William Stephenson person
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Claims (35)
William Stephenson founded
British Security Coordination documented
document
“William Stephenson had developed an undercover organization in the United States called British Security Coordinator (BSC)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.149
William Stephenson headed
British Security Coordination documented
“Stevenson's, which was the British intelligence liaison to the United States. His name comes up quite often. Stevenson was the head of the British Security Coordination, BSC, an intelligence outfit tasked to speed America's entry into the w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 8:54
William Stephenson established
Camp X documented
“The basic concept was to establish an American force that could do the same thing and be inserted into Europe to assist, train, and organize people to carry out secret warfare behind enemy lines. Operation Gladio. Meanwhile, William Stevens…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 27:57
Winston Churchill appointed
William Stephenson book_quoted
“covert enterprise, particularly considering that England was operating on friendly soil. They were actually operating together. Stevenson had been sent to the US in 1940 on behalf of Winston Churchill. With Hitler's forces overrunning Europ…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 22:18
William Stephenson spied_on
West Germany book_quoted
“American public with concerns about the cost of the war, but a well-financed appeasement lobby with strong links to Nazi Germany. Churchill made it clear that he was quite willing to engage in ungenerally warfare to save his nation and do w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 23:20
William Stephenson headed
British Security Coordination documented
“Stevenson headed the British Security Council, BSC, a part of Britain's MI6. So MI6 is the same as the CIA slash OSS, and Sir William Stevenson is part of the British version of the CIA. Stevenson was a brilliant, highly successful business…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 14:53
William Stephenson member_of
British Security Coordination book_quoted
“with a massive British spy operation under the control of William Stevenson, who would become famous as the man called Intrepid. At one point, Stevenson's Rockefeller Center operation, which was tucked away under the name of British Securit…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 21:46
William Stephenson member_of
MI6 host_asserted
“COI was basically the seed to get the toe in the door to create the OSS a little bit later. And while it was supposed to be a clearinghouse for intel, it immediately began with military and political propaganda. And also a guy by the name o…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 35:56
William Stephenson carried_out_attack
Spain book_quoted
“Stevenson's operatives also undertook black bag operations such as breaking into the Spanish embassy in Washington where they stole the secret codes for diplomatic messages flowing between General Franco's fascist government in Berlin. Stev…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 24:23
Ian Fleming book_quoted
William Stephenson book_quoted
“whom he called a magnetic personality and one of the great secret agents of World War II. The novelist who worked with Stevenson's operation as a British naval intelligence agent in Washington also praised the spy master's martinis. But as …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 25:22
Robert Wood did_business_with
William Stephenson host_asserted
“Sherwood was sharing them with Stevenson and Donovan before he even gave them to Roosevelt. Think about that. That's crazy. So the British security group undertook a propaganda campaign at garnering support for the American intelligence app…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 40:11
World Commerce Corporation front_for
William Stephenson host_asserted
“to the Black population in Harlem and fund the Gladio. So the money for the opiates would eventually come from Nazi gold laundered and manipulated by Dulles and Stevenson through a corporation they set up as a front company or as a shell co…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 1:57:43
Office of Strategic Services originated_from
William Stephenson book_quoted
“It talks about Churchill immediately turned his attention to going on the offense after those were established, quote, to set Europe ablaze using subversive warfare and covert actions, unquote. It talks about the Office of Strategic Service…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 8:23
William Stephenson headed
British Security Coordination documented
“In Britain, Clement Attlee held views similar to President Truman and ordered the SOE closed down. This occurred January 15, 1946. William Stevenson's British security coordinator, the BSC, was soon to follow. Most of Stevenson's agents ret…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 43:13
William Stephenson did_business_with
Special Operations Executive host_asserted
“operated from an office located in Rockefeller Center's International Building. So I wonder who Rockefeller's independent intelligence organization was. Oh, they're sitting right in his building. So Stevenson also worked closely with the Sp…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 37:26
William Stephenson relationship_with
William J. Donovan host_asserted
“Hoover and Stevenson would ultimately have a rift between them by the 1940s. And that's at the point where Stevenson started working closer with William Donovan, which obviously would have been a thorn in Hoover's side because as soon as OS…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 38:33
William Stephenson headed
Special Operations Executive host_asserted
“Alpha over the last several weeks is while Bill Donovan and Stevenson, the guy that was basically the UK SOE chief in New York during World War II, they founded a company called the World Commerce Corporation, WCC.…”
▶ Fabian Society Hayek vs Keynes wWarHamster Brady @ 38:15
William Stephenson founded
World Commerce Corporation host_asserted
“Alpha over the last several weeks is while Bill Donovan and Stevenson, the guy that was basically the UK SOE chief in New York during World War II, they founded a company called the World Commerce Corporation, WCC.…”
▶ Fabian Society Hayek vs Keynes wWarHamster Brady @ 38:15
William Stephenson headed
World Commerce Corporation book_quoted
“CIA operative, is in charge of the BACC. And Frank Ryan is in charge of the WCC, the World Commerce Corporation. So that's just kind of where we left off as a mini refresher. So Project Safe Haven, Chapter 2. The timing of the people involv…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 8:41
William Stephenson headed
British Security Coordination host_asserted
“The British Security Coordination was ran by William Stevenson.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 55 - _WEF - WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ORIGINS_ - EP.417 @ 13:08
William Stephenson member_of
CFR book_quoted
“Lawrence Rockefeller. So again, there's lots of overlap on here. The Commonwealth Fund of New York was located in New York City. It had $120 million. And people like Malcolm Aldridge, Leo Welch, and Harold Hoskin, William Stevenson were all…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 (redo) @ 26:11
William Stephenson founded
World Commerce Corporation host_asserted
“like Frank Ryan and Ricardo Sicre, S-I-C-R-E. Closely related was another company known as the British American Canadian Corporation, BACC. This entity was founded by a British spy by the name of William Stevenson, who basically ran like th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 55:48
William Stephenson exposed
POW/MIA Cover-up book_quoted
“CBS TV 60 Minutes, after assigning Monica Jensen Stevenson to do a segment on the POW affair, refused to air it when it was discovered that she had uncovered unrefutable evidence that Americans were still being held in Vietnam, Laos, and th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 8 @ 1:07:51
William Stephenson founded
World Commerce Corporation host_asserted
“Hambro was a partner of William Stevenson, and William Stevenson ran the front company called British American Canadian Corporation, BACC. BACC merged with, while Bill Donovan's WCC, the World Commerce Corporation, because they were both fr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 30:56
William Stephenson did_business_with
J. Edgar Hoover host_asserted
“on all Operation Gladios that happened in Europe from our previous book. Okay, so Stevenson had a very close working relationship with J. Edgar Hoover, and the British provided the FBI with over 100,000 confidential reports, because that wa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 38:01
Peter Wright book_quoted
William Stephenson book_quoted
“in the hands of government. Years later, when James Jesus Angleton and William Harvey, two legends of the counterintelligence, were searching for assassins to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, they sought the advice of Peter Wright, another B…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 25:50
William Stephenson ordered_assassination_of
Gebhard Westrich book_quoted
“One of the men considered for elimination was none other than Dulles business partner Gerhard Westrick. The big spending Hitler lobbyist was eventually deported. It is this ungentlemanly Stevenson's tactic that inspired Fleming to grant his…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 24:52
William Stephenson recruited
William J. Donovan book_quoted
“And it also allowed people like Meyer Lansky to blackmail Hoover, which we will get into in a little bit. So according to Whitney, Stevenson basically was cultivating Donovan to basically work for the British interests as well, if not overt…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 39:06
Arthur Koldbeck succeeded
William Stephenson documented
“that they have documented by name, says after Stevenson established the facility and acted as the camp's first commander, Commandant Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Koldbeck, while Bill Donovan, which of course led the OSS, credited Stevenson wit…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - 'GEOGRAPHY OF GLADIO' - EP.374(AlphaWarrior Show) @ 27:28
William Stephenson headed
Camp X documented
“Blah, blah, blah. Sir William Stevenson. He's the guy that was in charge of Britain's Gladio program who established this program and the training facility there. And there's a picture of it. And it says that it was used and commanded by th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - 'GEOGRAPHY OF GLADIO' - EP.374(AlphaWarrior Show) @ 24:33
William Stephenson did_business_with
American Rolling Mill Company host_asserted
“soulsburg knew stevenson prior to the entry of the u.s into the war also for several years before the war stevenson was closely connected to press steel company which provided metal to the british automotive industry and likely did business…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 25:02
William Stephenson headed
MI5 host_asserted
“That's the guy that ran MI5.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 55 - _WEF - WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ORIGINS_ - EP.417 @ 13:08
William Stephenson headed
Special Operations Executive host_asserted
“He was involved in he was actually in charge of the special operations executive.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 55 - _WEF - WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ORIGINS_ - EP.417 @ 13:34
William Stephenson member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Blah, blah, blah. Sir William Stevenson. He's the guy that was in charge of Britain's Gladio program who established this program and the training facility there. And there's a picture of it. And it says that it was used and commanded by th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - 'GEOGRAPHY OF GLADIO' - EP.374(AlphaWarrior Show) @ 24:33
Stuart Menzies ordered_assassination_of
William Stephenson host_asserted
“And there's a guy there by the name of Stuart Menzies. He was the head of the MI6 at the time. And he tasked Stevenson with, quote, establishing relations on the highest level between Britain, SIS, which is the Secret Intelligence Service. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 36:57
Mentions (19)
▶ 13:08
He was advocating for intervention in Europe and he worked very closely with what's called the British Security Coordination. What is that? The British Security Coordination was ran by William Stevenson. And if you've done any research, you…
▶ 13:34
He was involved in he was actually in charge of the special operations executive. And what did they do? They were they were the office that set up English stay behind units. They are the ones that organized the stay behind units that were d…
▶ 24:33
Blah, blah, blah. Sir William Stevenson. He's the guy that was in charge of Britain's Gladio program who established this program and the training facility there. And there's a picture of it. And it says that it was used and commanded by th…
▶ 27:28
that they have documented by name, says after Stevenson established the facility and acted as the camp's first commander, Commandant Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Koldbeck, while Bill Donovan, which of course led the OSS, credited Stevenson wit…
▶ 10:19
Paul Helliwell's boss during the OSS days was Wild Bill Donovan. He has a very interesting background I'm going to delve into for just a little bit as it relates to this. Donovan takes this idea and runs it past James, Jesus, Angleton, Alle…
▶ 10:49
that they referred to as Little Bill because his name was also William, like Wild Bill Donovan, Little Bill Stevenson. And Little Bill Stevenson, I'm sorry, he was actually from the British Security Office. So all of those people sit down a…
▶ 55:48
like Frank Ryan and Ricardo Sicre, S-I-C-R-E. Closely related was another company known as the British American Canadian Corporation, BACC. This entity was founded by a British spy by the name of William Stevenson, who basically ran like th…
▶ 30:56
Hambro was a partner of William Stevenson, and William Stevenson ran the front company called British American Canadian Corporation, BACC. BACC merged with, while Bill Donovan's WCC, the World Commerce Corporation, because they were both fr…
▶ 21:15
Allen Dulles was recruited into the OSS by Donovan in October of 1941, his loyalties were still questioned by some administration officials, including Roosevelt. Dulles' various financial connections to the Nazi regime prompted FDR to place…
▶ 21:46
with a massive British spy operation under the control of William Stevenson, who would become famous as the man called Intrepid. At one point, Stevenson's Rockefeller Center operation, which was tucked away under the name of British Securit…
▶ 22:18
covert enterprise, particularly considering that England was operating on friendly soil. They were actually operating together. Stevenson had been sent to the US in 1940 on behalf of Winston Churchill. With Hitler's forces overrunning Europ…
▶ 23:20
American public with concerns about the cost of the war, but a well-financed appeasement lobby with strong links to Nazi Germany. Churchill made it clear that he was quite willing to engage in ungenerally warfare to save his nation and do w…
▶ 23:50
on American soil. Stevenson was also willing to do dirty tricks of espionage. He was a smooth, self-assured, and self-made millionaire. He proved adept at the black art of espionage. He worked his press contacts in America to expose Nazi fr…
▶ 24:23
Stevenson's operatives also undertook black bag operations such as breaking into the Spanish embassy in Washington where they stole the secret codes for diplomatic messages flowing between General Franco's fascist government in Berlin. Stev…
▶ 24:52
One of the men considered for elimination was none other than Dulles business partner Gerhard Westrick. The big spending Hitler lobbyist was eventually deported. It is this ungentlemanly Stevenson's tactic that inspired Fleming to grant his…
▶ 25:22
whom he called a magnetic personality and one of the great secret agents of World War II. The novelist who worked with Stevenson's operation as a British naval intelligence agent in Washington also praised the spy master's martinis. But as …
▶ 25:50
in the hands of government. Years later, when James Jesus Angleton and William Harvey, two legends of the counterintelligence, were searching for assassins to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, they sought the advice of Peter Wright, another B…
▶ 23:22
And people like Malcolm Aldridge, Leo Welch, and Harold Hoskin, William Stevenson were all on there. And six of the 10 committee members were CFR. And then 20th Century Fund, I've come across that one, a whole lot involved in the CIA. They …
▶ 1:07:51
CBS TV 60 Minutes, after assigning Monica Jensen Stevenson to do a segment on the POW affair, refused to air it when it was discovered that she had uncovered unrefutable evidence that Americans were still being held in Vietnam, Laos, and th…