Special Operations Executive intelligence service
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Claims (23)
Walter Adams worked_for
Special Operations Executive documented
document
“46 members of staff entered war service beginning with the School Secretary, Walter Adams, who worked for the Special Operations Executive and then became Deputy Head of the British Political Warfare Mission in Washington.…”
source: url — LSE history overview - LSE · p.1
Robert Solberg trained_at
Special Operations Executive documented
“Donovan to tour the SOE bases in and remember that's like their secret service bases in England and Scotland. This was the first time an American officer had been allowed access to any of these programs. He also received permission to be an…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 26:00
Colin Gubbins headed
Special Operations Executive documented
“records that the prime minister has further decided after consultation with the ministers concerned that a new organization shall be established forthwith to overseas. Under Minister Dalton, operational command of SOE was given to a major g…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 6 @ 45:59
Winston Churchill ordered_creation_of
Special Operations Executive documented
“Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the creation of a secret army under the label SOE, Special Operations Executive, to set Europe ablaze by assisting resistant movements and carrying out subversive operation in enemy-held territory. T…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 6 @ 45:34
Harry Sporberg member_of
Special Operations Executive host_asserted
“because they were intimately involved in World War II and the financing. Hambro was basically a Danish-British banking house and owned the Hambro Bank. Henry Sporberg, a Circle member who did have the Special Operations SOE background, had …”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 30:26
Peter Wilkinson member_of
Special Operations Executive host_asserted
“In addition to Tennant and Sporberg, other key Crozier's backers came from the SOE and included Sir Peter Wilkinson and Stephen Hastings. Stephen Hastings had attended several circle meetings, although there was never any confirmation he wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 28:56
Special Operations Executive supplied_arms_to
Enver Hoxha book_quoted
“with incidents two years earlier in which the British warship was fired upon. Later, a pair of destroyers were mined and sunk in the Corfu Channel along the Albanian coast. Although the British Special Operations Executive, the SOE, had arm…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 31:14
Julian Amery member_of
Special Operations Executive host_asserted
“As he approached his 90th birthday, Panay would formally retire from the organization and hand over the chairmanship to a Julian Amari, A-M-E-R-Y, who would run Le Cercle for the next 14 years. Like many of the British members of Le Cercle,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 12:49
Special Operations Executive funded
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“After the SOE had been disbanded in 1946, some of those networks were transferred over to MI6, becoming Operation Gladio as well. It is also highly probable that some of the SOE assets from that network had been transferred to the British A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 17:01
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 J. Donovan did_business_with
Special Operations Executive book_quoted
“while Bill Donovan had worked with the SOE Jedburgh units in Britain throughout the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, Burma, and China, which kind of is going to go into the second book that we're going to do after this one. Because he talks …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 25:04
William Johnston Tony Keswick member_of
Special Operations Executive host_asserted
“HSBC. There you go. HSBC, we learned, is a drug money laundering bank. That is its primary business. And he also was part of the municipal council in Shanghai. Two of Henry's sons, John Henry Keswick and William Johnston Tony Keswick, serve…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:01:22
Henry Keswick member_of
Special Operations Executive host_asserted
“HSBC. There you go. HSBC, we learned, is a drug money laundering bank. That is its primary business. And he also was part of the municipal council in Shanghai. Two of Henry's sons, John Henry Keswick and William Johnston Tony Keswick, serve…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:01:22
Colin Gubbins headed
Special Operations Executive book_quoted
“under Wild Bill Donovan. When the British began to formally participate in Gladio, the man tapped to oversee the entire thing was Major General Sir Colin Gubbins, G-U-B-B-I-N-S. Gubbins had had operational command of the SOE. He was basical…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 17:31
Special Operations Executive carried_out_attack
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“There are pictures of the Special Operations Executive, the SOE, which ran their Operation Gladio program. And they have pictures of a variety of the people that were part of that. One of which is Lieutenant Colonel Sir Archibald David Ster…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 24:44
Neil McLean member_of
Special Operations Executive host_asserted
“for several years. Amory's old SOE comrade, Billy McLean, his whole name is Neil, his nickname is Billy McLean, M-C-L-E-A-N. Another one, Sir Peter Tennant, T-E-N-N-A-N-T, and Harry Sporgberg, S-P-O-R-B-O-R-G. Then,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 27:57
Peter Tennant member_of
Special Operations Executive host_asserted
“Amory's other friends, you had Roland Wynne, W-I-N-N, and a Belgian colonel by the name of Henry Bernard. So Sir Peter Tennant also recruited, was recruited into the British SOE by a banker by the name of Sir Charles Hambro. Now we've come …”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 29:57
Tom Braden member_of
Special Operations Executive host_asserted
“In 1950, Meyer was appointed deputy of the International Organization Division of the CIA under Tom Braden, B-R-A-D-E-N, a highly experienced veteran of the British SOE and American OSS. So he worked for British intelligence and American in…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 9:40
F.F. Edward Yeo-Thomas member_of
Special Operations Executive book_quoted
“arrived in Paris at the moment Compass Row's stay-behind projects were being initiated. Almost like that was the whole purpose of him being there. And keep in mind, as we talk about this, that NATO is being set up in this hot mess. Royal Ai…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 3 - 4 @ 53:43
Special Operations Executive founded
Jedburgh units book_quoted
“of the Normandy invasion and that the OSS, British SOE, and French intelligence all contributed to form 93 men teams referred to in Britain as Jedburgh units. And they basically were the precursor to Operation Gladio units. Jedburghs were p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 33:29
Special Operations Executive founded
SDRA-8 host_asserted
“The summer of 1942, the British SOE established arm dumps in Belgium and erected and trained basically secret stay-behind units. The British managed the availability of the radios, and they arranged transports of the men and material to go …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 3:40
Special Operations Executive front_for
Operation Gladio guest_asserted
“with McNamara, Robert McNamara, and then Kissinger. And so that's the birth of the empire. The British lost theirs. The multipolarity disappeared. And I mention all of this because it ties and dovetails in perfectly with Operation Gladio be…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 2:14:54
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
Mentions (27)
▶ 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…
▶ 44:29
elderly women and children into concentration camps, first time they'd ever been used in warfare, and basically annihilated everybody there, then came back and killed the women, children, and elderly, and took over the place. And in doing s…
▶ 3:40
The summer of 1942, the British SOE established arm dumps in Belgium and erected and trained basically secret stay-behind units. The British managed the availability of the radios, and they arranged transports of the men and material to go …
▶ 2:14:54
with McNamara, Robert McNamara, and then Kissinger. And so that's the birth of the empire. The British lost theirs. The multipolarity disappeared. And I mention all of this because it ties and dovetails in perfectly with Operation Gladio be…
▶ 30:03
And the author notes that World War II was crucial in many different ways, which is kind of the point that I've been making the entire time. It changed everything. The U.S. found its British allies to be avid practitioners of secret warfare…
▶ 32:57
For protection of what's going to be the phase two of the opium movement out of southern China on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek. So it says the OSS also participated in the European theater with commando raids, dropping in resistance fighters, …
▶ 33:29
of the Normandy invasion and that the OSS, British SOE, and French intelligence all contributed to form 93 men teams referred to in Britain as Jedburgh units. And they basically were the precursor to Operation Gladio units. Jedburghs were p…
▶ 14:17
for special teams to be parachuted into France to supplement the resistance. The OSS, British SOE, and French intelligence each contributed agents to form three-man Jedburgh teams. They were sent specifically to work with the resistance net…
▶ 31:14
with incidents two years earlier in which the British warship was fired upon. Later, a pair of destroyers were mined and sunk in the Corfu Channel along the Albanian coast. Although the British Special Operations Executive, the SOE, had arm…
▶ 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…
▶ 56:49
the World Commerce Corporation, because of course it was, bringing together the OSS, which will shortly be the CIA, and the SOE veterans, all so they could work together in one covert operation, which eventually we call Operation Gladion. T…
▶ 57:19
And Skorzeny's units and the British Special Air Services were among the principal entities that inspired the CIA's Special Operations Group. And that's not necessarily that true. That's just the next iteration of the OSS before they create…
▶ 27:27
spies were veterans of the above-mentioned Special Operations Executive, the SOE, as well as many of these other organizations that had cropped up, the Bilderbergs, the Circle, and many others. One of those was a guy by the name of Lord Jul…
▶ 27:57
for several years. Amory's old SOE comrade, Billy McLean, his whole name is Neil, his nickname is Billy McLean, M-C-L-E-A-N. Another one, Sir Peter Tennant, T-E-N-N-A-N-T, and Harry Sporgberg, S-P-O-R-B-O-R-G. Then,…
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Probably the most infamous one that I came across repeatedly is Brian Cozier. And you spell his last name C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. Cozier was not a previous intelligence asset, but he was linked to many of the organizations that had been used as fron…
▶ 29:57
Amory's other friends, you had Roland Wynne, W-I-N-N, and a Belgian colonel by the name of Henry Bernard. So Sir Peter Tennant also recruited, was recruited into the British SOE by a banker by the name of Sir Charles Hambro. Now we've come …
▶ 30:26
because they were intimately involved in World War II and the financing. Hambro was basically a Danish-British banking house and owned the Hambro Bank. Henry Sporberg, a Circle member who did have the Special Operations SOE background, had …
▶ 16:32
But in fact, it was Gladio. The British Special Operations Executive, the SOE, was tasked with waging secret wars behind enemy lines during World War II. And we've covered them. They were called Jedburgs. During the war, the SOE had created…
▶ 17:01
After the SOE had been disbanded in 1946, some of those networks were transferred over to MI6, becoming Operation Gladio as well. It is also highly probable that some of the SOE assets from that network had been transferred to the British A…
▶ 21:49
received training from Otto Skorzeny during the war and tasked with training stay-behind formations of the Ukrainian underground to harass the Soviet army on the Eastern Front. As was noted above, Skorzeny appears to have become involved in…
▶ 59:28
closely linked to reactionary Catholic orders and Western intelligence, because they all worked together. By the late 70s, Le Circle featured a strong presence in the UK, especially in Veterans of World War II Special Operations Executive, …
▶ 59:56
While not a member of the circle, David Sterling was a very close friend of Lord Julian Emery, A-M-E-R-Y, who became the circle's chairman by the 1980s. During the early 60s, Emery, Sterling, and other future circle members like Neal Billy …
▶ 24:44
There are pictures of the Special Operations Executive, the SOE, which ran their Operation Gladio program. And they have pictures of a variety of the people that were part of that. One of which is Lieutenant Colonel Sir Archibald David Ster…
▶ 12:49
As he approached his 90th birthday, Panay would formally retire from the organization and hand over the chairmanship to a Julian Amari, A-M-E-R-Y, who would run Le Cercle for the next 14 years. Like many of the British members of Le Cercle,…
▶ 23:48
A common past in intelligence services like MI6, Special Operations Executive, SOE, from the World War II timeframe, was characteristics of the qualifications of people who served from the British delegation, which was heavily made up of co…
▶ 20:32
contentious in difficulty to explore any angle of Interdoc as a transnational actor and its relationship with this quote-unquote stay-behind units, otherwise known as Gladio, established across Western Europe after the Second World War. The…
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um director william donovan he was the liaison to the british soe which is their version of the oss it also says that he's the international he was the director of the international bank for reconstruction and development i knew you were go…