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Claims (13)
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
Robert Crowley member_of
CIA host_asserted
“had not diminished either his physical presence, he stood over six feet tall, or his wit. Crowley had been the unnamed guest at a thousand corporate executive suites during his CIA career. Because keep in mind, Crowley's whole job, we learn…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 10:31
Robert Crowley front_for
CIA book_quoted
“CIA and corporations where they embedded their assets like PepsiCo, ITT, all of the ones that we have learned, Freeport. Crowley is the one that set those arrangements up. So Casey wanted to reawaken the romance between American corporation…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 10:55
Robert Crowley recruited
George H.W. Bush book_quoted
“His insecurities made him like putty in Dulles' hands, according to Corson, who was basically part of the recruiting party for George Bush. Dulles convinced him that he could contribute to his country as well as get help from the CIA for hi…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2 @ 9:08
Robert Crowley member_of
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“using some of the biggest names in American businesses. Dulles did it because he felt like he had to. This was a quote from Dulles. The Soviets were throwing everything they had at us. The KGB was eating us alive, and Washington could not m…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 28:44
Robert Crowley member_of
Mafia book_quoted
“that Crowley and a colleague ran an entire CIA office devoted solely to working with executives of major corporations, the International Syndicate Link. The hierarchy of the new CIA came largely from the Eastern establishment, men from quot…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 31:03
William Corson did_business_with
Robert Crowley book_quoted
“Corson, Angleton, and Crowley all talked to me extensively. In addition, Corson and Crowley, just before their death, turned over to me their extensive files, along with the files they'd been keeping for their old friend Angleton. These wer…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 27:20
Robert Crowley did_business_with
Joe Trento book_quoted
“And Trento would call him and say, hey, I'm researching this. Can you help me with this? Well, then Crowley would go into his stash of documents and package them up and send them to a particular post office box, which Trento would go get. A…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 8:01
Robert Crowley member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Confirming Mallon's cooperation with the agency was Robert Crowley, the guy that Trento talks to all the time. He was in charge of actually creating those relationships with corporations to hide CIA agents in. Another former CIA official ex…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 2 @ 7:27
Robert Crowley member_of
CIA book_quoted
“in managing the CIA's connections with businesses like Bush's was using corporations like the International Telephone and Telegraph and Ford. So we know the ITT, the International Telephone and Telegram Company, because they paid President …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 2 @ 19:35
Robert Crowley member_of
CIA book_quoted
“This is the same Robert Crowley that goes to work for Dulles at the CIA that provided Joseph Trento all of this information. So he was with Dulles even before Dulles was CIA. And even before he was, well, during the time he was OSS. In Wash…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 29:14
Robert Crowley member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Angleton knew the CIA's weakest spots better than anyone. Angleton and Corson, in turn, introduced me to their friend and former colleague, Robert Crowley, a personable man who had been deeply involved in CIA's work as the associate directo…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 26:50
Robert Crowley member_of
CIA book_quoted
“come to find out someone else had written an article about finding them themselves and it was crowley retired from the cia and stole a bunch of material so the material that he stole he had stored in some various places and over time he kep…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 7:30
Mentions (25)
▶ 28:54
was important to the United States, said Robert Crowley, one of the CIA officers that material helped write this book. The CIA was convinced that at some point he could challenge Saddam Hussein. But he didn't. And he did not have the emotio…
▶ 7:46
who later rose to a high-level job at the CIA and asked to not be identified because of his skull and bones connections and not his CIA connections, Dresser had long provided cover jobs for the agency. Confirming Mallon's cooperation with t…
▶ 19:56
The platforms he dealt with were perfect training places for Cubans to practice raiding their homeland. Most of Robert Crowley's work in managing the CIA's connections with businesses like Bush's was using corporations like the Internationa…
▶ 20:27
telephone and telegram company because they paid President Nixon to go kill President Allende. So Crowley is the guy that set up those working relationships. But, Crowley explains, sometimes we would suggest someone to go off on their own. …
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Diaz Serrano would become key to the CIA spy ring at the heart of the Mexican power structure. The operation was still going on when Bush became vice president in 1981. Robert Crowley, who worked with Bush when he became director of the CIA…
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shore invasions into Cuba and other Latin American countries. Yeah, same thing. Zapata Offshore was a CIA front company. Back to the book. On his visits here, Robert Crowley said, agency management made Turkay welcome, knowing full well tha…
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Adam was initially approached by one of the most respected and powerful men in Washington, Clark Clifford, who rose to power under Harry Truman and had enjoyed a relationship with the intelligence community for years. Quote, Clark Clifford …
▶ 1:03:34
They already had all that intelligence because they set up the network, guys. According to Wilson and Crowley, Bush ordered Raymond Close, C-L-O-S-E, the CIA's top man in Saudi Arabia, to work closely with Adem. Adem had other important rol…
▶ 28:24
relationship with Shackley was not the only one that he had at the CIA. He also had a relationship with a guy by the name of Walter McDonald. According to Crowley, McDonald has spent his entire career as a CIA man getting to know everything…
▶ 38:33
Decades later, they were not old friends talking about their best day, said Robert Crowley. It was a control officer talking to his agent. So Shackley was Brzezinski's handler. In this instance, the agent happened to be the president's top …
▶ 31:07
And oddly, Bush picked Wells without consulting anyone inside the CIA. Wells was probably the worst choice to be Shackley's boss. Many in the agency considered him not to even be a serious man. Robert Crowley summed it up best. When you thi…
▶ 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…
▶ 10:31
had not diminished either his physical presence, he stood over six feet tall, or his wit. Crowley had been the unnamed guest at a thousand corporate executive suites during his CIA career. Because keep in mind, Crowley's whole job, we learn…
▶ 10:55
CIA and corporations where they embedded their assets like PepsiCo, ITT, all of the ones that we have learned, Freeport. Crowley is the one that set those arrangements up. So Casey wanted to reawaken the romance between American corporation…
▶ 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…
▶ 12:23
totally conflict with many of the shareholder laws that had led to the discovery of businesses' connections to the CIA in the first place. Although Crowley explained to Casey the new SEC regulations and the possibility of shareholder lawsui…
▶ 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…
▶ 14:23
With his suit coat pulled up around his armpits, because Crowley is much taller than Casey, he says, basically, Casey says to Crowley, thanks for coming out. Crowley says, any time, and left. He had no doubt that he did not give Casey what …
▶ 17:29
Crowley explained that it was an incestuous relationship, but we were doing it on the CIA's dime and that Gray was basically not using any of his company resources to do it. Certainly, everyone knew what everybody else was doing. All of the…
▶ 37:50
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…
▶ 17:49
Shackley and Wilson were not members. Only nations could belong. Shackley and Wilson were men who served the club in exchange for power, influence, and money. Pakistani intelligence would handle all of the money going in to facilitate the p…
▶ 8:05
by whatever means and at whatever cost, unquote. Dulles' CIA operated with virtually no congressional oversight in the Senate. Dulles relied on Wall Street friends like Prescott Bush of Connecticut, the father and grandfather of two future …
▶ 35:24
which they made it appear, it appeared to have been assisted. This is what one high-ranking CIA official, Robert Crowley, later suggested. One where the other, Crowley said, who was interviewed after he retired by journalist Joseph Trento, …