Minutemen organization
also: paramilitary organization of the ultra-right, secret paramilitary anti-communist group, secretive extreme right wing group, Depew's organization, Minuteman, Minutemen organization, Minutemen project, original Minutemen, the Minutemen, Robert Depew's Minutemen, Minute Man, Minute Men
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
Robert Depewperson · 16John F. Kennedyperson · 3Operation Gladiooperation · 2Traders Bewarebook · 2Executive Councilorganization · 2Raymond Hillperson · 2New Orleansplace · 1John Birch Societyorganization · 1Jim Garrisonperson · 1Guy Banisterperson · 1Danielle Ganserperson · 1Howard P. Jonesperson · 1Los Angelesplace · 1Bridgetperson · 1St. Louisplace · 1Preston Wilcoxperson · 1Indianaplace · 1Shiloh, Illinoisplace · 1Eric Beckheimerperson · 1George H.W. Bushperson · 1Paul L. Williamsperson · 1Soviet Unioncountry · 1Lee Harvey Oswaldperson · 1Francecountry · 1
Claims (18)
Robert Depew founded
Minutemen book_quoted
“Depew apparently possesses some special staying power as a man obsessed, in his case, with the omnipresence of communism and socialism. He's a national coordinator and founding father of the Minutemen, paramilitary organization of the ultra…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 34:48
Robert Depew member_of
Minutemen book_quoted
“It says Robert Depew, 72, came to prominence in the early 60s as founder of the Minutemen, a secretive extreme right wing group that perceived an impending communist takeover of the U.S. and organized violent counteraction to prevent the al…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 51:06
Robert Depew member_of
Minutemen book_quoted
“Depew apparently possesses some special staying power as a man obsessed, in his case, with the omnipresence of communism and socialism. He's a national coordinator and founding father of the Minutemen, paramilitary organization of the ultra…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 34:48
Robert Depew founded
Minutemen book_quoted
“how history ended up going. Robert Depew is, at best, a historical footnote and was a man who spent a great deal of time either in prison or running from the law. Depew created a guerrilla militia in the U.S. during the early 60s to fight i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 21:10
Robert Depew removed_from_power
Minutemen book_quoted
“Depew did step down from his leadership position for a short period of time in 1967. An article in the New York Times read, Robert Bolivar Depew announced today that he was resigning as the national coordinator of a right-wing Minutemen. He…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 14:29
Robert Depew founded
Minutemen book_quoted
“Depew began to advertise for recruits to fill the ranks of his new anti-communist militia. His first public event, a training session, was held in October 1961 in Shiloh, Illinois. This town was a semi-rural suburb of St. Louis. The event r…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 25:24
Robert Depew founded
Minutemen book_quoted
“Are you kidding me? Because I find it very interesting, again, because these people don't know anything about what Gladio is. It also says that Depew, the guy that set this whole thing up, was a member of the John Birch Society, Ron.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 1:32:40
FBI spied_on
Minutemen book_quoted
“The other woman lived with the first. They were eventually moved to another property owned by Depew, and there were some shuffling around until they were finally evicted and then arrested by the police for vagrancy. The women were interview…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 31:18
Minutemen carried_out_attack
Seattle, Washington documented
“Other Minutemen cells got swept up in law enforcement as well. One group tried to rob a bank in Washington state, while another was involved in a shootout with police in Connecticut. And then it goes on to talk about the publications that h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 33:39
Minutemen carried_out_attack
House Un-American Activities Committee book_quoted
“In addition, the Minutemen used threats against perceived enemies. In one instance, in a monthly publication, they listed the names of 20 congressmen who had criticized the then active House Committee on Un-American Activities, warning, tra…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 52:04
Robert Depew founded
Minutemen host_asserted
“And how they were set up in America to look exactly like Gladio. And at first brush, you would think that they were Gladio. But there were some strong indications, like the fact that they never committed domestic terrorism like other Gladio…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 1:48:24
Guy Banister member_of
Minutemen host_asserted
“did what they felt was their patriotic duty and formed these, this organization. And Guy Bannister from New Orleans was one of their members, as were some other people that were assassinated in the lead up to the Jim Garrison trial. Some of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 1:49:21
Guy Banister member_of
Minutemen book_quoted
“Imagine my surprise when I get to the part that says, ironically, a member of the Minutemen named Guy Bannister would later be suspected of conspiracy theorist in connection with President Kennedy's assassination.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 1:30:29
Walter Payson member_of
Minutemen documented
“Robbery plan is being presented for approval to Wally Payson, the assistant to Robert DePue, the national coordinator of Minutemen. They are presently out on bond pending appeal. And basically, we know they ran. So there's a lot of document…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 55:30
Minutemen funded
Nazi Party book_quoted
“that privately calls itself Real Minutemen. Some of Depew's former members are literally Nazis, having gone over to the American Nazi Party. Wasn't the American Nazi Party a gross burlesque, I asked him? Not at all, he replied, naming a pro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 44:18
CIA funded
Minutemen guest_asserted
“Because as you move up and you start looking at it overall, the fact that they set up a very similarly named organization and according to Depew, it was funded by the CIA and those people started doing nefarious things, calling themselves M…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 1:18:04
Minutemen carried_out_attack
Robert Kennedy assassination book_quoted
“The full statement seemed not only to confirm Depew's known antithony towards the American Nazi Party of George Lincoln Rockwell, but to bolster suspicions of a deep rift between Depew and factions of his own organization. On the urging of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 41:35
Guy Banister member_of
Minutemen host_asserted
“His organization never vetted its members, so all sorts of drifters and misfits were part of the organization. And in this organization, we eventually find Guy Bannister, the guy that was involved in JFK's assassination and was investigated…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 32:14
Mentions (34)
▶ 0:00
Hello, everybody. This is going to be an interesting dive into the Minutemen organization. Thanks to Maker Sarge. And I can see that they're already working on our space. They've dumped me out three times and people are disappearing. So thi…
▶ 2:14
I have to keep my computer down here, which makes it a little more cumbersome, for me anyway, on Rumble, so I can actually type and move things around. Okay, so first of all, Maker Sarge sent me this book, Traders Beware. And it was a histo…
▶ 3:53
noticed the same thing when he read this book and again if you'd have read this book years ago without knowing about operation gladio you would have taken it as you know this is probably an isolated thing happening except if when you begin …
▶ 4:23
created the Minutemen organization is because they all believed that there was an imminent communist invasion that was going to occur. Now, why would they have thought that? Because that was the propaganda campaign that was being waged by t…
▶ 4:53
that kind of converged into the Minutemen project. And I don't see my favorite John Birch supporter in the audience, Ron. And he would have loved, because the John Birch Society is intermixed in this story in a couple of different fascinati…
▶ 7:27
How he made his money. He actually became a very wealthy man after a fall. He had some problems with the company and then restarted it later and made a lot of money, like a lot of money. So this isn't your run of the mill kind of rabble rou…
▶ 9:22
And he had entree on into some of the biggest named organizations in the United States because he had money to give away. So he said that he was very disappointed in the conservative leadership that he met while he was on these trips. He wa…
▶ 9:56
communist invasion. He adopted the symbol of a crosshair of a telescope site as the logo for the Minutemen. It says that the concept was originally thought about while he was on a duck hunting trip, and there's some controversy over whether…
▶ 11:57
called the Executive Council that supposedly was in charge of the Minutemen. But what you also, when you read a whole bunch of other articles about the Minutemen, realize that the council really didn't have any authority, that Depew basical…
▶ 12:29
which again is kind of a reoccurring pattern with these domestic things in America. And they oftentimes took their weapons to different locations, one of which was in Indiana, and did like field training exercises to make sure that everybod…
▶ 12:59
Depew also was quoted as saying that in a speech that President Kennedy gave on the Roosevelt Day commemoration, he basically said in his speech, today we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but c…
▶ 14:00
Again, there was a couple of different variations of that as well. But the structure is what I want to talk about from this book, because you guys are going to recognize it immediately. So I'm going to quote from the book where it says that…
▶ 14:29
Depew did step down from his leadership position for a short period of time in 1967. An article in the New York Times read, Robert Bolivar Depew announced today that he was resigning as the national coordinator of a right-wing Minutemen. He…
▶ 14:59
However, he rejoined the Minutemen shortly thereafter because of what he described as internal problems within the organization. As he was absent from leadership less than five months, it can be assumed that he was the only important nation…
▶ 15:26
Ten regional directors of the Minutemen operated below the national structure. However, this does not seem that these were the same ten men that were a part of the executive council, which DePue also claimed had ten members at one point. Mr…
▶ 15:55
DePue noted that there were state-level coordinators, but there was no military rank within the organization. Another author, Jones, also suggested that there were state-level leaders of the Minutemen. These state leaders may have operated …
▶ 16:24
However, the absence of an actual chain of command suggests that the regional and state coordinators were not directly responsible to Depew and may not have had authority to give orders. Depew indicated that there were unit leaders below th…
▶ 16:51
required only the name and address of the unit leaders. The unit leaders did not give their real name. They used code names. In effect, anyone below the state level was encouraged to remain anonymous for security reasons. DePue also indicat…
▶ 17:19
Also, the Minutemen used numbers instead of names for identification purposes. Each state had some one person who was the sort of leader for the state. According to Hill, the Minutemen were loosely organized into small cells and that the or…
▶ 17:47
by the name of George and Wilcox, described a similar style of organization. They said there were small units which consisted between five and 20 members. These units were not to know about each other. In fact, only the state leader were to…
▶ 18:16
When I read this, I'm like small cells and no one knows each other. That's exactly the way Paul Williams and Daniel Ganser describes the Gladio cells that were set up all over Europe. And the timing of this in the late 50s and 60s is basica…
▶ 18:46
There's a big dispute over how many people were actually in it, because, of course, there's no records of it, of who all of the cells were. And one of the people said the actual number of genuine active committed Minutemen was in the neighb…
▶ 19:14
just dispersed among neighborhood people. And they would, I mean, they knew how to get ahold of each other because they went to different locations and did drills. And again, this involved stockpiling of weapons. So you can immediately see …
▶ 21:10
how history ended up going. Robert Depew is, at best, a historical footnote and was a man who spent a great deal of time either in prison or running from the law. Depew created a guerrilla militia in the U.S. during the early 60s to fight i…
▶ 25:24
Depew began to advertise for recruits to fill the ranks of his new anti-communist militia. His first public event, a training session, was held in October 1961 in Shiloh, Illinois. This town was a semi-rural suburb of St. Louis. The event r…
▶ 43:47
If Depew's fears about the FBI were slightly overwrought, his concern about Minutemen spinoff actions was not. One bit of extraneous matter which had been dredged up by Garrison's probe was the existence of a paramilitary cell in New Orlean…
▶ 1:23:40
There are some very, very smart people in our audience that has a piece of this entire puzzle that have been more than willing. I mean, Maker Sarge is a good example of that. I just got another book from him that he mailed to me. He's the s…
▶ 1:29:00
It changes the entire dynamic of reading books now. Speaking of which, I'm going to give a shout out to Mager Sarge. I saw him over on Rumble. I don't know if he's here. He sent me a book called Traders Beware. It's a very short book and it…
▶ 1:29:30
This was an organization that was set up in Missouri. And again, it's a very interesting, I would call it more of a pamphlet. It's a small book that Eric Beckheimer, Beckmeyer, however you say his name, he's a lawyer now. He wrote this when…
▶ 1:30:29
Imagine my surprise when I get to the part that says, ironically, a member of the Minutemen named Guy Bannister would later be suspected of conspiracy theorist in connection with President Kennedy's assassination.…
▶ 1:31:41
I was shocked that this guy was in this organization called Minutemen. Well, you would be even more shocked if you read the description of this organization. Because this organization was described as basically a militia that was set up sta…
▶ 0:00
Hey, Bridget. Yes, ma'am. While we're waiting for everybody else to get in here, I finally, over the weekend, had a chance to read all that stuff on the Minute Man, Minute Men, whatever it is. Yes, which is very Gladio-esque. Oh, my God. Oh…
▶ 2:05
That 100% was a Gladio cell and set up to make the Minutemen, which they obviously couldn't control because of who was in charge of it, to look bad because they constantly were setting them up to look bad. Were they infiltrated? No, they ac…
▶ 2:35
And one of those articles, I think it was headquartered out in California, that basically was the exact same thing. They even use some of the same jargon and everything else and a similar name in order to make people confused and blame ever…