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Claims (38)
Victor Henderson Ash II appointed
Poland documented
“He was the ambassador of Poland from 2004 to 2009. What's going on in Poland during those years? What? I skipped over Italy, but that was the fall of Silvio Berlusconi when Thorin was there. And, okay, Poland. Poland underwent transformativ…”
▶ The Shadow State 48 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 1 @ 1:19:18
George H.W. Bush ended
Poland documented
“Contra. It took Bush several months to move on the Gorbachev and Eastern European piece of this. By mid-April 1989, the president had ended trade restrictions on Poland and gave the first of several speeches about Eastern Europe and Russia …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 35:10
Open Society Foundations targeted_for_regime_change
Poland book_quoted
“billionaire George Soros established in Budapest the Soros Foundation. His first target was Poland. John Paul II and U.S. President Ronald Reagan met in 1982 at the Vatican to discuss the destabilization of the communist bloc. In this endea…”
▶ The Colonels Corner US Empire-CIA-NGOs @ 10:23
Adolf Hitler carried_out_attack
Poland host_asserted
“No, there's a big issue going on with Poland. There's some territory that was carved out of World War I in the Treaty of Versailles. There's a large German population that somehow got carved into Polish territory. The Poles were not treatin…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 9; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (1 of 2) @ 51:43
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists carried_out_attack
Poland guest_asserted
“to basically mass murder people. And that's exactly what they did in the 1940s during World War II. They were an apparatus of the Nazi party in Ukraine, where they killed massive amounts of Polish people, at the time Soviet Union Ukrainians…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner OPEN MIC FRIDAY Charlie Kirk Analysis @ 1:08:14
Poland member_of
NATO host_asserted
“were pushing hard for engaging Azerbaijan in a membership question. Quote, Turkey, Romania, Italy, Poland, and UK and the Baltic states, unquote, are among the member states also backing a fast track for Azerbaijan's NATO membership. I'm ju…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 13:51
Adolf Hitler carried_out_attack
Poland host_asserted
“In World War II, they had tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people murdered as a result of those. And he is talking to them, telling them that he intends to wipe out, it's a worldwide, and he says out loud that Putin is not…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:54:00
Victor Ashe appointed
Poland host_asserted
“You're getting a lot of bonesmen out of this private grooming school, aren't you? Yes, a lot. There's more, believe it or not. I got a Victor Ash, class of 1963. Now, you might remember that name. He also went to the Groton School before he…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Bady 2025-05-22 @ 12:26
Assembly of Captive European Nations member_of
Poland documented
“ACEN, Assembly of Captive European Nations. ACEN brought together all of these organizations, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. They also provided representatives to participate in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6 @ 26:30
Herta Field covered_up
Poland book_quoted
“and subject to torture, beatings, sleep deprivations, and endless interrogations. Noel's brother, Herman Field, who was an architect professor, suffered less vicious treatment after he was grabbed by Polish secret police three months later …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 7:02
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists carried_out_attack
Poland guest_asserted
“the OUNB formed this organization called the UPA, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. And so a lot of times the Soviets and other people would refer to them as the OUNUPA, or OUNUPA, as the Ukrainians say it. And they conducted this massive genoc…”
▶ Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background @ 10:47
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists carried_out_attack
Poland guest_asserted
“was created. And it basically, after the failure to create a state, they created this organization called the UVO, the Ukrainian Military Organization, which was a terrorist group that spied for Germany and was attacking the Poles because t…”
▶ Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background @ 7:56
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists carried_out_attack
Poland guest_asserted
“were quick to join their movement, and basically they carried out a genocide against Jews, against Poles, against Russians, and were, like, incorporated into the German military intelligence. They also had formed ties with MI6 before this. …”
▶ Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background @ 9:52
Herta Field spied_on
Poland documented
“Both Field and his father had put themselves at his service, but Dulles did nothing to rescue Field, and he did nothing to prevent Noel's family members from walking headlong into the same trap. Three months into the long ordeal, as a capti…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 34:20
United States established_bases_in
Poland host_asserted
“We weren't going to expand NATO. There wasn't going to be any military bases in any of the non-Soviet countries like Romania and Poland. And we've put military bases in all of them. And then he talks about the operations in Yugoslavia, Chec…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shell Game Part 3 @ 41:21
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists assassinated
Poland book_quoted
“struck back when the Polish vice minister of defense was killed. While Czech security strove to seal the border, they proved unable to prevent Ukrainian infiltration. The fall of the Czech defense minister, General Ludwig Svoboda, estimated…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 14:38
Peter Del Scott member_of
Poland documented
“Scott, the son of a distinguished Canadian poet, had served as a Canadian diplomat to Poland, and much of his social life when he arrived in Berkeley revolved around passionately anti-Soviet Polish immigrants. One day, a former Polish army …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 33:31
Averell Harriman controlled
Poland book_quoted
“and went there often. And interestingly enough, it says in here that Harriman didn't necessarily like the Dollases, but he respected their ability to get done what he needed to have done. Said that he controlled the entire electrical grid i…”
▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 48:42
Allen Dulles funded
Poland book_quoted
“However, Dulles fully emphasized projects for Germany, for the military junta of Poland, and for Mussolini's fascist state in Italy. The U.S. State Department documents assembled by Prussian provide some indication of the nature and scope o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 23:41
Nazi Party carried_out_attack
Poland documented
“a series of mass graves of Ukrainian rebels that the Soviet secret police had murdered in three different cities near where the Ukrainian-Polish border is. The Germans aggressively publicized these killings to divert attention from their ow…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 6:25
Soviet Union carried_out_attack
Poland documented
“a series of mass graves of Ukrainian rebels that the Soviet secret police had murdered in three different cities near where the Ukrainian-Polish border is. The Germans aggressively publicized these killings to divert attention from their ow…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 6:25
Nazi Party carried_out_attack
Poland documented
“That was to shake up the alliance to its foundation and leave a lasting mark on post-war politics. On April 13th, the German press reported that German army reconnaissance units had discovered a mass grave of thousands of slain Polish army …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 29:59
Poland exposed
Soviet Union documented
“The Russians still kept trying to blame the Germans for that. And it was actually the Poles in the Nuremberg trials that were like, ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This was you guys. And the Poles would never let the Russians live that down…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 43:03
Nazi Party carried_out_attack
Poland book_quoted
“I guess it's Action T4, A-K-T-I-O-N T4, that began in the fall of 1939. Reports from German-occupied Poland suggest that the SS gassed a number of Polish prostitutes at the same time. They were referred to by the Polish people as cold pogro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 2:49
Edward Schultz spied_on
Poland book_quoted
“They showed off their knowledge in casual conversations. The results of this simple espionage was impressive. Schulte provided early warnings to the Allies of the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviets in 1941. And perhaps, th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 21:28
Adolf Hitler ordered_assassination_of
Poland book_quoted
“Thus, for the time being, I have sent to the east my death head units with the order to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of the Polish race or language. Only in such a way will we win the vital space that we need. Who…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 5:51
Poland exposed
Holocaust book_quoted
“Ambassador Winnett cabled to Washington. Meanwhile, Polish intelligence operatives working out of Switzerland provided a remarkably detailed accounting of the exterminations and the slave labor program based on their penetration of the labo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 27:45
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists carried_out_attack
Poland host_asserted
“But what we now know as Azov and Reich Sector, back then they were under the Bandera and I forget the other guy. His name starts with an M because they were called the OUN-B and the OUN-M back in the day. And Otto Skorzeny went there and tr…”
▶ Assassination_Operation Gladio W_Brady, GofBPH, Alpha, CannCon&Brian @ 1:07:29
Donald Trump targeted_for_regime_change
Poland host_asserted
“If you listen, the best speech that I can point you to is when President Trump was in Poland and he gave a speech. If you go read that speech, he talks about these terror networks. He basically is telling Poland because they were significan…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:53:34
William Casey targeted_for_regime_change
Poland host_asserted
“politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 8:01
Pope John Paul II targeted_for_regime_change
Poland host_asserted
“They were sending the Pope a message. It was never meant to kill him. They were sending him a message. He was talking to the Soviet Union through Poland, his home country. He was not allowed to do that. He was sending them money trying to b…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 1:22:22
BND carried_out_attack
Poland book_quoted
“which was affiliated with the Spanish Foreign Ministry and had excellent financial and publishing resources at its command. So they're going to begin working with Albania, Hungary and Poland, as well as Slovakia. And weirdly enough, that's …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 42:03
Averell Harriman funded
Poland host_asserted
“complete what was referred to as his pet project, financing the electrification of Poland, because he was actually involved in electrification with GE of Russia. And so they also moved on. Harriman had agents in Poland, and the Sullivan and…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 36:05
Sullivan & Cromwell funded
Poland host_asserted
“complete what was referred to as his pet project, financing the electrification of Poland, because he was actually involved in electrification with GE of Russia. And so they also moved on. Harriman had agents in Poland, and the Sullivan and…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 36:05
Averell Harriman funded
Poland book_quoted
“like we were talking about with the Harrimans in Russia and doing the railroads and stuff like that. You're also going to find, according to this book of Sullivan and Cromwell, which I know is one of your favorite topics, that Averill Harri…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 36:02
Sullivan & Cromwell funded
Poland book_quoted
“financing the electrification of Poland because he was actually involved in electrification with GE of Russia. And so they also moved on. He had, Harriman had agents in Poland to, and the Sullivan and Cromwell's office in Berlin actually he…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 36:26
Stepan Bandera carried_out_attack
Poland host_asserted
“the death count under these people, literal Nazis trained by Otto Skorzeny, was horrendous into Poland, throughout Ukraine, just massive amounts of slaughter. Primarily Jewish people…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 12 @ 1:16:35
Soviet Union carried_out_attack
Poland speculative
“There's now questions or two about the – at the very least, I saw a photo floating around on Twitter, and maybe this is true, maybe it's not, of one of the drones that flew over Poland being patched together with duct tape, and these are su…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner OPEN MIC FRIDAY Charlie Kirk Analysis @ 30:53
Mentions (120)
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But what we now know as Azov and Reich Sector, back then they were under the Bandera and I forget the other guy. His name starts with an M because they were called the OUN-B and the OUN-M back in the day. And Otto Skorzeny went there and tr…
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But given what we know now, you have to go back and reassess things. We know now that when Ukraine fired that missile into Poland and then everybody screamed that the Russians had done it. They've been doing false flags. Ukrainians have bee…
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Reinhard Galen and Hitler, how maniacally evil they were in order to impress them. So the death count under these people, literal Nazis trained by Otto Skorzeny, was horrendous into Poland, throughout Ukraine, just massive amounts of slaugh…
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Bandera and the current Azov battalion and right sector battalion or entity traces their roots back to Bandera. They have herald him as a hero and he was a Nazi trained by Otto Skorzeny guy in this stay behind network. And he operated not j…
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Every time he conquered a new country, whether it was Czechoslovakia or Hungary or Romania or Ukraine or whatever. Well, there wasn't Ukraine, but all of those. Poland, another example. He just picked up whatever communication device they h…
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That was not meant to kill him. That was meant to warn him because he had started the thing that is absolutely not allowed. And he was sending some of the Vatican profit for money laundering for drugs to Lech Walesa's Polish initiative to g…
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were pushing hard for engaging Azerbaijan in a membership question. Quote, Turkey, Romania, Italy, Poland, and UK and the Baltic states, unquote, are among the member states also backing a fast track for Azerbaijan's NATO membership. I'm ju…
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and was on his way into Russia did not recognize, which he promised he would, Ukraine as its own sovereign country, which pissed off Bandera and several of the others. So regardless, they wanted to garner favor with Hitler in order to make …
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I think what the U.S. was focused on back in the 80s, though, was the Iron Curtain and what was going on in Eastern Europe and the Pope's visit to Poland and just all of the mess that the Soviet Union had created for Eastern Europe. And we …
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the Rockefellers, and Standard Oil. In the 1930s, Dulles and Dietering shared a common interest, the new leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler. Alan Dulles wasted no time in arranging to speak with Hitler personally. Soon after he'd come to power…
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still 300 miles inside the Reich. Or Annie would send housewives raiding grocery stores by reporting that the Allies had dropped fake ration stamps. Once the station described a celebration honoring German railroads, most of them slave labo…
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complete what was referred to as his pet project, financing the electrification of Poland, because he was actually involved in electrification with GE of Russia. And so they also moved on. Harriman had agents in Poland, and the Sullivan and…
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You're getting a lot of bonesmen out of this private grooming school, aren't you? Yes, a lot. There's more, believe it or not. I got a Victor Ash, class of 1963. Now, you might remember that name. He also went to the Groton School before he…
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As from a mayor of Tennessee. So it had to have been the connections. And obviously it's his high school and the fact that, oh, Victor Ashe was a bonesman. Another one. And he was the ambassador to Poland when? 2004 to 2009 under Bush. So i…
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Kind of a bit of a rhino. Yeah. He raised $100,000 for George W. Bush. He compared Obama's plan to raise the tax rate on carried interest to Hitler's invasion of Poland. You'd later have to apologize for that remark. But this whole carried …
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And his parents was Ash, anyway, Canazi Jewish people from Galicia. And Galicia is from, oh my God, look at that, Ukraine. Okay, so a region, it was technically Poland when he was born, but it's actually today Ukraine. And you're going to f…
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banked at the same kind of front bank, if you will, in Chicago as the mob did. And so there was lots of overlap there. So all of that is to set up the role of John Paul II and how his involvement with, because he was from Poland originally.…
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groupings of years, trillions of dollars. And by a rough order magnitude of math, you can multiply that times 15% and understand that they were making a lot of money. So John Paul II wanted to use part of the money that they were making to …
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buying Poland's freedom, that the USSR, the Soviet Union, would not interfere too much, enough to make it look like it was legitimate, but not too much, to allow their worker strikes and that type of thing to kind of have its effect and bas…
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that this was happening and that John Paul II was basically negotiating with the Soviet Union, and they didn't take very kindly to that. And one of Paul Williams' points that he made was that there was a strike, which was the biggest one ev…
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If you listen, the best speech that I can point you to is when President Trump was in Poland and he gave a speech. If you go read that speech, he talks about these terror networks. He basically is telling Poland because they were significan…
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In World War II, they had tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people murdered as a result of those. And he is talking to them, telling them that he intends to wipe out, it's a worldwide, and he says out loud that Putin is not…
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Just on Ukraine, it's sort of a controversial topic. It's sort of like a, basically, there's never been, there was never a country called Ukraine in history until after World War I. And really, it was sort of a part of Russia that was conqu…
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And the Ukrainians were like, you know, we're a separate nation. Really, it's kind of a Russian dialect, but you're not really allowed to say that. So basically, after World War I, they briefly had an attempt. They had two separate Ukrainia…
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the part of present-day Ukraine was always divided between first Poland and Russia, and then later the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia. And so at the start of World War I, part of Ukraine was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The rest of i…
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German puppet state, and then when Germany lost the war, they briefly fought against the Soviets, and then the white Russians were also fighting in Ukraine. The Western, like France, was occupying Odessa, and there was this attempt to creat…
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was created. And it basically, after the failure to create a state, they created this organization called the UVO, the Ukrainian Military Organization, which was a terrorist group that spied for Germany and was attacking the Poles because t…
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Told Melnyk to resign and let him lead it. Melnyk refused. And so it was split, basically. So the OUNM was also fighting the OUNB. They were both competing for German support. And basically when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the…
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the OUNB formed this organization called the UPA, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. And so a lot of times the Soviets and other people would refer to them as the OUNUPA, or OUNUPA, as the Ukrainians say it. And they conducted this massive genoc…
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They end up getting this territory anyways because it's part of the Soviets. At the end of the war, Poland was a puppet state, so they created this arrangement where Poland would get the eastern part of Germany and Ukraine would get the eas…
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people inside of Ukraine that wanted their own country in many ways took advantage of the world wars in order to try to make their case and create a country where none had existed before. Is that a fair assessment? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, …
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they have in Eastern Europe is very much this sort of, you know, the West is superior. And they think that the Europe, just because Ukraine is to the West of Russia, that doesn't mean it's in Western Europe. I mean, there's still like all t…
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a few days after the incident, got a garbled version of the truth talking about some of the people in these roving bands had been captured, said the prisoner had told the army counterintelligence they were anti-Soviet partisans from Ukraine…
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kind of is a new point because Ukraine, what is today Ukraine and what they called Ukraine back then was a combination of Eastern Poland and Western Russia. So that may be a distinction without a difference right there. But it says detailed…
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the um the original coup where they tried to get Sukarno out of office um in Indonesia after they were granted their independence from the Dutch in order to steal their oil and gold so then he shows up in Yugoslavia then he shows up in Pola…
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politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …
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This was all about him working for the CIA. Neil Livingstone was one of Gray's employees. While he was there, he worked on many projects unrelated to PR. Livingstone said that he played a key role in supporting what? The anti-communist acti…
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Stalin had no difficulty in making certain changes to the European borders of Russia. Parts of Poland were annexed to the Ukraine and to White Russia. Parts of Finland were taken over. In some areas, Baltic republics annexed to White Russia…
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So you see how this whole thing wraps around. Many from these minorities fought with the whites, called the white Russians, against the communists during the Russian Civil War. Ukrainian forces also arrayed themselves with the Poles during …
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Control measures confronted a people in turmoil at the end of the year. Over half of the Lithuanians who had survived forced labor in Germany or service in the German army stayed in the West. About 50,000 more fled to the West as refugees, …
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That's the worst part of all of this. This is why a lot of this is coming to light. From IBM's perspective and the code that's been built by IBM, you also have to take into consideration it's just not U.S. employees that work on that code. …
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And specifically with the situation with Russia. I think this was 2023. What I like to do is I usually like to give people detailed specific points so that they can do the research on their own. But in 2023, one of the things that happened …
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And Elbrick's origins come from Louisville, Kentucky. He went to Williams College and he joined the diplomatic corps two years after he graduated. He worked his way up through Panama and Haiti, which I find very interesting, given the opera…
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had done very, very little to antagonize the United States, not even to antagonize Britain. I mean, Britain, for heaven's sake, I mean, once again, we're way off course here, but Britain at that time, going back into 1939, Britain at that t…
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A last-minute alliance with Poland. So when the people in the German section of Poland cried out to be liberated, because there were Germans, there weren't Poles, by Hitler, and Hitler invaded Germany, England went at war with Germany. And …
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the Soviet threat in Europe, including Italy, and that brings us back to Italy. Can we talk a little bit about actually during World War II? Because I want people to understand that the connection between what's going on in Ukraine today an…
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I'm sorry, people are bothering me. They consisted of three different sectors. The western sectors, the sector that borders Poland, and during much of the 20th century, consisted almost solely of Poles, Polish-speaking people, people that s…
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from releasing the Epstein files. You just had a revolution in Nepal. France looks like they're in serious trouble. Macron's grip on power seems to really be slipping. His grip on the levers of power seems to really be loose right now. You'…
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There's now questions or two about the – at the very least, I saw a photo floating around on Twitter, and maybe this is true, maybe it's not, of one of the drones that flew over Poland being patched together with duct tape, and these are su…
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So the pictures, I think it was, who was it? I don't know if it was Illini that said about the unrest around the world to include in Poland. I won't be able to post it in the space, but I am going to repost it on my...…
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about the pictures of the supposed drones that Russia was accused of sending in to Poland recently. And the pictures of them, no kidding, has duct tape on them. So... And that's hysterical. It is. I mean, like, it...…
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But it's not something outside the norm, right? Because they had the showcasing of the supposed missile that landed in Poland at the beginning of this, and everybody was screaming, oh my God, Russia attacked Poland, when in fact it was a Uk…
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There's a history between the CIA and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. And there has been, you know, a number of covert paramilitary facilities that they've been well trained in. And we shouldn't be shocked by it. And if we're wi…
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Because these people actually saw Haig as a competitor to Reagan. It almost, and this is complete speculation, so I'm going to asterisk it and put big stars. But just like they did with the Pope when they shot him and they didn't really sho…
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There was something in one of the videos that I was watching a couple days ago where they were talking about Jacob A. Schiff and the Germany and Poland, like the northeast area to Koch's, you know, that kind of Cold War sort of thing. I'm n…
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Because, again, they were cut off from everybody. Washington learned of this move when an agent in Poland reported the loading of weapons aboard a freighter. The ship turned out to be Swedish vessel ALFHEM, which eluded several attempts at …
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had not been discussed since 1950, which is kind of interesting because if you go back in old maps, which I always do, when we were looking at this, when we first found out about the secret CIA base in Colorado, the old maps that we found h…
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Managing to capture a radio and two officers of King Zogg's bodyguards sent in during the spring of 1952, they forced the captives to use the radio to mislead Majanis with glowing reports of a growing resistance that had already started, wh…
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until World War II intervened. At that time, nationalist Stephen Bandera was serving a life sentence for his murder of a Polish minister of the interior. Bandera escaped during the German 1939 invasion of Poland and was elected head of the …
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They were scattered all over Ukraine, Poland, and even Czechoslovakia. From the summer, when the last German troops were driven from South Russia, the OUN fought on its own. This was a partisan warfare on a grand scale, and it did not end w…
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did have information involving him in blatant war crimes. American authorities informed the Soviets that they didn't know where Bandera was. On the ground, the partisan struggle continued for the liberation of Ukraine, including those parts…
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When the Germans conquered that portion of Ukraine, they captured them and put them in basically death camps in Germany. Among the Hutzul, H-U-T-Z-U-L, who inhibited the footlands of a mountainous area, OUN's feelings ran especially strong.…
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that had basically been former Nazis. And so he's just kind of mopping everybody up. And these operations were happening in southern Poland, Czechoslovakia, Soviets. And the OUN, although still powerful, was running into a bloody chainsaw c…
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The Czechs' army made strenuous efforts to seal off their borders. They were unable to prevent the infiltration of Ukrainian bands. The Czech defense minister, Savada, estimated that 100 or 200 partisans were still at large inside their cou…
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Every single time they inserted a unit back into Ukraine, they were decimated. The same thing happened to Ukraine that happened in Hungary, that happened in Albania, that happened in Poland. They would just like literally kill them as soon …
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It was political dynamite. Khrushchev's political maneuver succeeded, but the text of his remarks was leaked to the CIA. It materialized after Alan Dulles ordered a search. Quote, I have already regarded as one of the major coups of my tour…
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while only 20% had gotten a leaflet. According to the CIA's own post-mortem, in the four months between publication of the secret speech and the Hungarian revolution, radio-free Europe was non-stop. There were also riots in Poland in reacti…
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With these came the return of the communist faction that was responsible for earlier purges. Soviet troops deployed momentarily, but were recalled. Jan Nowak, heading Radio Free Europe's Polish broadcasters, kept the reporting low-key, avoi…
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After 1962, when the CIA's International Organizations Division merged with a covert action staff, they were still running the student program. It was literally part of the covert operations. Later investigation established that the CIA had…
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The CIC debriefed the men for more than three weeks. Interrogators satisfied themselves that the new arrivals were in fact Ukrainian partisans. There were against Russian forces still in progress in Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, and southern Pol…
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Officers in Frankfurt worked into a report that was written on October 5th, 1947. The leader was named Karen, K-H-R-I-N, reputably one of the finest Ukrainian commanders. That spring, the band had ambushed an armed convoy of Polish troops f…
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French spy chieftain Alexander de Martins has taken credit for convincing director Casey to move on that project, but Casey needed no encouragement and Reagan backed all of it enthusiastically. The CIA waged a similar campaign in Eastern Eu…
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The imposition of martial law in December of 81 and the subsequent crackdown on the labor movement Solidarity, which was in bed with the AFL-CIO, the Catholic Church also retained great influence in Catholic Poland. Its efforts enhanced by …
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And of course, we know that the Gray Wolves shot a stay-behind unit in Turkey, shot John Paul II. That summer, National Security Advisor William Clark called for options. Brzezinski of Polish descent and expert in the matter consulted with …
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to help with arms too. Secord told Hakeem, the president of the U.S. wanted their aid. Hakeem accepted after assurances they would earn standard profits, a markup of 20 to 30%. Energy Resources, one of their webs of companies, then brokered…
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Contra. It took Bush several months to move on the Gorbachev and Eastern European piece of this. By mid-April 1989, the president had ended trade restrictions on Poland and gave the first of several speeches about Eastern Europe and Russia …
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and communist government had acknowledged its labor and democratic opposition by opening roundtable talks. Bush scheduled a visit to Poland. Perhaps the Eastern European upheaval beginning in Poland was interesting, and the CIA saw the oppo…
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They had brought down the Soviet Union. They credited, of course, their success in Afghanistan for doing that. Over the next months, the communist government of Eastern Europe were swept away. Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Roma…
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While swelling the ranks of Lithuanian communists, it indicated that many people had decided to cast their lot with the Russians. Lithuanians had contacts among some of these people. Some of them were in touch with the Western intelligence,…
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including in World War II, but they were already at it before that. At that time, nationalist Stefan Bandera was serving a life sentence for his murder of a Polish minister. Bandera escaped during the Germans' 1939 invasion of Poland to be …
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the force behind the band of soldiers who appeared in Germany in 1947. Ukrainians claim to have 50,000 soldiers by September of 1944, scattered throughout Ukraine, southern Poland, and eastern Czechoslovakia. From that summer, when the last…
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It was a multinational, fascist, anti-democratic union that long outlasted the secret war against Russia. Partisan struggles continued in Ukraine, including those parts relocated within Poland and Czechoslovakia by Stalin's border changes. …
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whom the Soviet typically associated with Nazis, because many of them were. In the spring of 1947, the Polish army, officered by Russians, began evacuating local populations. There was also coordinated attacks in the tri-border region by Po…
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struck back when the Polish vice minister of defense was killed. While Czech security strove to seal the border, they proved unable to prevent Ukrainian infiltration. The fall of the Czech defense minister, General Ludwig Svoboda, estimated…
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the foothills of the Carpathians, and southern Poland. None ever reported back. At least one team consisted of veterans of the Nazi SS Galicia Division. A CIA four-man unit was unproductive, as were several missions with secret warriors dis…
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Tronscott used his briefing to warn of the collapse of infiltration operations. Alan Dulles, who once walked out of a Tronscott talk, sat down and listened to all of the gloomy news. In late December 1952 came the collapse of yet another CI…
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The CIA had assumed that they were in contact with anti-Soviet underground called WIN, W-I-N, or Freedom and Independence. I'm not going to try to pronounce the Polish name. The roots lay in World War II when Polish resistance to the Nazis …
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Stalin then proceeded to contrive a Soviet satellite state in Poland. The WIN, W-I-N, consisted of Poles of resistance, veterans, and anti-Soviet underground. But his first commander had been arrested and tried in 1947, Soviet crackdown, af…
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While the intelligence services did not conclude that Wynne had been destroyed, right there remains a mystery because basically they had exported the entire leadership. Around that time, Harry Carr of the British side had approached General…
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who naturally had Wynne connections and sought to forge links to the underground. Poland seemed a logistical theater for CIA political warfare, certainly a place to argue for democracy against communism. Wynne seemed the ideal instrument. F…
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Bras also knew about the CIA's German base since he came to the agency from a job as legal counsel to the U.S. High Commissioner in Germany. That would be McCloy. Like others, Bras was completely fooled. Once at a meeting, he threw out a nu…
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We weren't going to expand NATO. There wasn't going to be any military bases in any of the non-Soviet countries like Romania and Poland. And we've put military bases in all of them. And then he talks about the operations in Yugoslavia, Chec…
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Scott, the son of a distinguished Canadian poet, had served as a Canadian diplomat to Poland, and much of his social life when he arrived in Berkeley revolved around passionately anti-Soviet Polish immigrants. One day, a former Polish army …
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I mean, you have to go back hundreds of years, right? I mean, you have to go back to, like, Poland or to the United States or to, you know, the French Revolution. All right. So I'm talking post-World War II. I think it's hard to find. Yeah.…
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that probably did receive some help from the Reagan administration. I have a feeling that, you know, NED and IRI were probably helping that along, along with, you know, Pope John Paul II. He tried, he tried, and then he got shot. Sure, but …
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Poland was kind of the reason that the irony of ironies, the Berlin Wall fell and it was, you know, a trade union movement. And they were able to, I'm not sure if they used strategy of tension to.…
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back to Washington. So Captain Schroeder, who was the guy that was in charge of the St. Louis, was forced to return because they were running out of food and they wouldn't even take food out to the ship. And dock at Antwerp, Belgium. All of…
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Due to research, 250 of the passengers would later die. As the war began, the struggle to save Europe's Jewish population was far from over. President Roosevelt continued to be pushed and pulled by different sides in the refugee debate. Ini…
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but you get used to it. I finally, after three years, got used to the fact that I was totally alone in the world. Wallach learned to ingratiate herself with her fellow prisoners, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Polish women, and even one Americ…
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and subject to torture, beatings, sleep deprivations, and endless interrogations. Noel's brother, Herman Field, who was an architect professor, suffered less vicious treatment after he was grabbed by Polish secret police three months later …
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Wisner had acquired a high-place double agent inside the Polish security service, a man named Joseph Switzlow. He would be told to spread the word all the way from Warsaw to Moscow that Field is actually coming to Prague on a secret mission…
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Both Field and his father had put themselves at his service, but Dulles did nothing to rescue Field, and he did nothing to prevent Noel's family members from walking headlong into the same trap. Three months into the long ordeal, as a capti…
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an academic. He seemed eager to help Herman out of his predicament. If only he would fully cooperate, there was no use in playing games any longer. Polish security knew that he and his brother were part of a conspiracy. Herman, a political …
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It says he was born in East Prussia, which is modern-day Poland, and that he is a descendant from an aristocratic family. He was educated at the University of London. He joined the Nazi Party in 1932, became a member of the SS, was assigned…
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to finance what today might be called a leveraged buyout of German and Polish coal and steel companies. Most of Dillon Reed's own capital was oil money, including substantial sums from Rockefeller, Draper, and Dillon families.…
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However, Dulles fully emphasized projects for Germany, for the military junta of Poland, and for Mussolini's fascist state in Italy. The U.S. State Department documents assembled by Prussian provide some indication of the nature and scope o…
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Another one, $10 million that was for General Electric. Goldman Sachs got in and purchased 400 shares of Credit Stock Bank of Vienna and a $70 million loan that Bankers Trust worked with Poland. All of these and more than a dozen other tran…
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or of other Axis nationalities, stateless persons, and German Jewish citizens of Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, and other Allied origin citizens. The Hague Convention defines a war crime as an offense by one belligerent against the army or…
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People of already high attainment in the world of public administration, business, professions, and local affairs that again had an affinity for Hitler. The situation in other conquered countries varied, of course. In each country, includin…
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The post-war coalition government in Poland estimated that this type of theft had cost the country the equivalent in 1939 dollars of 20 billion dollars. While these numbers are an estimate, the government obviously had an interest in claimi…
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were other Conti operations in Poland and Ukraine. The prisoners did crushing construction labor needed to reopen roads and oil fields that had been destroyed by the Soviet Union. They also laid pipelines and created new petroleum sites. Co…
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of the State Department saw things, the smaller allied states were relatively strong in the War Crimes Commission and included aggressive anti-Nazi deregulations from the Czech, Yugoslavia, French, and the immigrant community of the Polish …
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a series of mass graves of Ukrainian rebels that the Soviet secret police had murdered in three different cities near where the Ukrainian-Polish border is. The Germans aggressively publicized these killings to divert attention from their ow…
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In time, Alan Dulles and his brother John Foster Dulles became two of the more influential advocates of separate peace tactics in elite U.S. circles. The wartime hatred of Hitler and the political dynamics of the U.S. system ensured that wh…
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rather than a settlement with Germany itself. You know, more propaganda bullshit. Assuming that Nazi Germany could be convinced to join solidarity against the Soviets and to step back from its announced intention of obliviating Poland and l…
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and should be permitted to keep Austria and several other territories that Hitler had already claimed. Dulles did not seem too attached to the Czechoslovakian question. The notes continued. He favored enlargement of Poland eastward into the…
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That was to shake up the alliance to its foundation and leave a lasting mark on post-war politics. On April 13th, the German press reported that German army reconnaissance units had discovered a mass grave of thousands of slain Polish army …
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that during the 1939 division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union, there had been 15,000 Polish officers arrested. They held them in POW camps for six months, then systematically murdered them. The German announcement said that 1…
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10,000 more Polish prisoners still unaccounted for. Either way, it was a massacre. The early Soviet reply to the story claimed that the Polish officers had never been in Soviet hands at all and that the graves discovered at the forest were …
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The Soviets conceded that the Polish officers had been arrested in 1939 and that the number of them in the internment prison camp and that they had put them in the prison camp, but they were not murdered by the Soviets. Instead, the Nazis w…