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Claims (4)
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
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…
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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…
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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…
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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. …
▶ 39:16
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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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, …