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John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Lyman Lemnitzer documented
“and were managed out of NATO. Hint, hint, Operation Gladio. During Wilson's first prime minister tour, General Lyman Lemonsker, my buddy, took command of NATO in 1962. That was Wilson's first prime minister tour. General Lemonsker was fired…”
▶ Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson @ 24:35
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles documented
“at his disposal, he basically pursued those, which is what is, it's that really, we all talk about the Bay of Pigs, but at the same time, most people don't know anything about Indonesia. And it really was the Indonesia thing that kind of fi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 49:51
John F. Kennedy succeeded
Dwight D. Eisenhower documented
“paramilitary operations inside of China. And we know for a fact, based on what we had already read, that U-2s were part of that. So I find that just startling, actually. The secret war in Tibet was passed on from Eisenhower to JFK. It was u…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 31:47
John F. Kennedy member_of
United States documented
“and the resistance commanders made an increasingly desperate plea for supplies. When JFK took the oath of office on January 20th, 1961, the CIA had already prepared proposals for what to do in Tibet. Not like they were setting them up or an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 32:17
John F. Kennedy founded
Alliance for Progress book_quoted
“created the Alliance for Progress for exactly that reason, to help democratically elected administrations in foreign countries do what they felt necessary, even if it wasn't a conservative government. He was not interested in the traditiona…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 23:39
John F. Kennedy appointed
Maxwell D. Taylor documented
“Congress as a whole never explicitly considered the Laos request. It passed on budgets of those agencies that were involved. Most of it classified. Henry Sullivan almost missed his assignment to Laos as an ambassador because Maxwell Taylor …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 1:01:40
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Operation Mongoose documented
“The EXCOMM discussed the operation and McComb personally briefed the landings. President Kennedy and McGeorge Bundy both spoke of reorienting Mongoose. Bobby went to Langley and denounced everyone except Bill Harvey. On October 30th, the Wh…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 26:20
John F. Kennedy funded
Operation Mongoose book_quoted
“Successfully overthrow Castro because of his control over his armed forces and the country in general, unless you had an invading force backed up by intervention of U.S. forces, unquote. JFK received the O&E estimate judging time to be on C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 9:04
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“On March 15th, both options were outlined at the White House. JFK, to Schlesinger's mind, listened carefully, again rejecting Trinidad as a World War II assault operation. He ordered the Bay of Pigs plan to be reoriented for a night as oppo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 27:20
John F. Kennedy appointed
Adolph Burrell book_quoted
“It all came down to the people Kennedy assembled in the cabinet room on April 5th, his last real opportunity to cancel the invasion. Kennedy went around the room to poll participants. Fulbright adamantly opposed ATE, but the center of gravi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 28:14
John F. Kennedy appointed
Adlai Stevenson II book_quoted
“Plausible deniability remained necessary precisely so that leaders might deny U.S. involvement. At an important forum for world opinion, the U.N. General Assembly, then in session in New York City, a Cuban debate already figured on the agen…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 31:47
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“Kennedy, having had fired Alan Dulles for not doing what he was supposed to do in the Bay of Pigs and disobeying Kennedy…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:05:43
John F. Kennedy appointed
Roger Hilsman book_quoted
“Roger Hilsman, whom Kennedy appointed to head the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, which again is the belly button into the State Department for the CIA, believes that both he and Emory were cut out of the loop on Cub…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 1:36
John F. Kennedy installed
Paul Fay Jr. documented
“They were sure I'd give in, Kennedy later said. They couldn't believe that a new president like me wouldn't panic and try to save his face. They were wrong. JFK was even more vehement when he spoke with another old friend, Paul Red Fay Jr.,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 25:54
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented
“a sign that he was in the midst of another agonizing grout attack. And then the old man collapsed on the chair and said, this is the worst day of my life. If Dulles thought he could escape Kennedy's wrath by making Bissell the scapegoat, he…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 27:24
John F. Kennedy appointed
C.D. Jackson book_quoted
“who JFK named his treasury secretary, was a way of JFK assuring the nation that there wasn't going to be radical change. Alan Dulles was one of the wildest masters of secret power ever produced by America. And his most ambitious clandestine…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 37:54
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles documented
“He replaced veteran spymaster Alan Dulles as director of the CIA in November 1961. After JFK had forced Dulles out following the CIA's bungling of Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs, McCone had one overriding mission, restore order to the bes…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 2:31
John F. Kennedy appointed
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“In 1960, LBJ was selected by JFK as his running mate.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:09:42
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles documented
“a sign that he was in the midst of another agonizing grout attack. And then the old man collapsed on the chair and said, this is the worst day of my life. If Dulles thought he could escape Kennedy's wrath by making Bissell the scapegoat, he…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 27:24
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“In the power game, he became the first and only president who dared to strip Alan Dulles of his official authority. But Dulles' forced retirement did not last long after Kennedy ejected him from the CIA in November of 1961. Instead of easin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 42:20
Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded
John F. Kennedy documented
“particularly the Soviet Union, and had been an officer in charge of security for the atomic bomb project. In Vietnam, he was called on to preside over the escalation of paramilitary activities. Escalation was mandated by LBJ, Kennedy's sudd…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 33:37
John F. Kennedy visited
Amintore Fanfani documented
“These forces came swirling together in Rome during JFK's official visit to the imperial capital, where tour guides still pointed out the stone steps on which Julius Caesar's blood was spilled. On July 1st, Kennedy was visiting with the Ital…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:35
John F. Kennedy visited
Italy documented
“So we're on chapter 17, the parting glass. In the summer of 1963, President Kennedy flew to Europe for what would be the final overseas trip of his life. Although he had left Washington, the forces of political turmoil set loose by his pres…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:09
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles documented
“by JFK in late 1961, the old man's crowd had quickly closed ranks around him. The Loses immediately offered Dulles solace, inviting Clover and him to spend the New Year's holiday at their winter home in Phoenix. Claire Booth Lose often used…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 2:03
John F. Kennedy member_of
Arbour Hill book_quoted
“JFK said that the emotional highlight for him had been the visit to Arbor Hill, the hallowed ground for Irish people. It is where the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, who had been executed by the British at a jail, were laid to rest. Kenn…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 46:53
John F. Kennedy appointed
Fred Korth host_asserted
“So Connolly left the job in 62. JFK now appointed Korth, the guy we're talking about, as secretary of the Navy.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 56:51
Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“The assassination happens. This committee is then basically, because Johnson becomes president, is…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:01:08
John F. Kennedy reassigned
Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted
“Because they had just went through the Bay of Pigs, he didn't want to outright fire him. So he moved him to NATO.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt @ 3:38
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“And JFK was so profoundly disturbed because by that time he'd already fired Alan Dulles.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt @ 3:12
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted
“fake Cuban army people when they were actually CIA trained paramilitary Cuban exiles living in Miami and blame Castro for killing Americans so they could justify a full scale invasion into Cuba. That was presented to John F. Kennedy and he …”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 8:10
Abraham Bolden spied_on
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“He also claims that he raised the assassination attempt. But Thomas Kelly corroborated that aspect of it, that he did actually investigate allegations of drinking by the agents in his 1978 interview. After Abraham Bolden did that, he claims…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 1:21:36
Allen Dulles spied_on
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Although he certainly did not retire from intelligence when he was fired in 1961, he incorrectly, or excuse me, he was fired in 1963, I believe. No, it was 61. I don't know. We'll get to that part. He incorrectly briefed Kennedy on several …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 38:52
Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Literally everything that Alan Dulles had spent since the 1930s in hiding the secret, the Sullivan and Cromwell crowd, they could not let Kennedy go to Indonesia. They could not. So it was imperative to get him out of the way. It was impera…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 1:15:58
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“Literally everything that Alan Dulles had spent since the 1930s in hiding the secret, the Sullivan and Cromwell crowd, they could not let Kennedy go to Indonesia. They could not. So it was imperative to get him out of the way. It was impera…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 1:15:58
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“the CIA, his anti-Sucarno stance was just one of several reasons for which Dulles would eventually be fired. Dulles still welded insurance after Kennedy fired him. His monument that was installed at the entrance of the new building was indi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4 @ 39:03
Allen Dulles removed_from_power
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“Basically, Dulles was the first. He was highly influential in who else got assigned to the commission into President Kennedy's assassination, which is irony since President Kennedy fired him. Of the 418 witnesses questioned by the commissio…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4 @ 50:01
John F. Kennedy member_of
CFR documented
“Concerning President Kennedy's membership in the CFR, because he was to a member, there's an interesting story. On June 7th, 1960, Kennedy, then a United States Senator, wrote a letter answering a question about his membership in the counci…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 1 @ 42:29
John F. Kennedy founded
USAID host_asserted
“Pointing to Reagan again, it was, you know, Reagan is the one who created USAID. No, no, no. He did the National Endowment for Democracy. OK, OK, OK. I thought it was I thought I thought Reagan was the one who created USAID. USAID, as it wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 1:24:03
John F. Kennedy founded
Peace Corps host_asserted
“certainly did not want to use foreign aid to overthrow governments. He made that perfectly clear. And that was one of the reasons why he created the Peace Corps, because his focus was peace, not war. And so the rolling up and central contro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 1:25:00
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted
“to wreck all kinds of domestic terror events, blame it on Cuba so they could justify a full-scale ground invasion of Cuba. That's called Operation Northwood. So the fact that this movie basically reincarnates what Kennedy was actually doing…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 19:56
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“to wreck all kinds of domestic terror events, blame it on Cuba so they could justify a full-scale ground invasion of Cuba. That's called Operation Northwood. So the fact that this movie basically reincarnates what Kennedy was actually doing…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 19:56
Fidel Castro paid
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“to receive in his hotel room a mahogany box inlaid with a Cuban seal of their prized cigars. The note accompanying the cigars read, since I have no greeting card, I have to write. Since I have to write to an enemy is difficult. I limit myse…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 24:19
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Barry Seale. And the shooting down of the Iran-Contra, what sparked the Iran-Contra revelation was the shooting down of the aircraft that exposed the drug running, all arranged by the CIA, the Cuban exiles. We have tracked the Cuban exile c…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2 @ 2:09:38
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba host_asserted
“Kennedy administration planned to stem the spread of Castroism into Latin America by depicting the Cuban revolution as a virus that would infect other Latin American people into believing that they might too have a decent life. The CIA supp…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 21:58
John F. Kennedy funded
Operation Desoto documented
“President Kennedy had approved a similar program for North Vietnam in 1962. When the first of those patrols was carried out, there was a second DeSoto mission in 63, and the destroyer Craig made an intercept cruise in the Gulf of Tonkin in …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 37:21
John F. Kennedy appointed
Theodore Tannenwald host_asserted
“tannenwald coordinator in charge of presenting the bill to the committees in the house and senate three cabinet officers and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff took their orders from tannenwald who according to the new york times bec…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 5 @ 9:36
John F. Kennedy appointed
Warren Lee Pearson host_asserted
“was to be the chairman. They appointed in an entire array, some 22 people to be in charge of it. I'm going to go through a couple. William Benton, who was chairman of the board for Encyclopedia Britannica and a member of the Atlantic Union …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 5 @ 11:08
John F. Kennedy member_of
London School of Economics host_asserted
“Joseph and his stance on not meddling in international problems and war and how it kind of shaped a different direction for JFK. But I think it's a significant beginning or a little story that we don't really hear much about. So that's all.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 II @ 1:11:03
Assassinations Records Review Board declassified
John F. Kennedy documented
“One really has to do a lot of comparison between what these purportedly left journalists wrote about, say, JFK in Vietnam or JFK in Cuba or JFK in Indonesia, Congo, whatever, across the board, and then actually compare them to, you know, th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:24:57
John F. Kennedy approved
Roswell Gilpatric documented
“Still, the Gilpatrick group came to President Kennedy with a list of 40 items. Kennedy's decision set a course for the American experience in Vietnam. Between doing nothing and committing U.S. forces, JFK chose a gradual expansion of effort…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 48:34
John F. Kennedy ordered
Operation Farm Gate documented
“almost like they ignored him. The same day he sent Taylor and Rostow to Saigon, JFK ordered a training squadron to be operational on November 16th, 1961. It flew missions under code name Farmgate. The deployment figured in a wider expansion…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 51:31
John F. Kennedy appointed
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“what had now become the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, and he called it a watchdog group, specifically to head off congressional efforts to substitute a formal oversight mechanism. Failure at the Bay of Pigs led Kennedy to tighte…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 14:40
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro documented
“by Nixon's soft-on-global communists, carved out a position on Cuba that was even more militant than the Republican candidate, declaring that Castro had betrayed the ideals of the Cuban Revolution and called his regime a communist menace th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 31:05
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“JFK ripped into America's corporate plunder and political domination of the island in surprisingly unvarnished terms. He also denounced Washington's shameful practice of propping up dictators throughout Latin America, including Batista. Ken…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 31:59
John F. Kennedy supported
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“where Kennedy was joined on the platform by a formidable supporting cast of Democrat dignitaries, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Congressman Powell. The presidential contender sounded more like a supporter of the bearded revolutionary in w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 32:55
John F. Kennedy supported
Nikita Khrushchev host_asserted
“We should be glad that Castro and Khrushchev came to the United States. We should not fear the 20th century. For the worldwide revolution, which we are seeing all around us, is part of the American Revolution. The man who was soon to become…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 33:48
John F. Kennedy recruited
Dave Powers host_asserted
“the son of a dock worker who had died when Powers was two, leaving his widow and eight children, the political operator knew the dreams and heartaches of the families crowded into the neighborhoods. When Kennedy first approached him in Char…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 41:19
Dave Powers worked_for
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“There was nothing like the reaction he received. He immediately was surrounded by all of these Charlestown's mothers. And in the background, I could hear them saying, he reminds me of my own son. It was overwhelming. Powers finally gave in.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 43:44
Charles Wrightsman introduced
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Clover is Allen Dulles' wife, for bringing out her husband's reprehensible characteristics. You know, like for all of the ritzy stuff. It was Reitzman who introduced the Dulleses to young JFK. Charlie Reitzman was no fan of the new dealer J…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 50:42
Allen Dulles met
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“was a man of the past, recklessly provoking Cold War confrontations when the world was crying for a new vision. Though it was largely hidden from the public, the duel between the Kennedy and Dulles would define deep politics in the 1960s. D…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 46:41
John F. Kennedy traveled_to
Vietnam documented
“The two Dulles brothers were slow to realize that if the young Senator Kennedy was their pupil, he was also increasingly rebellious one. Kennedy began questioning the rigid Cold War paradigm that dominated Washington's policymakers as early…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 53:40
John F. Kennedy met
Edmund Gullion host_asserted
“On the rooftop restaurant overlooking the Parisian-styled streets below, Kennedy met with an astute American embassy officer called Edmund Gullion. The diplomat told the inquisitive congressman that French would never win this war. He said …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 54:39
Edmund Gullion informed
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“On the rooftop restaurant overlooking the Parisian-styled streets below, Kennedy met with an astute American embassy officer called Edmund Gullion. The diplomat told the inquisitive congressman that French would never win this war. He said …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 54:39
John F. Kennedy criticized
Dwight D. Eisenhower documented
“By April 54, when Kennedy stood on the Senate floor and challenged the Eisenhower administration for supporting the doomed French war in Vietnam, he had become an informed critic of Western imperialism. Even as French headed towards its Wat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 56:08
Dwight D. Eisenhower criticized
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Ike sounded off about JFK's speech in a cabinet meeting, sourly commenting, quote, that's fine. Everybody likes independence. We can all make brilliant speeches, but these things are rather difficult problems. And maybe somebody ought to ma…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 1:00:34
John F. Kennedy criticized
Dwight D. Eisenhower host_asserted
“Kennedy had little respect for Eisenhower, seeing him as a disengaged leader who would rather play golf with his millionaire cronies than confront the world's emerging new realities. Quote, I could understand if he played golf all the time …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 1:01:27
Adlai Stevenson II criticized
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“since 1945. As for Foster, Kennedy dismissed him as a aging pontificator who saw the world through slogans, godless communism, Soviet's master plan, all of that kind of rhetoric. While Kennedy's denunciation of French colonialism in Algeria…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 1:01:57
John F. Kennedy criticized
Dwight D. Eisenhower book_quoted
“approached its climax, JFK's criticism of the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy grew sharper, focusing on the Republican administration's irresponsible record of nuclear brinksmanship, as well as disquieting ignorance of international affair…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:30
Mary Bancroft supported
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“John and Robert Kennedy, through her Democratic Party activism in New York City politics, became increasingly smitten with JFK. In July of 1959, Bancroft wrote Kennedy a gushing letter after meeting him at a New York political gathering, vo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 3:20
John F. Kennedy added_to_book
Joseph Kennedy Sr. book_quoted
“Going as far as to add his late brother's name to an honorable roster of political heroes Kennedy wrote about in his book, Profiles in Courage. It was Jackie Kennedy who tipped off Dulles to the pleasures of James Bond, giving him a copy of…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 4:18
Allen Dulles met_with
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“The CIA director would send copies of new Bond novels to the senator and his wife as soon as he could get his hands on them. Dulles played both sides of the 1960 presidential campaign in his typical fashion, currying favors with the Kennedy…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 4:48
John F. Kennedy kept_in_position
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“The first thing he should do, suggested one, was fire J. Edgar Hoover. While he was at it, another one said, he should also fire Alan Dulles, and he should have. Both men were symbols of reactionary past, and there was something sinister ab…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 11:02
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. explained_decision_of
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“Kennedy later explained to author Schlesinger that considering his slim margin of victory, he didn't feel he had sufficient political capital to uproot Washington pillars like Hoover and Dulles. Jettisoning the national icons, as Schlesinge…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 11:27
John F. Kennedy wanted_to_replace
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“Besides, Kennedy said, he had given men like Dulles only temporary reprieve. They would soon be gone. We'll have to do with this for a year or so, he said. Then I'll bring in new people. I suppose it may be hard to get rid of these people o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 13:25
Allen Dulles organized_mixer_for
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“Another grooming place for globalists. And his grasp of the latest surveillance technology, Bissell struck JFK as a man of the future, but deeply tied to the past. Soon after Kennedy's inauguration, Dulles organized a well-lubricated mixer …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 14:25
John F. Kennedy appointed
McGeorge Bundy book_quoted
“The press was filled with stories about all the fresh new faces in Washington, but many of the Kennedy appointments had closer ties to Dulles than they did to the new president. Among them was McGeorge Bundy, the Harvard dean who Kennedy ap…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 16:51
William Walker reported_to
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“Walton, who loathed the CIA boss, couldn't believe Dulles' audacity. The spymaster knew that Walton was one of Kennedy's inner circle, but he felt no need to hold his tongue. Dulles was clearly sending the new president a message. And Kenne…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 21:22
Adlai Stevenson II spied_on
John F. Kennedy documented
“They just fucking beat a man to death. They did, the CIA. But those people over there are primitive. Good God. Neither Timberlake nor Dublin took the opportunity to tell Kennedy or his staff they'd already killed him. The Kennedy White Hous…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:07:26
Bob Lowe spied_on
John F. Kennedy documented
“Lowe, a young photographer who had been unobstructively documenting the Kennedy story from the earliest days of his presidential run, in the Oval Office with JFK, received a phone call from Stevenson. I want to show you this picture. It's a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:08:00
John F. Kennedy spied_on
Patrice Lumumba documented
“on the phone being told that Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. That's it. That's him. It's crazy. It's just literally crazy. There was none was more powerful than the picture that the young photographer snapped the moment when Kennedy was t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:08:31
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“On November 14th, the day after the White House strategy session on the 1964 campaign, the president privately confirmed that Johnson would not be on the ticket. While conversing with his secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, JFK told her that he was …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 25:19
John F. Kennedy appointed
Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“on his 1960 ticket to win votes in the South. But as the 1964 campaign approached, LBJ had lost so much clout below the Mason-Dixon line, largely because of his subservient role in Kennedy's liberal pro-civil rights presidency that he could…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 17:55
John F. Kennedy spied_on
Nelson Rockefeller book_quoted
“family pumping mutual friends like presidential advisor Adolph Burrell for inside information about the Rockefellers. Jack and David had been contemporaries at Harvard, but as David was quick to point out, we moved in very different circles…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 3:37
Nelson Rockefeller targeted_for_regime_change
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“That drove him to begin mounting a presidential challenge in 1964. In his final political speeches before the Kennedy assassination, Rockefeller lashed into the president for his indecision, vacillation, and weakness in the foreign policy a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 5:37
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“regarded the president as a degenerate and very likely a traitor. If the Soviets launched a sneak nuclear attack on America, Engelbrodin, the Kennedys would be safely cocooned in their luxury bunker, presumably watching World War III on tel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 7:36
Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“And Dulles was the only man with a stature connection and decisive will to make something like that happen. He had already assembled a killing machine to operate overseas, Gladio. Now he prepared to bring it home to Dallas. All that his est…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 9:08
Allen Dulles sent_condolences_to
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“knew that Robert Kennedy was the only man who could bring them to justice. They had sought to keep him close after Dallas, with Dulles showering his condolences on the Kennedy family. Quote, you have been much in my thoughts, and Jackie, Et…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 33:15
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles documented
“but he failed to halt the White House momentum that was building for Dulles' termination. The battle over Dulles' future as CIA director came to a head during a presidential investigation of the Bay of Pigs, a few days after the failed inva…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 40:37
John F. Kennedy covered_up
1961 French coup attempt book_quoted
“had been triggered by de Gaulle's efforts to bring French colonial rule in Algeria to an end, a goal JFK shared. The CIA's support for the coup was one more defiant display of contempt, a backhand aimed not only at de Gaulle, but at Kennedy…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:07:58
John F. Kennedy appointed
James Gavin book_quoted
“in the interest of a good Franco-American relationship, whatever the rank or whoever the person. To solidify his support for de Gaulle, Kennedy ordered the U.S. Ambassador James Gavin to offer the French leader any help he might need, clear…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:09:24
John F. Kennedy appointed
Pierre Salinger book_quoted
“would be too absorbed in the Cuban affair to act decisively against the plot. But JFK did react quickly to the French crisis, putting on high alert Ambassador Gavin, a decorated paratrooper commander in World War II, who could be counted on…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:10:23
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted
“They try to kill him. Shooting his car with his wife in it. It just went on and on and on. At that point is after JFK fires Lyman Lemonsker and moves him over to NATO headquarters. Charles de Gaulle calls Lyman Lemonsker into his office and…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:15:29
John F. Kennedy approved
National Security Council documented
“Rostow, then the Deputy National Security Advisor. In mid-June, both the President and the NSC staff were watching over the proposed text of a presentation that Rostow would make at the Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 40:31
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. member_of
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“This attempt at regime change, filtered through America's Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union, was the latest in a long series of CIA covert operations. Jagen became both victim and exemplar. Quote, we misunderstood the whole struggle d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 5:00
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Guyana Project book_quoted
“actually helped keep the CIA out of the act, objecting that the covert initiative could easily get in the way of overt policy. JFK sided with Schlesinger. He was not interested. A second round of talks with the British took place in London …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 15:43
Cheddi Jagan carried_out_attack
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“a meeting with Kennedy to plead his case. He traveled to Washington, saw Kennedy, and Kennedy basically avoided giving any commitment. The American record notes that Jagen was, quote unquote, evasive. In his biography of Kennedy, Schlesinge…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 17:47
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Guyana Project book_quoted
“And there was no arms on the vessels at all. At the White House, Arthur Schlesinger warned JFK that both the CIA and the State Department had the notion that the president had made a firm decision to get rid of Jagen. On March 8, 1962, Pres…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 27:32
Warren Commission discredited
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“We're going to see some smoke under the knoll very, very shortly. That's going to blow that out of the water. And it's similar to how they do this with other witnesses. The Warren Commission, for example, one witness mentioned something abo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 1:17:56
Allen Dulles briefed
John F. Kennedy documented
“handed the project over to the Kennedy transition team several weeks later. Though Ike himself did not sit down with the president-elect until December 6th, Eisenhower specifically recalls that Allen Dulles had already briefed Kennedy on a …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 7:29
John F. Kennedy authorized
CIA documented
“Galbraith. The list of projects, many of which bothered the ambassador. A couple of weeks earlier, President Kennedy had authorized CIA airdrops to the Mustang location. Galbraith determined to stop these spooky activities. Tibet among them…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 10:32
John F. Kennedy paid
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“JFK as a devotee of spy fiction and he knew him well enough that Jackie Kennedy made Allen a present of one of Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels from Russia with Love. Dulles liked it so much he joined the legion of Fleming fans and bou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 41:28
Allen Dulles briefed
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“be fed into the campaign, according to Bissell. Bob Amory's impression was that Kennedy regarded Bissell as one of the four or five good people in the government. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Allen Dulles briefed JFK on internatio…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 42:55
Richard Goodwin funded
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“blaming the U.S. government for not providing enough support. Drafted by Kennedy aide Richard Goodwin, who had tried to get JFK on the telephone the night before but found him asleep, the statement went out, further enraging Nixon. At their…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 45:52
Allen Dulles briefed
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“The flap over Kennedy's Cuba statement was the first of four decisions that in the eyes of history seemed to have taken authorship away from Eisenhower and placed it squarely on JFK's head. The second was Kennedy's action during the final p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 50:17
Richard M. Bissell Jr. briefed
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“The meeting took place outside near the swimming pool where a big table permitted him to lay out maps. Bissell described the plan for almost an hour, including the invasion, thus Eisenhower's authorship. Bissell recalls the plan as we outli…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 50:45
Allen Dulles briefed
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Allen Dulles took Kennedy into the back garden for a private conversation. Bissell stayed on the terrace. Soon after the top bosses returned, Tracy Barnes told E. Howard Hunt that JFK had given a quote-unquote qualified go-ahead. Meanwhile,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 52:30
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Presidential Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities host_asserted
“More than ever before, a new NSC staff transacted business directly. Kennedy never consulted Eisenhower's White House staff secretary, Andrew Goodpaster, who had relevant information at his fingertips. Kennedy also abolished the presidentia…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 53:25
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Willauer-Barnes Group host_asserted
“that I'm sure JFK was not interested in their input. Finally, in an action with super special impact on interagency coordination for the Cuba operation, on February 8th, the Willauer-Barnes group passed out of existence. So we're not having…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 53:54
Jack Hawkins spied_on
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“to E. Howard Hunt. Hunt finally had to be relieved and relegated to work with Dave Phillips in the propaganda unit. President Kennedy still reserved his final decision with an option to cancel the invasion up to 24 hours before landing. Alt…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 38:40
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Dean Rusk book_quoted
“President Kennedy tamped down the next round of CIA bombings to avoid a UN debacle. Then he directed McBundy to issue fresh orders to Dulles, Rusk, and McNamara, prohibiting any employment of U.S. forces. In addition, the specific plan for …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 47:26
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“President Kennedy tamped down the next round of CIA bombings to avoid a UN debacle. Then he directed McBundy to issue fresh orders to Dulles, Rusk, and McNamara, prohibiting any employment of U.S. forces. In addition, the specific plan for …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 47:26
Dean Rusk spied_on
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“Russ finally phoned the president and put their arguments to him. Cabell concedes that Russ rendered his points accurately. JFK again rejected the airstrike. In history, this refusal became the third factor in assigning Kennedy full blame f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 52:45
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Charles Cabell book_quoted
“Russ finally phoned the president and put their arguments to him. Cabell concedes that Russ rendered his points accurately. JFK again rejected the airstrike. In history, this refusal became the third factor in assigning Kennedy full blame f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 52:45
Dean Rusk spied_on
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“By 4 a.m., he and Bissell were speaking to Rusk again on the phone, begging for authorization to have the U.S. Navy aircraft fly cover for the invasion fleet and support the beachhead. Cabell met Rusk in the later's apartment. Rusk opened t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 55:44
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Charles Cabell book_quoted
“After a brief exchange, Russ got on the phone, then conveyed Kennedy's refusal. Missions would be restricted to direct support over the beaches on the first day. There would be 13 Exile B-26 sorties, none of them against FAR bases. Castro's…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 56:12
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles documented
“Allen on until the completion of the new CIA headquarters building in Langley, the construction of which had been one of Dulles' great dreams. And then he pulled the rug out and fired him so that he never got to be in the building officiall…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 15:18
Grayston Lynch criticized
John F. Kennedy documented
“whitewash as the Taylor Report. The on-scene CIA officer, Lynch, defends the fighters in Brigade 2506 and places the responsibility squarely on Kennedy's shoulders. Lynch has certain details wrong. For example, Bissell, not JFK, had the ini…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 17:46
Charles Cabell criticized
John F. Kennedy documented
“Agency Deputy Director Charles Cabell makes the same argument. It's 100% speculation. 100%. They have no clue. At best, the CIA's Air Force might have denied Castro's forces entry into Garon area. More likely, it could have done no more tha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 19:15
John F. Kennedy criticized
Allen Dulles documented
“Although the CIA might not have looked so bad in the Taylor report, Kennedy had considered Alan Dulles a master spy and a political asset, and now he did not. At lunch with author Schlesinger and James Reston during the last days of Project…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 14:51
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“to make it impossible for the agency to construct another operation like the Bay of Pigs. He said something about setting up a special group on Cuba. Kennedy leaned forward in his chair, quote, what would you think if I ordered Castro to be…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 13:14
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Kennedy said he had only been testing him. He felt the same way, but he had been under terrible pressure to go ahead and do just that. The US, the president said, morally must not be a party to assassinations. The reporter made no use of th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 13:46
John F. Kennedy appointed
Richard Goodwin book_quoted
“The intent to get rid of Castro, the CIA strove to rebuild its covert capability against Cuba. The agency had a new proposal within a month of the failure. That summer, the president put aide Richard Goodwin in charge of a group to review p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 6:12
John F. Kennedy appointed
John McCone book_quoted
“During the key mongoose briefing were CIA officers Richard Helms and William Harvey. Lansdell had asked John McCone to let them in, but the CIA director nixed the idea. McCone had made Richard Helms his lieutenant for Cuba, and the new depu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 23:21
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba book_quoted
“for the new Cuba project. In an effort to obscure the project, Halpern looked at a list of code names that had been set aside for Thailand and selected Mongoose. Lansdale became the man of Project Mongoose, planning and supervising this cov…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 16:57
John F. Kennedy member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Kennedy's National Security Council formally adopted the goal of ousting Castro and considered means ranging from a naval blockade to an international Caribbean security force to strong economic sanctions, with the CIA one more arrow in Ken…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 25:52
John F. Kennedy member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted
“They wanted to identify countries where propaganda gains against Castro were possible and issues the CIA could use to that end. For all the work built to a meeting with Kennedy in the Oval Office on March 14th, 1962, everyone was there. The…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 21:53
CIA assassinated
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“the major like starting lineup of reasons that JFK was assassinated by the CIA. And it just noticed particularly how the fake left never, ever mentions any of them and look at what the fit, the left is purportedly supposed to believe in. An…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:21:14
CIA assassinated
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“And anybody sitting in Congress voting to spend one penny of taxpayer dollars on the CIA is a piece of shit as far as I'm concerned. They seem like they're involved with killing a sitting president. And they were involved with killing a sit…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:23:04
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
CIA book_quoted
“President Kennedy tamped down the next round of CIA bombings to avoid a UN debacle. Then he directed McBundy to issue fresh orders to Dulles, Rusk, and McNamara, prohibiting any employment of U.S. forces. In addition, the specific plan for …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 47:26
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
CIA book_quoted
“Aware of the UN embarrassment, Cabell wanted to check with Dean Rusk, even though Barrow insisted everything was fine. About 9.30 p.m., McGeorge Bundy, alerted by Rusk, called with JFK's decision that no further strikes be launched until Br…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 51:14
Stephen Temple funded
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“the right, and was happy to see Belgium relinquish its power so an opening could develop for his mining interest. Templesman had very close ties with JFK, supporting him in the 1960 election and arranging a meeting between Kennedy and Harry…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 56:49
John F. Kennedy criticized
CIA documented
“Fewer cashiered, no one went to jail. No one ever goes to jail. Kennedy kept the CIA at arm's length. Langley became more than a headquarters complex across the Potomac River. It was shorthand for the Alliance of Secret Warriors the preside…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 27:50
John F. Kennedy pressured
United Kingdom book_quoted
“journal was one that the State Department had deemed a little too risque. No economic aid was given to British Guyana while Joggin remained in power, and the Kennedy administration pressured the British to delay granting the country indepen…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 23:12
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Rafael Trujillo host_asserted
“a continuation of Trujillo regime or a Castro regime. We ought to aim at the first, but we really can't renounce the second until we are sure we can't avoid the third. Rafael Trujillo Jr. was clearly not ideal. Besides bearing an inescapabl…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 36:49
John F. Kennedy member_of
Ireland book_quoted
“You've got all the Irish votes in the country. You'll never get any more. It would just be a pleasure trip. He saw no political advantage to it. For Kennedy, whose eight grandparents had all left Ireland for Boston, part of the heartbreakin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 44:31
John F. Kennedy appointed
Robert F. Kennedy documented
“But by 1963, the president himself was telling his brother in Phil Graham that he was seriously considering replacing Rusk with Robert McNamara, who had proven to be a smart ally in Kennedy's battles with the Pentagon warlords. Yeah, he tur…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 41:26
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Robert F. Kennedy book_quoted
“President Kennedy tamped down the next round of CIA bombings to avoid a UN debacle. Then he directed McBundy to issue fresh orders to Dulles, Rusk, and McNamara, prohibiting any employment of U.S. forces. In addition, the specific plan for …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 47:26
John F. Kennedy appointed
Averell Harriman documented
“with them being neutral, like where they started. With the help of Avril Harriman, Roger Hilsman, and Dean Rusk, Kennedy achieved his aim in a 1962 Geneva Agreement. When Fumi Nocevan stood in the way, his American assistants evaporated and…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 40:03
John F. Kennedy assassinated
Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted
“I do tend to think that JFK was assassinated because the people during that period of time, for example, Charles de Gaulle, they tried to assassinate him over 20 times, like really close to over 30 times. I've read...…”
▶ Operation Gladio Indonesia Part 5 @ 1:27:14
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Vietnam host_asserted
“So not that they didn't because they did cheat, but he had made it very clear he was going to Indonesia in January of 1964. Now, 1964 would have been the election year. And if he would have went to Indonesia at the beginning of that year an…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 1:14:05
Allen Dulles criticized
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Meanwhile, Secretary Dulles icily told the press that if the senator from Massachusetts wanted to crusade about imperialism, maybe he should target the Soviet variety. You are free to talk about that all you want, but not Western imperialis…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 1:01:03
Allen Dulles spied_on
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“accused Dulles of leaking classified material to JFK that put him in an awkward position for the debate. So he definitely knew a lot about what was going on. All along, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, I just can't help restating in my opinion. I m…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 1:09:12
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“The French journalist later observed why wake up old demons who had barely fallen asleep. Kennedy knew that he would have to resume wrestling with those demons as soon as he returned home. He would have to decide how to deeply purge his own…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 12:53
John F. Kennedy criticized
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“since 1945. As for Foster, Kennedy dismissed him as a aging pontificator who saw the world through slogans, godless communism, Soviet's master plan, all of that kind of rhetoric. While Kennedy's denunciation of French colonialism in Algeria…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 1:01:57
John F. Kennedy founded
USAID caller_asserted
“This is the old Democrats and the old Republicans and the games they played. And this thing is a huge monstrosity that has happened. This thing was done for good intentions in 1961 by John Kennedy. And he did it through an executive order. …”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:30:22
John F. Kennedy member_of
5412 Group documented
“It was a result of the discussion, the DCI, the director of CIA, said he would reorientate his thinking to some extent and would come back with an alternative proposal. About two months later, Charles Cabell briefed the 512 group on Tibet a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 33:45
John Kenneth Galbraith argued_with
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“by other CIA failures. Galbraith argued his position energetically with the president, Robert Kennedy and McGeorge Bundy, the new NSD advisor. He then put his arguments in a memorandum he showed to Alan Dulles, Bissell, and other CIA offici…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 36:40
John F. Kennedy appointed
Averell Harriman book_quoted
“For months, President Kennedy and his special envoy, Avril Harriman, another traitor, had been attempting to restore Laotian neutrality and bring about the withdrawal of foreign military elements by working to establish a tripartite coaliti…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 47:03
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Sisavang Vong book_quoted
“For months, President Kennedy and his special envoy, Avril Harriman, another traitor, had been attempting to restore Laotian neutrality and bring about the withdrawal of foreign military elements by working to establish a tripartite coaliti…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 47:03
Sam Giancana ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy guest_asserted
“Now, at long last, we may be coming closer to the truth. Filmmaker Nicholas Silazzi, the great nephew of Sam Giacano, says his great uncle Pepe and other members of the family have finally confided to him exactly how the mafia killed JFK, a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 33:05
Johnny Roselli attempted_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“This is another quote. Roselli was tasked with shooting Kennedy if Oswald missed, while Nicoletti's job was to dispose of Oswald afterwards. As noted by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Oswald was connected to the mafia through…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 41:41
J. Patrick Coyne member_of
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“to go on the meetings over to the CIA and to go on the trips over to Western Europe with him was the guy, I mentioned his name, J. Patrick Coyne, C-O-Y-N-E. There are memorandums, and I'll try to get these out later, but there's memorandums…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 1:06:07
John F. Kennedy member_of
Choate Rosemary Hall host_asserted
“William Randolph first. John F. Kennedy himself went there. JFK. So did Joseph Kennedy Jr. How about Adlai Stevenson? Two-time presidential candidate. And the last name that jumped off that page that went to school there was none other than…”
▶ The Shadow State 42- Secret Societies 25 - WAR PIGS 2025-06-06 @ 54:37
John F. Kennedy appointed
C.D. Jackson book_quoted
“chattering classes. Schlesinger, ever eager to put Kennedy's actions in the best possible light, later called JFK's decision to include prominent Republicans such as Dulles and C. Douglas Dillon, who was appointed Treasury Chief, part of th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 11:56
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Alliance for Progress documented
“In March of 1961, it was a massive foreign aid program for Latin America designed to stimulate economic growth, redistribute wealth, and promote democratic governments in the region. They don't want democratic governments in that region. Th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24 @ 1:01:15
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Bay of Pigs book_quoted
“Taylor himself had just signed a five-year contract at the Lincoln Center. He remained for the moment in New York, where he read confused reports about the Bay of Pigs. Two days after the fall of Garonne, President Kennedy called and person…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 22:20
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Operations Coordination Board documented
“If I could just finish, summarize by saying, I think that that degree of like CIA as policy, you know, maker in the NSC, when JFK eliminated the operations coordinating board, which was, again, first led by two.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:25:19
John F. Kennedy reassigned
Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted
“De Gaulle's expulsion of NATO from France relocated its headquarters to Belgium. Lyman Lemnitzer, a key Gladio figure, authored Operation Northwoods in 1962, proposing false flag attacks by CIA-trained Cuban exiles to justify invading Cuba.…”
▶ Gladio 101 @ 10:18
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“This is what it read. My observations have increased my confidence in the ability of this force to accomplish not only initial combat missions, but also the ultimate objective, the overthrow of Castro. The brigade and battalion commanders n…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 36:51
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Fidel Castro documented
“barely tried to tell Cabell that everything was fine. But Cabell wanted to check with Secretary of State Dean Rust. Within a few minutes, McGeorge Bundy, alerted by Rust, called in to report that the president had decided no further airstri…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 45:41
John F. Kennedy reassigned
Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted
“Cuban exiles dressed up as actual Castro soldiers killing Americans in all of our major cities in order to justify a ground war with Cuba. And he got fired. He was humiliated inside of the military. But instead of actually asking him to ret…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 1:32:59
Organisation armée secrète carried_out_attack
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“you know, like 20,000 assassins that Otto Skorzeny had trained for NATO under his command then. So he had literally the kid in the candy shop of picking anybody he wanted to assign on an assassination mission to go kill Kennedy. And as it t…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 1:33:28
Sam Giancana funded
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Lucky Luciano, which bridged the Italian mafia gap. There was a question, well, did the CIA was involved with killing JFK? And the other question was also brought up in New Orleans with Carlos Marcellos, Jack Ruby, and MKUltra dealing with …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Turkistan @ 1:12:15
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“made clear that the British must not leave behind a country with a quote-unquote communist government. Again, as a reminder, there's no communists there. That London must unseat Jagen before independence. On June 30th, Kennedy and Macmillan…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 1:58
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“and foolish. The British could have seen through the subterfuge and turned Kennedy down. Instead, they played straight and the meeting concentrated on how to put Forbes-Burnham-led coalition in power. William McCabe met with the Guyanese un…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 3:30
John F. Kennedy appointed
Maxwell D. Taylor book_quoted
“But one of the main recommendations of the Taylor report was to establish just such an entity with the report called Strategic Resource Group. General Taylor returned to Washington where he declined the offer to serve as DCI, yet he did not…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 24:10
John F. Kennedy appointed
Maxwell D. Taylor book_quoted
“Only three days after Taylor's visit to Gettysburg, Kennedy signed a charter letter appointing Taylor to advise and assist on military matters, which was basically an intelligence function at that point. With these general duties, Kennedy i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 24:38
John F. Kennedy appointed
Walt Rostow documented
“By 1960, Special Forces Group had increased threefold, but still totaled only about 2,000 men. This was fewer than the number of personnel spaces the Army had allocated in a 1952 decision. Good fortune came to the Special Forces with the el…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 33:49
John F. Kennedy supported
United States Armed Forces documented
“Has a very large presence on Bragg that helped assassinate him. Its commander at the time was Brigadier General William Yardborough. Took a calculated risk and greeted Kennedy wearing the Green Beret. The president came and saw, spoke suppo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 37:41
John F. Kennedy ordered
United States Armed Forces documented
“Has a very large presence on Bragg that helped assassinate him. Its commander at the time was Brigadier General William Yardborough. Took a calculated risk and greeted Kennedy wearing the Green Beret. The president came and saw, spoke suppo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 37:41
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“in the 18 months that separated the Bay of Pigs from the Cuban Missile Crisis. There were numerous attempts to infiltrate agents into Cuba. Most of them failed. There were several schemes aimed at assassinating Fidel Castro, and obviously t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 29:35
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles documented
“a master spy and an asset to his administration. Now he did not. At lunch with Arthur Schlesinger and James Reston during the last days of the Pluto operation, the president said, quote, Dulles is a legendary figure and it's hard to work wi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 17:42
John F. Kennedy appointed
Clark Clifford documented
“but the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the prominent civilian group to which Clark Clifford and Gordon Gray were soon appointed. And you guys remember who Clark Clifford is? Clark Clifford is the guy that goes on to facili…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 16:08
John F. Kennedy appointed
Gordon Gray documented
“but the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the prominent civilian group to which Clark Clifford and Gordon Gray were soon appointed. And you guys remember who Clark Clifford is? Clark Clifford is the guy that goes on to facili…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 16:08
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“ammunition for his accusations against the missile gap that he exploited in a similar fashion, which again, of course, was classified information. And in reality, there was no such thing as a missile gap. I don't know what they're doing to …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 3:40
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles documented
“that U.S.-supported anti-Castro forces already were training for that invasion. The White House and Alan Dulles, former director of the CIA, who was fired by Kennedy because of the Bay of Pigs debacle, have denied that President Kennedy had…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 11:07
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“By 1963, the military and espionage officials in Kennedy's government were all too aware of their commander-in-chief dedication to peace, a growing commitment to detente with the communist world that, in the minds of the National Security H…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 18:55
John F. Kennedy financed_via
Cuban Revolutionary Council host_asserted
“The president began to crack down on the anti-Castro raids operating off the shores of Florida and to withdraw funding from the militant exile groups. In April, the leader of the Miami-based Cuban Revolutionary Council, the umbrella organiz…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 22:26
John McCone spied_on
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“and designating conservatives to do liberal things, particularly in the case of John McCone. In March, the president's secret White House recording system picked up a heated conversation between the Kennedy brothers about their increasing d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 28:31
Allen Dulles exposed
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Once a communist regime gets fastened in a country and the military regime is built up, it's hard to get the regime changed, unquote. He was building a narrative. In October 1963, Dulles went public with his most direct criticism of the JFK…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 30:34
Homer Escobar ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy documented
“JFK's assassination, a serious threat against the president, was made by an outspoken anti-Kennedy Cuban exile leader, Homer Escobar, while negotiating an illegal arms purchase. Escobar reportedly said that he had plenty of money and would …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 44:57
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. convinced
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“It was author Schlesinger who convinced President Kennedy to break with Eisenhower's policy and support Italy's opening to all parties in the country. He would be quoted as saying, my impression is that they have honestly broken with commun…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 6:10
John F. Kennedy met_with
Pietro Nenni book_quoted
“on the left in the United States, but only as long as they're co-opted like the National Education Association. Okay, the longest conversation that Kennedy had that evening was with an old socialist warrior, Petro Nenni, N-E-N-N-I. The two …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 9:48
John F. Kennedy agreed_with
Aldo Moro book_quoted
“had discussed with Kennedy a few days early during an afternoon stroll that JFK and the Italian politician had taken through the garden. To his great dismay, Pianzio was told that Morrow and Kennedy had agreed that a united government would…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 13:32
John F. Kennedy member_of
Clancy Brothers book_quoted
“In February, when he was preparing for his Ireland trip, Kennedy had even invited the Clancy Brothers, a popular Irish singing group, to perform for him at the White House. The folk group ended all of their concerts with the traditional son…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 46:24
Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“but I will never understand why God had to take him now. Well, we do because Alan Dulles decided that was the time. That's it for today. That's the end of that chapter. Comments? Go ahead, SR. Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for bein…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 50:55
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted
“Using Operation Gladio tactics of Cuban exiles dressed up as Cuban soldiers to kill Americans to justify a ground invasion of Cuba. Lyman Lemonsker, who as a result of riding Operation Northwood, was fired by Kennedy and reassigned to NATO …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 36:24
John F. Kennedy reassigned
Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted
“Using Operation Gladio tactics of Cuban exiles dressed up as Cuban soldiers to kill Americans to justify a ground invasion of Cuba. Lyman Lemonsker, who as a result of riding Operation Northwood, was fired by Kennedy and reassigned to NATO …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 36:24
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Charles de Gaulle book_quoted
“I know you've read called The Devil's Chessboard, wherein JFK, you know, attempts to call up Charles de Gaulle and says, yo, comma, Chuck, these, you know, quote, my CIA is helping your, quote, OAS try to kill you. And I cannot control them…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:31:45
James Forrestal mentored
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“you know, like they did before Zionism. And, you know, if you look back to the history of America and James Forrestal, who is JFK's mentor, basically, and his father's best friend from Wall Street, he was the first Secretary of Defense for …”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb @ 3:06:44
John F. Kennedy spied_on
Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“President Kennedy met only once with de Gaulle on a state visit in May of 1961, a month after the failed coup. The president and first lady were at a banquet at the palace. The general was dazzled by Jackie. During the three-day visit, the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 12:23
John F. Kennedy recruited
John McCone host_asserted
“The summer following the Bay of Pigs, Prescott Bush, the CIA's man in the Senate, and his wife, Dorothy, invited Dulles to dinner at their Washington home. The spymaster showed up with John McCone, the Republican businessman and former Atom…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 17:31
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Arleigh Burke host_asserted
“already begun to purge Dulles' cold warriors like Arleigh Burke, who was drummed out of the Navy in August. Next to go was Lyman Lemitsker. Unfortunately, they put him in NATO, and that decision would come back to haunt JFK, which nobody ev…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 22:50
John F. Kennedy reassigned
Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted
“already begun to purge Dulles' cold warriors like Arleigh Burke, who was drummed out of the Navy in August. Next to go was Lyman Lemitsker. Unfortunately, they put him in NATO, and that decision would come back to haunt JFK, which nobody ev…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 22:50
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Richard M. Bissell Jr. host_asserted
“had to drop him off. And Dulles was overheard saying he'd just take a taxi home. But of course, one of his buddies that was there decided they'd take him home. Retired at home in Georgetown, the old spymasters' mood did not lift as Kennedy …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 21:50
John F. Kennedy appointed
John McCone documented
“He picks John McComb, who was awful. Now it was Schlesinger's time to erupt. Putting an Eisenhower retread in charge of the CIA would be a disastrous move, he warned Kennedy. It would send the wrong signal at exact moment when the agency ne…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 48:30
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
U.S. Steel documented
“Determined to protect his presidency over the next three days, JFK unleashed the full power of the federal government in an all-out effort to crush the steel industry rebellion. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy announced a grand jury probe in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 58:25
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
U.S. Steel host_asserted
“But Kennedy never backed down from his ongoing duel with the steel industry. In October 1963, just weeks before his assassination, JFK's Justice Department filed price-fixing charges against U.S. Steel and other steel companies based on Bob…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 1:04:06
Curtis LeMay ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Curtis LeMay, in charge of the Air Force, Dulles, all in JFK's office screaming at him that he has to use the military. You know, it's interesting. We're going back 60 years or more, and it makes it so…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 58:41
William Corson served
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“enough regard for fellow Marines to lunch with them in a very visible place. Corson had served three presidents on some of the most secret and sensitive missions. In 1958, he had acted as Senator Jack Kennedy's guide when he went to Japan. …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 7:03
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Operations Coordination Board documented
“1953. And it was ended by JFK in February, 1961 as something that he perceived as like too cluttered and with too much like scrawl and potential lack of presidential control in February of 61, just as he's coming into the white house. Right…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:15:15
John F. Kennedy formed
National Security Council host_asserted
“President John F. Kennedy formed a National Security Council special group to manage U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Vietnam and elsewhere. A special assistant for covert activities was assigned to the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, a…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 28:45
John F. Kennedy rushed_in
Vietnam host_asserted
“got its new headquarters in Langley. All you got to do is fight a war and you get something big as a prize in the military-industrial complex. When September 1961 rolled around, NM Terror Squad decapitated a Catholic priest. President Kenne…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 29:15
John F. Kennedy undertook
Operation Ranch Hand caller_asserted
“post about Operation Ranch Hand, which I think was perhaps alluded to in Peter Dale Scott's chapter that you just read or referred. So basically, you know, this is something that, as people know by the date, this was, you know, undertaken b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 1:06:36
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba host_asserted
“So, JFK's approach was that I don't give a crap if you're neutral. You don't have to be pro-American. You're your own country. As far as my position, I would like to politically and economically engage with Cuba and with the Soviet Union. A…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day @ 1:39:09
John F. Kennedy funded
Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty documented
“And in 1965, that partial nuclear ban treaty went into place. And that's because of Khrushchev and John Kennedy that that happened. So Eisenhower, and that's the same thing. Obama, Colonel, when Trump came in, who's my biggest problem? He s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day @ 1:42:42
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
North Atlantic Treaty Organization host_asserted
“President Kennedy was responsible for negotiating the removal of those nuclear weapons, basically by taking our weapons out of Turkey. So there was a guy by the name Colonel Osperson, A-L-P-A-R-S-A-N, Turks.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Turkey @ 55:26
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Nevada Test Site host_asserted
“Number one, there were issues with people downwind of the nuclear tests in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. And Kennedy ultimately had to put a stop to it. It went all the way through the 90s. My dad used to control the nuclear weapons testing at t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner OPEN MIC Friday 2025-07-25 @ 48:37
John F. Kennedy appointed
Robert F. Kennedy host_asserted
“He hired his brother as the AG, and the rest is history. They went after the mafia, and they went after him.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:40:26
William P. Bundy attempted_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“The Miami entrepreneur slash millionaire who had long collaborated on secret CIA missions was also warned about his involvement in the exile raids. But he remained defiant, hatching a plot so ambitious that he claimed it would bring down Ke…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 24:27
John F. Kennedy reassigned
Lyman Lemnitzer guest_asserted
“He reassigned him out of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And do you know where they put him? No. He became the commander of NATO.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 28:16
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Allen Dulles guest_asserted
“He tells the CIA, you're going to be gone. He fires Alan Dulles, blah, blah, blah. So he started the process and was murdered.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 51:13
John F. Kennedy reassigned
Lyman Lemnitzer guest_asserted
“So he tells Lyman he has to be reassigned. So JFK reassigns him to NATO because JFK didn't know anything about Operation Gladio.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 31:37
John F. Kennedy reassigned
Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted
“So he tells Lyman Lemonsker, you can't stay there. I don't trust you anymore. But do you know where he put him? In charge of NATO.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:07:42
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
CIA host_asserted
“When it's overlapping everything and to erase that clouds everything and helps the left gatekeepers cover up the CIA coup of late 1963. So the the bravery of JFK to stand up against that gristmill cannot be understated. Ron, go ahead. I'm s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:25:27
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Netherlands host_asserted
“of the NNG area. They lost it in 1962 to 1963 when they were forced to hand over the territory to Indonesia. This occurred because of the intervention of President Kennedy, who was responding to the political situation and the unrest there.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3 @ 28:01
Joseph Kennedy Sr. appointed
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Big deal. No one gets to be the ambassador to UK from the US unless you are a very well-connected guy. And that leverage, whatever the leverage was, that leverage was used to get his son into the presidency. And his son decided to clean up …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:10:06
CIA covered_up
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“the entire operation's compromised. OPSEC violation, OPSEC violation, OPSEC violation, OPSEC violation, the entire operation is compromised. So if in addition to all of those compromised operational components, you were to be told that Cast…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 54:36
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Sukarno book_quoted
“overstate the significance of JFK's stance on what he felt was the right thing to do in supporting Sukarno and how much effort went into sabotaging by Alan Dulles every single thing that JFK wanted to have done.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4 @ 1:14:28
David Ferrie covered_up
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“under the training of Otto Skorzeny, were in Dallas, Texas on November 22nd, 1963. The CIA operative Ferrari, who was a pilot, flew one of them out and a Dallas police officer drove the other one to the border so to make sure that he safely…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 2 @ 1:22:33
John F. Kennedy member_of
U.S. Navy host_asserted
“When I think he was in charge of the Navy, which he had no experience over in England. It was just through his family. And he actually sent a wire back. I'm leaving from Portugal. And if something happens to my ship, this was Joe Kennedy. I…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 1:20:11
Adlai Stevenson II spied_on
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“Stevenson doubted JFK had thought through the issues. Within days of the effort of Tracy Barnes' inadequate briefing, it became painfully apparent. Meanwhile, Project ATE accelerated. Two final postponements resulted in an invasion set for …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 33:13
Adlai Stevenson II spied_on
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“overviews with very little detail that enabled the ambassador to play his role effectively. Barnes was probably encouraged by the ambassador's reaction. Stevenson's doubted that Kennedy had thought through the problem in approving this inva…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 33:02
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
West Germany host_asserted
“JFK had reversed the NATO plans for Nukes in West Germany. He had made the June 10th speech, you know, basically ending the cold, calling for the Cold War to be ended. He was, you know, making detente with the Soviet Union. U.S. News and Wo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:22:41
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Soviet Union host_asserted
“JFK had reversed the NATO plans for Nukes in West Germany. He had made the June 10th speech, you know, basically ending the cold, calling for the Cold War to be ended. He was, you know, making detente with the Soviet Union. U.S. News and Wo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:22:41
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Israel host_asserted
“before and after caused by Dallas. Congo, genocide of 6 million, before and after caused by Dallas. Brazil coup, before and after caused by Dallas. Yes, absolutely. Nuclear Israel caused by Dallas. But also as part of that is, you know, Egy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:21:44
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Saudi Arabia host_asserted
“before and after caused by Dallas. Congo, genocide of 6 million, before and after caused by Dallas. Brazil coup, before and after caused by Dallas. Yes, absolutely. Nuclear Israel caused by Dallas. But also as part of that is, you know, Egy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:21:44
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Egypt host_asserted
“before and after caused by Dallas. Congo, genocide of 6 million, before and after caused by Dallas. Brazil coup, before and after caused by Dallas. Yes, absolutely. Nuclear Israel caused by Dallas. But also as part of that is, you know, Egy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:21:44
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
United States host_asserted
“JFK had reversed the NATO plans for Nukes in West Germany. He had made the June 10th speech, you know, basically ending the cold, calling for the Cold War to be ended. He was, you know, making detente with the Soviet Union. U.S. News and Wo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:22:41
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“It took me about 15 minutes. I was just dumbfounded because he is describing Operation Gladio. He knew it to be true. There is no doubt in my mind. Now, do I think he knew it was being ran out of NATO? Again, I've made this point very clear…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:27:49
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Mafia host_asserted
“about presidents later as the toboggan gets more and more momentum, you know? But I think that's actually, hold on a second. I think that's actually the reason why Robert Kennedy was taking on the mafia because they knew that was the tentac…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:33:40
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
AIPAC host_asserted
“by focusing on just one aspect of all the stuff that he did. AIPAC registration under FARA was a drop in the bucket to setting Algeria free, to supporting Sukarno in Indonesia and forestalling hundreds of thousands of people being murdered …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:19:44
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“Cuba policy or on anything else. JFK was ending the Vietnam War, literally ending it. There's no question about that. If you read all seven of the scholarly monographs published since the Assassinations Records Review Board was finished in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:23:31
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted
“It took me about 15 minutes. I was just dumbfounded because he is describing Operation Gladio. He knew it to be true. There is no doubt in my mind. Now, do I think he knew it was being ran out of NATO? Again, I've made this point very clear…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:27:49
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Robert Depew book_quoted
“of several far-right groups in the 60s. In keeping with the Reuther memorandum strategy, Kennedy ordered the Justice Department to politicalize law enforcement agency to go after Depew and the Minutemen. Initially, they didn't find anything…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 28:17
John F. Kennedy founded
USAID host_asserted
“talks about it being a JFK program. Actually, it was not a JFK program. JFK just took a bunch of other programs and put them together to create USAID. He thought he was streamlining, making something more efficient, which turned into a gori…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 43 - 'Exposed - The USAID Deception' - EP.382 @ 4:39
John F. Kennedy feared
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“counterterror inflicted by professionally trained paramilitary units dates from that visit, which reflected the Kennedy's administration desire to move away from that. Fearing that Castro might soon try to establish a brand of revolutionary…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 34:27
Paul Nitze wanted_to_convince
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“The loudest JFK had to get with some of those folks, and they were literally, you know, trying to instigate World War III during the Cuban Missile Crisis and at other times as well, was when Paul Nizzi, he wanted to convince JFK that should…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 59:22
Naval Medical Center Bethesda covered_up
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“And that's also the same hospital they swapped JFK's brain at, you know, when they did that kind of transfer with the body, when JFK's body was brought there as well. So that naval Bethesda hospital is a dangerous place. And I've covered it…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb @ 3:08:40
Sam Giancana funded
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“were having affairs with him over the same period of time that they supposedly were seeing JFK. Rumor had it that Giacono helped get JFK elected by exploiting the mob's power over the union vote. So he and his cronies were furious when Kenn…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 40:17
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Vietnam host_asserted
“by focusing on just one aspect of all the stuff that he did. AIPAC registration under FARA was a drop in the bucket to setting Algeria free, to supporting Sukarno in Indonesia and forestalling hundreds of thousands of people being murdered …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:19:44
John F. Kennedy focused_on
Vietnam guest_asserted
“After the JFK assassination, because, you know, both we know that JFK and Hammerskjold were kind of on the similar pages regarding both Indonesia and Congo. And so, yeah, I think that's worth remembering that Dag Hammerskjold was just as fo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 1:07:18
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Laos guest_asserted
“This was clear, Harriman confided, from looking at the policy maneuvers around Laos, the Southeast Asian sideshow in which Kennedy was determined not to get involved. JFK's policy of neutrality was being systematically sabotaged by both the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 50:51
Richard Nixon spied_on
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“where the clear takeaway from Nixon's conversation with Helms is, number one, he wants to know who really shot JFK, and therefore, number two, he knows that the whole Warren Commission thing was bullshit. That is Nixon behind closed doors. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:22:42
Henry Luce ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“The climate of conflict surrounding Kennedy's presidency had a way of evoking this grim topic. Outraged by the president's strong stand against the steel industry, Henry Luce invoked the fate of Julius Caesar in a harsh editorial in Fortune…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 1:03:38
CIA covered_up
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“years ago were naive and thought everybody had the best intentions towards our country at the center of everything they do. No, these people are nefarious bastards. And if you find it hard to believe that the CIA would intentionally hide in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 59:32
CIA covered_up
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“analyst side of this is picking up all of this information, but the separation, they insisted, and that's not even normal on covert operations. Normally, you will open the door to the analyst so that you can keep your covert operators appri…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 53:37
CIA covered_up
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“They were doing shit on their own. And the analysts using the U-2 overhead satellite capability would have had intelligence that indicated that. So they would have had intelligence where they were massing their forces. Because again, using …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 55:05
CIA covered_up
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“And so it was very important for the covert operators to keep their project insulated because they had already decided it was happening no matter what. I'm going to, you may want to drop down SR and bring him back up. I can't because he's l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 55:34
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Successfully overthrow Castro because of his control over his armed forces and the country in general, unless you had an invading force backed up by intervention of U.S. forces, unquote. JFK received the O&E estimate judging time to be on C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 9:04
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▶ 39:53
JFK is assassinated. So it is later, McClellan later claimed that the killing of Kennedy was paid for by oil millionaire Clint Murchison and Harrelson Hunt. And Harrelson Hunt and Murchison basically are like the two dominant oil figures in…
▶ 40:23
There was a lot of stuff going on about oil and the freeing up of the African countries. And that's how all of this is all connected. And the non-interventionalist approach of JFK threatened to cut in on literally hundreds of billions of do…
▶ 43:47
had been identified as belonging to Wallace. In 2003, Barr McClellan published a book called Blood, Money, and Power, How LBJ Killed JFK. In this book, he argues that LBJ and Edward Clark were involved in the planning and cover-up of the as…
▶ 56:51
John Connolly, the guy that was the governor of Texas who was with JFK when he's assassinated. So Connolly left the job in 62. JFK now appointed Korth, the guy we're talking about, as secretary of the Navy. So that's the reason why they mad…
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and that's just the initial, Everett Jordan and his Senate Rules Committee, that he saw a suitcase of money, which Baker described as a $100,000 payoff, to Johnson for his role in the Fort Worth contract. John McKellen was the chairman of t…
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In 1960, LBJ was selected by JFK as his running mate. This upset Senator Robert Kerr, who didn't want Johnson going anywhere because Johnson was their money machine. And he basically, through a tissy fit, basically threatening to kill all o…
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I can't believe that my three best friends would betray me. Senator Kerr did not seem to be joking. As I attempted to calm him down, he kept shouting that we would ruin the Senate, ruin ourselves, and ruin him. Johnson basically told him to…
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I knew that, this is Baker speaking, I knew that LBJ had arranged a Texas law permitting him to run for re-election to the Senate at the same time that he was running for vice president with JFK, which kind of what Ron DeSantis just did, so…
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And he did run for both. And he was reelected as a senator at the same time he and JFK was elected to the president and vice presidents. So it goes on to say, in 1960, when Johnson was reelected, or excuse me, elected to vice president, Bak…
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You know all those sexual allegations about JFK? Well, I want you to understand where they came from. In 1961, Baker established a thing called a Quorum Club, Q-U-O-R-U-M. This was a private gentleman's club housed in Carroll Arms Hotel on …
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to, of all places, New Orleans, which is like the pit of everything mafia slash CIA. Next to Miami, of course. One of Kennedy's friends, Bill Thompson, discovers that this woman, Roe Metsch, at the Quorum Club and asked Baker about her. Bak…
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Perfuma, all of those accusations stems from this guy right here. The guy that is JFK's butt boy. He's the one that generates all of those accusations of, and I'm not saying that he wasn't promiscuous. I don't know, but I want all of you to…
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responsible for JFK's assassination. So it's really fun to be able to not only assassinate somebody, but then research their character once you have done that as basically being a whore dog. And, you know, we had to kill him for the good of…
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JFK, did we ever, or maybe Abe Lincoln too, unless there's dirt on him that we don't know about. But we know about it. That's what I was going to say, you guys know about it. But it's like, it's just mind-blowing. In the last 120 years, to …
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JFK, and he only got in under a ruse. He got in because his dad helped him with the mafia, and then he turned on him. Trump is the only one elected and campaigned on what he was actually going to do and did what he said he was going to do. …
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type of thing has been going on for a long time. You've shown where it's been going on since the 1930s. Then we have the JFK assassination. Then we have what's going on today. I'm under the opinion that things might get a little hairy with …
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access here in the United States increased five times. So I don't think he was a good president in any way, shape or form. I had a quick question about him because like he was supposedly the one who actually won the election back in 1960. A…
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JFK's dad and the get out to vote to try to bring JFK over because that was like a squeaker election. And there was mafia involvement in there. And supposedly the deal was struck that JFK would be light on the mafia if they got him the job.…
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And JFK was willing to make that deal because he had no idea how bad it actually was. And once he got into the presidency and understood the depth of depravity of what was going on, he did not feel like he could honor that deal anymore. He …
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that he knew, um, his uncle, of course, and then Tesla. And, uh, there's a secret society element to this, a mob element, uh, foreign. So, so do you think he was assassinated? Like I do, um, all those guys, Kennedy, RF Kennedy, but mainly M…
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thought process that he was but again i until i form an opinion of whether he what side of the aisle he was in i think that would weigh into um that factor as well um if he's with them i doubt it if he was against them most certainly you kn…
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like anybody else that goes against the system like Gaddafi trying to create the African common currency gets eliminated. Exactly, yes. And I see parallels to a certain extent to Kennedy, for example, and well, other people of importance th…
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We all know that the CIA was involved, not as trigger pullers, involved in JFK's assassination, in Nixon's plumber unit, using Cuban exiles, which, by the way, all trained by the CIA. But they always use groups outside of their actual agent…
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uh but was from texas in um you know my good friend ralph yarborough um who was in the in the um jfk motorcade and he's never mentioned either and he's almost like you know just you might not agree with this but within the realm of american…
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why are those events so censored by everyone, you know? And so that, you know, the, the left media doesn't, the Republicans don't, the Democrats don't talk about them. So it ends up like Tucker Carlson will say one day, CIA, okay, CIA kille…
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the name of his handle, Solving JFK Podcast, primarily, of course, because what we have found is so much of what we found in Operation Gladio kind of overlaps and adds more texture, if you want, to the JFK assassination. So there you are.…
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And so then you have the single star witness of the most important commission ever done, the Warren Commission, where you have the main full time guy, Alan Dulles, who, of course, was fired by JFK, investigating JFK's assassination. And his…
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during one of their operations, works with the terrorist element in France called OAS. OAS tried over 20 times to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. Charles de Gaulle and JFK was working on freeing Algeria, which pissed off everybody in this te…
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freeing Algeria, which is a country in Africa, trying to give them their independence because there were elements in France and elements of Frenchmen in Algeria that did not want to free the population, the African population in Algeria. So…
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of Operation Gladio that JFK was associated with when he knew nothing about Operation Gladio. And I will tell you why I know he knew nothing about Operation Gladio. Now, normally the intel agencies, if someone was elected or installed in th…
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the one that was going to win. Nixon was, right? Nixon was the vice president for Eisenhower. Nixon was going to be the 1960 shoe-in sworn in in 1961, just to follow on with what they were doing. At the last minute, JFK's dad does a deal wi…
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got in office with RFK and was overwhelmed by the criminality of our government and decided to renege on that deal. He could not in good conscience go along with the criminality that he found inside our government. So that's what I've come …
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setting up the Bank of International Settlements, which is the central bank of central banks, setting up a UN, which started as the League of Nations, blah, blah, blah. So when you look at all of that, and then you have JFK, who probably ot…
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Totally pissed off Ben-Gurion to the point where he showed him down and said, you are going to have an inspection or you're never getting another penny from the United States. So the entire Israel and by default, UK, because UK created Isra…
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The Dutch and UK own the 40%. They go over there and overthrow the government of Sukarno as soon as JFK is assassinated. Okay. And JFK had already committed to visiting Sukarno in January of 1964. So in the fall, July through September, his…
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to recognize Sukarno in a partnership. Well, if that happens, they can't overthrow Sukarno. They will not have the support internal to Indonesia. And the CIA is dead set on making sure that trip never happens. So you have Indonesia. Then yo…
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business with Cuba, okay? That pissed off everybody. As much as they think that they want, they did not want it under Castro because they didn't control Castro. So that was not going to be allowed to happen. He used a couple of people. He u…
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known to JFK. He's undermining every single thing Alan Dulles has spent the last 50 years orchestrating. Right. He's he's literally shattering the CIA and no one has put this all together. So you've got Dem coming to power in Vietnam. Right…
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Kennedy, having had fired Alan Dulles for not doing what he was supposed to do in the Bay of Pigs and disobeying Kennedy, is looking at Lyman Lemonsker when he comes to him with a plan called Operation Northwood. Operation Northwood is an O…
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JFK said, are you out of your effing mind? We're not going to do that. So Lyman Lemonsker was coming up on his second year as the chairman and they normally get or the end of his chairmanship and they normally get two tenures there. JFK sai…
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So he tells Lyman Lemonsker, you can't stay there. I don't trust you anymore. But do you know where he put him? In charge of NATO. Because he doesn't know about Operation Gladio. So Lyman Lemonsker is the NATO commander where Otto Skorzeny …
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declassified documents, and he's an expert in the field. And he uncovered that Kennedy was told in 1961, after the Bay of Pigs, that just looking at nuclear preparedness and the nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union, th…
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Russia, Soviet Union and Cuba, so that it could look like, you know, they did it. And then we could we could have our our, you know, logic for domestic politics to allow us to do a first strike. LBJ came in and he famously said right after …
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Just prior to the assassination of JFK, there was a document that was drafted by our senior military and the CIA just prior to him firing Alan Dulles. It was called Operation Northwood. Operation Northwood was a plan, among other things. It…
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And they come up with this Operation Northwood. It gets briefed to SecDef McNamara. And he didn't find anything wrong with it. He says, yeah, let's take this to JFK. So General Lyman Lemesker goes into JFK. And part of this plan was because…
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And in doing so, we will terrorize the U.S. population into allowing us to do a full-scale ground invasion because you know what we're going to do? We are going to dress up and implicate the people doing the bombings to look exactly like Cu…
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And we're going to use this group called Cuban exiles that we have hanging out down in Miami that we've already trained to be terrorists, which they did. And we're going to use them to blow up American city. That was actually a plan. It's b…
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Because now there's no way to get Cuba back. And so in JFK's disbelief that this was even presented to him, at the time, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff usually got two tours of being the chairman for continuity. JFK tells Wyman h…
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not good on the military side because of the Bay of Pigs and that whole screw up. So he tells Lyman he has to be reassigned. So JFK reassigns him to NATO because JFK didn't know anything about Operation Gladio. Now, NATO was originally stoo…
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They have to come up with a way to kill him, get rid of him, whatever, overthrow his government. And Alan Dulles is actively trying to orchestrate that when Kennedy gets involved and decides that he likes Soccarno and he's going to, in Janu…
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in Indonesia that they'll never be able to orchestrate the coup. So they can't allow him to visit Indonesia. Well, he doesn't because he gets killed in November. And they do. JFK, you mean? Yes. And they do orchestrate the coup and they ins…
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This apparatus, which I call the international syndicate, goes around and exploits people and their resources. They are basically an international theft ring, and they have been allowed to operate all over the world. And anybody that gets i…
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JFK wasn't necessarily the guy they wanted, but there was a deal struck by his dad in order to get him selected. So he gets in office, but he basically begins disassembling this entire thing. He tells the CIA, you're going to be gone. He fi…
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like the missing piece to the puzzle that will make it so obvious to the world that it is, in fact, the CIA, which is what we're seeing in all these little pieces. But would that be the one, like in a puzzle, when you're putting it together…
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is for that exact reason. You're very astute. It can't be released and allow the CIA to continue to exist. Because another element, we went through several, but another element of that is the same assassins, the OAS agents out of France tha…
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were verifiably in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. One was driven by a Dallas police officer to the Mexican border to make sure he got out okay, and the other one was flown out of Dallas that night. So there's no question that those elements…
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Everybody that's associated with that is dead. There's no reason not to release it. The only reason would be to protect the CIA. Sorry, I was responding to a DM. Guys, make sure y'all are following the Colonel if you haven't already. I take…
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That's an answer I did not expect, I will admit that. Again, guys, you're getting more than you bargained for, I will say that. That's how impressed I am with the Colonel here. But I'm not saying that to be fanboyish, I'm just saying. But, …
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or read the lyrics to it, it's about the assassination of JFK as a ritual, as the killing of the king. And it's really interesting. And actually what's on the Wikipedia, I think if I have it correct and remember correctly, they go through a…
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I guess not. Well, the JFK thing. Like, I guess you guys want to talk about the JFK thing. That's fine. Like, yeah, the JFK thing. Like, I think Israel and the Jews killed JFK because he was going to get rid of the Federal Reserve. He was g…
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Yeah, if you want to get started, I'll follow along and see what we can uncover. Okay, so we're going to start with the history. Now, leading up to 1967, you had many things going on. And of course, with the recent commitment from President…
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I want to start there because JFK, during JFK's presidency, there was a plan that was written in coordination with the CIA and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lemitsker. And that plan was called Operation Northwood. Now, …
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But it was very surprising that they committed it to paper. That was kind of the big takeaway. And it was briefed to the SecDef. It was also briefed to JFK. And JFK was so profoundly disturbed because by that time he'd already fired Alan Du…
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Because they had just went through the Bay of Pigs, he didn't want to outright fire him. So he moved him to NATO. Unbeknownst to him, NATO was in charge of Operation Gladio, which basically is the king of all false flags. So Lyman Lemonsker…
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USS Liberty 1967 timeframe. And so Lyman Lemonsker is the commander of NATO when NATO assassins were deployed to Dallas, Texas. Now, of course, if we're going to eventually get to a regime change in Egypt, which I'll talk about in a minute.…
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It's important to get JFK out of the way. And I know people are locked into exactly why they think JFK was assassinated. There's about seven reasons why he was assassinated. And this is number one, one of the seven, not the number one. But …
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fake Cuban army people when they were actually CIA trained paramilitary Cuban exiles living in Miami and blame Castro for killing Americans so they could justify a full scale invasion into Cuba. That was presented to John F. Kennedy and he …
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They are literally guns for hire. They traveled all over the world. They were involved in multiple assassinations. And they shot the Pope in broad daylight. That's what they did. They shot JFK. The OAS agents, there were four of them by som…
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hypnosis, what do you call it, the Manchurian candidate type of thing? Is that something that's at play in these operations? Well, a lot, possibly, but it's generally more simple than that. If you start really delving into JFK's assassinati…
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If I go back and I start looking at some of the NATO commanders over the course of time, like Lyman Lemitsker, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Kennedy that authored Operation Northwood, which was nothing but false fl…
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The KCIA in Korea, they got them to do a whole lot of this stuff. Colonel, wasn't Piano Solo in Italy, wasn't that unauthorized? Kennedy wanted to include the socialists in Italian politics, but Tom Karamashin, the chief of station, jumps i…
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I know that right before the assassination, there was a prior attempt on John F. Kennedy's life that was scheduled to, I think, happen. I think it was in Chicago, if I'm not mistaken. And so I think that probably had something to do with th…
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And in 1963, one less than a year, some of that Kennedy dies, who was the main opponent to blocking and removing that operation. When he found out about it, it was a no go. So the point is this, is that that I think is the whole key to ever…
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De Gaulle's expulsion of NATO from France relocated its headquarters to Belgium. Lyman Lemnitzer, a key Gladio figure, authored Operation Northwoods in 1962, proposing false flag attacks by CIA-trained Cuban exiles to justify invading Cuba.…
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You know, the major fork in the road for the Democratic Party that in terms of like the way I look at it is, you know, to some extent, this is the continuity of the Henry Wallace aspect of the New Deal running through JFK because it was fro…
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Barry Seale. And the shooting down of the Iran-Contra, what sparked the Iran-Contra revelation was the shooting down of the aircraft that exposed the drug running, all arranged by the CIA, the Cuban exiles. We have tracked the Cuban exile c…
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The overthrow of the American Republic began at least at the time of JFK's assassination in violation of their procedures. The U.S. Secret Service, on behalf of a ruling bureaucrat, refused, failed and neglected to protect Kennedy as presid…
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Dan Rather was standing in the shadows of the triple underpass bridge a few feet from one of the concealed shooters. He was the only one on the planet able to verify that JFK had been mortally wounded as the motorcade passed right under his…
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over 80 overthrows of governments around the world. And if they're stupid enough to think that the CIA does that all over the world and has not done it here, I'd walk away from that conversation because those people are not worthy of your t…
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And if the CIA has overthrown our government and installed something that is not a constitutional authority, which is exactly what they did when they installed Johnson and assassinated the president, then something has to be done about that…
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Well, Colonel, a lot of people don't realize that the PT boats were not offensive weapons. They were intel craft and they could get into certain areas and spy. So John F. Kennedy was a captain of a PT boat. He was in the intel guys. He was …
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And he went on to talk to Kennedy during this meeting. Author Schlesinger Jr. was there. And basically, it said that for the most part, everything Joggin said that he wanted to do, everybody was fine with. Even when it was slightly like the…
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journal was one that the State Department had deemed a little too risque. No economic aid was given to British Guyana while Joggin remained in power, and the Kennedy administration pressured the British to delay granting the country indepen…
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Because what I'm about to do is speculate, and I want to let you guys know that. This author in this particular area has a footnote on this. And I looked into the footnote, but I want to tell you that I find it inconsistent with every other…
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of colonialization. In each and every case thus far that happened during Kennedy's administration, to include Algeria, in which was the single most controversial one at the time, resulting in a civil war, he fell on the side of independence…
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And like you said, that is part of the funding for Operation Gladio. What do you got, Cousin It? Well, as long as we're talking about gold, just in Indonesia in particular, one of the things that happened around the time of Kennedy, and we'…
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talks about it being a JFK program. Actually, it was not a JFK program. JFK just took a bunch of other programs and put them together to create USAID. He thought he was streamlining, making something more efficient, which turned into a gori…
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basically did was take several different programs, primarily ones that had been administered under the Secretary of State back in the 1960s and 61. Now, and keep in mind, John F. Kennedy became president January 20th, 1961. John F. Kennedy …
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Right. He created that. And the USAID. But I have noticed in my research of Operation Gladio that it is very strange for someone to be assassinated in office and then all of his cabinet be kept on through a like Johnson finished.…
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What you begin to realize is whoever was advising JFK to do USAID, to do the Peace Corps and things like that, I believe already had nefarious ideas of what they were going to do with this. But because JFK was so well liked, him doing it an…
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I want to go to an article that talks about the CIA using USAID as a front. This article was written in 2012. And it talks about the USAID being started by Kennedy as an executive order. It was not a law. A lot of people got that confused.…
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Templesman had very close ties with JFK, supporting him in the 60 election and arranging a meeting between Kennedy and Harry Oppenheimer, the South African investor. He employed Kennedy aide Theodore Sorensen, who Mobato would later hire to…
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million dollars at the time. The Rockefellers had direct influence over the Kennedy administration through his Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, who had been the former head of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon,…
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That means the deep state is now operating outside of using the government in its capacity. And they're doing it on their own now. Like they're just making these moves with Ukraine, giving the green lights and the go heads to facilitate the…
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The senior army officials in Indonesia, by the thousands, into Fort Leavenworth and Fort Benning, training them, just like they did with School of Americas. This went on through the entire Kennedy administration, even though Kennedy respect…
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They were very anti-imperialistic because they had been under Dutch control for hundreds of years. They had just gotten their independence. Kennedy loved that about Sukarno and that he was trying to put together a coalition government. Well…
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That no one knew about. These were secret discoveries that the Dutch knew about and the Rockefellers knew about. But the government in Indonesia didn't know about them and neither did Kennedy. So they're they're undermining the entire time …
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threat to peace. This is like the sabotaging of the different detente initiatives with the Soviet Union. Every single person that tried, like JFK, working behind the scenes with Cuba and the Soviet Union to have peace break out everywhere, …
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That was my first indication that the CIA has never worked for the U.S. government. They work as a paramilitary force overthrowing foreign governments to put money in oligarchs' pockets. And the Iranian coup of Mossadegh was my first indica…
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You know, so he's overthrown in 53. Kennedy comes in, Mossadegh was, and the Shah is basically put back in power. Kennedy tried pushing the Shah to make reforms because he's well aware of him using the secret police. And he basically pushed…
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And basically making it into more of a democracy and not a monarchy. And he basically said that I'm only going to give you U.S. aid if you do these changes. So that you look less like a dictator and more like a democracy. So the Shah manipu…
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if the Shah didn't straighten up. Kennedy's public rhetoric, such as his 1962 toast to the Shah and messages congratulating him on the success of the White Revolution memorandum, which he basically did a little bit of, but not a lot of. He …
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And the advice of modernization theorists like Walt Ristow, who worked in the State Department, suggests that he was very aware of what the Shah was doing and that the U.S.'s role in creation of the SAVAK, which we're going to get to in a s…
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In 1963, when JFK was assassinated, Savak chief Hassan Akraban, P-A-K-R-A-B-A-N, joined the Shah in Tehran to celebrate Kennedy's assassination. The CIA, MI6, and Mossad supported 30 paramilitary groups in Iran and provided support to Shah …
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Yeah. Yeah. OK. So according to Morrow, the Kennedy had become the enemy of the Shah, who had been installed in power with the CIA back coup when a Senator John F. Kennedy uncovered the Shah's misuse of USAID funds and launched an attack on…
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Bobby Kennedy subsequently snubbed the Shah when he bypassed Iran on a goodwill trip around the world. And Kennedy threatened to cut off all aid after his election. So RFK is running in the 1968 presidential election. And his primary Republ…
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Nixon ran against JFK and lost because Eisenhower's vice president was Richard Nixon. So Nixon lost to JFK. You fast forward, Kennedy's killed in 1963, Johnson gets reelected, and then he decides that he's not going to run in the 1968 elect…
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primary in California, which was basically his last step to locking up the nomination. The night he won, he was assassinated. So when JFK was assassinated, the Shah privately was delighted. And we already read that in another article that t…
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had been part of what was described as an airlift of 280 East African students to the United States to attend various colleges. And if you look this up on Wikipedia, it will make very clear that there was a grant by Joseph P. Kennedy Founda…
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Now, this Mr. Scheinman isn't a nobody. He is a self-taught financier with such close ties that he is able to get Mamboya a visit to the White House and to meet John F. Kennedy himself. So it isn't like a nobody. He gets himself appointed t…
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Moise Shambi guy was Lumumba's bitter enemy. Lumumba was assassinated the same day. Now, keep in mind, 17 January 1961 is days before JFK takes office. This is one of the favorite things for the CIA to do in between of the election and the …
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Without a clear-cut, quote-unquote, communist enemy like Lumumba, the Kennedy administration, which came to power on January 20, 1961, was very divided on the Katanga question. Although the U.S. wound up supporting, in the name of Congolese…
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According to Kennedy advisor and biographer, author Schlesinger, opinions on both sides of the issue were expressed in terms of hindering the supposed Soviet communist designs in the Congo. They had none. There was no communist presence the…
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operations. So the day after the assassination, Raphael Trujillo Jr. rushed home from his playboy's life in Paris to take over the reins of the government. Little had been resolved either in the Dominican Republic or in Washington because n…
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But now JFK's in the seat. The Kennedy administration was confronted with the same questions which had caused them so much indecision right before the assassination as they had within the Eisenhower administration. What is the best way of p…
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or a more Democrat society capable of meeting many of the legitimate demands of the populace. How much democracy? Would too much open the door for even greater and unacceptable demands and provide the left with a legal platform? And so this…
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JFK and his men from Harvard tended to treat such policy questions in a manner more similar to American political figures that are usually inclined to do on occasion. It might be said that they were agonizing over these questions, but in th…
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Because the people who actually dictate it don't ever change. A leader who imposed order with at least the facade of democracy, who kept the left submerged without being notoriously brutal. In short, an anti-communist liberal still appeared…
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For those people and that methodology, that would be satisfied. But also, there was at least some semblance of a separation between them. But he was not regarded as a threat to continue the tyranny. As Kennedy put it, he was our only tool, …
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Just a question for more clarification. There's a lot of information you're presenting. So I looked up, like, de Gaulle was president of France between 1959 and 69. And so there was an overlap there with Kennedy. And so I don't want to, you…