Croatia country
also: Catholic Croatia, Croatian, Croats
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Claims (4)
Military Professional Resources Inc. supplied_arms_to
Croatia host_asserted
“And they did it during the Reagan administration. And now MPRI, as it had been a weapon hidden in some dark place, would be the solution to Clinton's predicament in the Balkans. MPRI would supply 46,000 rifles, 1,000 machine guns, and hundr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 1:05:25
Military Professional Resources Inc. trained
Croatia host_asserted
“which it would also train. That's convenient. You know, it's those people over there. It's not the military. I don't have anything to do with that company over there. With U.S. approval and some backing, MPRI in the early 1995 helped to bui…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 1:05:55
United States carried_out_attack
Croatia host_asserted
“And then implicating the worse it gets, the more military people they want down there. So then we have more dead bodies of American military. This practice of outsourcing sensitive work to the same corporations was practiced earlier in Croa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 37:53
Azov Battalion supplied_arms_to
Croatia host_asserted
“Ukrainian insurgent army leadership returned to the old enemy, the Soviet Union. They began making plans to share weapons and information with nationalist guerrillas in Belarus, Croatia, Romania, and Hungary. And keep in mind, those people …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 3 @ 33:17
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▶ 33:17
Ukrainian insurgent army leadership returned to the old enemy, the Soviet Union. They began making plans to share weapons and information with nationalist guerrillas in Belarus, Croatia, Romania, and Hungary. And keep in mind, those people …
▶ 33:45
Croatia, and Romania. So this is all being melded together. In the late November 1943, the Soviet Union's regained control over eastern Ukraine. Representatives from 12 different nations and ethnic groups convened in the Ukrainian city of Z…
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The war still raging in Eastern Europe, however, made the collaboration between the underground forces very difficult. This notion of a joint revolutionary struggle persisted in the minds of the anti-Soviet partisans as they fled to West Ge…
▶ 37:53
And then implicating the worse it gets, the more military people they want down there. So then we have more dead bodies of American military. This practice of outsourcing sensitive work to the same corporations was practiced earlier in Croa…
▶ 41:47
Plan Colombia had been a similar bonanza for the Pentagon's outsourcing training teams with firms like DynCorp and MPRI. Both corporations have a history of airlift and training contracts for the U.S. from Korea to Croatia, Bosnia, and Koso…
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Much of the gold that was confiscated from Jewish families during World War II, a lot of it ended up in Catholic Croatia, which, of course, was part of the Third Reich. And at the end of World War II, that gold was transferred to the Vatica…
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post-World War II Albania and basically us trying to create stay-behind units there and failing miserably? Right. Pavlik. Yeah. Pavlik, who was, of course, that's where, that was a source of, you've got to realize, when you're talking about…
▶ 5:01
that confederation fractured into three mini states. An entity composed of Bosnian Muslims, a Croatian state, and Serbia. There were rivalries. There were accusations of ethnic cleansing. These, obviously, were the focus of NATO's efforts t…
▶ 10:39
to back the lift and strike policy. Then met with President Clinton to urge Congress to approve U.S. troops to guarantee a U.N. enforcement operation. House members of the International Relations Committee warned the president not to expect…
▶ 12:09
The question of arms flows brought the CIA. Diplomacy still advanced at a glacial pace. The EU made new peace proposals, newly confident with their weapons and arms deals. The Bosnian Muslims rejected them. A few months later, the Croatians…
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public publicized a menu of options which included sending western troops to enforce designated safe havens in bosnia initiating covert actions against milosevic who was head of the serbian republic in late 93 and 94 u.s government official…
▶ 15:06
Paper arguing that America, having just presided over the creation of a new Bosnian federation, would be participating in its destruction if the embargo was left in place. Notice how they just kind of couched themselves right into the opera…
▶ 15:35
warned the Croatian leaders would likely raise the issue of arms flows. Croatian President Trudsman indeed went to Galbraith to ask what the U.S. response would be if he opened supply lines to the Muslims, more or less in defiance of the em…
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Deputy Secretary Talbot later characterized the orders as clear and tart, and the ambassador executed them, except there literally was no orders. It was a wink and a nod. After checking with the NSC, Galbraith added that the Croatian should…
▶ 36:56
Kellogg, Brown, and Root contractors were dispatched to Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, Hungary, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Somalia, Zaire, Haiti, a large swath of Southwest Asia, all to support U.S. Army operations. The Balkans, on the wh…
▶ 37:52
They did more elite kind of stuff, not the basic logistic stuff like interpreters and stuff. But thanks to their entry into Bosnia, they began to branch out and eventually ends up working with the maintenance to ground vehicles used by the …
▶ 1:00:42
private military expenditures had grown from hundreds of millions to billions. It was in the Balkans in the 1990s that the U.S. politicians from both parties began to fully appreciate this value of using private military because it gives th…
▶ 1:03:53
They didn't do anything when it was blacks, but now you've got Eastern Europeans. The solution came out of a convergence of influence. In 1994, the Minister of Defense in Croatia sought help and mentioned the use of private military executi…
▶ 1:05:25
And they did it during the Reagan administration. And now MPRI, as it had been a weapon hidden in some dark place, would be the solution to Clinton's predicament in the Balkans. MPRI would supply 46,000 rifles, 1,000 machine guns, and hundr…
▶ 1:05:55
which it would also train. That's convenient. You know, it's those people over there. It's not the military. I don't have anything to do with that company over there. With U.S. approval and some backing, MPRI in the early 1995 helped to bui…
▶ 44:39
In addition, there was socialist Yugoslavia, which after Tito's break with Stalin in 1947, represented an important Balkan partner for American and particularly British diplomacy. For this reason, representatives of separatist Croats, Serbs…
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putting all of this research that we had done very concisely as an overview of everything. So let me just say one more thing. In his summary to this chapter, the Ukrainians and other immigrant groups took on an active political role in thei…