Anwar Sadat person
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Claims (15)
Kamal Adham recruited
Anwar Sadat book_quoted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 1:03:34
Hosni Mubarak succeeded
Anwar Sadat book_quoted
“It was, let's see, it was that notification that caused the Sadat regime to launch its own investigation, which was canceled after Sadat's death. And Mubarak, his assassination actually, Mubarak's subsequent elevation to presidency because …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 10:55
CIA trained
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“Ada made it clear to Sadat that he would have a full backing of the Saudi royal family if he would be friendly to Washington, D.C. Sadat restructured the Egyptian intelligence with the help of Shackley. And for insurance, the CIA put severa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 8:22
CIA trained
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“One of Shackley's oldest and dearest friends operating out of the Cairo station, Buckley supervised a vast array of spies within Sadat's regime. In 1980, Buckley was put in charge of the training of Sadat's personal bodyguards after the CIA…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 15:22
Mossad spied_on
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“was much more than an interim figure and much more important than Westerners originally thought, and that he was interested in peace in the Middle East. Henry Kissinger in the State Department basically ignored that because they're not inte…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 6:51
CIA installed
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“because we already got rid of the nationalist that was in Egypt. We killed him actually in a CIA operation. So we install Anwar Sadat as the leader of Egypt so we can get this peace agreement because then they're going to use the peace agre…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 43:32
Neil Livingstone trained
Anwar Sadat book_quoted
“that Klein, Lower, and Slachter had intended to make the most of using the general. From a security expert point of view, Livingstone was assigned to organize the training program for Sadat, basically like their castle guard. That is how Li…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 23:09
Felix Rodriguez trained
Anwar Sadat book_quoted
“Does he not show up in every story? Yes, he does. So Livingstone was assigned to organize the training program for Sadat's guard for kind of like Secret Service, if you will. And Livingstone met Felix Rodriguez, who had been hired for the t…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 23:41
Ashraf Marwan spied_on
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“Ashraf Marwan, M-A-R-W-A-N, and his first name is A-S-H-R-A-F. He was a cabinet minister at the time who sat next to Sadat at cabinet meetings. Marwan provided Twitin, the CIA guy, a wealth of information on Sadat and those who were plottin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 6:21
J.J. Capucci and Associates trained
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“You know, to keep him paranoid so he stays on the tit of the CIA. Because his life and regime was, according to the CIA, under constant threats. That is what made the training of his security force so profitable for Wilson's company, which …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 10:15
William F. Buckley trained
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“One of Shackley's oldest and dearest friends operating out of the Cairo station, Buckley supervised a vast array of spies within Sadat's regime. In 1980, Buckley was put in charge of the training of Sadat's personal bodyguards after the CIA…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 15:22
Keith Leinauer spied_on
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“personal business dealings with Itzko. The memorandum written by a guy by the name of Keith Leinauer, L-E-I-N-A-U-E-R, went on to state that his sources believed that a conspiracy was being formed against Sadat to eliminate him from power. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 31:23
Kamal Adham recruited
Anwar Sadat book_quoted
“all the way through the Reagan administrations, which, of course, Bush was the vice president of. According to the Senate BCCI investigation and Morgan Thowell's investigation into BCCI, which I talked extensively about when we did our show…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 21:12
Kamal Adham funded
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“That means that you buy weapons from the Soviet Union after the West has cut you off. Kamal Adom, the chief of intel from Saudi Arabia, at that time still began personally visiting Sadat, urging him to cooperate with the Americans, because …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 7:52
Israel ordered_assassination_of
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“The ability for the CIA to know all of the internal workings of Sadat as they're getting ready to execute him is very important. And the same way where you had Iran in the overthrow of Mosaddegh, you have the ability to know everything that…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 1:19:28
Mentions (51)
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I pray that the Iraqis would never find out, Sarkis said. So that's it for that chapter. It gets us finished a little earlier, but the next chapter is too long to start. It's not a long, long chapter, but it's too long to finish in 15 minut…
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What happened in the Middle East is that they were supporting dictators like Mubarak, the Shah of Iran. They supported Iraq when they were doing the regime change for Saddam Hussein. They also supported the Saudi royal family, which of cour…
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that they were monitoring it when Omar Sadat came to the Camp David and that the Iranian leader Khomeini was being listened on, as well as Omar Gaddafi, blah, blah, blah. So I found that incredibly interesting. Okay, so we got both of those…
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Then you have in the following year, September 78, you have Anwar Sadat, which we couped Egypt and put him in. So he's a CIA operative. And Carter works with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin and has the peace deal between Egypt and Israel. No…
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because we already got rid of the nationalist that was in Egypt. We killed him actually in a CIA operation. So we install Anwar Sadat as the leader of Egypt so we can get this peace agreement because then they're going to use the peace agre…
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While I'm down in Libya, he took a contract to train the protection squad for Amwar Sadat. They were bitter enemies. We'd just been through a war between Libya and Egypt. I was afraid I was going to get in trouble. So I got him out. I said,…
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To Livingstone, Capucci was nearly senile and didn't seem to know what was going on. Capucci's only value to the operation was that he had rescued an Egyptian from Gaddafi's overthrow of King Idris, who rose to the highest ranks under Sadat…
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who had acted as the chief financial advisor to the king. So he had rescued somebody. He has a great reputation, and he was good to be used as kind of a front guy. The Egyptian that was smuggled out was General Kamal Hassan Ali. He ended up…
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that Klein, Lower, and Slachter had intended to make the most of using the general. From a security expert point of view, Livingstone was assigned to organize the training program for Sadat, basically like their castle guard. That is how Li…
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Does he not show up in every story? Yes, he does. So Livingstone was assigned to organize the training program for Sadat's guard for kind of like Secret Service, if you will. And Livingstone met Felix Rodriguez, who had been hired for the t…
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With the CIA's backing. So we agreed that we would have a meeting to set up the structure for how they were going to move forward. Now, keep in mind, he doesn't know Shackley and Klein got fired. No one told him. The subject of the meeting …
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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…
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This made Adem, in effect, Sadat's case officer. This relationship gave Adem leverage when the time came to persuade Sadat to sign the Camp David Accord. Adem and Abedi believed the U.S. needed monitoring after Adem left the Intelligence Di…
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all the way through the Reagan administrations, which, of course, Bush was the vice president of. According to the Senate BCCI investigation and Morgan Thowell's investigation into BCCI, which I talked extensively about when we did our show…
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to sign the Camp David peace accords. Adem personally guaranteed to Sadat that the Saudi Arabia would stand behind the agreement. But the Israelis were not totally trusting of Adem as their new Middle East benefactor. One of the reasons tha…
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Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, Colonel Tanner and Bridget. Hi, everybody. I was hoping before we get started, if we could go ahead and repost the space as we're opening up. Thanks, everyone. Yes, Deller, you need to remind us. I …
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repeating his intention to have Reagan killed. But Reagan was not the president who would be assassinated. Anwar Sadat was not always a friend of America. He had been among Noster's military officers who overthrew the King Farouk in 1952 an…
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You know, since they tried to overthrow Nasser in 1967 in conjunction with Israel in the Seven Day War. When Sadat became president of Egypt, he had been vice president at the time. So he became acting president on Nasser's death in Septemb…
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Ashraf Marwan, M-A-R-W-A-N, and his first name is A-S-H-R-A-F. He was a cabinet minister at the time who sat next to Sadat at cabinet meetings. Marwan provided Twitin, the CIA guy, a wealth of information on Sadat and those who were plottin…
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was much more than an interim figure and much more important than Westerners originally thought, and that he was interested in peace in the Middle East. Henry Kissinger in the State Department basically ignored that because they're not inte…
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leader handpicked by the KGB. Quinton's job was to get this information to Sadat via Marwan. On May 11, 1971, Sadat was given the evidence of the plot against him. Within months, Egypt was no longer a Soviet client state. And let me refresh…
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That means that you buy weapons from the Soviet Union after the West has cut you off. Kamal Adom, the chief of intel from Saudi Arabia, at that time still began personally visiting Sadat, urging him to cooperate with the Americans, because …
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Ada made it clear to Sadat that he would have a full backing of the Saudi royal family if he would be friendly to Washington, D.C. Sadat restructured the Egyptian intelligence with the help of Shackley. And for insurance, the CIA put severa…
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It was, after all, according to Crowley, Clines, and Corson, and Capucci, in the national interest of the U.S., to keep Egypt as a client state. The CIA did not tell a series of presidents that while Sadat was reaching for peace with Israel…
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In embassies and state departments like Tel Aviv, Washington, and Riyadh, Sadat had enormous political problems at home because no one in Egypt wanted to be a client state of the United States or Britain because they had just stopped being …
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caused him political problems with her Western ways. The Camp David Accord, signed in 1978, had made Sadat a world statesman. Once they were signed, in addition to the promise of foreign and military aid, Sadat was to receive a detailed int…
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One of Shackley's oldest and dearest friends operating out of the Cairo station, Buckley supervised a vast array of spies within Sadat's regime. In 1980, Buckley was put in charge of the training of Sadat's personal bodyguards after the CIA…
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would damage their relations inside of Egypt if Sadat was to discover that Wilson actually owned the J.J. Capuci company. Neil Livingstone, who by this time was involved in the J.J. Capuci operation, quote, we did the training of Sadat's Pr…
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And then the contract was taken away from us and given to the agency. And he got killed. We never would have permitted that kind of security lapse. It's evident that they wanted Sadat dead. That's a quote from Livingstone. To Livingstone, w…
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That was his bread and butter. The CIA had more political considerations than they did. Well, the CIA is going to take over the contract whenever the CIA wants to get rid of somebody. On October 6, 1981, National and Victory Day in Egypt, t…
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At the moment of the assassination, it was immediately obvious that the assassins had the cooperation of Sadat's CIA-trained security force. No one attempted to protect the president. Members of his own army lifted their rifles and shot him…
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received a flash report from the Cairo station mid-morning on why Sadat has been shot and wounded while reviewing a military parade. But the Cairo station report was hopelessly behind the television network who were reporting that he was de…
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of Sadat's protege, Mubarak, would lodge a strenuous protest because they all knew it was the CIA that had trained Sadat's bodyguards. But there was nothing, not even a mild complaint. The truth of the matter was that there would be no prot…
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And many of the men who controlled Itzko had also controlled the training of Sadat's bodyguards. An investigation might have resulted in the Egyptian public finding out that their martyred president had ordered an investigation of top assoc…
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Sadat had figured out that he was being set up and ordered an investigation, which means he had to go. When Camp David Accords were signed with President Carter's promise of billions of dollars in military aid, an Egyptian named Hussein Sal…
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Salam proposed that Klein control 49% of the shipping contract through Eats Go with Tursam controlling the 51%. In 1981, Sadat's staff undertook an audit of the Tursam Eats Go shipping invoices and discovered a serious overcharge and misuse…
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Of the tens of millions of dollars in shipping overcharges, he initiated an investigation, which revealed that Mubarak was, for all practical purposes, a secret partner in the operation getting kicked back. This investigation became a threa…
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but Soviet relics out of the trash pile in Egypt. So if that word got out, the American taxpayers and Congress would have known they're getting scammed because these guys are taking the money off the top by buying pennies on the dollar this…
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Sadat's assassination effectively ended the investigation. General Ghazala, von Marburg's good friend, had been the Egyptian military liaison to J.J. Capusti and later the CIA for the training of Sadat's personal bodyguards. After Sadat's m…
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The connections were clear enough. Through Israeli intelligence sources in Libya, the CIA had the memo Ed Wilson had written to Qaddafi's military security on May 12, 1981, detailing his activities in Egypt through ISCO. In that memo, Wilso…
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It was, let's see, it was that notification that caused the Sadat regime to launch its own investigation, which was canceled after Sadat's death. And Mubarak, his assassination actually, Mubarak's subsequent elevation to presidency because …
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News of how Isco had corrupted the Egyptian top military officials had reached the Pentagon. Von Marbog always seemed invincible. From 1978 to 1981, he managed the Defense Security Assistance Administration as its deputy director. Three mon…
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wrote a major story in the Wall Street Journal about a federal grand jury that was looking at Itzko. Pound had no idea Itzko might have been connected to the Sadat assassination. But he reported, quote, the case is so sensitive because of p…
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So you can't talk about any of these entities. So basically you have a CIA trained guy, just like we just read with Sadat. Our whole chapter today was about how the CIA assassinated the existing president, Sadat, and installed Mubarak. You …
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The Reagan-Bush administration used the private intelligence network for the foreign policy activism for almost five years before the consequences began to pile up. The first major problem had been Itzko's investigation, but the incarcerati…
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giving away of the canal. This is a decade-plus long negotiation through four administrations. A final draft gets submitted to the Senate, who can override it, but they don't. They ratify it, and it is now basically a treaty longstanding. S…
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and Menachem Begin to sign a peace agreement, which was historic at the time. But keep in mind, Anwar Sadat was basically, you remember, we just recently talked about that in the Prelude to Terror, that we basically installed him. And so it…
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in 1978 and had dominated much of the mountainous regions. Russian's intervention unleashed a towering wave of international condemnation in the climate in the U.S. It approached Egypt and China about a joint operation to aid the rebels Anw…
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confirmed in 1981 that the covert action was suggested immediately after the Soviet invasion. Egypt furnished concrete assistance to the Afghan resistance. This ranged from weapons to Egyptian training. Sadat considered the Afghans a brothe…
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I've got it in front of me. So, yes. What's the subject of it? Message to President Sadat. Okay. Bundy's report on Simon. Talk with Mac Bundy. These are the subject matters. Instructions from Secretary. Meeting with Dobrivin.…
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contrary to his demonized image, had built up Libya with a high standard of living, the highest in all of Africa, was about to unveil the creation of alliance of central banks and introduce the gold dinar currency for oil sales, not U.S. do…