Forest Brotherhood organization
also: Forrest Brotherhood, Baltic resistance groups, partisan resistance, resistance elements, Forrest Brother backups, Forrest Brotherhoods, forested brotherhood
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
Lithuaniacountry · 11Soviet Unioncountry · 6United Kingdomcountry · 4Józef Lukas Dementavičiusperson · 3Operation Gladiooperation · 3Inter-Services Intelligenceintelligence service · 3Swedencountry · 2CIAintelligence service · 2Janis Plotsperson · 2Zigurds Krūmiņšperson · 2Sandy McKiblinperson · 1Baltic Partisan Struggleevent · 1Latviacountry · 1Italycountry · 1United Statescountry · 1Francecountry · 1Germanyplace · 1Gary Powersperson · 1Harry S. Trumanperson · 1Estoniacountry · 1Jonas Lucasperson · 1Avritis Galitisperson · 1
Claims (25)
Inter-Services Intelligence recruited
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“and did not have any good results with it at all. British intelligence had its own methods of recruiting and training people for the Baltic area. They played a key role in the occupation zone in Germany and around the Baltic coast. The SIS,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 43:50
United Democratic Resistance Movement headed
Forest Brotherhood book_quoted
“troops by 1946 because, again, they're left over from the war. Unlike other Baltic states, the Lithuanians managed to form a national command during 1946. This was the United Democratic Resistance Movement, or referred to as BDPS. In a repo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 33:18
Forest Brotherhood recruited
France host_asserted
“All of this began dwindling the numbers of the Forest Brotherhood. The Baltic resistance groups could have benefited from outside help. Before the end of 1945, the Lithuanian partisans had contacted many people in Sweden, Germany, France, a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 38:41
Forest Brotherhood recruited
Sweden host_asserted
“All of this began dwindling the numbers of the Forest Brotherhood. The Baltic resistance groups could have benefited from outside help. Before the end of 1945, the Lithuanian partisans had contacted many people in Sweden, Germany, France, a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 38:41
Forest Brotherhood carried_out_attack
Soviet Union book_quoted
“troops by 1946 because, again, they're left over from the war. Unlike other Baltic states, the Lithuanians managed to form a national command during 1946. This was the United Democratic Resistance Movement, or referred to as BDPS. In a repo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 33:18
Forest Brotherhood carried_out_attack
Soviet Union host_asserted
“forested brotherhood, created false flag units and tried to demoralize the Lithuanian people through atrocities carried out in the name of the resistance. Huh, that's just like Gladio. The Soviets' amnesty, along with these false flag opera…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 35:48
Soviet Union targeted_for_regime_change
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“forested brotherhood, created false flag units and tried to demoralize the Lithuanian people through atrocities carried out in the name of the resistance. Huh, that's just like Gladio. The Soviets' amnesty, along with these false flag opera…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 35:48
Soviet Union carried_out_attack
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“Forest Brotherhood benefited from the resentment triggered by the Soviet drive for agricultural collectivism and basically climbed back up to the 30,000 range. But Stalin called in 100,000 troops in order to fight them, and the Forest Broth…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 37:09
Soviet Union carried_out_attack
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“And this basically made the farmers beholden to the state. Collectivization also hurt the partisans because it relocated the farmers to defended localities. So they did basically like a course migration to move everybody where it was more e…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 38:09
Forest Brotherhood recruited
Germany host_asserted
“All of this began dwindling the numbers of the Forest Brotherhood. The Baltic resistance groups could have benefited from outside help. Before the end of 1945, the Lithuanian partisans had contacted many people in Sweden, Germany, France, a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 38:41
Forest Brotherhood recruited
Józef Lukas Dementavičius host_asserted
“which became an immigrant group in the United States. They also had sent notices to other people, basically saying they wanted freedom. In 1948, the Lithuanians sent to the West a partisan leader with a special mission. His name was Józes L…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 40:37
Józef Lukas Dementavičius exposed
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“who appeared first in Britain and then came to America, and he wrote an account of the partisan, basically the Forrest Brotherhood actions. In 1948, a study group submitted to Truman an interim report that said they had keen interest in the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 41:05
CIA funded
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“Secret operations, particularly through supportive resistance groups, provide one of the most important sources of secret intelligence, unquote. Army staff officers used this and created a small planning group to be able to piece together b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 41:29
CIA recruited
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“effort was a guy by the name of Juzas Luksa, L-U-K-S-A, who was parachuted back into Lithuanian, but died inside of the Forest Brotherhood. And it was not reported as to what he died from. So between 49 and 51, the CIA parachuted in several…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 43:22
Baltic Fishery Patrol supplied_arms_to
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“London already had a force that was perfect for infiltration by the sea. It was the Baltic Fishery Patrol that had been maintained by the Royal Navy since 1949. They were using basically shipping vehicles to interfere with Soviet naval vess…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 44:17
Reinhard Gehlen supplied_arms_to
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“They commanded a German motor torpedo boat as an entire flotilla of them in order to drop people off on the coast of the Soviet Union to, well, the Baltics, to increase the effectiveness of this operation. And they set up training camps for…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 45:41
CIA paid
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“inside their country. They were paid a handsome amount of money to include $100 a day at the time for re-entry. And if you made it back, you got a $1,000 bonus. They didn't pay out a lot of bonuses. One of the earliest landings along the co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 46:09
Zigurds Krūmiņš member_of
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“the Forrest Brotherhood. The fate of Post was unknown, but Crumens worked with different partisan bands for a year and a half until the day the Soviets captured him with a radio strapped to his back and he had been trying to hide on a farm.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 47:41
Soviet Union carried_out_attack
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“and was captured, he was sent to the exact same prison and for 17 months shared a cell with him. The partisan war basically died out eventually as most of all of the partisans that were still inside of the Soviet Union, because of their res…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 48:10
William Colby funded
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“in the entire Scandinavian region. The OPC station chief met many Eastern Europeans and Baltic immigrants and talked for hours about the conditions of their homeland. Colby recalls to boost their morale and encourage them that they, here's …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 50:04
Forest Brotherhood recruited
United Kingdom host_asserted
“All of this began dwindling the numbers of the Forest Brotherhood. The Baltic resistance groups could have benefited from outside help. Before the end of 1945, the Lithuanian partisans had contacted many people in Sweden, Germany, France, a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 38:41
Sweden exposed
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“They also had worked out arms deals through the Baltics. And in 1947, the Swedish police set out to investigate a ring of rum runners, like the drink, and wound up instead dumbling across the gun trafficking operation that was going on usin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 39:09
CIA supplied_arms_to
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“by all of the new European post-World War II intelligence networks. So the CIA is sending, and the BND and the MI6, they're sending weapons inside of the Soviet Union for these resistance cells to attack the Soviet Union. That's something y…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 34:46
Inter-Services Intelligence supplied_arms_to
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“by all of the new European post-World War II intelligence networks. So the CIA is sending, and the BND and the MI6, they're sending weapons inside of the Soviet Union for these resistance cells to attack the Soviet Union. That's something y…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 34:46
BND supplied_arms_to
Forest Brotherhood host_asserted
“by all of the new European post-World War II intelligence networks. So the CIA is sending, and the BND and the MI6, they're sending weapons inside of the Soviet Union for these resistance cells to attack the Soviet Union. That's something y…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 34:46
Mentions (23)
▶ 31:50
Those that had been left behind and were known to be war fighters met with a very swift and lethal judgment from the Soviets. So the National Upheaval in the Baltics created a wave of recruits for a thing that they labeled the Forest Brothe…
▶ 32:21
Now, I found this term in here fascinating since we know that most of the European Operation Gladio stay-behind units were set up in forested areas in the caches of weapons buried. So the fact that I ran across a label called the Forest Bro…
▶ 32:50
Which is obviously to us, knowing what we know and where they found all of the ones like in Italy and the Netherlands and Belgium and everything else makes perfect sense. Which if we didn't know about Gladio, that would have not even been a…
▶ 35:48
forested brotherhood, created false flag units and tried to demoralize the Lithuanian people through atrocities carried out in the name of the resistance. Huh, that's just like Gladio. The Soviets' amnesty, along with these false flag opera…
▶ 36:15
these resistance elements inside of the Soviet Union. Partisan resistance reached a plateau around 1947 with a strength that had basically dwindled down to at least half. So they thought they started off about 50,000 and it ends up being ar…
▶ 36:42
The BDPS held a formal training course during the summer of 1947 for 72 newly selected non-commissioned officers camping in the woods at sites that were shifted around constantly. By September, the Soviet Union security units had found the …
▶ 37:09
Forest Brotherhood benefited from the resentment triggered by the Soviet drive for agricultural collectivism and basically climbed back up to the 30,000 range. But Stalin called in 100,000 troops in order to fight them, and the Forest Broth…
▶ 37:38
The Soviets' control of production norms in Lithuania farmers posed kind of like the rallying cry, if you will, among the Forest Brotherhood. The Organizational Bureau simultaneously controlled credit and prices for use with farm machinery.…
▶ 38:09
And this basically made the farmers beholden to the state. Collectivization also hurt the partisans because it relocated the farmers to defended localities. So they did basically like a course migration to move everybody where it was more e…
▶ 38:41
All of this began dwindling the numbers of the Forest Brotherhood. The Baltic resistance groups could have benefited from outside help. Before the end of 1945, the Lithuanian partisans had contacted many people in Sweden, Germany, France, a…
▶ 39:09
They also had worked out arms deals through the Baltics. And in 1947, the Swedish police set out to investigate a ring of rum runners, like the drink, and wound up instead dumbling across the gun trafficking operation that was going on usin…
▶ 40:37
which became an immigrant group in the United States. They also had sent notices to other people, basically saying they wanted freedom. In 1948, the Lithuanians sent to the West a partisan leader with a special mission. His name was Józes L…
▶ 41:05
who appeared first in Britain and then came to America, and he wrote an account of the partisan, basically the Forrest Brotherhood actions. In 1948, a study group submitted to Truman an interim report that said they had keen interest in the…
▶ 42:53
to insert more resistance into the Soviet Union. There's a fairly large pool of people. They had as many right then, 4,000 Estonians, 11,000 Latvians, and 5,000 Lithuanians that they had as potential recruits. So that's a big bunch of fores…
▶ 43:22
effort was a guy by the name of Juzas Luksa, L-U-K-S-A, who was parachuted back into Lithuanian, but died inside of the Forest Brotherhood. And it was not reported as to what he died from. So between 49 and 51, the CIA parachuted in several…
▶ 44:40
Basically, under the guise of minesweepers, we're getting past the Soviet Navy and infiltrating the Forrest Brother backups into the Soviet Union. The CIA could be very useful in many of these different areas because the British, basically,…
▶ 45:41
They commanded a German motor torpedo boat as an entire flotilla of them in order to drop people off on the coast of the Soviet Union to, well, the Baltics, to increase the effectiveness of this operation. And they set up training camps for…
▶ 47:09
A guy by the name of Ziggurd, Z-I-G-U-R-D, Krumins, K-R-U-M-I-N-S, and Janice Plos, P-L-O-S, had orders to contact or join the Forrest Brotherhood and then set up a resupply network. And in 1952, the agents reported that they had made conta…
▶ 47:41
the Forrest Brotherhood. The fate of Post was unknown, but Crumens worked with different partisan bands for a year and a half until the day the Soviets captured him with a radio strapped to his back and he had been trying to hide on a farm.…
▶ 48:10
and was captured, he was sent to the exact same prison and for 17 months shared a cell with him. The partisan war basically died out eventually as most of all of the partisans that were still inside of the Soviet Union, because of their res…
▶ 51:01
Number one, you learn history. I had no idea that we were funding Forest Brotherhoods inside of the Soviet Union after World War II in order to encourage the resistance. We were running guns to them. No idea about that. No idea about the fa…
▶ 21:04
One early recruit to the CIA effort was Jonas Lucas, who parachuted back into Lithuania, but soon died at the side of the Forrest Brotherhood. That's the name of the indigenous fighters there. The SIS sent a team in the spring of 1950. They…
▶ 24:34
The Soviets fooled Berkus, convinced Galdens to remain in Lithuania where they executed him, and inserted their own agent, Avritis Galitis, as the purported Forest Brotherhood chief. Galitis went completely unsuspected, regaling British cas…