Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit organization
also: Volksbund, VFF, People's League for Peace and Freedom, BFF, Volksbank
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Eberhard Taubertperson · 4West Germanycountry · 4Ministry of Propagandaorganization · 3Reinhard Gehlenperson · 2United Statescountry · 2Francecountry · 2Christian Democratic Unionorganization · 2Anti-Comintern Pactorganization · 2Peace and Freedom Organizationorganization · 2Berndt Engelmannperson · 2Fritz Kramerperson · 1Joseph Goebbelsperson · 1Pro Deo Networkorganization · 1Rudolf Jungesperson · 1Robert Murphyperson · 1NATOintelligence service · 1Genevacountry · 1Operation Gladiooperation · 1Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairsorganization · 1CIAintelligence service · 1Jürgen Hahn-Butryperson · 1The New York Timesorganization · 1Parisplace · 1Hungarycountry · 1
Claims (5)
Eberhard Taubert founded
Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit host_asserted
“or had been close to government circles and took advantage of the connections that they had inside the intelligence circles. This was particularly so in the case of the founder of the organization, Eberhard Taubert, T-A-U-B-E-R-T. He was a …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 6:25
Arthur Ruppert member_of
Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit host_asserted
“and its extended network. A key figure for the BFF was its vice president, Arthur Ruppert, R-U-P-P-E-R-T. He was a journalist. He also was a Christian Democrat Party militant. He had participated in the party's reconstitution in Hamburg and…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 7:25
Jürgen Hahn-Butry member_of
Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit host_asserted
“Kramer, both of whom would later be in charge of the BFF. Their political background and militant experience was perfect for what they were building. Both John Paul David and Eberhardt Tabert wanted to take the fight to the international st…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 12:54
Fritz Kramer member_of
Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit host_asserted
“Kramer, both of whom would later be in charge of the BFF. Their political background and militant experience was perfect for what they were building. Both John Paul David and Eberhardt Tabert wanted to take the fight to the international st…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 12:54
Reinhard Gehlen member_of
Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit host_asserted
“Reinhard Galen, a Nazi. Galen would later become head of the international section of the VFF. Galen's trip was supposed to reactivate the link with Prodeo. The activities of John Paul David, something of a new arrival among all of the anti…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 15:00
Mentions (14)
▶ 4:03
With the CIA at the head, and technically it was NATO, but all of their intelligence organizations were part of it. At the end of the summer of 1950, two associations emerged in France and in the Federal Republic of Germany that seemed to h…
▶ 5:57
The same tactic happened with the BFF in West Germany. The Volksbank, ostensibly a civil society organization, was put to use as the strong arm of the government, particularly in the Ministry of All German Affairs. Unlike the Peace and Free…
▶ 6:25
or had been close to government circles and took advantage of the connections that they had inside the intelligence circles. This was particularly so in the case of the founder of the organization, Eberhard Taubert, T-A-U-B-E-R-T. He was a …
▶ 6:55
He had created the association similar to VFF called the Anti-Com Intern. The anchoring of the VFF at the heart of a state apparatus was made possible by an extensive anti-communist consensus that had reigned in Bonn, built particularly arr…
▶ 10:54
He was also the right-hand man of Marcel de Tate, D-E-A-T. As for the BFF, it combined displaced persons from the former German territories to the East with former National Socialists who had already been active in the anti-Bolshevik strugg…
▶ 11:24
the former anti-com intern. So in July of 1947, Talbert, just over two years previously, had been the right-hand man of Joseph Goebbels, G-O-E-B-B-E-L-S, had approached the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps with a, quote, project for acti…
▶ 11:53
He repeated the initiative, this time with Robert Murphy, the political advisor to the American occupation forces. Talbert was hoping to profit from his experience and establish new networks with the Americans. By the time the BFF was forme…
▶ 12:24
of the Nazi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also helped by two individuals who had been active in the anti-Bolshevikism since the 1920s. The writer Juergen Hahn-Butry, B-U-T-R-Y. So he has a hyphenated name, H-A-H-N-B-U-T-R-Y. And a int…
▶ 14:26
That was created in 1950. There are no coincidences. So in early 1948, Alfred Geilen, G-I-E-L-E-N, goes to Geneva. His former colleagues of the Ministry of Propaganda, who had become an agent for the Geilen organization, meaning he's Operat…
▶ 19:08
a civilian slash government entity to coordinate Operation Gladio activities is basically, and ironically, they're calling it peace and freedom. So the contacts were established between peace and freedom and the VFF. Several indications see…
▶ 19:39
in November 1950, following the approach by Engelman. In Bonn, in May of 1951, they had preliminary meetings around the Christian Democrat executive, sorry, Rudolf Junges, for the creation of the German part of it.…
▶ 20:10
must have sanctioned these talks because a follow-up meeting took place in Paris two weeks later. David invited the Italian representative, the Swiss representative, to that meeting and the leadership of the BFF as well as Engelman. They ag…
▶ 30:45
And it says the New York Times was to use part of the poster campaign to illustrate an article on communist domination in Hungary. The VFF, aware of the obvious associative imagery, preferred to keep only the blank silhouettes in order to d…
▶ 34:26
And towards the middle of 1954, the French security police, after hearing from Gylan and the BFF, again signaled that the heart of the international movement, that both Gylan and Jean-Paul David, quote, giving his activity an excessively go…