Albert Haney person
also: Haney, Al Haney, Brainy Haney
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Claims (7)
Albert Haney ordered_assassination_of
Jacobo Árbenz book_quoted
“connotations was the creation of a list of Guatemalans for disposal by the new regime, evidently requested by Al Haney. Now, why is that important? This is a list of people to assassinate. You know, like the list the Democrats are currently…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 22:16
Albert Haney carried_out_attack
Operation PBSUCCESS host_asserted
“He proceeded to Opelika, Florida to begin setting up a forward base codenamed Lincoln. Haney exercised general supervision over the CIA chiefs in the nations surrounding Guatemala so that they could control all of the forces to be used in P…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 54:26
Albert Haney member_of
CIA book_quoted
“of arms and equipment were delivered. Agency officers increasingly distrusted Castillo Armas, explored another structure that would exclude him. Cost estimates for the Sherwood Radio Project had firmed up to the degree that Al Haney decided…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 20:45
Frank Wisner appointed
Albert Haney host_asserted
“Once Roosevelt turned down the job, Wisner got Allen Dulles to recall Korean station chief, former Army Colonel Albert Haney, H-A-N-E-Y. Haney had set up the CIA guerrilla units in Korea. And by guerrilla units, I mean stay behind units. Do…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 52:51
Albert Haney headed
Opelika, Florida host_asserted
“Since there was going to definitely be a paramilitary aspect to Guatemala, he was the perfect person. So, again, how are these people in the military leading all of these CIA operations if they're actually in the military? Because that does…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 34:30
Frank Wisner recruited
Albert Haney host_asserted
“B-I-S-S-E-L-L, had been an economist by trade and came to the CIA from the Ford Foundation. Together, they coordinated the Washington Inn of the planning. Frank Wisner's task as deputy director of plans was to select who's going to be the f…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 33:29
Albert Haney trained
Felix Rodriguez host_asserted
“Florida. You know, the same base that Felix Rodriguez ended up at and all of the Cuban exiles were trained to go into all of the death squads like in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica. Yeah. So, same place. Training te…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 35:01
Mentions (27)
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B-I-S-S-E-L-L, had been an economist by trade and came to the CIA from the Ford Foundation. Together, they coordinated the Washington Inn of the planning. Frank Wisner's task as deputy director of plans was to select who's going to be the f…
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Haney, H-A-N-E-Y. And he came up in our story when we were talking about the aftermath or during and the aftermath of the Korean War when we covered Korea. In Korea, Haney had done the first-rate job of setting up all of the CIA guerrilla u…
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Since there was going to definitely be a paramilitary aspect to Guatemala, he was the perfect person. So, again, how are these people in the military leading all of these CIA operations if they're actually in the military? Because that does…
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Florida. You know, the same base that Felix Rodriguez ended up at and all of the Cuban exiles were trained to go into all of the death squads like in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica. Yeah. So, same place. Training te…
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and all of the nations surrounding Guatemala, because they're going to do to Guatemala exactly what they did to Nicaragua. Nicaragua was surrounded by Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and they basically set up terrorist training camps, as …
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The troops that were at Apalaca under Al Haney covered several walls of his operation center with a complex flow chart tracking the many distinct parts of PB's success, showing current status and what needed doing before other portions of t…
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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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himself lived in a house in Managua directly across the street from the first secretary of the U.S. embassy. On February 10th, al-Haini held a conference to check on all aspects while those things the CIA could control proceeded smoothly. T…
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Little could be done other than to try to send more messages by courier or pouch. Not possible when it was urgent. That eventuality arose almost immediately. Leaving his apartment one day, Castillo Armas, lieutenant, left behind a batch of …
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of arms and equipment were delivered. Agency officers increasingly distrusted Castillo Armas, explored another structure that would exclude him. Cost estimates for the Sherwood Radio Project had firmed up to the degree that Al Haney decided…
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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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connotations was the creation of a list of Guatemalans for disposal by the new regime, evidently requested by Al Haney. Now, why is that important? This is a list of people to assassinate. You know, like the list the Democrats are currently…
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for a list that they created in March of 1954. Rip Robertson took it to Alpilaka to be checked against CIA data. Decades later, agency researchers established that no one had actually been assassinated on the basis of these lists, but they …
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to the briefings was continue the good work and give them hell. Toward the end, Dulles turned to the chief of security and asked him to tell Haney, who was absent from the meeting, that Dulles meant exactly what he said when he referred to …
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done a lot. The agency, which had already scheduled 15 flights, made one the following night. Investigations showed that al-Haini had instructed his air officer to disregard any guidance coming from the headquarters. Secretary of State Dull…
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had long been in touch with Nicaraguan leaders. General Cabell advised Dulles to double the skimpy $300,000 programmed for unexpected developments or contingencies. Dulles was fine with that too. They just rounded up the cost to a full $3 m…
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Once Roosevelt turned down the job, Wisner got Allen Dulles to recall Korean station chief, former Army Colonel Albert Haney, H-A-N-E-Y. Haney had set up the CIA guerrilla units in Korea. And by guerrilla units, I mean stay behind units. Do…
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the skeleton of the KCIA in Korea. They had installed basically a dictator in Korea. They had already trained up their stay-behind units in Korea. So this guy has lots of experience. Former Colonel Albert Haney. So they were going to develo…
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Hans Tochte, who became a Barnes protege at the CIA, had worked under Haney in Korea. Tochte himself had recently come on board and thus could have been pulling Haney in after him. Brief in the late October, Haney accepted on the spot. Oh, …
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He proceeded to Opelika, Florida to begin setting up a forward base codenamed Lincoln. Haney exercised general supervision over the CIA chiefs in the nations surrounding Guatemala so that they could control all of the forces to be used in P…
▶ 54:57
that all cable traffic be sent to Lincoln for Dunbar rather than to headquarters and then on to Opelika. Haney had lots of problems. Many were with the CIA's own Western Hemispheric Division. Its director, like Haney, was a counterintellige…
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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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Haney, soon endowed with his own nickname, Brainy Haney, also raised hackles with Tracy Barnes, who tried to be decent and civilized, where Haney threw himself around like a loose cannon. Huh, must have got that in the army. Within his own …
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with the two baiting each other over who drove the better car for longer and who had achieved more. Haney claimed to have been the youngest bank vice president in America. To compensate, Frank Wisner devoted much time to success, leaving a …
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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…