Western Enterprises Inc. organization
also: Western Auto, Western Enterprises, W-E-I, WEI, Western Enterprise
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Claims (12)
Western Enterprises Inc. located_in
China book_quoted
“for Special Warfare Activities, meaning covert operations, headed up a company called Western Enterprises, which just weirdly enough ended up in Taiwan, where all the drugs are, in Chiang Kai-shek. It served as a cover for launching the KMT…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 18:13
Edward Hamilton Lon Redmond headed
Western Enterprises Inc. documented
“Although they were called guerrillas, these formations had standard infantry training equipment and organization because they were being trained and equipped by the army. Edward Hamilton was among the 19th Division veterans, and he headed u…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 55:26
William Perry headed
Western Enterprises Inc. book_quoted
“for Special Warfare Activities, meaning covert operations, headed up a company called Western Enterprises, which just weirdly enough ended up in Taiwan, where all the drugs are, in Chiang Kai-shek. It served as a cover for launching the KMT…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 18:13
Western Enterprises Inc. front_for
CIA host_asserted
“We're still all in the family here. I would definitely say that guy is CIA and he's just pretending to be in charge of this company as a civilian. An office for WEI is opened in Taiwan in early 1951. Not Pittsburgh. They have a little front…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 38:50
Charles Johnson headed
Western Enterprises Inc. documented
“Others referred to WEI as Western Auto. New agency people passed through Pittsburgh to in process do their employment paperwork and then headed off to Southeast Asia. Charles Johnston was the stay behind guy in Pittsburgh and he became know…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 39:51
Ray Peers headed
Western Enterprises Inc. documented
“Training and operational bases followed in southern Taiwan and many of the other offshore islands that was under CIA control. Western Enterprises became the stomping grounds of Ray Peers, P-E-E-R-S. He was a organizer. Peers missed few deta…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 40:22
Frank Brick headed
Western Enterprises Inc. documented
“was Western Enterprises Incorporated, W-E-I. That was its legal name. It was set up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's going to be ran by Frank Brick, B-R-I-C-K, a lawyer who happened to be another coincidentally 19th Division veteran.…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 38:20
Western Enterprises Inc. supported
Chiang Kai-shek documented
“But the company actually was going to be ran out of Taiwan in support of Chiang Kai-shek. The first CIA officers for this company, because that's all that works there, arrived in March. Claire Chennault met with them at the airport. And the…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 39:20
Western Enterprises Inc. supplied_arms_to
Chiang Kai-shek documented
“More, which in fact did happen. But the CIA and Pentagon loved it. The big part of the enforcement would be nationalist Navy patrols from Taiwan. But the CIA carried out its own using the Western Enterprise's fleet.…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 43:25
Western Enterprises Inc. front_for
CIA guest_asserted
“He also was part of the Western Enterprise Inc., which was a CIA front company headquartered in Taiwan that arranged arms to go into Formosa, but not officially. It was black market arms.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 50:26
Raymond Pierce member_of
Western Enterprises Inc. guest_asserted
“He also was part of the Western Enterprise Inc., which was a CIA front company headquartered in Taiwan that arranged arms to go into Formosa, but not officially. It was black market arms.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 50:26
Western Enterprises Inc. supplied_arms_to
China guest_asserted
“He also was part of the Western Enterprise Inc., which was a CIA front company headquartered in Taiwan that arranged arms to go into Formosa, but not officially. It was black market arms.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 50:26
Mentions (18)
▶ 50:26
He also was part of the Western Enterprise Inc., which was a CIA front company headquartered in Taiwan that arranged arms to go into Formosa, but not officially. It was black market arms. He also moved on to work with radio nets, opium fina…
▶ 18:13
for Special Warfare Activities, meaning covert operations, headed up a company called Western Enterprises, which just weirdly enough ended up in Taiwan, where all the drugs are, in Chiang Kai-shek. It served as a cover for launching the KMT…
▶ 27:45
conducting these operations without their knowing it. Having kept its options open, the CIA began to put in place elements necessary for a secret war against China. An office under the commercial cover of Western Enterprises. So, Bridget, i…
▶ 38:20
was Western Enterprises Incorporated, W-E-I. That was its legal name. It was set up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's going to be ran by Frank Brick, B-R-I-C-K, a lawyer who happened to be another coincidentally 19th Division veteran.…
▶ 38:50
We're still all in the family here. I would definitely say that guy is CIA and he's just pretending to be in charge of this company as a civilian. An office for WEI is opened in Taiwan in early 1951. Not Pittsburgh. They have a little front…
▶ 39:20
But the company actually was going to be ran out of Taiwan in support of Chiang Kai-shek. The first CIA officers for this company, because that's all that works there, arrived in March. Claire Chennault met with them at the airport. And the…
▶ 39:51
Others referred to WEI as Western Auto. New agency people passed through Pittsburgh to in process do their employment paperwork and then headed off to Southeast Asia. Charles Johnston was the stay behind guy in Pittsburgh and he became know…
▶ 40:22
Training and operational bases followed in southern Taiwan and many of the other offshore islands that was under CIA control. Western Enterprises became the stomping grounds of Ray Peers, P-E-E-R-S. He was a organizer. Peers missed few deta…
▶ 41:21
The purpose when peers needed meeting places. Western enterprises soon acquired a fleet of ships. Some were categorized as fast patrol boats. Civil air transport furnished flight services both to forward bases and for parachute training of …
▶ 41:52
to all of the small islands off the coast of mainland China, Tonkin, T-A-C-H-E-N Islands, and Xiamen, Z-I-A-M-E-N. Detachments of Western Enterprises were placed at all of these locations. The CIA also created a network of coast watchers to…
▶ 43:25
More, which in fact did happen. But the CIA and Pentagon loved it. The big part of the enforcement would be nationalist Navy patrols from Taiwan. But the CIA carried out its own using the Western Enterprise's fleet.…
▶ 48:20
knowing that the nationalists were inside that buffer and can continue to fight against the mainland. I mean, it's brilliantly evil. Okay, useful to this purpose was the Western Enterprise boss, Ray Pierce, and he basically was kind of in c…
▶ 53:00
officers um were not supporting the covert operations to the best that they could yet even as oso um talked down about the mainland campaign myers who's in charge of it of the oso dabbled in various aspects of it he visited different offsho…
▶ 56:29
The People's Liberation Army concentrated forces and wiped them all out. Kind of harkens us back to Albania and every other place they tried this. Western Enterprises went on recruiting guerrillas and achieved a psychological warfare coup b…
▶ 1:00:36
A war in Korea. They were just siphoning off all of the shit that was supposedly going to Korea to Taiwan and Chiang Kai-shek and the CIA. Very convenient war. Okay. They also sent along 4,000 regular troops plus 1,000 guerrillas. Western e…
▶ 1:07:11
This is unbelievable. Robert Barrow, B-A-R-R-O-W, he was a Marine. He had been loaned to the CIA. He wanted big missions. His subordinate, Robert Dillon, objected that Western Enterprise would be hard-pressed to supply the needed landing cr…
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The raid involved not only the guerrillas, but every nationalist armed service coordinated by other nationalist spy service. The Continental Operation Department included. Robert Barrow participated as Ed Hamilton supervised and Frank Holla…
▶ 1:10:36
mainland China. In accordance with the CIA's reorganization plan, detachments on the three different islands pulled back and Western Enterprise disappeared in 1953. Charles Johnston, the original Pittsburgh Charlie himself, came to close do…