Tom Braden person
also: Braden, B-R-A-D-E-N, Brayden
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Allen Dulles recruited
Tom Braden host_asserted
“The agency still had problems, but CIA seemed to have accepted that stimulating creativity required making certain allowances. These were the people who in 1950 spent $34 million in Europe alone on these programs. When Alan Dulles came to t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 49:19
Tom Braden founded
International terrorist organizations host_asserted
“lawyer organizations, and media organizations. Those are the exact same things that are being used today in the United States. That's not a coincidence. Once Dulles had settled in as deputy director of operations, Brayden suggested the crea…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 50:53
Mentions (17)
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President Ford realized that Colby intended to comply with all requests for information, with the exception of the names of American agents. The establishment, both Republicans and Democrats, now was facing lots of revelations. From Iran, H…
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B-R-A-D-E-N. Braden remembered Helms saying, quote, if I am going to be charged, then I will reveal Henry Kissinger's role in these operations, unquote, which, of course, he was guilty as hell in the whole Allende assassination. There were …
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And that's where they met. He was good friends with Kennedy's father, Joe. Dulles' biographer, Peter Gross, maintains that Allen knew Joe Kennedy mainly by reputation, but Dulles himself insisted in a 1964 oral history with Tom Braden that …
▶ 49:19
The agency still had problems, but CIA seemed to have accepted that stimulating creativity required making certain allowances. These were the people who in 1950 spent $34 million in Europe alone on these programs. When Alan Dulles came to t…
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man from Iowa, who before joining the OSS had fought with the British against Rommel in the Saharan Desert. Afterward, Braden and Stuart Alsop, supposedly a journalist, collaborated on a book about the OSS. Braden had advocated a peacetime …
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Dulles would do it again with Dick Bissell, Richard Bissell, was to use assistants to handle certain projects outside normal chains of command. Dulles, his outside projects concerned political and cultural warfare in Europe. And that became…
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lawyer organizations, and media organizations. Those are the exact same things that are being used today in the United States. That's not a coincidence. Once Dulles had settled in as deputy director of operations, Brayden suggested the crea…
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putting his activities on a more formal basis instead of just being a special assistant to Dulles. Frank Wisner was not happy with that because that unit would cut across his responsibilities. Wisner vetoed that initiative. Tom Braden march…
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and told him to shut up. Braden was able to form his own division. Once Wisner succeeded Dulles as the director of the operations branch, Braden continued to rely on his direct link to Dulles, ignoring Wisner and going directly to Dulles an…
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They created certain overlaps between the CIA projects and Tom Braden. For example, Braden instructed two CIA officers in Paris working for the Congress for Cultural Freedom to keep their efforts from other agency staff, stovepipes. That wa…
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It can be stated confidently that the CIA, through its clandestine covert operations, was controlling much of the international news cycle. Another project Tom Braden was involved in, in his international organizations division, was funding…
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He kept in close touch with the planning through his personal assistants. Jim Hunt was Dulles' man for field operations. Tom Braden had been working as the international organizations area, which this would encompass. And by the fall, defin…
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He'd been double-crossed, unquote, Dulles told a former CIA colleague, Tom Braden, in 1964. Quote, I said this is all a misunderstanding because as far as I know, President Kennedy did not know about the training, from me anyway, unquote. D…
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Kennedy's body was flown back to Washington and subjected to an autopsy riddled with irregularities, and Oswald was gunned down in the basement of the Dallas police by a mafia-associated nightclub owner. A year after the assassination, Dull…
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Braden asked Dulles what he had thought of Kennedy as a man. Dulles put on his morning mask and said, oh, I rate him high. I shall never forget when I first heard the news of the Dallas tragedy. I felt that here is a man who hadn't had a ch…
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So we killed him. He didn't put that part in there, but he's accurate. Kennedy was just realizing how evil the CIA was. Then he was shot, arranged by the CIA. And that's what they do. They tell you this stuff in a way that it makes it sound…
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which basically means they were using it to money launder the drug money. Tom Braden, one of Dulles' top propaganda men, later recalled David's largesse. I often brief David semi-officially and with Allen's permission. David was one of the …