Interdoc organization
also: inter-DOC network, interdoc network, I-N-T-E-R-D-O-C, Interdak, Interdox, International Documentation and Information Center
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Claims (16)
W.F.K. Thompson headed
Interdoc documented
“The ISC maintained relations with a number of other international entities, such as the Interdoc from The Hague. The ISC board member Brigadier W.F.K. Thompson also served as Interdoc's president in 1971. Again, this is just overlap versus …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 37:07
Kies van den Heuvel headed
Interdoc documented
“The Interdak headquarters was led by a Dutch director, former BBD officer, Kies van den Heuvel. So it's V-A-N-D-E-N-H-E-U-V-E-L. With Eindhoven in the background and a German deputy director supporting.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 26:37
BND funded
Interdoc documented
“In the beginning, the share of the funding was set as a 4 to 1, with the larger amount coming from the Federal Intelligence Organization, the German BND, which is Reinhard Gehlen. But in 1969, the German-Dutch imbalance had ballooned into a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 26:59
Louis Eindhoven funded
Interdoc documented
“Since it has also been tasked with psychological warfare, and Eindhoven himself was a driving force behind the creation of Interdoc and the situating of its headquarters at the Hague, the links between the stay-behind units and Interdoc can…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 24:32
Interdoc bridged
Round Table movement book_quoted
“like the ones that funded the Bolshevik Revolution and Hitler and FDR, that relationship? Yes, that's exactly what he's talking about. And he says that it bridged the Roundtable Movement and the Bilderberg. Huh, what? He's tying the fascist…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 11:08
Interdoc bridged
Bilderberg Group book_quoted
“like the ones that funded the Bolshevik Revolution and Hitler and FDR, that relationship? Yes, that's exactly what he's talking about. And he says that it bridged the Roundtable Movement and the Bilderberg. Huh, what? He's tying the fascist…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 11:08
World Anti-Communist League part_of
Interdoc book_quoted
“coordinated and part of the same network along with the Roundtable movement and the Bilderbergs. What? And we've talked about all of them. Obviously, we've talked about the World Anti-Communist League several times on several different cont…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 13:10
Le Cercle part_of
Interdoc book_quoted
“coordinated and part of the same network along with the Roundtable movement and the Bilderbergs. What? And we've talked about all of them. Obviously, we've talked about the World Anti-Communist League several times on several different cont…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 13:10
Round Table movement part_of
Interdoc book_quoted
“coordinated and part of the same network along with the Roundtable movement and the Bilderbergs. What? And we've talked about all of them. Obviously, we've talked about the World Anti-Communist League several times on several different cont…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 13:10
Bilderberg Group part_of
Interdoc book_quoted
“coordinated and part of the same network along with the Roundtable movement and the Bilderbergs. What? And we've talked about all of them. Obviously, we've talked about the World Anti-Communist League several times on several different cont…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 13:10
Interdoc created_by
Reinhard Gehlen book_quoted
“the British Roundtable movement, and the World Anti-Communist League. There's actually no difference in them. They're all one big pot. It says the organization, Interdoc, came about chiefly thanks to the efforts of the Dutch and the German …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 18:35
Louis Eindhoven member_of
Interdoc book_quoted
“who joined the intelligence service in the Netherlands in 1949, which would be at the beginning of Operation Gladio. Weinhoven immediately made him head of training, so he's going to be the guy that works with Otto Skorzeny. Both men would …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 21:33
Cornelis van den Heuvel member_of
Interdoc book_quoted
“who joined the intelligence service in the Netherlands in 1949, which would be at the beginning of Operation Gladio. Weinhoven immediately made him head of training, so he's going to be the guy that works with Otto Skorzeny. Both men would …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 21:33
CFR part_of
Interdoc book_quoted
“coordinated and part of the same network along with the Roundtable movement and the Bilderbergs. What? And we've talked about all of them. Obviously, we've talked about the World Anti-Communist League several times on several different cont…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 13:10
Interdoc member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“the Committee for International Defense of Civilian Forces. It was a French organization. Its acronym is CIDCC. It basically sought a united front of both Catholics and Protestants. It tried to bridge the gap. There was another organization…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 36:23
Interdoc front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“between members of the European Security and Intelligence Services, industrialists, and intellectuals concerning ongoing threat of communism. In other words, this is where they plotted Operation Gladio. While the core of this informal commu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 3:04
Mentions (39)
▶ 10:38
And he says that this thing emerged in the 1950s. Oh, but he has a different name. And I've ran across this name, by the way, before. Interdoc. Interdoc. I-N-T-E-R-D-O-C. It appears to have something, to have been something like a bridge be…
▶ 11:08
like the ones that funded the Bolshevik Revolution and Hitler and FDR, that relationship? Yes, that's exactly what he's talking about. And he says that it bridged the Roundtable Movement and the Bilderberg. Huh, what? He's tying the fascist…
▶ 18:04
It's 100% talking about Operation Gladio. All right. It says that there was an alliance on all of these different networks, the military, the intelligence, the business community, just like I've described, the International Syndicate and Op…
▶ 18:35
the British Roundtable movement, and the World Anti-Communist League. There's actually no difference in them. They're all one big pot. It says the organization, Interdoc, came about chiefly thanks to the efforts of the Dutch and the German …
▶ 19:06
of the Galen Organization, i.e. Operation Gladio, a federation of German intelligence veterans from the Nazi regime, and at the direction of Reinhard Galen, created the Galen Organization, which morphed into the West German BND, which is th…
▶ 21:33
who joined the intelligence service in the Netherlands in 1949, which would be at the beginning of Operation Gladio. Weinhoven immediately made him head of training, so he's going to be the guy that works with Otto Skorzeny. Both men would …
▶ 31:53
the Monroe guy looked to to partner with the Dutch group. Eventually, these efforts produced what would become Interdoc's chief U.S. partner and sister organization, which was, let's see, National Strategy Information Center. I'm going to h…
▶ 36:23
the Committee for International Defense of Civilian Forces. It was a French organization. Its acronym is CIDCC. It basically sought a united front of both Catholics and Protestants. It tried to bridge the gap. There was another organization…
▶ 33:01
however you say that in French, I'm just going to call it the Liberty effort, was set up as well as a company or an organization, I should say it wasn't a company, called Interdoc. I-N-T-E-R-D-O-C. We're going to hear a lot about them in th…
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Interdoc in the Bilderbergs. And it talks about, in the introduction, about how NATO interfaced with all three of those organizations in order to set up this anti-communist transnational effort. It goes on to say that the desire for a spiri…
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is called Interdoc, Western Anti-Communism and Transnational Perspective. It starts off, and again, just as a reminder, these are individual essays that all kind of go along with the theme, transnational anti-communism in the Cold War. And …
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So this one starts off in February of 1963, where the solicitor's office in The Hague, the Netherlands, the statutes for the International Documentation and Information Center was known as InterDoc. I don't mean to interrupt. Oh, I was just…
▶ 2:33
and Information Center, InterDoc, was signed. Statutes to establish it. This mundane act was the official starting point for a remarkable experiment in transnational cooperation in anti-communism. InterDoc was the product of in-depth delibe…
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between members of the European Security and Intelligence Services, industrialists, and intellectuals concerning ongoing threat of communism. In other words, this is where they plotted Operation Gladio. While the core of this informal commu…
▶ 3:35
were all there. The communist threat was changing, they said, and Western anti-communists needed to change along with it. Interdoc was going to be the response. Interdoc epitomizes transnational cooperation because it always functioned as a…
▶ 4:04
It functioned as a state within a state, yet they were behind the scenes pulling all the strings. Interdoc was a public organization using its own name as an imprint on all of its publications. It functioned as a meeting point, a transit ce…
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representing a mixture of different interest groups, all with the belief that anti-communist agitation needed to be improved if the West was not going to lose the battle. Activities over two decades confirmed the conclusion that the transna…
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that is neither tied down by nationalist identities nor fixed in its political alliances. Meaning, just like we have described throughout Operation Gladio, it's a chameleon. It doesn't matter whether you're quote-unquote right or quote-unqu…
▶ 9:38
And again, I don't believe that they actually believed that. That was an excuse to create a boogeyman. This bred a determination to prevent any quote-unquote peaceful coexistence approach with Moscow, period. It had to be turned around and …
▶ 10:09
was to ensure that peaceful coexistence did not happen. As an essential part of Interdoc Project was also to upgrade Western anti-communism from the methods and motifs of simplicity anti-Stalinism. In particular, the activities of John Paul…
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His response to me was, well, they're concerned about poor people. And so the brainwashing was very effective. There is a close correspondence between the steps taken to develop Interdoc and the moves that led to the creation of the Committ…
▶ 13:02
Yet there are two crucial differences that separate the two networks. One concerned the value system that they promoted. While the CIDCC was unabashedly Christian slash Catholic in orientation, Interdoc was seeking a broader approach that u…
▶ 13:31
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The other concerns, the fact that Interdoc, as stated above, was brought into existence by a legal contract following lengthy deliberations involving representatives from the Netherlands, France, and W…
▶ 14:28
a necessary need for transnational coordination. In this sense, the initial moves of freedom and liberty with its decentralized network of national committees sharing ideas and information and campaign materials laid the path for what was t…
▶ 14:53
an organization called CIAS, which stood for Committee International for Action on Social Issues. While Interdoc sought to distance itself from Jean-Paul David's legacy, it would make full use of CIAS's connection that had been built up acr…
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It's harder to tell who was really using who. All that really mattered at the end of the day for the purposes of this book is the fact that they were all networked together. Interdoc was the rapprochement between France and West Germany. Se…
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During the late 1950s, the French military had been interested in using NATO as a central point for which to coordinate ideological warfare and psychological warfare since the early 1950s, which they had been doing courtesy of Operation Gla…
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behind the German commitment to the Interdach project for the next decade. 1956, the Ministry for All German Affairs set up in Berlin as a forum for discussing common anti-communist information strategies among NATO and neutral states, also…
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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…
▶ 24:32
Since it has also been tasked with psychological warfare, and Eindhoven himself was a driving force behind the creation of Interdoc and the situating of its headquarters at the Hague, the links between the stay-behind units and Interdoc can…
▶ 25:02
i.e. the hierarchy of the stay-behind units, was the fact that they had been present and placed in neutral countries such as Sweden and Switzerland, and that made him the ideal candidate for getting the Interdak project off the ground. Betw…
▶ 26:37
The Interdak headquarters was led by a Dutch director, former BBD officer, Kies van den Heuvel. So it's V-A-N-D-E-N-H-E-U-V-E-L. With Eindhoven in the background and a German deputy director supporting.…
▶ 28:34
The Germans needed the Netherlands as the public face of Interdak for plausible deniability. As the BND officer Herman Fort, F-O-E-R-T-S-C-H, remarked in 1960, quote, as neutral a site as possible is desired to counter national misgivings, …
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Them having anything to do with stuff like Interdak would have drawn attention to the fact that their entire government was still embedded with Nazis, and they didn't want that, so they used Netherlands as the face of Interdak, even though …
▶ 30:03
Hold on, let me get Bridget back up here. All right, let's start over. Belgium, Britain, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S. The original design of Interdoc had assumed a rigid structure with national institutes functioning as the prod…
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The only apparatus that appeared successful was the formation of Interdoc UK in July of 1964. Itself proved to be of limited value due to its ongoing reluctance of both MI6 and the Foreign Office's Information Research Department to commit …
▶ 48:55
in the place you would least likely look for it. Okay, so it goes on to say that they were being used as a lever against the communist regimes and that many aspects of the concept of positive anti-communism was later presented by the Interd…
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Michael Goodwin, who had previously been involved with Cold War propaganda, would later replace him. Another organization called the National Strategy Information Center, NSIC, and the International Documentation and Information Center, Int…
▶ 37:07
The ISC maintained relations with a number of other international entities, such as the Interdoc from The Hague. The ISC board member Brigadier W.F.K. Thompson also served as Interdoc's president in 1971. Again, this is just overlap versus …