Robert Gates person
also: Gates, Bob Gates, Bill Gates, Oates, Director Gates, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
CIAintelligence service · 51William Caseyperson · 16Iran-Contra affairevent · 14George H.W. Bushperson · 12Church Committeeorganization · 10Soviet Unioncountry · 7Claire Georgeperson · 6William Websterperson · 6Alan Fiersperson · 5Iran-Contraoperation · 5Operation Cycloneoperation · 5United Statescountry · 5Nicaraguacountry · 5Irancountry · 5U.S. Congressorganization · 4Langleyplace · 4Kevin Shippperson · 4Afghanistancountry · 4Jimmy Carterperson · 4James Clapperperson · 3SAICorganization · 3U.S. State Departmentorganization · 3National Security Councilorganization · 3Microsoftorganization · 3
Claims (39)
Robert Gates removed_from_power
CIA documented
“After all of this stuff was coming to surface, Robert Gates decided to withdraw his nomination. The next day, the administration took back the nomination. Gates issued a statement defending his actions during the Iran-Contra affair and deni…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 11:38
Robert Gates member_of
Iran-Contra affair documented
“fills in temporarily after his resignation. And as a reminder, we're in the middle of exposing Iran-Contra. So it's not the job you want at this particular point. So Gates is a loyalist. He's been there through this entire operation. And Ro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 6:21
George H.W. Bush appointed
Robert Gates documented
“the Director of Intelligence. Shackley's connection to Ed Wilson and his involvement in Iran-Contra had spelled doom on his chances of being the DCI. He named Robert Gates to replace William Webster, who had gone from the FBI to the CIA in …”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 1:17:50
George H.W. Bush appointed
Robert Gates documented
“The same day, Bush called Gates while they were on board Air Force One and asked him if he would accept the CIA nomination. The Iran-Contra investigations were ongoing at the time. And he would definitely not be cleared until the final spec…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 2:39
Robert Gates member_of
CIA documented
“Gates had spent his entire career around all of these very controversial people. In the summer of 91, where there was confirmation that Soviet Union was going to collapse, which of course the CIA failed to predict, and Gates was caught up i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 4:16
Robert Gates headed
Pentagon documented
“33,000 by 2015. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced the plan in April of 2009, but only 16 months later, it was gone. He told the press that he was not satisfied with the progress. Dispelling past defeats, Representative Jan Sikowsk…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 34:22
Robert Gates headed
CIA documented
“For all the drama that went on, the sequel did not live up to the fears. Director Gates indicated that there were flexibility with the CIA. He showed a healthy appreciation for the need to change while not really changing anything at all.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 9:07
Jonathan Howe succeeded
Robert Gates documented
“You know, while our troops are still on the ground, we're no longer just feeding people. We're now going to actually get into action. To accomplish this, the U.N. appointed a special representative, an American retired Admiral Jonathan Howe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 26:25
Robert Gates succeeded
William Webster documented
“the Director of Intelligence. Shackley's connection to Ed Wilson and his involvement in Iran-Contra had spelled doom on his chances of being the DCI. He named Robert Gates to replace William Webster, who had gone from the FBI to the CIA in …”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 1:17:50
Robert Gates appointed
CIA documented
“fills in temporarily after his resignation. And as a reminder, we're in the middle of exposing Iran-Contra. So it's not the job you want at this particular point. So Gates is a loyalist. He's been there through this entire operation. And Ro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 6:21
John McMahon succeeded
Robert Gates documented
“a measure that probably cost the Russians more than the Stingers. There were so many ideal weapons introduced at various times, the CIA officers took to calling them silver bullets. Langley again revamped its high command for the secret war…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 43:49
Thomas Polgar exposed
Robert Gates documented
“retired middle-ranking CIA officers were more outspoken about the secrets of the Cold War and illegal operations of the CIA, among them Thomas Polgar, who had retired in 81 after 30 years in the CIA and in 91 testified against the nominatio…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 46:22
Robert Gates covered_up
Iran-Contra affair documented
“retired middle-ranking CIA officers were more outspoken about the secrets of the Cold War and illegal operations of the CIA, among them Thomas Polgar, who had retired in 81 after 30 years in the CIA and in 91 testified against the nominatio…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 46:22
Robert Gates headed
CIA documented
“That was just made up out of whole air. They have no idea whether that was true or not. Analysts in the Directorate for Intelligence told that the project could not achieve more than a disruptive effect. But Bob Gates, its chief from 82 to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 3:28
Robert Gates host_asserted
CIA host_asserted
“Afghanistan when we left off. Okay, Robert Gates remarked at his 1991 confirmation hearings for CIA director that he would have grave doubts about the efficiency of covert operations safe for Afghanistan. In other words, we can not do them …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 1:05
Robert Gates headed
Trump administration host_asserted
“Into that, William Webster. And do you know who the FBI director was that appointed him? Robert Mueller. And we find Robert Gates, the guy we were just talking about, was the secretary over all of this.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 1:15:38
Robert Gates recruited
CIA documented
“Yeah, and doesn't the military have their own intelligence? We do. We do. All right, so let me just read an interesting paragraph from his wiki page and just jump in any time. While he's at Indiana University in grad school, Gates is recrui…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:05:42
Robert Gates member_of
Strategic Air Command documented
“Now we've got CIA putting their own officers through the military training school. What could possibly go wrong? We know that happens a lot. 67 to 69, he's assigned to Strategic Air Command as an intelligence officer, which included a year …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:06:11
Robert Gates member_of
National Boy Scouts Association documented
“in air quotes, become the president of the National Boy Scouts Association during the time period when they were letting girls in, et cetera. So that's on his resume as well. But interesting part about his background, he talked about how th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:05:13
Robert Gates member_of
SAIC book_quoted
“Melvin Laird, Robert Gates, who also, all three of those guys were Secretary of Defenses at one time, and Robert Gates obviously has the dual distinction of also being the CIA director.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 12 @ 10:50
Robert Gates headed
CIA documented
“Robert Gates obviously has the dual distinction of also being the CIA director.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 12 @ 10:50
Robert Gates removed_from_power
Donald Rumsfeld book_quoted
“Outside of the CIA. Yeah, we can do it. You just can't. Rumsfeld was ousted from the SecDef position in 2006 and replaced by Robert Gates in 2007. When Gates, a former director of the CIA and SAIC board member, took over the SecDef's job, h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 15:28
Robert Gates appointed
James Clapper book_quoted
“He hired General James Clapper to help them and put him in as the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. This spurred Boykin's resignation as the deputy in May of 2007. Not long afterwards, Gate and Clapper ended much of the covert act…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 15:58
Robert Gates removed_from_power
William Boykin book_quoted
“He hired General James Clapper to help them and put him in as the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. This spurred Boykin's resignation as the deputy in May of 2007. Not long afterwards, Gate and Clapper ended much of the covert act…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 15:58
Robert Gates member_of
SAIC host_asserted
“the Obama administration with Robert Gates, James Clapper, John Brennan. Gates was a member of the SAIC board of directors in the 90s. And then after he had been the CIA director, he went to SAIC's board. Clapper was a director of GOI, a sa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13 @ 40:00
Robert Gates removed_from_power
Donald Rumsfeld book_quoted
“Outside of the CIA. Yeah, we can do it. You just can't. Rumsfeld was ousted from the SecDef position in 2006 and replaced by Robert Gates in 2007. When Gates, a former director of the CIA and SAIC board member, took over the SecDef's job, h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 15:28
Robert Gates appointed
James Clapper book_quoted
“He hired General James Clapper to help them and put him in as the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. This spurred Boykin's resignation as the deputy in May of 2007. Not long afterwards, Gate and Clapper ended much of the covert act…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 15:58
Robert Gates member_of
American Academy of Diplomacy documented
“Next name, Hillary Clinton. Robert Gates, CIA. How about grandson of former Bonesman and president of the United States, William Howard Taft IV? Sound like an insider club to you? Yes. John Huntsman, former Republican presidential candidate…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady 250418 @ 25:12
William Casey recruited
Robert Gates book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 13:24
Robert Gates member_of
National Security Council documented
“The administration's willingness to concede on this issue remained untested. Meanwhile, the DO stayed in business. Leary of covert operations, as Carter may have been, his national security advisor, Brzezinski, demanded action. You know, be…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 56:26
Robert Gates member_of
CIA host_asserted
“in the line of succession to be president of the United States. Unbelievable. Yeah. But no, you talk about the CIA not sharing stuff with the military. Well, he was both. You know, he was comrades. You know, who's his loyalty to? The CIA fi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:11:44
Robert Gates appointed
Barack Obama host_asserted
“everything into perspective of the stuff that he's touched. He's a CFR member. He's literally touched a whole ton of things. It's crazy. Of course, he's in Obama's administration. But, yeah. The guy was Obama's designated survivor. He was s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:11:15
Robert Gates member_of
CIA documented
“The administration's willingness to concede on this issue remained untested. Meanwhile, the DO stayed in business. Leary of covert operations, as Carter may have been, his national security advisor, Brzezinski, demanded action. You know, be…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 56:26
Robert Gates member_of
CIA book_quoted
“at Langley, Bob Gates, who had replaced John McMahon as the deputy DCI, received the data on the covert operation as if they didn't have it already because Casey's intimately involved with it. Alan Fires objected that the plane and other eq…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 9:31
Robert Gates funded
Common Core host_asserted
“involvement with Bill Gates to set up all Common Core state standards back in the day with Bush. I remember the Common Core. Yeah. These guys were working on that with them. Okay. So let me get back to my... All right. A guy by the name of …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - 'BATTELLE AND THE CIA' - EP.376 @ 40:36
Robert Gates member_of
SAIC host_asserted
“a company called NACO Industries, Brinker International, Parker Drilling Company, et cetera, et cetera. And here's a really interesting one. He's on the board of a company called Vote Here, a technology company which sought to provide crypt…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:07:17
Robert Gates provided
William Casey book_quoted
“a week before the election in Cleveland, and the other was the possible release of the hostages. The theft of Carter's briefing book basically defeated one of the legs, being the debate, because, of course, Reagan's going to know everything…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 55:36
William Colby succeeded
Robert Gates book_quoted
“Gates later said that that was like the lowest point in his life. He had the CIA directorship at his fingertips and it was like just outside of his grasp. So Prado says that Gates realized that it had been a generation since William Colby h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 3:45
Robert Gates exposed
BCCI host_asserted
“Robert Gates would refer to this entire operation as the bank of crooks and criminals, and he did so out loud. And he did so three years before the official scandal broke…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 10:14
Mentions (108)
▶ 1:50:57
They're doing some extensive research into this, which I found completely intriguing and so typical of their operations, is that when they pick these people to play these roles like the Zuckerbergs of the world or the Gates or whoever it's …
▶ 10:14
not even shadow marker, but right out in the open. Correct. And that kind of, to me, is the big foot stomper here. Robert Gates would refer to this entire operation as the bank of crooks and criminals, and he did so out loud. And he did so …
▶ 10:50
supernet version of video conferencing and has a patent on it. Melvin Laird, Robert Gates, who also, all three of those guys were Secretary of Defenses at one time, and Robert Gates obviously has the dual distinction of also being the CIA d…
▶ 30:59
One of the reasons he's famous is because in 2001, the Justice Department went after Bill Gates for the whole Microsoft thing. For older people may remember that in 2001, Bill Gates was indicted on or I don't know if he was indicted, but he…
▶ 32:26
And I don't know if this guy was involved in that, but I'm trying to figure out if he if he actually worked for Williams Conley. So, of course, Microsoft founded by Bill Gates, who basically is all in on the great reset theory and vaccinati…
▶ 36:42
ecosystems to unfairly promote YouTube, its own video platform. As Reuters reports, the suit claims that Google manipulated search results to give preferential treatment to YouTube content and has made deals with Android device manufacturer…
▶ 35:37
which is on the campus of Berkeley. Is it Berkeley? No, Stanford. And every evil story has a Stanford element, by the way. So they're working with Hewlett Packard's foundation. They are also significantly funded by the Bill and Melinda Gate…
▶ 40:36
involvement with Bill Gates to set up all Common Core state standards back in the day with Bush. I remember the Common Core. Yeah. These guys were working on that with them. Okay. So let me get back to my... All right. A guy by the name of …
▶ 41:10
was basically on the group that worked with Bill Gates to create the Common Core stuff for George Bush Jr. And this is a quote from his, I think it's his LinkedIn thing. It says, I joined Battelle for Kids in 2001 as the organization's firs…
▶ 1:08:51
And isn't it funny that wherever Bill Gates goes, monkeypox is sure to follow? Yeah, that's a little weird. Bridget, go ahead. Okay, I don't remember if you, and forgive me if I miss this part, did you cover the Korean liaison office? Not y…
▶ 1:09:22
If you follow those diseases, they are located conveniently close to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations and also bio labs that we have actually set up in Africa, which I'm sure it's just a coincidence that there's a trail of dead bodies…
▶ 1:09:46
Well, that must be the same coincidence that the labs are in countries that have baby farms, too. Exactly. Yeah. It's all a coincidence. Absolutely. Yeah. Just like the Spanish flu is just a fluke. But yeah, if you start following the patte…
▶ 44:22
This guy is also a very well-known philanthropist. He's associated with far-left causes. He's done a lot of investment with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. That's who this guy is. And that's who our guy, rough name of our bonesman, Ramsey. T…
▶ 25:12
Next name, Hillary Clinton. Robert Gates, CIA. How about grandson of former Bonesman and president of the United States, William Howard Taft IV? Sound like an insider club to you? Yes. John Huntsman, former Republican presidential candidate…
▶ 1:43:25
That all started about 10 years ago. And now what they're doing to the ranchers is saying, oh, no more water usage. Just in time for Bill Gates to buy up a bunch of land. And what did him and Warren Jeff do? Put a nuclear power plant right …
▶ 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…
▶ 51:21
The next day, the LA Times absolved the CIA of any involvement with Blanton and Menendez. Its authoritative sources was a former CIA director, Robert Gates, former CIA official, Vincent Castorero, and current CIA director, John Deutsch. All…
▶ 15:28
Outside of the CIA. Yeah, we can do it. You just can't. Rumsfeld was ousted from the SecDef position in 2006 and replaced by Robert Gates in 2007. When Gates, a former director of the CIA and SAIC board member, took over the SecDef's job, h…
▶ 15:58
He hired General James Clapper to help them and put him in as the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. This spurred Boykin's resignation as the deputy in May of 2007. Not long afterwards, Gate and Clapper ended much of the covert act…
▶ 55:36
a week before the election in Cleveland, and the other was the possible release of the hostages. The theft of Carter's briefing book basically defeated one of the legs, being the debate, because, of course, Reagan's going to know everything…
▶ 56:06
Robert Gates that we know ends up as a reward, the CIA director. Yeah, that same Robert Gates. There is no question Gates had access to it. There is no question Casey got it. Gates gets the job as the official White House liaison to the Rea…
▶ 1:05:01
both officially and unofficially, because of oil. Shaheen had also been, at one time, the boss of Roy Furmark. On that particular weekend, Cyrus told his brother that he believed the Republicans would be coming to power and that it would be…
▶ 1:38:48
When you were talking about old money not accepting new money, it just hit me. When I worked for Nike Golf, I remember the richest person in the world at the time was Bill Gates. He was trying to be a member of Augusta National Golf Club wh…
▶ 1:17:50
the Director of Intelligence. Shackley's connection to Ed Wilson and his involvement in Iran-Contra had spelled doom on his chances of being the DCI. He named Robert Gates to replace William Webster, who had gone from the FBI to the CIA in …
▶ 56:26
The administration's willingness to concede on this issue remained untested. Meanwhile, the DO stayed in business. Leary of covert operations, as Carter may have been, his national security advisor, Brzezinski, demanded action. You know, be…
▶ 56:52
successively as CIA analyst, special assistant to Turner, and NSC staff director for intelligence. Robert Gates dealt with both Brzezinski and his deputy, David Aaron. He recalls, quote, the most frequent criticism of the CIA that I heard w…
▶ 2:59
According to Robert Gates, there was also those who feared greater effort would trigger a massive Soviet response and a slaughter. Existing findings made the project a harassment effort. And that was what the Congress committees were told. …
▶ 3:28
That was just made up out of whole air. They have no idea whether that was true or not. Analysts in the Directorate for Intelligence told that the project could not achieve more than a disruptive effect. But Bob Gates, its chief from 82 to …
▶ 3:59
Beef that part up. Thus, in April 1983, analysis by the intelligence Near East and South Asia office that found the Mujahideen incapable of expelling or defeating the Russians made Gates furious. Again, not independent intelligence analyst.…
▶ 7:23
Hart cabled Langley on January 14, 1982, to put this on the table. Director Casey took the question to Reagan's special group, now called, again a name change, National Security Planning Group. They met in February, according to Robert Gate…
▶ 8:19
Again, in late 1982, when the Pakistani leader again lectured Casey on his view of Russian objectives. The Gates memoir leaves the impression that Zia had to convince Casey. I'm sure it does. In addition, Gates quotes Casey as saying that Z…
▶ 43:49
a measure that probably cost the Russians more than the Stingers. There were so many ideal weapons introduced at various times, the CIA officers took to calling them silver bullets. Langley again revamped its high command for the secret war…
▶ 48:22
William Casey again did his little happy dance. He wanted to fly to Pakistan right away. But instead, Bob Gates made the trip to familiarize himself with the front line of the secret war. During the visit to Iran, Contra affair had begun, c…
▶ 1:05
Afghanistan when we left off. Okay, Robert Gates remarked at his 1991 confirmation hearings for CIA director that he would have grave doubts about the efficiency of covert operations safe for Afghanistan. In other words, we can not do them …
▶ 16:59
The CIA project to help him extended past the Reagan administration. Budget rose to $50 million. Robert Gates claims that the Secretary of State, George Shultz, supported the Angolan covert operation as a means of keeping the pressure on th…
▶ 21:05
are the ones that provoked Cambodia to get in the war. It had nothing to do with Vietnam. Agency officer William Daughtry, who held a position at Langley's Machinery for covert operations planning and approval after Iran and counter terror …
▶ 38:57
could not be overthrown. Casey did not listen. It wasn't what he wanted to hear. When leading secret warrior John Stein opposed the project and its expansion, Casey went around him. Senior analyst Robert Gates watched from the sidelines. Ga…
▶ 13:39
In the aftermath of the mining, Robert Gates sent Director Casey a penetrating commentary on agency performance. He told the CIA director that helping Congress content in its knowledge of covert actions remained critical. Gates felt the tas…
▶ 14:09
had been kept in the dark about some of Langley's activities, most predominantly in Central America. Robert Gates had previously complained to Stein on both Nicaragua and the Salvadoran issues, only to find the deputy director of operations…
▶ 14:38
Was the congressional liaison responsible for the lackluster CIA briefings on the mining? He got promoted for that to deputy director of operations. Robert Gates thought that George, in command of the clandestine service, would fulfill the …
▶ 45:22
Intelligence Deputy Robert Gates took a hand with a memo to Casey in which he began, it is time to talk absolutely straight about Nicaragua. Gates accepted the rationale for the war but noted that the Contras, even with American supports, c…
▶ 58:57
ought to have been on warning. Not only did Robert Gates send Casey personal advice to give the Nicaraguan project away, Vickers produced an intelligence estimate in February of 85 on the prospects for Sandinista's consolidation that warned…
▶ 59:25
articles in the National Intelligence Daily, which Robert Gates published, continued to highlight problems. Years later, analysts accused Gates of slanting the books in favor of the rebels. But a 1990 IG study found that the products had be…
▶ 9:31
at Langley, Bob Gates, who had replaced John McMahon as the deputy DCI, received the data on the covert operation as if they didn't have it already because Casey's intimately involved with it. Alan Fires objected that the plane and other eq…
▶ 17:56
On October 8th, Robert Gates appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee. He insisted the CIA had nothing to do with the Hassan bus plane and gave background data on Cooper and Sawyer. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee set a hear…
▶ 24:47
Two of George's staff muttering about how he had not told the Senate intelligence people anything about the November 1985 arms shipment, which, as earlier noted, had not been supported by any presidential finding at all. The deputy director…
▶ 5:51
You know, we're towards the end of Reagan's administration at this point. The election is going to be in 1988. And searching for a new CIA director at that point is like a scramble. And because he was sick, he was in and out of the hospital…
▶ 6:21
fills in temporarily after his resignation. And as a reminder, we're in the middle of exposing Iran-Contra. So it's not the job you want at this particular point. So Gates is a loyalist. He's been there through this entire operation. And Ro…
▶ 6:54
The Senate is supposed to confirm the CIA director. But how do you do that? Because he's intimately involved in Iran-Contra. And in 1986, the Democrats had regained control of the Congress. And that made Oklahoma Senator David Boren chairma…
▶ 7:24
And so they are going to be in a driver's seat. So Pat Leahy saw Gates' appointment as a wise move. The general opinion would be that he could at least answer the questions because he was there on Iran-Contra. And he tried. So he had been i…
▶ 7:57
He was seen as a leading figure in U.S. arms control talks as well. He had crafted many national intelligence estimates as a national intelligence officer. He had also been chairman of the National Intelligence Council. And so he basically …
▶ 8:27
CIA directors. And for those of you who don't know, in the government, you have an executive staff that is around you when you're the director. Anybody that's on that staff is basically viewed as a gatekeeper. They determine who gets in to …
▶ 8:59
He also had been in the White House. He served under Jimmy Carter. So again, he's viewed kind of as a bipartisan spy. He had worked for both administrations, as we know how the Uniparty works. So he also had experience in the clandestine se…
▶ 9:32
Not coincidentally, it became known that when he took over as the acting director, Gates had recorded a classified video affirming that the CIA would act only under legal authority and would never again do anything like the Iran arms shipme…
▶ 9:58
Gates quickly made it known that he felt the Iran-Contra had broken all of the rules. And he would resign if ordered to do something like that again. He didn't resign before, but now he would. So obviously, that was a very interesting intro…
▶ 10:31
He also had some misremembering of his knowledge of the Richard Secord enterprise going on. So Bill Gates, or excuse me, Robert Gates' chances were disappearing into all of the illegalities that were being exposed.…
▶ 11:38
After all of this stuff was coming to surface, Robert Gates decided to withdraw his nomination. The next day, the administration took back the nomination. Gates issued a statement defending his actions during the Iran-Contra affair and deni…
▶ 12:07
And the Iran-Contra special prosecutor affirmed those conclusions, which is weird because he was intimately involved in all of it. In his memoirs, Robert Gates, this is a quote, I would go over those points in my mind a thousand times in th…
▶ 12:31
A thousand times I would go over the might have beens if I had raised more hell than I did with Casey about non-notification of Congress. If I had demanded that the NSC get out of covert action. If I had insisted the CIA not play by NSC rul…
▶ 14:10
to the CIA. So you go from the director of the FBI to the director of the CIA. Judge Webster came with great reviews. He appeared squeaky clean. The Senate Intelligence Committee approved his nomination. The full Senate consented to it. Rob…
▶ 34:02
Quote, the American government, including the CIA, had no idea in January of 1989 that a tidal wave of history was about to break upon us, unquote. Now, keep in mind, we've had the CIA since 1947, and they're shocked that this is going on i…
▶ 34:34
President Bush also wanted his choice of the CIA director. He decided to keep Webster, Gates' successor as the DCI, would be Richard Kerr. Again, another guy from the analyst side, not the operations side. So Webster and Richard Kerr was th…
▶ 1:15:38
Into that, William Webster. And do you know who the FBI director was that appointed him? Robert Mueller. And we find Robert Gates, the guy we were just talking about, was the secretary over all of this.…
▶ 2:08
a few weeks after Desert Storm. And of course, based on what we were covering yesterday, no one missed him because no one liked him to begin with. And so the White House announced his resignation on May 8th, 1991. And President Bush said th…
▶ 2:39
The same day, Bush called Gates while they were on board Air Force One and asked him if he would accept the CIA nomination. The Iran-Contra investigations were ongoing at the time. And he would definitely not be cleared until the final spec…
▶ 3:12
was done, but that was, I mean, we know now that was going to be two years. So Alan Fiers, the guy we talked about through this whole series, pleaded guilty in July of 1991. And Gates was fearful that he would be implicated since he pled gu…
▶ 3:45
Gates later said that that was like the lowest point in his life. He had the CIA directorship at his fingertips and it was like just outside of his grasp. So Prado says that Gates realized that it had been a generation since William Colby h…
▶ 4:16
Gates had spent his entire career around all of these very controversial people. In the summer of 91, where there was confirmation that Soviet Union was going to collapse, which of course the CIA failed to predict, and Gates was caught up i…
▶ 4:50
There were lots of congressional charges being floated around that Robert Gates had basically politicized intelligence. And that took the center stage when confirmation hearings opened in September. So there was an examination and Marvin Ot…
▶ 5:20
of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff at the time. He recalls that there was a predisposition to let Gates sell through. The committee staff and members saw the appearance of a succession of analysts who gave chapter and vers…
▶ 5:51
compromising the analyst work to craft narratives. Reports on Afghanistan and Nicaragua were among those that they cited that he basically had cooked the books on. Evidence also emerged that several current employees, reluctant to openly cr…
▶ 6:23
between politics and intelligence and crafting intelligence to support the political agenda. The Gates presented kind of a preemptive defense, attempting to disarm his critics, basically showing how, trying to counteract the narrative that …
▶ 7:00
Most notably among them was Mel Goodman. He had been a colleague for years. Jennifer Glodsman, a former Soviet analyst, and Harold Ford. Yeah, the same Harold Ford that we know now. Alan Fiers appeared as part of the committee's fairly exte…
▶ 7:35
Gates himself returned for something fairly dramatic around the follow-up testimony refuting critics. The hearings became the most extensive examination of U.S. intelligence since the Church and Pike investigations. Work at Laneley basicall…
▶ 8:06
wrestled with the dilemma. President Bush intervened, invoking party discipline to ensure his nominee got backed. Oates believes Gates appealed to the White House to do this. Committee Chairman David Boren staged his own covert operation, a…
▶ 8:37
to one of the most extensive committee reports on a nomination ever, in which his committee attempted to reconcile Gates' testimony with the charges against him. In other words, you have Congress actively advocating for the CIA director and…
▶ 9:07
For all the drama that went on, the sequel did not live up to the fears. Director Gates indicated that there were flexibility with the CIA. He showed a healthy appreciation for the need to change while not really changing anything at all.…
▶ 9:37
In 1992, Gates spoke before a conference of diplomatic historians and promised that the agency would open up and be less secretive about covert operations. And to show their intentions, the CIA declassified a large portion of the body of na…
▶ 10:08
One of Gates' study groups considered politicalization, although its instructions were drawn so narrowly that they were sure to not find any. He also gathered a large contingent of officers in March of 1992 to talk about all of this, direct…
▶ 10:38
He squared the circle by acknowledging that whether or not there had been politicalization in the past, we needed to not do that anymore. Another task force focused on covert action. Among the novelties there, a delegation of senior clandes…
▶ 11:12
They didn't flinch when told that the director ought to abolish the Directorate of Operations. Of course, they weren't going to do that. And it wasn't going to be in the final report that they said that. But Thomas Twinton, who was the depu…
▶ 11:43
who thought nothing of rejecting a FOIA request for mongoose documents, whose substance was already in the church committee report, was forced to be a little bit more, less forceful in his opinions in public. The National Center to Target H…
▶ 12:15
We need more spies. The Directorate of Operations officers in the field met with silence when they proposed new operations or recruitments. Iran-Contra showed that Langley would not back its officers in trouble and now morale was suffering.…
▶ 12:43
Another clandestine officer said, quote, we were not listening. Operation officers felt they had been the scapegoat of failed White House policy. We do not hear the call to do business in a new way, in a way that would be attuned to the att…
▶ 13:13
And of course, Robert Gates was the face of that at this point. As far as covert actions were concerned, one of the operatives pointed that part of the CIA's problem was rooted in Reagan-era practices in which covert operations were conduct…
▶ 15:21
under the mantra that they had used throughout this entire time, that they were actually promoting democracy. As director, Robert Gates' vision involved gradual planned change. He put teeth into the idea of support for military operations. …
▶ 15:52
like the soon-to-be radical Islamic terrorist boogeyman as opposed to the communist boogeyman. He wanted more and better training for analysts, even though they don't pay any attention to the analysts when they report actual intelligence. W…
▶ 16:20
Gates never completed his mission. George H.W. Bush lost the 1992 election to Clinton. A few days later, on November 7th, Gates announced his retirement. He stayed only long enough for Clinton's new CIA director. The lame duck President Bus…
▶ 11:39
deteriorated even more. Woolsey proved wooden with the spooks, endearing no one. He raised hackles among the secrecy cult at Langley when he announced the CIA would declassify Cold War records, including covert action. He was merely repeati…
▶ 19:45
and submitted his report in September of 94. He found no fewer than 23 officers at fault, starting at the top. The IG's cast of culprits went from Casey, Webster, and Gates. The deputy director for operations, Claire George and Jack Devine,…
▶ 30:27
though preferring to spread the risk by having forces in Kuwait and Jordan as well. In November of 91, Bush assured King Fahd that the U.S. would maintain sufficient air power to defeat Iraq. Just as Robert Gates went back to the CIA, his N…
▶ 31:28
apparently argued that air power could negate Saddam's core capabilities. So planning was pulled into the White House to figure that out. Director Gates at the time traveled to Cairo and Riyadh. Immediately before that trip, Iraqi dissident…
▶ 33:56
to be in charge of the CIA front government, like a government in exile. Thomas Twinton, still the deputy at the time, said of these exiles, quote, they needed a lot of help and didn't know where to start, unquote. So the CIA is there to ho…
▶ 40:00
the Obama administration with Robert Gates, James Clapper, John Brennan. Gates was a member of the SAIC board of directors in the 90s. And then after he had been the CIA director, he went to SAIC's board. Clapper was a director of GOI, a sa…
▶ 15:28
Outside of the CIA. Yeah, we can do it. You just can't. Rumsfeld was ousted from the SecDef position in 2006 and replaced by Robert Gates in 2007. When Gates, a former director of the CIA and SAIC board member, took over the SecDef's job, h…
▶ 15:58
He hired General James Clapper to help them and put him in as the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. This spurred Boykin's resignation as the deputy in May of 2007. Not long afterwards, Gate and Clapper ended much of the covert act…
▶ 1:13:30
that every single one of these people that are set up in these positions like the Zuckerbergs and the Bill Gates and all that other stuff that are basically handed military technology as to pretend that they created it, every single one of …
▶ 40:07
The mercenary scare in Switzerland in August was an event of minor significance. For, as Kaptur said, things were happening on a grander scale, though unnoticed and greater ironies were taking shape. While President Obama told Americans abo…
▶ 34:22
33,000 by 2015. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced the plan in April of 2009, but only 16 months later, it was gone. He told the press that he was not satisfied with the progress. Dispelling past defeats, Representative Jan Sikowsk…
▶ 46:22
retired middle-ranking CIA officers were more outspoken about the secrets of the Cold War and illegal operations of the CIA, among them Thomas Polgar, who had retired in 81 after 30 years in the CIA and in 91 testified against the nominatio…
▶ 2:39
The author mentions a book that was published in 1991 called Silent Coup, The Removal of a President from a guy by the name of Lynn Colony and Robert Gatlin. Here's a quote. The appointment was especially puzzling in light of Nixon's deep-s…
▶ 12:40
In 1992, the book called Silent Coup, The Removal of a President, the same two authors, Lynn Coley and Robert Gatlin, presents a unique window into the Nixon administration and Bob Woodward's role in it. This is a quote from the book. Nixon…
▶ 26:00
After the death of William Casey, William Webster took over as director of the CIA. He was there from 1987 to 91 with Robert Gates as his deputy. And again, he goes on to say that he was an agent on Gates' protective detail because he had b…
▶ 26:26
He says he was pleased when he became the CIA director. Gates was a genuine CIA man, the only director to have risen from the entry level to a top position. He says, Kevin Shipp, that he would argue that the agency was mostly ran by Gates d…
▶ 26:52
It was during those years that I felt my proudest of associating with the CIA. I always found Gates to be a man of high intelligence and with a sense of humor. But in a turn of events that puzzled the author, Kevin Shipp, to this day, follo…
▶ 27:21
I can only imagine what happened in that meeting to make the guy that he knew resign. During the going away ceremony for Gates at the CIA headquarters, he, Sophia, Casey and the daughter, Bernadette, were both there. And of course, he knows…
▶ 15:42
quote, influenced Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and we got 30,000 additional troops sent to Afghanistan. He then gets hired by Army General David Petraeus, who would become the head of the CIA later on. They're allegedly to fight corru…