Pan American World Airways organization
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American Institute for Free Labor Development funded
Pan American World Airways documented
“which is kind of the precursor to the labor element of National Endowment for Democracy. No one's allowed to organize labor movements against U.S. corporations outside of America. The Labor Development Office was a creature of the early 60s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 31:13
Pan American World Airways recruited
Claire Chennault host_asserted
“Hawley nearly wrecked the whole deal by insisting on a 10% agent commission, or $450,000 at the time, during the Curtis sale. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau protested, but was persuaded by the Chinese to approve a payment of $250,000 for a c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 39:53
Robert Lehman member_of
Pan American World Airways book_quoted
“was for years a director of both United Fruit and Pan Am Airlines, another CIA favorite, which after supplying the operating cadre for civil air transport, went on to profit directly as the backup for all of the Indochina operations. And at…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 27:21
Pan American World Airways trafficked
Lebanon book_quoted
“that at least once or twice a week, a courier would carry a brown Samsonite suitcase full of drugs from Cyprus to Frankfurt, where an arrangement in Frankfurt with a baggage handler would switch the suitcase with a similar suitcase full of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 52:39
Pan American World Airways financed_via
United States host_asserted
“which in the early post-war period was still allied with it, so that Pan Am was particularly oriented towards the development of the Pacific Rim. It has also been shown that Pan Am's staggering profits in the 60s were built around its early…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 43:57
Hans Tofte worked_for
Pan American World Airways book_quoted
“A Danish citizen by birth, Topty returned to Copenhagen after the war as a local manager for who? Pan Am Airlines. You can't make this up. Too bad war hamsters watching football right now. Later, he married an American woman and moved to Io…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 50:36
James Rockefeller member_of
Pan American World Airways host_asserted
“James Rockefeller, a cousin, was also a fellow director with Lehman of Pan Am Airlines. In the face of such pervasive economic interest in the background of military or of intelligence operations, particularly those contributing to the Viet…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 35:13
MCA Music Corporation of America succeeded
Pan American World Airways host_asserted
“And this is the Aviation Corporation of America one year later becomes Pan American World Airways. Which ties everything together because that functioned before Air America came along and all of those as the transportation of choice for mov…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 51:56
Hale Harkness appointed
Pan American World Airways host_asserted
“And if you do homework on this guy, there's some really interesting stories about his well-documented flying career. He would become the assistant secretary of the Navy in 1929-1932 and then a director of Pan Am Air Ferries. So, of course. …”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 1:17:09
Juan Trippe founded
Pan American World Airways host_asserted
“Let's skip over. Oh, I got the founder of Pan American Airways. And that's a CIA affiliate. I thought, yeah. And Pan American, of course, they're doing most of their flying around the Caribbean and South America, right? Yeah. What was his n…”
▶ The Shadow State #18 Secret Societies Pt. 2; Skull & Bones @ 1:18:17
Whitney family secretly_owned
Pan American World Airways host_asserted
“And, of course, the Whitney families were the original owners of Pan American Airlines. Oh, so they're into the CIA. You think? I knew you were going to like that one. For the audience, tell people who haven't heard you before, talk about P…”
▶ The Shadow State 20 Secret Societies 4; Skull & Bones 1837-1888 @ 24:13
David Sinton Ingalls headed
Pan American World Airways documented
“To the degree that he would often visit the White House with F. Truby Davison and Hoover. And these guys were three buddies. This is the guy that pushed for the fully deployable carrier task force. So our aircraft carriers, this guy had a l…”
▶ The Shadow State 26 Secret Societies 10; The Heinz Connection @ 22:31
David Sinton Ingalls headed
Pan American World Airways documented
“Then he becomes the director of Pan Am World Airways. Wait a minute. When was he at Pearl Harbor? After Pearl Harbor, after the attack. During World War II, he would become the commander of the Naval Air Station. Do we know when he got ther…”
▶ The Shadow State 26 Secret Societies 10; The Heinz Connection @ 23:39
Pan American World Airways supplied_personnel_for
Air America book_quoted
“was for years a director of both United Fruit and Pan Am Airlines, another CIA favorite, which after supplying the operating cadre for civil air transport, went on to profit directly as the backup for all of the Indochina operations. And at…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 27:19
Prescott Bush member_of
Pan American World Airways host_asserted
“Bush was at the time working out of 44 Wall Street. Bush, as we know, also was elected to the Senate and served on the Armed Services Committee. And Bush was on the board of Pan Am at the same time William Polly was, which is really weird. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 1:28:36
William J. Polk member_of
Pan American World Airways host_asserted
“He used his yacht to pile in a bunch of CIA trained Cuban exiles to go attack Cuba. Sailed over there, dropped him off for them to launch an internal attack against Cuba. He also was a Pan Am executive. Now, Pan Am was used by the CIA routi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 1:25:46
MCA Music Corporation of America renamed_to
Pan American World Airways host_asserted
“And this is the Aviation Corporation of America one year later becomes Pan American World Airways. Which ties everything together because that function before Air America came along and all of those as the transportation of choice for movin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 51:38
Hans Tofte worked_at
Pan American World Airways host_asserted
“He later parachuted into France and he also managed as many as 44 vessels. A Danish citizen by birth, Tochti returned to Copenhagen after the war as a local manager for who? Pan Am Airlines. You can't make this up. Too bad war hamsters watc…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 47:15
Robert Lehman director_of
Pan American World Airways book_quoted
“was for years a director of both United Fruit and Pan Am Airlines, another CIA favorite, which after supplying the operating cadre for civil air transport, went on to profit directly as the backup for all of the Indochina operations. And at…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 27:19
James Rockefeller member_of
Pan American World Airways book_quoted
“by Vietnam. James Rockefeller, a cousin, was also a fellow director with Lehman of Pan Am Airlines. In the face of such pervasive economic interest in the background of military or of intelligence operations, particularly those contributing…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 35:03
William E. Boeing headed
Pan American World Airways host_asserted
“a corporation wholly owned by none other than our famous William Polly, a salesman, and actually he wasn't just a salesman. He was the franchise owner of Curtis Wright Inc. Aircraft, and he was also head of the Pan Am subsidiary in China. H…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 38:00
Pan American World Airways acquired
Shahra Airlines documented
“Shahra Airlines. I got permission from the ruler of Shahra to form the airline, Mondal said. In the end, Pan Am, one of the favorite CIA contractors, ended up with the contract. In 1981, DeVoe invested in another company called Tiger Tops M…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19B @ 11:11
Mentions (44)
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who is CIA. He also was an executive at Pan Am, and Pan Am was oftentimes used for cargo shipments for the CIA. So when you start researching these people, they go in and out of the oligarch class into the State Department and back in order…
▶ 23:17
He was known as a political leader and a financier, ran a lot of the Whitney family businesses. Well, since nobody really knows who the Whitney's are, they probably do know who the businesses are. Anyone on Wall Street knows who J.H. Whitne…
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Other Whitney family businesses. Freeport McNamaran. How about Minute Maid Orange Juice, who they would eventually sell to Coca-Cola? And, of course, the Whitney families were the original owners of Pan American Airlines. Oh, so they're int…
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a lot of the different, back during the Flying Tigers and the World War II era, you have the infiltration of many of the airlines because they have to use them to transport their ill-gotten goods along with shipping companies. And Pan Am wa…
▶ 24:48
purveyors of support for the opium trafficking at large. And because of the difficulty in bridging both a civilian and a covert aspect of a particular airline, they opted after using Pan Am for a very long time, they opted to create their o…
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and Edith Barrera, failures to carry out their duties went far beyond just neglecting these people who had believed them and left Venezuela. In June of 2019, the Miami-based Pan Am Post published an explosive story revealing that those two …
▶ 39:35
fits right into the international syndicate while also playing a role in Operation Gladio. Other Brook Club members included three directors of the Civil Air Transport, Inc., two directors of Pan Am, which we know did a lot of work with the…
▶ 43:27
Over the years, such as Dylan Reed, represented by William Reed, and the Rockefellers, represented by Lawrence Rockefeller's employee, Harper Woodward. Perhaps the most obvious stake has been that of Pan Am, on whose board sat Robert Lehman…
▶ 43:57
which in the early post-war period was still allied with it, so that Pan Am was particularly oriented towards the development of the Pacific Rim. It has also been shown that Pan Am's staggering profits in the 60s were built around its early…
▶ 44:56
which continued with little interruption for over 10 years, was likewise a godsend for Pan Am and other big U.S. airlines at the time that had began to suffer financially. Laos generated a need for additional military air left, which after …
▶ 45:26
raise over 300 percent in four years. One can note that with some cynicism that at the heart of the so-called China lobby in Congress in the 1950s, Claire Booth Luce, very big player in Operation Gladio, Pat McCarran, M-C-C-A-R-R-A-N, and O…
▶ 46:49
any more than one can discern anything illegal in the fact that Air America's top operating personnel were also recruited from Pan Am. When, however, one looks beyond the Washington offices of Air America to the Asian field offices of the C…
▶ 38:54
Then and now, Pentagon's strategic position requires the maintenance of contractual ties to private air transport lines that can switch from civilian to military air freight when needed. An otherwise foolish escalation in Laos by the CIA an…
▶ 39:24
if traffic other than normal civilian traffic doesn't become available. Pan Am's crisis was quickly solved by the ensuing Laotian airlift. In other words, they were having fiscal problems. So, hey, we just created this need over here to fer…
▶ 27:21
was for years a director of both United Fruit and Pan Am Airlines, another CIA favorite, which after supplying the operating cadre for civil air transport, went on to profit directly as the backup for all of the Indochina operations. And at…
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were also involved in CV Star's worldwide insurance operations. The private influence of Corcoran's law firm on U.S. policy appears to have been good reason why in 1957, Fortune would report that Robert Lehman's family, investment firm of L…
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James Rockefeller, a cousin, was also a fellow director with Lehman of Pan Am Airlines. In the face of such pervasive economic interest in the background of military or of intelligence operations, particularly those contributing to the Viet…
▶ 38:00
a corporation wholly owned by none other than our famous William Polly, a salesman, and actually he wasn't just a salesman. He was the franchise owner of Curtis Wright Inc. Aircraft, and he was also head of the Pan Am subsidiary in China. H…
▶ 39:53
Hawley nearly wrecked the whole deal by insisting on a 10% agent commission, or $450,000 at the time, during the Curtis sale. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau protested, but was persuaded by the Chinese to approve a payment of $250,000 for a c…
▶ 31:13
which is kind of the precursor to the labor element of National Endowment for Democracy. No one's allowed to organize labor movements against U.S. corporations outside of America. The Labor Development Office was a creature of the early 60s…
▶ 50:36
A Danish citizen by birth, Topty returned to Copenhagen after the war as a local manager for who? Pan Am Airlines. You can't make this up. Too bad war hamsters watching football right now. Later, he married an American woman and moved to Io…
▶ 49:39
is a DC-6A aircraft, tail number N89BL, originally owned by American Airlines. In June of 1960, World Airways bought the plane. And remember World Airways? We talked about that in the book Mafia CIA. Yeah, that one. Leasing it the same day …
▶ 50:13
From World Airways, they leased it to Air America. Wandering planes in addition to money. At other times, Air America lent money to Southern Air. Southern Air won a $3.7 million Air Force contract to move cargo and passengers to inter-islan…
▶ 1:25:11
You have no idea what's real. They have literally touched everything. And by touch, I mean like owned it. So entire airlines, Pan America, TWA was, what's the other one? Eastern. So I found out that Eastern Airline had a lot of interplay wi…
▶ 6:39
A friend of Carol's from his OSS days in Nice gave them a quiet table and kept people away. Always helps to have friends. Roosevelt took the paper on to London with only minor changes. On his last evening in Beirut, he dined with the chief …
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Otis Elevator, Pan Am, Pfizer, RCA. Oh, and my favorite, the Rand Corporation. Yeah, they're in there too. Let's see. The San Joaquinto Petroleum Corporation. Now I'm producing a document that lists all of the foundations from a diagram tha…
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which is why he has never been picked up or assassinated by an Israeli hit team. In April 1989, four months after the destruction of Pan Am 103, the BND, the CIA counterpart in Germany, raided an apartment in Neuss. Inside, they discovered …
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by U.S.-friendly intelligence. Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Others also changed their mind about flying on Pan Am 103. According to one Pan Am security officer, quote, it subsequently came to me on further inquiry that they hadn't i…
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being bombed on April 14th, 1986, air raid in Tripoli, sent two of his intelligence officers to Malta to build a suitcase bomb that they didn't know how to build. They then tagged the suitcase for JFK in New York City, put the bomb aboard a…
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that at least once or twice a week, a courier would carry a brown Samsonite suitcase full of drugs from Cyprus to Frankfurt, where an arrangement in Frankfurt with a baggage handler would switch the suitcase with a similar suitcase full of …
▶ 58:44
Pan Am 103 at Heathrow, Major Chuck McKee, Linda Forthright, Pan Am ground hostess at Lockerbie remembered McKee because he had asked for an upgrade. He had a certificate for a program that was running at the time, and I moved him to first …
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At 7.02 p.m. on Wednesday, December 21, 1988, Pan Am 103 had reached 31,000 feet on a course across Britain. One minute later, over the Scottish Isle of Lockerbie, almost to the coastline, a bomb exploded aboard the plane. The combination o…
▶ 1:18:17
Let's skip over. Oh, I got the founder of Pan American Airways. And that's a CIA affiliate. I thought, yeah. And Pan American, of course, they're doing most of their flying around the Caribbean and South America, right? Yeah. What was his n…
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What I found interesting is Bush sat on a lot of other boards at the time. He sat on the board of Brown Brothers Harriman, the U.S. Guarantee Corporation, Prudential Insurance, CBS, your favorite Pan American Airways, which, of course, is a…
▶ 24:13
And, of course, the Whitney families were the original owners of Pan American Airlines. Oh, so they're into the CIA. You think? I knew you were going to like that one. For the audience, tell people who haven't heard you before, talk about P…
▶ 24:41
um to air um you have the infiltration of many of the airlines because they have to um use them to transport their ill-gotten goods along with shipping companies and pan am was one of the original um purveyors of support for the opium traff…
▶ 25:12
At large. And because of the difficulty in bridging both a civilian and a covert aspect of a particular airline, they opted after using Pan Am for a very long time, they opted to create their own civil air transport, CAT, Air America, and a…
▶ 22:31
To the degree that he would often visit the White House with F. Truby Davison and Hoover. And these guys were three buddies. This is the guy that pushed for the fully deployable carrier task force. So our aircraft carriers, this guy had a l…
▶ 22:31
To the degree that he would often visit the White House with F. Truby Davison and Hoover. And these guys were three buddies. This is the guy that pushed for the fully deployable carrier task force. So our aircraft carriers, this guy had a l…
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Why is that significant, Colonel? Because Pan Am was the Air America before the CIA. Yeah, Pan Am was the airline that the oligarchs and the government used for intelligence missions. That's crazy. I knew you were going to like that one. Af…
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Then he becomes the director of Pan Am World Airways. Wait a minute. When was he at Pearl Harbor? After Pearl Harbor, after the attack. During World War II, he would become the commander of the Naval Air Station. Do we know when he got ther…
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And this is the Aviation Corporation of America one year later becomes Pan American World Airways. Which ties everything together because that functioned before Air America came along and all of those as the transportation of choice for mov…
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We got a couple of people that were part of founding Pan American Airways. Now, why is that important? Because Pan American Airways was Air America before Air America was Air America. They are like lockstep with the CIA and before that. All…
▶ 1:17:09
And if you do homework on this guy, there's some really interesting stories about his well-documented flying career. He would become the assistant secretary of the Navy in 1929-1932 and then a director of Pan Am Air Ferries. So, of course. …