Buzzy Krongard person
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Claims (28)
George Tenet recruited
Buzzy Krongard book_quoted
“Where did we hear of him last? Oh, as the deputy director of the CIA, working with Krongard. We may end up having more questions about Buzzy Krongard in the future as more information comes to light. However, in an excellent book, Black 9-1…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:03:32
George Tenet recruited
Buzzy Krongard book_quoted
“at the center of the storm, the CIA's during America's time of crisis. Tenet wrote this, quote, one person I did bring in from the outside was Buzzy Crongard. He has been the CEO of an investment bank firm, Alex Brown. That's heady territor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 12:46
Mayo Shattuck III succeeded
Buzzy Krongard book_quoted
“The investigation of Buzzy Crongard's continued in Black 9-11. Quote, after Buzzy Crongard's departure to the CIA, his successor at Bankers Trust, Alex Brown, was his former deputy, Mayo Sattuck III, who had worked at the bank for years. In…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:07:56
Buzzy Krongard headed
Alex Brown and Sons documented
“To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the put options where a trader in effect bets on it falling on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by Buzzy Crongard, who is now the execut…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:02:00
George Tenet appointed
Buzzy Krongard documented
“Buzzy Crongard to be the executive director of the CIA. And as we talked about yesterday, that's the number three position. In this position, Buzzy was the third highest ranking official in the agency. At the time, the number two guy was no…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 17:07
Buzzy Krongard member_of
CIA documented
“In Kevin Shipp's mind, the most dramatic set of accusations swirled around the role of Buzzy Crongard, the executive director of the CIA at the time of the attacks, whose former company placed bets against two airlines on which Al Qaeda ter…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:15:24
Buzzy Krongard recruited
Ed Hale book_quoted
“Were you recruited? Now, again, this guy worked at the Bank of Baltimore. OK, he's saying I was recruited in 1992. We just told you Krongard was recruited in 1998 officially. He was recruited to the CIA in 1992 by Buzzy Krongard, who was wo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:16:27
Buzzy Krongard member_of
Alex Brown and Sons book_quoted
“He was going to reshape the globe by fixing the agency. And everybody loved good old Buzzy because there was nobody like him. He was the man you wanted in charge, the ultimate alpha male warrior, the scholar who would find the problem and t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 8:54
Buzzy Krongard headed
Alex Brown and Sons book_quoted
“Client first, firm second, individual third, unquote. Kevin Schiff, the author, then goes on to say, we see Krongard in the purest portrait of a corporate titan as a young man, driving himself relentlessly, selflessly on behalf of a company…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 9:52
Buzzy Krongard financed_via
Bankers Trust New York Corporation documented
“wise counsel, and no-nonsense business-like views. Crongard, 64, former head of Alex Brown & Company, an investment bank based in Baltimore, joined the agency three years ago as a counselor to tenant. He switched careers shortly after helpi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 18:06
Buzzy Krongard member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Alex Brown, Incorporated, and the seventh largest bank in the country. At the age when most banking executives were looking to retire, he joined the CIA. Now, I use the word joined lightly because once you understand who this guy is, it's f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 3:34
Buzzy Krongard member_of
CIA documented
“Cider is a number three at the CIA. This was in the article. A.B. Buzzy Crongard, a cigar-chomping former investment banker and martial arts enthusiast, was named yesterday executive director of the CIA, bringing a fast-paced management sty…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 17:36
George Tenet appointed
Buzzy Krongard book_quoted
“And just so everyone understands, 1998 is, let's see, we get Clinton in 92. So this is halfway through his second term. CIA George Tenet appointed Alvin Bernard Buzzy Crongard as his quote unquote counselor. There's no such role as that. So…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 2:03
Buzzy Krongard member_of
Air Lease Corporation guest_asserted
“She served as CEO of Rothschild Asset Management North American Operations, managing $7 billion there. She served on multiple boards, Legg Mason, Under Armour, Air Lease Corporation. She was also director at University of Wisconsin Foundati…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:25:21
Buzzy Krongard member_of
Blackwater host_asserted
“of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. This woman has been all over the place. And also, not mentioned in that book, but Krongard goes on to become a board member of none other than Blackwater. Just FYI. So, Southern, go ahead.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:25:50
Buzzy Krongard member_of
Alex Brown and Sons host_asserted
“Are you listening to me, hamster? By the dean of students. Now, you guys remember in our secret society series, we talked about all of these people from all of these grooming high schools that end up back at these universities as deans. And…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:21:38
Buzzy Krongard member_of
Princeton University host_asserted
“So, Buzzy did a video interview with his granddaughter who was working on a family history project and his granddaughter posted it on the internet. The story he tells is remarkable of being recruited by the CIA when he was at Princeton Univ…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:21:04
Buzzy Krongard member_of
United States Marine Corps guest_asserted
“Yeah, Buzzy knew Eric Prince, and he brought them in. What was interesting in that time frame, I had found information that he had been part of the CIA, because he spent his first three years from Princeton going in as a junior military off…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:26:23
Buzzy Krongard member_of
Invesco guest_asserted
“But she had a 23-year tenure at Invesco, where she became the managing director of the individual investor group overseeing marketing sales, client relations for mutual funds, retirement plans, college savings programs, managing over $10 bi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:24:54
Buzzy Krongard member_of
Rothschild Asset Management guest_asserted
“She served as CEO of Rothschild Asset Management North American Operations, managing $7 billion there. She served on multiple boards, Legg Mason, Under Armour, Air Lease Corporation. She was also director at University of Wisconsin Foundati…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:25:21
Buzzy Krongard member_of
Legg Mason guest_asserted
“She served as CEO of Rothschild Asset Management North American Operations, managing $7 billion there. She served on multiple boards, Legg Mason, Under Armour, Air Lease Corporation. She was also director at University of Wisconsin Foundati…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:25:21
Buzzy Krongard member_of
Under Armour guest_asserted
“She served as CEO of Rothschild Asset Management North American Operations, managing $7 billion there. She served on multiple boards, Legg Mason, Under Armour, Air Lease Corporation. She was also director at University of Wisconsin Foundati…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:25:21
Buzzy Krongard member_of
University of Wisconsin-Madison guest_asserted
“She served as CEO of Rothschild Asset Management North American Operations, managing $7 billion there. She served on multiple boards, Legg Mason, Under Armour, Air Lease Corporation. She was also director at University of Wisconsin Foundati…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:25:21
Buzzy Krongard member_of
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art guest_asserted
“of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. This woman has been all over the place. And also, not mentioned in that book, but Krongard goes on to become a board member of none other than Blackwater. Just FYI. So, Southern, go ahead.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:25:50
Buzzy Krongard member_of
Cigna guest_asserted
“But she had a 23-year tenure at Invesco, where she became the managing director of the individual investor group overseeing marketing sales, client relations for mutual funds, retirement plans, college savings programs, managing over $10 bi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:24:54
Buzzy Krongard recruited
CIA host_asserted
“So, Buzzy did a video interview with his granddaughter who was working on a family history project and his granddaughter posted it on the internet. The story he tells is remarkable of being recruited by the CIA when he was at Princeton Univ…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:21:04
Buzzy Krongard ordered_assassination_of
Kevin Shipp guest_asserted
“Several years later, as a corporate program manager off-site facility, I was approached by a former official of the IG office of the CIA who had been hired by the same company as a program manager. He told an interesting story. He claimed t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 51:50
Buzzy Krongard recruited
Erik Prince guest_asserted
“Yeah, Buzzy knew Eric Prince, and he brought them in. What was interesting in that time frame, I had found information that he had been part of the CIA, because he spent his first three years from Princeton going in as a junior military off…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:26:23
Mentions (55)
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In addition, they threatened my family and our attorneys that we would be sent to prison if we told anyone about anything in it. He concluded that that direction had to have come from George Tenet personally as the CIA director because no o…
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I knew that Tenet and Krongard would be the eventual arbiters of my fate. They offered a new settlement agreement, which was a fraction of what the agreed upon settlement was, as well as removing the promises we would not be under further s…
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of how easily the Bank of Baltimore CEO, Ed Hale, was recruited by Buzzy Crongard, at the time the CEO of Alex Brown and Son. It's as if the alpha males of American capitalism can't wait to get added to the CIA spy list. Bernstein's article…
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um so people would not ask questions okay and then he goes on and talks a little bit more about that most of this stuff um we've covered before but i'm going to quote this part for war hamster this came a later article that in the nation af…
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And they were going to claim they didn't know about it when, in fact, they knew about it. They knew about it the entire time. And they didn't want anybody else to know about it. So that's crazy shit. Okay. He moves on to Chapter 3, which is…
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A little bit of what we're going to talk about tomorrow concerning Alvin Bernard. I'll let you deliver the double barrels. But I'm seeing, and maybe it's a coincidence here, but typically when we talk about the CIA, we tend to talk about th…
▶ 1:37
And I'm going to go ahead and give Stellar a speaker and then we're going to go ahead and go. All right. So this guy, I had never heard of this guy. And at this point, it's getting kind of unusual that I haven't heard of this guy. His name'…
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And just so everyone understands, 1998 is, let's see, we get Clinton in 92. So this is halfway through his second term. CIA George Tenet appointed Alvin Bernard Buzzy Crongard as his quote unquote counselor. There's no such role as that. So…
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On the same day, the Baltimore Sun published an article that was supposedly the last the public would ever hear of the legendary businessman before he vanished into the shadows of the CIA. The story of Buzzy Krongard would also reveal the t…
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Take good notes because this is the last interview I'm going to give, the 61-year-old investment banker said last week, reclining in an easy chair with his Cuban cigar in his mouth, which he's not legally even allowed to have. The Baltimore…
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Alex Brown, Incorporated, and the seventh largest bank in the country. At the age when most banking executives were looking to retire, he joined the CIA. Now, I use the word joined lightly because once you understand who this guy is, it's f…
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and his smoking an illegal Cuban cigar. Sometimes, the author says, I think fiction writers have a more difficult job because they have to create believable characters. The reading public would never accept the outlandish fictional characte…
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The truth is he probably is one of the most consequential figures in American history over the past 25 years that you've never heard about. The supposedly quote unquote last interview continued, quote, the son of a middle class suit maker, …
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He was an accomplished martial arts who could kill a man as easily as he breaks boards with his hands. He was a dangerous fish. Oh, he has a dangerous fish in his basement. A meat carving set made from the shin bones of a boar and a shootin…
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He spends the occasional weekend training with police SWAT teams. Wonder how he gets in those. The joke around here, said Alex Brown colleague Richard Frano, is that he he never really worked here all along. It was a front like in he was al…
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And look at the company that he supposedly worked for. More on that later. The CIA had been around for more than 50 years before George Tenet decided, you know, what I really need is a Wall Street guy coming into a special position that I'l…
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When you're a 10 year old boy, the martial art who could kill a man as easily as he break breaks boards. He had dangerous. He's quoting the author and says, if you were the mother of a young boy, you'd never let your son within a million mi…
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He will do one heck of a job for the CIA, said Robert Hammerman, chief judge of the circuit court of Baltimore City, who grew up with Krongard. And I'll just remind you guys, this is the setting in which Nancy Pelosi grew up in. She grew up…
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It is the kind of thing Buzzy has been interested in all his life, i.e. going to the CIA. Nothing like having those who knew you best say that you would do one heck of a job whipping the agency into shape like you once punched the great whi…
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Quote, back to the interview, Krongard is guarded about how he met Tennant and how long he knew him. For centuries, he said, deadpanned. He said it was not unusual for them to have lunch together either at the CIA headquarters at Langley or…
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It started as a lark, almost. Well, why don't you come down here and fix it? George Tenet was supposed to have said. Joining the agency was something Krongard had fantasized about, but never seriously thought he should bring it up. He drew …
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He was going to reshape the globe by fixing the agency. And everybody loved good old Buzzy because there was nobody like him. He was the man you wanted in charge, the ultimate alpha male warrior, the scholar who would find the problem and t…
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He stormed the job. Colleagues said he ripped into the job like a jarhead storming the beach. He got to work at 630 and refused to go to bed at night until every phone call was returned. He poured over complicated financial documents and un…
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Client first, firm second, individual third, unquote. Kevin Schiff, the author, then goes on to say, we see Krongard in the purest portrait of a corporate titan as a young man, driving himself relentlessly, selflessly on behalf of a company…
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Then back to the interview. Once Krongard became chief executive, he held the firm to his own uncompromising standards. They could be harsh. A colleague recounts how a trader who had gone over his stock trading limit admitted it to Krongard…
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Further in the article, one of the associates, Mayo Shattuck, S-H-A-T-T-U-K III, who would take over from Krongard when he left for his CIA job, was quoted as saying that Krongard, quote, doesn't have great tolerance for stupidity, unquote.…
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But one imagines that all of those years as a corporate chieftain, he'd amassed more money than he could possibly want. But money can be boring when you are learning the secrets of a nation that wanted to keep hidden and controlling the sec…
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I come with no baggage, no history, no preconceived opinions or biases. I can extract the essence of a problem, get out of it, and move on, he said. His son, Tim, who joined him in the smoking room, took his own cigar out of his mouth. Quot…
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It's really quite a feat to have no opinion about the CIA, but to regard yourself as a hero of your own personal Clint Eastwood movie with confidence in yourself so high. How could anything possibly go wrong? Another person with sky high co…
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at the center of the storm, the CIA's during America's time of crisis. Tenet wrote this, quote, one person I did bring in from the outside was Buzzy Crongard. He has been the CEO of an investment bank firm, Alex Brown. That's heady territor…
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His mission was to gather the data in a simple metrics about all of our business processes, and that would allow us to make the changes critical of the agency's survival. He brought business savvy to an organization that seemed to pride its…
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NOW28 said in interviews that the CIA had assigned Mr. Schiff a high-ranking job at the facility to uncover suspected security breaches. That was the excuse they used. This was a retribution of him not playing along with them. And Krongard …
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It was getting too much and I needed to take this up the chain of command. And to whom did my request go? None other than Buzzy Cromguard. We had discovered the black mole beneath our house and that it was in our air ducts. After four reque…
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under orders to meet with a security officer. Sadistically, they picked an officer who was a close friend of mine. The security officer told me Buzzy Crongard had ordered my blue badge be taken from me and all access to all buildings be ter…
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Several years later, as a corporate program manager off-site facility, I was approached by a former official of the IG office of the CIA who had been hired by the same company as a program manager. He told an interesting story. He claimed t…
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Well, if they do that, they have you over the barrel for the rest of your life because they can deny that the company even exists for what its purpose is because they were basically front companies doing the investments of your 401k and you…
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He's definitely going to have to listen to this. The source familiar with the United Trades identified Deutsche Bank Alexander Brown, the American investment banking arm of the German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purc…
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To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the put options where a trader in effect bets on it falling on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by Buzzy Crongard, who is now the execut…
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is whether the 9-11 Commission will join the Warren Commission investigations into the assassination of Kennedy as an object of ridicule. Now, again, as I pointed out earlier today, or maybe yesterday, John Brennan was at the Saudi embassy …
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Where did we hear of him last? Oh, as the deputy director of the CIA, working with Krongard. We may end up having more questions about Buzzy Krongard in the future as more information comes to light. However, in an excellent book, Black 9-1…
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In February 1998, he recruited Buzzy Krongard to become his counselor, in which capacity Krongard probably served as Tenet's personal liaison with Wall Street. Krongard's known ties to the CIA, however, go back at least as far as 92. In the…
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The CIA utilizes top people in business world to accomplish their objectives. If you think there's a division between the intelligence world and American corporation world, you'd be in for a rude surprise. And of course, we're not because w…
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In 1998, Bankers Trust Alex Brown, that's the new name of Alex Brown once they were sold to Bankers Trust, refused to cooperate with a Senate subcommittee that was conducting hearings on the involvement of U.S. banks in money laundering act…
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The investigation of Buzzy Crongard's continued in Black 9-11. Quote, after Buzzy Crongard's departure to the CIA, his successor at Bankers Trust, Alex Brown, was his former deputy, Mayo Sattuck III, who had worked at the bank for years. In…
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investigator, let me tell you what's wrong about the information. The U.S.-based institutional investor who purchased put options on United on September 6th and the U.S.-based option trader newsletter that suggested shorting American Airlin…
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In Kevin Shipp's mind, the most dramatic set of accusations swirled around the role of Buzzy Crongard, the executive director of the CIA at the time of the attacks, whose former company placed bets against two airlines on which Al Qaeda ter…
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Were you recruited? Now, again, this guy worked at the Bank of Baltimore. OK, he's saying I was recruited in 1992. We just told you Krongard was recruited in 1998 officially. He was recruited to the CIA in 1992 by Buzzy Krongard, who was wo…
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In other words, Hale had an extremely effective cover story for countries in which he operated. When his book came out, reporters questioned Krongard about the assertions. This is what he said. Hale's 2014 book had some interesting details …
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So, Buzzy did a video interview with his granddaughter who was working on a family history project and his granddaughter posted it on the internet. The story he tells is remarkable of being recruited by the CIA when he was at Princeton Univ…
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Are you listening to me, hamster? By the dean of students. Now, you guys remember in our secret society series, we talked about all of these people from all of these grooming high schools that end up back at these universities as deans. And…
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It's okay. I hope you enjoy your car show. But looking at what's going on here with Krongard and Kevin Schiff, Kevin Schiff lost everything he could possibly lose. When I stop and look at what's going on here concerning his family and every…
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of course, bought a bank. And I'm looking at that saying, well, there was a hell of a lot more than $16 million in that bank versus either that or that bank was going to lead the Deutsche Bank in the end. So why not buy it? Correct. Tell th…
▶ 1:25:50
of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. This woman has been all over the place. And also, not mentioned in that book, but Krongard goes on to become a board member of none other than Blackwater. Just FYI. So, Southern, go ahead.…
▶ 1:26:54
He actually was part of the CIA. But what they did with him at the bank, investment bank, this was around the timing of the dot-com booms going on. And CIA needed money. So they, because of Crongard, they were able to do the IPOs like for O…
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That happened in the banking industry with them. But Krongard was tied into a lot of these tech companies that were starting, including also Starbucks, Amazon, all of this. And because of that, there was a financial play. But what startled …