbog guy, quote, he had the ability to get hardware and manpower to where it needed to be under the most difficult of c…
▶ 14:24
part of the Vietnam evacuation after the fall of Saigon. And basically that the effort that was put forward to do what they did, even though it fell short of what they were trying to do, was nothing less than overwhelming given the odds tha…
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says that he took command of an aircraft carrier and ran rescue operations as helicopters landed and took off from the U.S. Embassy, which was under attack. He actually ordered choppers to be pushed overboard to make room for more helicopte…
▶ 15:18
and basically ended up controlling much of the U.S. military foreign aid during the 1970s and 80s. And what's interesting about this is it's a name that you never have heard of. And that is true of most of the logisticians that are critical…
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kind of run the tables when it came to filling all of those roles. In addition to these, like the Kleins and Marbog and Wilson, there was a supporting cast of characters from the CIA, the military, and CIA-trained Cuban exiles, which we hav…
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and von Marbog were his business associates. Wilson recalled what he had told them. Quote, look, you guys, between you, Shackley, and Secord, you know every head of government, every intelligence chief, and every minister of defense in the …
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Shackley and Klein's on the outside and I had friends like Secord and Monbarg on the inside, I'd make millions of dollars legitimately. I have a million balls up in the air. But finally, there comes a point when you've got to close. I would…
▶ 22:02
and made key contacts directly outside of Wilson. A few months later, the arms dealer took Rodriguez off his payroll because he couldn't keep his mouth shut. In his duties for the Task Force 157, Wilson kept in touch with Richard Secord and…
▶ 22:59
that is ran by the Defense Security Assistance Agency for foreign military aid. So, Wilson did not provide assistance to these men out of the goodness of his heart. These high-level contacts impressed the management of Task Force 157, which…
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Seemed to Task Force 157 management to outweigh any concerns about him sharing information with the CIA and Pentagon. Secord had done so well in Vietnam and Laos that he had been sent back to the U.S. for advanced training. With Wilson's he…
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he had learned that procurement was the source of real power in the military. And so procurement in this sense means basically like the contracting, logistics, and that type of thing. Wilson used his relationship with von Marburg and Secord…
▶ 25:11
He was assigned to dispatch a small spy ship to the waters off of Iran to spy on the Soviet Navy. At that time, von Marbach was head of the Defense Department Purchasing Office in Iran, with a rank equal to that of Ambassador Richard Helms.…
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Now, the military assistance group is like those mags that started the Phoenix program in Vietnam, just FYI. This is at the same time that we're going to find Major General Norman Schwarzkopf, our Schwarzkopf from Desert Storm's dad, over i…
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While Wilson was working on his spy project, he was introduced through von Marbog and Secord to General Nematola Nasari, the head of the SAVAK, the Shah's murderous and brutal secret police, who asked Wilson if he could provide more up-to-d…
▶ 27:43
When Savak found out that Wilson was a friend of these people, von Marburg and Secord, they were all over me to help them furnish material for torture. And keep in mind, these guys are experts at this because they were all in Vietnam doing …
▶ 28:36
Clines and Shackley, Von Marbog, and Secord agreed to help the secret police because Wilson wanted to keep Savak happy. They made it easy for him to do business in Iran. He assisted the Savak, the Shah's torturers, from 1974 to 1977. Well, …
▶ 29:47
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 …
▶ 42:02
contacts. His former boss, Von Marbog, ended up working with Frank Carlucci at the short-lived Sears World Trade, which was a company that was a front for the CIA. According to Roderick Hills, who was a lawyer who had been an intelligence a…
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Pimer decks that we talked about in Whitney Webb's book that all of this shit happens at. They're just fronts. Okay. Hill said that he was shocked to see that Carlucci hired von Marbog when we all knew that he was under criminal investigati…
▶ 52:24
That would become the greatest scandal of the Reagan administration. As Wilson watched the years begin to go by in prison, Von Marbog, Tom Clines, Richard Secord, Ted Shackley all participated in a scandal that the congressional record woul…
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who was at one time a civilian attache to the DOD in Saigon under Eric von Marbord, both identified a civil lawsuit filed by the Christich Institute as being involved in the CIA opium racket, which of course he was, appeared on 60 Minutes a…