J.C. King person
also: JC King, King, Colonel King, Colonel J.C. King, Joseph Codwell King
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Claims (14)
J.C. King proposed
John McCone book_quoted
“Montalva and begged for agency money to fund their campaign. Colonel King, receptive, on Christmas Eve sent Director McCone a proposal. The bid involved half a million dollars. That was going to be quite a big Christmas present. McCone want…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 31:53
J.C. King headed
CIA documented
“In the late 40s, that role had been overtaken by the new CIA and King transferred to the CIA. He soon became the chief of the Western Hemispheric Division. When the agency overthrew the government in Guatemala in 1954, King was there. Wags …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 41:15
J.C. King recruited
Christian Democrats (Chile) book_quoted
“The CIA put the groundwork in place late the year before. On December 19th, 1963, the special group approved a one-time payment to a Democrat front in Chile. At the same time, senior Christian Democrat party operatives were in Washington me…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 31:22
J.C. King member_of
FBI documented
“And who did he work for while he was doing all of those quote unquote studies? None other than Nelson Rockefeller. Yeah, Nelson Rockefeller. He also worked as a special agent in the FBI. As an entrepreneur, King had opened a condom factory …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 39:27
CIA recruited
J.C. King documented
“In the late 40s, that role had been overtaken by the new CIA and King transferred to the CIA. He soon became the chief of the Western Hemispheric Division. When the agency overthrew the government in Guatemala in 1954, King was there. Wags …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 41:15
J.C. King carried_out_attack
Guatemala Coup documented
“In the late 40s, that role had been overtaken by the new CIA and King transferred to the CIA. He soon became the chief of the Western Hemispheric Division. When the agency overthrew the government in Guatemala in 1954, King was there. Wags …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 41:15
Desmond Fitzgerald replaced
J.C. King book_quoted
“At this point, Fitzgerald, who had replaced King as the Latin American guy in charge, visited Santiago for a personal reconnaissance mission. He spent his time with the CIA station chief, Rudolph Gomez, reviewing CIA assets and operational …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 34:22
J.C. King ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“dictatorship not be permitted to stand. The White House division chief advocated a range of actions, among them that, quote, thorough consideration be given to the elimination of Fidel Castro, which would greatly accelerate the fall of the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 3:24
J.C. King recruited
Thomas Corcoran documented
“More familiar with the area than Haney, who had been a Far East guy, King called the task force chief into his office and suggested a meeting with Tommy Corcoran. Haney did not like the idea and was blunt about it. If you think that you can…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 37:27
J.C. King worked_for
Nelson Rockefeller host_asserted
“And who did he work for while he was doing all of those quote unquote studies? None other than Nelson Rockefeller. Yeah, Nelson Rockefeller. He also worked as a special agent in the FBI. As an entrepreneur, King had opened a condom factory …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 39:27
J.C. King headed
Congo Task Force documented
“Examination of special group records by the Senate committee in the 1970s shows that Dulles recommended that the CIA prepare plans to affect Castro's fall. Five days later, a dozen people met with J.C. King to create the Cuba Task Force. Th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 5:59
J.C. King member_of
CIA host_asserted
“and that Colonel J.C. King, who we know was sheep-dipped CIA guy pretending to be a military person and worked primarily for the CIA his whole career, and the involvement of Vice President Richard Nixon in that whole setup leading up to the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 33:51
J.C. King ordered_assassination_of
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“that the Nicaraguan dictator, Somoza, was going to be able to uphold his end of the bargain. And J.C. King wanted to use the first arms delivery to Castillo Armez, based in Nicaragua, to deepen Somoza's commitment. Another part of the plan …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 3:25
J.C. King member_of
Nelson Rockefeller host_asserted
“because it basically functioned as a CIA front. And now I know I had it marked and I'm not seeing it off the top of my head, but I'll have it for tomorrow because I did a little bit of digging into it and I found some interesting pieces to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 1:14:12
Mentions (47)
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appears to have maintained its own marginal links with the institutions servicing the world's organized crime and narcotics network. The most striking interlock is that of the director, let's see, J. King, who in 1954 was also the director …
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King's fellow director of the Miami National Bank and a director also of the Swiss Exchange and Investment Bank was investigated by the McClellan Committee about his use of Teamster Capital to acquire Miami National Bank and subsequently wa…
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He originated from the FBI, not the Army. Joseph Codwell King's FBI experience dated to when the agency had been responsible for all intelligence operations in Latin America. Did you know that? That they were responsible for foreign intelli…
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They still had formal control over the stations Haney was supposed to use. King, who was less affectionate, less affectionately known as his nickname, Jesus Christ. Not kidding. Because he was very, like, in charge of everything. He private…
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More familiar with the area than Haney, who had been a Far East guy, King called the task force chief into his office and suggested a meeting with Tommy Corcoran. Haney did not like the idea and was blunt about it. If you think that you can…
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even as it began to focus on Guyana. For those months, this was months after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, there were investigations, postmortems, a National Security Council policy review, and even an inquiry. A generation of CIA le…
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the man who would have ultimate command of the Guyana Project. Colonel, as in military colonel, Joseph Codwell King. He became the go-to guy. King had spent his entire career in Latin America doing studies on the American, excuse me, on the…
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And who did he work for while he was doing all of those quote unquote studies? None other than Nelson Rockefeller. Yeah, Nelson Rockefeller. He also worked as a special agent in the FBI. As an entrepreneur, King had opened a condom factory …
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and made a considerable profit. Later, he sold the plant to Johnson & Johnson, in which he was given stock. The company continued to blossom throughout Latin America. King became its vice president, selling in Argentina and Brazil. King did…
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King, let's see, his military rank, some people questioned it because he didn't appear to have a military record. However, that's not unusual. We have military officers who do classified work, and when you ask for their records, you don't g…
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In the late 40s, that role had been overtaken by the new CIA and King transferred to the CIA. He soon became the chief of the Western Hemispheric Division. When the agency overthrew the government in Guatemala in 1954, King was there. Wags …
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the U.S. involvement in Cuba, when in fact the U.S. had been taken in, using their words, air quotes, taken in. As Kennedy, people kept telling the British, King escaped blame for the Bay of Pigs because it had been managed at a level above…
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might skew the project. The colonel had nonetheless been an advocate of ousting Castro, and in 62, he saw Guyana as an opportunity to build a wall around South America. King's branch chief for this venture, a capable lieutenant, was Virgini…
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because they're selling drugs everywhere, including labor and international organizations. The director of operations controlled the CIA clandestine service had the twin mission of espionage and covert operations. The Western Hemispheric Di…
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JC King to Nelson Rockefeller too, because we know that Latin America was basically his bellyweck where the other Rockefellers were more involved in Europe and other places. Nelson was specifically concentrated on Latin America. That was ki…
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that the Nicaraguan dictator, Somoza, was going to be able to uphold his end of the bargain. And J.C. King wanted to use the first arms delivery to Castillo Armez, based in Nicaragua, to deepen Somoza's commitment. Another part of the plan …
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when Dulles' man went to Florida on his ever more numerous visits to this command post. In Mounting Fury, King complained that Haney considered himself directly under Dulles and that psychological warfare had been critically slowed by obstr…
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On March 16th, Frank Wisner met with Richard Helms, Tracy Barnes, and J.C. King and others for a high-level review. Haney warned that delaying D-Day would cause morale problems and weather difficulties. Wisner saw no need to change the ops …
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Them saying they don't want to do it because they don't want to stop PB's success. They're going to abandon the people eventually. They're key people. They relocate to the United States. We know that for further use. But they always abandon…
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or making rounds at forward bases, returned to the headquarters for consultations. These meetings were in the deputy director's office. They included Richard Helms, Dick Bissell, Kim Roosevelt, J.C. King, and Jake Esserlin. Wisner hammered …
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As an activist, he hosted several persons, including CIA Western Hemisphere Division Chief J.C. King at his Miami home. And his Miami home was a mansion with a big-ass yacht on the dock behind his house. No stranger to the agency, Polly had…
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Polly traveled to Havana in early December to fill out the Cuban politicians. King and another CIA officer accompanied him. But the moment had already passed. They waited too long. In Cuba, the rebel drive was retaining its momentum. Quote,…
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That's what he just said. Alan Dulles equated sovereignty and operating under a nationalist mantra in your own country equivalent to communism. Now, you know why communism was under every rock they picked up? Just a week later, J.C. King se…
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dictatorship not be permitted to stand. The White House division chief advocated a range of actions, among them that, quote, thorough consideration be given to the elimination of Fidel Castro, which would greatly accelerate the fall of the …
▶ 5:59
Examination of special group records by the Senate committee in the 1970s shows that Dulles recommended that the CIA prepare plans to affect Castro's fall. Five days later, a dozen people met with J.C. King to create the Cuba Task Force. Th…
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Eisenhower listened. Then he said, Alan, this is fine, but if you're going to make any move against Castro, don't just fool around with sugar refineries. Let's get a program that is really going to do something about Castro. Yes, sir, Dulle…
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telling the audience that Director Dulles would shortly take a project paper to the 5412 group. King worried that the CIA could not use certain U.S. islands for psychological warfare or paramilitary purposes, and that the leaders of the fri…
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to support such an operation and overthrow the Castro regime because there had been no evidence that he was going to do at this point anything nefarious. Presidential approval of that would give them some elbow room to get cooperation. Colo…
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Alan Dulles had barely begun his introductory remarks when he had to take a call from the president. The group waited, Bissell silent, worked through a stack of cables. General Cabell slouched in his chair. Gossip over a Georgetown party wa…
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He was trying to persuade U.S. oil companies to stop refining crude for Castro at their Cuban refineries. Three weeks later, Charles Cabell briefed Vice President Nixon on the developments. Richard Bissell and J.C. King were on hand to take…
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They're setting up black site prisons. They're torturing their people. They're disappearing their people. But they're our dictator. And a few people in the meeting had the wherewithal to say, you know, that might be a problem. General Cabel…
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who had participated in World War II amphibious landings and had been a guerrilla commander against the Japanese in the Philippines. In Korea, he had led a battalion during the conflict there. Esterling could navigate the system and ask for…
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During the Guatemalan operation. But enlisting Rip. As a contract officer. Didn't require King's approval. Esterling thought highly of Robertson. And didn't mind bringing him back. Anticipating the need to embark. The exile force. As well a…
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Richard Bissell spoke to Esterling and Jack Hawkins, arguing several times that if the project relied so much on a landing force, this needed to be much larger. Colonel Hawkins agreed. I would talk to Esterling and Hawkins, and I don't thin…
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on this period, he decided that it was basically best characterized, he being Califano, Keystone cops. On February 18th, Vance and Califano, committee chair Sterling Cottrell and others met President Kennedy in the Oval Office. Colonel King…
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The CIA put the groundwork in place late the year before. On December 19th, 1963, the special group approved a one-time payment to a Democrat front in Chile. At the same time, senior Christian Democrat party operatives were in Washington me…
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Montalva and begged for agency money to fund their campaign. Colonel King, receptive, on Christmas Eve sent Director McCone a proposal. The bid involved half a million dollars. That was going to be quite a big Christmas present. McCone want…
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They said that the Christian Democrat Party was the fastest growing party in Chile and the only one able to defeat Salvador Allende. The concept ruled out any possibility the agency might influence their policy because Langley's money would…
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The White House viewed this with caution. Ralph Dugan, a Kennedy holdover and political advisor whose special interest was Latin America and who would soon go to Santiago as ambassador, told Mac Bundy that he would not balk at three quarter…
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Weird! The first key meeting on Guatemala's project took place in Frank Wisner's office around Labor Day of 1953. Barnes and J.C. King of the Western Hemisphere Division went over all of the existing networks and operations in Central Ameri…
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The key conversations took place in Alan Dulles' office. In mid-afternoon on Friday, September 18th, Dulles brought together the players and concerned observers. Those present besides Dulles included General Cabell, Frank Wisner, Tracy Barn…
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Joseph Codwell King's division had formal control over the stations Haney needed to use. King privately thought Project Success was daffy and didn't want some task force poaching on his turf. Haney's deputy, Jacob Esterlin, proved more amen…
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and his opportunities to wrinkle everybody limited. Dulles began flying Haney up for a weekly private meeting at his house. Richard Bissell, whom Dulles had brought in as a special assistant, also found himself acting as a go-between, shutt…
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More familiar with the area than Al Haney, whose experience had been in the Far East, King called in the task force chief one day to suggest a meeting with Tommy Corcoran. You know, the guy that's the lobbyist. Yeah, they had plans and weap…
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If you think you can run this operation without United Fruit, King said, you're crazy. We're doing it for United Fruit. Might as well use them. Wisner and Allen Dulles, however, backed Haney and gave him a free hand. In the end, United Frui…
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Present were General Cabell, Frank Wisner, Tracy Barnes, Kermit Roosevelt, J.C. King. Dulles worried that Eisenhower wanted quick results. The historian Richard Immerman and David Barrett have shown that the White House itself was being pre…
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and that Colonel J.C. King, who we know was sheep-dipped CIA guy pretending to be a military person and worked primarily for the CIA his whole career, and the involvement of Vice President Richard Nixon in that whole setup leading up to the…