Milt Bearden person
also: Milt Bearden, Milti, Uncle Miltie, Milt Burden
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Milt Bearden documented
“About that time, George appointed Bearden station chief. The Russians began their summer offensive. They concentrated on several provinces, tried to clear Kost again, and fought a new battle for Zawah. The operations were standard. The Russ…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 45:55
Milt Bearden member_of
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“meeting people like Bill Clinton. Another film that Brandon helped shape was Charlie Wilson's War, released in 2007, which heroized the CIA for defeating the evil commies in Afghanistan, which we know, if you've been following me, was insti…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Hollywood and CIA @ 36:07
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“breaking CIA standing orders not to cross the border, went to have their pictures taken at the same bridge after he exited. But the Afghan war continued. Najibullah communist regime fought on and both the CIA project and aid halted only in …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 2:31
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meeting people like Bill Clinton. Another film that Brandon helped shape was Charlie Wilson's War, released in 2007, which heroized the CIA for defeating the evil commies in Afghanistan, which we know, if you've been following me, was insti…
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Finally, the station chief in Islamabad moved on. At Langley one day in May of 86, Milton Bearden found himself in Claire George's seventh floor office. He hardly needed the weekend to decide. Milt Bearden became the CIA's new field command…
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About that time, George appointed Bearden station chief. The Russians began their summer offensive. They concentrated on several provinces, tried to clear Kost again, and fought a new battle for Zawah. The operations were standard. The Russ…
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Pakistan doesn't want this to end. They're making bank on it. Milt Burden arrived in July of 86, just as the ISI was beginning to turn out rebels trained to use the Stinger missiles. The CIA had doubts about the effectiveness of the Mujahid…
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to weapons traffic. Beginning in 85, deliveries multiplied by a factor of 10. 60,000 tons of weapons were floating around Pakistan. Huh, what could go wrong with that? Bearden adopted a simple rule. If prices in the bazaars were much higher…
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from the CIA shipments. In other words, if they're seeing them in the local markets being laundered, as long as the price was not concerning, they were fine. They know these weapons are being trafficked to include Stinger missiles out of Af…
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Bearden never solved the problem of the warlords. He could have some impact there. Uncle Miltie had originally impressed William Casey, a station chief in Niagara, Nigeria, and then Sudan. And he should have been sensitive to this issue. Be…
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Tangling with the ISI because they hated him because he was the effective guy in Afghanistan. That they had suffocated and ensured he got nothing. Of course, with the huge expansion of aid in the CIA, that might have demanded a revised dist…
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He felt his orders were to beat the Russians, not quibble over which warlords were supported. Citations of the percentage of weapons given to which rebel group from the early to late periods indicate shipments to more radical groups actuall…
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He had major differences with Brigadier Yusuf, who led ISI not long after the CIA man came to Islamabad. In one area, that of the Arab Afghans, Bearden had no contact whatsoever. Early on, the CIA had considered and rejected recruiting a co…
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again changed the task force chief. Frank Anderson, a card-carrying Middle East warrior, became Bearden's new boss. Anderson spoke Arabic and had served in Yemen, Beirut, and North Africa, most recently as the station chief in Morocco. He t…
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In a maneuver worthy of CIA history on Central America, the deputy director of operations, Claire George, phoned Bearden to certify that the agency had had no rules or knowledge of the attacks. The station chief probably didn't know that th…
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weapons. Russian troops could punch through but achieve nothing. In UN-mediated negotiations, the Soviets agreed to a military withdrawal and carried it out. At 11.55 a.m. on February 15, 1989, General Boris Gromov stepped back inside Russi…
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Safe houses? In America, where you're not supposed to be? Always the back alley brawler, Casey maintained a wide range of personal contacts. Milt Bearden and Dewey Claridge, the Afghan and Central American secret war bosses, both had lines …
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Involved there was Richard Holm and Milt Bearden. In Jamaica, a woman chief of station, Janine Bruckner, was replaced after reporting one of her officers for abusing his wife. So you got fired for reporting an abusive CIA agent. She was the…